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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 2/27/25)
HGTV: Christina on the Coast (Premiere) at 8pm
HISTORY: Swamp Mysteries With Troy Landry (Premiere) at 9:30pm
HULU: Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Dalah: Death and the Flowers (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Running Point (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Toxic Town (Premiere)
PRIME VIDEO: House of David (Premiere)
PRIME VIDEO: Su Magestad (Premiere)
Season two of “Yellowstone” origin story “1923” broke a global viewership record as the biggest original premiere ever for Paramount+. The show drew 5.4 million viewers, 2.5X above the previous season premiere. Social shot up +187% from previous season with 1.6 million views.
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Max has scratched plans to charge more for its sports and news content – Standard and Premium tier subscribers in the US will continue to get a B/R Sports Add-On for free. “Over the last year plus, we had the opportunity to assess how users engage with sports and news on Max, and we’ve been actively involved in exploring ways to evolve the sports distribution ecosystem in the US. We believe that the best place for that content for now is within the Standard and Premium tiers,” said JB Perrette, CEO and President of Global Streaming and Games, WBD. “This update ensures that subscribers can continue to enjoy that coveted access within Max, while also enabling ongoing investment in our premium sports and news portfolio.” That said, beginning on March 30, B/R Sports and CNN Max will no longer be available on the Basic with Ads tier.
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YouTube may now get more of its total US viewership on TV sets than mobile devices, but that doesn’t mean it’s going back to producing original content. “We exist to provide the ability for context creators, from the kid in the bedroom all the way to the biggest producers, to use the platform, upload content and make it available,” said YouTube VP of EMEA Pedro Pina at MIP London. “The news inside the news is we have no interest whatsoever in producing our own content.” TV is now the primary device for YouTube viewing in the US by watch time, revealed CEO Neal Mohan in a blog post earlier this month.
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Fox Entertainment has renewed medical drama “Doc” for a 22-episode second season. The premiere of the freshman series produced by Sony Pictures Television and Fox Entertainment Media drew over 16 million viewers, a 647% increase over its Live+SD performance, making it Fox’s most watched debut in over five years.
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Also on the way back is Netflix survival competition “Outlast,” for season three, reports Deadline. Season two premiered in September.
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ITV Studios and Zhejiang Media Group have partnered to co-develop non-scripted IP for the local and global market. The first co-developed project the companies are working on: “Go! Fishing!”. ITV Studios also announced South African commissions of “Side Hustlers” and “Double the Money,” set to debut through Primedia. Both formats celebrate entrepreneurship.
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Guy Ritchie’s buzzed-about crime series has a name a premiere date, and a new platform: “MobLand” makes it debut Sunday, March 30 on Paramount+. The series, originally slated for Showtime, centers on a character played by Pierce Brosnan who is fighting for power within a global crime syndicate.
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“Law & Order: Organized Crime” returns Thursday, April 17 on Peacock. Season five explores the worlds of cross-border smuggling, high-tech domestic terrorism and a crime family intent on repaying Stabler for the injury he did them in Rome.
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Carrie Underwood will star in “Icon to Idol,” premiering Tuesday, March 4 on YouTube. The web series is a companion to ABC’s “American Idol,” which launches Sunday, March 9, after a post-Oscars preview on March 2. Underwood, winner of season four of the singing competition back in 2005, will serve as a judge for season 23 (and the eighth on ABC).
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Season two of “Doctor Who” will premiere Saturday, April 12 a 3a on Disney+, and on the BBC and BBC iPlayer in the UK. New episodes from the eight-part season will premiere weekly. The new season stars Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor, Varada Sethu as Belinda Chandra and Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday. Alan Cumming (“The Traitors”) will guest star in the second episode as Mr Ring-a-Ding, a singalong cartoon.
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A new season of “Port Protection Alaska” lands on Nat Geo on Tuesday, March 11 at 9p.
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LatiNation Media will premiere its original docu-series “Chiquis’ Foodie on the Go” on Thursday, March 13 at 8:30p on its LATV linear channel, LatiNation FAST channels, and the LatiNation+ app. The food and travel series shines a light on restaurants and small food businesses.
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Documentary “Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna” premieres Tuesday, March 11 on Hulu. In the film, Halyna Hutchins’ friend, director Rachel Mason, goes beyond the public narrative to reveal the story of day Hutchins was shot, and all that followed from the vantage point of the people at the center of the tragedy.
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“Lucky Dog,” produced by Hearst Media Production Group, celebrates its 300th episode on Saturday, March 1. The show currently airs as “Lucky Dog: Reunions,” part of the “CBS WKND” educational/informational programming block (check local listings).
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Amazon announced that 21 New York Yankees regular season games will stream exclusively on Prime Video for the upcoming season, in the Yankees’ home-team footprint of New York State, Connecticut, north and central New Jersey, and northeast Pennsylvania. The first exclusive Yankees game on Prime Video is scheduled for Wednesday, April 2, when the Yankees host the Arizona Diamondbacks. Eighteen of the 21 Yankees games on Prime Video will stream on Wednesday evenings.
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DAZN announced the launch of “DAZN Basketball – the Global Home of Basketball,” and appointment of Chus Bueno as Managing Director – Basketball. Bueno’s past roles include Vice President of NBA Europe, Middle East and Africa, as well as Managing Director for NBA Spain.
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Telemundo, the home of Chivas de Guadalajara in the US, is airing El Clásico De México featuring Liga MX rivals Chivas and América on Saturday, March 8 with a pregame show at 9p followed by the match at 9:30p, airing across Telemundo, Universo and Peacock.
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“The Drew Barrymore Show” had its most-watched week ever with 1.52 million viewers for the week of February 10, and for the first time was the #1 talk show for the week among A18-34.
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“Jamie Foxx: What Happened Was…” was Netflix’s most viewed comedy special in the second half of 2024, with 13,300,000 hours viewed, shared the streamer. In second place was Matt Rife in “Lucid – A Crowd Work Special,” with 8,700,000 hours viewed.
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