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Anne With an E won’t see a fourth season. Netflix and Canadian broadcaster CBC have decided not to move forward with the drama from Northwood Entertainment. Series creator and EP Moira Walley-Beckett confirmed the cancellation on Instagram. The show’s third and final season premieres Friday, January 3 on Netflix.
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Advertising inventory on Fox’s Super Bowl LIV broadcast, set for Sunday, February 2 in Miami, has sold out, and rates are nearly 6% higher than the previous edition on CBS. The highest price for a 30-second ad is $5.6 million, versus the $5.3 million topper for Super Bowl LIII.
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LL Cool J has been tapped to host the 42nd Annual Kennedy Center Honors, airing Sunday, December 15 on CBS. “He’s the absolute renaissance man: musical artist, producer, actor, author, fashion icon, Grammy winner and a 2017 Kennedy Center honoree,” said Jack Sussman, EVP, Specials, Music and Live Events, CBS Entertainment.
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PBS announced its winter 2020 programming lineup, including new and returning series. Sanditon on Masterpiece, the first TV adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon, bows Sunday, January 12 at 9p; Howards End on Masterpiece debuts Sunday, January 12 at 8p; Vienna Blood, which follows a student of Sigmund Freud and an Australian detective who team to solve mysterious and deadly cases in early 1900s Vienna, premieres Sunday, January 19 at 10p; Expedition with Steve Backshall, bows Wednesday, January 15 at 10p; three-episode series Earth’s Sacred Wonders, debuting Wednesday, March 25 at 10p, takes viewers on a journey to some of the greatest spiritual buildings and places of worship; season Six of Finding Your Roots with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns on Tuesday, January 7 at 8p; No Passport Required is back Monday, January 20 at 9p; Somewhere South, a culinary journey with chef Vivian Howard, bows Friday, March 27 at 9p; Call the Midwife’s ninth season premieres Sunday, March 28 at 8p; new series Niall Ferguson’s Networld, debuting Tuesday, Marcy 17 at 8p, follows Ferguson as he explores the history of social networks.
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CBS Corporation and Viacom Inc. announced that their pending merger is expected to close after market hours on Wednesday, December 4. Immediately following said closing, the company will be renamed ViacomCBS Inc.
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The American Society of Cinematographers revealed its documentary and television nominees for the 34th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards, taking place Saturday, January 25 in Los Angeles. Nominees in the newly created documentary category include, Honeyland, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch and Obscuro Barroco. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and The Handmaid’s Tale are among the series in the Non-Commercial Television category, while FX’s Legion garnered two nominations in the Commercial Television category. Other highlights: AMC’s The Terror: Infamy and CBS All Access’ new take on The Twilight Zone are among those in the Motion Picture, Miniseries, or Pilot Made for Television category.
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For the first time, The 51st NAACP Image Awards will air on BET Networks , reports Deadline. Ceremony honors the accomplishments of people of color in television, music, literature and film, as well as individuals or groups who promote social justice through creative endeavors. The two-hour telecast airs live from Pasadena, CA on Saturday, February 22 at 8p.
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Gretchen Morgenson, senior special writer in the investigations unit at The Wall Street Journal, is joining NBC News as Senior Financial Reporter, effective December 2. She will lead reporting on the intersection of money and power.
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Meanwhile, over at CBS NEWS, Meg Oliver has been named a correspondent and will be based in New York. Oliver has been with CBS Newspath, the newsgathering service for CBS stations and international broadcasters, for two years. This marks Oliver’s second stint at CBS News – she originally joined the network in 2006 as overnight anchor of Up to the Minute and as a correspondent for The Early Show.
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CBS Studios says a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former top reality executive is “without merit” and claims that Ghen Maynard was not terminated but that his contract was not renewed. Maynard filed a lawsuit on Monday claiming the network conducted a biased investigation into “a false and ludicrous allegation that he mistreated a female coworker on the writing team.”
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Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures is adapting Derek Owusu’s forthcoming book, Teaching My Brother To Read , for television. The book, which was originally planned as an idea for a podcast, follows Owusu as he tries to connect with his brother, who was increasingly getting into trouble, by offering him money for every book he reads.
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Red Arrow Studios International sold Vienna Blood to PBS in the U.S.The six-part crime drama, written by Steven Thompson (Sherlock, Deep State), is based on the best-selling Liebermann novels by Frank Tallis.
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Freeform bought music drama Demo from writer Joy Gregory (Madam Secretary, Switched at Birth), The Chainsmokers’ Kick The Habit Productions and Greg Silverman’s Stampede Ventures. Written by Gregory, the project follows a 20-something musician who leaves behind her struggling indie rock band and her working-class family to try writing pop songs in LA.
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CBS greenlit Never Tell, a drama based on the book of the same title by Selena Montgomery (nom de plume for Stacey Abrams). Project hails from writer Talicia Raggs (NCIS: New Orleans), Abrams and Nina Tassler, and Denise Di Novi’s Pat Ma Productions, in which CBS has an ownership stake and Pat Ma has a first-look agreement. Written by Raggs, series revolves around a star linguistics professor with a complicated past, who joins forces with a charismatic online investigative journalist following the discovery of a cryptic message that is the only clue in a missing persons case.
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Dane Dehaan (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets) is set as a lead opposite Julianne Moore and Clive Owen in Lisey’s Story, Apple’s eight-hour limited series written and executive produced by Stephen King. From J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros. Television, Lisey’s Story follows Lisey (Moore) two years after the death of her husband (Owen), when a series of events causes her to begin facing certain realities about her husband that she had repressed and forgotten.
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Science Channel’s Impossible Engineering is back Wednesday, January 1 at 9p. This season, viewers will journey to Dubai, London, Whistler, Rotterdam and beyond as experts examine engineering marvels around the world.
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For the first time, Alton Brown joins Anne Burrell to transform a roster of terrible cooks into culinary shape in the new season of Worst Cooks in America. Series returns Sunday, January 5 at 9p.
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A slew of music industry icons and visionaries , including Elton John, James Brown, Dick Clark and Richard Pryor, will be portrayed in the second season of American Soul. The Don Cornelius-infused period drama is set to premiere on BET in 2020, according to Deadline.
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Uzo Aduba (Orange Is the New Black) interviews Lupita Nyong’o on the season finale of Ovation TV’s Inside the Actors Studio, airing Sunday, December 15 at 10p.
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AXS TV and Fight Network present a special live broadcast of Combate Americas on Friday, December 13 at 10p. The night gives Mixed Martial Arts fans a preview of the nets’ Combate Americas coverage that will consist of 35 live events, next year.
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Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley, founding members of rock band America , join Dan Rather on The Big Interview airing Wednesday, November 27 at 8p on AXS TV. The pair discuss the impact of The Beatles’ groundbreaking performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, and how it shaped them as aspiring musicians.
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TNT begins a special BatWeek of programming on Monday, November 25 at 8p. The net will air the 90’s movies as well as The Dark Knight trilogy starring the caped crusader. In partnership with DC, custom Jim Lee illustrations will air within each film.
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Sportsman Channel continues its annual hunting pilgrimage with Racksgiving presented by OnX. The event, which began on Monday, showcases five nights of hunting shows celebrating successes and misses. It also airs Tuesday, November 26, Wednesday, November 27 and Friday, November 29 at 8p, and Saturday, November 30 at 5p.
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Disney+’s The Mandalorian is officially the most in-demand TV series across all platforms , less than two weeks after its premiere. Parrot Analytics’ latest weekly insights report revealed that the series nearly tripled its demand week-over-week, ending Stranger Things’ 21-week reign as America’s most in-demand digital exclusive series.
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Tony Award winner Katrina Lenk (The Band’s Visit) nabbed a recurring role in CBS’ upcoming midseason drama series Tommy… Amy Seimetz boarded CBS Studios miniseries based on the James Comey bestseller A Higher Loyalty.
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Sunday’s 2019 American Music Awards grew over 2018’s broadcast in Total Viewers (+2%, 6.7 million vs. 6.6 million) and held even year-over-year among A18-49 (1.8/7).
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Frank Biondi Jr., former CEO of Viacom, Universal Studios and HBO, died Monday in Los Angeles, after a battle with bladder cancer. He was 74.
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