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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 5/19/26)
FOX: LEGO Masters (Premiere) at 8pm
CNN will exclusively air the penultimate performance of record-shattering Broadway show “Good Night, and Good Luck” live on Saturday, June 7. The play stars George Clooney as veteran journalist Edward R. Murrow during the Red Scare of the 1950s – and its live telecast is a TV first. “I can’t tell you how exciting it is to do something that’s never been done. CNN is the perfect place to bring this story of courage to so many more people than we could have ever hoped. Live TV. No net. Buckle up everyone,” said Clooney.
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Three big NFL games could lead to best-ever Thanksgiving audiences this fall. Between the Packers-Lions match-up on Fox, followed by the Chiefs-Cowboys on CBS and then NBC’s Bengals-Ravens game, “Let’s see if we can’t set a record that day,” said Mike North, VP, Broadcast Planning for the NFL, on the Ross Tucker Football Podcast. “The Cowboys game a couple years ago was 42-43 million. I think we’ve got a shot at pushing 48, 49, maybe 50 million. That’s an incredible number in an era when people ‘don’t watch TV anymore’.”
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Prime Video canceled “The Bondsman” after one season. All eight episodes of the supernatural action drama starring Kevin Bacon dropped April 3.
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An animated series based on the newspaper comic strip Macanudo is in development. The Canada / France co-production between Mercury Filmworks (Canada) and Sun Creature (France), has King Features managing sales and rights.
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Shameik Moore (“Dope”) has joined the cast of Starz drama “Power Book III: Raising Kanan.” Introduced in Friday’s season four finale as Branford ‘Breeze’ Frady, Moore will join the cast as a series regular in the prequel series’ upcoming fifth and final season.
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Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Mickey 17” will make its global streaming debuton Max on Friday, May 23, followed but its linear launch May 24 at 7:40p. The film follows an unlikely hero (Robert Pattinson) who has found himself working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job: to die for a living.
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Paramount Global Content Distribution is launching an all-wrestling FAST channel. Wrestling Central, coming soon on The Roku Channel, will feature new weekly matches from WOW – Women Of Wrestling and the National Wrestling Alliance, along with a library of content including classic episodes, never-before-seen matches, specials and documentaries.
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FloSports struck a new multi-year partnership with Nike Wrestling, kicking off this summer with the debut of the FloWrestling High School All-American Team, Presented by Nike. As part of the agreement, Nike Wrestling will sponsor flagship programming including FloWrestling Radio Live and the all-new FloWrestling All-American Program, designed to highlight the top high school talent across the country.
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The May 11 episode of ABC’s “American Idol” drew 5.27 million Total Viewers and a 0.62 rating in Adults 18-49, growing over the previous week in both Total Viewers (+2%; vs. 5.18 million) and Adults 18-49 (+9%; vs. 0.57 rating).
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The trailer for spinoff “NCIS: Tony & Ziva,” drew 93 million views across broadcast, social and digital in the 7 days following its May 5 release, according to Nielsen.
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POWERBALL
Today’s Jackpot is $134 million.
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Final Destination: Bloodlines – $51 million
Thunderbolts – $16.5 million
Sinners – $15.4 million
A Minecraft Movie – $5.9 million
The Accountant 2 – $5 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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