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Bless the Harts has made it to season two on Fox. The animated comedy may not be burning up the Nielsens – averaging a modest 3.3 million viewers across platforms and a 1.0 among A18-49 in Live+7 Nielsens – but the brass has faith it’s a good fit. “Bless the Harts is an incredibly sharp, yet sweet, series that complements the Fox Animation Domination block perfectly,” said Entertainment President Michael Thorn. “It simply doesn’t get much better than having a comedy anchored by talent like Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Ike Barinholtz, Jillian Bell and Kumail Nanjiani.”
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NBC is keeping freshman Bluff City Law in place for its 10-episode order, but has not ordered additional episodes of the legal drama starring Jimmy Smits. The show dipped to a Live+SD low of 3.4 million viewers and 0.5 among A18-49 last week.
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Tom Brady was not pleased with the suggestion that he was parodying New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s prostitution arrest in a promo for Netflix comedy Living With Yourself, in which the quarterback exits what looks like a strip mall massage parlor. “That’s not what that was about,” Brady scolded ESPN. “I think that was taken out of context, just like you’re taking it out of context and trying to make it a story for yourself, which has a negative connotation to it, which I don’t appreciate. It was meant to be something different than that.” Brady allegedly took the cameo before Kraft was busted.
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HBO Max ordered lifestyle docu-series series Brad & Gary Go To… (wt), following celebrity stylist Brad Goreski and producer Gary Janetti as they go on a jet-setting culinary adventure around the globe, inspired by their Instagram stories. Series will be produced by Goreski and Janetti as well as Purveyors of Pop (Married to Medicine) and Entertainment One. “Brad and Gary have become an Internet sensation and it was actually there over one million followers who requested this series,” said Sarah Aubrey, head of original content, HBO Max.
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Documentary Expecting Amy (wt), from Amy Schumer, also got an order from HBO Max. Doc follows the comedian/actress as she prepares for a stand-up special while going through a difficult pregnancy. “Her willingness to showcase her immense vulnerability, during the most challenging time in her life, is both empowering and hilarious,” said Aubrey.
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Crime drama Bent, from writer Vaun Wilmott (Prison Break), Jerry Bruckheimer TV and CBS Television Studios, is in development at CBS. Series focuses on a Texas law enforcement officer.
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Head of the class: Disney+ renewed comedy series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series ahead of its – and the streaming service’s – debut on Tuesday, November 12 (first episode will air linearly on Friday, November 9 across ABC, Disney Channel and Freeform). Production on season two resumes in early 2020 in Salt Lake City.
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Crypt TV greenlit a new chapter of its short, The Door in the Woods,gatherer of over 25 million views on the horror streamer since last October. The Girl in the Woods will guest star Kal Penn.
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VH1 ordered season three of T.I. Tiny: Friends & Family Hustle. New eps of the reality show starring rapper/actor Tip “T.I.” Harris and Tameka “Tiny” Harris and their family are slated to air in 2020.
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NBC’s Making It is back for an eight-episode crafting event starting Monday, December 2. During its first season, the show – hosted and exec produced by Parks and Rec alumns Amy Pohler and Nick Offerman – averaged a 1.2 rating in A18-49 and 4.9 million viewers in Live+7 Nielsens, enough to rank it the summer’s #1 most-watched new series.
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AwesomenessTV horror series The Unsettling has been acquired by Hulu. Series focuses on a foster child spooked by goings-on in her new home.
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At a presentation for the International Documentary Association, Disney+ offered an inside look at the streaming service’s nonfiction content strategy. Coming up: Howard, directed by Don Hahn (Beauty and the Beast); People & Places, produced by Supper Club’s Jason Sterman, Brian McGinn and David Gelb (Amanda Knox); National Geographic feature documentary Science Fair;  Untitled Mickey Mouse Documentary from producer Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?), and director Jeff Malmberg (Marwencol); and Wolfgang, directed by Supper Club co-founder David Gelb (Jiro Dreams of Sushi).
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Comedian and Marine veteran Rob Riggle will be back to host the American Veterans Center’s annual broadcast for Veterans Day. Kyle Chandler, Terry Crews, John Cena, Laurence Fishburne, Gary Sinise, Kellie Pickler, Mike Rowe, Allison Janney and Clint Eastwood are among the other stars who will be on hand for nationally syndicated American Valor: A Salute to Our Heroes, airing Monday, November 11.
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Also set to honor veterans is Smithsonian Channel, which kicks off its second annual Veterans Month screening tour tomorrow,  October 22 at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. In partnership with its distributors – Comcast, Charter Communications and Altice USA – and CBS Veterans Network, Smithsonian Channel will host private premiere screenings of Memphis Belle in Color, an hour-long documentary telling the story of the famed B-17 bomber plane that became a symbol of the Allies’ desperate fight against the German Luftwaffe during WWII – told with color footage of the iconic aircraft in combat.
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Stand-up special Bill Burr Presents Jessica Kirson: Talking to Myself premieres Friday, December 6 at midnight on Comedy Central. It’s the third of three specials produced for the net by All Things Comedy.
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Lifetime announced four new holiday movies on tap, bringing this year’s total of original movies to 30. The net’s annual It’s a Wonderful Lifetime programming event kicks off Friday, October 25th, and will now include A Christmas Winter Song on Saturday, December 14 at 8p; Mistletoe & Menorahs on Saturday, December 7 p; Christmas Love Letter on Saturday, December 21 at 6p; and A Date by Christmas Eve on Sunday, December 22 at 8p.
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Casey Wilson (Marry Me) landed a co-starring role in HBO Max comedy pilot Delilah, reports Deadline…Richard Flood (Shameless) will recur on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy as head of pediatric surgery…Mackenzie Davis (Halt and Catch Fire) and Himesh Patel (Yesterday) landed lead roles in HBO Max’s limited series adaptation of Station Eleven.
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Across its first three days of release in the US, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie had an average minute audience of over 6.5 million people and reached nearly 8.2 million unique TV viewers, according to Nielson SVOD Content Ratings. About 36% of the film’s average minute audience over its first three days were younger adults in the A18-34 demo, the largest share among the measured demos.
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Universal Kids reports DreamWorks Where’s Waldo? has reached 4.27 million total viewers this season to date, and Norman Picklestripes has reached 2.35 million P2+ total viewers this season to date.
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Actor Bill Macy did October 17. He was 97. Macy was best known to television audiences as Walter Findlay on Maude.
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