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CNN and the New York Times will co-host the next Democratic presidential debate, slated for mid-October. CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Erin Burnett, and the Times’ national editor Marc Lacey will moderate the event, held at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio. Eleven candidates have already met the criteria needed to make the cut; if more qualify by October 2, a second debate night will be scheduled.
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“We will not be doing a reunion show, we will not be doing a reboot,” said Friends co-creator and executive producer Marta Kauffman during the show’s 25th anniversary panel at the Tribeca TV festival on Friday. Kauffman offered two reasons to keep that door closed, in an era where other classic comedies are finding new life. “One of the reasons we won’t do a reunion is because this is a show about a time in your life when your friends are your family. And when you have a family, that changes,” she said. “The other reason is it’s not going to beat what we did.” Added co-creator David Crane, “We did the show we wanted to do. We got it right, and we put a bow on it. If you visited those characters now, it just would not be the same DNA and chances are, it wouldn’t be as good.”
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Among the highlights at the weekend’s 71^st Creative Arts Emmys: ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All In the Family and The Jeffersons picked up the trophy for Outstanding Variety Special (Live), making 97-year-old Lear the oldest winner ever in the category… RuPaul landed his fourth consecutive Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program win, for RuPaul’s Drag Race…Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney took home pre-recorded variety special honors, while Carpool Karaoke won for short-form variety series…Seth MacFarlane tied the record for most Outstanding Voice-Over wins, with his fourth for Family Guy… Rachel Bloom – winner of an Emmy for music and lyrics for CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend – revealed she’s three months pregnant, “so that’s what’s next for me.”
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CBS News upped Jim Axelrod from Senior National Correspondent to Chief Investigative and Senior National Correspondent. Axelrod joined CBS News in 1996.
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New SNL hire Shane Gillis apologized for a racial slur against Chinese people that surfaced in a YouTube video uploaded last year. “I’m a comedian who pushes boundaries,” tweeted Gillis. I sometimes miss….I’m happy to apologize to anyone who’s actually offended by anything I’ve said.” And he did call comedian Chris Gethard to apologize for a homophobic comment made during a podcast, Gethard told the NYTimes, adding, “the fact that he took some time to do that today, I give him credit.” Presidential candidate Andrew Yang, target of one of Gillis’ anti-Asian jabs, said he prefers “comedy that makes people think and doesn’t take cheap shots,” but added, “for the record, I do not think he should lose his job. We would all benefit from being more forgiving rather than punitive.” The announcement that Gillis was joining the NBC sketch show as a featured player was made last week.
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Ugly Betty’s Michael Urie and Becki Newton reteam to star as brother and sister in Fun, which landed a pilot production commitment from CBS. Funeral home comedy comes fromMichael Patrick King (2 Broke Girls), former Ugly Betty EPs Tracy Poust and Jon Kinnally and Warner Bros. TV.
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Actor John Lithgow and director Jon Watts (Spider Man: Homecoming)have boarded the pilot of FX drama series The Old Man. Lithgow will star alongside Jeff Bridgesin the project, which begins production this fall under the direction of Watts, who will also serve as an executive producer.
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Freeform’s Party of Five reboot, following five children whose parents are suddenly deported to Mexico, is set for a Wednesday, January 8 debut. The new iteration comes from original series creators Amy Lippman and Christopher Keyser.
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Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark? premieres Friday, October 11 at 7p. Three-parter based on the ‘90s kids cult classic has been reimagined for a new generation.
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Season two of ID’s Someone You Thought You Knew debuts Monday, September 23 at 9p. True crime series focuses on murders that aren’t as random as they might appear to be.
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Home improvement series George to the Rescue returns to NBC stations for season ten on Saturday, September 21 (check local listings). Series features George Oliphant and his team of contractors and designers taking on perplexing home improvement projects for families facing personal challenges.
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Kids series Super Dinosaur, based on the Robert Kirkman and Jason Howard comic book series, premieres launches on Amazon Prime Video on October 6.
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Docu-series Chasing the Sun, following the travels of filmmaker Stephen Friedman (The Blueprints), has two back-to-back premiere dates next month. Season two premieres on travel-focused AVOD channel JOURNY on Wednesday, October 2, while season one, which already aired on JOURNY, makes its debut on Ovation on Thursday, October 3.
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A&E’s Live PD is back for season four on Friday and Saturday, September 20 and 21, at 9p. The net’s Live Rescue returns with a new host, Matt Iseman, and new episodes on Monday, September 23 at 9p.
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A six-episode digital series, The Selection, offers viewers a storytelling link to the fourth and final season of NBC’s The Good Place. Written by the comedy’s staff, series focused on Shawn (Marc Evan-Jackson) and his demon team is available on the NBC App. The Good Place returns for its last hurrah on Thursday, September 26 at 9p.
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After nine seasons, Discovery Family Channel will celebrate the series finale of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic with a 90-minute special on Saturday, October 12 at 8p. The day before, the net is offering making-of retrospective My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic – A Decade of Pony at 5p.
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Alexander Skarsgard (Big Little Lies) will star in CBS All Access’ The Stand, based on the Stephen King novel. Skarsgard will play the sinister Randall Flagg.
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