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CBS ALL ACCESS: No Activity (Premiere)
SUNDANCE NOW: Cheat (Premiere)
FX: Mr. Inbetween (Finale) at 10pm
FXX: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Finale) at 10pm
ID: Home Sweet Homicide (Finale) at 10pm
WE TV: Growing Up Hip Hop: New York (Finale)
HGTV pulled back the curtain on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition with a three-minute peek via Instagram and Facebook of the show’s return to television. The net also announced a premiere date of Sunday, February 16, at 9p. Ten-ep season features new host Jesse Tyler Ferguson and guests including Anthony Anderson, Derek Hough, Ty Pennington, LeAnn Rimes, OWN’s Laila Ali, Food Network’s Tyler Florence and HGTV stars David Bromstad, Tamara Day, Tarek El Moussa and Jasmine Roth.
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First-time nominees Lizzo, Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X are the most-nominated artists for this year’s Grammy Awards with eight noms for the Truth Hurts singer and six for Eilish and Lis Nas X. The nominees for the 62nd music awards show were announced yesterday; show will air live at 8p Sunday, January 26 on CBS. Emmy-winning TV series Game of Thrones (Ramin Djawadi) and Chernobyl (Hildur Guonadottir) were nominated in the category of best score soundtrack for visual media.
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NBC’s Saturday night live is closing out 2019 with three new shows .Jennifer Lopez will host for third time on December 7, with DaBaby as musical guest. Scarlett Johansson will return for her sixth appearance as host December 14, with musical guest Niall Horan. Former cast member Eddie Murphy makes his first appearance as host since 1984 on December 21; Lizzo is musical guest.
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Anita Hill-led Hollywood Commission on Eliminating Sexual Harassment launched a survey that seeks to determine the extent of harassment and abuse in the workplace. Survey is anonymous and untraceable, and seeks input from “everyone who has ever worked or sought work in entertainment.”
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Ten months after Empire actor Jussie Smollett claimed he was attacked while walking at night in Chicago, he’s suing the city and its police department. His suit is a counterclaim to the city seeking at minimum repayment from him for the $130,000 cost of the case—and as much “double recovery.” Smollett’s claim, in part, reads: “Despite the dismissal of all charges against Mr. Smollett, the CPD’s prosecution of Mr. Smollett based on the Osundairo Brothers’ false statements about the attack has caused Mr. Smollett to be the subject of mass public ridicule and harm to him personally.”
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Mindy Kaling will host the 22nd Costume Designers Guild Awards, slated for January 28 in LA.
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Oscar and Emmy-winning actress Holly Hunter will topline with Ted Danson in NBC’s new untitled comedy from Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, 3 Arts Entertainment and Universal Television. Series stars Danson as a wealthy businessman who runs for mayor of LA for all the wrong reasons. Hunter will play a longtime liberal councilwoman.
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John Wells and Molly Smith Metzler , the team behind Showtime’s Shameless, are teaming with Margot Robbie to adapt Stephanie Land memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive for Netflix. Series follows a single mom who turns to housekeeping as she battles poverty, homelessness and bureaucracy. Robbie will exec-produce via her LuckyChap Entertainment along with LuckyChap’s Tom Ackerley and Brett Hedblom. Metzler is writer, exec producer and showrunner; Wells and Erin Jontow exec-producing for John Wells Productions banner.
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Jaime King-starring zombie thriller Black Summer is headed back Netflix for an eight-ep second season. Series topped the streamer’s top 10 most-watched list in the UK earlier this year. Co-exec producer John Hyams will serve as sole showrunner for the coming season.
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More news from the Quibi-verse. Zac Efron is headed to a remote island for new short-form show Killing Zac Efron, where with nothing but basic gear and a guide partner, he’ll go off the grid for three weeks. Efron is also exec-producing the series, from his Ninjas Runnin’ Wild studio and Zero Point Zero… The digital service also ordered a Lionsgate-produced drama that’s a contemporary reboot of 1994 theatrical drama Swimming with Sharks. Kathleen Robertson (Murder in the First) will write and produce.
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It’s a third season of original series Love After Lockup, and a second season for spinoff Life After Lockup at WE tv, based on strong ratings for both shows.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment’s new Landmark Studio Group is developing and producing dramedy series Flagrant in partnership with actor and comedian Michael Rapaport (Atypical). Rapaport will appear in and exec produce; screenwriter Peter Hoare and actor/writer Pete Correale serve as co-writers and showrunners. Plot follows a disgraced college basketball player who, 20 years after he was caught throwing a game, gets an unlikely shot at redemption.
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HITN TV will premiere of the second season of Mundo Salvaje con Ron Magill on Monday, November 25 at 9p, bolstering the network’s wildlife-themed block. New production was shot on location in South Africa.
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Freeform’s new holiday gift-wrapping competition series Wrap Battle bows Monday, November 25, at 9p and follows nine contestants as they battle to become the ultimate wrapper. Series is hosted by comedian Sheryl Underwood (The Talk), with Carson Kressley (RuPaul’s Drag Race) and Wanda Wen serving as judges… Also at Freeform, the net released a trailer for Everything’s Gonna Be OK, the latest comedy from Josh Thomas, who again takes multiple roles as creator, writer, exec producer and star. Series premieres with two-eps Thursday, January 16 at 8:30p.
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Discovery continues its high-stakes ride with season 2 of Body Cam ,premiering Tuesday, December 3 at 10p. Ten-ep second run presents an intense, raw and intimate look at the current state of policing in America.
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Sundance Now will debut drama The Gulf on Wednesday, December 4. Mystery series follows a tough New Zealand detective whose personal and professional lives start to unravel when she is involved in a fatal car crash that kills her husband and causes her to lose pieces of her memory.
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Miracle Workers: Dark Ages got a premiere date of Tuesday, January 28 at 10:30p on TBS. It’s the second season of the anthology series created by Simon Rich, exec-produced by Lorne Michaels, and starring Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi.
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Slow Burn, the six-ep docuseries based on the podcast of the same name, will premiere on Epix on Sunday, February 16 at 10p. Expanding on the podcast’s first season, Leon Neyfakh will look back on the Watergate crisis, excavating the subplots and forgotten characters involved in the downfall of a president in a politically tumultuous times not so far removed from today.
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AMC set February 23-24 for the two-night season 5 premiere of Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul. Starring Bob Odenkirk as soon-to-be-erstwhile Albuquerque attorney Jimmy McGill, season picks up 16 months after the action began with his decision to begin practicing law as “Saul Goodman.”
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Food Network and Food Network Kitchen on Saturday, November 23at 11a will offer live classes and a two-hour live, on-air special packed with on-air talent offering Thanksgiving recipes, tips and entertaining advice.
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Dove Channel is turning back the clock this holiday season , as the faith-based net spotlights four retro classics. Premiering Monday, November 25 is the color-restored 1935 Charles Dickens adaptation Scrooge (A Christmas Carol), starring Donald Calthrop, 1964 animated fave Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, a collection the Red Skelton Christmas Classics sketch mashup, and 1966 fantasy Santa’s Christmas Circus Starring Whizzo The Clown. Dove also is offering a variety of curated holiday blocks airing throughout the season.
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The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, from Ava DuVernay’s Array Releasing, will debut on Netflix on Wednesday, November 27 followed by a theatrical release in NY, LA and other select US cities. Film follows two Indigenous women from vastly different backgrounds whose worlds collide when one of them is fleeing a violent domestic attack.
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Oxygen will air Snapped: Behind Bars – Sheila Davalloo on Sunday, December 1 at 6p. Two-hour special about the infamous case of Davalloo, who attempted to murder her husband, features her telling her side of the story.
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Ho Ho Ho: TV One is celebrating the holidays with a slate full of original movies, specials and marathons. A marathon feting the 30th anniversary of Family Matters begins Thursday, November 28 at 6a. Original holiday film Dear Santa, I Need a Date premieres Sunday, December 8 at 7p, and the African Pride Gospel Superfest Holiday special airs Sunday, December 15 at 6p. Up next, TV One will air a marathon of Christmas-themed sitcom specials from The Jeffersons, Sanford & Son, Good Times, What’s Happening, What’s Happening Now, Family Matters, Living Single, Girlfriends, Eve and All of Us from Sunday, December 22 at 6a-Monday, December 23 at 3a. Christmas Day will see a roundup of holiday films including Christmas Swap, Merry Wishmas and You Can’t Fight Christmas.
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CMA Country Christmas rings in the holiday season at 9p Tuesday, December 3 on ABC. Trisha Yearwood will host and perform during the special, which also includes Dierks Bentley, Kristin Chenoweth, Tori Kelly, Lady Antebellum, Rascal Flatts, and more.
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Netflix premiered a trailer for new holiday film A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby, which premieres Thursday, December 5. Film is a race-against-the-clock caper, when the king and queen have to find a missing treaty before the arrival of the new royal baby.
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EstrellaTV will air the Spanish-language broadcast of the Miss World 2019 beauty pageant on December 14, 2019 at 7p. This year’s event takes place in London.
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A new adaptation of Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol will haunt FX on Thursday, December 19 at 7:30p. The net released a trailer and shared details about the movie, a more spine-tingling immersion into Scrooge’s dark night of the soul written and exec-produced by Steven Knight and directed by Nick Murphy.
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John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch , a new special featuring the comedian with the youth troupe plus guests including David Byrne, Andre De Shields, Natasha Lyonne and Jake Gyllenhaal, launches globally on Netflix on December 24.
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Hey now, hey now! Adam Lamberg will reprise his role as David “Gordo” Gordon, in the upcoming Disney+ series Lizzie McGuire… Joan Allen will co-star opposite Julianne Moore and Clive Owen in Apple limited series Lisey’s Story… Cory Hardrict (The Oath), Joel Steingold (How To Get Away with Murder) and Salvador Chacon (Mayans M.C.) scored multi-ep arcs in season 3 of Showtime’s The Chi.
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Pro wrestling mainstay Jim Cornette resigned his position with the National Wrestling Alliance, effective immediately, over what the Alliance called “offensive” remarks during a recent match.
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