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HULU: RapCaviar Presents (Premiere)
HULU/PEACOCK: The Croods: Family Tree (Premiere)
ID: Lone Star Murders (Premiere) at 10pm
NETFLIX: Unstable (Premiere)
NETFLIX: From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke (Premiere)
ABC: Alaska Daily (Finale) at 10pm
HGTV: Married to Real Estate (Finale) at 9pm
WE TV: Omega: The Gift & the Curse (Finale)
Twitter CEO and Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak are among the tech leaders who signed an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on the development of advanced A.I. systems. Over 1100 signatories urged technology companies to cease training A.I. systems that would be “more powerful than GPT-4,” which is the latest large language processing A.I. developed by OpenAI. Musk, a cofounder of OpenAI, broke with the company in 2018, and has been critical of the company since then. The letter cites risks with A.I. systems such as GPT-4 “becoming human-competitive at general tasks,” and being used to generate misinformation on a massive scale as well as the mass automation of jobs. The letter says that decisions about A.I. “must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders” and that more powerful A.I. systems should only “be developed once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable.”
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Bryant Gumbel will receive the 2023 Sports Emmys Lifetime Achievement award at the Sports Emmys ceremony on May 22. “Bryant‘s incredible resume spanning ‘Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel,’ NBC Sports, NBC News, CBS News, PBS and many other projects has brought dramatic and human news and sports stories to life for audiences throughout his career making him a clear front runner for this distinct honor,” said Adam Sharp, President & CEO of NATAS.
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Its upcoming season six will be the last for Freeform’s “Black-ish” spinoff, “Grown-ish.” “From the stories we’ve told to the talent we’ve fostered and, most importantly, the memories made, I could not be more proud of everything we’ve accomplished and the -ish family I’ve been a part of,” said creator and executive producer Kenya Barris.
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Netflix wasted no time renewing “The Night Agent” – which racked up 168.7 million viewing hours its first few days on the platform – for season two. “The last week has been a whirlwind as we’ve finally been able to share ‘The Night Agent’ with the world,” said series creator, executive producer and showrunner Shawn Ryan. “To see the tremendous reaction to the show has been a great joy and is a credit to our cast, our writers, our directors, our crew and our partners at Sony Pictures Television and Netflix.
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Police drama “Blue Bloods” will be back for season 14, along with original series stars Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan and Will Estes. While a renewal would have seemed to be a no-brainer – the show has been CBS’ most-watched Friday night program since launch, and performs well in syndication and streaming – 25% salary reductions for stars and producers reportedly had to be negotiated to before the network moved forward on the pricey scripted series.
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NBC competition series “American Ninja Warrior” has been renewed for a sixteenth season, ahead of its season 15 premiere on June 5. Production on both seasons is underway with A. Smith & Co.
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New Fox competition series “Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars” puts food industry entrepreneurs through their paces starting Wednesday, May 24 at 9p. “Gordon has been a long-time, valued, prolific partner to us at Fox, and as audiences will see in ‘Food Stars,’ he never slows down, always delivering incredible new, compelling concepts in culinary and lifestyle entertainment,” said Allison Wallach, President of Unscripted Programming, Fox Entertainment.
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SundanceTV is bolstering its true crime slate with a season two renewal for “It Couldn’t Happen Here,” as well as an order two more true crime series. “True Crime Story: Citizen Detective,” from World of Wonder, and “Crimes of Entitlement” (w/t), from Sidestilt Films, will air on SundanceTV, AMC+ and SundanceNow.
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Starz and Channel 4 have commissioned “The Couple Next Door,”starring Sam Heughan (“Outlander”), Eleanor Tomlinson (“Poldark”), Jessica De Gouw (“Pennyworth”) and Alfred Enoch “How To Get Away with Murder”) from Eagle Eye Drama. The psychological drama explores the claustrophobia of suburbia and the fallout of chasing dark desires.
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Animated series “Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld” landed a green light from Netflix. Ali Wong (“Beef”) will star in and executive produce the series, following a Chinese-American teen who finds out a. demon king is hunting her for her supernatural powers.
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Paramount+ ordered a UK drama series adaptation of Sarah Pinborough novel Insomnia. Produced by Left Bank Pictures, the thriller centers on a woman who fears she is losing her mind after suffering from sleep deprivation two weeks before she turns 40.
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Trick Candle Productions has acquired the rights to the film “Scatman,” the life story of musician/singer John Larkin. The film is currently in development with the script being written by Stephen Basilone and Annie Mebane (“The Goldbergs”).
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Season two of HGTV’s “Fix My Flip” debuts Thursday, May 4 at 9p, with real estate agent Page Turner helping overwhelmed house flippers. The series attracted 12.4 million total viewers during its first run.
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Travel expert Pamela Holt taps into the art of solo travel in her new series, “Me, Myself, & the World: The Art of Solo Travel,” in which she travels alone through Southeast Asia from Bali to the Mekong Delta. The series debuts on the GoTraveler channel and their partner platforms on Monday, April 3.
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It’s Bat Masterson to the rescue when INSP’s “Wild West Chronicles”kicks off season three on Thursday, April 6 at 10p.
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CNN will air a special presentation of the HBO Max Original “Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults” starting Sunday, April 4 at 10p. The four-part docuseries examines the infamous and deadly UFO cult.
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Disney+ Original Movie “Crater” lands on the service on May 12. The coming-of-age sci-fi adventure follows a boy, raised on a lunar mining colony and about to be permanently relocated, who hijacks a rover with his best friends for one final adventure.
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Lined up to co-host MTV’s viral clip series, “Ridiculousness,” beginning Monday, April 3 at 8p, are B. Simone, Brie “Bella” Garcia, Brittany Elena, Camille Kostek, Carly Aquilino, Draya Michele, Karrueche Tran, Lolo Wood, Maddy Smith, Madison Beer, Nikki Blades, Nina Agdal, Rachel Wolfson, and Teala Dunn, among others. They join Rob Dyrdek and Steelo Brim; longtime co-host Chanel West Coast is leaving the show to star in her own new series as well as create and develop scripted and unscripted projects within Paramount Media Networks.
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“Champion” makes its FITE+ debut on Friday March 31, day-and-date with its premiere in Los Angeles as part of WrestleMania weekend. The film depicts a mother/daughter relationship set against the world of MMA, and stars WWE & Monster Truck champion Debrah Ann Miceli aka Madusa, and former Major League Wrestling star Salina de la Renta. FITE’s SVOD platform will also stream 14 live events from wrestling’s biggest weekend.
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The NFL has entered into a joint venture with Redbird Capital Partners that will offer NFL games in commercial venues like bars and restaurants. For starters, EverPass Media will distribute NFL Sunday Ticket on a non-exclusive basis. “Making our games as widely available as possible has been the bedrock of our media strategy and Sunday Ticket’s presence in bars, restaurants and other commercial venues provides millions of fans a way to watch all out-of-market games on Sunday afternoons,” said Brian Rolapp, the NFL’s Chief Media and Business Officer. “We look forward to working with EverPass Media to expand the Sunday Ticket footprint in commercial establishments across the country.”
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The YES Network introduced a direct-to-consumer subscription product providing fans in YES’ regional coverage territory an option to purchase a direct subscription to YES and its programming, including all New York Yankees, Brooklyn Nets and New York Liberty games appearing on YES. The YES App will be the exclusive direct-to-consumer streaming home of the Yankees, Nets and Liberty in YES’ regional coverage territory.
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Nearly 19% of the total US adult population, or 48.3 million Americans, have played pickleball at least once in the past 12 months, according to data from The Association of Pickleball Professionals. That’s up 35% since the APP’s last research was concluded in August 2022. And it’s not your grandma’s game anymore – the updated study also revealed that the average age of pickleball players is 34.8 years, considerably younger than previously assumed.
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The Ad Council, in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association and NASCAR, launched PSAs featuring NASCAR driver Ryan Blaney sharing his family’s journey with Alzheimer’s disease following his Grandpa Lou’s diagnosis. The PSAs encourage families to have a conversation with loved ones when they notice changes in cognition or behavior. Blaney, who founded The Ryan Blaney Foundation in 2018, lost his grandfather, race car driver Lou Blaney, to Alzheimer’s in 2009. “The opportunity to partner with the Alzheimer’s Association and Ad Council to participate in this campaign further extends the initiatives of the Ryan Blaney Family Foundation and conversations surrounding Alzheimer’s in our communities,” said Ryan Blaney. “As someone whose family has been personally affected by this disease, along with millions of others nationwide, we’re confident this campaign will inspire action to have the tough conversations as a path towards early detection.”
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The Toyota HBCU New York Classic Presented by Walmart returns to MetLife Stadium on Saturday, September 16. The HBCU game day experience includes a match-up between Morehouse College and Albany State University. Kickoff is scheduled for 3p p., with the game broadcast live on CNBC and simultaneously streamed on the Peacock Network and the NBC Sports App.
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“UnPrisoned” ranks as Onyx Collective’s most-watched Hulu premiere to date and the most-watched Hulu Original scripted series so far this year, according to Onyx. The comedy stars Kerry Washington as a single mom whose father moves in with her when he gets out of prison.
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Driven by its annual post-Oscars show, “Live with Kelly and Ryan”scored an 8-week high in Total Viewers (2.41 million) during the week of March 13, growing over both the prior week (+8%) and the year-ago week (+7%) in Total Viewers.
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