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Fox News Channel’s Shepard Smith has stepped down from his role as Chief News Anchor and Managing Editor of the network’s breaking news unit, and anchor of Shepard Smith Reporting. Friday afternoon’s edition was Smith’s final show, during which he addressed his surprise decision. “Recently, I asked the company to allow me to leave Fox News. After requesting that I stay, they obliged. So under our agreement, I won’t be reporting elsewhere, at least in the near future,” said Smith, who has been with FNC since its founding in 1996, but has found himself clashing with the news net’s opinion hosts over his skepticism about President Trump. “Even in our currently polarized nation, it’s my hope that the facts will win the day. That the truth will always matter. That journalism and journalists will thrive.”
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The NBA announced Friday they would not hold media availability for its teams for the remainder of its preseason trip in China. “They have been placed into a complicated and unprecedented situation while abroad and we believe it would be unfair to ask them to address these matters in real time,” the NBA told EPSN. Repercussions from a Twitter post by Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morley in support of Hong Kong protesters included canceled games and the sponsorships being put on hold.
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Kerry Washington has accepted an invite to Netflix’s The Prom. The Scandal star joins Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, James Corden and Andrew Rannels (The Book of Mormon) in the Ryan Murphy movie musical.
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James Murdoch acquired a small stake in Vice Media as part of Vice’s recent acquisition of Refinery29, reports the NY Times. Murdoch, the former chief exec of 21^st Century Fox, joined the board of Vice in 2013 as part of an investment Fox made in the company.
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Chance the Rapper will do double duty as host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live on October 26. He hosted the NBC sketch comedy show in 2017.
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Amblin Television and Tom Hanks & Gary Goetzman’s Playtone inked a deal with Apple for a limited series based on the book, Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany. Amblin’s Steven Spielberg, Hanks and Goetzman also teamed for WWII projects Band of Brothers and The Pacific for HBO.
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Disney Fam Jam landed a straight-to-series order from Disney Channel. Competition series is inspired by choreographer Phil Wright’s “The Parent Jam” viral sensation dance classes, which are streamed online. Production begins in November.
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Season three of MTV’s Floribama Shore premieres Thursday, November 14 at 8p. A new roommate, Mattie Lynn Breaux from CMT’s Party Down South, joins the raucous reality show.
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Explorers Justin Fornal and Emiliano Ruprah use historical maps as well as modern imaging techniques to examine mysteries – like where did the Ark of the Covenant end up after being smuggled from Jerusalem? – in a new eight-episode Science Channel series, Unexplained and Unexplored, premiering Sunday, November 10 at 10p.
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ID has a trio of true crime premieres this week: New series Relatively Evil debuts Tuesday, October 15 at 9p; Shattered is back for season three on Wednesday, October 16 at 10p; and newcomer Home Sweet Homicide arrives Thursday, October 17 at 10p.
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Charmed and Dynasty returned to The CW on Friday, reaching 700,000 total viewers/0.2 A18-49 and 464,000 viewers/0.2 A18-49, respectively, just short of their last season finales.
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Actor Robert Forster died October 11 of brain cancer. He was 78. Forster had roles in numerous films, including Reflections in a Golden Eye, Medium Cool and Jackie Brown, but may be best known to television audiences as The Disappearer in Breaking Bad.
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