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STARZ: Hightown (Premiere) at 9pm
(SATURDAY 1/27/24)
NETFLIX: Dr. Slump (Premiere)
OWN: Love & Marriage D.C. (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Dakota Johnson, Musical Guest: Justin Timberlake (Premiere) at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 1/28/24)
CNN: The Many Lives of Martha Stewart at 9pm
FOX: Next Level Chef at 10pm
Amid reports that Paramount Global could be up for sale, CEO Bob Bakish urged employees to hunker down and focus on execution. “We’re a storied public company in a closely followed industry,” Bakish said in a memo to staff. “But I have always believed the best thing we can do is concentrate on what we can control — execution. Leaning into what’s working while continually adjusting to current realities.” But layoffs are in store. “These decisions are never easy, but are essential on our path to earnings growth,“ he said. “We will continue to be as thoughtful as we can be, communicate when there is information to share and support our teams throughout.”
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Prime Video has picked up “The Baxters,” starring Roma Downey (“Touched by an Angel”) and Ted McGinley (“Married…With Children”). The family drama is produced by Downey and Mark Burnett-founded LightWorkers Media, which is owned by Amazon MGM Studios.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Directors Guild of America managed to secure additional gains in its agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which was ratified back in June. Changes include a bonus for directors whose shows contribute significant viewing for streamers, and access to the same viewing data that the WGA negotiated.
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Merit Street Media, the cable network from Dr. Phil McGraw launching next month, will kick off with two live news shows. “Morning on Merit Street” will air weekdays at 8a, while “The News on Merit Street” is scheduled for 7p. Previously announced “Dr. Phil Primetime” is set for weeknights at 8p.
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TV series up for ACE Eddie Awards, honoring editors, include episodes of “Ashoka,” “The Last of Us,” “Slow Horses,” “Succession,” “Frasier,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “The Upshaws,” “Barry,” “The Bear,” “Only Murders in the Building,” and “Ted Lasso.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Prime Video greenlit “The Money Game,” following the 2023-24 athletic season inside LSU Athletics. The docuseries follows, in real time, a turning point in the NCAA upon policy changes on name, image, and likeness rights. The show comes from Campfire Studios, Axios Entertainment, and Shaquille O’Neal’s Jersey Legends, a division of Authentic Studios.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Quintus Studios has greenlit a Quintus Original factual co-production project. “Enter At Your Own Risk” (w/t) will take viewers to some of the world’s most exotic but dangerous locations.
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ABC’s hidden camera series “What Would You Do?” returns for season 16 on Sunday, February 18 at 10p. In the premiere, bystanders grapple with a schoolteacher’s side hustle on an adult-content site, objections to immigrants applying for work at a local coffee shop, and a deli staffer dealing with a rude customer.
(Source: Cynopsis)
“Vegas: The Story of Sin City” premieres Sunday, February 25 at 10p on CNN. The series follows 70 years of America’s cultural maturation through the lens of Las Vegas, featuring the entertainment acts, entrepreneurs, and mafia figures that put it on the map.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season four of INSP western drama “Into the Wild Frontier” kicks off Sunday, March 24 at 6p. The season is comprised of seven episodes.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The sophomore run of Adult Swim animated comedy “Royal Crackers”starts Thursday, February 29 at midnight. The debut season was the most-watched Adult Swim original series of 2023.
(Source: Cynopsis)
FOX News contributor, and former professional wrestler, Tyrus, will host OutKick series, “Maintaining with Tyrus.” The first episode launches Thursday, February 1, with guests Piers Morgan, Wolf of Wall Street inspiration Jordan Belfort and “How America Works” host Mike Rowe.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Microsoft is laying off 1,900 employees out of the 22,000 in its gaming workforce this week. Most of the roles affected are at Activision Blizzard, but some employees at Xbox and ZeniMax will also be hit. As the layoffs proceed, Blizzard President Mike Ybarra, is stepping down. “Mike previously spent more than 20 years at Microsoft. Now that he has seen the acquisition through as Blizzard’s president, he has decided to leave the company,” said Microsoft’s Game Content and Studios President, Matt Booty, in an internal memo.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Max documentary “They Called Him Mostly Harmless,” from corporate sib Investigation Discovery, debuts Thursday, February 8 on the streamer. The film follows the search for the identity of a hiker found dead in the Florida wilderness.
(Source: Cynopsis)
UK factual indie Blink Films is producing a doc for PBS’s NOVA strand, based on new revelations about the giant stone heads of Easter Island. “Easter Island Origins” will premiere Wednesday, February 7 at 9pon PBS.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Super Bowl’s not the only game in town on Sunday, February 11. Antenna TV is running a day-long “Designing Women Super Belle Sunday II,” starting at 5 a. Antenna’s also got plans for February 14, Valentine’s Day, with an “I Dream of Jeannie” marathon kicking off at 1p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MeTV’s Valentine’s Day programming includes romantic episodes from classic shows like “The Andy Griffith Show” and “The Brady Bunch,” airing from noon-6:30p.
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Peacock scored an estimated 2.8 million new subscribers with its exclusive coverage of the AFC Wild Card Game, according to Antenna. The Chiefs-Dolphins match-up was the single biggest subscriber event measured. Comcast CEO Brian Roberts deemed the game “a very proud moment in internet history.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Primetime coverage of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary averaged 6 million viewers. FOX News’ coverage made FNC second in overall primetime television, behind only CBS, with an average 3.26 million viewers, versus 1.94 million for MSNBC and 994,000 for CNN.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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