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Born This Way is coming to an end after its fifth and final season. The Emmy-winning A&E docuseries, which aired its fourth season in May 2018, will wrap with a six-part short-form digital series debuting later this year and a one-hour linear series holiday special finale airing in December on A&E.
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Access Hollywood is extending its brand by adding new half-hour series All Access to its roster, beginning Monday, September 9. The show will look to national headlines to uncover both true crime and uplifting human interest stories. Hosted by Mario Lopez, KitHoover, Scott Evans and correspondent Sibley Scoles, All Access is set to air on six NBC-owned stations: New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco Bay Area, Miami and Hartford, at 7:30p. Access Hollywood will move to 7p in these markets.
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Sony Pictures Television released a preview video of The Mel Robbins Show, bowing nationwide Monday, September 16. In it, host Robbins proclaims the upcoming daytime talker “is not just a show, it’s an experience.” The one-hour will feature audience testimonials as well as the host’s advice for viewers to get the lives they want.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar is heading back to primetime. The Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ringer vet has teamed with Ringer creators Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder for Other People’s Houses, which has been picked up by Fox. The project is described as a suburban dramedy, somewhere between Big Little Lies and Catastrophe.
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Smithsonian Channel renewed Mystic Brain for a 10-episode second season. Hosted by Clive Anderson (Whose Line Is It Anyway, Loose Ends) and Mary-Ann Ochota (Hidden History), the TV road trip recommences its tour through Britain’s landscapes to investigate strange and sacred beliefs from the country’s past through the eyes of scientists, archaeologists and historians.
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Hugh Laurie (House,The Night Manager) is set to headline BBC drama Roadkill. The actor will play Peter Laurence, a self-made, charismatic British politician, in the four-part thriller written by Collaterel’s David Hare and produced by TheForge (National Treasure, Kiri).
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USA Network is moving forward with Philly Reign, a 1980s drama from Entertainment One and UCP and executive produced by Mary J. Blige. Blige won’t star in the series, which had been developed for her, since she was just tapped to headline a Power spinoff series from Starz. However, she may have a recurring role. Philly Reign is inspired by the life of Thelma Wright and explores the crimes one woman committed in the name of love.
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Tinseltown’s most compelling tales are told when E! True Hollywood Stories returns Sunday, October 6 at 10p. Up first, NXIVM: Self Help or Sex Cult?, which investigates the recruitment of women into the organization and the severe impact it has on their lives.
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TLC’s Pillow Talk returns on Sunday, September 15 at 11p, following new episodes of 90 Day Fiance franchise favorites Before the 90 Days at 8p and Unexpected at 10p.
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Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents… is back on Friday, October 18. The new season bows with back-to-back episodes featuring Jaboukie Young White at 11p and Vanessa Gonzalez at 11:30p on Comedy Central.
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Valley of the Damned airs on Investigation Discovery on Tuesday, September 3 at 10p. The six-part series examines seven murders that rocked Fremont County, CO.
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Telemundo delves into the death of Selena Quintanilla in new series El Secreto de Selena debuting Sunday, August 25 at 10p.
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After the success of Season 1 of Chasing the Sunon JOURNY, Ovation’s culture and travel-focused AVOD channel, the arts network will air back-to-back episodes of the series starting Thursday, October 3 at 7p. The show’s second season will launch on JOURNY on Wednesday, October 2.
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TV One debuts The African Pride Gospel Superfest on Sunday, August 25 at 7p. The 19^th annual celebration brings gospel recording artists and celebrities together, and Wendy Raquel Robinson hosts the one-hour telecast.
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PBS celebrates Latino heritage and culture with new programmingduring Hispanic Heritage Month. Among the highlights are American Masters presents Raul Julia: The World’s a Stage, the first film on the stage and screen actor. Also planned is the new season of VOCES, featuring three films – The Pushouts, Adios Amor – The Search for Maria Moreno and Porvenir, Texas— that shed light on current issues impacting Latino Americans.
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Food Network and Cooking Channel are getting into the Halloween spirit with 30 hours of programming. Food Network kicks things off with the return of Halloween Baking Championship on Monday, September 23 at 9p; HalloweenWars on Sunday, September 29 at 9p; and Haunted Gingerbread Showdown on Sunday, October 6 at 10p. Four-episode stunt Halloween Cake-Off bows Monday, September 23 at 10p, along with Kids Baking Championship: Tricks & Treats on Thursday, September 26 at 9p and Outrageous Pumpkins on Sunday, September 29 at 10p. Meanwhile, Cooking Channel premieres Freakshow Cakes on Friday, October 4 at 11p.
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Meanwhile, Lifetime is getting into the Christmas spirit. The network launches its annual “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” programming on Friday, October 25, continuing through Wednesday, December 25. The event includes 28 premiere movies, starting with Sweet Mountain Christmas on October 25 at 8p, and new holiday special Battle of the Christmas Stars debuting on Wednesday, December 21 at 11a.
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Dabney Coleman will appear as Kevin Costner’s father in the Season 2 finale of Paramount Network’s Yellowstone, reports Deadline…Elena Satine (Strange Angel) was cast opposite John Cho in Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop.
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Eminem’s publishing company Eight Mile Style filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Spotify. It claims the streamer has no license to host some 250 of Eminem’s songs and also takes aim at the Music Modernization Act, the federal law to improve royalty payments for songwriters. The suit was filed in Nashville on Wednesday.
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YouTube will be ending targeted ads on videos primarily watched by children, according to reports. The decision comes following a case by the US Federal Trade Commission that fined YouTube owner Google for violating child privacy laws. According to the Washington Post, the FTC said Google collected data from children who used its services, which is a breach of US privacy laws.
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Amazon Prime Video set the release date for the new season of Goliath, the Billy Bob Thornton series from David E. Kelley and Jonathan Shapiro. Season 3 premieres Friday, October 4.
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