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FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 12/6/24)
NBC: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Premiere) at 8pm
HGTV: My Lottery Dream Home (Premiere) at 9pm
HISTORY: Mysteries Unearthed with Danny Trejo (Premiere) at 10pm
HULU: Paris Has Fallen (Premiere)
HULU: Buddy’s Holiday Recipe Rumble (Premiere)
NAT GEO WILD: Inside the Enchanted Forests (Premiere) at 9pm
NETFLIX: Echoes of the Past (Premiere)
PRIME VIDEO: The Sticky (Premiere)
THE ROKU CHANNEL: Clash of the Cookbooks (Premiere)
TRU TV: Evolve & Flex with Lance Fresh (Premiere) at 9pm

(SATURDAY 12/7/24)
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Paul Mescal, Musical Guest: Shaboozey (Premiere) at 11:30pm

(SUNDAY 12/8/24)
A&E: Rachael Ray’s Holidays (Premiere) at 10am
PBS: Lucy Worsley’s Holmes vs. Doyle (Premiere) at 8pm

A new Senate bill, the Transparency and Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence Networks (TRAIN) Act, would enable copyright holders to subpoena training records of generative AI models to find out if their work was used to train the model. “This is simple: if your work is used to train A.I., there should be a way for you, the copyright holder, to determine that it’s been used by a training model, and you should get compensated if it was,” said Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), who introduced the bill. “We need to give America’s musicians, artists, and creators a tool to find out when A.I. companies are using their work to train models without artists’ permission.”
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Nominations for Critics Choice Awards were announced on Thursday, and FX/Hulu’s “Shogun” led the pack with six nominations, followed by ABC’s “Abbott Elementary,” “Apple TV+’s “Disclaimer,” HBO/Max’s “Hacks” and “The Penguin,” and FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows,” with each collecting four nods. Not in the running for a fifth consecutive award for best talk show is HBO’s “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver,” because it was kicked out of the category. As the Television Academy did in 2023, the Critic’s Choice Association pulled “Last Week” from talk show competitors since if does not involve conversation. But unlike the TV Academy, the CCA did not create a new category for shows that no longer fit the talk show definition.
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Nielsen and TikTok are teaming for a new integration the measurement company says “provides a holistic view of campaign performance across publishers and platforms, and for the first time, enables cross-media measurement so that advertisers and agencies can compare ad performance on TikTok across all screens, including digital, CTV, and linear.” The integration with TikTok uses cleanroom technology and provides panels and data assets to provide independent and verified reporting of demographic data for campaign measurement in Nielsen ONE.
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A reboot of “Scrubs” is in development at ABC from 20th Television. The project was stalled for aa time as series creator Bill Lawrence negotiated with Warner Bros. Television, where he under an exclusive overall deal, to develop the show. “Scrubs” ran from 2001-10, launching on NBC and moving to ABC for its eighth and ninth seasons.
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Max has renewed “Like Water for Chocolate” for a second season. The drama has become the most watched Latin American content on Max worldwide and has climbed to rank among the top three most watched series on the platform during its premiere month.
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Season two of Taylor Sheridan’s “1923” debuts Sunday, February 23 on Paramount. The “Yellowstone” prequel series stars Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford.
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New HGTV series “Betting on Paradise” premieres Tuesday, January 7 at 9p. During the six one-hour episodes, a couple, with two young daughters in tow, will move sight unseen to the coastal town of Jacó and buy a crumbling piece of prime real estate with the dream of creating a luxury boutique hotel.
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The first four episodes of Apple TV+ family comedy “Government Cheese,” starring David Oyelowo, who also serves as executive producer, will premiere globally on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, April 16, followed by one episode weekly every Wednesday through May 28.
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ID’s “Murder Under the Friday Night Lights” kicks off with a special two-hour season premiere focused on the downfall of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. ”Aaron Hernandez and the Untold Murders of Bristol” premieres Wednesday, January 8 at 9p.
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Kansas City Chiefs’ two-part docuseries “Viva Chiefs Kingdom” is set to make its US television debut on Universo Sunday, December 8 at. Following the premiere, the Chiefs meet the Los Angeles Chargers for Week 14 of Sunday Night Football at 8p.
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ABC will air a special preview of “American Idol” following the live telecast of The Oscars on Sunday, March 2, ahead of the new season premiere on March 9.
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Jamie Foxx will address his mysterious 2023 hospitalization in Netflix special “Jamie Foxx What Happened Was,” dropping Tuesday, December 10.
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The lineup for “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2025” includes Carrie Underwood, Megan Moroney and Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Dayanara Torres will return as co-host in Puerto Rico. The show kicks off a 8p. 
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FAST channel Western Bound will premiere the original Christmas film “Christmas in Maple Hills on Saturday, December 7 at 8p.
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MOVIES
Y2K – Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, Julian Dennison, Daniel Zolghadri, Lachlan Watson, Fred Durst, Kyle Mooney, Eduardo Franco, Mason Gooding, The Kid Laroi, Lauren Malone, Alicia Silverstone, Tim Heidecker, Maureen Sebastian, Miles Robbins, Ellie Ricker, Jacob Moskovitz, Daniel Dale
Get Away – Nick Frost, Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft, Jouko Ahola, Ero Milonoff, Ville Virtanen, Maisie Ayres, Anitta Suikkari, Petteri Hiltunen
Mr. Santa: A Christmas Extravaganza (Limited Release) – Geoffrey Owens, Tommy Davidson, Khail Bryant, Brian McCarthy, Peter Donald Badalamenti II, Shauna Rae, Wakeema Hollis, Steven Thomas Capp, Emmet Smith, Tamara Fay, Toni Belafonte, Jaime Lincoln Smith, Chelsea London Lloyd, Shanel Cheatham, Marilee Kateri, Ashley Monique Harper, Sophie Tananbaum, Sydney Morgan Currie

MEGA MILLIONS
Today’s Jackpot is $579 million.

You can now play in 43 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. 

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POWERBALL
Saturday’s Jackpot is $260 million. 

Powerball is played in 43 states.

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CELEBRITY NEWS: DECEMBER 5, 2024
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Saint West (Kim Kardashian & Kanye West’s Son) – 9 years old
Frankie Muniz (Malcom In The Middle) – 39 years old
Lauren London (The Game) – 40 years old
Keri Hilson (R&B Singer) – 42 years old
Nick Stahl (“Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines”) – 45 years old
Paula Patton (Mission: Impossible, Ghost Protocol/ “Hitch”) – 49 years old
Kali Rocha (CBS’s Man With A Plan/ Liv And Maddie) – 53 years old
Margaret Cho (Comedienne/ E! Fashion Police) – 56 years old
Michel’le Toussaint (R&B Singer) – 57 years old
Amanda Lepore (Transgender Model) – 57 years old
John Rzeznik (Goo Goo Dolls) – 59 years old 

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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 12/5/24)
ABC: The Great Christmas Light Fight (Premiere) at 8pm
BRAVO: Southern Charm (Premiere) at 9pm
E!: Snoop’s Fatherhood: Cori and Wayne’s Story (Premiere) at 10pm
HALLMARK+: Cherry Lane Film Series (Premiere)
HULU: Wild Crime (Premiere)
MAX: Creature Commandos (Premiere)
VIAPLAY: Ace of Base: All That She Wants (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Black Doves (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Jentry Chau vs the Underworld (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Sorry Not Sorry (Premiere)
PRIME VIDEO: Glitter & Greed: The Lisa Frank Story (Premiere)
SUNDANCE NOW: White Lies (Premiere)

A federal Judge in Los Angeles has ruled that Byron Allen’s $10 billion lawsuit against McDonald’s for racial discrimination will go to trial. The lawsuit alleges that McDonald’s blocked Allen and his media properties, including his TV networks and streaming assets, from McDonald’s general market ad agency responsible for dispersing the vast majority of McDonald’s massive ad budget and, instead, relegated Allen and his companies to McDonald’s Black-only ad agency, because Allen is Black.
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The story of the Duchess of York’s former aide and convicted murderer, Jane Andrews, has been commissioned as four-part drama “The Lady” by BritBox with ITV’s Director of Drama, Polly Hill, and Helen Ziegler, Senior Drama Commissioner, as co-commissioners and production partners. The series will air on BritBox in North America and ITV1 and STV and stream on ITVX and STV Player in the UK.
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Production has wrapped on season 2 of Netflix’s “Wednesday,” with the premiere expected sometime next year. According to Deadline, new episodes will lean more towards the horror side, and will focus more on the relationship between Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) and mother Morticia (Catherin Zeta-Jones). New family members are expected to be introduced and a spinoff centered on Uncle Fester (played in season 1 by Fred Armisen) is in the works. Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo (Sheriff Deputy Ritchie Santiago) is now a series regular, starring with newly added Billie Piper, Steve Buscemi, Evie Templeton, Owen Painter and Noah Taylor.
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Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group said it has pre-empted the rights to Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas’ debut novel, “Climbing in Heels,” publishing April 29, 2025 by St. Martin’s Press. The drama series adaptation will be co-written and executive produced by Goldsmith-Thomas and Darren Star, who struck a multi-year overall deal with Universal Television in March 2024.
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CBS’ Saturday morning lineup has a newcomer: “Extraordinary World with Jeff Corwin” kicks off Saturday, January 4 at 9a. The original series will air as part of the CBS WKND educational/informational programming block.
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German-language hospital drama “Berlin ER” will debut Wednesday, February 26 with the first two episodes on Apple TV+. The gritty drama is set in an overcrowded hospital.
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Disney+ has renewed British drama “Rivals” for a second season. Based on the novel of the same name by Jilly Cooper, the series stars Aidan Turner, David Tennant, Alex Hassell, Bella Maclean, Emily Atack, Victoria Smurfit, Katherine Parkinson, Danny Dyer, Nafessa Williams and Luke Pasqualino.
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Netflix series “Mo” will return for its second and final season on January 28. The series, created by Mohammed ‘Mo’ Amer and Ramy Youssef, follows Mo Najjar, a Palestinian on the path to U.S. citizenship.(Source: Cynopsis)

Marlon Wayans is set to guest star in “Poppa’s House” alongside his brother Damon Wayans (Poppa) and nephew Damon Wayans Jr. (Junior) in an episode airing on CBS in February. Marlon will play Poppa’s brother Melvin, who comes to visit the family with a new business idea. The episode will air on CBS in February 2025. “Poppa’s House” airs on Mondays at 8:30p.
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“Lucy Worsley’s Holmes Vs. Doyle,” premieres December 8 at 8p on PBS, featuring historian and lifelong Sherlock Holmes fan, Lucy Worsley investigating the curious relationship between author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his most famous creation; while on December 10 at 10p, “Frontline: Breakdown in Maine” investigates the deadliest mass shooting in the state’s history and missed opportunities to prevent it. On December 13, folk punk group Violet Femmes celebrates the 40th anniversary of its self-titled debut album on “Violent Femmes 40th Anniversary with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra at 10p. PBS Holiday programming kicks off December 16 with American Masters: Brenda Lee: Rockin’Around, followed by “Joy – Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir” and “Too Hot to Handel: The Gospel Messiah” on December 17 at 8p and 9:30p, respectively. PBS closes out the year with “Next at the Kennedy Center: Sara Bareilles: New Year’s Eve with the National Symphony Orchestra and Friends” on December 31 at 8p. 
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LGBTQ+ streaming network Revry’s “A Very Merry Marathon” continues into December featuring new additions including “Absolutely Fabulous,” “What’s Cooking?,” “This Boy’s Life,” “Queer as Folk,” and “My Own Private Idaho.” Revry is available on a variety of devices including Roku, Samsung TV Plus, Peacock, Vizio, Tubi, Direct TV, and Xfinity, among others.
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Animated Sc-Fi series “StuGo” will premiere on Disney Channel on Saturday, January 11 at 8p with two episodes,followed by new episodes weekly on Sundays at 9a. The series will also stream on Disney+ in the spring of 2025.
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Get ready to jingle bell rock on AXS TV this December, as the Network unwraps its “12 Days Of Christmas” programming event, airing Thursday, December 12 through Tuesday, December 24. Every day, for 12 days, AXS TV puts the spotlight on concerts, artist interviews, holiday music videos, and Christmas movies, starting with “The Top Ten Revealed (Christmas Crooners)” on Thursday, December 12 at 6p.
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Disney said it is refreshing its Disney+ Bundle, giving subscribers to the package full access to ESPN+ and Hulu content through the Disney+ app, and allowing consumers without the bundled offering to watch a limited selection of Hulu and ESPN programming. Disney Bundle subscribers that have ESPN+ have full access to its sports offerings within the Disney+ app, and Disney+ subscribers can watch live events such as the Australian Open, and “The Simpsons Funday Football” and ESPN shows like “Pardon The Interruption” and “College GameDay.” The company said more than 30 Hulu movies and series will be available, including the first season of “Shogun,” “Reservation Dogs” and “Dawn of the Planet of The Apes.”
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SHOWTIME/MTV Entertainment Studios’ new espionage thriller “The Agency” is the most streamed new series in Showtime history with 5.1 million global cross-platform viewers and was, not surprisingly, renewed for a season two.
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WWE’s next “Saturday Night’s Main Event” primetime special will air liveon Saturday, January 25 at 8p on NBC and Peacock. The special will be held at Frost Bank Center – home of the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs – in San Antonio, Texas.
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The global premiere of Taylor Sheridan drama “Landman” delivered 14.6M multiplatform viewers in its first seven days across Paramount+ and linear preview. Week 2, Day 1 reached 2.4 million domestic households, up a +60% from Week 1, Day 1 (1.5million).
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Fox reports 12.3 million viewers watched Michigan beat Ohio State on its Big Noon Saturday broadcast, the most watched Big Ten game of the season on any network and the second most-watched CFB games of the season on any network.
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