Al Roker is going to weather the storm that is Broadway when he takes over the role of Old Joe in Waitress. Roker joined Sara Bareilles on the Today Show to discuss his upcoming debut and everything he's doing to get ready to visit the diner. Watch below!
FX Networks has augmented its online home with a wide-ranging new blog featuring exclusive editorial content and news from FX, FXX and FXM. The blog – www.fxnetworks.com/news – gives unfiltered access to interviews with talent, in-depth features, special events coverage, and behind-the-scenes looks at the networks' lineup of award-winning and acclaimed original programs.
“Dancing with the Stars” is waltzing its way into its upcoming season, and the new celebrity cast is adding some glitzy bling to their wardrobe, breaking in their dancing shoes and readying themselves for their first dance on the ballroom floor, as the season kicks off MONDAY, SEPT. 24 (8:00-10:00 p.m. EDT), on The ABC Television Network, streaming and on demand. This season's lineup of celebrity dancers includes an “American Idol” mentor, the first-ever blind contestant to take part in the show, an alumnus from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a Duke of Hazzard, an Olympic Gold medal-winning gymnast and a Bachelor Nation favorite, among others.
After an eight-year hiatus, Closet Cases is returning to the stage at the legendary Stonewall Inn. The show is a cathartically hilarious storytelling show about LGBTQ comedians and performers telling their coming out and transitioning stories.
MASTERS OF ILLUSION, produced by Associated Television International and hosted by Dean Cain, now celebrating its fifth anniversary on The CW returns for Week Twelve with two 30-minute episodes airing back to back on Friday, September 14, 2018 at 8:00 p.m./7:00 p.m. Central.
The Sunday night finale of the fifth installment of the STARZ Original series 'Power' finished off another successful season ranking #1 for the night in premium (1.5M P+2, L+SD), setting new highs for the season in households (1.16M) and up 5% across platforms from its season premiere.
Tony and Grammy Award-winner John Lloyd Young will be appearing for one night only at The Purple Room in Palm Springs on Saturday, October 13, at 8pm, it was announced today by Chris Isaacson Presents.
Lifetime's Real Love Tuesdays continues the love-fest with two new Married at First Sight spin-off series this Fall. Married at First Sight: Honeymoon Island, the new eight episode series that follows a group of singles looking for love on an exotic island will premiere Tuesday, October 23 at 10pm ET/PT. The following week, Married at First Sight: Happily Ever After, the new eight episode series that follows the lives of three happily married couples from past seasons of the franchise will premiere Tuesday, October 30 at 10pm ET/PT. Married at First Sight: Honeymoon Island moves to its regular 9pm ET/PT timeslot that day.
While NBC was expected to win the 18-49 demo crown for the fifth consecutive 52-week season, for the first time in 16 years the Peacock has also won the overall total-viewer race to become the Most Watched Network in America.
NBC has dominated the primetime ratings week of Sept. 3-9, led by the four most-watched primetime programs of the week – Sunday and Thursday season openers for “NBC Sunday Night Football” and Tuesday and Wednesday editions of “America's Got Talent.”
Cloud21 International (www.cloud21.com) and Kultura PR International (www.kulturapr.com) will present the 'Production Without Borders' special event during the 2018 American Film Market on November 5, 2018 at 2 p.m. at the Laemmle Film Center in Santa Monica, CA (1332 2nd St, Santa Monica, CA 90401).
While NBC was expected to win the 18-49 demo crown for the fifth consecutive 52-week season, for the first time in 16 years the Peacock has also won the overall total-viewer race to become the Most Watched Network in America.
A dark horse candidate with little political acumen lacking in smarts is battling to become the Republican candidate for president, while keeping silent one in a series of illicit affairs. Sound familiar? In 'Fifteen Men In a Smoke-Filled Room,' playwright Colin Speer Crowley focuses on the candidacy of Warren Gamaliel Harding, who would become the 29th President of the United States. The play examines his loveless marriage and lack of appetite for the political machinations that would eventually result in his election.
RLJE Films (NASDAQ: RLJE) has acquired all North American rights to The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, the upcoming thriller from CINESTATE and XYZ Films. Written by Henry Dunham who is also making his feature directorial debut, the film stars James Badge Dale (13 Hours), Chris Mulkey (Captain Phillips), Brian Geraghty (NBC's “Chicago P.D”.), Robert Aramayo (HBO's “Game of Thrones”), Patrick Fischler (Showtime's “Twin Peaks”), Happy Anderson (Cinemax's “The Knick”) and Gene Jones (The Hateful Eight). The Standoff at Sparrow Creek will make its world premiere at Midnight Madness at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. RLJE plans to release the film nationally in theaters and on VOD and Digital HD in early 2019.
Monday Primetime Results (Note that ABC stations in Detroit, Los Angeles and San Francisco and the CW station in New York carried NFL football, and downward adjustments to those network's averages are expected in official nationals):
Tonight marks the launch of the 8-part mini-series on PBS revolving around The Great American Read. PBS launched its first episode this past spring and has been calling for readers to vote for their favorite book all summer long. Viewers can tune in tonight or stream the series online on PBS.org. Below is a press release from PBS.org with all the info you'll need, but first, here's a trailer for what you can expect to see tonight!
IFC announced today it would continue with its plans to counterprogram the Primetime Emmy(R) Awards next Monday, September 17, with the broadcast premiere of An Emmy for Megan, despite multi-hyphenate star Megan Amram's Emmy and EGOT dreams being dashed in all categories at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday.
Mayans M.C., the new outlaw biker drama from FX, premiered to the best ratings of any new cable series this year in every major demographic.
HISTORY is remembering the events of September 11, 2001 with a new two-hour documentary: '9/11: Escape From the Towers' premiering Today, September 11 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HISTORY. '9/11: Escape From the Towers' provides a unique perspective on the tragic events through interwoven stories of survivors from two floors of the World Trade Center, some closest to the impact zone. With never-before-told stories from occupants of the 81st floor in the North Tower and the 77th floor in the South Tower of the World Trade Center, '9/11: Escape From the Towers' provides an unsettling perspective of what it was like to be inside the buildings on that fatal day, as individuals came together as a group to make it to safety. '9/11: Escape From the Towers' is part of HISTORY 100, the network's new original documentary strand comprised of significant stories in American history deserving to be told.
Shukree Tilghman, producer and writer of “This is Us,” has signed on to be the executive producer of the BeMeBeFree Campaign to encourage youth to share their personal anxiety stories through creative expression – written essay, poem, video or song.
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