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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 7/29/19)
ADULT SWIM: Lights Out with David Spade (Premiere) at 11:30pm
HGTV: My First Place (Premiere) at 11pm
NETFLIX: Twelve Forever (Premiere)
VH1: Love & Listings (Premiere) at 10pm
HBO: Years and Years (Finale) at 9pm
TELEMUNDO: La Reina Del Sur (Finale) at 10pm
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Hulu renewed The Handmaid’s Tale for a fourth season; the third run of the dystopian drama wraps August 14. The announcement was made at TCA. Also unveiled at TCA was a new Hulu series starring Padma Lakshmi (Top Chef). Ten-parter covers culinary traditions across the country.
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During its TCA time, Starz announced a third season of The Girlfriend Experience, as well as new period drama Dangerous Liaisons, inspired by the novel and focused on the early years of Merteuil and Valmont. Liaisons is executive produced by Playground’s Colin Callender (Wolf Hall), Tony Krantz (24), Bethan Jones (Les Misérables), Scott Huff (The Spanish Princess), and Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons).
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Also on deck at Starz: true crime docu-series Leavenworth, centered on the story of a former lieutenant in Afghanistan, Clint Lorance, serving a 19-year sentence for murder and seeking to overturn his conviction.
The Department of Justice gave the stamp of approval to the $26 billion merger of T-Mobile and Sprint. As part of the deal, the new company will sell Sprint’s Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile and Sprint prepaid mobile services to Dish Network for $1.4 billion. “Today marks an incredibly important step forward for the New T-Mobile,” said CEO John Legere. “We are ready to bring this supercharged Un-carrier to consumers and businesses across the country, and this milestone brings us much closer to making that vision a reality.”
(Source: Cynopsis)Joining the team at Epix weekly series NFL: The Grind are Brett Favre, Charles Woodson, Terrell Owens, DeMarcus Ware, Chad Johnson, Clinton Portis and Michael Vick. “Our goal with NFL: The Grind is to present fans with deeper insight and a more unique point of view of storytelling than they have seen during the NFL season,” said Epix President Michael Wright. “These legendary personalities will bring insight, access and perspective to the stories they will be part of that can’t be manufactured; it will be authentic, real and passionate.”
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Comedy Central and Sundance Institute today announced the launch of Sundance Institute | Comedy Central Comedy Fellowship, which will fund one Comedy Fellowship to the Sundance Institute Episodic Lab and one Comedy Fellowship to the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab. Fellows will be selected by Sundance Institute’s curatorial team in collaboration with Comedy Central, from among the Lab Fellows developing comedy projects.
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Court TV will be the only network that covers the Harvey Weinstein rape trial in New York, scheduled for September, “in virtual real time,” said VP and managing Editor John Alleva at TCA. The net is adding distribution in 17 major markets in October that will put it in 90% of U.S. broadcast homes.
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Amazon horror anthology Lore was canceled after two seasons and comedy Forever after one. In addition, Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke said no more seasons are in the works right now for anthology series The Romanoffs or cop drama Too Old to Die Young. The streamer is also “not planning a new season” for comedy Patriot, said co-head of TV Albert Cheng.
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On the flip side, Amazon renewed The Expanse for season five. Season four of the drama, which started on Syfy, launches December 13.
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Starz canceled comedy Now Apocalypse after one season, and drama Counterpart after two. “When you look at bringing shows back, it really has to serve that core premium female audience and if it doesn’t we have to find something else,” said Starz COO Jeffery Hirsch of male-skewing Counterpart. “If it doesn’t serve our core strategy, we’re just not going to do it.”
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IFC’s new John Legend-produced series Sherman’s Showcase is a real show about a fake music variety show a la Soul Train and Solid Gold, that mashes music and comedy and features a slew of guest turns from Tiffany Haddish to Quincy Jones to Morris Dayto Common. The show is proof positive of an adage its creators, former Late Night with Jimmy Fallon writers Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin, hold dear: “What we learned is something Dave Chapelle said: Every musician thinks they’re funny, and every comedian wants to do music,” Salahuddin says, noting that connecting the two genres was a labor of love. “The testament to the show being good is that Dialle and I have the experience of taking things that need work and spending time on them,” he adds. “Nothing is getting on Jimmy Fallon’s air without a sign-off, and we have a similar standard for ourselves – definitely for the comedy, and even for the music too.” Series debuts Wednesday, July 12.
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Lena Waithe (The Chi) struck an overall deal with Amazon, a move that takes her from her Showtime perch. Waithe is “a powerhouse writer and producer who also has a gift for identifying exciting and authentic voices,” said Jennifer Salke at TCA.
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Amazon inked a first-look deal with Blake Livey (Gossip Girl) that includes two series in development, including one set in New York that has a “fashion component.” Amazon also struck first-look deals Connie Britton (Nashville) and Forest Whitaker and Nina Yang Bongiovi’s Significant Productions.
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Bryan Cranston’s Moonshot Entertainment is jumping from Sony Pictures Television to Warner Bros. Television Group with an overall deal. “I launched the company six years ago with an insatiable curiosity to discover unique, character-based storytelling, which has been a key to Moonshot’s success,” Cranston said. “My producing partner, James Degus, and I are excited to continue the journey at Warner Bros., where we will expand on an eclectic slate of ideas that aim to connect with the heart and mind.”
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Digital short service Quibi, set to launch in April, ordered floral arrangement docu-series Centerpiece from EPs Rashida Jones and Will McCormack. Floral artist Maurice Harris stars.”
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Food Network has signed an exclusive deal with Molly Yeh for new episodes of daytime series Girl Meets Farmand multi-platform content across all digital platforms. “Molly is truly a star on the rise – from this year’s award nominations and her millions of digital views to her devoted social media following, she has quickly made her mark in the food entertainment world,” said Courtney White, President, Food Network. “Girl Meets Farm has become Sunday’s highest-rated daytime show and there’s a lot more Molly to come.” The series is scheduled to return Sunday, September 8 at 11a.
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HBO Max is developing dramedy Drama Queen, from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television. Michael Ausiello is writing the pilot and will serve as an executive producer on the project, based on his childhood as a closeted, TV-obsessed teen.
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Neal Baer (ER,) P.J. Palmer (Anyone But Me) and Michael J. Wolfe are teaming for The Mystery of the 1957 Gay Wedding Photos, a show exploring images that were among the first to capture a gay wedding. Series is being produced with Authentic Entertainment.
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Netflix ordered three more seasons of animated comedy Big Mouth, for a total of six. Season three is set to launch this fall. The streamer also added six more hours to the fifth and final season of Lucifer, picked up for seasons four and five after its cancellation by Fox.
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Amanda to the Rescue returns to Animal Planet for season two this fall. The two-hour premiere will feature a crossover with Tia Torres of Pit Bulls & Parolees. “It was surreal connecting with Tia and how organic and easy our friendship developed,” said Amanda Geise. “We both understand this world of animal welfare and we are doing all we can to raise awareness about animal rescue while simultaneously educating the public.”
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BYUtv announced three new series on the way: The Fixers, debuting Wednesday, September 11 at 7p; Making Good, arriving September 11 at 9:30p; and The Parent Trip, launching Thursday, September 19 at 9p.
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Univision action series Sin Miedo a La Verdad (No Fear of Truth) launches tomorrow, July 30 at 10p, focused on a man using a secret online identity to combat corruption and crime.
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Hulu’s new comedy Dollface, starring Kat Dennings (2 Broke Girls), premieres November 15, followed by revenge series Reprisal on December 6. Season three of Marvel’s Runaways is set to arrive Friday, December 13.
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Hulu also announced it acquired all 163 episodes of 1986-1993 comedyDesigning Women. Seven seasons launch August 26, Women’s Equality Day.
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UniMás announced that Chilean TV host Rafael Araneda will host Enamórandonos (Love is Calling), a new live reality show dedicated to finding true love. Univision personality Ana Patricia Gámez will serve as co-host of the program, set to debut this fall.
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Epix announced premiere dates: Season three of Get Shorty launches Sunday, October 6; Alive, following veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, premieres Monday, November 9 at 9p; docu-series Slow Burn, based on the Slate podcast, debuts Sunday, November 24 at 10p; and two-night musician doc Canyon airs Monday, December 16 and Monday, December 23 at 9p.
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Amazon’s rotoscope animation series, Undone, following a young woman’s journey across time and space to solve her father’s death, premieres September 13, and Modern Love, based on the NY Times column, arrives October 18, it was announced at TCA. Fantasy drama Carnival Row was given a season two order ahead of its launch on August 30. And the musical finale of Transparent will drop September 27.
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Richard Dreyfus will receive the inaugural Public Relations Society of America’s National Award for Civic Engagement at the organization’s conference in October. The Oscar winner is being honored for his advocacy for putting civics back in schools, as well as issues of privacy, freedom of speech, democracy and individual accountability.
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Yellowstone’s Forrie Smith has been upped from recurring to season regular for the Paramount Network drama’s upcoming season three…Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) will guest on season two of Hulu comedy Ramy…Deborah Ayorinde (Luke Cage) and Ashley Thomas (Salvation) will star in Amazon anthology series Them: Covenant.
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The testimony last Wednesday of DOJ special counsel Robert Muellerdrew 13 million viewers across ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, CNN and MSNBC. FNC had the most viewers, with 3 million, followed by MSNBC (2.41 million), ABC (2.12 million), NBC (1.99 million), CBS (1.91 million) and CNN (1.52 million).
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
The Lion King – $75.5 million
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood – $40.4 million
Spider-Man: Far From Home – $12.2 million
Toy Story 4 – $9.9 million
Crawl – $4 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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