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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 5/13/19)
ABC: The Bachelorette (Premiere) at 8pm
FOOD NETWORK: Best Baker In America (Premiere) at 9pm
OXYGEN: Buried in the Backyard (Premiere) at 9pm
TRU TV: Paid Off with Michael Torpey (Premiere) at 10pm
UNIVISION: La Reina Soy Yo (Premiere) at 8pm
CBS: Bull (Finale) at 10pm
CW: Arrow (Finale) at 9pm
FOX: 9-1-1 (Finale) at 8pm
HISTORY: Knightfall (Finale) at 10pm
ID: Unbreakable: Live To Tell (Finale) at 9pm
NBC is keeping Saturday Night Live’s longest-running cast member, Kenan Thompson, busy. The net ordered The Kenan Show, a family comedy produced by Universal Television in association with Broadway Video, to series. Thompson, who is expected to stick with SNL for season 45 next fall, is also set to serve as a judge in NBC reality competition Bring the Funny with Chrissy Tiegen and Jeff Foxworthy. NBC also renewed America’s Got Talent: The Champions for season two, and World of Dance for season four.
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ABC renewed Shondaland dramas Grey’s Anatomy for seasons 16 and 17, How Get Away With Murder for a sixth run, and Station 19 for a third. EP and showrunner Krista Vernoff will helm Grey’s and Station19, “giving fans two hours of feels on Thursdays and providing a seamless crossover narrative on both series,” said the network. The net is also hanging on to The Goldbergs for season seven and its spinoff, Schooled, for a sophomore season.
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Fresh Off the Boat star Constance Wu clarified her unhappy comments about the renewal of her show, announced on Friday. After first tweeting, “So upset now that I’m literally crying. Ugh.,” Wu explained her disappointment stemmed from having to withdraw from another project, not dissatisfaction with her ABC role. “My dismayed social media replies were more about that other project and not about FOTB,” said the actress.
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Viacom reported its 2Q19 earnings results. Earnings of 93 cents per share beat forecasts, but a 7% dip in domestic advertising (not helped by Easter’s late date) led to missed revenue targets. Highlights included sequential improvement in YOY domestic ad sales growth, with Advanced Marketing Solutions revenue up 76% YOY; expanded services; and new mobile partnerships. “As the media landscape continues to segment across price points, we’re confident in our strategy, strong results and the opportunities ahead as we continue to position Viacom for the future,” said CEO Bob Bakish.
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Jeff Glor sat in the CBS Evening News anchor chair for the last time on Friday, and used his farewell appearance as an opportunity to spotlight all the staffers behind the scenes at the broadcast. “I am awed every day by their dedication to writing the first draft of history, and telling America’s story,” said Glor. “I am awed by their grace. I thank them – and you. I’ll see you soon.” A rotation of anchors will fill the seat until Norah O’Donnell debuts in the summer, starting with John Dickerson. In the CBS News overhaul, Dickerson and O’Donnell are being replaced on CBS This Morning by Anthony Mason and Tony Dokoupil; Dickerson is moving to 60 Minutes.
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TiVO is splitting into two independent companies. The move allows the product business, which generated $401 million in revenue in 2018, to pursue a “customer-first strategy” without being tied to an IP licensing business.
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Victoria’s Secret head Les Wexner told staff, in a memo obtained by CNBC, that “Going forward, we don’t believe network television is the right fit” for the lingerie company’s fashion shows. The annual event, which aired for 15 years on CBS before moving to ABC last year, has seen ratings declines, to an all-time low of 3.3 million viewers and a 0.9 rating among A18-49 its last outing. “We’re focusing on developing exciting and dynamic content and a new kind of event – delivered to our customers on platforms that she’s glued to,” wrote Wexner.
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NBC gave series orders to Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, a musical drama starring Jane Levy from Lionsgate, The Tannenbaum Co., FeigCo Entertainment and Universal Music Group; drama Lincoln, produced by Universal Television and Sony Pictures Television in association with Keshet Studios; and comedies Perfect Harmony, starring Bradley Whitford, produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Small Dog Company, and Indebted, from SPT in association with Doug Robins Pictures.
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Kenya Barris (black-ish) comedy Black Excellence landed an order from Netflix, under his overall deal with the streamer. Barris, in his acting debut, and Rashida Jones (Angie Tribeca) will star. Barris and Jones will exec produce with Hale Rothstein (black-ish); Barris’ production company, Khalabo Ink Society, will produce.
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ABC ordered legal drama For Life, from Hank Steinberg, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, and Doug Robinson and Alison Greenspan, as well as family comedy United We Fall. Sony Pictures Television and ABC Studios will produce the series. ABC also picked up The Baker and the Beauty, based on the Israeli series created by Assi Azar for Keshet Broadcasting, and Emergence, a drama pilot that had first been developed by NBC from ABC Studios.
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Southern Gothic family drama Filthy Rich made it to series at Fox. Project starring Kim Catrall (Sex and theCity) comes from director Tate Taylor (The Help).
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The Goldbergs and Schooled creator Adam F. Goldberg is jumping from long-time home Sony Pictures Television to ABC Studios. Goldberg will continue as EP on the ABC comedies, while developing new projects.
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Kelly Clarkson, John Legend, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton will return as coaches for season 17 of NBC’s The Voice. The current Monday and Tuesday airings of the show are combining to average a 2.1 rating among A18-49 and 11.1 million viewers in Live+7 Nielsens.
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Discovery Channel takes viewers on a ride through the world of underground truck racing in Dirty Mudder Truckers, revving up Monday, May 27 at 10p. Raising Wild, debuting Sunday, June 2 at 10p on Discovery, follows a Texas suburban family as they embark on a journey to become homesteaders.
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Disney Channel’s Raven’s Home is back for season three on Monday, June 17 at 8p, followed by the fourth season launch of summer camp comedy BUNK’D on Thursday, June 20 at 8p.
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City Beats, launching today on Insight TV’s linear and on-demand platforms, follows DJ and music producer Carly Foxx as she explores, listens and records.
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Showtime released all four episodes of upcoming docu-series Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men early to its subscribers. Four-parter debuted Friday, May 10, and will roll out new episodes on Fridays.
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TBS’s Angie Tribeca will not make it to season five. Season four of the comedy ended in December.
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For the People, the Shondaland drama launched as a midseason replacement last year, isn’t coming back to ABC. Season two is averaging under 3 million total viewers and 0.51 among A18-49.
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Freshmen comedy The Cool Kids, vampire drama The Passage and legal drama Proven Innocent have been canceled by Fox. Music drama Star will end after three seasons.
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The E! People’s Choice Awards will air Sunday, November 10 at 9p. Den of Thieves’ Jesse Ignjatovic and Evan Prager & Wilshire Studios return to produce the telecast, broadcast from Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.
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Documentary Liberty: Mother of Exiles, about the Statue of Liberty, is set to debut on HBO this fall. From Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato of World of Wonder (Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking), doc follows fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, “godmother” of the statue, in her quest to discover how sculptor Auguste Bartholdi’s dream became a reality and what the statue means to people around the world.
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In advance of ABC event Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All in the Family and The Jeffersons, airing Wednesday, May 22 at 8p, getTV is running 30 eps of All in the Family (1971-1979) tonight through May 17 beginning at 7p.
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Here’s a show you’ll want tickets to: Ellen DeGeneres will hand out “supersized giveaways” to deserving people and in-studio audience members in three-episode NBC holiday special, Ellen’s Greatest Night of Giveaways. “I was so excited when NBC told me that they had truckloads of cash and expensive gifts they wanted to give me for the holidays,” said DeGeneres. “You can imagine my surprise when they said ‘No Ellen, we want you to give away truckloads of cash and expensive gifts for the holidays.”
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos unveiled a new moon lander, dubbed Blue Moon, last week. “It’s time to go back to the moon, this time to stay,” said Bezos at a press event in D.C., where he described future space colonies close to Earth. Tweeted Elon Musk, who is also developing rockets for space travel, “Oh stop teasing, Jeff.”
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Tinder is planning to launch a new version of its dating app for emerging markets. The smaller version, Tinder Lite, is geared toward users short on data, bandwidth and storage. Match Group CEO Mandy Ginsberg told investors the app is “coming soon.”
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Added to the cast of ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All in th Family and The Jeffersons: Ike Barinholtz as Meathead; Sean Hayes as Mr. Lorenzo; Amber Stevens West as Jenny Willis Jefferson; Jovan Adepo as Lionel Jefferson; Anthony Anderson as Uncle Henry; Stephen Tobolowsky as Mr. Bentley; and Jackée Harry as Diane Stockwell.
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April was Science Channel’s highest-rated April of all time among A25-54 in Prime, with a ratings increase of 5% over last year. The two-hour Season 3 premiere of Mysteries of the Abandoned was the highest-rated Primetime telecast for the net since March 2016.
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Actress Peggy Lipton (Mod Squad, Twin Peaks) died at age 72 after battling cancer. The news was announced on Saturday by her daughters, Kidada and Rashida Jones.
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Avengers: Endgame – $63 million
Pokemon Detective Pikachu – $58 million
The Hustle – $13.5 million
The Intruder – $6.6 million
Long Shot – $6.1 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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