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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 9/25/19)
ABC: The Goldbergs (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: Schooled (Premiere) at 8:30pm
ABC: Modern Family (Premiere) at 9pm
ABC: Single Parents (Premiere) at 9:30pm
ABC: Stumptown (Premiere) at 10pm
CBS: Survivor (Premiere) at 8pm
COMEDY CENTRAL: South Park (Premiere) at 10pm
COMEDY CENTRAL: Crank Yankers (Premiere) at 10:30pm
FOX: The Masked Singer (Premiere) at 8pm
FXX: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Premiere) at 10pm
FXX: Cake (Premiere) at 10:30pm
NBC: Chicago Med (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: Chicago Fire (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: Chicago P.D. (Premiere) at 10pm
YOU TUBE: Liza on Demand (Premiere)
CBS: Big Brother (Finale) at 9:30pm
INSP: Turquoise Fever (Finale) at 9pm
PBS: Country Music (Finale) at 8pm
USA: Suits (Finale) at 9pm
Showtime is reviving weekly newsmagazine Vice with a 13-episode order for a new season set to premiere in the spring of 2020. The series, launched by Vice Media and HBO in 2013, has been nominated for 12 primetime Emmy awards across its previous six seasons, with two wins.
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The FCC has launched an investigation into Sprint over an apparent violation of the FCC’s rules on Lifeline broadband subsidies, which bring digital opportunities to low-income Americans. “The Federal Communications Commission has learned that Sprint Corp. claimed monthly subsidies for serving approximately 885,000 Lifeline subscribers, even though those subscribers were not using the service,” said the FCC. The issue was an error caused by new requirements implemented in 2017, said Sprint, adding that it would reimburse the government for any subsidy payments collected as a result of the error.
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Univision Communications. and Amazon are partnering in the U.S. to introduce new Spanish-language skills on Alexa, Amazon’s cloud-based voice service. Starting in early October, Alexa users will be able to access Univision’s Spanish-language content on Amazon’s family of Echo products, including live listening on all Uforia radio stations across the United States and Puerto Rico, national news briefs from Univision Noticias and sports briefs from TUDN.
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The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation has made a $200,000 pledge to double all gifts made September 24 through September 26 in support of public middle school applied science projects. The continuation of the foundation’s STEM celebrates the season three premiere of Lorre’s CBS comedy, Young Sheldon, on September 26 at 8p.
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A U.S. soldier was arrested after discussing bombing a major news network’s headquarters, according to documents in Kansas federal court. While sources said the network was CNN, net president and chairman of WarnerMedia News and Sports Jeff Zucker assured employees they were not in danger. “I want to assure everyone that there was never any imminent threat to any CNN locations,” he said in an email to staff. “We continue to actively monitor these issues on a daily basis and work closely with our security teams around the world and our partners in law enforcement.”
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Emmy winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator, writer, executive produce and star of Fleabag, inked an overall deal with Amazon Studios to create and produce new TV content to premiere on Amazon Prime Video. “I’m insanely excited to be continuing my relationship with Amazon,” said Waller-Bridge. “Working with the team on Fleabag was the creative partnership dreams are made of. It really feels like home.”
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Shonda Rimes, Norman Lear, Steve Martin, author Jenny Han (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before), Lindy West (Shrill) and songwriter Diane Warren have boarded Netflixanthology series Notes on Love, telling stories centered on marriage. Han, Martin, Warren, and West will exec produce their individual episodes; Rhimes and Betsy Beers will executive produce the series.
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Quibi greenlit traveling dance competition The Sauce, to be produced by The Front and featuring viral dance sensations Avo & Teo. Viewers will follow the best friends and brothers as they spotlight the diversity of dance culture in different cities.
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Discovery Channel goes a rugged, remote region of Idaho for new survival series River of No Return, launching Sunday, October 6 at 9p.
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Details on Apple TV+ drama Servant will be revealed during New York Comic Con on Thursday, October 3 at 8p. Ahead of the event, M. Night Shyamalan tweeted about his upcoming mystery series, “I’ve been very quiet about what I have been working on with Apple TV+ but it has been one of the most incredible creative experiences. We’re so excited to show it to you.”
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AXS TV is moving Impact Wrestling from 10p Saturdays to 8p on Tuesdays, starting October 29. From October 1 until the show’s premiere, AXS TV will run “This Is Impact!” preview specials.
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The season 42 premiere of ABC’s 20/20 features the first prime-time interview with Siegfried & Roy (Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn) in over a decade. The duo open up about the infamous career-ending tiger attack that happened 16 years ago, with correspondent Deborah Roberts, on Friday, September 27 at 9p.
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Independent Lens opens its new season on PBS on Monday, October 28 with “Made in Boise,” focused on four women who decide to be reproductive surrogates.
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Tom Hanks will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards, airing Sunday, January 5 at 8p on NBC. Past winners of the award, honoring people who have made a lasting impact on the industry, include Steven Spielberg, Robert DeNiro, Harrison Ford, Sophia Loren and more.
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NGL Collective today announced the first round of official sponsors of the 10th Anniversary Hispanicize, held in LA from October 17-19 during Hispanic Heritage Month. Sponsors include Pepsi, HBO Latino, McDonald’s, Ad Council, Google, Maggi, CÎROC Ultra Premium Vodka, Colgate Optic White, Cantu – PDC Brands, Designated Player, Nickelodeon, Pluto TV, Tadin Herb & Tea, Unilever, Universal Music Latin, Voto Latino and Walmart.
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Oxygen special Uncovered: Killed by Hate premieres Sunday, October 20 at 7p. The latest installment of the “Uncovered” series explores some of the nation’s most brutal cases of hate crime.
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Blythe Danner (Will & Grace) has joined the season three cast of Starz drama American Gods for a story arc…Derek Theler (American Gods), Beth Riesgraf (Leverage), Usman Ally (On Becoming a God in Central Florida), Lamont Thompson (NCIS: LA), Artur Benson (Shooter) and Aaron Glenane (Picnic at Hanging Rock) have joined the cast of Paramount Network’s new scripted comedic drama series 68 Whiskey.
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E!’s Live From The Red Carpet: The 2019 Emmy Awards delivered significant audience growth over 2018, up 14% among A18-49 (201,000) and 27% among total viewers P2+ (587,000) versus Emmys 2018.
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The season three premiere of ABC’s The Good Doctor ranked as the #1 program in Monday’s 10p hour in total viewers (6.6 million) and A18-49 (1.0/5), and was the only program of the night to build over its lead-in in the demo, growing over its Dancing With the Starslead-in by 25%.
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Fox’s Prodigal Son debuted as the #1 new show of the night, with 4.2 million total viewers and a 1.0/4 rating among A18-49. The net’s 9-1-1 was the night’s #1 scripted show, delivering its most-watched (7.0 million P2+) episode ever, excluding post-NFL.
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Among the new syndicated talk shows, The Kelly Clarkson Show (premiere week 1.6 Live+SD national Nielsen rating) had the biggest debut week of any first-run strip since 2012, behind only Ellen, Live and Dr. Phil. Tamron Hall (1.0), which has fewer secondary runs than Clarkson, drew over 1.3-million daily viewers; other than Clarkson, the Tamron rating was the highest debut week for any first-run show since 2016, with the exception of the Steve Harvey reboot. While national numbers for Mel Robbins (0.4/2 weighted metered market average), launched September 16, will not be available until October 1, its overnight ratings fell 50% from the program’s year-ago time periods.
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Discovery Familia announced it is the only entertainment network in the Spanish-language marketplace with growth among A18-49 as the 2018/19 broadcast season comes to an end. The net grew +23% with audiences in the demo, driven by the a broadened programming slate, including the addition of programming from Food Network and HGTV, in-language, available to Hispanic audiences for the first time.
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Telemundo reports it has retained its #1 rank in Spanish-language TV for the third consecutive season in Monday-Friday 8-11p prime, averaging 605,000 viewers A18-49 and 250,000 among A18-34.
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Univision reports it finished the 2018/2019 season as #1 Spanish-language network during Monday through Sunday prime, with 1.3 million total viewers 2+ and 528,000 A18-49.
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And UniMás finished the 2018/2019 season as the youngest broadcast network in primetime, regardless of language, with a 44 median age.
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Emmy-winning producer J. Michael Mendel died September 23 at age 54. Tweeted Adult Swim of Mendel, who worked on Rick and Morty and The Simpson, “He guided and supported a generation of artists, writers and creators and his absence will be felt by our entire community.”
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