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Former NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. is leaving his role as an NBC analyst and joining Prime Video and Warner Bros. Discovery in 2025, when they begin teaming on NASCAR coverage. “Dale Earnhardt Jr. is beloved in the NASCAR world and has made numerous contributions to NBC Sports, from his work as an analyst on our NASCAR coverage to his experiences as a correspondent at major events like the Indianapolis 500, the Kentucky Derby, the Super Bowl and the Olympics,” said an NBC Sports spokesperson in a statement to The Athletic. “We thank Dale and we wish him the best going forward.” Earnhardt joined NBC in 2018, after retiring from racing.
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“Vanderpump Rules” alum Rachel Leviss is suing her former reality show castmates Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix for eavesdropping, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Leviss claims the show’s portrayal of her affair with Sandoval behind his long-time girlfriend Madix’s back “caused mayhem in Leviss’s life, culminating in months-long in-patient treatment at a mental health facility and her departure from the show. Fomented by Bravo and Evolution in conjunction with the cast, Leviss was subjected to a public skewering with little precedent and became, without exaggeration, one of the most hated women in America.” Leviss alleges she was misled by Bravo and producer Evolution Media into thinking she was “contractually barred from speaking out about her mistreatment,” and is demanding that an NSFW video of her and Sandoval be destroyed.
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Netflix ordered its first procedural medical drama series, “Pulse,” from creator, showrunner and executive producer Zoe Robyn and showrunner and EP Carlton Cuse. Justina Machado (“The Horrors of Dolores Roach”) is the first series regular to be cast.
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PBS’ Masterpiece series “Miss Scarlet and the Duke” will be renamed “Miss Scarlet” for season five, as Stuart Martin, who played William “The Duke” Wellington, exits the show. “I will miss working with my pal Stu every day, and know Eliza will miss her Duke, but I think the best is yet to come for her,” said Kate Phillips, who will return as crime-solving Scarlet. Filming is underway in Serbia.
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Paramount+ ordered a new series in the “NCIS” franchise, starring Cote de Pablo and Michael Weatherly, who will reprise their roles as Ziva David and Tony DiNozzo. The two also will serve as executive producers alongside John McNamara (“The Magicians”), who wrote the premiere episode and will serve as showrunner. Laurie Lieser, Christina Strain and Shelley Meals also will executive produce and the series will be distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.
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Starz drama “BMF,” which has its season three premiere today, has been renewed for season four. “Fans can’t get enough of the history in the making that is ‘BMF’,” said Kathryn Busby, President of Programming for Starz. “We’re thrilled to start working on a new season that will continue bold storytelling of the legend of the Flenory brothers that has proven to resonate so deeply with our viewers.”
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Lauren Holly (“Picket Fences”) and Bruce Boxleitner (“Babylon 5”) will star in Great American Family film “Aurora Christmas,” opposite Jill Wagner and Jesse Hutch.
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NBCU Launch, home of inclusion efforts across NBCUniversal’s entertainment television portfolio, announced the eight members of the 2024-25 class of its NBC TV Writers Program: Bryce Cracknell, Domonic Diaz-Smith, Bixby Elliot, Helen Fernandez, Maia Henkin, Neda Jebelli, David Loong and Sebastián Rea. Congrats!
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Disney Entertainment Television is also giving a boost to emerging talent. Participants in its Directing Program include Erica Eng, Nina Kramer and Aubrey Smyth (“General Hospital”); Haley Elizabeth Anderson (“The Chi”); Letia Solomon (“Station 19”); and Tracy Taylor (“The Good Doctor”). The DET Writing Program includes comedy writers Sarah Beth Ballard, Jordan Crawford, Paloma Lamb, Naomi Lambert, Mahtub Zare Mochanloo, Elisa Oh and Jorge Thomson; and drama writers Letícia Ayroza, Derek Cioch, Isabel E., Jordan Goodman, Jaleese Ramos, Antoine Perry and Rance Ward. Sarah Beth Ballard has been selected as the fifth annual Eunetta T. Boone Comedy Writers Scholar, and Rance Ward has been selected as the inaugural FX Singleton Scholar.
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Optimum is sponsoring over 60 teams for the 2024 FIRST® Robotics Competition season, which provides students with mentor-based programs to build science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills. This year, Optimum will also be sponsoring six regional competitions across its footprint, including FIRST Long Island, Mid Atlantic, North Carolina, Texas, NYC, and the Hudson.
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Max docuseries “Justice, USA” debuts with two episodes Thursday, March 14, followed by two new episodes weekly, concluding on March 28. The six-parter offers an insider’s view of Nashville’s criminal justice system, as inmates, deputies, lawyers, and judges confront issues of incarceration, mental illness, and addiction.
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All eight episodes of the third and final season of “Alex Rider” drop Friday, April 5 on Amazon Freevee. The series is based on the books by Anthony Horowitz about a teenager who has been trained since childhood to be a spy.
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Season two of “Superkitties” will debut Friday, April 5 at 9:30a on Disney Junior and 2p on Disney Channel.
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Cooking competition “24 in 24: Last Chef Standing” premieres Sunday, April 14 at 8p on Food Network. Michael Symon and Esther Choi host as 24 chefs take on 24 food challenges in 24 hours.
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“Friends in Low Places,” a docuseries from country stars Garth Brooks and his wife Trisha Yearwood, debuts Thursday, March 7 on Prime Video. The show follows the couple, along with some friends, as they build a honky-tonk in Nashville.
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Renovating a home on schedule and within budget? That’s the focus of “Design Goals,” a new series premiering on Magnolia Network Saturday, March 23 at 2p.
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Season four of theGrio’s “Masters of the Game” premieres Friday, March 29 at 8p, with guest Jeffrey Wright (“American Fiction”).
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Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Dubai” is back for a sophomore run on Sunday, June 2 at 9p. Beginning Tuesday, June 11, the series will move to its regular timeslot of Tuesdays at 9p.
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“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” detective Olivia Benson, the longest-running female character on primetime TV, will be celebrated with an immersive exhibit at NYC’s Rockefeller Plaza dedicated to Benson and the show, now in its 25th season. The experience takes place March 14 and 15, and will include trivia, merch, giveaways and more.
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The 2024 MTV EMAs will take place in Manchester, UK on Sunday, November 10. The show will also be available in multiple territories on Pluto TV and on-demand on Paramount+.
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Stand-up special “Brian Simpson: Live from the Mothership” debuts Tuesday, March 19 on Netflix. The special is the first to be shot at Joe Rogan’s Austin comedy venue, The Comedy Mothership.
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ElectricNOW, Electric Entertainment’s OTT app and FAST channel, and Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Comet have collaborated to televise the 51st Annual Saturn Awards which took place on Sunday, February 4. The award ceremony will air on Comet on Saturday, March 2 at 10p, with an encore presentation later in the month.
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President Biden issued an executive order asking the Department of Justice to prevent Americans’ personal data from being transferred to China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela. The President’s Executive Order focuses on information including genomic data, biometric retail data, personal health data, geolocation data, financial data, and “certain kinds of personally identifiable information,” said the White House. “Companies are collecting more of Americans’ data than ever before, and it is often legally sold and resold through data brokers,” noted the statement. “Commercial data brokers and other companies can sell this data to countries of concern, or entities controlled by those countries, and it can land in the hands of foreign intelligence services, militaries, or companies controlled by foreign governments.”
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The second episode of CBS’ “Tracker” drew 12.9 million viewers in Live+7 data, up from 6.9 million for the same-day audience. Episode three of the Sunday freshman drama delivered 7.1 million same-day viewers.
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Hallmark Channel needs no persuasion – its Loveuary programming event, which featured four original movies inspired by Jane Austen’s beloved work, was a hit. The stunt made Hallmark Channel the #1 most-watched entertainment cable network in Weekend Primetime among W18+ throughout the entire event in Live+SD Nielsens, and #2 with Households, Total Viewers, and P18+. The network was the #2 most-watched entertainment cable network in Total Day and Weekend Total Day among Households, Total Viewers, and W18+, reaching 19 million Unduplicated Total Viewers.
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Telemundo’s “En Casa con Telemundo” delivered an average 136,000 viewers A18-49 the week of February 19. The show also saw +22% growth within the A35-49 demo compared to the prior week, the highest delivery in the demo this year to date.
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MOVIES
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