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ASPIRE TV: Downright Delicious with YoYo (Premiere) at 8pm
CNBC: Blood & Money (Premiere) at 10pm
FX: Under the Banner of Heaven (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: That’s My Jam (Premiere) at 10pm
PEACOCK: Who Killed Robert Wone? (Premiere)
TELEMUNDO: Juego de Mentiras (Premiere) at 10pm
VICE: Icons Unearthed: Marvel (Premiere) at 9pm
VICE: Super Maximum Retro Show (Premiere) at 10pm
BET: Tyler Perry’s Ruthless (Finale) at 10pm
CW: The Winchesters (Finale) at 8pm
FREEFORM: Love Trip: Paris (Finale) at 10pm
Paramount Global is exploring the idea of selling a majority stake in BET Media Group, and Tyler Perry is interested, reports The Wall Street Journal. Perry owns a minority stake in streamer BET+, and produces numerous programs (“House of Payne,” “Sisters,” and “The Oval,” among others) for the group. BET Media also includes the BET network and studio, and VH1. BET was founded in 1980 by Robert Johnson and acquired by Viacom in 2001.
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Filmmaker Alex Gibney (“Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”)announced that he’s months into the making of “Musk,” an examination of multi-billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk. Jigsaw Productions is producing the film alongside Closer Media, Anonymous Content, and Double Agent. For Jigsaw Productions, Gibney and Jessie Deeter produce the film with Stacey Offman and Richard Perello executive producing. Joey Marra and Zhang Xin produce on behalf of Closer Media with William Horberg executive producing. Anonymous Content’s Nick Shumaker and Jessica Grimshaw produce with Dawn Olmstead and David Levine executive producing. Dana O’Keefe produces on behalf of Double Agent with Teddy Schwarzman, Michael Heimler, Yariv Milchan, and Michael Schaefer executive producing. “I have been working on this film, off and on, for some time and am hugely excited about it,” said Alex Gibney. “I am delighted by this extraordinary group who are working with me. Onward!”.
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Bryan Cogman (“Game of Thrones”) has joined the revival of “Zorro,” in development at Disney+, as writer, showrunner and executive producer. Wilmer Valderrama stars as the swashbuckling hero, in a “bold reimagining” of the 1957-59 series.
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GroupM Motion Entertainment and Warner Bros. Discovery are teamingto support GroupM’s Diverse Voices Accelerator, a positive impact initiative that supports creators, writers, producers, directors and studios from traditionally underrepresented groups in entertainment. Series developed through the DVA will be available across Warner Bros. Discovery networks and platforms.
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The fall from grace of pop star-turned-prisoner Gary Glitter will be the subject of Netflix doc “Hunting Gary Glitter” (wt), from Voltage Films. Glitter was sent to the slammer in 1999 for downloading child pornography, was convicted of child sexual abuse in 2006 and a series of sexual offenses in 2015.
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Media company Macro announced a $90+ million investment through accounts managed by BlackRock. “Macro has an established track record of producing premium, award-winning TV and film content focused on people of color, which has historically been short in supply but high in demand,” said Pam Chan, Chief Investment Officer & Global Head, BlackRock’s Alternative Solutions Group. “We are pleased to make this investment on behalf of our clients.”
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Argentinian soccer star Leo Messi is developing an animated serieswith Sony Music Entertainment. The series will center on Messi as a child as he travels through a video game.
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Unscripted casting executive and producer Chelsey Stephens has launched development and casting company Chelsey Creative Inc. Stephens was previously SVP of Talent and Development at Truly Original.
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ABC is in talks with Ellie Kemper (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”) to star in a comedy pilot based on a British series. “Motherland,” from Merman Television, Feigco Entertainment, Lionsgate and ABC Signature, centers on a working mom for whom nothing is working.
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Lesley-Ann Brandt (“Lucifer”) will recur on AMC’s upcoming “The Walking Dead” spinoff starring Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira.
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TBS’ “American Dad” is back for season 18 on Monday, March 27 at 10p. The voice cast includes Seth MacFarlane, Wendy Schaal, Scott Grimes, Rachael MacFarlane, Jeff Fischer, Dee Bradley Baker, and Patrick Stewart, along with special guests, Pete Davidson, Anjelica Houston, Jason Alexander, Jaleel White, Chris Sullivan, Ann Dowd, Amy Sedaris, Alan Tudyk, Alyson Hannigan and Simon Helberg.
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Canela Media announced new programming for soccer fans on Canela.TV’s sports- focused vertical Canela Deportes. “100% Futbol” will air live three times per week on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday on Canela.TV, starting today, March 7.
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NewsNation political ensemble program “The Hill” makes its debut Monday, April 24 at 5p. NewsNation veteran anchor and correspondent, Leland Vittert will serve as moderator.
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Season 7 of The Weather Channel’s “Heavy Rescue: 401” launches Sunday, March 12 at 9p, followed by the return of “Uncharted Adventure” at 10p. Ahead of the premieres, the network is airing a Heavy Duty Week marathon, with “Heavy Rescue: 401” episodes starting at 8p.
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TelevisaUnivision’s 8th annual “Latin American Music Awards” are set to take place Thursday, April 20 at 7p from the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. The main show and pre-show “Noche de Estrellas” will broadcast on Univision, UNIMÁS, and Galavisión.
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Musician Lenny Kravitz will perform during the “In Memoriam” segment at the 95th Oscars, airing Sunday, March 12 at 8p on ABC.
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The ABC Owned Television Stations are celebrating Women’s History Month with a multiplatform slate of relevant content. Offerings include special “Our America: Women on a Roll,” hosted by Tamron Hall, highlighting diverse women and girls making a difference in their neighborhoods.
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Turner Classic Movies will celebrate the life and career of Gina Lollabrigida on Tuesday, May 2, starting at 8p with the 1961 film, “Come September.” Lollabrigida died January 16 at age 95.
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Twitter was hit with (more) outages and glitches on Monday, with the website inaccessible for some users, while others ran into error messages. Tweeted Elon Musk, “This platform is so brittle (sigh). Will be fixed shortly.” It was third glitch in as many weeks.
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Food Network’s “Kids Baking Championship” wrapped its seasonreaching more than 9.2 million P2+ viewers with the finale posting a 1.0 P18+ / 1.4 W18+ Live+3 rating and ranking as the #1 non-news/sports cable program in its timeslot among W18+.
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