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NBC: Red Nose Day (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: This Is Farrah Fawcett (Premiere) at 8pm
HGTV: Christina On The Coast (Premiere) at 9pm
MTV: How Far is Tattoo Far (Premiere) at 9pm
NETFLIX: Slasher
NETFLIX: Soltice
SUNDANCE TV: The Name of the Rose (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: The Face of Evil (Finale) at 10pm
The LA Pride Parade will be televised for the first time on KABC, which inked a three-year deal with nonprofit parade and LA Pride Fest producer Christopher Street West. This year’s parade is slated for Sunday, June 9; the two-hour live broadcast, 11a-1p, will be hosted by Raven-Symone, and KABC’s Ellen Leyva and Brandi Hitt. KABC also will air a preshow at 6:30 p.m. June 8.
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Bravo announced the inaugural BravoCon, an interactive experience for fans featuring live performances, insider panels, unique activations and VIP access to Bravo’s biggest shows and Bravolebrities that hits NY Friday, November 15-Sunday, November 17. As part of the event, Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen will host an evening extravaganza filmed in front of its largest audience ever.
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YES Network will become the official regional TV partner of the WNBA’s New York Liberty this season. YES will televise 16 Liberty home games, beginning Friday, May 24 at 8p. CBS Sports Network also will telecast one Liberty home game this season, on August 23.
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Weather forecaster Sam Champion is joining NY’s WABC-TV as weather anchor for weekday morning and noon broadcasts. Champion was long an forecaster with ABC before joining The Weather Channel from 2013-16. He starts at WABC on Monday, June 3.
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Taraji P. Henson is scheduled to testify in front of the newly formed Congressional Black Caucus Taskforce on Black Youth Suicide and Mental Health on Friday, June 7 at 9:30a. She’ll be supporting the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation’s mission to eradicate the stigma surrounding mental illness in the African American community and addressing the increasing suicide rate among Black youth. Henson and BLHF also will host the inaugural “Can We Talk? conference and benefit dinner in DC immediately following the hearing.
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The L-Word: Generation Q is the name of Showtime’s L Word sequel, slated to debut this fall. The eight-ep series begins production in LA this summer, with Marja-Lewis Ryan (The Four-Faced Liar, 6 Balloons) serving as showrunner and exec producer, with original series creator Ilene Chaiken and original series stars Jennifer Beals, Katherine Moennig and Leisha Hailey all returning. Kristen Campo also serves as exec producer. The pilot is directed by Steph Green, who also serves as exec producer on the episode.
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Fresh from eight seasons on HBO’s Game of Thrones, most recently as a co-exec producer, Bryan Cogman is joining Amazon’s upcoming Lord of the Rings series, following an overall deal he inked with Amazon in September.
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Producer/director/writer Seth Gordon and his Exhibit A inked a new three-year overall deal at Sony Pictures Television, where he’s been based for the past eight years. Gordon and producing partner Julia Gunn will continue to develop and produce new series projects for Sony hrough Exhibit A.
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Netflix is adapting Erin Entrada Kelly’s Newbery-winning novel Hello, Universe, the story of unexpected friendships that arise in a neighborhood, as a film for families. Playwright/screenwriter Michael Golamco (Always Be My Maybe) will adapt; Forest Whitaker and Nina Yang Bongiovi of Significant Productions will produce.
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Benny Binion, the cowboy, gangster, philanthropist and killer who created the World Series of Poker, is the subject of a scripted series based on the Doug J. Swanson biography Blood Aces, optioned by Argo producer Tim Headington and Theresa Steele Page’s production shingle Ley Line.
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Six-ep Science Channel series Truth Behind the Moon Landing, premiering Sunday, June 2 at 10p, will dissect popular conspiracy claims surrounding the iconic moon landing nearly 50 years ago with the help of former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin, former FBI agent Chad Jenkins and author Mike Bara.
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TNT launched the official season 3 trailer for Claws, which returns to the network Sunday, June 9 at 9p.
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OWN unleashed a trailer and key art for the season 4 return of drama series Queen Sugar, on Wednesday, June 12 at 9p. New season follows the Bordelon family as they discover Nova is publishing her memoir that divulges long-held family secrets.
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Chuck Zukowski, a former Colorado law enforcement officer, has been investigating UFO-related incidents for 30 years. Now, together with his son Daniel Zukowski and investigator Heather Taddy he’s pursuing cases authorities ignore in new Travel Channel series Alien Highway, premiering Wednesday, June 12 at 10p.
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WeTV dropped a sneak peak for season 3 of Growing Up Hip Hop: Atlanta, which drops Thursday, June 13 at 9p. Among the drama this season R. Kelly’s ex-wife Andrea “Drea” Kelly and her three children move back to Atlanta and are breaking their silence regarding their child support battle.
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Good Trouble returns to Freeform for season 2 on Tuesday, June 18 at 8p. In the first ep, the outcome of the Jamal Thompson case is decided, and Callie is forced to decide what she’s willing to fight for; in ep 2 Mariana’s new relationship complicates her work environment.
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VH1 is bringing back 16 eps of Basketball Wives on a new night this summer. Series premieres Wednesday, June 19 at 8p and features new drama as the ladies are tested like never before while balancing life’s unexpected turns, career endeavors and strained relationships.
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Netflix will bring back gritty docuseries Girls Incarcerated for a second season on June 21… Then, Orange Is the New Black will premiere its seventh and final season on Friday, July 26 on Netflix, which dropped new photos of what’s ahead.
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CBS will debut the US version of international reality series Love Island on Tuesday, July 9 at 8p. New episodes of the show—which brings a group of single “Islanders” together in a villa in Fiji for a summer of friendships, relationships and, let’s face it, drama—will air every weeknight through Wednesday, August 7. Series is produced by ITV Entertainment.
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A&E Network celebrates the lives of Farrah Fawcett and John F. Kennedy Jr. through two in-depth original documentaries airing under the “Biography” banner surrounding the anniversaries of their deaths. Biography: Farrah Fawcett Forever and Biography: JFK Jr. –The Final Year will air Tuesday, July 9 at 9p and Tuesday, July 16 at 9p, respectively.
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Lifetime set July 27 for the premiere of its latest Book to Screen movie special, V.C Andrews’ Casteel Family Movie Series Event. The Andrews’ event will air consecutively every Saturday at 8p through August 24, and follows the life of Heaven Casteel and her siblings after their father devises a scheme that threatens to destroy their dreams and separate the family forever.
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Poker Central and CBS are teaming to live-stream the gold bracelet events at the 50th annual World Series of Poker across platforms including PokerGO, Poker Central’s direct-to-consumer OTT service, and CBS All Access, from May 30-July 16, with additional coverage to air on CBS Sports Network and CBS Sports Digital platforms.
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Nickelodeon revealed a first look of the upcoming SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout, featuring for the first time the voice cast behind SpongeBob, Patrick, Mr. Krabs, Sandy, Squidward and Plankton playing human versions of their animated characters, plus guest star David Hasselhoff (Baywatch). The mixed live-action and animated special premieres Friday, July 12, at 7p.
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Believe Entertainment Group and former Nickelodeon EVP Keith Dawkins, CEO of newly formed Rock Hill Media Ventures, are partnering to create kids and family programming. The companies will jointly develop and bring to market initiatives with the goal of building global franchises built around kids-based IP.
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Netflix rounded out the cast for Latinx series Gentefied. Julissa Calderon (WTF Baron Davis, Revenge), Annie Gonzalez (Shameless, Good Girls Revolt), Laura Patalano (Alex, Inc., Vida), Felipe Esparza (They’re Not Gonna Laugh At You, Translate This), Rafael Sigler (Ugly Betty, Cars), Jaime Alvarez (Grey’s Anatomy Shameless), Bianca Melgar, Michelle Ortiz, and Alejandro Patino are all in for recurring roles… Kaliko Kauahi, who’s recurred as Sandra since season 1 of NBC’s Superstore, landed a series regular role.
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Heading into its season 4 finale, Fuse original series Complex x Fuse is having its best season yet. The average A18-49 audience for premiere eps this season is up 56% compared with the season 3 average and has doubled the season 1 average. Season 4 of Complex X Fuse is also delivering the series’ most female (66%) and Hispanic (64%) audience to date, and a median age of 33.
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