Keely's Korner

After five years and two Emmy noms, Leslie Jones is leaving NBC’s Saturday Night Live. The popular cast member has a full dance card, with an upcoming Netflix stand-up special and film roles. Another busy SNL stand-out whose future was in question, Kate McKinnon, will be back for season 45, which premieres September 28.
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TBS’s Conan O’Brien will help “broker the deal” for President Trump in Conan Without Borders: Greenland, a primetime special airing Tuesday, September 3, at 10p. It’s not the first time presidential talk prompted O’Brien to travel – the late night host also flew to Mexico City in 2017 and Haiti in 2018.
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At least until recently, U.S. cable news nets gave the fires that are eating up areas of the Amazon rain forest less than 7% of the coverage they afforded the fire in Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral, according to Media Matters. The combined cable news coverage of the Amazon fires peaked at 11 segments that mention the fires per day, versus 150 segments for Notre Dame, according to the media watchdog.
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The Goldbergs exec producer Adam F. Goldberg is stepping down as showrunner from the ABC comedy he created. He’ll be replaced in the position by Chris Bishop and Alex Barrow.
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven, based on the best-selling novel by Mitch Albom, landed a script-to-series commitment from Fox. Albom will write, and Warner Bros. TV and Fox Entertainment produce. Albom EPs with Keith Eisner (Designated Survivor).
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ABC gave a put pilot commitment to a comedy starring Modern Family’s Sarah Hyland and written by Emily V. Gordon (The Big Sick), from 20^th Century Fox TV and The Walk Up Company.
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Short-form video platform Quibi ordered a mash-up of hot genres with Murder House Flip, a true crime home renovation series from Josh Berman (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), Chris King (Penny Dreadful), Katherine Ramsland and Sony Pictures TV that turns homes with shocking histories from morbid to marvelous.
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TLC’s Long Island Medium returns for a new season on Friday, October 18 at 9p. Celeb guests this go-round include Tatum O’Neal, Wayne Brady, Louie Anderson, Michael Fishman, Bronson Pinchot, Arie & Lauren Luyendyk, Taylor Dayne, Kate Flannery and Reginald VelJohnson.
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The final run of USA’s Mr. Robot launches Sunday, October 6 at 10p. Set during the 2015 Christmas holiday, the season will be “filled with answers, hacking and blood” – oh, my!
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Bering Sea Gold sets sail again on Tuesday, September 17 at 9p on Discovery.
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Netflix gang drama Top Boy, continuing the story told in the Channel 4 drama that ended in 2013, makes its global premiere on Friday, September 13. Ten-part season comes from the series’ original creator, Ronan Bennett.
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Season two of Pop TV’s Hot Date debuts Friday, September 20 at 10p. Sketch comedy series was inspired by the CollegeHumor digital series.
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Court TV will have former anchor Beth Karas appear as a guest host. The veteran legal analyst will appear on the network on Friday, August 30.
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The Paley Center for Media announced the return of PaleyFest NY for a seventh year, taking place October 4-15 at the Paley Center New York location. Highlights include sessions on ABC’s black-ish on October 13, Netflix’s The Kominsky Method on October 11, and TBS’s Search Party on October 7.
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Turner Classic Movies announced that the TCM Classic Film Festival will return for its 11th consecutive year and run from  April 16- April 19, 2020 in Hollywood, CA. This year’s theme: “Grand Illusions: Fantastic Worlds on Film.”
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Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls) has boarded the cast of NBC midseason dramedy Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, as the character Carmen Cusack played in the pilot…Singer/actress Demi Lovato will appear on three episodes of NBC’s Will & Grace, repots EW…Chelsea Frei (Victoria Gotti: My Father’s Daughter) landed a lead role in Fox holiday event series A Moody’s Christmas…Lela Loren (Power) scored a role on season two of Netflix’s Altered Carbon.
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