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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 2/3/20)
BRAVO: Below Deck Sailing Yacht (Premiere) at 9pm
BYU TV: Show Offs (Premiere) at 7:30pm
ESTRELLA: Nos Cayo La Noche (Premiere) at 9pm
FOOD NETWORK: Girl Scout Cookie Championship (Premiere) at 8pm
FOOD NETWORK: Chopped Sweets (Premiere) at 10pm
HBO: McMillion$ (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: Fatal Vows (Premiere) at 8pm
ID: Twisted Love (Premiere) at 9pm
OUTDOOR CHANNEL: Wardens (Premiere) at 8:30pm
SHOWTIME: Desus & Mero (Premiere) at 11pm
SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL: Seriously Amazing Objects (Premiere) at 8pm
BRAVO: Below Deck (Finale) at 8pm
George Cheeks has been appointed President and CEO of CBS Entertainment Group, effective March 23. He succeeds Joe Ianniello, Chairman and CEO of CBS, who will be leaving the Company. Cheeks was most recently Vice Chairman, NBCUniversal Content Studios; before he joined NBC in 2012, he worked at Viacom. “Throughout his career, George has built broad experience in broadcast and studio operations and brings a unique mix of skills – combining deep commercial expertise and industry relationships with strong creative and programming capabilities,” said Bob Bakish, President and CEO of ViacomCBS. “With his finger on the pulse of culture and change and his strong grasp of strategy, brands, audiences and content monetization, George will help CBS build on its position as the most-watched broadcast network and drive results across the entire CBS portfolio.” Ianniello will work with the company during the transition.
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In another big executive move, Randy Freer has stepped down as CEO of Hulu. Disney is putting its operations under the purview of Direct-to-Consumer & International Chairman Kevin Mayer as part of a plan to centralize leadership. “With the successful launch of Disney+, we are now focused on the benefits of scale within and across our portfolio of DTC businesses”, said Mayer. “Further integrating the immensely talented Hulu team into our organization will allow us to more effectively and efficiently deploy resources, rapidly grow our presence outside the U.S. and continue to relentlessly innovate.” Freer had been CEO of Hulu since October 2017; Disney acquired control of the streaming service as part of its acquisition of 21st Century Fox entertainment assets last year.
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Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake) will be the third actress to play Queen Elizabeth in The Crown, for the Netflix drama’s fifth and final season. “I have loved watching The Crown from the very start,” said Staunton. “As an actor it was a joy to see how both Claire Foy and Olivia Colman brought something special and unique to Peter Morgan’s scripts.” The Crown is now is season three.
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Netflix canceled Soundtrack after one season. The musical drama starring Jenna Dewan, Callie Hernandez and Madeline Stowe had gone to pilot at Fox before jumping to the streamer.
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HBO was the big TV winner at the WGA Awards, earning writing honors for Succession (best drama), Barry (best comedy), Watchmen (new series), Chernobyl (long form original) and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (comedy variety/talk). Other multiple winners included PBS and CBS News, which each won in two categories, and Netflix, with four wins.
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TV winners of the Art Directors Guild’s 24th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards on Saturday included The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Big Bang Theory, The Umbrella Academy, Russian Doll and Chernobyl. Big Bang’s Chuck Lorre took home the Cinematic Imagery Award, honoring his work over the past 20 years, and “for keeping the multi-camera sitcom alive in creating hit series that generate mass appeal.”
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Netflix and Adam Sandler are staying in business. The streamer is extending its deal with Sandler and Happy Madison Productions to make four more movies. Netflix said subscribers have spent over 2 billion hours watching Sandler films, including comedy Murder Mystery, its most popular movie in 2019.
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OddBot (Muppet Babies) announced the development of two animated series, preschool action comedy Job Jungle and serialized adventure True Martian, to be showcasedat the Kidscreen Summit in Miami, February 10-13.
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The CW wrapped up its pilot orders with greenlights for Maverick, from Merigan Mulhern (BH90210) and Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire, about a President’s daughter questioning her loyalty to her father, and The Lost Boys, based on the 1987 movie, from Heather Mitchell and Rob Thomas.
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New History series Eating History follows a vintage food expert and a collector as they uncover and eat “the oldest, most nostalgic, and shocking” foods to have survived history. Nonfiction offering launches Wednesday, March 11 at 10p.
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The host of YouTube channel Brave Wilderness stars in new Animal Planet series Coyote Peterson: Brave the Wild, debuting Sunday, February 9 at 9p. Peterson shares experiences with creatures both fascinating and bizarre, while promoting compassion for the natural world.
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In Food Network’s Vegas Chef Prizefight, chefs battle it out to be named Head Chef at a new $10 million restaurant on the Vegas Strip. Six-parter debuting Thursday, March 5 at 10p is hosted by Anne Burrell.
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BET is highlighting 40 of the most inspiring people who are redefining what it means to be “unapologetically young, gifted & Black” in The Future 40 Presented By Walmart. Series is part of the net’s online offerings across digital and social platforms during Black History Month. Among those showcased is eleven -year-old ballet dancer Charlotte Nebres, the first Black lead in New York City Ballet’s “The Nutcracker.”
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In more Black History Month programming, each Monday during February, AccuWeather Network will bring viewers stories about the intersection between weather and African American history, including why abolitionist Harriet Tubman operated the Underground Railroad during the winter. Stories will appear on the AccuWeather Television Network and on AccuWeather.com.
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In Memoriam, a film examining active shooter incidents from the perspectives of wounded survivors, grieving relatives and heroes from three recent massacres, airs commercial-free on ID on Saturday, February 8 at 9p.
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Linda Hamilton (Terminator), Mandell Maughan (Bajillion Dollar Propertie$) and Alex Barima (The Exorcist) will recur on Syfy’s Resident Alien, reports Deadline.
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The Sunday, January 26 episode of Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen was the highest-rated Sunday episode in over 1.5 years among all key demos, delivering 1.15 million total viewers (up +19% from the prior Sunday ep) in Live+3 Nielsens.
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Bad Boys For Life – $17.7 million
1917 – $9.7 million
Dolittle – $7.7 million
Gretel & Hansel – $6.1 million
The Gentlemen – $6 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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