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CELEBRITY NEWS: NOVEMBER 20, 2025
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Demetrius Shipp Jr. (“The Bobby Brown Story”/ “All Eyes On Me”) – 37 years old
Ashley Fink (Glee) – 39 years old
Nayvadius “Future” Wilburn (Rapper) – 42 years old
Dan Byrd (Cougar Town) – 40 years old
Jeremy Jordan (Supergirl/ Smash) – 41 years old
Nadine Velazquez (“Flight”/ My Name Is Earl) – 47 years old
Dominique Dawes (Olympic Gymnast) – 49 years old
Dierks Bentley (Country Singer) – 50 years old
Joel McHale (The Soup/ Community) – 54 years old
Mike Diamond (Beastie Boys) – 60 years old
Ming-Na Wen (ER/ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D) – 62 years old
Sean Young (“No Way Out”) – 66 years old
Bo Derek (“10”) – 69 years old
Veronica Hamel (Hill Street Blues) – 82 years old
Joe Biden (President-Elect 2021/ 47th Vice President of the United States) – 83 years old
Dick Smothers (The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour) – 87 years old
Estelle Parsons (The Conners/ Roseanne) – 98 years old

FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 11/20/25)
AMC+: The Assassin (Premiere)
BET+: American Gangster: Trap Queens (Premiere)
NETFLIX: The Great British Baking Show: Holidays (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (Premiere)
NETFLIX: A Man on the Inside (Premiere)
PEACOCK: The Celebrity Traitors UK (Premiere)
PEACOCK: High Horse: The Black Cowboy (Premiere)

Major League Baseball has inked new media rights deals with NBC, Netflix and ESPN. Sunday night games will move from ESPN to NBC Sports, which also nabbed ESPN’s Wild Card rights. Netflix will have the annual Home Run Derby, along with MLB’s opening night game and a revived Field of Dreams game. ESPN is offering live, out-of-market games on its streaming platform via the acquisition of streaming service MLB.TV, which will be folded into the ESPN app. “Our new media rights agreements with ESPN, NBCUniversal and Netflix provide us with a great opportunity to expand our reach to fans through three powerful destinations for live sports, entertainment, and marquee events,” said MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred. “Following our last World Series game that averaged more than 51 million viewers globally, these partnerships build on MLB’s growing momentum.” ESPN and MLB ended a 35-year relationship earlier this year.
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Chris McCarthy, former Paramount Co-CEO, is headed to NBCUniversal.McCarthy will help NBCU produce content, as well as support its relationship with Taylor Sheridan, who is moving his film deal to NBCU next year, and his TV deal in 2029. McCarthy, who left Paramount after its merger with Skydance, worked closely with Sheridan on Paramount’s “Yellowstone” franchise.
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Sinclair has partnered with Feeding America to launch Sinclair Cares: Fill the Food Banks, a fundraising campaign to help provide meals to families during the holiday season. The initiative will run through December 25.
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Amazon is introducing a video recap feature to help viewers recall plot points from old episodes before they start watching new ones. The recaps can be accessed on the show page.
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NATAS announced nominations for the 4th Annual Children’s & Family Emmy Awards, set to take place in NYC for the first time on March 1 and 2. Walt Disney Company set a record with 103 nominations across its content brands and studios.
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Season two of “The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball” drops Monday, December 2 on Hulu. The animated series focuses on the absurd world of the Watterson family. 
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Hockey romance “Heated Rivalry” launches with two episodes Friday, November 28 on HBO Max. The show was originally created for Canadian streaming service Crave by Canadian writer-director-producer Jacob Tierney (“Letterkenny”).
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ID’s “The Rocky Mountain Mortician Murder” premieres Wednesday, November 26 at 8p. The true-crime show tells the story of a respected mortician and pillar of his rural Colorado community who was found shot execution style on his ranch.
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The CW has set midseason premiere dates. Second seasons of “Scrabble,” with new host Craig Ferguson, and LeVar-hosted “Trivia Pursuit” debut Thursday, January 22 at 8p and 9p, while newly renewed Canadian police drama “Wild Cards” is back for its third run on Monday, January 26 at 8p.
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HBO and the NFL re-team for “Hard Knocks: In Season With the NFC East,” kicking off Tuesday, December 2 at 9p. New episodes continue into the NFL playoffs in January.
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Amazon MGM Studios has ordered sci-fi series “Stargate” for Prime Video. The show comes from Martin Gero (“Blindspot”), who will serve as creator, writer, executive producer and showrunner.
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Maria Zuckerman (“Grey Gardens”) has entered into a multi-year first-look producing deal with Fox Entertainment Studios to develop and produce scripted series and feature films, as well as non-fiction projects. “Maria is one of the industry’s most dynamic creative forces – a producer with vision, discipline, impeccable instincts, and the deep talent relationships needed to bring exceptional stories to life,” said Hannah Pillemer, Head of Scripted at FOX Entertainment Studios. “She has a remarkable track record for identifying great storytellers and creating content that makes noise and shapes culture, which is exactly why she’s an ideal partner as we continue to expand FOX’s creative footprint.”
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Kevin Costner is in talks to play former President Bill Cinton in drama series “United,” as well as executive produce along with Leonardo DiCaprio. Producers for the series, focused on true stories of heroism, include DiCaprio’s Appian Way, Onwards Studios and Prime Focus DNEG.
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Future Today’s AVOD platform Happy Kids is expanding its portfoliothrough an expanded partnership with Hello Einstein Studios. The collaboration includes additional Baby Einstein content on HappyKids as well as the launch of the Baby Einstein app. “Farm Explorers,” Baby Einstein’s latest series, will launch on HappyKids this month, followed by “Closer Look,” paying homage to the original classics ahead of Baby Einstein’s 30th anniversary in 2026.
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Comedy Central special “The Daily Show Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Give the Man a Prize” is set to premiere Monday, December 8 at 11:30p.
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COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS 2025: COMPLETE WINNERS LIST
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