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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 6/10/19)
GSN: Best Ever Trivia Show (Premiere) at 4pm
MTV: Teen Mom OG (Premiere) at 9pm
NICK: Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (Premiere) at 7pm
TLC: Kate Plus Date (Premiere) at 10pm
HBO: Gentleman Jack (Finale) at 10pm
NBC’s The Good Place will end its run with its upcoming fourth season. “After The Good Place was picked up for season two, the writing staff and I began to map out, as best we could, the trajectory of the show,” said creator and executive producer Mike Schur on Friday. “Given the ideas we wanted to explore, and the pace at which we wanted to present those ideas, I began to feel like four seasons – just over 50 episodes – was the right lifespan. At times over the past few years we’ve been tempted to go beyond four seasons, but mostly because making this show is a rare, creatively fulfilling joy, and at the end of the day, we don’t want to tread water just because the water is so warm and pleasant. As such, the upcoming fourth season will be our last.” For the 2018-19 season, the comedy averaged a 1.6 rating in A18-49 and 4.6 million viewers overall in Live+7 Nielsens, and delivered the season’s #1 most educated audience among all primetime Big 4 programs.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Also headed for the home stretch is Lucifer, renewed for a fifth and final season by Netflix. The streamer picked up the series for a fourth season, which debuted May 8, after it was canceled by Fox. “We are so incredibly thankful to Netflix for resurrecting our show last season, and now letting us finish the story of Lucifer on our terms,” said showrunners Joe Henderson and Ildy Modrovich.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CBS is not picking up a second season of The Red Line. The drama, which averaged an 0.4 rating among A18-49 in Live+SD Nielsens, had been billed as a limited series, so soft ratings notwithstanding, a pickup was always a question mark. The drama joins previously canceled Fam, Happy Together, Murphy Brown and Life in Pieces.
(Source: Cynopsis)
“I feel like I’m done with that now. I’m so done with that,” Alec Baldwin told USA Today of his Emmy-winning guest role playing Donald Trump on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. While Baldwin said, “They’re all my dear friends and I love going there,” he explained he wants to spend weekends with his family.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Travel Channel greenlit 26 new episodes of Paranormal Caught on Camera. The show, which launched on Wednesday, February 13, posted a 50% increase year-over-year for its time slot and ranks in the top 3 of all Travel Channel original series. Over 13.2 million total viewers have tuned into the first season to date. New episodes launch early next year.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Four episodes of into season four, HGTV has picked up 13 additional episodes of Good Bones. On Tuesdays at 9p, the series has grown the timeslot’s rating by 15% among P25-54 over the prior six weeks, making it a top 5 program on HGTV in the demo. Good Bones also ranks as the second most streamed series on the HGTV app since its season premiere.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh inked a deal to produce a project with Quibi, revealed the founder of the short-form mobile platform, Jeffrey Katzenberg, at the Produced By Conference on Saturday. Quibi, slated to launch in April 2020, will have “a completely new platform, with a completely new opportunity to tell stories in a different format” of short chapters, said Katzenberg.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Showtime signed executive producers and writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien to an overall deal under which they will continue to serve as showrunners of Billions while also developing new projects exclusively for the network.
(Source: Cynopsis)
AMC Networks landed the rights to Mona Awad’s forthcoming novel Bunny to develop as a series, reports Deadline. Megan Mostyn-Brown is attached to write the pilot.
(Source: Cynopsis)
New ID series Dying for Love launches Saturday, June 22 at 10p, telling stories of relationships that lead to shocking crimes.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Starz is holding a premiere event for the sixth season of Power, at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, August 20. The one-night event will feature a performance by 50 Cent, surprise guests, and appearances by series creator Courtney A. Kemp and the drama’s cast. Fifteen-episode season debuts Sunday, August 25 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
LMN’s Wrong movie franchise returns this summer with four new films premiering every Friday in July at 8p. Vivica A. Fox, who starred in last year’s The Wrong Cruise and The Wrong Friend, continues her relationship with the network, will star in and produce all four new movies, The Wrong Stepmother, The Wrong Boy Next Door, The Wrong Mommy and The Wrong Tutor.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WarnerMedia is looking into a plan to package HBO, Cinemax, the Warner Bros. TV and movie library (Friends!), and exclusive originals for a streaming service that would cost $16-17/month, reports the Wall Street Journal. The service, which would launch in beta before year’s end, differs from the three-tiered plan outlined by WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey in November.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season one of Comedy Central series The Other Two is available to stream now through June 24. Comedy stars Drew Tarver as a 28-year-old actor struggling to get better auditions than “Man At Party Who Smells Fart,” and Heléne Yorke as his 30-year-old sister.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Showtime released the series premiere of its new drama City on a Hill early for free online sampling, on streaming platforms and on demand. Series starring Kevin Bacon (The Following) and Aldis Hodge (Underground) makes its official bow Sunday, June 16 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Among the guest star roster for Sherman’s Showcase, IFC’s new variety sketch series premiering Wednesday, July 31 at 10p, are Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor; Common, Morris Day, Tiffany Haddish, Lil Rel Howery, Quincy Jones, Mike Judge, Kenny and Keith Lucas, John Legend, Nigel Lythgoe, Curt Menefee, Vic Mensa, Tawny Newsome, Ne-Yo, Ray Parker, Jr., Mario Van Peebles, Damon Wayans, Jr., Marlon Wayans and Bresha Webb….Levy Tran was upped to series regular on season four of CBS’s MacGyver….Ashley Tisdale (Clipped) joins new CBS comedy Carol’s Second Act as a series regular, in the role played by Bonnie Denison in the pilot.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Fear the Walking Dead season five premiere was watched by 3 million total viewers, including 1.5 million A25-54 and 1.2 million A18-49 in Nielsen Live+3 ratings, making the AMC series the third highest-rated cable drama premiere for the season in both key demos.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Hallmark Channel’s When Calls the Heart wrapped season six as the second highest-rated and most-watched scripted series across ad-supported cable in 2019 to-date, behind The Walking Dead. And despite the loss of Lori Loughlin’s character, Abigail, it was the highest-rated season in series’ history, with the final installment on Sunday, June 2 ranking as the highest-rated episode since the series launched in 2013.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Oregon state police confirmed that a body found on April 5 at the home of Dennis Day was that of the original Mouseketeer. Day, who would have been 76, was reported missing in July 2018; no cause of death has been determined.
(Source: Cynopsis)
2019 TONY AWARDS (73RD ANNUAL) – WINNERS LIST
https://www.tonyawards.com/winners/
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
The Secret Life of Pets 2 – $47.1 million
Dark Phoenix – $33 million
Aladdin – $24.5 million
Godzilla: King of the Monsters – $15.5 million
Rocketman – $14 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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