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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 11/4/24)
ACORN TV: Inspector Ellis (Premiere)
FOOD NETWORK: Holiday Baking Championship (Premiere) at 8pm
“High Potential” is living up to its name, becoming ABC’s most-watched new series in six years. The procedural is averaging 10.42 million viewers through its first five weeks on the air.
(Source: Cynopsis)
“Days of Our Lives” has been renewed for a 61st season. The soap opera ran on NBC until 2023, when it moved to Peacock.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Did you catch Vice President Kamala Harris’ cameo on “Saturday Night Live”? When Brendan Carr, a Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, caught wind of it, he tweeted that it was a “clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule.” Harris arrived at 30 Rockefeller Plaza shortly after 8p on Saturday for a surprise live appearance three days before election day, playing herself opposite Maya Rudolph’s version of her.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CBS Stations will debut the first augmented and virtual reality presidential election coverage on November 5 from CBS’s New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Bay Area and Colorado studios, delivering real-time results through an immersive experience. Viewers will be “transported” to a multidimensional election center to see the results across a national and local VR map that will be driven by CBS anchors in their respective markets.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Allen Media Group has launched 10 Local Now FAST channels on The Roku Channel. The Local Now FAST channels are produced by a team of technologists and journalists and feature 24/7 news powered by the Local Now newsroom, a nationwide local affiliate network, strategic news partners and proprietary news technology.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Disney Branded Television handed series greenlights for “How We Became the Biggest Band in the World,” following members of a pop group who met in middle school, and “Vampirina,” centered on a tween vampire (both working titles). The music-driven, live-action comedies are slated to premiere next year on Disney Channel and Disney+.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Tastemade has ordered a second season of “Kitchen Glow Up.” The renovation series is produced by Andrew Zimmern’s Intuitive Kitchen.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Gordon Ramsay’s “Kitchen Nightmares: Road to Super Bowl LIX”returns with a two-hour episode, Wednesday, January 1 at 8p on FOX. The first half of the season is set in New Orleans, the home of Super Bowl LIX, leading up to the big game, with in-episode countdowns by Ramsay and appearances by current and former NFL stars.
(Source: Cynopsis)
“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is coming home to NBC.The Christmas classic premiered on NBC in 1964 and remained there until 1971, when it leaped to CBS. On Friday, December 6 at 8p, Rudolph, Clarice, Comet and company will return to NBC.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Freeform’s “25 Days of Christmas” kicks off Sunday, December 1 at 7a with “Prep & Landing.” Last year, the stunt reached nearly 37 million viewers, and Freeform ranked as the #1 cable entertainment network during the event for the 11th time in the past 12 years among Adults 18-49 and Adults 18-34, according to Nielsen.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fandango and E! News have joined forces to offer an immersive livestream of the premiere of Universal Pictures’ “Wicked,” on November 9 at 7p. The livestream will be broadcast across E! News’ digital platforms, Fandango and Rotten Tomatoes video and social platforms.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Wednesday’s episode 8 of Disney+s “Agatha All Along” drew 4.6 million views, up 48% from the premiere. Episode 9, the season finale which dropped the same day, saw a 26% lift from the premiere with 3.9 million views, according to Disney.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Actor Alan Rachins died November 2. He was 82. Rachins was best known to TV audiences for his roles in “L.A. Law” and “Dharma & Greg.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
POWERBALL
Today’s Jackpot is $63 million.
Powerball is played in 43 states.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Venom: The Last Dance – $26.1 million
The Wild Robot – $7.6 million
Smile 2 – $6.8 million
Conclave -$5.3 million
Here – $5 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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