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IFC: Year of the Rabbit (Premiere) at 10:30pm
CBS: Criminal Minds (Finale) at 10pm
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: To Catch A Smuggler (Finale) at 10pm
SCIENCE CHANNEL: Impossible Engineering (Finale) at 9pm
The fun and games will continue at NBC. The net renewed Ellen’s Game of Games for a fourth season, news the talk show host revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Shows on Tuesday. “I’m so excited. I love this show so much,” said DeGeneres. “It makes me so happy. I love games. It combines all my favorite things: prizes and surprises.” Last season’s run of the alternative series reached a total of over 66 million viewers and was primetime’s #1 game show.
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Stephen Colbert is heading to CBS sib Pop TV, according to Deadline. The cable net will carry exclusive next-day encores of CBS’ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert starting Tuesday, February 25, with the previous night’s episode of The Late Show airing on Pop at 9a.
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SNL star Kenan Thompson will host and Hasan Minhaj will repeat his 2017 gig as featured entertainer at The White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner. Last year, dinner was served without a comedian, after a controversial appearance by Michelle Wolf in 2018; instead, historian Ron Chernow was featured. The D.C. event, being held on Saturday, April 25, will be handled by Bob Bain Productions, producer of the Critics’ Choice Awards, the Creative Emmys and the Teen Choice Awards.
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Telemundo launched Decision 2020, a national year-long multi-platform news and civic engagement initiative that will deliver election news and campaign coverage, as well as polls focused on the Latino electorate in the U.S. and key political markets. Decision 2020 kicks off with an exclusive “Telemundo Poll: State of the Latino Vote in Nevada,” which precedes Noticias Telemundo’s coverage of tonight’s Las Vegas Democratic presidential debate hosted by NBC News and MSNBC with The Nevada Independent.
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A+E Networks announced that Matthew McConaughey has joined the lineup of HISTORYTalks, a traveling speaker series of live events exploring newsworthy topics and historical milestones through conversations with global leaders, trailblazers, historians, authors and filmmakers. The inaugural event, “Leadership & Legacy,” will include a session with President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush in conversation with presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, on Saturday, February 29 at NYC’s Carnegie Hall. In “A Conversation with Matthew McConaughey,” the actor will speak about the personal choices people make that impact their legacies.
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The National Hispanic Media Coalition hosts its annual Impact Awards Gala on Friday, February 28. The event recognizes talent and executives who advance equality and opportunities for the Latinx community in media and entertainment. This year’s honorees include Jay Hernandez (Magnum P.I.), Outstanding Television Performance Impact Award; In The Heights (Warner Bros. Chair and CEO Ann Sarnoff; cast), Visionary Impact Award; Roberts Aguirre-Sacasa (Archie Comics, COO), Outstanding Executive Producer Impact Award; and Freeform’s Party of Five (Amy Lippman, EP; cast) Outstanding Television Impact Award.
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Food Network Kitchen and Sur La Table have joined forces on a content and marketing partnership aimed at amplifying the reach of both brands through co-branded cooking classes at Sur La Table stores nationwide and live on the Food Network kitchen app, as well as FNK trial subscriptions to customers. “Partnering with Sur La Table is an excellent opportunity for Food Network Kitchen to reach additional at-home cooks across the country and provide them with even more expert instruction than is already provided on Food Network Kitchen,” said Peter Faricy, CEO, Global Direct-to-Consumer, Discovery, Inc.
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Streamer BET+ handed a second season renewal to Bigger, the comedy series from Will Packer and Will Packer Media. “I am so proud of this show,” said Packer. “And I can’t wait for new audiences to follow the shenanigans of this wild and crazy group of black thirtysomethings.”
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Showtime is developing and has ordered multiple scripts of horror-comedy The Auteur, starring Jude Law. Directed by Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit, The Mandalorian), who will also write with Peter Warren (Ghost Team), half-hour series is based on the graphic novel by Rick Spears, James Callahan and Luigi Anderson that focuses on a film producer desperate to make a great horror movie after a massive bomb, who accidentally traps his production on a backlot with a serial killer.
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Melissa Leo will lead FOX’s Blood Relative, lifting the cast-contingency on the pilot order. Crime drama hails from writer-producer Chris Levinson and producer Liza Chasin, Paramount Television Studios and Anonymous Content, which will co-produce with Fox Entertainment.
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Netflix greenlit Painkiller, a limited series about the opioid crisis from Eric Newman, who has an overall deal with the streamer. Newman has been examining the drug trade in Colombia and Mexico as showrunner of Narcos and Narcos: Mexico. Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, The Leftovers) will direct all episodes of the series, which is being written by A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood scribes Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster.
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VH1’s Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta returns Monday, March 16 at 8p. The new season takes a deep dive in the daily lives of its cast as they navigate relationships, upcoming nuptials and more.
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Oxygen’s highest-rated series, Cold Justice, is back with eight new episodes starting Saturday, March 14 at 6p. The true crime series has helped bring about 20 convictions and 45 arrests, five of the arrests which will be seen in this upcoming batch of new episodes.
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A&E investigates a double dose of paranormal on Wednesday, April 8. Things kick off with the sophomore season premiere of Ghost Hunters at 8p, followed by the series debut of the reimagined Celebrity Ghost Stories at 10p. The latter centers on psychic medium Kim Russo as she brings big names in entertainment back to the sites of their previous paranormal experiences for a reunion with the ghosts of their past.
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Starz original series Vida bows its third season on Sunday, April 26 at 9p. The East LA-set drama will air weekly on Starz in the US and Canada and on StarzPLay across Europe and Latin America.
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Netflix set Wednesday, March 11 as the premiere date for Season 3 of On My Block. The coming-of-age comedy from Eddie Gonzalez and Jeremy Haft centers on four street-savvy friends navigating their way through high school in the rough inner city.
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Olympic figure skating gold medalist Scott Hamilton is featured on MeTV’s Collector’s Call, airing Sunday, February 23 at 9:30p. Hamilton’s collection of vintage pinball machines, as well as guitars autographed by rock and roll legends, are showcased.
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American Masters – Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool premieres Tuesday, February 25 at 9p on PBS in honor of Black History Month. The documentary explores the six-decade career of Davis, with Quincy Jones, Carlos Santana, Clive Davis and others weighing in on his life and career.
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Freddy Miyares (When The See Us) will reteam with Ava DuVernay for her upcoming HBO Max pilot DMZ… Tzi Ma (The Man in the High Castle) and Kheng Hua Tan (Crazy Rich Asians) nabbed series regular roles in The CW pilot Kung Fu… Auden Thornton (This Is Us) has been cast as a lead opposite Odette Annable, Chris Wood and Patrick Fugit in ABC pilot thirtysomething(else).
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars returns for its final season on Friday, February 21 on Disney+.
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History’s six-hour, three-night miniseries event Washington kicked off on Sunday, February 16 with 2.6 million Total Viewers, based on Live+SD viewing, according to Nielsen Fast Nationals. Night one became the #1 nonfiction miniseries premiere on all cable in nearly three years.
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A new format for the NBA All-Star Game on Saturday night delivered an 8% gain in viewership to a Nielsen-measured 7.3 million viewers on TNT and TBS. The NBA All-Star game had seen two consecutive years of TV declines – 6.8 million (2019) and 7.7 million (2018)
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Actress Esther Scott, whose career included roles in The Birth of a Nation, Boyz n the Hood, The CW’s Hart of Dixie and more, died February 14 in Los Angeles, after suffering a heart attack. She was 66.
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