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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 5/26/22)
A&E: Accused: Guilty or Innocent? (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY+: Fight or Flight (Premiere)
HBO MAX: That Damn Michael Che (Premiere)
HBO MAX: Tig ‘n Seek (Premiere)
HISTORY: Alone (Premiere) at 9pm
HISTORY: Kings of Pain (Premiere) at 10:30pm
ID: Devil in the Web (Premiere) at 10pm
NETFLIX: Shaman King (Premiere)
NBC: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Finale) at 3pm
ABC: Grey’s Anatomy (Finale) at 8pm
CBS: Bull (Finale) at 10pm
FOX: Welcome to Flatch (Finale) at 9pm
Warner Bros. Discovery is launching two new streaming advertising products with CTV company BrightLine. Click-to-Contact enables CTV ad-lite viewers to “click” on an ad and instantly receive an email from discovery+ on behalf of the advertiser, while Viewer’s Choice offers consumers the option to choose their path at the beginning of the ad. Both will be available on discovery+ beginning in 4Q22.
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Apple TV+ has ordered “Speed Racer,” a live-action series from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television. The Japanese media franchise has had numerous US iterations.
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Production is set to begin on an adaptation of Food Network host Katie Lee Beigel’s (“The Kitchen”) bestseller, Groundswell, for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Beigel is executive producing and will make an appearance in the movie.
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Podcast company Meet Cute is partnering with Range Media Partnersto adapt stories from Meet Cute into TV series and films. The deal also calls for clients from A+E Networks-backed Range to be added to Meet Cute’s audio series.
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Tim Roth (“Lie to Me”) is stepping into Ian McShane’s role as an underworld boss in Paramount+ drama series “King of the Cross.” McShane withdrew due to health concerns.
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Documentary thriller “Navalny,” about anti-corruption Russian government opposition leader Alexei Navalny, will be available to stream on HBO Max today, May 26. The film, directed by filmmaker Daniel Roher, follows Navalny after he survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent.
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Comedy brand Smosh is debuting “Smosh: Under the Influence Live.” On June 30 at 9p, Smosh team will perform live fan favorite-segments, sketches and more, all “Under the Influence” of drinks throughout the day. “Myself and the cast are so excited to deliver something totally new for us,” said Smosh President and Co-Founder Ian Hecox. “We’ve never mixed alcohol with our comedy before, so it’s guaranteed to deliver some unexpected results for sure.”
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MagellanTV kicks off its inaugural “War & Military Week” today, May 26 with the world premiere of original series “Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled.” Produced by Doclights for ZDF, in association with ZDF Studios and MagellanTV, “Beyond the Myth” will anchor a weeklong lineup of documentary series and films that spotlight military strategies and achievements.
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Season three of Freeform’s “Motherland: Fort Salem” premieres Tuesday, June 21 at 10p. The witches have left the army after being blamed for the death of the vice president’s daughter but can’t stay out of trouble.
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Ratings for the series finale of NBC’s “This Is Us” were nothing to cry about – the drama scored a 1.3 rating among A18-49 and 6.37f million viewers, improving on the season premiere (1.0/5.26 million).
(Source: Cynopsis)
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