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FX picked up Mayans M.C. for season three. Co-creator and exec producer Elgin James will serve as showrunner, taking over for Kurt Sutter, who exited in dramatic fashion last month. “We’re happy to continue telling the story of Mayans M.C. with our partners at Fox 21 and excited that Elgin James has earned the opportunity to become the series’ showrunner,” said Nick Grad, President of Original Programming at FX Entertainment. “Kurt Sutter identified and chose Elgin as his partner on the show from the outset, and Elgin has been instrumental to the success of the series, leveraging his experience and creative vision to make Mayans M.C. with this incredible cast, crew and creative team.”
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The FCC gave formal approval for the T-Mobile/Sprint merger. “After a lengthy and painstaking review process, the Commission has correctly concluded that this transaction is in the public interest,” FCC chairman Ajit Pai said. “In particular, the transaction will help secure United States leadership in 5G, close the digital divide in rural America, and enhance competition in the broadband market.”
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AT&T agreed to pay $60 million to current and former customers to settle a case with the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC accused AT&T of misleading smartphone customers by charging them for unlimited data plans, then reducing data speeds if they used as little as two gigabytes of data in a month. “While it seems obvious, it bears repeating that Internet providers must tell people about any restrictions on the speed or amount of data promised,” said Andrew Smith, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.
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Courtney B. Vance (The People vs. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story) will succeed JoBeth Williams as President of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. Williams will retire after ten years in the post.
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HBO ordered an unscripted series that has famous drag queens coaching small-town residents for a one-night drag show. We’re Here comes from Stephen Warren and Johnnie Ingram and The Intellectual Property Corporation.
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SNL’s Kate McKinnon will star in and exec produce a limited series adaptation of podcast Joe Exotic, the second season of Wondery’s Over My Dead Body podcast, in development at UCP. The studio also adapted Wondery podcasts Dirty John and Dr. Death.
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Cara Delevingne (Carnival Row) will exec produce and host an all-female practical joke series for upcoming digital short form service Quibi. Untitled show comes from Sirens Media. “As someone who watches so much content on my phone, this feels like such a perfect partnership,” said Delevingne.
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Hometown Horror premieres on Travel Channel Monday, November 18 at 9p. Series shines a light on murky goings-on in the shadows of small-town America.
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New Discovery series Street Outlaws: Fastest in America launches Monday, January 20 at 8p. Racers put the pedal to the metal in Memphis.
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Season two of animated preschool series Llama Llama will launch on Netflix on November 15, 2019. Jennifer Garner returns as Mama Llama.
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No hard feelings: Lance Bass will host HGTV holiday special, Outrageous Holiday Houses, on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 28, at 11p. Bass, a founding member of *NSYNC – who was outbid by HGTV for the iconic Brady Bunch house, but clearly holds no grudges now – will spotlight such festive towns as Santa Claus, Indiana, and North Pole, Alaska. Special produced by Scott Brothers Entertainment kicks off with Scott brother Drew (Property Brothers) and his wife, Linda Phan, in LA.
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Ellen DeGeneres will play Santa for a three-night holiday special on NBC. During Ellen’s Greatest Night of Giveaways, airing December 10, 11 and 12,  DeGeneres and celebrity pals will deliver gifts to unsuspecting people. Joining DeGeneres are Michelle Obama, Jennifer Aniston, Justin Timberlake, Robert Downey Jr., Melissa McCarthy, Michael B. Jordan, Jason Momoa, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Teigen, Steph & Ayesha Curry and more.
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The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced that stand-up comedian and actor Ronny Chieng, a correspondent on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and star of Crazy Rich Asians, will host the 47^th International Emmy Awards Gala, to be held Monday, November 25, in NYC.
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Kris Kristofferson will receive the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award during the CMA Awards, airing Wednesday, November 13 at 8p on ABC.
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Bronx comedians Desus Nice and The Kid Mero, from Showtime’s Desus & Mero, and The Bronx Brewery will collaborate on the launch of a limited-release lager. Bodega Boys Beer, named after the “Bodega Boys” podcast that put The Bronx-born duo on the map, will be available in 4-packs of 16 oz. cans at The Bronx Brewery’s Taproom & Backyard in the Bronx.
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Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife) and Corey Stoll (House of Cards) have signed on to guest star in multiple episodes of the season five of Showtime’s Billions…Jackie Goldston (The Passage, Shots Fired) landed a recurring role on season two of DC’s Doom Patrol.
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PAW Patrol Safety First!, a prosocial campaign created by Nickelodeon in participation with safety partner Safe Kids Worldwide, will focus on water safety, fire safety and road safety. Olympic swimming champ Michael Phelps will serve as PAW Patrol Safety First! Global Water Safety Ambassador.
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Syndicated talker Dr Phil (new season high 2.5 Live+SD national Nielsen, up 9% from the week before) skirted the ratings declines that saw some of the biggest off-net sitcoms plunge to all-time lows in the week ending October 27. Big Bang Theory hit a series low 2.7 (down 13%), Last Man Standing  was down 5%, to 1.9 and Modern Family dipped to a series low 1.4 (down 7%). Access shows were likely negatively affected by World Series games October 22, 23 and 25.
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CBS sophomore The Neighborhood drew its biggest audience of the season on Monday, with 5.95 million viewers, and tied its A18-49 high of 0.9.
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Tyler Perry’s The Oval is the #1 new scripted series for general market P18-49, P2+ for all of cable TV, reports BET. The Oval and Sistas are delivering 3.3 million  gross viewers P2+ per night on a Live+3 basis (1.3 million gross viewers P18-49).
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Hallmark Channel’s “Countdown to Christmas” programming propelled the network to rank as the highest-rated and most-watched on cable for the week of October 28 among Households, W25-54, and Total Viewers, excluding news. Movies Merry & Bright and  Christmas Scavenger Hunt averaged a 2.8 HH rating, 2.8 million Total Viewers, and 473,000 W25-54.
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Early results for the MTV EMAs, broadcast live from Spain, showed an increase in ratings where data is available among MTV’s brand demo (15-34s) of +49% year-over-year, with reach up +18%. In the UK, the average audience was up +23 percent with 1.6 million TV viewers, and in Germany, MTV saw a spike of +107% YoY.
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