FIRST LOOK
http://www.eonline.com/news
ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 12/6/24)
NBC: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Premiere) at 8pm
HGTV: My Lottery Dream Home (Premiere) at 9pm
HISTORY: Mysteries Unearthed with Danny Trejo (Premiere) at 10pm
HULU: Paris Has Fallen (Premiere)
HULU: Buddy’s Holiday Recipe Rumble (Premiere)
NAT GEO WILD: Inside the Enchanted Forests (Premiere) at 9pm
NETFLIX: Echoes of the Past (Premiere)
PRIME VIDEO: The Sticky (Premiere)
THE ROKU CHANNEL: Clash of the Cookbooks (Premiere)
TRU TV: Evolve & Flex with Lance Fresh (Premiere) at 9pm
(SATURDAY 12/7/24)
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Paul Mescal, Musical Guest: Shaboozey (Premiere) at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 12/8/24)
A&E: Rachael Ray’s Holidays (Premiere) at 10am
PBS: Lucy Worsley’s Holmes vs. Doyle (Premiere) at 8pm
A new Senate bill, the Transparency and Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence Networks (TRAIN) Act, would enable copyright holders to subpoena training records of generative AI models to find out if their work was used to train the model. “This is simple: if your work is used to train A.I., there should be a way for you, the copyright holder, to determine that it’s been used by a training model, and you should get compensated if it was,” said Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), who introduced the bill. “We need to give America’s musicians, artists, and creators a tool to find out when A.I. companies are using their work to train models without artists’ permission.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Nominations for Critics Choice Awards were announced on Thursday, and FX/Hulu’s “Shogun” led the pack with six nominations, followed by ABC’s “Abbott Elementary,” “Apple TV+’s “Disclaimer,” HBO/Max’s “Hacks” and “The Penguin,” and FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows,” with each collecting four nods. Not in the running for a fifth consecutive award for best talk show is HBO’s “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver,” because it was kicked out of the category. As the Television Academy did in 2023, the Critic’s Choice Association pulled “Last Week” from talk show competitors since if does not involve conversation. But unlike the TV Academy, the CCA did not create a new category for shows that no longer fit the talk show definition.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Nielsen and TikTok are teaming for a new integration the measurement company says “provides a holistic view of campaign performance across publishers and platforms, and for the first time, enables cross-media measurement so that advertisers and agencies can compare ad performance on TikTok across all screens, including digital, CTV, and linear.” The integration with TikTok uses cleanroom technology and provides panels and data assets to provide independent and verified reporting of demographic data for campaign measurement in Nielsen ONE.
(Source: Cynopsis)
A reboot of “Scrubs” is in development at ABC from 20th Television. The project was stalled for aa time as series creator Bill Lawrence negotiated with Warner Bros. Television, where he under an exclusive overall deal, to develop the show. “Scrubs” ran from 2001-10, launching on NBC and moving to ABC for its eighth and ninth seasons.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Max has renewed “Like Water for Chocolate” for a second season. The drama has become the most watched Latin American content on Max worldwide and has climbed to rank among the top three most watched series on the platform during its premiere month.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season two of Taylor Sheridan’s “1923” debuts Sunday, February 23 on Paramount. The “Yellowstone” prequel series stars Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford.
(Source: Cynopsis)
New HGTV series “Betting on Paradise” premieres Tuesday, January 7 at 9p. During the six one-hour episodes, a couple, with two young daughters in tow, will move sight unseen to the coastal town of Jacó and buy a crumbling piece of prime real estate with the dream of creating a luxury boutique hotel.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The first four episodes of Apple TV+ family comedy “Government Cheese,” starring David Oyelowo, who also serves as executive producer, will premiere globally on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, April 16, followed by one episode weekly every Wednesday through May 28.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ID’s “Murder Under the Friday Night Lights” kicks off with a special two-hour season premiere focused on the downfall of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. ”Aaron Hernandez and the Untold Murders of Bristol” premieres Wednesday, January 8 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Kansas City Chiefs’ two-part docuseries “Viva Chiefs Kingdom” is set to make its US television debut on Universo Sunday, December 8 at. Following the premiere, the Chiefs meet the Los Angeles Chargers for Week 14 of Sunday Night Football at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC will air a special preview of “American Idol” following the live telecast of The Oscars on Sunday, March 2, ahead of the new season premiere on March 9.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Jamie Foxx will address his mysterious 2023 hospitalization in Netflix special “Jamie Foxx What Happened Was,” dropping Tuesday, December 10.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The lineup for “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2025” includes Carrie Underwood, Megan Moroney and Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Dayanara Torres will return as co-host in Puerto Rico. The show kicks off a 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
FAST channel Western Bound will premiere the original Christmas film “Christmas in Maple Hills on Saturday, December 7 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MOVIES
Y2K – Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, Julian Dennison, Daniel Zolghadri, Lachlan Watson, Fred Durst, Kyle Mooney, Eduardo Franco, Mason Gooding, The Kid Laroi, Lauren Malone, Alicia Silverstone, Tim Heidecker, Maureen Sebastian, Miles Robbins, Ellie Ricker, Jacob Moskovitz, Daniel Dale
Get Away – Nick Frost, Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft, Jouko Ahola, Ero Milonoff, Ville Virtanen, Maisie Ayres, Anitta Suikkari, Petteri Hiltunen
Mr. Santa: A Christmas Extravaganza (Limited Release) – Geoffrey Owens, Tommy Davidson, Khail Bryant, Brian McCarthy, Peter Donald Badalamenti II, Shauna Rae, Wakeema Hollis, Steven Thomas Capp, Emmet Smith, Tamara Fay, Toni Belafonte, Jaime Lincoln Smith, Chelsea London Lloyd, Shanel Cheatham, Marilee Kateri, Ashley Monique Harper, Sophie Tananbaum, Sydney Morgan Currie
MEGA MILLIONS
Today’s Jackpot is $579 million.
You can now play in 43 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
POWERBALL
Saturday’s Jackpot is $260 million.
Powerball is played in 43 states.
Keely's Korner 