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APPLE TV+: Trying (Premiere)
BET: Sistas (Premiere) at 9pm
FOX: Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars (Premiere) at 9pm
HULU: Chief Detective (Premiere)
MAGNOLIA: Happy to Be Home (Premiere) at 8pm
NETFLIX: Toughest Forces on Earth (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Buying London (Premiere)
ABC: Jeopardy! Masters (Finale) at 8pm
ABC: Abbott Elementary (Finale) at 9pm
ABC: The Conners (Finale) at 9:30pm
CBS: Survivor (Finale) at 8pm
FOX: The Masked Singer (Finale) at 8pm
NBC: Chicago Med (Finale) at 8pm
NBC: Chicago Fire (Finale) at 9pm
NBC: Chicago P.D. (Finale) at 10pm
Comcast bundle StreamSaver, including AppleTV+, Netflix Standard with ads, and Peacock Premium, will be priced at $15/month and launch next week to Xfinity customers. “StreamSaver is a homerun for consumers who want top-tier entertainment and live sports, and for our world-class partners Peacock, Netflix and Apple who benefit from the reach and depth of our entertainment platforms and Xfinity’s marketing engine,” said Dave Watson, CEO of Connectivity and Platforms, Comcast. “StreamSaver also reinforces the value of our broadband products, offering customers new ways to save money on streaming entertainment.”
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NBC is ahead of the game for the 50th anniversary season of “Saturday Night Live,” having already lined up Allstate, L’Oreal Groupe, T-Mobile, and Volkswagen of America as presenting sponsors. The brands will offer custom content and experiences across NBCUniversal’s portfolio. “‘Saturday Night Live’ is a cultural institution that has been etched into NBCUniversal’s storied history,” said Mark Marshall, Chairman, NBCUniversal Global Advertising & Partnerships. “For five decades, ‘SNL’ has been one of the most desired properties for marketers, and we are thrilled to have these Presenting Sponsors join us for the 50th anniversary season as we honor this iconic show.”
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Freevee canceled “Primo” after one season. The coming-of-age comedy from Shea Serrano and Mike Schur followed a family in San Antonio, Texas.
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On the flip side, Netflix renewed comedy “Tires” for season two ahead of its May 23 season one premiere. Stand-up comedian Shane Gillis serves as writer, co-creator and executive producer. Netflix also renewed docuseries “Worst Roommate Ever,” which premiered in 2022, for a second run.
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The 67th Annual Grammy Awards have been set for Sunday, February 2 at 8p on CBS. Nominees will be announced November 8.
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A+E Media Group and Raw (“The Tinder Swindler”) are teaming for “Influence,” a thriller series about man who has made his family an international brand, then must reckon with his past when his daughter is kidnapped. Thomas Martin (“Ripper Street”), who is writing, said, “The inspiration for ‘Influence’ came when a friend lost his job and confided in me about a deep fear of how his family would see him now that his success was gone, and his need to rapidly regain that status. I recently became a father myself so while ‘Influence’ is a fun and exciting mystery thriller — it’s also an exploration of the pressures, challenges and anxieties of being a man and a father in a rapidly changing world.” Executive producers are Sara Murray and Dimitri Doganis for Raw; and Patrick Vien, Alexandra Finlay, and Hannah Dal Pozzo for A+E Media Group.
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Holly Hunter will star in upcoming Paramount+ series “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,” following the adventures of a new class of Starfleet cadets. Produced by CBS Studios, the series begins production later this summer. “It feels like we’ve spent our entire lives watching Holly Hunter be a stone-cold genius,” said co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau. “To have her extraordinary authenticity, fearlessness, sense of humor, and across the board brilliance leading the charge on ‘Starfleet Academy’ is a gift to all of us, and to the enduring legacy of ‘Star Trek’.”
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HGTV ordered a six-episode second season of ratings winner “Ugliest House in America,” and greenlighted a four-episode spin-off, “Scariest House in America.” Both series will star actress and comedian Retta as she tours properties nominated by homeowners who believe their place is one of the ugliest, or scariest, in the country. Both shows are produced by Big Fish Entertainment.
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Fabel Entertainment (“Bosch”) and No Fat Ego are teaming to develop and produce a scripted series focused on the Adidas family. Both production companies have also partnered with AD Legacy – the company set up by founder Adi Dassler’s grandchildren – and historians at Adidas to accurately depict the multi-layered family story.
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World of Warships, the naval battle MMO video game, and FORCE BLUE, a marine conservation and NAVY veteran non-profit organization, are teaming for documentary “Frog Fathers: Lessons from the Normandy Surf.” The film delves into the heroic journey of the Naval Combat Demolition Units, aka the Navy SEALS.
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Former Spotify exec Justin McGoldrick has launched Sound Picture, a television and film production company for intellectual property adaptations that aims to work with creators to adapt their audio work into a visual medium. At launch, Sound Picture has signed several projects from studios including Hyperobject Industries, LAist Studios, Kaleidoscope, and Project Brazen.
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Natural history series “Mammals,” hosted by Sir David Attenborough,premieres Saturday, July 13 on BBC America. Over six episodes and a behind-the-scenes special, viewers will get to see how mammals have taken advantage of every major environment on earth.
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“Blue Ridge” makes its cable premiere on INSP on Sunday, July 28 at 9p. Jonathan Schaech (“DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) reprises his role as Sheriff Justin Wise from the 2020 movie, “Blue Ridge.” The six-episode crime drama follows a modern Western hero endeavoring to uphold the law while living in a small Appalachian town. “This new series builds on the film’s original storylines,” said Doug Butts, EVP of Programming for INSP. “Johnathon’s role has been expanded significantly, and his performance is exceptional. We believe the stories will resonate well with the INSP audience and even draw new viewers to the network who love watching crime procedurals.”
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The final season of “Evil” drops tomorrow, May 23 on Paramount+. Over the course of the season, Kristen, David and Ben assess cases that involve wayward technology, possessed pigs, demonic oppression and infestation, a dance muse conjured by alleged witches and an evil relic.
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Docuseries “Ren Faire” debuts Sunday, June 2 at 9p on HBO. The three-parter goes behind the curtain of the famed Texas Renaissance Festival to reveal a tense and comical succession drama.
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Season three of HBO’s “Industry” debuts Sunday, August 11 at 9p. The banking drama will follow Pierpoint as it takes a big bet on ethical investing.
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“Battleground,” a political initiative launched Tuesday by FOX First Run as a newsletter, will have its linear broadcast debut on Monday, June 10. The show has clearances on all of the FOX Television owned-and-operated stations, and Bahakel Communications, Ltd’s CW 18 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 30-minute program will air on Mondays for nine weeks, before expanding to five days a week on August 12. “In what is shaping up to be a record political advertising year in local media, this initiative positions us to reap the benefits of exuberant spending on all sides,” said Stephen Brown, EVP of Programming and Development for Fox Television Stations and Fox First Run. “Our offering is unique in that local media, the newspapers, television, and radio stations, are ingrained in these communities and thus, can provide a deeper, more nuanced understanding of how voters will decide this election in each of those states.”
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“Blue Lights” returns to BritBox on Thursday, June 13, and “The Responder” is back Thursday, July 11. Season two of “Trigger Point” kicks off in September.
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Apple TV+ has acquired season two of multilingual French-Japanese drama “Drops of God” from Legendary Entertainment. The show is adapted from the bestselling Japanese manga series.
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Season one of Irish/Canadian/Belgian crime drama “Hidden Assets” hits Global and STACKTV beginning Wednesday, June 5 at 9p.
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Two-part docuseries “How Music Got Free” premieres on Paramount+ on Tuesday, June 11. From executive producers Marshall “Eminem” Mathers, LeBron James, Maverick Carter, Paul Rosenberg and Steve Stoute and produced by Warner Bros. Unscripted Television/Telepictures in association with SpringHill, Interscope Films and Shady Films, the show details the inside story of the technology-driven disruption that changed music during the late-90s and early-2000s.
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Action thriller “RSVP,” following an aspiring writer who attends a deadly dinner party, will launch on BET later this month. Natasha Marc (“Mayor of Kingstown”) and Robert Ri-chard (“Coach Carter”) star.
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The season three finale of CBS’ “CSI: Vegas” drew a series high 4.8 million viewers. The procedural was canceled last month, leaving fans with cliffhangers that it appears will remain unresolved.
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CBS has bragging rights with “60 Minutes” – the show can count 50 straight seasons as the #1 news show in America. The 56th season of “60 Minutes” reached more than 100 million viewers.
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Sports platform OutKick finished April with 24 million total multiplatform views and 22 million total multiplatform minutes. The platform also garnered over 5.3 million total multiplatform unique visitors, according to Comscore.
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