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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 10/4/19)
BBC AMERICA: The Graham Norton Show (Premiere) at 11pm
COOKING CHANNEL: Freakshow Cakes (Premiere) at 11pm
FBN: Barron’s Roundtable (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: What You Get For Your Money (Premiere) at 9pm
HISTORY: In Search Of (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: Murder in Amish Country (Premiere) at 9pm
NETFLIX: Raising Dion, Peaky Blinders (Premiere)
NBC: The Blacklist (Premiere) at 8pm
OXYGEN: Relentless with Kate Snow (Premiere) at 8pm
(SATURDAY 10/5/19)
ANIMAL PLANET: Crikey! It’s The Irwins (Premiere) at 8pm
ANIMAL PLANET: Pit Bulls & Parolees (Premiere) at 9pm
ANIMAL PLANET: Amanda To The Rescue (Premiere) at 10pm
DISNEY CHANNEL: Star Wars Resistance (Premiere) at 10pm
FUSE: Collision (Premiere) at 9pm
OXYGEN: Murder For Hire (Premiere) at 6pm
OWN: Ready To Love (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: Austin City Limits (Premiere) at 8pm
TRAVEL: Ghost Adventure: Serial Killer Spirits (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Musical Guest: Taylor Swift (Premiere) at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 10/6/19)
ABC: Kids Say The Darnedest Things (Premiere) at 8pm
AMAZON: Super Dinosaur (Premiere)
AMC: The Walking Dead (Premiere) at 9pm
AMC: Talking Dead (Premiere) at 10pm
CBS: Madam Secretary (Premiere) at 10pm
CW: Batwoman (Premiere) at 8pm
CW: Supergirl (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY: Alaska The Last Frontier (Premiere) at 8pm
DISCOVERY: River of No Return (Premiere) at 9pm
DIY: Building Alaska (Premiere) at 9pm
E!: E! True Hollywood Story (Premiere) at 9pm
PBS: Press on Masterpiece (Premiere) at 10pm
TRAVEL: Witches of Salem (Premiere) at 10pm
TV ONE: Uncensored (Premiere) at 9pm
USA: Mr. Robot (Premiere) at 10pm
SMITHSONIAN: The Hunt for Eagle 56 (Finale) at 9pm
WEATHER: Storm Stories: The Next Chapter (Finale) at 8pm
Fox Television Stations grabbed rights to Pop TV’s Emmy-nominated comedy Schitt’s Creek in a two-year syndication deal with Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury. All seasons of Schitt’s Creek will begin airing in US broadcast markets in September 2020. The series returns for its sixth and final season in January 2020.
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The former assistant Robert De Niro and his Canal Productions sued for $6 million in August for embezzling company funds and underperforming, slapped De Niro with a $12 million gender discrimination, harassment and back pay suit. In a 19-page filing that links De Niro to “professional collaborator” Harvey Weinstein, Graham Chase Robinson accuses the Irishman star of treating her like an “office wife,” and notes “he does not accept the idea that men should treat women as equals.”
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And… Harvey Weinstein lost his bid to move his upcoming criminal trial for rape out of New York City. A NY court yesterday ruled the case, which begins January 6, will still take place in Lower Manhattan, noting, “It is ordered that the motion is denied in its entirety.”
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CNN confirmed Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will be on stage at the Democratic debate on Tuesday, October 15. The 78-year-old Vermont Senator underwent a heart stent procedure earlier this week to correct an artery blockage.
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AMC will provide a deep dive into its upcoming third series in The Walking Dead universe at NY Comic Con tomorrow, but the net teased out a few first-look images at the series slated to debut in spring 2020, and shared a synopsis. The franchise “will feature two young female protagonists and focus on the first generation to come-of-age in the apocalypse as we know it.”
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CBS came out on top in the scrum to land action drama The International. Project reunites Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren, who co-starred in The Expendables and Rocky IV; Lundgren stars and produces, and Stallone directs and exec-produces. Project, which hails from Flame Ventures, Stallone’s Balboa Productions and CBS TV Studios, centers on Anders Soto (Lundgren), who’s part negotiator, part international spy, and fully a one-man covert black-ops team working for the UN.
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NBC is developing another show from exec-producer Jason Winer and his Small Dog Picture Company. Network bought the script for comedy Forever Family, from writers Austen Earl and Joel Church-Cooper, which follows three families who discover their adopted children all share the same birth father. Winer inked a new overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV, now a part of Disney, earlier this year.
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It’s a marathon, not a sprint. CBS is continuing its relationship with Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan after giving a 10-ep order to his latest competition format Tough As Nails. Keoghan is producing with Louise Keoghan, and will host the series, which spotlights real people who are real tough as a result of their physically demanding jobs.
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Fox gave a script commitment with penalty to Opus, a family music drama starring and exec-produced by Nicole Ari Parker, who stars on the network’s winding-down Empire. From writer Felicia D. Henderson (Empire), producer Larry Taja and 20th Century Fox TV, series finds classical and urban music clash when Europe’s most celebrated and only African American conductor returns to Baltimore to reinvent her hometown’s crumbling symphony orchestra.
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Starz put in development a spinoff series based on Lionsgate feature Blindspotting; Jasmine Cephas Jones is on board to reprise her lead role from the film. Penned by Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs, who co-wrote, starred in and produced the original film, spinoff centers on Ashley (Jones), whose world is turned upside down when her partner of 12 years and father of their son is suddenly incarcerated.
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Quibi is onboarding horror anthology series 50 States of Fright, with a cast toplined by Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Travis Fimmel (Vikings, Warcraft: The Beginning) and Christina Ricci (Monster, Z: The Beginning of Everything). First season of the series, from Gunpowder & Sky’s Alter horror brand, Diga Studios and exec producer Sam Raimi (Spider Man, Army of Darkness), will explore urban legends from around the country. Cast also includes Jacob Batalon (Spiderman: Homecoming), Ming-Na Wen (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D), Taissa Farmiga (The Nun, American Horror Story), Asa Butterfield (Sex Education), John Marshall Jones (The Last Revolutionary, Rectify) and Ron Livingston (Loudermilk, A Million Little Things).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Pop TV renewed Florida Girls for a second season. Series debuted in July to critical acclaim for its bold comedic take on four friends making the most out of life while living below the poverty line in Clearwater, FL, inspired by the life of creator and star Laura Chinn.
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Gael García Bernal (Mozart in the Jungle) and Diego Luna (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) will exec-produce Amazon Studios and Amblin Television’s miniseries based on the saga of Hernan Cortes. Currently titled Untitled Cortes and Moctezuma Project, project stars Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) in the title role.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Exec producer Marie Leguizamo signed an overall development deal with Endemol Shine Boomdog to jointly develop and produce unscripted content. She’s also working with Endemol Shine North America’s English-language team on potential series.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season 4 of Baroness von Sketch Show returns to IFC on Wednesday, October 30 at midnight, with two eps. The all-female sketch series performed and written by Carolyn Taylor, Meredith MacNeill, Aurora Browne and Jennifer Whalen teased out a trailer yesterday.
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HBO dropped a trailer for His Dark Materials, which premieres Monday, November 4 at 9p—and there’s a lot going on in the adaptation of the Philip Pullman universe. The short clip reveals demons in the forms of leopards, monkeys and, perhaps, in the form of one gigantic bear.
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From Ultimate Thanksgiving Challenge to Worst Cooks in America: Thanksgiving Redemption, Food Network will be talking turkey throughout November. On the menu: Five chefs face off to create the ultimate Thanksgiving dishes on Ultimate Thanksgiving Challenge, hosted by Giada De Laurentiis premiering Sunday, November 3 at 9p. On Monday, November 4 at 9p, Holiday Baking Championship returns followed by a new season of Christmas Cookie Challenge tat 11p. Worst Cooks in America: Thanksgiving Redemption debuts Sunday, November 10 at 10p, and Chopped Junior returns for a new season Tuesday, November 12 at 8p. New special Thanksgiving Pie Fight pops up Thursday, November 14 at 9p, while special Good Eats: Thanksgiving Special premieres Sunday, November 17 at 8p, followed by Macy’s Thanksgiving Cake Spectacular at 10p. On Wednesday, November 27 at 10p, The Great Food Truck Race: Holiday Hustle debuts, followed November 28 with the premiere of Santa’s Baking Blizzard 9p.
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CBS All Access dropped the official season 2 trailer and teaser art for the psychological thriller Tell Me a Story yesterday at NY Comic Con. Series returns Thursday, Dec. 5.
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Starz acquired six titles on tap for premiere in Q4, including doc This Changes Everything from exec producer Geena Davis and a comedy from Idris Elba. Up first on October 5, The Professor and the Madman, starring Sean Penn and Mel Gibson, is true story of a murderer confined to an insane asylum and his unlikely bond with an Oxford professor. The River and the Wall, debuting October 21 from conservation filmmaker Ben Masters and NatGeo Explorer Filipe DeAndrade, explores the potential impacts of a Mexico border wall on the natural environment. Elba’s In the Long Run, inspired by his experience growing up in east London in the ‘80s, will premiere in November. Debuting December 14 is Stockholm, based on the1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in which hostages bonded with their captors. The Davis doc, set for December 16, looks at the history, empirical evidence and systemic forces that foster gender discrimination. My Days of Mercy, premiering December 27, centers on what happens when a female activist (Ellen Page) protesting the death penalty befriends a woman (Kate Mara) with opposing views.
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HGTV is adding to the guest-star lineup for its reboot of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Singer/songwriter LeAnn Rimes is the latest celeb to join a cadre of guests who will support massive community build and renovation efforts for local heroes. Series will debut on HGTV in early 2020.
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HBO Max knows how to get to Sesame Street. The WarnerMedia streaming platform will be the new SVOD home of the iconic series beginning with its 51st season. Series will relocate from HBO and its on-demand as part of a five-year deal between WarnerMedia and Sesame Workshop that includes five new 35-ep seasons, four new live-action and animated series, including an Elmo-hosted talk show and an animated Sesame Street spinoff. Deal also includes the show’s entire 50-year library of more than 4,500 eps, marking the first time the entire Sesame Street library has been made available.
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Tony, Emmy and Grammy winner Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, The Color Purple) will star as Aretha Franklin in the next installment of Nat Geo anthology series Genius: Aretha… Bernadette Peters landed a role in The CW’s upcoming Katy Keene, portraying a mother figure to Julia Chan’s Pepper Smith… Millicent Simmonds (A Quiet Place) landed a role in Freeform’s upcoming pilot Close Up… Garcia and Sol Rodriguez scored recurring roles in Freeform’s Party of Five reboot.
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Neil Patrick Harris will star in ‘80s AIDS-focused drama Boys for Channel 4 drama Boys… Original cast member Cynthia Harris will reprise her role in the upcoming limited series Mad About You for Spectrum Originals. Additionally, Cloris Leachman will also guest in the follow-up to the ‘90s NBC comedy… Jesse Williams (Grey’s Anatomy) landed a recurring role opposite Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, Rosemarie DeWitt and Joshua Jackson in upcoming Hulu limited series Little Fires Everywhere.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MOVIES
Joker – Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Frances Conroy, Shea Whigham, Zazie Beetz, Brian Tyree Henry, Bill Camp, Douglas Hodge, Josh Pais, Brett Cullen
Lucy In The Sky (Limited Release) – Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Zazie Beetz, Dan Stevens, Pearl Amanda Dickson, Ellen Burstyn
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NYC STREET FAIRS – BROOKLYN, QUEENS, BRONX, AND STATEN ISLAND
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