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TV Premiere Dates 2023: The Complete Guide
With literally thousands of TV series — scripted and unscripted, news and sports — airing in a given year, it’s hard to keep track of when any given show will be on a screen. The Hollywood Reporter is here to help. Below is a comprehensive guide to premiere dates across all platforms for the coming […]
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Lizzo Extends Amazon Studios First-Look Deal
It’s about damn time… \for Lizzo to extend a first-look deal she has with Amazon Studios. The Grammy and Emmy winner will continue to develop programming for the tech giant’s studio arm under the deal, which she first signed in August 2020. The extension comes after Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls won three […]
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Medical Drama ‘Doc’ Lands Series Order at Fox
Fox has handed out its first series pickup for a new live-action show for the 2023-24 season. The broadcast network has given a straight-to-series order to Doc, a medical drama based on an Italian format. The show centers on the Dr. Amy Elias — chief of internal and family medicine at a Minneapolis hospital, who’s also […]
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Fire at U.K. Studio Briefly Disrupts ‘Lord of the Rings’ Filming
A fire Monday at the studio complex where The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is shooting its second season halted production for a time. The Prime Video series is filming at Bray Studios in the United Kingdom, having moved its production hub from New Zealand, where season one was based (and where […]
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How Networks and Streamers Are Prepping for a Potential Writers Strike
As the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers continue negotiating over a new contract, the prospect of a labor strike — the first for writers in 15 years — looms large. The guild has a wide-ranging set of priorities for the negotiations, ranging from higher minimum pay and expanded […]
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BET Snags ‘Breakfast Club’ TV Broadcast in iHeartMedia Partnership (Exclusive)
BET is getting back into the daily programming game for the first time in almost a decade. The Paramount Global-owned cable outlet has partnered with iHeartMedia to air a daily broadcast of the syndicated Breakfast Club radio show, hosted by Charlamagne Tha God and DJ Envy on New York’s Power 105.1-FM. BET (and sister network […]
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‘Not Dead Yet’ Scores ABC’s Best Comedy Launch Since ‘The Conners’
ABC’s first-year comedy Not Dead Yet is showing strong signs of life. The pilot episode of the Gina Rodriguez-led series, produced by 20th Television, has pulled in the biggest debut audience for a comedy on the network in more than four years — since The Conners premiered in October 2018. Over its first five weeks […]
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Ryan Coogler Pondering ‘X-Files’ Reboot, Creator Chris Carter Says
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever director Ryan Coogler is eyeing a reboot of The X-Files — at least according to the show’s creator, Chris Carter. Carter dropped Coogler’s name during an interview this week on the CBC radio show On the Coast With Gloria Macarenko. Discussing the upcoming 30th anniversary of The X-Files premiering on Fox, Carter […]
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‘The Night Agent’ Opens Big for Netflix
Netflix viewers spent a lot of time tracking The Night Agent last week. The thriller from Sony Pictures TV and creator Shawn Ryan rocketed to No. 1 on the streamer’s internal charts for the week of March 20-26. The Night Agent, which premiered March 23, amassed 168.17 million hours of viewing worldwide over its first […]
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Wanda Sykes, Page Hurwitz’s Push It Productions Inks First-Look Deal at Warner Bros. TV (Exclusive)
Wanda Sykes is getting into business with Warner Bros. TV. Push It Productions, the company founded by Sykes and Page Hurwitz, has signed a first-look deal with the studio. Push It has also hired former WBTV executive Rachel Davis as vp development. Under the two-year deal, the trio will develop both scripted and unscripted projects […]
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‘Bel-Air’ Showrunner to Adapt Novel ‘Black Candle Women’ for Universal TV
Universal Television has snagged rights to the latest selection in Today host Jenna Bush Hager’s book club. The studio will develop Diane Marie Brown’s debut novel, Black Candle Women, with Bel-Air showrunner Carla Banks Waddles writing the adaptation. Hager, who has a first-look deal at UTV parent Universal Studio Group via her Thousand Voices banner, […]
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TV Ratings: ‘Succession’ Season 4 Debut Nabs Series High
The final season of Succession began with the HBO show’s biggest first-night audience to date. Sunday’s fourth-season premiere drew 2.3 million cross-platform viewers, according to Nielsen and first-party streaming data from HBO. That’s the biggest tune-in for the show ever, passing the 1.7 million who watched the season three finale in December 2021. Per Nielsen, […]
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