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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 2/28/20)
SHOWTIME: The Kingmaker (Premiere) at 9pm
VH1: RuPaul’s Drag Race (Premiere) at 8pm
VH1: RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked (Premiere) at 9:30pm
(SATURDAY 2/29/20)
DISCOVERY FAMILY: Thunderbirds and Butterflies (Premiere) at 9pm
NICK: Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan (Premiere) at 8:30pm
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: John Mulaney, Musical Guest: David Byrne at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 3/1/20)
AMC: Dispatches From Elsewhere (Premiere) at 10pm
ANIMAL PLANET: The Aquarium: Submerged (Premiere) at 10pm
NAT. GEO.: Wicked Tuna (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: Little Big Shots (Premiere) at 8pm
PARAMOUNT: Bar Rescue (Premiere) at 10pm
BBCA: Doctor Who (Finale) at 8pm
ABC gave its first “second cycle” pilot order to medical drama Triage, the 20th Century Fox TV-produced project from Criminal Minds showrunner Erica Messer, Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu and Triage creator David Cornue. Series, which has been floating around for several years, will be produced outside of the traditional pilot window.
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Fifteen-time ACM Award winner Keith Urban will host the 55th Academy of Country Music Awards, which will broadcast live, Sunday, April 5 at 8p on CBS. Artists with the most nominees this year include Maren Morris, Thomas Rhett and producer Dann Huff, with five each; and Dan + Shay, Justin Bieber, Blake Shelton and Old Dominion with four noms apiece.
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Coronavirus concerns have felled another conference. Facebook canceled its annual F8 developers conference, slated for May 5-6 in San Jose, CA. “We plan to replace the in-person F8 event with locally hosted events, videos and live-streamed content,” the company blogged to the global developer community.
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Meanwhile, during an earnings conference call yesterday, Discovery CFO Gunnar Weidenfels sought to reassure Wall Street that should the Tokyo Olympics be canceled this summer, the financial impact would be minimal on its Eurosport operations. The International Olympic Committee said yesterday that the Games could be canceled if the virus was not contained.
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Lori Loughlin has a trial date for the college bribery scheme chargesshe’s facing, which could carry up to 50 years in prison if the Full House star is found guilty. Despite an attempt by their attorneys to have the trial date postponed because of newly acquired evidence, Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli are due in court October 5, a federal judge in Boston ruled yesterday.
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Universal Content Productions inked a multiyear first-look deal with iHeartMedia through which UCP will have first right to adapt iHeartRadio’s original podcasts for TV. Additionally, UCP’s new podcast platform UCP Audio will have the option to develop and co-produce original podcast series with the iHeartPodcast Network. The iHeartPodcast Network houses 750-plus original podcasts.
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In more podcasting news, Apple is developing podcast company Wondery’s WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork, as a limited series. The project will be exec-produced and co-written by Lee Eisenberg (Little America) and Drew Crevello (The Grudge 2), and produced by Wondery.
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Amazon is developing Mitchcraft (working title), a hybrid relationship comedy series from Psych creator/exec producer Steve Franks and exec producer Chris Henze of Thruline, and Fully Formed Entertainment duo Brad Fuller and Andrew Form (A Quiet Place, The Purge).
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Disney+ greenlighted animated family sitcom The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, reuniting the original cast and exec producers from The Proud Family, which aired on Disney Channel from 2001-2005. Premiere date is TBA. Original series creator/exec producer Bruce W. Smith and exec producer Ralph Farquhar are in, as is co-exec producer and story editor Calvin Brown.
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Horror-fantasy Ice Cream Man is headed to Quibi. The show, which had been in development from Universal Content Productions, based on the Image Comics series created by W. Maxwell Prince, will be a short-form anthology series narrated by the malevolent titular character.
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The unsolved mystery of plane hijacker D.B. Cooper, who disappeared without a trace in 1971, is the subject of a feature-length doc to be co-produced by the BBC and HBO. The Mystery Of D.B. Cooper is helmed by director John Dower and produced by Minnow Films.
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Kinetic Content, a Red Arrow Studios company, inked an exclusive production deal with showrunner/producer Scott Teti. The studio is producer of Netflix series Love Is Blind and Lifetime’s Married at First Sight. Teti is an exec producer on Spy Games, which Kinetic launched last month on Bravo.
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Food Network wrapped production on new primetime series Bakeaway Camp with Martha Stewart. Equal parts baking boot-camp and camp-inspired games and challenges, Stewart helps guide six amateur bakers in a culinary retreat that is anything but, as the campers brave the elements of the outdoors.
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Meghan Markle’s struggles as a royal will be spotlighted as the first subject in new Vice TV docu-series Vice Versa. Meghan Markle Escaping The Crown will debut Tuesday, March 10 at 9p, and investigate the role the monarchy and British tabloid media played in vilifying Markle, and Harry and Meghan’s decision to forgo their royal branding. Vice says the Vice Versa series of independent doc specials will tackle broken systems and corrupt power structures.
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Actor, comedian and retired Marine Rob Riggle travels the globe to unearth some of the world’s greatest legends and mysteries in Rob Riggle: Global Investigator, premiering Sunday, March 8 at 10p on Discovery Channel.
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Season 2 of Dirty Money premieres globally on Netflix on Wednesday, March 11. Investigative series provides an up-close view into untold stories of scandal, financial malfeasance and corruption in the world of business. This season offers a look inside Jared Kushner’s real estate empire, the Wells Fargo banking scandal and Malaysia’s 1MDB corruption case… Also at the house of Sarandos, Netflix debuted the first teaser for limited series The Eddy, debuting globally May 8. Directed by Academy Award winner Damien Chazelle (La La Land), Emmy winner Alan Poul (Tales of the City), Cannes Camera d’Or winner Houda Benyamina (Divines) and Laila Marrakchi, eight-ep drama takes place in the multicultural neighborhoods of modern-day Paris and focuses on a once-celebrated jazz pianist who now owns a struggling club.
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Bravo’s Top Chef jets to LA for season 17 with All Stars LA, premiering Thursday, March 19 at 10p. Chefs will battle it out for the largest cash prize in Top Chef history.
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Showtime dropped the official trailer and poster art for new docuseries Outcry, which world-premieres at SXSW before debuting on the network Friday, April 3 at 9p. Series examines the story of Leander, TX, high school football star Greg Kelley, his controversial conviction on charges of super aggravated sexual assault and the quest for truth and justice as the case unfolds.
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Hulu comedy series Future Man will return for its third and final season Friday, April 3 with all eight eps that find the motley trio messing with time one last time.
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Home renovator Tamara Day will focus on Kansas City’s most neglected estate homes in a new season of HGTV’s Bargain Mansions, premiering Tuesday, April 7 at 9p.
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ABC yesterday revealed the 23 hopefuls in search of a lasting partnership who will be featured in the inaugural season of latest Bachelor Nation series, The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart. Premiering Monday, April 13 at 8p, spinoff is hosted by Chris Harrison and features cast members embarking on a journey to find love through music.
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CBS News contributor Maria Elena Salinas takes a deep dive into the nation’s homelessness crisis in a special edition of Eye on America across all CBS News platforms. Content will air tonight (February 28), on the CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell and Saturday, February 29 on CBS This Morning.
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HITN & MediaPro’s presentation of The Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Tournament this Saturday, February 29 in NY will be live streamed globally via UBEAT.TV, Mediapro Group’s esports multiplatform.
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On Sunday, March 1 at 7p UPtv will premiere the movie Secret Millionaire, about a wealthy young man who hides his identity while getting to know a young woman who happens to be protesting his father’s company.
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Women’s History Month is almost here. Syfy’s new “We Are Her(oes)” multiplatform campaign, presented by the net’s female-focused brand Syfy FanGrrls, will feature female-focused content every day in March. On the slate are podcast Forgotten Women of Genre and the series premiere of Vagrant Queen on Friday, March 27 at 10p, followed by doc 20 Women to Watch in 2020 at 11p. Additionally, the net is growing the Syfy FanGrrls brand throughout 2020 by increasing the video, podcast and editorial content made by and for a broad range of women and binary voices… Mondays throughout March, AccuWeather TV Network and Accuweather.com will showcase stories of women whose achievements made an impact on the weather and science communities. Profiles include mathematician Gladys Mae West and astronaut Christina Koch.
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Spirits Network, the streaming channel that pairs entertainment with an integrated shopping experience of liquor delivery and monthly curated bottle service, has a slate of shows on tap for March. New are Spirits for Beginners; a new ep of Peggy Noes Best airing Monday, March 9 for International Women’s Day; and Frontier Filmmakers, featuring whiskey legend Fred Minnick and premiering Monday, March 23.
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AXS TV celebrates the life of rocker Eddie Money with the star-studded two-hour Eddie Money Tribute Concert, airing Sunday, March 22 at 9p. The “Two Tickets to Paradise” singer starred in the net’s Real Money before his death in September at age 70.
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Oxygen rolls out its 12 Dark Days of Serial Killers event April 9-20, including new specials Catching a Serial Killer: Sam Little and Snapped: Notorious Hollywood Ripper, along with returning series Mark of a Killer and The DNA of Murder with Paul Holes season finales. The net will run additional serial killer-themed programming throughout the 12 days.
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Shanola Hampton (Shameless) has been cast as the female lead in NBC’s comedy pilot Night School…Tyrone Marshall Brown (Love Is___) will topline opposite Tate Donovan and Melissa Leo in the Fox pilot Blood Relative… Molly Hagan (Sully) will co-star opposite Jared Padalecki in CBS’ reimagined Walker, Texas Ranger… Tony Award nominee Gideon Glick scored a role in Comedy Central series The Other Two… Juliet Landau (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) will recur on TNT’s Claws.
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Katheryn Winnick (Vikings) is in as lead opposite Ryan Phillippe in The Big Sky, ABC’s straight-to-series drama from David E. Kelley… It doesn’t take a sixth sense to realize that Amazon is looking to send “Goliath” off with a bang. The sixth and final season of Amazon’s Goliath added Haley Joel Osment in a recurring role, and Jena Malone (Hunger Games) and recent Clara Chen (Billions) as series regulars… Max Jenkins (Dead To Me) hops to the second season of Netflix’s comedy Special in a major guest arc… Fred Hechinger (Eighth Grade) joined the cast of Amazon’s The Underground Railroad.
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MOVIES
The Invisible Man – Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Storm Reid, Amali Golden, Benedict Hardie, Zara Michaels
Burden (Limited Release) – Garrett Hedlund, Forest Whitaker, Andrea Riseborough, Tom Wilkinson, Usher Raymond
Greed (Limited Release) – Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher, Asa Butterfield, Sophia Cookson, Shirley Henderson, David Mitchell
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