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If your Outlook was glitchy yesterday, you weren’t alone. A major outage at Microsoft impacted users of Outlook and Exchange emails, due to what the company called “a recent change.” While Microsoft initially reported that about 98% of its “affected environments” had been fixed by noon, that announcement was amended to, “targeted restarts are progressing slower than anticipated for the majority of affected users.”
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The 2024 Billboard Music Awards will be telecast Thursday, December 12 at 8p on Fox and Amazon’s Fire TV Channels and will be available on demand on Paramount+. Actress and comedian Michelle Buteau will host special, which will be pre-recorded at venues around the world, at least some of them tied to the show’s presenting sponsor, Marriott Bonvoy. It’s a homecoming of sorts for the BMAs, which first aired in 1990 on Fox, before moving to ABC and then NBC. Last year’s show was broadcast across Billboard’s social media channels.
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Amid Elon Musk’s jokes (?) about buying MSNBC and replacing Rachel Maddow with Joe Rogan, CNN’s Brian Stelter reported Monday that “more than one benevolent billionaire with liberal bonafides has already reached out to acquaintances at MSNBC to express interest in buying the cable channel.” But it appears the news net is not for sale. Comcast announced last week its plan to spin off MSNBC and most of its other cable channels into “SpinCo,” a cable programming company.
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Hit film “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” released in theaters in September, premieres on HBO on Saturday, December 7 at 6:10p, the day after it drops on Max. The Warner Bros. Pictures film has grossed $451 million worldwide.
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The Animation Guild reached a tentative deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. “After weeks of negotiations that covered months in the calendar, I am very proud of the agreement that we reached with the studios for our new contract,” said TAG Business Representative Steve Kaplan. “Not only have we seen the inclusion of advancements in the industry realized by the other unions and guilds, but we were able to address industry-specific issues in a meaningful way.” TAG negotiated a 7% increase in minimum wages for the first year of the three-year contract, followed by a 4% increase in the second year and 3.5% in the third year.
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Richard Gadd (“Baby Reindeer”) and Jamie Bell (“All of Us Strangers”) will star in HBO and BBC drama “Half Man” (previously titled “Lions”). The series follows estranged brothers through their tumultuous relationship. Production is set to start in Scotland in 2025.
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Comedian Ari Shaffir has two specials set at Netflix, his fourth and fifth for the streamer. First up: “America’s Sweethearts,” described as “hilarious and darkly uplifting,” which drops Tuesday, January 14.
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The film sequel and TV rights to 2008 Oscar winner “Slumdog Millionaire” have been acquired by Bridge7. “Some stories stay with us long after the credits roll and ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is undoubtedly one of them,” said former Netflix exec Swati Shetty and former CAA agent Grant Kessman, founders of Bridge7. “What makes ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ extraordinary is not only its cinematic brilliance – spanning storytelling, music, and its remarkable accolades, but also how it brought together talent from across the world to make a global winning team.”
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Courtney B. Vance (“The People vs. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story”) has joined the season two cast of Disney+’s “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Vance replaces the late Lance Reddick, who died last year, as Zeus. “Finding someone to step into this role going forward was not an easy task, but when icon Courtney B. Vance answered the call, we knew the Gods were listening,” posted executive producer Dan Shotz on Instagram. “This legend of cinema not only wanted to honor the books, but wanted to honor Lance’s legacy.”
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Matthew Broderick and his son James Wilkie Broderick will guest star on an episode of CBS’ “Elsbeth” in 2025. It’s the first time the father and son will share the screen together.
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Queen Latifah is set to host the “The 47th Annual Kennedy Center Honors Awards,” airing Sunday, December 22 at 8:30p on CBS. Done+Dusted will produce for the third year, in association with ROK Productions. The event will be executive produced by David Jammy, Elizabeth Kelly and Jack Sussman.
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Amanda Kloots (“The Talk”) is guest starring on the penultimate episodeof CBS’ “Blue Bloods” on Friday, December 6 at 10p. On the series finale the following week, Edward James Olmos (“Miami Vice”) guest stars.
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Hallmark Channel’s “The Way Home” is moving to Hallmark+ for season three, launching Thursday, January 2. Hallmark is clearly counting on the hit series, which won’t make its linear debut until fall 2025, to deliver viewers to its new streaming service. “Each season brilliantly builds on the one before and this season promises to be the best one yet,” said Kate Redinger, Senior Director of Programming, Hallmark Media. “With the intriguing new characters they’ve created and riveting storylines, viewers are in for another enthralling season.”
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Natural history series “Asia” is slated to premiere Saturday, January 25 at 8p on BBC America and will be available the same day on AMC+. Presented by renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough (“Planet Earth III”), the cinematic series uncovers stories of unseen animal behavior. Across seven episodes plus a “Making Of” special filmed over the course of nearly four years, Asia will be the focus of a BBC America landmark wildlife series for the first time.
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Want more nature? NBC docuseries “The Americas” debuts with back-to-back episodes on Sunday, February 23 at 7p. Hosted by Tom Hanks, the 10-parter promises “remarkable world firsts; new species, new intimate courtship, dramatic deep sea hunting and some of nature’s strangest stories – even a frog that seems to defy death every day.”
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Thursday’s Steelers-Browns “TNF” game on Prime Video had an audience of 14.78 million viewers (P2+ AMA), according to Nielsen’s updated Big Data + Panel measurement. The game stands as the fifth most-watched “TNF” on Prime event of the season.
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Longtime William Morris agent Larry Auerbach died November 23 at the age of 95. Auerbach’s 47 years at the agency was followed by 25-year tenure as Associate Dean and Head of Student-Industry Relations at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
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