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American Princess was canceled after one season at Lifetime. Renaissance Faire drama, a co-production between A+E Studios and IM Global Television, was created by Jamie Denbo (Orange Is the New Black).
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Disney laid off nearly 60 employees within its home entertainment and TV distribution divisions, including 20^th Century Fox TV Distribution’s EVP, worldwide marketing Greg Drebin and Jennifer Chai, SVP of worldwide marketing and strategy for 20^thCentury Fox Home Entertainment. It’s the latest wave of layoffs since Disney’s $71.3 billion acquisition of Fox assets. Variety reports Disney will cut another 70-80 jobs at National Geographic as it consolidates operations.
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Secret Nazi Ruins premieres Thursday, September 5 on Science Channel. Docu-series explores tunnels, towers resistance nests and more covert projects from Nazi Germany.
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Spotify announced a new way musicians can share music with fans: When they share a track to Facebook Stories, viewers will hear a 15-second preview before tapping to listen. “Taking advantage of our sharing features helps to get your tunes to more people’s ears,” said a Spotify for Artists post. “It will also encourage your fans to interact with you and your music and help spread the love through their own Facebook Stories.”
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YouTube launched a web site for kid-friendly content, youtubekids.com. Like the current YouTube Kids mobile app, parents will be able to track content and direct children to appropriate content. It’s one of the changes the company has made ahead of the announcement of an FTC settlement for violating U.S. children’s privacy laws, reported to be $150-$200 million. YouTube has also added age groupings for kids, and expanded child policies to remove misleading family content.
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Endemol Shine Group’s MasterChef returns to Portugal after a three-year hiatus for a 13-episode season on TV1.
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Rachel Naomi Hilson (This Is Us) has joined the cast of Disney+ series Love, Simon, in the role originally given to Johnny Sequoyah…Rahul Kohli (iZombie) landed a role on Netflix horror anthology series The Haunting of Bly Manor.
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Sunday’s premiere of Chesapeake Shores propelled Hallmark Channel to be the highest-rated and most-watched non-sports cable network during Weekend Prime. The episode averaged a 2.4 HH rating, 2.4 million total viewers, and 372,000 W25-54 and was the second highest-rated and most-watched non-sports program of the day.
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The August 21 episode of Fox’s summer drama BH90210 delivered a 1.4/7 Live+3 rating, marking a +75% lift from Live+SD and driving Fox to win its third consecutive Wednesday.  Across all platforms, BH90210 averaged 3.9 million total viewers in its third week, up +77% vs. L+SD.
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Documentary Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of Harvey Weinstein drew 1 million viewers for its debut on UK’s BBC Two on Sunday. Film premiered Monday night on Hulu.

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Actress Valerie Harper died August 30. She was 80. Harper was best known for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off, Rhoda, as well her courageous, long-running battle with cancer. “A beautiful woman, a wonderful actress, a great friend and with balls bigger than mine,” tweeted MTM co-star Ed Asner. “Her brilliance burst through and shined its light on all of us. Goodnight beautiful. I’ll see you soon.”
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