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CBS renewed drama “Fire Country” for a third season, and comedy “Ghosts” for a fourth. “Fire Country” is averaging 9.21 million viewers in live 7-day multiplatform viewing, up +7% from last year, and “Ghosts” is averaging 10 million.
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In comments filed with Federal Trade Commission, the Association of National Advertisers protested an FTC proposal that would require opt-in consent from parents before websites and apps could serve behaviorally targeted ads to children under age 13. “Unnecessary and overly burdensome parental consent requirements hinder children’s access to online products and services,” said the ANA. “Burdensome requirements cause consent fatigue rather than providing parents with meaningful control over personal information associated with children.” In December, the FTC issued a proposal to update the 24-year-old Children’s Online Privacy Act, last updated in 2013.
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Let’s make a deal: Apollo Global Management has reached out to Paramount Global about buying all or some of its holdings, reports Axios. The private equity firm would face competition from Byron Allen and Skydance Media, who have also been circling.
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CBS will broadcast the 51st Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday, June 7 at 8p, from LA’s Westin Bonaventure. It’s the net’s 18th turn airing the ceremony.
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Rob McElhenney has launched More Better Industries, a film, television and multimedia company that includes McElhenney’s More Better Productions (“Welcome to Wrexham”), More Better Advisory and More Better Ventures. Jackie Cohn, who previously ran Red Hour, will head the new outfit.
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Talpa (“The Floor”) has teamed with survival expert Bear Grylls and his Natural Studios and Bunim/Murray Productions for European format “No Way Back.” “You mix adventure, hard cash and even harder decision making under pressure and you have the ingredients for drama,” said Grylls. “I’m excited and proud to be bringing this show to new territories and reminding global audiences that the wild takes away, but it also rewards.”
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Writer/producer Beau DeMayo has been let go from “X-Men 97,” the Disney+ series he created. The Marvel Studios production debuts Wednesday, March 20.
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Psychological thriller “Fear,” following a couple whose dream home turns out to be anything but, landed a green light from Prime Video. The series comes from Wild Mercury and Capricorn Productions.
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Scholastic, the children’s publishing, education and media company,has signed a definitive agreement to invest in 9 Story Media Group. Scholastic will acquire 100% of the economic interest in and a minority of voting rights in 9 Story. “At its core, Scholastic’s 360° content creation strategy is about engaging children with reading, and we have introduced our stories to generations of kids by reaching them where they are,” said Peter Warwick, Scholastic President and CEO. “We are thrilled to build upon our more than 20-year relationship with 9 Story’s exceptional management team and employees, whose culture and values could not be better aligned with our own.”
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Owen Wilson (“Wedding Crashers”) is set to star in and executive produce a comedy for Apple TV+. Wilson will play an over-the-hill golfer in an untitled series from Jason Keller (“Ford v Ferrari”). Apple Studios is producing.
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Medical transformation series “Take My Tumor,” featuring three doctors removing tumors from patients with extreme cases, debuts Wednesday, April 3 at 10p on TLC.
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ID has expanded its partnership with executive producer Holly Madison with “Lethally Blonde,” premiering Monday, March 25 at 10p. In the series, Hugh Hefner ex Madison introduces viewers to starry-eyed aspirants who find themselves in a dark world that exploits their sexuality.
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The US broadcast TV premiere of drama series “The Porter,” inspired by the early days of the formation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, is set for Tuesday, May 1 on select public TV stations (check local listings). The eight-episode series stars Aml Ameen (“Sense8”), Ronnie Rowe (“Star Trek: Discovery”) and Alfre Woodard (“Black Panther”).
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“Breaking the Magician’s Code: Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed” premieres Monday, March 18 at 9p on Reelz. In the three-parter, “The Masked Magician” discloses industry tricks.
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“The Truth vs. Alex Jones,” directed by filmmaker Dan Reed ( “Four Hours at the Capitol”) debuts Tuesday, March 26 at 9p on HBO. The doc chronicles the courtroom drama of two defamation lawsuits brought by Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims’ families against Alex Jones and his website, InfoWars.
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Slime time: The “Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards 2024” will air Saturday, July 13 at 8p, returning after over a decade to Pauley Pavilion on the campus of UCLA.
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New Line’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1975 bestselling novelSalem’s Lot debuts on Max in 2024. The story follows author Ben Mears as he returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book, only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.
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Amazon is facing a class-action lawsuit from two Prime Video users.The complaint: Amazon Services allegedly regularly discloses personally identifiable information to its parent company, Amazon Inc., as well as users’ personally identifiable information non-Amazon affiliated parties for audience measurement purposes and market research. “Amazon Services – the video service provider for United States Amazon Prime Video consumers – does not comply, and has never complied, with the VPPA’s requirements for informed written consent,” reads the suit.
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Roku revealed that over 15,000 accounts were compromised in a data breach between December 28, 2023 and February 21, 2024. “Unauthorized actors separately obtained, from third-party sources that are unrelated to Roku, login information (combinations of sign-in email addresses and passwords) that they then used to access certain individual Roku accounts,” said a letter to Roku customers. The company did have some good news: “Access to the affected Roku accounts did not provide the unauthorized actors with access to social security numbers, full payment account numbers, dates of birth, or other similar sensitive personal information requiring notification.”
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ABC’s Oscars telecast drew an four-year high of 19.5 million total viewers, and scored a 3.81 rating among A18-49 based on Fast National Live+Same Day program data.
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During the week of March 4, Telemundo’s “La Casa de los Famosos” and “El Señor de los Cielos” delivered an average of 383,000 A8-49, 137,000 A18-34 and over 1.2 million total viewers in 7p-11p primetime.
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