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Google violated antitrust laws by maintaining a monopoly on online search and general text adverting, ruled a federal judge. The Justice Department and states had sued Google, accusing it of illegally paying billions of dollars to be the automatic search engine on smartphones and web browsers. “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” said Judge Amit P. Mehta in his ruling.
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NewsNet, the 24-hour news channel available on broadcast networks and streaming services, has shut down after two years. “We believed people would want to watch a clean, non-bias news network, but we were wrong,” said Manoj Bhargava, owner of parent company Bridge Media, in a statement. “Without a large audience, we just couldn’t continue to lose money. We hired the best people and talent, and we appreciate their hard work and effort. But we just couldn’t continue.”
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HBO’s “House of Dragon” will end with season four, and start pre-production of season three in the fall, said showrunner Ryan Condal during a press call. The “Game of Thrones” prequel’s season two finale aired Sunday.
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JB Smoove (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”) is developing a comedic animated series based on the video game “High on Life” via his Alternate Side Productions, with Squanch Games and Striker Entertainment. “’High on Life’ is wild, weird, and wonderful, and the series is going to be that and more!” said Smoove, who is in the game’s voice cast. “Get ready to laugh your way through space with some unforgettable characters like myself!”
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Lionsgate Television is shopping a TV series sequel to the “John Wick” films. “John Wick: Under the High Table” will “combine new and old and thrust the Wick universe into a new age,” reads the series logline. Keanu Reeves is executive producing along with Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee of Thunder Road. Chad Stahelski will EP via 87Eleven.
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CBS ordered a pilot for comedy “DMV,” from 9JKL, Kapital Entertainment and TrillTV, and a development room for vampire comedy “Eternally Yours” (w/t) from “Ghosts” showrunners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, and The Tannenbaum Company.
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Mike Seidel has joined FOX Weather as a meteorologist and storm specialist. Seidel was most recently at The Weather Channel.
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Apple TV+’s “Shrinking” is back for season two on Wednesday, October 16. The comedy stars Jason Segel as a grieving therapist who starts to break the rules and tell his clients what he really thinks.
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Season three of “The Real Murders of Atlanta” kicks off Saturday, August 17 at 9p on Oxygen. The true crime series reached 9.5 million viewers across platforms during its sophomore run.
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Part two of the fourth and final season of Starz drama “Power Book II: Ghost” premieres Friday, September 6 at 8p.
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“Kindergarten: The Musical” makes its debut on Disney Jr. on Tuesday, September 3 at 8a. The animated series follows a 5-year-old and her friends navigating starting school.
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“The Ricky Cobb Show” will debut on sports platform OutKick on Monday, August 12 at 11a. Cobb, the personality behind @Super70sSports, will host the daily show.
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ABC’s upcoming reimagining of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” has two new designers to assist the building team: Wendell Holland, the season 36 winner of “Survivor” and a designer who has appeared on HGTV series, and Arianne Bellizaire, the owner of a Baton Rouge design firm. The series, which originally ran on ABC from 2004 to 2012, is set to return in 2025.
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MSNBC has acquired documentary “From Russie with Lev,” focused on Ukrainian operative Lev Parnas, from Rachel Maddow’s Surprise Inside. The film will debut at the “MSNBC Live: Democracy 2024” conference on September 7, have a limited release in arthouse theaters and then air on MNBC in late September.
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Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” will broadcast from Miami with five shows across two days on Thursday, November 21 and Friday, ahead of Bravo Fest Miami on Saturday, November 23.
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Nine days into the Paris Olympics, the Games were scoring 32.6 million average viewers, 77% higher than the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics, according to the NBCUniversal Total Audience Delivery measure. That number includes airings on NBC, Peacock, USA Network, E!, CNBC, Paris Extra 1, Paris Extra 2, and additional NBCU digital platforms. The US Men’s basketball team’s win over Puerto Rico on Saturday delivered 13 million viewers, coming from a live airing on NBC/Peacock combined with an encore airing on USA Network and Peacock.
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Sunday’s season two finale of “House of Dragon” drew season high 8.9 million viewers across HBO and digital platforms. That 14% above the season premiere audience.
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Prolific producer George Schenck died August 3 at age 82. Perhaps best known for as a writer, producer and showrunner for “NCIS,” Schenck’s other credits include “Bring ‘Em Back Alive,” “Crazy Like a Fox” and “Soldier of Fortune, Inc.”, among others.
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