The National Hockey League (NHL) and the Walt Disney Company officially announced on Wednesday they reached a seven-year television, streaming and media rights deal, beginning with the 2021-22 season. Included in the deal will be 25 regular-season games on ESPN or ABC, half of all First Round and Second Round games from the Stanley Cup […]
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Ahead of the official NCAA Tournament bracket reveal, 22 conference champions will punch their tickets to the NCAA Division I Tournament. “Champ Week” on ESPN will include more than 370 hours of men’s college basketball programming, featuring full television coverage of the ACC Tournament, Big 12 Championship and SEC Tournament. SEC Network is set to […]
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BET Orders ‘Twenties The After Show’
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BET has greenlit “Twenties The After Show”, hosted by B. Scott, to follow season two of “Twenties.” Created by Lena Waithe and Hillman Grad Productions, “The Twenties” is a single-camera semi-autobiographical series that follows “a queer black girl, Hattie (Jonica T. Gibbs), and her two straight best friends, Marie (Christina Elmore) and Nia (Gabrielle Graham), who […]
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For the fourth week in a row — and for its entire string of original episodes of this winter, “Big Sky” was the No. 1 gainer in TV playback in Total Viewers, as ABC delivered 3 of the week’s Top 5 biggest gainers: “Big Sky” (+4.04 million) – No. 1, “The Good Doctor” (+3.935 million) […]
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Starz Puts a Revival of Cult Comedy ‘Party Down’ in Development
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Starz has put into development a six-episode revival of late night comedy “Party Down”, with the original producing team confirmed and much of the cast likely to return. The series, which originally aired in 2009 and 2010, follows a group of caterers in Los Angeles as they hope to make it in Hollywood. Each episode of the comedy, which […]
Tagged with: Megan Mullally, Party Down, Paul Rudd, Starz
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Nickelodeon Greenlights ‘SpongeBob’ Spinoff ‘The Patrick Show’
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Nickelodeon has given a 13 episode order to “The Patrick Show”, the second spinoff from animated mainstay “SpongeBob Squarepants.” “The Patrick Star Show” follows a younger Patrick Star (voice of Bill Fagerbakke) living at home with his family, where he hosts his own show for the neighborhood from his television-turned-bedroom. His little sister, Squidina (Jill Talley), works […]
Tagged with: Bill Faberbakke, Kamp Koral, Patrick Star Show, SpongeBob SquarePants
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Syfy will premiere animated “The Pole”, followed “The Summoner” on Wednesday, March 17 at 11:15 p.m. ET. The logline: After a scandal involving “Saint” Nick (Bobby Moynihan) rocks the holly jolly foundations of the North Pole, all hell breaks loose as the future of Christmas turns into a twisted power struggle for the Red Suit. As […]
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