FIRST LOOK
http://www.eonline.com/news
ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 4/26/23)
NBC: Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love (Premiere) at 8pm
COMEDY CENTRAL: Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens (Premiere) at 10:30pm
DISNEY+: Matildas: The World at Our Feet
DISNEY+: Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures (Premiere)
HULU: Saint X (Premiere)
HULU: Sam – A Saxon (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Love After Music (Premiere)
NETFLIX: The Good Bad Mother (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Workin’ Moms (Premiere)
PBS: Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories With David Rubenstein (Premiere) at 10pm
SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL: In for the Kill (Premiere) at 8pm
CBS and Pluto TV are partnering on a Tony Awards pre-show. “The Tony Awards: Act One” will air from 6:30-8p on Pluto TV, leading into the CBS’s telecast of the 76th Annual Awards on Sunday, June 11. A first round of Tonys will be presented on the special. “This cross-company partnership allows us to utilize the breadth of the Paramount Global family to bring the best of Broadway into homes of more viewers than ever before,” said Jack Sussman, EVP of Specials, Music, Live Events and Alternative Programming at CBS.
(Source: Cynopsis)
He does not believe in streaming movies, WBD CEO David Zaslav told an audience of theater exhibitors at CinemaCon. Noting that movies brought to HBO Max after a theater run performed “substantially better” than the direct-to-streaming model, Zaslav said, “At Warner Bros., at DC Studios, we believe that everything is possible. This business could be bigger and stronger it’s ever been. We believe in full windowing of the motion pictures. We do not want to do direct-to-streaming movies.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Spotify posted a wider-than-expected loss for 1Q23, and average revenue per user dipped 1%. Compensating for that news was 22% growth of its user base, to 515 million, the company’s fastest-ever listener growth in the first quarter.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Disney layoffs have “substantially impacted” FiveThirtyEight, posted Nate Silver, founder of the politics website, who added, “My contract is up soon and I expect that I’ll be leaving at the end of it….I’m so sorry to the people impacted by this.” A spokesperson from ABC News said the company plans to keep the brand, with a “streamlined structure.” FiveThirtyEight was hardly the only unit hit by Disney’s second round of layoffs, which involved numerous other unscripted and alternative jobs.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Rohde is joining NBC News as senior executive editor, national security. Rohde joins from The New Yorker’s digital site.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences announced the Winners for the 27th Annual Webby Awards. BASIC/DEPT® nabbed the top honor for Webby Agency of the Year. With 19 wins and four nominations, the company earned more Webby Awards across all categories than any other agency this year.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MGM+ placed a 10-episode series order for “Emperor of Ocean Park,” a suspenseful take on author and law professor Stephen L. Carter’s best-selling novel, from executive producer/writer Sherman Payne (“Shameless”), John Wells Productions, and Warner Bros. Television. Damian Marcano (“Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty”) is set to direct multiple episodes. The series centers on an Ivy League law professor whose quiet life is shattered when his father dies of an apparent heart attack.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Athletes Unlimited, a network of professional women’s sports leagues,announced a partnership with Boardwalk Pictures (“Welcome to Wrexham”) to develop a documentary project highlighting the inspiring women of the player-driven organization, which features professional softball, lacrosse, volleyball and basketball leagues. Produced by Boardwalk, the unscripted content will follow their lives on and off the field and court.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Audible Originals’ 10-part series “She Got Game: Inspiring Women, Inspired by Sports” illustrates the link between female sports participation and career success.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Netflix released its 2023-24 animated film slate. Coming this summer is “Nimona,” based on the graphic novel by ND Stevenson, and “The Monkey King,” exec produced by Stephen Chow. Adam Sandler musical comedy “Leo” will premiere in the fall, along with sequel “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.” Slated to drop in 2024 are “In Your Dreams,” following kids who travel into a dreamworld to save their parents’ marriage; live action/animation hybrid “Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie”; “That Christmas,” based on the books by Richard Curtis; “Thelma the Unicorn,” about a horse masquerading as a unicorn; and “Ultraman,” based on the Japanese character.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Adult animated workplace comedy “Space Junk,” focused on garbage collectors in space, has been released by Toonstar and will be available to stream beginning Friday, May 19. The series, created and written by Dominic Russo (“Workaholics”) and powered by Beta blockchain, features a character voiced by AI voice generated software.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Peri Gilpin will guest on Paramount+’s sequel to “Frasier.” Gilpin played Roz in the original.
(Source: Cynopsis)
(Source: Cynopsis)
Latin star Nicky Jam will perform at NBCUniversal TelemundoEnterprises invite-only Upfront event “Come With Us” on Monday, May 15. The presentation and performance will take place at The Glasshouse in NYC.
(Source: Cynopsis)
“The Witcher” is back for a third season on Netflix starting June 29 with five episodes. The final three episodes of the supernatural drama’s season drop July 27.
(Source: Cynopsis)
“Date Night Thursdays” return to TV One with the premiere of “The One” on May 18 at 9p. In the competition series, a bachelor and a bachelorette look for love during risqué nights out.
(Source: Cynopsis)
“Fatal Attraction” premieres with three episodes Sunday, April 30 on Paramount+. The reimagining of the 1987 film stars Alyssa Jirrels, Lizzy Kaplan and Joshua Jackson.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Netflix’s “McGregor Forever,” starring UFC champ Conor McGregor, kicks off Wednesday, May 17. “Conor is unlike anyone I’ve ever collaborated with. As one of his trainers described him, he’s an entirely unreasonable man,” said director Gotham Chopra. “And for that reason, he’s impossible not to watch and be fascinated by. Don’t look away, because I guarantee you, you will definitely miss something inexplicably wild.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
“Accomplice to Murder with Vinnie Politan” debuts Sunday, May 7 at 8p on Court TV. The 10-parter tells the stories of everyday people caught up in a world of deception and manipulation as they become accomplices to murder.
(Source: Cynopsis)
HGTV’s “Windy City Rehab” returns with a new eight-episode season on Tuesday, May 23 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season 17 of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” launches Wednesday, June 17 at 8p on Bravo. Tamra Judge returns to the group to shake things up, while “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum Taylor Armstrong is the first housewife to switch cities.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Sequel film “Vacation Friends 2” makes its Hulu debut on August 25. The 2021 original notched the streamer’s biggest opening weekend before “Prey.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
“Bendita Suegra” (Blessed Mother-in-Law) premieres Wednesday, May 10 on ViX. The comedy film centers on a veterinarian aiming to impress her boyfriend’s demanding mother-in-law.
(Source: Cynopsis)
theGrio will honor CBS News journalist Gayle King with theGrio’s “Journalist Icon Award” during a DC event following the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents’ Association on the evening of Saturday April 29. The event, titled Byron Allen Presents the Washington, DC Gala, will take place at The Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History & Culture. A special featuring moments from the gala will air on theGrio Television Network and other platforms on Monday, May 1.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Netflix plans to spend $2.5 billion through 2027 on content made in South Korea. After a D.C. meeting between Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos and South Korean President Yook Suk Yeo, Sarandos said, “We were able to make this decision because of our great confidence in the Korean content industry, and we’ll continue to make great stories. I have no doubt that our investment will strengthen our long-term partnership with Korea and Korea’s creative ecosystem.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Netflix’s new “Basics with Ads” option includes about five minutes per hour of programming, comparable to other services. Yet 49% of the streamer’s new customers believe that’s “a bit too much” or “far too much,” according to a study by Aluma Research. Existing Netflix subscribers, who switched from an ad-free tier, are another matter, with only 28% saying the ad load is too heavy. Overall, about 40% of those who made the switch from Netflix’s standard ad-free service to the cheaper $6.99-a-month service say the advertising is “about right.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
“Unfinished Business,” a documentary about the formation and history of the WNBA, will be available on Prime Video beginning on Saturday, May 13 and will have a special broadcast on ESPN2 on Sunday, May 14.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Association of Pickleball Professionals has appointed APP pro Andrei Daescu as Director of the APP Academy, the APP’s development clinics program. Daescu, a multi-time APP Tour gold medalist, will oversee all programming and organization of the APP Academy clinics, which are co-ed and catered to multiple age and skill levels and held in conjunction with APP Tour stops throughout 2023.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Showtime’s “Waco: The Aftermath” has doubled its audience since its April 16 premiere, to 1 million viewers, making it Showtime’s third most-streamed original to date. The season two premiere of “Yellowjackets” has taken the #2 spot from “Dexter: New Blood,” with 5.5 million viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
With an assist from the NBA Playoffs on TNT, Warner Bros. Discovery networks delivered nearly a 61% share of viewing among A25-54 and a 64%share of viewing among A18-49 across ad-supported cable in primetime on Sunday, April 16, the highest prime share for the networks this year. Together, the networks also delivered a 46% share of total television viewing among A18-49 that night.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fox’s coverage of Kyle Busch’s victory at the NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega on Sunday drew 4.55 million viewers, up 5% from last year.
(Source: Cynopsis)
POWERBALL
Today’s Jackpot is $37 million.
Powerball is played in 43 states.
Keely's Korner 