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Monday May 20, 2024

Today’s Premieres
HBO: Stax: Soulsville, U.S.A. at 9p
JLTV: Bubbies Knows Best at 8p
Nick: The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish at 4:30p
USA: Race to Survive: New Zealand at 11p

Today’s Finales
Fox: MasterChef at 8p; So You Think You Can Dance at 9p
HGTV: Ugliest House in America at 9p
Telemundo: La Casa do Los Famosos at 7p

IN THE NEWS

CNN said on Friday it will make its June 27 presidential debate, hosted by Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, available for simulcast on any US network with a news division, and allow free entry to CNN.com to stream it. ABC News, host of a September 10 debate, had said on Wednesday it will provide its debate feed to other networks.

Sony Pictures Entertainment and Apollo Global Management have signed nondisclosure agreements with Paramount, enabling them to look at financial information, reports The New York Times. The companies had made a bid of $26 billion for Paramount, but shareholder concerns now have them evaluating different options. Although Paramount let an exclusive negotiating period with Skydance lapse earlier this month, that suitor is still in the picture.

So long, Twitter. The rebrand of the social media platform to X is complete, with the URL name changed to X.com. “All core systems are now on X.com,” posted CEO Elon Musk. “We are letting you know that we are changing our URL, but your privacy and data protection settings remain the same,” says a message on the home page.

Actor Dabney Coleman died May 16. He was 92. “He was so good at what he did it’s hard to imagine movies and television of the last 40 years without him,” wrote Ben Stiller on X.

Political analyst and CNN contributor Alice Stewart was found dead outside her home on May 18, having suffered what appeared to have been a medical emergency. She was 58. “Alice Stewart was a woman’s woman who brought kindness and support along with smarts and expertise,” said CNN’s Dana Bash.

Season two of Hulu’s “Reasonable Doubt” premieres August 22 with two episodes. New episodes of the Onyx Collective legal drama will stream on Thursdays.

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STREAMING

The Africa Channel announced plans for the 2024-25 upfront, including a series of new and continuing partnerships including the previously-announced agreement with BLKFAM, along with plans to expand with a suite of new FAST channels featuring movies and lifestyle content appealing to Black audiences. The first will be Afro-Cinema, coming this spring, featuring a curated selection of films, documentaries, series and cultural programming.

GOING GLOBAL

FOX Entertainment Global struck its first third-party distribution agreement with the acquisition of the worldwide tape and format distribution rights to the upcoming “Billion Dollar Playground.” Produced by Ronde Media and scheduled to premiere in Australia on Foxtel’s streaming platform Binge this Summer, the docu-soap is set in the world of opulent homestays through the eyes of a global staff that works for Luxico, Australia’s luxury hospitality and concierge provider.

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RATINGS

The two-episode series finale of CBS’ “Young Sheldon” hit a four-year high of 8.95 million total viewers in Live+SD Nielsen numbers. Streaming on Paramount+ was up 39% over the week prior.

EXECUTIVE MOVES

Julie Phelps, Paramount Global’s EVP, Chief Communications and Corporate Marketing Officer, is leaving the company at the end of the month. “In two decades and across multiple roles, I’ve been lucky to work with the very best all around the world. I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve done together to tell our story, spotlight our creativity, drive the transformation of our business in a time of unprecedented change, and build our culture,” she wrote in an email to staff.

AMC Networks has promoted Emily Gotto to Senior Vice President of Acquisitions and Production for Shudder. Gotto, who is based in the UK, will lead film acquisitions and production for Shudder Original films and co-productions.

Derek Sevcik has been elevated to the role of EVP of Operations at Outdoor Sportsman Group.

This Day in History
1892 – George Sampson patented the clothes dryer.

Answer to Our Last Trivia Question
Which brand of cigarettes did Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble pitch in a 1960 TV commercial? Winston. Kudos to: Dennis Aimino-ABC/LA; Jeannette Sarpola-CBS/NYC; Keith Manzella-east|west MG/NYC; Tom Boyd-WGN/Chicago; Joel Dearing-Virtual News Center/Indianapolis; Jordan Bienstock-EW Scripps/Atlanta; Rosemary Cunningham-MeTV/Chicago; Lorrie Shilling/El Segundo, CA; Heidi Nyburg/Santa Cruz, CA; John Kukla-KDFW Fox 4/Dallas; Paul Gluck-TUTV/Philadelphia; Wendy Holmes/Denver; Len Klatt-The Winning Run/LA

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Which actor played a fictional American president in a hit movie, and another POTUS 16 years later in a short-lived sitcom? (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: a limit of four answers per time zone.)

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CW: All American, Whose Line is it Anyway?, Whose Line Is It Anyway?
FOX: MasterChef [f], So You Think You Can Dance [f]
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