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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 6/25/24)
HBO: One South: Portrait of a Psych Unit (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: High Speed Chase (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Late Night Lockup (Premiere) at 10pm
NETFLIX: Kaulitz & Kaulitz (Premiere)
PEACOCK: Tik Tok Star Murders (Premiere)
CW: Police 24/7 (Finale) at 9pm
Today is the 15th Anniversary of Michael Jackson’s Death (8/29/58 – 6/25/09)!! (Tues. 6/25/24)
Hulu has moved up the timing for the season three debut of FX’s “The Bear.” All 10 episodes will now be available exclusively on Hulu at 9p on Wednesday, June 26, three hours sooner than originally scheduled.
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National Geographic greenlit “Jaws @50” (w/t), a feature documentary including footage from the 1975 Steven Spielberg classic, as well as behind-the-scenes stories and new interviews. The film will air next summer as part of Nat Geo’s Sharkfest event.
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Production is underway on the political espionage thriller “The Agency” for Paramount+ with Showtime, with Michael Fassbender (“The Killer”) set as star and executive producer. George Clooney and Grant Heslov will executive produce through their Smokehouse Pictures with Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios. “Michael Fassbender is one of the most gifted actors of our time,” said Chris McCarthy, Paramount Global Co-CEO and President/CEO, Showtime & MTV Entertainment Studios. “He brings a gravitas and nuanced complexity to every character he inhabits which is why we are so excited for him to star in ‘The Agency.’”
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Ricky Cobb has signed on to host a new daily show launching later this summer on OutKick. The program will feature the knowledge of sports and culture he shares on @Super70sSports. “This show makes the natural connection between the deep passion for sports, culture, and humor I’m known for on X with my two-decade background as a college sociology professor,” said Cobb. “The things I’ve prioritized most in my professional life are entertaining people and sparking critical thought and discussion. To do both on a daily basis is nothing less than a dream come true.”
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Lily Santiago (“La Brea”) and Wilson Bethel (“Daredevil”) have joined the cast of Netflix limited series “Untamed,” starring Rosemarie DeWitt and Eric Bana.
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MTV competition series “The Challenge” kicks off season 40 on Wednesday, August 14 at 8p with “The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras,” featuring a roster of former competitors giving it another go.
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Skeletons in the closet, anyone? OWN docuseries “Family Empire: Houston” debuts Friday, July 5 at 8p, promising conflicts and secrets.
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Nat Geo’s Sharkfest stunt launches Sunday, June 30 with “Shark Beach with Anthony Mackie: Gulf Coast” at 9p, and “Shark vs. Ross Edgeley” at 10p.
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A daylong event on September 7, “MSNBC Live: Democracy 2024,” will bring together network talent at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Luke Russert will moderate two sessions, followed by a dinner and a reception.
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TheGrio will offer coverage of CNN’s Presidential Debate on Thursday, June 27 beginning at 8:30p on theGrio Television Network and theGrio FAST Channel on Local Now.
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NBC’s annual “Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks” special will be hosted by country artist Mickey Guyton and Zuri Hall (“Access Hollywood”). No surprise that the show will air on Thursday, July 4 from 8-10p, but this year the fireworks will launch from barges along the Hudson River, instead of the East River, where they launched for the past nine years. The show will also feature a never-before-seen firework, a silver cascading burst with a center kaleidoscope and alternating red and blue.
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The Recording Industry Association of America and US record labelsincluding Sony Music Entertainment, UMG Recordings and Warner Records have filed lawsuits against AI music generators Suno and Idio for copyright infringement. RIAA chief legal officer Ken Doroshow said the lawsuits are necessary to “reinforce the most basic rules of the road for the responsible, ethical, and lawful development of generative AI systems.” Suno AI CEO responded to the legal effort with a statement saying that the technology is “designed to generate completely new outputs, not to memorize and regurgitate pre-existing content” and doesn’t allow users to reference specific artists.
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Multiple AI companies are bypassing a common web standard used by publishers to block the scraping of their content, according to content licensing startup TollBit. Reuters reports that in a letter to publishers, TollBit said “numerous” AI agents appear to be ignoring protocol robots.txt. “What this means in practical terms is that AI agents from multiple sources (not just one company) are opting to bypass the robots.txt protocol to retrieve content from sites,” wrote TollBit, without naming the companies. “The more publisher logs we ingest, the more this pattern emerges.”
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Paramount Global is raising the price of Paramount+ with Showtime by $1, to $12.99/month, the price of the Paramount+ Essential plan by $2, to $7.99/ month, and upping the Paramount+ Limited Commercial Plan by $1, to $7.99 (with some differences between existing and new subscribers). It’s a trend – Max recently raised its prices, and Peacock will next month.
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Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final delivered an average audience of 9.7 million viewers across North America (ABC/ESPN platforms/CBC/SN/TVA Sports), making it the most-watched Stanley Cup Playoff game since 2019.
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The season premiere of Discovery Channel’s “Expedition Unknown” delivered more than 2.1 million viewers and tied with the 2020 season premiere as the highest-rated season premiere ever for the series. Among A25-54, the episode ranked as Wednesday night’s #1 cable telecast, excluding sports, and earned a .84 Live+3 rating, up 8% over the prior season premiere and a 282% improvement over the prior six-week timeslot average in the demo.
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Thursday’s UEFA European Championship Group Stage match on Foxdrew a US audience of 1.8M viewers, up 95% from the equivalent match in 2021, which was Netherlands vs. Austria with an audience of 926,000.
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Russell Morash, creator of WGBH series “This Old House” and longtime Julia Child collaborator, died June 20. He was 88. “As we celebrate the life of Russ Morash, we reflect on the legacy he leaves at GBH, public media and beyond,” said Susan Goldberg, President and CEO of GBH. “His commitment to innovation and to the audience defines our work to this day.”
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