CALLS FOR “THE WOMAN KING” TO BE BOYCOTTED AMID SLAVE TRADE CRITICISM

September 19, 2022

CALLS FOR “THE WOMAN KING” TO BE BOYCOTTED AMID SLAVE TRADE CRITICISM
https://www.tmz.com/2022/09/17/calls-for-the-woman-king-to-be-boycotted-amid-slave-trade-criticism/

CELEBRITY NEWS: SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

September 19, 2022

CELEBRITY NEWS: SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
http://www.imdb.com/news/celebrity

Columbus Short (Scandal/ “Stomp The Yard”) – 40 years old
Tegan Quin (Tegan And Sarah) – 42 years old
Noemie Lenoir (Model) – 43 years old
Alison Sweeney (Days of Our Lives/ The Biggest Loser) – 46 years old
Carter Oosterhouse (Trading Spaces) – 46 years old
Jimmy Fallon (The Tonight Show) – 48 years old
Sanaa Lathan (“American Assassin”/ “The Best Man Holiday”) – 51 years old
Victor Williams (The Affair/ The King of Queens) – 52 years old
Michael Symon (Chef, The Chew) – 53 years old
Soledad O’Brien (Journalist) – 56 years old
Trisha Yearwood (Country Singer) – 58 years old
Kim Richards (Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) – 58 years old
Cheri Oteri (formerly of Saturday Night Live) – 60 years old
Mario Batali (Chef, The Chew) – 62 years old
Lita Ford (lead guitarist for The Runaways) – 64 years old
Nile Rodgers (Chic) – 70 years old
Joan Lunden (former host of Good Morning America) – 72 years old
Leslie “Twiggy” Lawson (Model) – 73 years old
Jeremy Irons (“Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice”) – 74 years old
Bill Medley (The Righteous Brothers) – 82 years old
Paul Williams (Music Composer) – 82 years old
Rosemary Harris (“Spider-Man” movies) – 95 years old

FIRST LOOK/ ON TV/ POWERBALL/ WEEKEND BOX OFFICE

September 19, 2022

FIRST LOOK
http://www.eonline.com/news

ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 9/19/22)
CBS: The Neighborhood (Premiere) at 8pm
CBS: Bob Hearts Abishola (Premiere) at 8:30pm
CBS: NCIS (Premiere) at 9pm
CBS: NCIS: Hawai’i (Premiere) at 10pm
DISCOVERY: Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings (Premiere) at 8pm
DISCOVERY+: The Journey of India (Premiere)
DISNEY+: Dancing With the Stars (Premiere)
FOX: 9-1-1 (Premiere) at 8pm
FOX: The Cleaning Lady (Premiere) at 9pm
HULU: Best in Dough (Premiere)
NBC: The Voice (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: Quantum Leap (Premiere) at 10pm
Outdoor Channel: Andrew Zimmern’s Wild Game Kitchen (Premiere) at 9pm
HBO: Industry (Finale) at 9pm

New animated special “Reindeer in Here” premieres Tuesday, November 29 at 9p on CBS. Based on the book about a Christmas-saving young reindeer who has one antler that’s much smaller than the other, the special will air after 1964 holiday classic “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Dennis Quaid has joined the cast of HBO Max’s “Full Circle,” a limited series about a botched kidnapping from director Steven Soderbergh and writer Ed Solomon. Clare Danes, Timothy Olyphant and Zazie Beetz also star.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Linear Spanish networks earned $1.5B in revenue between October 2021-July 2022, and achieved +9% growth in back-to-back years, according to Standard Media Index. Counted in the calculation were Azteca, CNN en Espanol, Discovery en Espanol, Discovery Familia, El Rey Network, ESPN Deportes, Estrella TV, FOX Deportes, Galavision, Telemundo, TUDN, UniMas, Universo and Univision.
(Source: Cynopsis)

California Gov. Gavin Newson tagged @CNN in a tweet directed at his counterpart in Florida, as news nets were covering DeSantis’ decision to fly Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard. “Hey @GovRonDeSantis, clearly you’re struggling, distracted, and busy playing politics with people’s lives. Since you have only one overriding need — attention — let’s take this up & debate.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner of White Cherry Entertainment have been named executive producers of the 95th Oscars. Weiss also will direct the show, which airs on ABC Sunday, March 12. It will be Weiss’s second time and Kirshner’s first time producing the big show – which, if The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences CEO Bill Kramer has his way, will get a refresh. “Clearly there is a need to reinvigorate the show and we are hard at work with our great partners at Disney-ABC on this,” said Kramer at AMPAS’ membership meeting on Saturday.
(Source: Cynopsis)

“STARZ deal done, we had nothing but success so no hard feelings,”posted Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson over the weekend on social media. The executive producer of the “Power” franchise and his G-Unit Film & Television is reportedly leaving for a major new deal.
(Source: Cynopsis)

HBO Max is not moving forward with “Constantine” or “Madame X,”projects from Bad Robot in association with Warner Bros. Television. Both shows will be shopped elsewhere, reports Deadline.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Wendy Makkena (“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”) has jumped onboard Paramount+ series “Rabbit Hole,” starring Keifer Sutherland as a man framed for murder.
(Source: Cynopsis)

“Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News” kicks off a new season on Comedy Central beginning Wednesday, October 5. The series will air 13 episodes on Wednesday nights following “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.” Episodes will feature returning and all-new characters across the current show segments: “Big News,” “Virtue Signal,” “Hot Take,” and “Inside The Hill.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

“Mystery Road: Origin” premieres with two episodes on Acorn TV on Monday, September 26. A pair of new eps will drop weekly through October 10.
(Source: Cynopsis)

TV5Monde USA celebrates the work of the late director Jean-Luc Godard with two films this month. “Masculin Féminin” (1966) will air on Sunday, September 25 at 8:30p, while “Detective” (1985) is slated for Tuesday, September 27 at 8:30 PM/ET. Godard died September 13 at age 91.
(Source: Cynopsis)

FOX Sports and FuboTV announced coverage plans and new broadcast schedules for the second window of the UEFA Nations League 2022/23 competition. From Wednesday, September 21, through the end of the second window of match days on Tuesday, September 27, FOX Sports will feature 23 UEFA Nations League 2022/23 matches across FS1, FS2 and FOX Soccer Plus. A total of 30 UEFA Nations League 2022/23 matches will stream exclusively on sports-first live TV streaming platform FuboTV’s Fubo Sports Network, as part of FuboTV’s subscription packages featuring 125+ sports, news and entertainment channels.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The WNBA continues to roll as Thursday’s game 3 of the WNBA Finals between the Aces and Sun averaged 579,000 viewers for ESPN last week, up 9% over Game 3 a year ago, with audiences peaking at 686,000. Through 22 games (before last night’s), the WNBA postseason is up 24% over the previous year through Game 3.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Speaking of ESPN, tonight sees the network present two Monday Night Football games for the first time, with staggered kickoff times and overlapping action on the same night beginning at 7:15p with Titans/Bills on ESPN and Vikings/Eagles at 8:30p on ABC. The two games, which will be shown in full on each respective network, will overlap for roughly one half of football, creating a Sunday afternoon environment in primetime. Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Lisa Salters will be in Philadelphia; Steve Levy, Dan Orlovsky, Louis Riddick and Laura Rutledge will be in Buffalo. Beginning at 8:30 p.m. throughout the overlapping action, both ESPN and ABC productions will create awareness of what is happening on the other network including activating a double-box view, allowing simultaneous viewing for periods of time.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Fox drama “Monarch” has reached more than 10 million viewers across four linear telecasts and digital platforms, with a total view time surpassing 500 million minutes. The program’s Sunday premiere registered a 1.0/7 Live+3 rating among A18-49 and 4.7M multi-platform viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The premiere of TLC’s “Sister Wives” made the network #1 in cable among P/W25-54/18-49/18-34 and P2+ demos. The premiere brought in an average of 2.2M P2+ viewers and delivered an average 1.91 W25-54 rating. It was also the highest season premiere in 6 years with a 1.42 W18-49 rating.
(Source: Cynopsis)

This year’s Emmy Awards may have hit an all-time low linear ratings-wise, but social video views were up 150%. Across NBCU’s platforms, 1.1 billion minutes of Emmys content were consumed.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Season two of Food Network’s “Alex vs America” reached more than 9.1 M P2+ viewers, +44% vs season one. For the run, the series averaged .6 P18+ and .9 W18+ Live+3 ratings, an increase of +17% vs. prior season for both demos.
(Source: Cynopsis)

POWERBALL
Today’s Jackpot is $238 million. 

Powerball is played in 43 states.

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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
The Woman King – $19 million
Barbarian – $6.3 million
Pearl – $3.1 million
See How They Run – $3.1 million
Bullet Train – $2.5 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S HISTORY-MAKING “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA” SETS CLOSING DATE ON BROADWAY FOR FEBRUARY 18, 2023

September 17, 2022

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S HISTORY-MAKING “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA” SETS CLOSING DATE ON BROADWAY FOR FEBRUARY 18, 2023
https://www.playbill.com/article/andrew-lloyd-webbers-history-making-the-phantom-of-the-opera-sets-closing-date-on-broadway

COMMON (RAPPER, OSCAR, GRAMMY AND EMMY WINNER) WILL MAKE HIS BROADWAY DEBUT IN “BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY” THIS FALL

September 17, 2022

COMMON (RAPPER, OSCAR, GRAMMY AND EMMY WINNER) WILL MAKE HIS BROADWAY DEBUT IN “BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY” THIS FALL
https://www.playbill.com/article/oscar-and-grammy-winner-common-to-make-broadway-debut-in-between-riverside-and-crazy

KATE MIDDLETON & PRINCE WILLIAM SHARE HOW THEIR CHILDREN ARE DOING AFTER THE QUEEN’S DEATH

September 17, 2022

KATE MIDDLETON & PRINCE WILLIAM SHARE HOW THEIR CHILDREN ARE DOING AFTER THE QUEEN’S DEATH
https://www.eonline.com/news/1346738/kate-middleton-and-prince-william-share-how-their-children-are-doing-after-the-queens-death

HERE’S HOW BEYONCE MADE HISTORY YET AGAIN WITH HER LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT

September 17, 2022

HERE’S HOW BEYONCE MADE HISTORY YET AGAIN WITH HER LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT
https://www.eonline.com/news/1346706/heres-how-beyonce-made-history-yet-again-with-her-latest-accomplishment

KANYE WEST SAYS KIM KARDASHIAN RAISES THEIR KIDS 80 PERCENT OF THE TIME

September 17, 2022

KANYE WEST SAYS KIM KARDASHIAN RAISES THEIR KIDS 80 PERCENT OF THE TIME
https://www.eonline.com/news/1346741/kanye-west-says-kim-kardashian-raises-their-kids-80-percent-of-the-time

JAMES “TIM” NORMAN (WELCOME TO SWEETIE PIE’S) IS CONVICTED OF ARRANGING HIS NEPHEW’S MURDER IN 2016

September 17, 2022

JAMES “TIM” NORMAN (WELCOME TO SWEETIE PIE’S) IS CONVICTED OF ARRANGING HIS NEPHEW’S MURDER IN 2016
https://www.tmz.com/2022/09/16/welcome-to-sweetie-pie-owner-convicted-guilty-murder-nephew/

ZOE LISTER-JONES (NEW GIRL) FILES FOR DIVORCE FROM DARYL WEIN

September 17, 2022

ZOE LISTER-JONES (NEW GIRL) FILES FOR DIVORCE FROM DARYL WEIN
https://www.tmz.com/2022/09/16/actress-zoe-lister-jones-files-divorce/