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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 6/24/24)
COWBOY: Buffalo PRCA Championship Rodeo (Premiere)
FYI: Rachael Ray in Tuscany (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: POV (Premiere) at 10pm
Add NBC, MSNBC, Peacock, NewsNation, Newsmax and Newsmax 2, Telemundo and Scripps News to the list of outlets planning to simulcast CNN’s presidential debate on Thursday, June 27. CBS News, C-SPAN, ABC News, PBS and Fox News already announced plans to air the event, with their own pre- and post-debate coverage.
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Starting “soon,” only Premium subscribers will be able to livestream on X, according to a post on X from the verified @Live account. “This includes going live from an encoder with X integration,” reads the post. Users of the Premium tier pay $8/month.
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Five men have been convicted of operating illicit streaming service Jetflix. Disguised as an aviation company, Jetflix used sophisticated computer scripts and software to search pirate websites, downloading illegal copies of copyrighted materials for a catalog of content larger than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video combined. The five men, Kristopher Dallmann, Douglas Courson, Felipe Garcia, Jared Jaurequi and Peter Huber, were charged in 2019 with conspiring to violate federal criminal copyright law.
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The late game show host Alex Trebek will live forever in the hearts of “Jeopardy!” fans, and now he’s being memorialized on a U.S. forever stamp. “This naturalized U.S. citizen hosted the quiz show ‘Jeopardy!’ for 37 seasons,” reads the stamp, with the response: “Who is Alex Trebek?” The stamp, which coincides with the game show’s 60th anniversary, comes out July 22. Trebek died November 8, 2020, at age 80.
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OWN has renewed “The Never Mets” for a second season. The reality show’s freshman run ranked as Friday night’s #1 original series on ad-supported cable in its time period across all key African American demos, and has been watched by nearly 4 million total viewers to date on the cable network.
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Todd Harthan (“The Resident”) has boarded upcoming ABC medical procedural “High Potential” as executive producer and showrunner. He replaces Rob Thomas, who stepped down.
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Kartoon Studios has big plans for “Winnie-the-Pooh,” including an animated holiday movie, five holiday specials, and a four year/104 episode series, to premiere on Prime Video via Kartoon Channel!’s subscription service. Pre-production has begun on the animated holiday movie, set to premiere December 24, 2025.
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TCLtv+ announced its first AI TV/Film accelerator program, Film Machine, which will provide development, financial and production support to working creatives looking to enhance and elevate their films using AI tools. TCLtv+ is launching the pipeline program to focus on three key problems facing AI filmmakers today: financing, mentorship, and distribution.
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Sam Neill (“Jurassic Park”) will star opposite Eric Bana in Netflix mystery thriller “Untamed.” Neill will play a park ranger in Yosemite.
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ID has three new true crime series on tap. “Bodies in the Water” premieres Monday, July 8 at 10p; “The Black Widower: The Six Wives of Thomas Randolph” runs Monday, July 15 from 9p-12a; and “Family Affairs” arrives Monday, July 22 at 9p.
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Keeping it real: Lifetime is launching two new caught-on-video clip series. “Outrageous Love with NeNe Leakes” premieres Monday, July 1 at 10p with back-to-back half-hour episodes, followed at 11p by “Parents Gone Wild.”
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Six-part docuseries “Mafia Spies” will premiere Tuesday, July 16 on Paramount+. The show chronicles the world of spies, gangsters, honeypots and mistresses that unraveled a hidden conspiracy between the CIA and the Chicago mob to assassinate Fidel Castro during the Cold War.
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AXS TV will celebrate the 4th of July with “All American Country Marathon,” featuring artist profiles and classic concerts, starting at 8a.
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The Stanley Cup Final Game 6 on ESPN averaged 4.2 million total viewers and 1.4 million among P18-49 based on Nielsen fast nationals, up 54% and 24%, respectively, against last year’s Game 5 clincher.
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On Fox, 1.23 million viewers watched Portugal defeat Czechia in Tuesday afternoon’s UEFA European Championship Group Stage match, up 41% from the comparable 2021 match.
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Argentina’s soccer victory over Canada scored 1.056 million viewers for FS1 on Thursday, up 444% from FS1’s 2021 telecast.
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Much-admired television executive Jamie Kellner has died at age 77. Kellner was the founding president of Fox Broadcasting, and former chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting System. “I don’t think there’s another person in the history of TV that can say they helped start two new major broadcast networks (Fox and The WB),” said producer Greg Berlanti. “Jamie Kellner was a titan and a visionary in our industry and yet he will be remembered by anyone lucky enough to work for him as an executive or as a showrunner as a warm, funny, charismatic, creative and kind mentor, friend, husband and Dad.”
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POWERBALL
Today’s Jackpot is $84 million.
Powerball is played in 43 states.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Inside Out 2 – $100 million
Bad Boys: Ride or Die – $18.8 million
The Bikeriders – $10 million
The Garfield Movie – $3.6 million
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – $3.6 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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