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Feb 16 2019
News/Video: New Season of ABC’s American Idol Kicks Off with Star-Studded Premiere Week
“American Idol” is returning to The ABC Television Network after first making its return to airwaves as the No. 1 reality show launch for its inaugural season on the network during the 2017–2018 season.
Feb 15 2019
Video: Octavia Spencer Stars In New Thriller MA In Theaters May 31
Oscar® winner Octavia Spencer stars as Sue Ann, a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town (Diana Silvers, Glass), to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own. She offers the kids the chance to avoid drinking and driving by hanging out in the basement of her home. But there are some house rules: One of the kids has to stay sober. Don’t curse. Never go upstairs. And call her “Ma.” But as Ma’s hospitality starts to curdle into obsession, what began as a teenage dream turns into a terrorizing nightmare, and Ma’s place goes from the best place in town to the worst place on earth.
Feb 14 2019
News: NBC Announces Eight Season Renewal For American Ninja Warrior
NBC’s three-time Emmy Award-nominated series “American Ninja Warrior” will be returning this summer to NBC for its eighth season.
Feb 14 2019
Mental Samurai Hosted by Rob Lowe Premieres March 19 on Fox
**NEW PREMIERE DATE** MENTAL SAMURAI, a thrilling new competition series that pushes every aspect of human intelligence and mental agility, debuts Tuesday, March 19 (9/8c). Hosted and produced by Rob Lowe, from A. Smith & Co. Productions, Warner Horizon Unscripted & Alternative Television and Apploff Entertainment, the show is the first-ever obstacle course…for the mind.
Feb 14 2019
Video/Photos: The Hummingbird Project Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Salma Hayek In Theaters March 15
The Hummingbird Project tells a story of two cousins from New York, Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton (Alexander Skarsgård) who are players in the high-stakes game of High-Frequency Trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds. Their dream? To build a straight fiber-optic cable line between Kansas and New Jersey, making them millions. But nothing is
straightforward for this flawed pair. Anton is the brains, Vincent is the hustler, and together they push each other and everyone around them to the breaking point with their quixotic adventure. Constantly breathing down their necks is their old boss Eva Torres (Salma Hayek), a powerful, intoxicating and manipulative trader who will stop at nothing to come between them and beat them at their own game.
Feb 13 2019
Video/News: Showtime’s First Ever Late-Night Talk Show Desus & Mero Welcomes Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez On Feb 21
Desus Nice and The Kid Mero will welcome fellow Bronx native Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) as the first guest in studio on their new SHOWTIME weekly half-hour late-night talk show, DESUS & MERO. The series will premiere on Thursday, February 21 at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT and air on Thursday nights from New York City. In the premiere episode, the duo will also visit the Congresswoman’s new offices in D.C. determined to make her feel at home, as well as give their take on the day’s hot topics in their signature style in front of a small live studio audience.
Feb 13 2019
News: USA Network Picks Up Television Adaptation of Brave New World
USA Network announced that BRAVE NEW WORLD, based on the Aldous Huxley novel, has been picked up straight to series.
Feb 12 2019
News: Gabrielle Union and Julianne Hough Join Judges Panel On Season 14 of America’s Got Talent, Terry Crews to Host
NBC’s unrivaled and beloved summer sensation “America’s Got Talent” revs up the excitement for season 14 with award-winning actress, author and producer Gabrielle Union and actress, dancer, singer and Emmy Award-winning choreographer Julianne Hough joining the judging panel. In addition, Terry Crews will serve as host of the hit series, a role he currently fills on the highly rated “America’s Got Talent: The Champions.”
Auditions for the upcoming season of “America’s Got Talent” are still underway. Interested acts can submit an online audition up until midnight EST on Monday, March 4.
Feb 12 2019
Video: ABC’s Whiskey Cavalier Starring Scott Foley and Lauren Cohan Official Trailer.
“Whiskey Cavalier” is a high-octane, hour-long action dramedy that follows the adventures of tough but tender FBI super-agent Will Chase (codename: “Whiskey Cavalier”), played by Scott Foley.
Feb 12 2019
News: Showtime Announces Four-Part Documentary Series Action
SHOWTIME Sports Documentary Films announced a multi-part docu-series titled ACTION, exploring the legalization of sports gambling
Feb 12 2019
News: Travel Channel Paranormal Series Portals to Hell With Jack Osbourne and Katrina Weidman Premieres April 19
Hauntings exist all over the world, but there are a few locations with sordid pasts and dark histories that are especially sinister and purported to be doorways to the spirit underworld. In Travel Channel’s new series, “Portals to Hell,” premiering on Friday, April 19 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, television personality and executive producer Jack Osbourne, and paranormal researcher and investigator Katrina Weidman, join forces to explore this phenomenon, investigating each haunted location in search of irrefutable evidence that a spirit world exists, and death is not the end.
Feb 12 2019
Video/News: Miley Cyrus Joins As Judge on Season 11 of RuPaul’s Drag Race Premiering Feb 28
Global superstar Miley Cyrus joins Emmy® Award-winning host RuPaul and judges Michelle Visage, Carson Kressley and Ross Mathews to kick off the season 11 premiere of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” on Thursday, February 28 at 9PM ET/PT on VH1. The new season will feature all 90-minute episodes followed by “RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked” after show at 10:30 PM ET/PT. In the jaw-dropping premiere, Cyrus goes undercover in the workroom to spy on the new cast of queens.
Feb 11 2019
News: Lucy Liu To Star In Marc Cherry’s New Dark Dramedy Why Women Kill On CBS All Access
CBS All Access, CBS’ digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service, announced Lucy Liu will star in the service’s upcoming darkly comedic drama WHY WOMEN KILL. Created by Marc Cherry (“Desperate Housewives,” “Devious Maids”), WHY WOMEN KILL details the lives of three women living in three different decades: a housewife in the ’60s, a socialite in the ’80s and a lawyer in 2018, each dealing with infidelity in their marriages. The series will examine how the roles of women have changed, but how their reaction to betrayal… has not.
Feb 11 2019
News: TBS Lands Chad Pilot From SNL Alum Nasim Pedrad
TBS has picked up Chad to pilot, a single-camera comedy that follows a 14-year-old Persian boy (played by Nasim Pedrad) during high school as he desperately tries to fit in.
Feb 11 2019
News: Season 9 of Alaskan Bush People Premieres March 3 on Discovery
After making their long-awaited return to the wild last year, the Brown family is back for a brand-new adventure-filled ninth season of Discovery Channel’s top-rated series, ALASKAN BUSH PEOPLE . With their first foothold of self-sufficiency realized with the construction of their barn last season, the Browns re-dedicate themselves to the life they love off-grid in the wild mountains of the pacific northwest. They’re closer than ever to realizing their lifelong family dream of a sustainable ranch but must overcome new challenges and incredible family changes as a brutal winter hits earlier than expected. ALASKAN BUSH PEOPLE returns Sunday, March 3 at 10PM ET/PT on Discovery Channel.
Feb 10 2019
News: History Channel’s UFO Drama Project Blue Book Renewed For Second Season
HISTORY’s hit UFO drama series “Project Blue Book,” from A+E Studios and Academy Award and Golden Globe® winning executive producer Robert Zemeckis, has landed a 10-episode sophomore season. “Project Blue Book” is based on the true, top-secret investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and related phenomena conducted by the United States Air Force in the 1950s and 60s and stars Aidan Gillen (“Game of Thrones”) and Michael Malarkey (“The Vampire Diaries”). New episodes of “Project Blue Book” air Tuesdays at 10PM ET/PT on HISTORY.
Feb 10 2019
News: Lifetime Greenlights Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal(wt) To Debut Spring 2019
Lifetime heads across the pond with a follow-up to the 2018 hit movie following the romantic journey of Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle with the sequel, Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal (working title).
Feb 10 2019
News: Things Get Frosty In the New Season of Naked and Afraid Premiering March 3 on Discovery Channel
Television’s most extreme survival challenge is back and more intense than ever. This season, NAKED AND AFRAID survivalists are put in the most challenging locations to date including the frozen tundra of Alaska, an alligator-infested swamp in Florida and an African Kill Zone where they are stalked by lions, dozens of crocodiles and a herd of 100 elephants. Six Naked and Afraid All-Star survivalists return to take on locations so dangerous they put their elite skills to the ultimate test. This season also features Naked and Afraid’s first threesome challenge, a four-survivalist Battle of the Sexes as well as the first couple to take on this challenge. Will the challenge strengthen their relationship or break them apart?
Feb 09 2019
News: A Discovery of Witches Makes Network Television Debut On AMC and BBC America April 7
AMC Networks announced from the Television Critics’ Association (TCA) Press Tour that the hit series A Discovery of Witches, starring Matthew Goode and Teresa Palmer, will make its network television debut on AMC and BBC AMERICA following a hugely successful premiere on the AMC Networks’ streaming services Sundance Now and Shudder. The series’ first season will begin an eight-week run on both networks starting Sunday, April 7 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT, following BBC AMERICA and AMC’s previously announced simulcast of Killing Eve at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT.
Feb 09 2019
News: AMC Announces 2019 Premiere Dates for New/Returning Series
AMC Networks announced the premiere dates for several new and returning original series, including AMC’s groundbreaking martial arts drama Into the Badlands and western drama The Son, BBC AMERICA’s Top Gear and Luther, IFC’s Brockmire and SundanceTV’s Ministry of Evil, Unspeakable and The Name of the Rose.
Feb 08 2019
News: Christopher McQuarrie Joins Showtime’s The President is Missing as Executive Producer
SHOWTIME has announced that Academy Award® winner Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) and Anthony Peckham (Invictus) have joined the drama series THE PRESIDENT IS MISSING
Feb 07 2019
News: Ginnifer Goodwin Has Just Crossed Over to The Twilight Zone Premiering April 1 on CBS All Access
Ginnifer Goodwin has just crossed over to THE TWILIGHT ZONE. She joins the CBS All Access original series as the star of an upcoming episode titled “Point of Origin,” which will also feature James Frain and Zabryna Guevara. Previously announced cast for the series includes host and narrator Jordan Peele, as well as Ike Barinholtz, John Cho, Taissa Farmiga, Greg Kinnear, Luke Kirby, Sanaa Lathan, Kumail Nanjiani, Adam Scott, Rhea Seehorn, Alison Tolman, Jacob Tremblay, Jessica Williams, DeWanda Wise and Steven Yeun.
Feb 07 2019
Photos/News: Mammoth Film Festival Sets Zac Efron’s Ted Bundy Film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile As Premiere
The 2nd Annual Mammoth Film Festival™ will have the California premiere of EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL AND VILE film starring Zac Efron as Ted Bundy, Lily Collins, Haley Joel Osment, Kaya Scodelario, John Malkovich, and Jim Parsons. This marks the film’s second festival premiere after it made a splash at Sundance.
Directed by veteran documentarian Joe Berlinger, EXTREMELY WICKED tells the story of Ted Bundy through the lens of his longtime girlfriend (Collins) and her experience with one of the most notorious serial killers of all time. After initially receiving backlash for potentially romanticizing the notorious serial killer, Berlinger along with one of Bundy’s survivors, Kathy Kleiner Rubin, have stood by it, saying that Bundy’s eerie charm is what made him an unsuspecting, and now infamous, murderer.
Feb 07 2019
Video/Photos: Four New Movies Based on V.C. Andrews’ Casteel Family To Debut On Lifetime In 2019
Production on four new movies, based on V.C Andrews’ Casteel Family, is currently underway for their debut on Lifetime in 2019. Marking the last known series written by prolific writer V.C. Andrews, who personally penned the first two novels, the titles in the quintet include Heaven, which was shot last year, Dark Angel, Fallen Hearts, Gates of Paradise and Web of Dreams. The movie event series follows Heaven Casteel and her siblings after their father devises a scheme that threatens to destroy their dreams and separate the family forever.
The first of the movies, Heaven, stars Annalise Basso (Captain Fantastic), Julie Benz (Dexter), Chris William Martin (The Vampire Diaries), and Chris McNally (Altered Carbon). Basso and Martin will return for the second and third installments, Dark Angel and Fallen Hearts, joined by Jason Priestley (Private Eyes, Beverly Hills, 90210) and Kelly Rutherford (Gossip Girl, Melrose Place). Priestley is also set to direct Fallen Hearts.
Feb 07 2019
Video/News: My Journey With A Polar Bear Special Premieres March 6 on Smithsonian Channel
With climate change at the forefront of the world’s natural crises, Smithsonian Channel takes you on a dramatic adventure that reveals an ever-changing Arctic. In MY JOURNEY WITH A POLAR BEAR, viewers will get an intimate look at one polar bear mother’s struggle to raise her cubs as her home melts away under her feet. Norwegian filmmaker Asgeir Helgestad worked in the harshest of conditions to document the bear’s life over the course of four years, capturing her attempts to hunt and her interactions with other bears while experiencing unprecedented change to the world around her. MY JOURNEY WITH A POLAR BEAR premieres Wednesday, March 6 at 8 p.m. on Smithsonian Channel.
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