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ABC: Press Your Luck (Premiere) at 8pm
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Hulu’s “Shogun” scored 25 Emmy nominations yesterday, more than any other series. FX’s “The Bear” came close with 23, a record for the comedy category. Other big winners included Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” (21), HBO’s “True Detective: Night Country” (19) and Netflix’s “The Crown” (18). Overall, Netflix nabbed the most noms with 107. FX leapfrogged over HBO/Max (which earned 91) to take second place with its best-ever haul, 93. Among broadcast networks, ABC and CBS each earned 38 nominations, NBC had 33, and Fox landed six.
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Warner Bros. Discovery plans to match Amazon’s deal for rights to NBA games, reports Deadline. After WBD’s exclusive negotiating window with the NBA expired in April, the league reportedly set 11-year deals with Disney, NBCUniversal and Amazon – for which WBD had matching rights. TNT has aired NBA games since 1989.
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Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to three dates for a VP debatewith Republican contender J.D. Vance on CBS. “On May 16, Vice President Harris accepted the very first invitation we received from a television network to host a Vice Presidential Debate. She agreed at that time to participate in a CBS-hosted debate on either Tuesday, July 23 or Tuesday, August 13,” said a campaign official. “Since then, CBS has offered – and the VP has accepted – another potential date for this debate: Monday, August 12.” The next presidential debate is scheduled for September 10 on ABC.
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ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel put out a casting notice for SAG actors who are just one role away from qualifying for the union’s health insurance plan. Kimmel set an age range of 18 to 100, along with “Any Gender/Any Ethnic Appearance.”
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Good work: Fox Corporation, Comcast NBCUniversal, Cox Communications, Dentsu International, Digitas, Google, IPG, Meta, Omnicom Group, Paramount, Publicis Media, Publicis Sapient, Sony, and The Walt Disney Company are among the top-scoring companies in the Disability Equality Index. The “Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion” honor was created through support from the Disability Equality Index Advisory Committee, a group of business leaders, policy experts and disability advocates.
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Reality TV production is a (mostly) man’s world, according to a study commissioned by the Geena Davis Institute, Banijay Entertainment and Everywoman Studios. In the US, 80.6% of reality show creators are men, by the report’s reckoning, and men make up 58.4% of executive producers, supervisors and show creators across the US, UK, Brazil and France. On the bright side, the number of female executive producers rose from 36.6% in 2021 to 46.0% in 2023.
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Location filming in LA for reality TV dropped 57% in 2Q24 versus the same period last year, according to a report from FilmLA. Other genres fared much better – TV drama production jumped by 98.3%, and comedy rose 103.6%. What gives? “Generally speaking, unscripted television is a location-heavy format that generates significant permit volume,” said FilmLA VP Integrated Communications Philip Sokoloski. “The employment impact of reality production is lower than it is for scripted TV, and projects are not incentive-eligible through the State of California.”
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UK-based production company Nest Productions has partnered with Studio 1 to provide production services for quiz show “Lucky 13.” The Nest team worked both on the pilot, shot in Salford, England and on last month’s production at Worre Studios in Las Vegas. It was the first time the Vegas facilities had been used for broadcast purposes. “Lucky 13” premieres tonight on ABC.
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Matt Borlenghi, portrayer of Lyle the Pawn Shop Guy on Netflix’s “Cobra Kai,” reports he and David Faustino (“Married…with Children”) have a TV project in development best described, he says, as “‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ set in … a pawn shop.”
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HGTV’s “Good Bones” returns for a three-week limited run on Wednesday, August 14 at 9p. The extended 90-minute premiere episode will showcase Mina Starsiak Hawk’s journey through a rocky home buying process and the renovation of her lakeside retreat. The subsequent two hour-long episodes will feature Karen Laine’s purchase of a 120-year-old beach bungalow.
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Season two of “Frasier” premieres Thursday, September 19 on Paramount+ with two episodes. During the show’s sophomore run, Dr. Frasier Crane will return to his old radio station in Seattle for an episode featuring previously announced guest stars from the original “Frasier” including Dan Butler as Bob “Bulldog” Briscoe, Edward Hibbert as Gil Chesterton and Harriet Sansom Harris as Frasier’s agent, Bebe Glazer.
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“City of God: The Fight Rages On” premieres Sunday, August 25 on HBO Latino and Max. The six-part series follows characters introduced in the 2002 film “City of God.”
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“Neon Dimension,” a video game show hosted by German actor/comedian Flula Borg’s floating head, will premiere on the Maximum Effort Channel on Fubo and Flula’s YouTube channel on Saturday, July 20 at 11a. “I am not certain how, or where, or even when the ‘Neon Dimension’ is, but I can tell you that it is a sassy time filled with fun people playing classic video games while my helmeted head guides them!”, said Flula. “Where is my body while my floating cranium hosts ‘Neon Dimension’? Nobody is knowing! But if you see my legs and pelvis jogging the 101 Freeway, please DM me immediately!” New episodes will drop weekly on Saturday mornings.
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“Apartment 7” premieres on Paramount+ on Friday, September 27. Set in 1965 New York City, the film tells the story prior to the 1968 horror classic “Rosemary’s Baby,” exploring what happened in the infamous Bramford building before Rosemary moved in.
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“Boot Camp,” based on the Wattpad story about a bookworm who finds new strength before her sister’s wedding, arrives in theaters and on demand on Friday, August 2.
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Crunchyroll has added 20 sports-centric titles to its AVOD collection,including “Haikyu!”, “Blue Lock,” “Run with the Wind,” “Kuroko’s Basketball,” and more. For a limited time, anime fans can stream these titles for free with ads on Crunchyroll without a paid membership plan.
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Tennis Channel will offer live coverage of the International Tennis Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Saturday, July 20, at 6p. The celebration takes place during this week’s Infosys Hall of Fame Open in Newport, RI.
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The Angel City Football Club has entered into an agreement that will make Disney CEO Bob Iger and his wife Willow Bay, dean of the USC Annenberg School, the new controlling owners of the women’s soccer team. “Willow and Bob bring unparalleled operational experience, expertise, and passion to ACFC and to the NWSL,” said the ACFC Board of Directors in a statement. “They’re lifelong sports fans who have been supporters of ACFC since the team’s founding. They are deeply committed to the Los Angeles community, having been residents, leaders, and philanthropists in the city for almost three decades and have a long track record of dedicating their time and resources to support local Los Angeles organizations. We know they are the right partners to lead us into this new era.”
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The first night of the Republican National Convention drew an estimated 18.13 million viewers, according to Nielsen, among whom 13.53 million were 55+. Fox News Channel was the most-watched television network, averaging 6.86 million viewers, followed by ABC (2.28 million), NBC (2.24 million), CBS (1.82 million), MSNBC (1.27 million), and CNN (1.11 million). Day two of the event brought 5.15 million viewers to Fox News for the 10p hour, according to early Nielsen numbers, followed by NBC (2.23 million, ABC (2.013 million), CBS (1.56 million), CNN (934,000) and MSNBC (758,000).
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Coverage of the attempt on former president Donald Trump’s lifeprompted a surge in cable news viewership. Fox News and CNN each spiked 90% versus the week before, to 3.9 million viewers and 1.0 million, respectively, while MSNBC rose 31%, to1.2 million viewers.
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