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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 10/17/24)
ALLBLK: Wicked City (Premiere)
BRITBOX: Passenger (Premiere)
CBS: George & Mandy’s First Marriage (Premiere) at 8pm
CBS: Ghosts (Premiere) at 8:30pm
CBS: Elsbeth (Premiere) at 10pm
HALLMARK+: The Groomsmen Trilogy (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance (Premiere)
PEACOCK: A Great Day with J Balvin (Premiere)
PEACOCK: The Lincoln Lawyer (Premiere)
PRIME VIDEO: The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh (Premiere)
SUNDANCE NOW: The Midwich Cuckoos: Village of the Damned (Premiere)
VICE: Shane Smith Has Questions (Premiere) at 10pm
CBS medical mystery series “Watson” kicks off after the AFC Championship Game on Sunday, January 26 at 10p(ish). The show takes its regular Sunday-at-10p slot on February 16. “Watson” takes place six months after the death of Sherlock Holmes at the hands of Moriarty, and stars Morris Chestnut as Dr. John Watson.
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New HGTV series “Don’t Hate Your House with the Property Brothers” debuts Wednesday, November 13 at 9p. The series follows Drew and Jonathan Scott as they tackle seemingly insurmountable renovation challenges.
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Four-part documentary “Tsunami: Race Against Time” premieres Sunday, November 24 at 9p on National Geographic. Twenty years after the deadly tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the series offers newly discovered footage and personal accounts from survivors.
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“Carl the Collector,” the first PBS KIDS series to feature central characters on the autism spectrum, is launching Thursday, November 14. The animated series follows the everyday adventures of a warm-hearted and detail-oriented autistic racoon who enjoys collecting things.
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That’s the ticket: YouTube TV averaged 2.07 million global daily active users in September, up from an average 1.25 million in the 11 previous months, according to Guggenheim Securities and Apptopia. The jump comes with football season and the addition of “NFL Sunday Ticket.”
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The Federal Trade Commission announced a final “click to cancel” rulethat will require sellers to make it as easy for consumers to cancel their enrollment – or subscription to a streaming or cable service – as it was to sign up. “Too often, businesses make people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription,” said Commission Chair Lina M. Khan. “The FTC’s rule will end these tricks and traps, saving Americans time and money. Nobody should be stuck paying for a service they no longer want.” Most of the final rule’s provisions will go into effect 180 days after it is published in the Federal Register.
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Philo has launched on LG Smart TVs for $28/month. Subscribers get 75,000+ on-demand titles and a bonus 90+ free channels, with AMC+ (including Shudder) at no extra cost. Philo’s press release notes it is the most affordable way to watch Paramount hit “Yellowstone,” which returns for a new season on November 10.
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Winners of the 2024 Sentinel Awards, recognizing TV entertainment that responsibly informs audiences on critical topics, were announced by the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center. “Abbott Elementary,” “The Morning Show,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “The Simpsons,” “Expats” “Hacks,” “Lopez vs Lopez,” “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans,” “Gen V,” “The Big Cigar,” and “Dark Winds” will all bring home honors at a ceremony taking place October 24.
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Cox Media Group raised nearly $1 million and provided food, water and necessitiesfor impacted people and communities during hurricanes Helene and Milton. “These efforts by our CMG family highlight the indispensable role of our stations – and our entire broadcasting industry – as we work together to make a powerful and positive impact on the communities we live in and serve,” said Dan York, CMG’s President & CEO. “As importantly, none of this would have been possible without the incredible support from our local partners and audiences. The response of our viewers and listeners has been nothing short of remarkable.”
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Tyler Perry Studios inked an overall deal with director, writer, and producer Courtney Glaude (“The Reading”) that makes him Executive Creator of Scripted and Unscripted. Glaude will direct, develop and produce content for television and film.
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Rainbow, the Italian entertainment group, has teamed with CONG SA to produce a live action TV series based on the graphic novels created by Hugo Pratt, focused on the cult comic adventurer Corto Maltese.
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LGBTQ+ owned and operated media company equalpride and Disney Advertising renewed their content development agreement. equalpride will continue to bring its LGBTQ+ content production expertise to the partnership by leveraging its media brands including Out, The Advocate, Out Traveler, Health Plus Wellness, PRIDE.com, and the Advocate Channel. “This collaboration has proven to be a game-changer for brands wanting to connect authentically with the LGBTQ+ community,” said Mark Berryhill, CEO of equalpride. “With our combined expertise and reach, we’re amplifying diverse voices and stories from our community ensuring they resonate with a broad audience year-round.”
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A project is underway to bring WildBrain’s Strawberry Shortcakeand Cloudco’s Care Bears together in a new, “retro-forward” 44-minute animated preschool special. “The Care Berry Switch” (w/t), is being co-developed by the creative teams at both companies, with WildBrain Studios poised to lead animation production.
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Canada’s Sphere Media announced “Dreamers,” the first scripted project to come out of its Kids and Family division. The coming-of-age series is supported by the Bell Slate Fund, a not-for-profit program that supports Canadian production companies in building and diversifying their slates.
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Off The Fence struck a partnership with the not-for-profit enterprise Emerald Gate Foundation to produce a feature documentary, followed by a four-part series focused on clinical researchers, doctors and healers at the forefront of the energy-healing movement.
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Casting note: Seann Michael Scott (“Lethal Weapon”) landed a lead role opposite Tim Allen and Kat Demmings in upcoming ABC comedy “Shifting Gears.”
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Anthony Jeselnik’s third stand-up special for Netflix, “Bones and All,” drops Tuesday, November 26. The special was shot during the comedian’s recent world tour.
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“An Almost Christmas Story,” directed by David Lowery and produced by Alfonso Cuarón, will premiere November 15 on Disney+. The animated short is the third and final installment in Cuarón’s collection for the streamer.
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TNT Sports, in association with Position Sports and the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, announced that the 2024-25 college basketball season will tip off with the exclusive presentation of the 2024 Hall of Fame Series Las Vegas on Monday, November 4, from T-Mobile Arena. Coverage will span TNT and truTV with pregame coverage starting at 7p.
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In more hoops news, TNT Sports and professional women’s 3-on-3 basketball league Unrivaled reached a multi-year media rights partnership to exclusively present live game coverage on TNT and truTV and stream on Max beginning with the league’s inaugural season, beginning January 17, 2025. The agreement will feature more than 45 primetime regular season matchups three nights a week across TNT Sports platforms, with twice-weekly games on TNT as the lead network on Mondays and Fridays and additional broadcasts on truTV on Saturdays. As part of the media rights partnership, TNT Sports has agreed to invest an undisclosed amount in Unrivaled. “Our TNT Sports portfolio centers on premium live sports and our media and equity partnership with Unrivaled deepens our commitment to further expanding the depth of top tier women’s sports programming we offer our fans and presents an opportunity for us to shape and amplify the continued growth of women’s basketball,” said Luis Silberwasser, Chairman & CEO, TNT Sports.
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ESPN has re-signed former NFL wide receiver Andrew “Hawk” Hawkins. The six-year NFL veteran will continue to offer analysis on ESPN’s daytime lineup throughout the year including on “NFL Live,” “Get Up,” “First Take,” “SportsCenter” and various ESPN digital shows.
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Sony Corporation has acquired KinaTrax, a motion capture technology for sports that collects in-game biomechanical performance data on athletes. KinaTrax will join forces with Sony’s Hawk-Eye Innovations Limited to bring its biomechanical and analytical expertise, as well as its markerless motion capture technology to Sony’s portfolio and is expected to maximize the use of sports data.
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The winning sports ratings keep rolling in. In baseball, Fox scored the most-watched weekday afternoon LCS game on any network since 2013, with 5.628 million viewers across FOX, FS1 and FOX Deportes for Game 2.
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ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” Week 6 matchup between the Buffalo Bills and New York Jets drew 17.3 million viewers, ESPN’s second most-watched MNF Week 6 game in the ESPN era.
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NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” on October 12 had its most-watched episode in three years, delivering 5.6 million Live+SD viewers. The show also drew 516 million views across social platforms, reports NBCU. The show was hosted by Ariana Grande with Stevie Nicks as musical guest.
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The season one finale of Telemundo reality competition “La Isla Desafío Extremo” delivered 347,000 viewers A18-49 and 1.3 million total viewers in the 7p-11p timeslot.
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