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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 10/31/23)
SHUDDER: The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula (Premiere)
CW: The Swarm (Finale) at 9pm
YouTube will return to the stage during upfront week, this year in the David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, part of a three-year deal with the venue. Last year was the first time YouTube held its Brandcast event during upfront week.
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After meetings over the weekend, SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP worked “independently” on Monday to come to terms on a new contract, said the union. The two sides are working to hammer out details about the role of AI, and compensation for streaming shows.
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Max is paying tribute to Matthew Perry with a card to start each of the 10 seasons of “Friends” reading, “In memory of Matthew Perry 1969-2023.” Perry died of apparent drowning on October 28 at age 54.
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Christine Romans has joined NBC News as senior business correspondent, reporting across all platforms. Romans left CNN in July after 24 years with the network.
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Wendy’s, State Farm and Lay’s are among the 20 brand sponsors who will activate at NBCU’s BravoCon alongside emerging and talent-owned businesses at the Bravo Bazaar. As part of the Bravo Bazaar and a new BravoCon Shoppable Microsite, NBCU is collapsing the purchase funnel and bringing opportunities to emerging and talent-owned businesses from retail to CPG for fans. The event takes place Friday, November 3 through Sunday, November 5 at Caesar’s Forum, with BravoCon content available to stream.
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UK producer David Flynn (“Game of Clones”), founder of Youngest Media, has launched a new studio, Plegazoid, dedicated to creating content with global appeal. Plegazoid has entered into an exclusive joint venture agreement with ITV Studios-backed South Shore (“Don’t Look Down”), to develop and produce nonscripted formats.
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They’re here….A TV series adaptation of Steven Spielberg’s 1982 horror film “Poltergeist” is in early development at Amazon MGM Studios, reports TheWrap. The project will be executive produced by Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey for Amblin Television.
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Canadian actor and potter (!) Seth Rogan (“Platonic”) will executive and guest judge CBC’s “The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down,” hosted by Jennifer Robertson (“Schitt’s Creek”) and produced by Frantic Films. Rogan is also an EP on the show, based on the UK format, via his Point Grey Pictures.
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AMC Networks has licensed the US and Canadian linear and streaming rights to “Nautilus,” a live-action series inspired by Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, from Disney Entertainment. The series, which finished production in August but was canceled by Disney+ UK to cut streaming costs, will air on AMC and AMC+ as a special television event in 2024. “Nautilus is a big, sweeping drama that is sure to appeal to fans of our Anne Rice Immortal Universe and other buzzy and fan-forward series like ‘Orphan Black: Echoes’,” said Ben Davis, EVP of Original Programming for AMC Networks and AMC Studios.
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President Joe Biden issued an executive order intended to mitigate the potential dangers of AI, including tasking the Department of Commerce with developing standards for authentication and watermarking. “Federal agencies will use these tools to make it easy for Americans to know that the communications they receive from the government are authentic — and set an example for the private sector and governments around the world,” said the White House.
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Biden’s not the only pushing for protections. A petition from the Writers Guild of America East is demanding “immediate, good faith negotiations on AI,” with a guarantee that AI protections will be on the table in future bargaining. “We recognize there are ways AI can support our work — but we also know that this technology can introduce factual errors, perpetuate racist biases, compromise data privacy, and diminish our readers’ trust,” says the petition. “We’ve already seen publications make embarrassing fumbles by rushing out AI-generated content, resulting in widespread reputational harm and reader mistrust.” Not to mention concerns about AI replacing union workers. “We cannot allow artificial intelligence to cannibalize the hard work of our journalists,” said Sara David, VP of Online Media at WGAE.
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Seven physicians who treated President John F. Kennedy after he was shot in Dallas on November 22, 1963 are interviewed in “JFK: What the Doctors Saw,” premiering Tuesday, November 14 on Paramount+. “In never-before-seen footage from this reunion, the doctors share in vivid detail their indelible memories of what they did and saw in Trauma Room 1,” said the streamer. “Several of those doctors there that day remain certain that what they saw looked like an entry wound – a bullet hole in JFK’s throat – an observation that contradicts what Americans have been told by numerous official investigations. This revelation would indicate that someone shot the President from the front, challenging the decades-old government narrative that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.”
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“Night Court” actor Richard Moll will be remembered in a Catchy Comedy Network “Night Court” marathon running Saturday, November 4 at 11a-Monday, November 6 at 6a. Moll, who died October 26 at age 80, played bailiff Bull Shannon on the 1984-92 sitcom.
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“NBC Sunday Night Football” averaged 12.5 million viewers and a 3.4 rating among A18-49, down 25% in early figures from the week before…Meanwhile, the season two finale of “The Chosen” on The CW drew 520,000 viewers on Sunday, up 21% week-to-week and its largest audience on the network to date….And it was good news/bad news for ABC’s “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” which delivered a season high 4 million viewers, and season low 0.3 among A18-49.
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TLC ranked as the #1 cable network without sports with P/W25-54/W18-49 on Monday, October 23. “90 Day: The Last Resort” and “90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way” earned 1.55 and 1.29 Live+3 rating respectively among W25-54 and were among the top five primetime cable telecasts on October 23 among W25-54.
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