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APPLE TV+: Bad Sisters (Premiere)
CLEO TV: Culture Kitchen (Premiere) at 9pm
CLEO TV: Chef Jernard’s Comfy Kitchen (Premiere) at 9:30pm
HGTV: Don’t Hate Your House with the Property Brothers (Premiere) at 9pm
MAX: Call Me Ted (Premiere)
NAT GEO: The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth (Premiere) at 8pm
NETFLIX: Sisters’ Feud (Premiere)
NETFLIX: The Mothers of Penguins (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Sprint: The World’s Fastest Humans (Premiere)
Two years after the launch of advertising on Netflix, the streamer has reached 70 million monthly active users, with over 50% of new sign-ups for the ads plan in ad-supported countries. In an anniversary blog post, Amy Reinhard, President, Advertising, said Netflix has sold out advertising for its two NFL Christmas Day games, and partnered with multiple advertisers for the upcoming season of “Squid Game,” including a first-ever single title sponsorship in Korea with Kia.
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Why is veteran TV anchor Chris Wallace leaving CNN at the end of his three-year contract? “When I look at the media landscape right now, the people who are going independent, whether it’s podcasting or streaming, that seems to be where the action is,” he said on Tuesday. Wallace, 77, joined CNN in 2022 after 18 years at Fox News for a leading role at CNN+, but the platform was shut down a month later by then-CEO Chris Licht. Wallace instead has hosted a Saturday morning show on CNN and an interview program on Max, in addition to appearances as a commentator. The exit is amicable. “CNN has been very good to me,” said Wallace, while CNN chief executive Mark Thompson noted, “Chris Wallace is one of the most respected political journalists in the news business with a unique track record across radio, print, broadcast television, cable television and streaming.”
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The CW has laid off over two dozen employees in its scripted programming and publicity divisions. The cuts, which come following the departure of network president Dennis Miller after two years in the job, is reportedly related to a shift in focus to sports and unscripted programming.
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MyFree DIRECTV is now live, offering over 70 FAST channels and an on-demand library across Roku, Amazon Fire, Android, Apple, and the DIRECTV app. “We are excited about the new audiences that MyFree DIRECTV unlocks for our advertising clients,” said Amy Leifer, chief advertising sales officer at DIRECTV Advertising. “This launch marks another way that we are delivering innovative solutions that help move the needle for them.” In the near future, DIRECTV plans to offer genre-based paid programming packages that deliver smaller, personalized TV subscriptions at lower price points.
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Production company SuperSpecial has launched creative accelerator The Fellowship, a program for under-represented writers, in association with fantasy universe platform Loot. The effort will offer $100,000 in grants to help five writers fund fantasy novellas that could potentially be developed into series or movies by SuperSpecial.
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Newsmax has hired Dennis Murphy (“Outnumbered”) to executive produce “American Agenda,” Jarrett Shustrin (WPIX-TV) to oversee “Wake-Up America,” and Lamar Goering (“Good Day New York”) as EP for “Newsline.”
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Casting notes: Martha Plimpton (“The Regime”) and Mireille Enos (“For All Mankind”) have joined the cast of HBO’s upcoming drama “Task,” starring Mark Ruffalo….Awkwafina (“The Farewell”), Corey Hawkins (“Straight Outta Compton”), Simon Rex (“Red Rocket”) and Cliff “Method Man” Smith (“Power Book II: Ghost”) will guest star on season two of Peacock mystery series “Poker Face.”
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CBS soap opera “Beyond the Gates” will make its debut Monday, February 24 at 2p. Set in a posh gated community, the drama is the first one-hour Black daytime soap, and the first daytime drama to premiere since “Passions” in 1999.
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New Paramount+ drama “Landman” premieres with two episodes on Monday, November 17. Created by Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace, the series starring Billy Bob Thornton follows fortune seeking among roughnecks and billionaires in West Texas.
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“Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” premieres Sunday, November 17on Fox Nation. The docudrama explores the stories of eight men and women who risked everything to embody faith.
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Season three of “Harlem” kicks off Thursday, January 23 on Prime Video. The series follows four women on the precipice of change. Joining the cast in recurring roles are Kofi Siriboe, Logan Browning, Robin Givens, and Gail Bean.
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“Very Scary People” returns to ID on Sunday, December 15 at 9p. Hosted and executive produced by Donnie Wahlberg, eight episodes offer insight into twisted crimes. What’s new this time around? “We’re diving deeper into each case, sharing raw, first-person accounts from those directly involved,” said Wahlberg. “It’s more personal, more emotional and resonates on a whole new level.”
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Documentary “Surveilled” debuts Wednesday November 20 at 9p on HBO. The film follows Ronan Farrow as he investigates the growing business of commercial spyware.
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A new half-hour special from puppet series “Donkey Hodie” pays tribute to Fred Rogers. “A Donkey Hodie New Year” features an original rendition of Rogers’ iconic song, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor.” The special premieres on PBS KIDS on Monday, December 2. Also airing that day is “Happy New Year, Lyla!”, a special spun from “Lyla in the Loop.”
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A comedian explores his love/hate relationship with standup in HBO comedy special “James Acaster: Hecklers Welcome,” arriving Saturday, November 23 at 10p.
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“The Peanut Man,” a feature film from Fawesome that tells the story of George Washington Carver, premieres Friday, November 15.
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NBC Sports Next’s Sports Engine Play youth and amateur sports streaming platform will showcase competitions held at Arizona Athletic Grounds through a new partnership. “The number of games and events that will be streamed each year by SportsEngine Play across the facility’s more than 100 playing surfaces will be staggering,” said NBC Sports Next President Will McIntosh. “We’re extremely excited to capture all the action so family, friends and fans of the athletes competing there never have to miss a moment.” The partnership designates SportsEngine as AAG’s “Exclusive Video and Streaming Partner.”
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Sony’s Beyond Sports is collaborating with ESPN, the NFL, Disney, and “The Simpsons” to produce “The Simpsons Funday Football,” a real-time animated alternate presentation of the game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys on Monday, December 9. A combination of data processing and real-time visualization technology from Beyond Sports will insert characters from “The Simpsons” into the game action while the Bengals and Cowboys play in real time. The alternate viewing presentation will stream on Disney+ and ESPN+ and on mobile with NFL+.
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Sunday night’s return of “Yellowstone” delivered the drama’s biggest premiere night audience ever with 16.4 million viewers tuning in for the start of season 5B, based on VideoAmp’s projected Total Persons/Live+SD gross viewership across all cable network and CBS airings (premieres + encores).
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ABC’s “World News Tonight with David Muir” ranked as the #1 evening newscast in all of broadcast and cable in Total Viewers (7.371 million), A25-54 (1.075 million) and A8-49 (745,000) during the week of November 4, based on Live+SD data from Nielsen.
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