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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 9/18/24)
ABC: The Golden Bachelorette (Premiere) at 8pm
BRAVO: The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (Premiere) at 9pm
BRITBOX: The Bay (Premiere)
CBS: Survivor (Premiere) at 8pm
DISNEY+: Agatha All Along (Premiere)
NETFLIX: What’s Next: The Future with Bill Gates (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Envious (Premiere)
NETFLIX: I Am Georgina (Premiere)
PBS: Big Cats 24/7 (Premiere) at 10pm
UNIVISION: Pedro el Escamoso: Mas Escamoso Que Nunca (Premiere) at 10pm
FOX: Master Chef (Finale) at 8pm
Former talk show host Wendy Williams has amended her lawsuit against Lifetime parent A+E Networks concerning their documentary chronicling her deteriorating mental and physical state, and is now looking for all profits from the project to fund her medical care, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The documentary aired on Lifetime in February, and in the amended complaint, filed September 16 in New York County Supreme Court, Williams says she received just $82,000 (“a paltry sum”) for her participation in the project. Williams has come out against the documentary – and even tried to stop it from airing – saying it depicts her as a laughingstock and a drunkard, responsible for her own downward spiral.
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NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises launched a new civic engagement Get Out The Vote (GOTV) initiative “Tú Tienes el Poder. Vota.” Under the umbrella of the company’s community impact platform “El Poder en Ti,” the program is part of Decision 2024, Telemundo’s multiplatform news and civic engagement.
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AXS TV and Spectrum have partnered with the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus to sponsor the mobile music and video recording experience as it makes stops at three schools across the country, part of the ongoing AXS TV Band Together For Music Education initiative.
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Fashion critic and champion Hal Rubenstein has partnered with Magilla Entertainment to bring his 2023 best-selling book – Dressing the Part: Television’s Most Stylish Shows (Harper) – to the small screen. The new series, currently in development, will tap Rubenstein’s access TV designers, producers and stars for a tour through the closets of legendary series and characters.
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LGBTQ+ streaming service OUTtv has commissioned several new series, a fresh take on a typical fishing show with members of the queer, Black, Indigenous and disability communities, and “Stripped Down,” which follows dancers at a gay strip club in Florida.
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PBS announced its slate of upcoming premieres, with “Big Cats 24/7” returning tonight (September 18) at 8p, followed by season 20 of “Antiques Roadshow on September 23 at 8p. A one-hour special – “Deadlock: an election story” – debuts on September 20 at 9p, followed by “Frontline: South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning” at 10p. “Crossroads: A Conversation with America” is set for September 23 at 9p, followed by “POV: Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law?” at 10p. “Frontline: The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump” is next on September 24 at 8p, while “Voces: American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos” premieres September 27 at 9p and “Independent Lens: One Person, One Vote” is slated for September 30 at 10p. “The 37th Hispanic Heritage Awards” airs September 27 at 10p.
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Outdoor Channel is gearing up for Premiere Week September 23 with a slate of new and returning programs surrounding the network’s 30th anniversary this year. Highlights include the debut of “Hardcore Carnivore,” (September 23) featuring professional carnivore and chef, Jess Pryles, and the return of Andrew Zimmern with his series, “Andrew Zimmern’s Field to Fire,” (September 23) where Zimmern heads out to some of the best fishing and hunting spots in the country.
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HBO issued an update to its linear schedule for season three of “Industry” episodes 7 and 8 on September 22 and September 29. Season three will continue to premiere at 9p on Max but will air at 10p on HBO, following “The Penguin,” for its remaining two episodes.
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CBS is launching “You’re Laughing at CBS,” highlighting its quartet of fall comedies premiering next month. As part of the campaign, CBS is officially rebranding the meaning of “sitcom” from situational comedy to “sit-down” comedy. Current comedy hits, “Ghosts” and “The Neighborhood” will soon be joined by the new series “Poppa’s House” and “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage.” In addition to the sitcom genre rebrand, CBS will host a night of in-person sit-down comedy.
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Telemundo latest original production, “Sed de Venganza,” starring Danilo Carrera, Isabella Castillo and Alexa Martin, will debut on the network October 15 at 9p.
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“La Familia” (Aile) will premiere on Telemundo in October 2024. The series is filmed in Turkey.
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Lifetime reality series “Married at First Sight” heads back to Chicago for its 18th season, premiering October 18 at 8p, as 10 singles looking for love will embark on a journey to meet the love of their lives.
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The third season of reality series, “Secretos de Villanas” will return to free streaming service Canela.TV on October 10 with ten episodes followed each week by the companion “Secretos: El Aftershow” hosted by the series’ Executive Producer, Enrique Sapene.
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Former NBA star and current TNT Sports commentator Kenny Smith joins as host for Season 3 of “Harlem Globetrotters: Play It Forward.” The 30-minute weekly series, produced in an exclusive partnership with Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG) and Herschend Entertainment Studios, premieres October 5 on NBC’s “The More You Know” educational/informational (E/I) programming block as well as Season 2 of “Harlem Globetrotters: Ganando Con La Comunidad” premiering on Telemundo.
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CBS presents “An Oprah Special: The Presleys – Elvis, Lisa Marie and Riley,” a primetime special featuring Oprah Winfrey as she sits down with Riley Keough, the granddaughter of the king of rock and roll, Elvis Presley, for an intimate conversation about her life, her mother Lisa Marie’s life, and her famous family, broadcasting October 8 at 8p on CBS.
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The latest selection in The Paley Center for Media’s “PaleyLive” series has been set for October 8 at 6:30p – “Back to School: An Evening with Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson.” The evening will feature a look at the season four premiere, followed by a discussion with the series creator and star.
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Thomas Essig’s “Something Divine” premieres October 1 on Entertainment Oxygen’s digital platform eoFlix. The documentary features a spiritual pilgrimage of India guided by punk rock icon and former monk Ray Cappo (aka Raghunath) Cappo.
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The “76th Emmy Awards” on ABC drew 6.87 million total viewers and a 1.02 rating in Adults 18-49, an increase of 54% and +17%, respectively, over the “75th Emmy Awards” on FOX (4.46 million and 0.87 rating, respectively, on 1/15/24). It was the award show’s largest overall audience in three years, since its September 19, 2021 airing on CBS, which enjoyed an NFL football game lead-in.
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Viewership for Fox NFL Singleheader was up 11% over last year to 18.8 million viewers. Through week 2 of the NFL on Fox, the network is averaging 18.7 million viewers to date, its best start since 2020.
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The 57th season premiere of “60 Minutes” was Sunday’s No. 1 non-sports program and attracted 10.48 million total viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same-day ratings for September 15.“
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Fox College Football Friday scored its biggest Friday night ratings day in five months as 2.58 million viewers watched Kansas State beat Arizona 31-7. The ratings were up 46% compared to the previous Friday night and was the most watched telecast of the day among adults 18-49.
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