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FOOD NETWORK: Bobby Flay: Holiday Throwdown (Premiere) at 9pm
HGTV: Fixer to Fabulous (Premiere) at 8pm
HISTORY: The Curse of Oak Island (Premiere) at 9pm
PARAMOUNT+: De La Calle (Premiere)
TBS: Wipeout (Premiere) at 9pm
CBS News and Stations is battling misinformation with a new initiative, CBS Confirmed. Rolling out over the next several months, the effort will tackle AI-generated fake news with “a team of highly skilled journalists and the latest technology and reporting techniques to fact-check questionable videos and reports,” said CBS News & Stations CEO Wendy McMahon.
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Dr. Phil McGraw is ready for his next chapter. The executive producer and host of talker “Dr. Phil,” which ended its 21-season run in May, announced the launch of a new cable network. Anchored by “Dr. Phil Primetime,” Merit Street Media is set to premiere on Monday, February 26. “I absolutely love talking to real people about real problems. People who aren’t just complaining but are actively looking for real solutions to better their lives,” said McGraw. “As always, the audience will dictate our content because they are our content.”
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FX’s Hulu hit “The Bear” has been renewed for a third season, set to premiere in 2024. “’The Bear,’ which wowed audiences in its first season only to achieve even greater heights in season two, has become a cultural phenomenon,” said Nick Grad, President, FX Entertainment. “We’re so proud to partner with Christopher Storer, Joanna Calo, Josh Senior, and the rest of the creative team, as well as the brilliant cast led by Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. What they and the crew have done is truly remarkable.”
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KOTV and Endemol Shine North America have agreed to a deal to executive produce “Boundary Pond,” a thriller adapted for television from the novel, Boundary, by author Andrée A. Michaud. Louis Choquette (“Mafiosa”) is attached as the series showrunner and director.
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Slim Goodbody, who taught a generation of kids about the human body in the 1970s and 1980s, will educate a new generation of children through an animated series in development with animation production company Luminous Blue Limited. The series will feature adventure-based characters that explore global health and wellness topics in a fun and relatable way.
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Atlas Media Corp has closed a deal to option Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral by Ben Smith and turn it into a docuseries. Traffic tells the story of how, in the Wild West early days of digital/social media, a handful of brilliant, quirky innovators raced to harness the powers of the internet to create billion-dollar businesses driven by viral content.
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OUTtv has commissioned three documentaries: “Our Gay Family” (Firestarter Productions) as part of the service’s OUTspoken documentary strand; three-part series “The Last American Gay Bar” (Kristian Day Media and Daylite Pictures), and 45-minute one-off program “Escape to Paradise” (Producer Entertainment Group).
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Discovery’s “The Garden: Commune or Cult” pulls back the curtain on an infamous off-the-grid community. To gain access, the crew from Hot Snakes Media embedded themselves into the group for ten grueling days.
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Netflix has renewed reality show “The Circle” for seasons six and seven. Filming of the Studio Lambert format, which has contestants isolated and communicating only via a social media app, has moved from the UK to Atlanta.
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“Good Trouble” returns to Freeform for its season five midseason debut on Tuesday, January 2 at 10p. Also coming to Freeform in the new year is new unscripted series “Chrissy & Dave Dine Out,” starring Chrissy Teigen and David Chang, on Wednesday, January 24 at 10p.
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Trivia quiz show “The Floor,” hosted by Rob Lowe, premieres Tuesday, January 2 on Fox. The battle of brains from producer Jon de Mol (“Big Brother”) will have a prize of $250,000.
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Telemundo’s “El Doctor del Pueblo” kicks off Sunday, November 19 at 10p. The new series follows the deeds of a miraculous doctor, with stories that reflect of the reality and conflicts of the Hispanic population. Also on Telemundo, season nine of “El Senor de los Cielos” is set to launch in February, as drug lord Aurelio Casillas unleashes a wave of violence as he seeks revenge for his son’s arrest.
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HBO Original docuseries “Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage, and Reckoning” debuts Monday, December 4 at 9p. The three-parter tells the story of a 1989 homicide and the explosive aftermath.
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The six remaining couples on “Dancing with the Stars” will spin to Taylor Swift tunes on Tuesday, November 21 at 8p. Longtime “DWTS” choreographer and lead choreographer of the Taylor Swift The Eras Tour, Mandy Moore, is onboard as special guest judge, and fans will be able to vote during the live simulcast of the show in the EST/CST time zones.
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“The Cost of Inheritance: An American ReFramed Special” has its broadcast premiere on January 8 at 10p on PBS (check local listings), and launch on WORLD on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, January 15 at 8p. The one-hour film traces the nation’s legacy of systemic inequities to modern-day America.
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The Weather Channel dives into “Deep Water Week” November 13-19, with daily episodes starting at 8p of series like “Search Party with Brandon Jordan,” “High Arctic Haulers” and “Lords of the Ocean,” along with marathons of “Deep Water Salvage” on Saturday, November 8 and Sunday, November 19 from 1p-7p.
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“Aquaman” Jason Momoa will return to host NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” on November 18 with musical guest Tate McRae. Momoa hosted in 2018; it’s Canadian singer McRae’s first appearance.
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An Entertainment Tonight news special, “VH1 & ET Present Matthew Perry: Life and Legacy,” airs tonight, November 7 at 7:30p on VH1.
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Turner Classic Movies will celebrate the life of documentary filmmakerNancy Buirski with a special night of programming hosted by TCM’s Dave Karger on November 27 at 8p. Buirski, who passed away at the age of 78 on August 29, founded the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in 1998 at Duke University and directed it for a decade.
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Walmart and NBCUniversal announced a new commerce partnershipthat allows Bravo fans to shop directly from the retailer while tuning in to Bravo’s “Below Deck Mediterranean” season 8 the next day on Peacock. On certain dates, customers will be able to browse Walmart products inspired by those crew members and guests use. The shoppable episodes will air on Peacock November 7, December 5 and December 12. When customers find something they like during an ad break, they can press arrows on the remote to browse the interactive onscreen product carousel and scan a QR code to checkout on Walmart.com.
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“NBC Sunday Night Football” averaged 14.9 million viewers and a 3.8rating among A18-49, up 19% and 12%, respectively, from last week. Over at The CW, the season three premiere of acquired series “The Chosen” matched highs with 547,000 and 0.1 rating.
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The season one finale of TLC’s “90 Day: The Last Resort” earned a 1.52 W25-54 Live+3 rating. The series is cable’s #1 freshman series of the year to date with P/W25-54/18-49 & W18-34, averaging a 1.58 rating among W25-54 and garnering a total of 1.7 million P2+ viewers.
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Food Network’s “Halloween Baking Championship” reached more than 15 million viewers across Food Network/Max/Discovery+. Ratings averaged 0.86 among P18+ and 1.24 among W18+, up 32% and 63%, respectively, over prior six-week Live+3 benchmarks. “Halloween Wars” reached more than 11.9 million viewers, averaging 0.64 among P25-54 and 0.87 among W25-54, up +33% and +39%.
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