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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 4/13/20)
ABC: The Bachelor: Listen To Your Heart (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: The Baker And The Beauty (Premiere) at 10pm
COOKING CHANNEL: Good Eats: Reloaded (Premiere) at 9pm
HGTV: Celebrity IOU (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: Songland (Premiere) at 10pm
QUIBI: The Stranger (Premiere)
QUIBI: #FreeRayshawn (Premiere)
QUIBI: 50 States of Fright (Premiere)
QUIBI: Agua Donkeys (Premiere)
QUIBI: Elba vs. Block (Premiere)
QUIBI: Let’s Roll with Tony Greenhand (Premiere)
QUIBI: Fight Like A Girl (Premiere)
SPECTRUM: Paradise Lost (Premiere)
TBS: American Dad (Premiere) at 10pm
VH1: T.I. & Tiny: Friends and Family Hustle (Premiere) at 9pm
TV ONE: Fatal Attraction (Finale) at 9pm
USA: Briarpatch (Finale) at 11pm
ID has a new logo and a new tagline, “Don’t just watch. Witness.” The refresh was introduced on-air and online on Sunday, and aims to engage viewers familiar with the network, as well as attracting new true crime fans. ID is also shaking up its primetime strategy with an “ID Primetime Starts Now” video intro at 8p, and “An ID Original” intro card for every original series episode.
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NBCUniversal’s “Stay-In Theater” Family Movie Nights” debuted Friday, with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets airing across USA, Syfy, and E!. The film aired with limited commercial interruption, and launch partner Target. Telemundo aired Kung Fu Panda 2 on Saturday. The next two Fridays will also feature Potter movies on the cable nets, and Saturday movies on Telemundo. “Families around the world are staying at home to stay safe and stop the spread. NBCUniversal is committed to providing the content and viewing experiences that will create special family bonding moments,” said Josh Feldman, EVP, Head of Marketing & Creative Advertising, NBCU.
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Pay-per-view fighting event UFC 249 is down for the count, at least for now. UFC President Dana White had insisted the April 18 event would go on despite the COVID-19 pandemic, moving it from Barclays Center in Brooklyn to tribal lands in California. But execs “at the highest level you can go at Disney, and they highest level at ESPN” convinced him to postpone. “We’ll be the first ones back,” he said in an interview on ESPN. “We’ll get this thing squared away, get a date from ESPN, and we’ll be back first.”
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Apple and Google are teaming on a platform to enable contact tracing to identify people who have been exposed to the coronavirus. After releasing interfaces next month built on existing public health apps that can work on iOS or Android systems, the companies will focus on a more comprehensive platform to which users will be able to opt in. “Privacy, transparency, and consent are of utmost importance in this effort,” the companies stated. “We will openly publish information about our work for others to analyze.”
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The Friends reunion special that was slated to debut with streaming service HBO Max in May has been postponed due to the COVID-19 production shutdown. Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer were supposed to film the show March 23-24. “The cast and producers are all very excited to go into production, as this will be the first time since the show ended that the whole cast will be together, and on the original sets to reminisce,” said HBO Max on Friday. “There are loads of great surprises in store and lots of rare behind-the-scenes footage they are eager to share….though fans will have to wait a bit longer for the reunion, they can watch all 236 episodes of the series on day one of HBO Max launch in May!” The streamer also clarified that the cast will be appearing as themselves, not their Friends characters.
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Facebook has added Quiet Mode, “to help you focus on your family and friends, sleep without distraction or manage how you spend your time at home,” explained the company in a blog post. Facebook also added shortcuts to Notification Settings and News Feed Preferences to control the types of posts in users’ News Feeds.
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Telemundo is expanding its daytime programming to at least 12 hours of live news coverage and entertainment news, Monday to Friday, starting today. As part of this initiative, Un Nuevo Dia extends its weekday live broadcast for an additional half-hour, to offer viewers four-and-half hours of information and updates from 7at-11:30a. “We are living through an unprecedented moment in our lives, and we want our audience to know we remain committed to providing them, throughout the entire day, the information they need to navigate these difficult times,” said Ronald Day, EVP of Entertainment for Telemundo.
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On the fast track at Food Network: Amy Schumer Learns to Cook (wt) will feature the I Feel Pretty star and her husband Chris Fischer, a professional chef. Self-shot during quarantine, Fischer will whip up comfort food while Schumer mixes cocktails. “Chris and I are excited to make this project with Food Network combining our two passions – for Chris it’s cooking and for me, eating,” said Schumer. “With everything going on in the world right now, we are so grateful to be able to share an entertaining and informative experience with viewers. And it is more important than ever to look out for one another, so Chris and I will be making donations to causes dear to us – The Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Fair Food Program and select domestic violence organizations.”
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead) and his wife, Hilarie Burton Morgan (One Tree Hill) host AMC video-chat-based show, Friday Night In with the Morgans, starting April 17 at 10p on AMC. The couple will film from their farm in upstate New York. “We loved the idea of experimenting with the wonderful Mr. and Mrs. Morgan aka Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Hilarie Burton,” said Sarah Barnett, president of AMC Networks’ Entertainment Group and AMC Studios. “And this really will be an experiment – it’s the antidote to the overly rehearsed, overly manicured glimpse into somebody’s perfect life….Ultimately, it’s a shot at some raw and real entertainment that will uplift and connect with our audiences.”
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Season two of Netflix dark comedy Dead to Me drops Friday, May 8. Christina Applegate stars as a widow out to find out who murdered her husband.
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Quibi’s short-form revival of Reno 911! debuts Monday, May 4. The law enforcement parody ran on Comedy Central from 2003-2009.
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RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race launches on VH1 on Friday, April 24 at 9:30p. The four-part event series will feature three stars who get drag makeovers. “No matter how famous your charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent is, you still put your pantyhose on one leg at a time,” said executive producer RuPaul.
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Ryan Seacrest hosts a one-hour special, The Disney Family Singalong, on Thursday, April 16 at 8p on ABC, featuring celebrities singing their favorite Disney tunes from their homes. Among those slated for remote performances and appearances are Christina Aguilera, Erin Andrews, Bobby Bones, Michael Bublé, Kristin Chenoweth, Derek Hough, Julianne Hough, Carrie Ann Inaba, Little Big Town, Kenny Ortega, Donny Osmond, John Stamos, and more from across The Walt Disney Company portfolio.
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A new stand-up special from Jerry Seinfeld debuts on Netflix Tuesday, May 5. The hour-long special, 23 Hours to Kill, was filmed at NYC’s Beacon Theatre. Seinfeld signed a deal with the streamer in 2017 that also includes Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee.
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Apple TV+ is offering some of its original series and movies for free via the Apple TV app, without a subscription. Shows include documentary Elephant Queen, anthology series Litle America, psychological thriller Servant, NASA drama For All Mankind, comedy series Dickinson, and kids’ shows Helpsters and Ghostwriter.
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TLC’s 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days series broke audience records on Sunday, April 5, ranking as the #1 program in all of television with W18-34 and #2 with W25-54/18-49 and was the #1 cable program on the night among all women demos.
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Growth at UPtv since stay at home measures were put in place versus the four weeks prior includes a +40% jump among W25-54 and +36% with W18-49). Weekend ratings have doubled in W18-49 and risen +83% among W25-54 (+83%).
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For the second weekend in a row, April 4-5, Food Network ranked as the #1 non-news cable network for P25-54 in Total Day, as well as the #1 cable network among W25-54, reaching nearly 18 million viewers. April 5 was the net’s highest-rated Sunday in history for total day with average Live+3 ratings of .5 P25-54 and .6 for W25-54. Sunday also netted the highest-rated weekend daytime telecast in the network’s history with the In the Kitchen with Joanna Gaines special, which was the #1 cable program in its timeslot among P25-54 and W25-54, notching a .9 P25-54, 1.2 W25-54 L3 rating, and reaching more than 3 million viewers.
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Former NFL player and actor Timothy “Timmy” Brown died of complications from dementia. He was 82. After retiring from football, Brown had numerous recurring roles on television, including as Captain Oliver Harmon “Spearchucker” Jones on M*A*S*H, a role he also played in the 1970 film.
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