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CELEBRITY NEWS: JULY 18 2023
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Chase Crawford (Gossip Girl) – 38 years old
Priyanka Chopra (Quantico) – 41 years old
Kristen Bell (The Good Place / “Frozen”) – 43 years old
Jason Weaver (The Chi / “The Jacksons: An American Dream”) – 44 years old
Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone/ “Heaven Is For Real”) – 46 years old
Elsa Pataky (Model/ Married to Chris Hemsworth) – 47 years old
M.I.A. (Britsh Rapper) – 48 years old
Penny Hardaway (former NBA Player) – 52 years old
Grant Bowler (Defiance) – 55 years old
Vin Diesel (“Fast & Furious” movies) – 56 years old
Benzino (Love & Hio Hop: Atlanta) – 58 years old
Jim Bob Dugger (19 Kids and Counting) – 58 years old
Wendy Williams (The Wendy Williams Show) – 59 years old
Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey) – 62 years old
Diana Williams (Former Ch. 7 Eyewitness News Anchor in NY) – 65 years old
Margo Martindale (The Americans) – 72 years old
Richard Branson (Virgin Records, Virgin Airlines) – 73 years old
Martha Reeves (Martha & The Vandellas) – 81 years old
Joe Torre (former Manager of the Yankees) – 83 years old
James Brolin (Life In Pieces/ Marcus Welby, M.D.) – 83 years old

FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 7/18/23)
BRITBOX: Silent Witness (Premiere)
CW: Down to Earth with Zac Efron (Premiere) at 8pm
CW: Fantastic Friends (Premiere) at 9pm
FX: Justified: City Primeval (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: Southern Storytellers (Premiere) at 9pm
PEACOCK: Love Island USA (Premiere)
PRIME VIDEO: Surf Girls Hawai’i (Premiere)
VICE: Dark Side of the 2000s (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: Windy City Rehab (Finale) at 9pm

“This is a dark day for America’s Public Television Stations,” said Patrick Butler, President and CEO of APTS, after the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies recommended eliminating public media funding in its FY 2024 appropriations bill. “We are only one of the casualties of a severe cutback that would also affect other important national institutions,” warned Butler. The bill would provide no funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), effective in FY 2026, a cut of $535 million from the current appropriation.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC has unveiled its first “Golden Bachelor.” Retired restaurateur Gerry Turner, 71, will look for love on the reality dating show spin-off, launching in the fall.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Paramount hit “Yellowstone” has been added to CBS’ fall schedule as the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes disrupts primetime plans. The drama will take the place of “The Equalizer” on Sundays at 9p, starting with season one. The network is also welcoming back “SEAL Team,” which aired on CBS for four seasons before moving to Paramount+ for season five.
(Source: Cynopsis)

How much will new contracts with the DGA, WGA and SAG-AFTRA cost media companies? “With the sides remaining far apart, we estimate an agreement increasing compensation under new collective bargaining agreements will ultimately cost Moody’s-rated companies an additional $450 million to $600 million a year for each year of a new three-year contract for all three guilds,” wrote Moody’s debt analyst Neil Begleyin in a July 17 report. “There is great play in these estimates, and some of this increased cost, particularly for television production, is likely to be passed on to buyers.” Theatrical movies will be hardest hit, says Begley, but after exhibitors, “broadcast television and cable networks are also exposed, given they are already in secular decline with rising costs to consumers and a shrinking value proposition relative to direct-to-consumer video-on demand streaming services such as Netflix.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Season two of AMC drama “Interview with the Vampire” has suspended production in the wake of the SAG-AFTRA strike, despite its location in Prague and primarily international cast. The series joins other shows, including Prime Video’s “Wheel of Time,” that have canceled appearances at San Diego Comic-Con on July 23.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Season four of “The Chosen” has been granted a waiver from SAG to continue filming. Waivers are granted for shows from independent producers not affiliated with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, and agree to retroactively comply with new contract terms once the strike is settled. “The Chosen,” which focuses on Jesus of Nazareth, is a crowdfunded series.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Congressman Adam Schiff was seen on the SAG-AFTRA picket linealong with the guild’s chief negotiator, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland. “Congress did a lousy job responding to all the changes in social media. We need to do much better when it comes to AI,” said Schiff, who is running for Senate in California. “Otherwise, this country’s about to go through the most massive social experiment in which the American people may be the losers.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Netflix has ordered a docuseries following the US Women’s National Team as they pursue their third consecutive World Cup soccer title. “Issues ranging from racial diversity, LGBTQ+ rights, equal pay, family, and motherhood are all brought to light as the narrative unfolds,” according to the description of the untitled series from Time Studios, Words + Pictures and Togetherx.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Horror + nature equals…Blumhouse (“M3GAN”) and Plimsoll Productions (“Hostile Planet”) are collaborating on a factual series that follows animal heroes battling to survive nature’s true-life horrors. Documented by natural history producers and transformed through the eyes of horror filmmakers, “Nightmares of Nature” is described as “a place where trees bleed, zombie snails dwell and vampire fish reign supreme.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Apple TV+ series “Lessons in Chemistry” launches Friday, October 13, with episodes rolling out weekly. The drama starring Brie Larson (“Captain Marvel”) is based on the bestseller by Bonnie Garmus.
(Source: Cynopsis)

PBS shared premiere dates for second seasons of “American Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston” (Wednesday, September 6 at 8p); “World on Fire on Masterpiece” and “Annika on Masterpiece” (Sunday, October 15 at 9p and 10p); and “Native America” (Tuesday, October 24 at 9p). New series on the horizon include “Voces American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos” (Tuesday, September 19 at 9p), and “Groundbreakers” (Tuesday, November 21 at 8p).
(Source: Cynopsis)

“Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the New York Jets” debuts Tuesday, August 8 at 10p on HBO. The Jets were last featured on “Hard Knocks” in 2010.
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Marvel Studios’ “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” starts streaming August 2 on Disney+. The film stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan and Pom Klementieff.
(Source: Cynopsis)

“All Up in the Biz” debuts Friday, August 11, on Paramount+ with Showtime before making its on-air debut that day at 9p on Showtime. The documentary feature tells the story of late rapper Biz Markie, who is best known for his hit “Just a Friend.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

In 2022, women’s soccer amounted to 610 million US YouTube views, according to data from Tubular Labs, while views for women’s soccer this year are already at 686 million on YouTube. Other findings: US social videos about women’s basketball reached over 1.06 billion views in 2022, but six months into 2023, views have already hit 844 million — with the WNBA season and more college basketball ahead this fall. Softball views on Facebook are up from 96M to 119M.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Infront and the Scottish Professional Football League have extended their exclusive media rights partnership for another four seasons. The renewal will run until the end of the 2028/29 season.
(Source: Cynopsis)

“Uphill Climb: The Women Who Conquered The Impossible Race” is now available on Peacock. Produced in conjunction with NBC Sports, the show tells the story of the “pioneering women athletes faced enormous obstacles, dug deep, gave it their all and triumphed in the world’s toughest race, the Tour de France.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

The season premiere of TLC’s “90 Day Fiance: The Other Way” was watched by more than 1.2 million viewers, ranking as the number one non-sports program in cable television with W25-54 and the network’s highest rated Monday night telecast in 8 months among P25-54 and W25-54 as well as W18-49. The two-hour season premiere also averaged a 1.25 L3 rating among W25-54 and 0.85 Live+3 rating among P25-54.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Elise Finch, long-time meteorologist at CBS New York affiliate WCBS-TV, died July 16. She was 51. “Elise has been a friend and team member at WCBS for 16 years. Elise was a gifted and consummate professional who took great care with her work,” the station said in announcing her death. “She was also a wonderful ambassador in the community, including her hometown of Mount Vernon.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

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