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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 5/12/20)
ABC: The Happy Days of Garry Marshall (Premiere) at 8pm
BYU TV: Best Cake Wins (Premiere) at 8pm
BYU TV: Step Up to the Plate (Premiere) at 8:30pm
BYU TV: Jeff’s Homemade Game Show (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: My Family’s Deadly Secret (Premiere) at 10pm
NAT. GEO.: Kingdom of the Mummies (Premiere) at 10pm
ABC: For Life (Finale) at 10pm
COOKING CHANNEL: Man V. Food (Finale) at 10pm
CW: The Flash (Finale) at 8pm
ID: Diabolical (Finale) at 9pm
PBS: Asian Americans (Finale) at 10pm
Fox was the first broadcast network to announce its fall schedule, with series that were for the most part produced before the COVID-19 shutdown, animated comedies that remained in production, wrestling and NFL football. Spectrum Originals’ LA’s Finest, acquired from Sony Pictures TV, makes its network debut, along with Nat Geo’s Cosmos: Possible Worlds, while Filthy Rich and neXt were held over from last season. The Masked Singer and live sports are the only debuts that could be impacted by the health crisis. “As a media company that prides itself on an entrepreneurial spirit and the focus that comes with doing fewer things better, we mobilized, swiftly creating an entirely new, original-programming lineup for the fall to share with our partners this upfront,” said Charlie Collier, CEO, Fox Entertainment. “In remote meetings with advertising and marketing partners over recent weeks, we sought to listen first and understand each partner’s unique concerns. Our primary goal is to help them back to business.” Fox’s schedule is below:
Monday
8p: L.A.’s Finest
9p: neXt
Tuesday
8p: Cosmos: Possible Worlds
9p: Filthy Rich
Wednesday
8p: The Masked Singer
9p: Masterchef Junior
Thursday
7:30p: Fox NFL Thursday Presented By Verizon
8p: GMC Kickoff Show
8:20p: Thursday Night Football Presented By Bud Light Platinum
Friday
8p: WWE’S Friday Night Smackdown
Saturday
7-p: Fox Sports Saturday
Sunday
7p: NFL On Fox
7:30p: The OT / Fox Encores
8p: The Simpsons
8:30p: Bless The Harts
9p: Bob’s Burgers
9:30p: Family Guy
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On the day NBCUniversal had been scheduled to hold its Upfront event at Radio City Music Hall, the company held an online “state of the marketplace conversation” with company execs. “We have to come together and actually market our way out of this crisis. It’s our responsibility to create demand,” noted Linda Yaccarino, Chairman of Advertising and Partnerships. A new business partnership with Sky – acquired by Comcast last year – was announced, with advertising and partnership opportunities across both companies available for purchase through NBCUniversal’s One Platform. The company also said it is cutting ad loads on news programming by two minutes, and looking at the reduction of 15-second ads. “Going forward, we’re going to continue to find ways to minimize clutter,” said Laura Molen, President of Ad Sales and Partnerships. “Our goal is to get the very best results for your business, and we have the permission to change right now.”
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Food Network and Cooking Channel had no choice but to start at-home shooting, but the shows have proven such a success they might outlast the pandemic, said Discovery Inc. CEO David Zaslav during the MoffettNathanson webcast. “Why are we dragging everyone to a studio?” asked Zaslav. “Let’s shoot it in the home. The cost is dramatically less and the audience is lighting up on social media.”
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Tell Me a Story will not make it to season three on CBS All Access, but CW is licensing seasons one and two of the horror anthology series from Kevin Williamson for a second window run. CW also acquired scripted series Swamp Thing, Canadian drama Coroner and BBC Studios comedy Dead Pixels, as uncertainty about the timing of fall series debuts continues amid COVID-19 production shutdowns.
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Female creators will have a chance to win a meeting with execs from AMC Networks at at Stareable Fest 2020, the third annual web series and indie TV festival taking place October 16-18 in NYC. To be eligible to win, the majority of the show’s creator/director/producer team must be made up of women.
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A fugitive featured on ID’s In Pursuit With John Walsh is now in police custody thanks to a viewer tip. Jeffrey Forrest was profiled on a season two episode that aired on January 15, and was located and taken into police custody in Mexico. He will face charges in Texas for two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child, bail jumping, and failure to appear in court.
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Disney+ will get a boost from the coronavirus lockdown – reaching 202 million subscribers by 2025, versus a previous forecast of 126 million, according to Digital TV Research’s calculations. “We have completely revised our forecasts for 138 countries in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at the UK company. “A major impact of lockdown has been a steep rise in SVOD subscriptions.” Netflix is expected to hit 258 million global subscribers by 2025, HBO Max will draw 25 million and Apple TV+, 14 million.
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Facebook has introduced a new section, Businesses Nearby, that shows users posts from businesses within a certain radius, offering them a way to “get “more virtual foot traffic as they move online to stay open.” Users can adjust the radius from 1 to 500 miles, and show their support with stickers.
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FXX renewed Dave for a second season, set to launch in 2021. The show has become FXX’s most-watched comedy series ever, with an average episodic audience of 5.32 million viewers across linear, VOD and streaming.
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American Horror Story is spinning off a new series, American Horror Stories, revealed AHS co-creator Ryan Murphy on Instagram. The show would include “one hour contained” episodes.
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Co-production platform FilmCapital, a “digital launch pad for independent content,” is officially open. The platform is on the lookout for indie film and TV projects, and incubates them into final productions. The first project on its roster is COVID-2021, starring Robert Carradine (Lizzie McGuire, Revenge of the Nerds). The project is co-produced with BC Entertainment Group.
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The fourth and final season of 13 Reasons Why will drop Friday, June 5 on Netflix. During the drama’s final run, the senior class will “have to keep a dangerous secret buried and face heartbreaking choices.”
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The Twilight Zone returns for season two on CBS All Access on Thursday, June 25. Jordan Peele is back as host for the reimagining of the classic anthology series.
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Food Network put self-shot outdoor cooking series Symon’s Dinners Cooking Out on the fast track, with the first of three episodes set to premiere Sunday, June 7 at 12:30p. The chef has been giving live cooking classes from his home on Food Network Kitchen’s Facebook page since quarantine began.
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Fans are being invited to design one of 1,001 virtual cars for the luxury train that is the setting for TNT’s Snowpiercer. DC artists like Tyler Kirkham, Laura Braga, Tim Seeley and more have created custom designed train cars; as the campaign progresses, additional designs will be unveiled. The drama debuts Sunday, May 17 at 9p.
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The cast of BBC America’s Orphan Black will reunite for a two-episode table read on the Orphan Black Facebook page, Sunday, May 17 at 3p. The virtual event is timed to Mental Health Awareness in May and International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia; viewers will be invited to support CenterLink and Sistering.
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Mindy Kaling and B.J. Novak have joined as co-hosts for multi-hour commencement broadcast #Graduation2020: Facebook and Instagram Celebrate the Class of 2020, on May 15th at 2p. Sheryl Sandberg will be giving an introduction to the previously announced commencement address by Oprah Winfrey.
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Director and Troma Entertainment co-founder Lloyd Kaufman will make a special appearance on the next episode of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs, streaming Friday, May 15 at 9p. “I knew Lloyd Kaufman when he was a young man struggling to make a living by releasing one cheap exploitation film after another. After a rich and varied career at the helm of Troma Films, he has risen to the top of the indie business and today…releases TWO cheap exploitation films at a time,” said series host Briggs.
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A summer-long celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Lifetime Original Movie begins with Niecy Nash (Stolen By My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story) hosting a kick-off movie marathon weekend on May 30-31 (including cult classic Death of a Cheerleader). In June, Father’s Day looks back at movies featuring the best and worst of Lifetime dads, and Independence Day weekend offers two days of the network’s best thrillers. Lifetime Original Movies launched in 1990 with Memories of a Murder.
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MTV Documentary Films’ St. Louis Superman will premiere Monday, May 18 at 9p on MTV, VH1 and MTV2 via simulcast. The film tells the story of Representative Bruce Franks Jr., a Ferguson activist and battle rapper who was elected to the overwhelmingly white and Republican Missouri House of Representatives.
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Cozi TV is offering a “Best of Jim” marathon of The Office episodes on Sunday, May 17, starting at 11a. “The Office is one of our most popular Cozi TV series, and in honor of John Krasinski and his Some Good News network, we wanted to celebrate his feel-good spirit and provide our viewers a lineup of favorite Jim episodes for some good TV viewing,” said Meredith McGinn, SVP, Cozi TV and LX.TV Productions. Krasinski’s Some Good News YouTube show is offering “entirely good news” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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