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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 4/30/25)
ABC: Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: Jeopardy! Masters (Premiere) at 9pm
APPLE TV+: Careme (Premiere)
IFC: In the Kitchen With Harry Hamlin (Premiere) at 11pm
HULU: Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes (Premiere)
NETFLIX: The Eternaut (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Turning Point: The Vietnam War (Premiere)
CBS reports it is on track to be the most-watched broadcast network for the 17th consecutive season, with the top seven shows on television. That beats broadcast television’s longest winning streak on record, also previously held by CBS, from 1955-1970, and is CBS’ 22nd win in the last 23 years. In broadcast alone with Nielsen “Most Current” ratings, CBS’ primetime viewership (excluding sports) averages 4.99 million viewers, up +14% year over year.
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ABC is bringing back “Match Game,” again, this time with Martin Short as host. The game show premiered on NBC daytime in 1962, followed by runs on CBS, syndication, and ABC. The most recent revival, on ABC, was hosted by Alec Baldwin. FremantleMedia North America is producing with Short and Alycia Rossiter.
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“Wisteria Lane,” a spinoff of 2004-12 dramedy “Desperate Housewives”from Kerry Washington’s Simpson Street and 20th Television, is in development at Onyx Collective. The darkly comic mystery series is being written by Natalie Chaidez (“The Flight Attendant”).
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“1883” alum Sam Elliott has joined the cast of another Taylor Sheridan drama, Paramount+’s “Landman.”
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“Dexter: Resurrection” premieres with two episodes for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers on Friday, July 11, followed on Sunday, July 13 at 8p on Showtime.
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A&E’s “Duck Dynasty: The Revival” has a new premiere date: Sunday, June 1 at 9p. The reality show was originally slated to debut on May 28.
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“Murder Has Two Faces,” a three-part docuseries hosted by “Good Morning America” co-anchor Robin Roberts, hits Hulu Tuesday, May 6. Each episode follows a crime that shares similarities with a high-profile case.
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Four late bloomers navigate love and intimacy in TLC reality show “Virgins,” premiering Monday, June 9 at 9p.
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Season six of “Ugliest House in America” kicks off Monday, June 2 at 9:30p. Comedian and home design enthusiast Retta will travel the country to find 15 stunningly atrocious abodes.
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“Call Her Alex” debuts Tuesday, June 10 on Hulu and Disney+.The two-part series offers a behind-the-scenes look at “Call Her Daddy” podcast creator, host and executive producer Alex Cooper. “I’ve shared my life with the Daddy Gang since I started ‘Call Her Daddy’ – but this documentary series takes it even deeper,” said Cooper.
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Prime Video action series “Countdown” will premiere with three episodes on Wednesday, June 25. Jensen Ackles (“Supernatural”) stars as an LAPD detective drawn into a sinister plot.
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Comedy Central special “The Daily Show Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers The Pulse: MAGA: The Next Generation” is set to premiere after “The Daily Show” on Monday, May 19 at 11:30p.
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Comedians Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, co-hosts of the “Las Culturistas” podcast, will host the fourth annual Las Culturistas Culture Awards, airing Tuesday, Aug. 5 at 9pon Bravo.
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BIG3 has added the newly launched VICE Sports to their season eight media lineup. VICE Sports will receive 14 live hours of BIG3 games and join CBS as the distributors for the BIG3’s summer slate which tips off on June 14 in Chicago. Head of BIG3 Sponsorships and Sales Nikki Ambrifi had this to share about the deal: “We are thrilled to be one of the all-new live sports portfolios available on VICE TV’s recently launched VICE Sports. There is so much synergy between our brands and I’m looking forward to expanding our audience alongside them this summer.”
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Playtomic, the community of racquet sport players and clubs, and racquet sports equipment company Babolat struck a strategic global partnership designed to accelerate the global growth of padel by combining Babolat’s technical expertise with Playtomic’s digital ecosystem. Playtomic and Babolat will launch brand activations in key markets, including the US, Spain, Italy, France, the UK and Germany, with a global reach through physical events and digital amplification.
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“World News Tonight with David Muir” ranked as the most-watched weekday program during the week of coverage on the death of Pope Francis in Total Viewers (7.43 million) on all of broadcast and cable and ranked as the number one newscast across the board in Total Viewers (7.432 million), Adults 25-54 (1.047 million) and Adults 18-49 (691,000).
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The April 21 episode of HGTVs “Rock the Block” attracted more than 3.1 million viewers across linear and streaming, with a .89 Live+3 rating among Adults 25-54 and a 1.00 rating among Women 25-54, respective increases of 187 and 163 percent over the previous six weeks.
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