FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 8/22/19)
FOOD NETWORK: The Flay List (Premiere) at 10:30pm
ID: Deadly Women (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: The Lies That Bind (Premiere) at 10pm
NETFLIX: Love Alarm (Premiere)
TLC: Brides, Grooms and Emergency Rooms (Premiere) at 10pm
ABC: Holey Moley (Finale) at 9pm
FOOD NETWORK: BBQ Brawl: Flay vs. Simon (Finale) at 9pm
FX: Baskets (Finale) at 10pm
HISTORY: Alone (Finale) at 10pm
WE TV: Growing Up Hip Hop Atlanta (Finale) at 9pm
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer is among those getting set to tango on season 28 of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars. Also onboard are supermodel Christie Brinkley, James Van Der Beek (Dawson’s Creek), The Supremes’ Mary Wilson and NBA champ/Kardashian ex Lamar Odom, to name a few. Premiere date: Monday, September 16 at 8p.
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Among those expressing displeasure about the Dancing casting was host Tom Bergeron, who shared in a tweet that he had met with the show’s exec producer earlier this summer and said he’d hoped the season would be a “joyful respite from our exhausting political climate and free of inevitably divisive bookings from ANY party affiliations.” Bergeron said he left the lunch convinced they were in agreement, but, “subsequently (and rather obviously), a decision was made to, as we often say in Hollywood, ‘go in a different direction.” Hopefully, added Bergeron, fans will “enjoy the charismatic pro dancers, the unpredictable judges and the kitschy charm that has defined DWYS since 2005.”
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Rebel Wilson (Pitch Perfect) will host and EP the first Australian Amazon Original series, LOL: Last One. Six-part comedy/variety series will feature stand-up comics competing to make each other laugh.
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Richard Hammond (The Grand Tour) and Tory Belleci (Mythbusters) will star in an adventure series for Amazon. The so-far-untitled six-parter hails from Chimp Productions.
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Starz picked up the pilot for Shining Vale, about a dysfunctional family that moves into a house where atrocities have taken place. Horror comedy comes from Other Shoe Productions, Merman and Kapital Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. Television and Lionsgate Television, and is written and executive produced by Jeff Astrof (Trial & Error) from Other Shoe and Sharon Horgan (Divorce) from Merman.
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Lena Dunham (Girls) launched a new production company at HBO,where she is under an exclusive first-look deal. Good Thing Going will be overseen by Michael P. Cohen, President and Manager to Dunham; Liz Watson, Head of Development & Production based in NY and the UK; Marissa Diaz, Head of Development & Production based in LA; and Soham Joglekar, Development Coordinator in NY.
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Production has begun on Shook, a modern hip-hop dance focused short-form series starring Sofia Wylie (Andi Mack). Shook will be made available Saturday, September 28 on Disney Channel‘s YouTube.
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Animated Lego Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nublar premieres on Nickelodeon Saturday, September 14 at 11:30a. Miniseries is a prequel to the 2015 film, Jurassic World.
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Kids get lessons on friendship and following your dreams in Middle School Moguls, premiering Sunday, September 8 a 11a on Nickelodeon.
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The first special guest appearances for HGTV’s reboot of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition include Tarek El Moussa (Flip or Flop), Jasmine Roth (Hidden Potential) and Tamara Day (Bargain Mansions) as well as the star of the original, carpenter and craftsman Ty Pennington. Series hosted by Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family) launches in early 2020.
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Season two of USA Network’s Temptation Island premieres Thursday, October 10 at 10p. Mark L. Walberg is back to host the extended 12-episode second season, which will include a reunion special.
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MTV tapped Bachelorette alum Rachel Lindsay and recording artist Travis Mills to host its new docuseries, MTV’s Ghosted: Love Gone Missing, set to premiere on Tuesday, September 10 at 9p with back-to-back episodes. In the show, individuals track down a former lover, family member or friend and confront them about why they went MIA.
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Paramount Network franchise extender Ink Master: Grudge Match offers former contestants the opportunity to go head to head with their biggest rivals from their seasons. Competition begins Tuesday, October 1 at 10p.
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The first half of the fourth and final season of Netflix comedy The Ranch begins Friday, September 13.
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NBC will air A Little Late with Lilly Singh: The Primetime Special on Wednesday, September 18 at 10p, two days following the premiere of Singh’s late-night show. The telecast, following the two-hour season finale of America’s Got Talent, will introduce primetime audiences to Singh as she takes part in sketches, interviews, games and interacts with the audience.
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Facebook is rolling out a new way for users to view a summary of the apps and websites that send Facebook information about their activity, and clear that information from their account if they wish. Users can also disconnect future off-Facebook activity from their accounts. “If you clear your off-Facebook activity, we’ll remove your identifying information from the data that apps and websites choose to send us. We won’t know which websites you visited or what you did there, and we won’t use any of the data you disconnect to target ads to you on Facebook, Instagram or Messenger,” said Erin Egan, Chief Privacy Officer, Policy and David Baser, Director of Product, Management, in a blog post. “We expect this could have some impact on our business, but we believe giving people control over their data is more important.”
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YouTube is finalizing plans to stop taking targeted ads on videos aimed at kids, reports Bloomberg. The Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether YouTube violated the Children’s Online Privacy Act by serving targeted ads to children under 13 without parental permission.
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In more YouTube news, the company is removing the ability to sharevideos via direct messages on YouTube, a feature it launched two years ago. “Since then, we’ve also focused on public conversations with updates to comments, posts, and stories,” said YouTube. “We’re constantly reevaluating our priorities and have decided to discontinue YouTube’s native direct messaging feature while we focus on improving public conversations.”
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Gmail is introducing new spelling and grammar correction capabilities. “As you type your message, Gmail will use artificial intelligence to make smarter spell-check suggestions while also detecting potential grammar issues. For some common spelling mistakes, we’ve also added as-you-type autocorrection for improved accuracy,” posted the company. Corrections will take place automatically as users type, and the feature can be disabled.
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Singer/actress Demo Lovato has joined the cast of Will Ferrell Netflix comedy Eurovision, inspired by the global singing competition.
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BROADWAY
What The Constitution Means To Me is closing on Saturday August 24, 2019.
https://ppc.broadway.com/shows/what-constitution-means-me/
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