FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 7/28/23)
CBS: Secret Celebrity Renovation (Premiere) at 9pm
HBO: How To with John Wilson (Premiere) at 11pm
HULU: The Fool (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Captain Fall (Premiere)
NETFLIX: A Perfect Story (Premiere)
NETFLIX: How to Become a Cult Leader (Premiere)
PRIME VIDEO: Novela (Premiere)
PRIME VIDEO: Good Omens (Premiere)
STARZ: Heels (Premiere) at 10pm
(SATURDAY 7/29/23)
NAT GEO WILD: Farm Dreams (Premiere) at 10pm
BOUNCE TV: Act Your Age (Finale) at 8pm
CW: Greatest Geek Year Ever: 1982 (Finale) at 8pm
LIFETIME: V.C. Andrews’ Dawn (Finale) at 8pm
(SUNDAY 7/30/23)
AMC: Dark Winds (Premiere) at 9pm
AMC: Black Snow (Premiere) at 10pm
DISCOVERY: Naked and Afraid: Castaways (Premiere) at 8pm
DISCOVERY: Survive the Raft (Premiere) at 9pm
HALLMARK CHANNEL: When Calls the Heart (Premiere) at 9pm
CBS: Tough as Nails (Finale) at 8pm
FOOD NETWORK: The Great Food Truck Race (Finale) at 8pm
FOOD NETWORK: Beachside Brawl (Finale) at 9pm
PARAMOUNT+: Joe Pickett (Finale)
Comcast’s 2Q23 results topped analysts’ estimates, with earnings of $4.25 billion, versus $3.4 billion last year. The company lost 19,000 domestic broadband subscribers in the quarter, versus a projected 70,000. Cable TV customers dropped by 543,000, leaving the company with less than 15 million total domestic cable TV customers. The number of Peacock subscribers nearly doubled versus the same period last year, to 24 million, but losses from the streamer were $651 million, up from $467 last year. “I think we feel good about our upfronts. Despite those headwinds our total cash and pricing levels were roughly in line with last year — and really strong related to Peacock in particular,” said Comcast President Mike Cavanagh. “A lot of that comes from the strength of our portfolio.”
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Former CNN chief Jeff Zucker has asked for a retraction for a Varietyreport that claimed he has been talking to billionaires in an effort to fund the purchase of CNN. “Any allegation or insinuation that Jeff has made any effort to purchase CNN is unequivocally false,” said a spokesperson for Zucker. “He has never had any meeting or conversation about buying CNN with anyone.”
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In happier CNN news, the network led the pack of nominees for News & Documentary Emmy Awards, with 45 nods. Vice landed 30, followed by ABC and PBS with 26 apiece. Nominees for Live News Program include “ABC News Tonight with David Muir,” “Anderson Cooper 360” (CNN), CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell,” “CBS Morning” and “Nightly News with Lester Holt” (NBC).
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CBS reported closing its upfront season up “low-to-mid single digits,” with results across its EyeQ, Vantage and Sports verticals boasting double-digit growth on a combined basis.
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A potential class action suit accuses Google of inflating metrics for its “TrueView” ad program, in which advertisers pay for actual views rather than impressions. Instead, the suit claims, TrueView ads were served as autoplaying or scroll-to-play videos. “This means that rather than requiring a consumer to actually click on a video to see the advertisement, the video would effectively play on its own,” reads the complaint. “This has the material effect of downgrading the value of each ‘view,’ as some of these views would not be a view at all, and certainly not an intentional view.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
About 10% of the “Entertainment Tonight” staff has been laid off, reports Deadline. CBS Media Ventures’ syndicated newsmagazine last underwent layoffs in 2019 which, like this round, stemmed from cuts in digital operations.
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Future Today inked a deal with Wonderama Entertainment that will provide a digital platform for Wonderama, along with collaboration on a series of livestreamed family programming events. “We are excited to be working with the team at Wonderama and are looking forward to bringing this entertaining show format to our audience while also allowing our advertising partners the opportunity to execute unique tie-ins with the show,” said David Di Lorenzo, SVP Kids & Family, Future Today.
(Source: Cynopsis)
HBO has renewed “The Righteous Gemstones” for a fourth season.Season three of the comedy, which wraps July 30, is averaging 4.9 million viewers.
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Nickelodeon and Spin Master Entertainment greenlit an eleventh season of “PAW Patrol” and a second for spin-off “Rubble & Crew.” A crossover event between the two shows airs Monday, July 31 at 11a.
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Magnolia Network released its lineup of August premieres. First up is a new season of “Big Sky Kitchen with Eduardo Garcia,” Sunday, August 6 at 2p. A new season of “In With the Old” launches Wednesday, August 30 at 8p, followed at 9p by the series debut of “Design Down Under.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
“The Kardashians” returns to Hulu for season four on Thursday, September 28.
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Season three of HGTV’s “Bargain Block” launches Wednesday, August 23 at 9p. The series follows home renovation experts restoring homes in Detroit neighborhoods.
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“The Victoria’s Secret World Tour” fashion show special will stream on Prime Video on September 26. The reimagined special will include behind-the-scenes footage and feature the stories of 20 creatives who will conceive four fashion creations.
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Story Television Network uncovers the facts behind mysterious creatures in “Monster Month,” a programming event featuring documentaries that examine Bigfoot, The Loch Ness Monster, Swamp Monsters and Water Monsters.
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“Suits,” which ran on USA from 2011-19, broke the streaming record for an acquired series in one measurement week. During the week of June 26, the drama topped the Nielsen streaming chart with 3.1 billion viewing minutes across Netflix and Peacock. FX’s “The Bear” on Hulu jumped from #5 to #3, and Netflix’s “The Witcher” was #2.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Food Network ranks as a Top 5 non-news/sports cable network across Total Day for both P25-54 and W25-54 this summer. Average weekly Time Spent Viewing in Prime is up +4% year-over-year among P25-54 and up +6% among P2+. More than 50.6 million P2+ viewers have tuned in to Food Network programming across Food Network/Max/discovery+.
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Writer Jerome Coopersmith died July 21. He was 97. In addition to Tony-nominated work as a playwright, Coopersmith wrote for television, most notably 30 episodes of “Hawaii Five-O” from 1968-76.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MOVIES
Haunted Mansion – LaKeith Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, Owen Wilson, Tiffany Haddish, Danny DeVito, Jamie Lee Curtis, Chase Dillon, Jared Leto
Talk To Me – Ari McCarthy, Hamish Phillips, Kit Erhart-Bruce, Sarah Brokensha, Jayden Davison, Sunny Johnson, Sophie Wilde, Marcus Johnson, Kidaan Zelleke, James Oliver
NYC STREET FAIRS
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2023 HARLEM FESTIVAL OF CULTURE (FRI. 7/28/23 – SUN. 7/30/23)
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MEGA MILLIONS
Today’s Jackpot is $910 million.
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POWERBALL
Saturday’s Jackpot is $60 million.
Powerball is played in 43 states.
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