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Katie Couric and People partnered on #SeeHer Story, a digital video series celebrating extraordinary women. Weekly series premieres Friday, October 18 on PEOPLE.com and PeopleTV’s PEOPLE Now with launch sponsor Renew Life. Female trailbrazers set to be featured include Dame Julie Andrews, Chief Wilma Mankiller, General Ann Dunwoody and Ruby Bridges.
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Late-night king Stephen Colbert is staying put at CBS well past the 2020 election. On Thursday, the network announced that it had agreed to a contract extension with Colbert that will keep him as host of The Late Show through August 2023. He was previously signed through August 2020.
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Kurt Sutter was fired from his Sons of Anarchy spinoff, Mayans M.C. In an email to cast and crew, Sutter explained, “As you know, I’ve removed myself quite a bit this season, allowing others to take a bigger role in producing the show. It appears that philosophy has backfired. It’s been reported by writers, producers, cast and crew that my absence and subsequent behavior when there, has only created confusion, chaos, hostility and is perceived as abandonment. Or at least that’s how Disney has interpreted it. I’m sure it’s true. This morning I was fired by Dana Walden and John Landgraf for all the complaints levied against me. Not the way I wanted to end my 18 year relationship with FX. At least being fired for being an abrasive d**k is on brand.” It appears Sutter will continue with his overall deal at 20^th Century FoxTV, now part of Disney TV Studios, where has been for the last 15 years.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his views on freedom of expression in a speech at Georgetown University on Thursday, explaining that Facebook and its peers have emerged as a “fifth estate” of digital speech in society, alongside the news media. “People having the power to express themselves at scale is a new kind of force in the world,” said Zuckerberg. “It is a fifth estate alongside the other power structures in our society.”
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Helen Hunt, star of Spectrum Originals reboot Mad About You, is reportedly at home resting following a serious car accident. Production on the revival of the 1990s NBC comedy, which also stars Paul Reiser, continued pre-shooting as scheduled on Thursday. It was unclear if Hunt would be able to return to work on Friday. However, it will not impact the release of the series – the first six episodes are completed and are set to debut on Wednesday, November 20.
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History celebrates its 25^th anniversary in 2020 with a HISTORYTalks event featuring former US presidents. The first in a series of day-long events will be an exclusive session with President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush in conversation with presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on Saturday, February 29 at Carnegie Hall in New York.
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Food Network teamed with Guy Fieri on new bracket style culinary competition, Tournament of Champions. Five-episode series will feature 16 chefs going head-to-head as Fieri puts their cooking skills to the test via different challenges.
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Aidan Turner (The Hobbit, Poldark) is set to headline Leonardo (wt), an eight-episode drama series celebrating the life and work of artist Leonardo da Vinci. Showrunner Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files) and British writer Steve Thompson (Sherlock) are behind the series, while Daniel Percival is directing. Lux Vide and Spotnitz’s Big Light Productions will produce.
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A series based on the 1995 feature, Clueless, is in the works at CBS TV Studios, according to Deadline. A new dramatic take on the high-school comedy will center around the Dionne character, and has drawn interest from numerous streamers as well as The CW. Written by Jordan Reddout and Gus Hickey (Will &Grace), the new Clueless is said to be a Mean Girls meets Riverdale meets a Lizzo music video.
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Apple signed writer-producer Monica Beletsky (Fargo, The Leftovers, Parenthood) to a multi-year overall agreement, to develop, write and produce TV series exclusively for Apple TV+, reports Deadline. The pact reunited Beletsky with Jason Katims and Kerry Ehrin, who also overall pacts at Apple, both whom she worked with on Friday Night Lights and Parenthood.
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Showtime Documentary Films is moving forward with a limited docu-series profiling notorious hip-hop artist Tekashi 6ix9ine. Titled SuperVillain, the project was inspired by the Rolling Stone feature “Tekashi 6ix9ine: The Rise and Fall of a Hip Hop Supervillain” by investigative journalist Stephen Witt. It will trace how a New York City deli clerk named Daniel Hernandez emerged into hip hop’s prince of trolls.
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HBO set a premiere date for The Outsider. The drama series, based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel, debuts with back-to-back episodes on Sunday, January 12 at 9p and 10p.
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Antenna TV is serving up a Dennis the Menace marathon over Thanksgiving weekend. The net is broadcasting all 146 episodes of the classic series beginning Wednesday, November 27 at 8p.
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Members of the Broadway company of The SpongeBob Musical: Live On Stage! will film a television special in front of a live theater audience. The project is slated to air in December on Nickelodeon.
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The ninth annual American Humane Hero Dog Awards premieres on Hallmark Channel on Monday, October 21 at 8p. Hosted by author, animal advocate and TV personality Beth Stern and actor James Denton (Good Witch, Desperate Housewives), special celebrates the human-canine bond and recognizes the many ways dogs protect, save and enrich our lives.
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Greg Kinnear joined CBS All Access series The Stand, an adaptation of the Stephen King Novel… Karrueche Tran (Claws) landed a recurring role on Fox’s Deputy; and John Douglas Thompson (Broadway’s King Lear), Patrick Murney (Seven Seconds), Ben Miles (The Romanoffs) James McArdle (Mary Queen of Scots), Sosie Bacon (Here and Now), Joe Tippett (Rise) and Neal Huff (To Kill a Mockingbird) have boarded HBO’s limited series Mare of Eastown.
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