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FIRST LOOK/ ON TV/ WEEKEND BOX OFFICE

FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 7/8/19)
DISCOVERY: Fast N’ Loud (Premiere) at 9pm
VH1: Scream (Premiere) at 9pm

There was a change of plans for History’s Evel Live 2 on Sunday, due to freestyle motocross athlete Axell Hodges crashing during a practice jump and severely injured both ankles prior to the live show. “Having a crash ahead of something you’ve been working so hard toward just plain sucks,” said Hodges. “The team and I were making a lot of progress during testing and the distances we were approaching looked good for Sunday’s event. Unfortunately, I made a mistake in air and wasn’t able to adjust in time for landing. I’m shocked I’m not in worse shape.” Footage of the crash, as well as a different daredevil’s motorcycle firewall stunt, was planned in place of Hodges’ live attempt.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Over 120 Nexstar-owned stations in 97 markets went dark just before midnight on Thursday after Nexstar and AT&T were unable to come to terms on a new distribution agreement. “Nexstar has removed its channels from your lineup even though we offered Nextstar more money to keep they available to you,” AT&T told customers, while Nextstar said AT&T “unilaterally dropped the network” and refused to extend its existing agreement until August 2.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Facebook is cracking down on false claims about medical treatments. “Misleading health content is particularly bad for our community,” Travis Yeh, a Facebook product manager, wrote in a blog post. Two ranking updates were made to reduce posts with exaggerated or sensational health claims, and posts attempting to sell products or services based on health-related claims.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Amazon, Netflix and several Hollywood studios are asking for millionsof dollars in damages from SET TV, according to TorrentFreak. When an anti-piracy alliance sued the IPTV service last year, the company denied copyright infringement allegations and said it had stopped offering the service, but failed to respond to a request for a deposition. Hence, a filing for an entry of default. “Set Broadcast has willfully infringed Plaintiffs’ Copyrighted Works and, in doing so, caused Plaintiffs and their entire business model immense damage,” reads the motion. “The $7,650,000 statutory damages sought here therefore represents only a fraction of the actual damages inflicted by Set Broadcast on Plaintiffs.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
With just $100 in his pocket, billionaire Glenn Stearns heads to Erie, PA to try and create a million-dollar company in 90 days. New Discovery series, Undercover Billionaire, premieres Tuesday, August 6 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season 14 of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Orange County launches Tuesday, August 6 at 9p. What to expect? Among other things, having lost 40 pounds, Shannon “is back on the fun bus.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
The third installment of streaming service CollegeHumor: Dropout’s original series, Dimension 20, arrives tomorrow, July 9. A new episode of role-playing game series Dimension 20: The Unsleeping City will be released each Tuesday through November 5.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Travel Channel’s Code of the Wild, following extreme adventurers navigating uncharted territory in search of answers to unsolved mysteries, premieres Tuesday, August 6 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
New ID series Impact of Murder utilizes the victim’s impact statement delivered in court as the driving storytelling technique. Six-parter premieres on Sunday, July 14 at 10p, with a digital companion series, Impact of Murder: After the Statement  premiering on IDGO following the linear launch on Sundays at 11p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Where there’s smoke, there’s ire: After a report from anti-smoking group Truth Initiative blasted season two of Netflix’s Stranger Things for having the most depictions of smoking (100% of episodes included tobacco use), the streamer said all new shows it commissions with ratings of TV-14 or below will exclude smoking and e-cigarette use, except for reasons of historical or factual accuracy. Netflix also said starting later this year, its ratings will include smoking information.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Discovery Inc. honors the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing with programming that includes Apollo: The Forgotten Films, premiering Saturday, July 20 at 8p on Discovery and Sunday, July 21 at 7p on Science Channel; Confessions; Confessions from Space: Apollo, airing Saturday, July 20 at 10p on Discovery, and NASA’s Giant Leaps: Past and Future – Celebrating Apollo 50th As We Go Forward to the Moon, a live broadcast Friday, July 19 from 1-3p on Science.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Hallmark Channel’s annual June Weddings programming franchise claimed the #1 spot on cable during weekend prime for the entire month of June. The event’s five all-new Saturday night original movies averaged a 2.1 Household rating, 2.1 million Total Viewers, and 259,000 W25-54.
(Source: Cynopsis)
A&E was the #1 cable network during June among A25-54 and ranked #2 among A8-49. The latter represents the network’s highest monthly ranking in A18-49 ever. Also in June, A&E reached its largest quarterly audience in A25-54 since 3Q14.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The premiere night of BET’s Sunday Best Season 9 reached 2.6 million P2+ (Live+SD, across premieres and encores on BET & BETher).
(Source: Cynopsis)
For the first time since 2014, Comedy Central grew ratings year-over-year in consecutive quarters.  Among M18-34, ratings jumped +12% to a .25 rating. For P18-34, Comedy Central ratings increased +6% (.21).
(Source: Cynopsis)
The US/UK Women’s World Cup on BBC One was the most-watched show of the year in the UK, with 50.8% of TV tuned in for a peak audience of 11.7 million.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Actor Cameron Boyce died of a seizure that was the result of an ongoing medial condition for which he was being treated, said his family. He was 20. Boyce starred in Disney’s Descendants and Jessie. “Cameron brought Love, Laughter and Compassion with him everyday I was in his presence,” shared director Kenny Ortega on Instagram.
(Source: Cynopsis)

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Spider-Man: Far From Home – $93.6 million – 94
Toy Story 4 – $34.3 million
Yesterday – $10.8 million
Annabelle Comes Home – $9.8 million
Aladdin – $7.6 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo) 

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