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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 5/22/19)
ABC: Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s “All In The Family” and “The Jeffersons” (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: All About “All In The Family” and “The Jeffersons” (Premiere) at 9:30pm
CW: My Last Days (Premiere) at 8pm
HISTORY: The Butcher (Premiere) at 10pm
VICELAND: The Wrestlers (Premiere) at 10pm
ABC: Whiskey Cavalier (Finale) at 10pm
CBS: SEAL Team (Finale) at 10pm
FREEFORM: Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists (Finale) at 8pm
IFC: Brockmire (Finale) at 10pm
MTV: The Challenge (Finale) at 9pm
NBC: Chicago Med (Finale) at 8pm
NBC: Chicago Fire (Finale) at 9pm
NBC: Chicago P.D. (Finale) at 10pm
PBS: Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed The World (Finale) at 10pm
James Corden is heading home this summer, as The Late Late Show airs four shows from London beginning Monday, June 17. Featured guests will include Gillian Anderson, Millie Bobby Brown, Jessica Chastain, Michael Fassbender, Paul Giamatti, Tom Hanks, Chris Hemsworth, Lily James, James McAvoy, Ian McKellen, Simon Pegg and Sophie Turner; plus, David Blaine’s magic and musical performances from Mumford & Sons and Little Mix. Corden will share highlights of his homeland with viewers, while the show’s musical and comedy segments will get a British makeover.
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The U.S. isn’t the only place where the Game of Thrones finale broke records. The episode garnered 3.8 million viewers for Sky Atlantic in the UK, making it the second largest overnight audience ever for a Sky drama. It was beaten by episode four of the HBO series’ final season, which nabbed 3.94 million viewers.
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Alabama Public Television refused to air a recent episode of PBS kids series Arthur, which featured a same sex marriage. Said Mike McKenzie, Director of Programming at APT, “Parents have trusted Alabama Public Television for more than 50 years to provide children’s programs that entertain, educate and inspire…. although we strongly encourage parents to watch television with their children and talk about what they have learned afterwards, parents trust that their children can watch APT without supervision. We also know that children who are younger than the ‘target’ audience for Arthur also watch the program.”
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GLAAD issued a statement and has begun a social media action in response to APT’s move. “With GLBTQ visibility at an all-time high on television, including in the Kids and Family Programming genre, this attack to censor content is not only mean-spirited, it’s a losing battle,” said GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis.
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Immediately after tonight’s live sitcom special Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All in the Family and The Jeffersons, Nightline takes a special look at the cultural and historical significance of the two series. Participants include modern day comedians, television stars and journalists as they reminisce about each show’s impact and legacy. Nightline Presents All About All in the Family and The Jeffersons airs at 9:30p on ABC.
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After a successful collaboration during last year’s holiday season, SiriusXM and Hallmark Channel announced an expanded relationship that heralds the return of Hallmark Channel Radio as a recurring seasonal offering through 2020. Kicking off in conjunction with Hallmark Channel’s annual “June Weddings” programming event, SiriusXM’s Hallmark Channel Radio will celebrate the seasons of “I Do’s” beginning Friday, May 31 at 9a and run through Monday, July 1 at 3a.
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Jeff Benedict, author of biography Tiger Woods, signed a deal with Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse Entertainment to turn his book into a scripted miniseries. The move comes after Woods won his fifth Masters championship last April.
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Director Alan Hughes secured a deal with The Shakur Estate, granting him full access to all of Tupac Shakur’s released and unreleased recordings, writing and poetry. Hughes plans to use all of the above to direct and executive producer a five-part documentary series on the late hip hop star.
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Believe Entertainment Group and former Nickelodeon Executive Vice President, Keith Dawkins, who launched Rock Hill Media Ventures, struck a partnership to create a new pipeline of content for the kids and family space. The two companies plan to jointly develop and bring to market initiatives with the goal of building global franchises built around kids-based IP via television, leveraging a full range of opportunities from content for TV and premium streaming services, to apps and digital content, merchandise, location-based entertainment, live event experiences and more.
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Cobra Kai creators and executive producers Jon Hurwitz, Josh Heald and Hayden Schlossberg inked a three-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television, the studio behind the hit YouTube series. Under the agreement’s terms the trio will develop comedy, drama and unscripted TV projects based on original ideas, concepts form other writers and existing Sony IP via their Counterbalance Entertainment banner.
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Starz premieres the second season of Sweetbitter on Sunday, July 14 at 8p in the U.S. and Canada, and on the StarzPlay platform in the UK, Germany and Spain. Based on Stephanie Danler’s best-selling book, the drama follows 22-year-old Tess (Ella Purnell), who is introduced to the world of drugs, alcohol, love, lust, dive bars and fine dining, when she lands a job at a celebrated downtown restaurant.
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Families turn homes into money-making short-term rental properties in HGTV’s My House Is Your House. The series, premiering Saturday, June 1 at 11p, showcases a Nashville-based mother-daughter duo and a San Diego husband-wife team as they help clients transform unused areas of their homes or rental spaces into vacation properties.
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The Weather Channel’s Storm Stories: The Next Chapter returns for a tenth season on Sunday, August 18 at 8p. Each hour-long episode features first person accounts of extreme weather disasters and celebrates how each one brought out the best in people.
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Oxygen debuts License to Kill on Sunday, June 23 at 7p. Hosted by plastic surgeon Dr. Terry Dubrow (Botched), series chronicles the harrowing accounts of patients put in jeopardy by medical professionals’ insidious use of their expertise.
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Louisiana mayor and his chief of police recruit paranormal investigators to solve their town’s hauntings in Ghosts of Morgan City. New series premieres Friday, June 21 at 9p on Travel Channel.
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Smithsonian Time Capsule: Beyond Stonewall debuts Monday, June 24 at 8p on Smithsonian. Documentary tells the story of the LGBTQ+ community in America through an exploration of rare artifacts in the Smithsonian collections, predominantly from the National Museum of American History.
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Stranger Things viewers will travel back to 1985 for “the summer that changed everything,” when season three of the Netflix series starts streaming July 4. In a partnership with Coca-Cola, the show will feature short-lived flop New Coke – and Coke will release a limited supply of the panned soda on Thursday, May 23 on CokeStore.com/1985. Incorporating New Coke was “one of the first ideas in our Season 3 brainstorm,” creators and showrunners (and Coke fans) Matt and Ross Duffer told the NY Times. “It was the summer of ’85, and when you talk about pop culture moments, New Coke was a really big deal. It would have been more bizarre to not include it.”
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AccuWeather Network launches a 75th anniversary of D-Day programming series beginning Friday, May 31 to commemorate the significance of weather and forecasting in planning for the historic turning point of WWII. The week-long event includes THE Day, One Man’s Forecast for 350,000 Lives, D-Day Vets – Weathering Memories and more.
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Meanwhile, National Geographic commemorates D-Day’s milestone anniversary with week long programming devoted to World War II. It begins on Monday, June 3 with Drain the Oceans: Secrets of D-Day at 9p, followed by Hitler’s Last Stand: Lost Battalion at 10p.
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Pearce Joza (Mech X-4), Chandler Kinney (Lethal Weapon) and social media personality Ariel Martin (aka Baby Ariel) were cast in the Disney Channel movie, Zombies 2.
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With Jeopardy! whiz James Holzhauer sitting out the first week of a two-week hiatus, due to a May 6-17 tournament, the show (6.1 Live+SD national Nielsen rating, down 27% from the week before) slipped into a tie with Family Feud (6.1, unchanged) and fell well behind HH ratings champion Judge Judy ( 7.0, down 3%) in the session ending May 12. Wheel of Fortune (5.9, down 8%), which is paired with Jeopardy! in most of the country’s largest markets, also saw a downturn.
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