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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 3/24/23)
APPLE TV+: My Kind of Country (Premiere)
DISNEY: Secrets of Sulphur Springs (Premiere) at 8pm
DISNEY: Saturdays (Premiere) at 9pm
HULU: Up Here (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Love Is Blind (Premiere)
NETFLIX: I Am Georgina (Premiere)
(SATURDAY 3/25/23)
ABC: Broadway Backstage: Spring Preview 2023 (Premiere) at 7pm
(SUNDAY 3/26/23)
CNN: Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico (Premiere) at 10pm
FOX: HouseBroken (Premiere) at 9:30pm
FYI: Barrett-Jackson: REVVED UP (Premiere) at 10pm
HALLMARK CHANNEL: Ride (Premiere) at 9pm
HBO: Succession (Premiere) at 9pm
HULU: Great Expectations (Premiere)
PARAMOUNT+: Rabbit Hole (Premiere)
SHOWTIME: Yellowjackets (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: Seeking Brother Husband (Premiere) at 10pm
HALLMARK CHANNEL: The Way Home (Finale) at 8pm
MGM+: Godfather of Harlem (Finale) at 9pm
FOX has renewed its mid-season dramas “Accused” and “Alert: Missing Persons Unit” for sophomore seasons to air in 2023-24. No surprise there – the January 22 premiere of “Accused” registered a 2.5 Live+35 Day rating and 14.6 multi-platform viewers, making it television’s highest-rated drama debut in two years, while the January 8 debut of “Alert” drew 8.5 million multi-platform viewers, up 112% from its Live+SD numbers. Both series are co-produced by Sony Pictures Television and FOX Entertainment.
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The final four episodes of season one of CBS’ “Lingo” are moving to the 2023-24 season, to air as part of the quiz show’s sophomore run. The series has been replaced on Wednesday nights with repeats of procedurals.
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A+E Networks is launching The Lifetime Network Movies Wine Club, a wine subscription program managed by Direct Wines. The goal: “elevate an already memorable viewing experience that our devoted audiences have grown to expect from Lifetime’s unique brand of storytelling,” said Sydney Snyder, VP, Consumer Enterprises at A+E Networks.
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Keeping it real: The Writers Guild of America is seeking to restrict the use of AI as it negotiates with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers for a new contract. “The WGA’s proposal to regulate use of material produced using artificial intelligence or similar technologies ensures the Companies can’t use AI to undermine writers’ working standards including compensation, residuals, separated rights and credits,” said the guild in a statement.
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HBO is developing a comedy, “Disengagement,” following a dysfunctional family embarrassed when their business implodes. The project comes from writer and executive producer Robin Thede (“A Black Lady Sketch Show”), who is under an overall deal with HBO, HBO Max and Warner Bros. Television.
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Cineflix Productions is in development on the scripted comedy series“You’re Better Than Me,” inspired by comedian Bonnie McFarlane’s memoir as a high schooler in Cold Lake, Alberta, in the mid-1980s. McFarlane serves as the creator and writer for the half-hour long episode series.
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Starz’s “Outlander” is back on Friday, June 16 at 8p. Season seven of the time-travel drama will be split into two parts of eight episodes each, with the back half airing in 2024.
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Record seafood prices and tensions with Russia and China complicate the action in the new season of Discovery’s “Deadliest Catch,” kicking off with a 2-hour premiere on Tuesday, April 18 at 8p.
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Anderson Cooper will host a new series for CNN, “The Whole Story,” premiering Sunday, April 16 at 8p. Each episode of the show will focus on a single subject, like the social issues plaguing San Francisco, psychedelic mushrooms and the coronation of King Charles.
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Raven and her family head to London in the season six premiere of “Raven’s Home,” airing Sunday, April 9 at 8p on Disney Channel.
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Hodge-podge properties get a renovation re-do in the new HGTV series “Fix My Frankenhouse,” premiering Sunday, April 23, at 9p.
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Apple TV+ comedy “Platonic,” starring and executive produced by Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen, is set to make its global debut with the first three episodes on Wednesday, May 24. New episodes will launch weekly every Wednesday.
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Speedvision and Radford Motors have teamed for docuseries “Radford Reborn,” following Radford Motors partners, Master mechanic Ant Anstead and 2009 FIA Formula One World Champion Jenson Button as they set out to create the Radford Type 62-2, a reimagined version of the Lotus Type 62 for today’s modern era. The five-parter debuts on Speedvision with a weekend-long marathon of all five episodes beginning April 14 at 8p.
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Thriller series “Montecristo” debuts on ViX on April 14 with all six episodes. The series is a modern take on the Alexandre Dumas classic The Count of Montecristo.
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Season nine of “Doc Martin” will be made available to US public television for the first time starting July 1, by syndicator American Public Television. The tenth and final season of the series, following a brusque general practitioner in a sleepy village, will be available in the fall.
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Docuseries “Angel City” debuts this May on HBO. The three-parter goes behind the scenes for the first season of the LA-based professional women’s soccer team, Angel City Football Club.
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Two new original movies inspired by Mary J. Blige’s biggest hits, “Mary J. Blige’s Real Love” and “Mary J. Blige’s Strength of a Woman,” are set to premiere on back-to-back Saturdays beginning June 10 at 8p on Lifetime.
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The 2023 “iHeartRadio Music Awards” will feature special appearancesfrom Cher, Buffalo Bills’ Damar Hamlin, Donald Faison, H.E.R., Joel McHale, Jordan Davis, Nicole Scherzinger, Nikki Glaser, Phoebe Bridgers, TLC, Vella Lovell, Zach Braff and more. Lenny Kravitz hosts the Fox broadcast live from LA on Monday, March 27 at 8p.
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This Earth Day, Rewind TV is presenting “The Mork & Mindy Mother Nature Marathon” and a full day of back-to-back episodes of “Mork & Mindy” in celebration of the sitcom’s 45th anniversary on Saturday, April 22 starting at 6a.
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“Changing Planet” returns for a second year to revisit vulnerable ecosystems and chart how individuals and communities have made progress — and faced setbacks — over the last 12 months in the midst of climate change, starting Wednesday, April 18 at 9p on PBS (check local listings).
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“Adam-12” joins the FETV lineup on Monday, April 3. The 1968-1975 procedural will air nightly at 11p, following “Emergency!”.
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Not surprisingly, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew did not have an easy time of it at the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Thursday. Faced with the Biden administration’s threat to ban the app unless its Chinese owners agree to spin off their share of the platform, Chew characterized the Chinese government’s access to TikTok’s user data as “hypothetical and theoretical risks.” But Chew faced questions about user videos that promote suicide (“Your technology is literally leading to death,” said Rep. Gus Bilirakis), and a post that contained information about the hearing that was underway, including a picture of an assault weapon (“You expect us to believe that you are capable of maintaining the data security, privacy and security of a 150 million Americans where you can’t even protect people in this room,” said Rep. Kat Cammack). “This hasn’t been a fun day. I know that,” Rep. Russ Fulcher told Chew as the hits piled on. “It hasn’t been a fun day for us either.”
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So what next? “It is likely TikTok will be banned in the United States unless it is moved into full US control,” said Karsten Weide, Principal and Chief Analyst at W Media Research. “We know Chinese Internet companies cooperate with the Chinese government, so the risk of sensitive data being transferred to China is real, as is that of TikTok being used for disinformation. This doesn’t even take into account the lack of protections for minors, and the extreme addictiveness of the service.”
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Sales of Amazon’s Fire TV streaming devices and smart TVs have topped 200 million units, following a milestone of 150 million Fire TV devices announced in January of last year. Amazon is expanding its offerings to include three new sizes of the Fire TV Omni QLED Series lineup as well as its lowest-priced HDTV to date, the Fire TV 2-Series, which starts at $200 for the 32-inch model.
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Subway will be a presenting sponsor of the inaugural Pickleball Slam, “prominently featured” in event and on-site branding opportunities, as well as custom elements within the ESPN telecast. The April 2 tournament features John McEnroe, Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick and Michael Chang competing for a $1 million dollar purse.
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The New York Islanders and Nickelodeon are teaming up again for a slime-filled experience on Saturday, March 25. The third annual event will include the integration of Nickelodeon shows and characters across social and digital channels and in arena. Fans at UBS Arena and those following along on social platforms will receive Nickelodeon themed content throughout the game, and SpongeBob SquarePants will join Islanders mascots, Sparky and Nyisles, for a meet and greet with fans at the matchup against the Buffalo Sabres.
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The debut of Starz’s “Power Book II: Ghost” gave the network its biggest premiere weekend ever in its first three days. Based on early reporting, the season three premiere delivered 5.8 million multiplatform viewers following its premiere weekend, with several platforms yet to report. The launch is up approximately 30% from its season two debut in November 2021.
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Saturday’s El Clásico de México LIGA MIX game between Chivas and América averaged a Total Audience Delivery of 1.5 million viewers across all platforms including Telemundo, Universo, Peacock, TelemundoDeportes.com and the Telemundo app. The game ranked as the most streamed Clásico de México ever across Peacock and Telemundo’s digital streaming platforms.
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MOVIES
John Wick: Chapter 4 – Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, George Georgiou, Lance Riddick, Clancy Brown, Ian McShane, Marko Zaror, Bill Skarsgard, Donnie Yen, Aimee Kwan, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shamier Anderson, Rina Sawayama, Yoshinori Tashiro
A Good Person (Limited Release) – Florence Pugh, Morgan Freeman, Celeste O’Connor, Molly Shannon, Chinaza Uche, Zoe Lister-Jones, Nichelle Hines, Toby Onwumere, Ignacio Diaz-Silverio, Oli Green, Alex Wolff, Brian Rojas, Ryann Redmond, Sydney Morton
The Tutor (Limited Release) – Garrett Hedlund, Victoria Justice, Noah Schnapp, Jonny Weston, Kabby Borders, Matt Borlenghi, Michael Aaron Milligan, Ekaterina Baker
The Lost King (Limited Release) – Sally Hawkins, Shomagh Price, Helen Katamba, Lewis Macleod, Jenny Douglas, Steve Coogan, Benjamin Scanlan, Adam Robb, Harry Lloyd, Robert Jack
MEGA MILLIONS
Today’s Jackpot is $302 million.
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POWERBALL
Saturday’s Jackpot is $112 million.
Powerball is played in 43 states.
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