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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 2/8/23)
ABC: Not Dead Yet (Premiere) at 8:30pm
ABC: Million Little Things (Premiere) at 10pm
BRAVO: Vanderpump Rules (Premiere) at 9pm
COMEDY CENTRAL: South Park (Premiere) at 10pm
CW: The Flash (Premiere) at 8pm
FUSE: Made from Scratch (Premiere) at 10pm
NETFLIX: The Exchange (Premiere)
PBS: Dogs in the Wild (Premiere) at 8pm
FOOD NETWORK: NFL Tailgate Takedown (Finale) at 9pm
The first episode of Disney+ series “Star Wars: The Mandalorian” will make its broadcast premiere across ABC, Freeform and FX on Friday, February 24 at 8p. The simulcast comes ahead of the season three launch on Disney+ on Wednesday, March 1.
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Need some last-minute burgers for the Super Bowl? Roku and DoorDash have partnered to enable DoorDash restaurants and grocers to integrate click-to-order offers within Roku ads, and allow DoorDash merchants to attribute, target and do end-to-end ROI tracking and measurement for streaming ads on Roku. Viewers who interact with the TV ad receive promotions through SMS/email, and are led to the storefront in the DoorDash app to redeem. Wendy’s is the first participating advertiser. New DoorDash subscribers who are also new or existing Roku account holders with a linked streaming or smart-home device get six months’ free access to DoorDash membership program DashPass.
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Corporate sponsors for the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awardsinclude City National Bank, Campari®, People, United Airlines, Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurants, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, Purely Sedona Artesian Spring Water, Tide, Calm, Lo & Sons, Tony’s Chocolonely®, and Santa Monica Brew Works. The awards will be broadcast live on Netflix’s YouTube channel on Sunday, February 26 at 8p.
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Two untitled “Bosch” spinoffs are in development at Amazon Studios. One focuses on Harry Bosch’s former partner, Jerry Edgar, who goes undercover in Little Haiti, Miami. The other project focuses on Bosch mentee Detective Renee Ballard, who runs the LAPD’s cold case division.
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Mike Schur, creator of “The Good Place,” has re-teamed with Ten Danson for “The Mole Agent,” based on the Oscar nominated 2020 Chilean documentary. The Universal Television project has sparked a bidding war among streaming services, reports Deadline.
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“Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News” has had its season three run extended from 13 to 25 episodes. The animated show airs at 11:30p on Comedy Central.
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A revival of acclaimed 1975-79 UK sitcom “Fawlty Towers” is in development at Castle Rock Entertainment. John Cleese, who played Basil Fawlty in the original, will write and star alongside his daughter, Camilla Cleese. Castle Rock’s Rob Reiner, Michele Reiner, Derrick Rossi and Matthew George exec producing.
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Great American Family has enlisted Lori Loughlin, let go from Hallmark Channel’s “When Calls the Heart” amid the college admissions scandal, to star in a new Christmas movie, “Fall Into Winter.” It’s not Loughlin’s first GAF role – she also starred in 2021’s “When Hope Calls Christmas.”
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FableVision Studios is rebranding its TV & Film group as Moonladder.Tone Thyne, currently VP, Creative, will continue to head up the group and assume the newly created title of VP, Moonladder. FableVision’s Moonladder group will focus on creating, showrunning, and co-producing animated and live-action broadcast properties in the film and TV space. Rachel Reade Marcus has been named VP, Development for the studio. Marcus was previously VP, Creative Development for Guru Studio.
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Dentsu Creative announced the launch of an entertainment offering and an investment fund focused on financing original gaming, scripted and unscripted TV and film content. Juan Woodbury will serve as Global Head of Branded Content and Entertainment, working in partnership with Cathy Boxall, previously The Story Lab’s Global Managing Director.
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As Banijay Americas officially takes on oversight of the company’s ten production companies in North and South America, Ben Samek has been promoted to CEO, replacing Cris Abrego, who will remain Chairman and focus on acquisitions and new business ventures. “When I decided to step down as CEO, I knew Ben was the ideal person to take the reins as chief executive of Banijay Americas,” said Abrego. “He has been a key partner to me for more than two decades and I know him to be an extraordinary and results-driven leader with the experience and relationships to drive success both domestically and internationally.”
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“Friends” alum David Schwimmer will hop over the pond to compete in a special episode of Channel 4’s “The Great Celebrity Bake Off.” The episode will raise money for Stand Up to Cancer.
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Casting notes: Henry Czerny (“Mission: Impossible”) and Doug Savant (“Desperate Housewives”) have joined the cast of Starz drama “The Venery of Samantha Bird in recurring roles.
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“Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head” will make its broadcast premiere on Comedy Central after the season 26 premiere of “South Park” on Wednesday, February 8 at 10:30p. The series, featuring the iconic duo’s first original episodes in over 10 years, originally premiered August 4 on Paramount+.
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“Great Expectations” makes its debut Sunday, March 26 on Hulu in the US. The six-part adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic comes from from FX and BBC. The announcement was made on Tuesday, the anniversary of Dickens’ birthday.
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Bounce original series, “Act Your Age,” produced in partnership with MGM, will premiere on Saturday, March 4, with the first two episodes back-to-back starting at 8p. The comedy tells the story of three women in their 50s who are each at a personal crossroads and decide the best way forward in life is together. The premieres kick off the two-part, 16-episode first season, with the first eight episodes running weekly throughout the spring and the second half running over the summer.
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“RapCaviar Presents,” a docuseries that tackles provocative issuesthrough the stories of hip-hop visionaries and emerging stars, premieres March 30 on Hulu.
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The first four episodes of “Godfather of Harlem” season three will air Sunday, February 12 starting at 6p on MGM+. The drama tells a story inspired by infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson (Forest Whitaker) who in the early 1960s returned from 11 years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles.
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Fox Corp. announced charitable commitments totaling over $300,000,in conjunction with its ongoing FOX Forward and FOX Sports Supports corporate social responsibility initiatives, to create a lasting, positive impact in Arizona, the host community of Super Bowl LVII. These include a commitment to the Pat Tillman Veterans Center to provide scholarship funding and resources for student veterans, as well as the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley to enhance their career development and training programs and Purple Heart Homes through FOX Sports’ Gamechanger Fund. The big game airs Sunday, February 12 at 6:30p on FOX (as if you didn’t know).
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Revenue from sports betting companies jumped 40% in 2022, according to SponsorUnited’s NFL Marketing and Partnerships Report for the 2022-2023 season. Other key findings include:
· Russell Wilson is the most-endorsed NFL player, with one more brand deal than Austin Ekeler, despite their drastically different social followings (Wilson with 14M and Ekeler with 320K followers)
· NFL team sponsorship revenues increased 14% YoY, totaling $2.05B.
· Alcohol brands had the highest volume of sponsorship deals
· The Jacksonville Jaguars have the most brand deals out of all 32 teams for the 5th consecutive year
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Major League Fishing is launching the General Tire Team Series, a new format in professional bass fishing in which 27 teams have the ability to communicate and share information with each other as they compete for a $300,000 top prize. Each of the 2023 MLFNOW! Livestreams will be available on MOTV, starting with the premiere event MLFNOW! Tackle Warehouse Invitational #1 today, February 8, through to the final event in August.
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FloSports announced that for the 2023 season, all 19 race weeks split between the CARS Late Model Stock Car (LMSC) and Pro Late Model (PLM) divisions will be streamed live on FloRacing. CARS Tour founder Jack McNelly will partner with FloRacing and utilize all their resources following an offseason of change including a new ownership group for the series consisting of Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Burton, Kevin Harvick and Justin Marks.
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Amazon spent $16.6 billion on digital video and music content in 2022, up from $13 billion the year prior. About $7 billion went toward Amazon originals, live sports and licensed third-party video content, said Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky on the company’s quarterly earnings call. “We regularly evaluate the return on the spend and continue to be encouraged by what we see, as video has proven to be a strong driver of Prime member engagement and new Prime member acquisition,” said Olsavsky.
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MGM+ announced it has picked up “The Portable Door,” to premiere in the US market in April. The fantasy-adventure comedy stars Sam Neill (“Jurassic Park”) and Patrick Gibson (“The OA”). Jeffrey Walker (“Ali’s Wedding”) directed the film, which is adapted by Leon Ford (“Griff the Invisible”) from Tom Holt’s seven-book fantasy series.
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The 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards return on Sunday, May 7, in LA’s Barker Hangar, combining scripted and unscripted ceremonies. In 2021 and 2022, they were separate events.
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New original ViX+ film Malcriados” debuts February 15. The comedy shares a lesson about life and what it means to be a parent.
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PBS SoCal and KCET, Southern California’s flagship PBS stations, announced a year-long celebration to recognize the PBS SoCal (formerly known as KOCE) 50th anniversary with the tagline “Continue Learning With Us.” The 2023 programming slate will recognize five decades of connecting communities in Orange County (where the station originated), LA and across Southern California.
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Cast members from the original “Charmed” (1998-2006) including Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs, Rose McGowen, Brian Krause, Drew Fuller and Dorian Gregory will reunite for a cast reunion at 90’s Con, taking place March 17-19 in Hartford, CT.
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Hallmark Channel’s annual Loveuary stunt helped propel the network to be #1 across entertainment cable in Weekend Total Day and Weekend Primetime among key demos, according to Nielsen. The event was headlined by original movie premiere “Sweeter Than Chocolate,” which became the #1 most-watched entertainment cable program of the week among W18+ on a Live+SD basis.
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Despite being out of original production for nearly two years, court show “Judge Judy” (10-week high 4.6 Live+SD national Nielsen rating, up 7% from the week before) was one of two top-ten strips able to score an increase the week ending January 29. Access game show “Family Feud” (new season high 5.3, up 4%) was the other winner on the chart’s big ten.
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