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09:30 - Unforgettable - Season 4 - Bruce Davidson to Guest
Thanks to Pierre for the heads up.
An unforgettable week of shooting with stars Poppy Montgomery and Dylan Walsh, and fellow guest star Bruce Davidson, on the season 4 finale of A&E's Unforgettable, wherein I play Eli Condon, an unwitting pawn in a most dangerous game. Intrigued? Stay tuned for air date.
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04:10 - Minority Report - Episode 1.07 - Honor Among Thieves - Promotional Photos
04:10 - Casino - Eva Longoria Producing Drama for NBC
Eva Longoria’s company UnbeliEVAble Entertainment has sold another project, drama Casino, to NBC. Written by East Los High creator Carlos Portugal, Casino centers on the aftermath of a mogul’s mysterious death when his ambitious young widow and his illegitimate son have to join forces to save his famed casino, while circumstances surrounding his death come to light and threaten to take them both down. Portugal executive produces with InveliEVAble Entertainment’s Longoria and Ben Spector. Universal TV, where the company is based, is the studio.
Casino stems out of efforts by Longoria — who is of Mexican descent and holds a master’s degree in Chicano Studies — to bring Hispanic voices to television.
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00:40 - From Dusk Till Dawn - Gary Busey to Guest + First Look Photo
Thanks to mac for the heads up.
Tweet along with @WValderrama, @TheJakeBusey and special guest star, @TheGaryBusey, TONIGHT at 9! #FromDuskTillDawn pic.twitter.com/tDuIWZMQC9
— From Dusk Till Dawn (@DuskElRey) October 20, 2015
23:00 - The Guide to Surviving Life - Poster
23:00 - The Goldbergs - Episode 3.05 - Boy Barry - Sneak Peek
22:55 - Modern Family - Episode 7.05 - The Verdict - Promo
22:55 - Code Black - Episode 1.04 - Sometimes It's A Zebra - Promotional Photos
22:00 - MOVIES: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Breaks Ticket Sales Records
The force is strong with the upcoming “Star Wars” sequel.
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has established a new record, bypassing “The Hunger Games” to move the most tickets in its first day on sale, Fandango reports. It didn’t just surpass that picture, it shattered its benchmark, outselling “The Hunger Games” eight times over. Traffic to the online ticketer’s site surged to seven times more than its peak level in less than 24 hours.
“This is an extraordinary time for the industry, which experienced unprecedented ticketing demand last night for ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens,'” Fandango said in a statement. “The enthusiasm for this year’s most anticipated movie is out of this world and we expect it to continue all the way to its debut on Dec. 18.”
There are already sellouts, particularly in Imax screenings, and to meet the demand, movie theaters are continually adding show times, the online ticketer reports. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” presales also broke every Imax record, generating over $6.5 million. The film eclipsed “The Dark Knight Rises,” “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” and “Avengers,” which each earned around $1 million for their first reported presales.
MovieTickets.com did not release any data, but “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is the top-selling film on its site. It represents 95% of sales over the past 24 hours. Interest in the film was so intense that both MovieTickets.com and Fandango reportedly crashed for some users.
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21:55 - The Originals - Episodes 3.03 & 3.04 - Location Scoop
21:55 - Blue Bloods - Steve Schirripa Joins Cast in a Key Role
Zap2it can exclusively reveal that Steve Schirripa has been cast on the Tom Selleck drama as Anthony Abetemarco, a “new investigator for the DA’s office.”
“Sopranos” fans will remember Schirripa as Tony Soprano’s dim but lovable brother-in-law, Robert “Bobby Bacala” Baccalieri Jr. Schirripa has also had featured roles on “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” and new IFC comedy “Benders.”
On “Blue Bloods,” main character Erin Reagan (Bridget Moynihan) is an Assistant District Attorney, which means Schirripa’s Abetemarco will be interacting with Erin at the DC’s office — as evidenced by Zap2it’s first-look photo of Moynihan and Schirripa shooting a scene together.
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21:55 - Queen of the South - Carlos Gomez Joins Cast in a Season Long Recurring Role
Carlos Gomez (The Glades, Gang Related) has been tapped for a season-long recurring role on USA Network’s upcoming drama series Queen Of The South.
The series, which chronicles the rise of Teresa Mendoza (Alice Braga) from the rough streets of Mexico to her life as a drug kingpin in Malibu, underwent some tweaking after it was picked up by USA just ahead of its upfront in May. It’s slated for premiere in 2016. Gomez will play drug lord Javier Acosta, who calls the shots from his compound in Colombia. Based on best-selling book La Reina Del Sur by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Queen Of The South is co-produced by Fox 21 TV Studios and Universal Cable Prods.
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21:55 - Adult Children - CBS Developing Comedy
CBS has bought Adult Children, a half-hour comedy written/executive produced by Gabrielle Allan and Jennifer Crittenden and executive produced by Aaron Kaplan of Kapital Entertainment and former CBS head of comedy Wendi Trilling in her first stint as a producer. The project, from CBS TV Studios, is inspired by Trilling’s and Allan’s dads. It centers on a sunny, single, self-possessed woman in her thirties who has her neat and tidy life turned upside down when her washed-up father, a self-described seventies rock icon, forces himself back into her life and reconnects her with a collection of emotionally challenged half-siblings.
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21:50 - Dick Ernest - A Period Comedy in Development at CBS
CBS has given a script commitment with penalty to Dick Ernest, a period multi-camera comedy from writer-producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky (Hello Ladies, Trophy Wife, The Office). ABC Studios, where the duo is under an overall deal, is the studio.
Written/executive produced by Eisenberg and Stupnitsky, Dick Ernest is set in 1957. Dick Ernest, the patriarch of the Ernest family, has his mainstream values challenged when his beatnik nephew moves in and starts putting “modern” ideas into the heads of the rest of the family.
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21:50 - The Will - Soapy Mystery in Development at ABC from the Creator of Mistresses
K.J. Steinberg is staying in business with ABC. The “Mistresses” creator has another soapy drama in the works at the network with “The Will,” which has landed a script commitment plus penalty, Variety has learned exclusively.
“The Will” is a mystery revolving around the surviving members of an eccentric and wealthy patriarch who dies and leaves his massive inheritance to the various members of his family, but with strict, mysterious, and sometimes bizarre conditions attached to the gifts. Each of the family member’s lives is irreversibly changed by following the instructions, leaving everyone to wonder, is the late man parenting from the grave — or using them to mete out justice and get the revenge he couldn’t get while alive?
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21:45 - Untitled Medical Comedy in Development at NBC
Writers Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit (Super Fun Night) have sold a comedy project to NBC from Sony TV and Will Gluck’s studio-based Olive Bridge Entertainment. The untitled half-hour (aka Sickos), is based on Hernandez’s first few years of marriage. It follows a group of new ER residents, who not only work together, but also live together in the “doctor dorm” next door to the hospital. Hernandez and Samit will write the script and executive produce with Olive Bridge’s Will Gluck and Richie Schwartz.
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21:45 - The Fluffy Shop - Comedy Inspired by Comedian, Gabriel Iglesias (Cristela) Receives Put Pilot at ABC
ABC is reteaming with the Cristela producers and co-star Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias for a multicamera comedy starring the comedian.
The network has handed out a put-pilot commitment for The Fluffy Shop, a comedy inspired by the comedian's life experience — including the challenges of managing a home life during the few days he spends off the road each week.
Fluffy Shop marks Iglesias' first starring vehicle and reunites him with the network and the Cristela producers. He recurred on Cristela, playing Alberto, a guy in love with the character played by Cristela Alonzo.
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21:45 - This is Happening - Comedy in Development at NBC
NBC has put in development This is Happening, a single-camera comedy from Universal Television and Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Productions. Written by Amy Rhodes (Bad Judge), with How To Live With Your Parents creator Claudia Lonow supervising, This Is Happening is about an uptight, unhappy, single woman in her mid-30s whose life changes when she gets a new job working for a popular website and starts hanging out with a group of her twentysomething co-workers. Rhodes and Lonow executive produce with Gary Sanchez’s Ferrell, McKay and Owen Burke.
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21:45 - Young & Hungry - Episode 2.21 - Young & Christmas - Press Release
Tidings of good cheer are overflowing on an all-new Christmas episode of “Young & Hungry,” airing on a special date and time, Tuesday, November 24th at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. ABC Family is becoming Freeform in January 2016.
In "Young & Christmas," Gabi and Sofia aren’t able to be with their families this holiday season, so they decide to volunteer at a local homeless shelter on Christmas Eve. Yolanda is missing her kids and decides to boycott the holiday, at least until Gabi encourages her to reach out to her estranged sister, Jolanda (Jackee Harry). As soon as the siblings reunite at Josh’s loft, however, old grievances are aired, and the family get-together quickly goes from bad to worse. But when Gabi discovers Jolanda is keeping a big secret from Yolanda, will the sisters finally make amends, or is more trouble on the horizon? Elsewhere, Josh goes out of his way to cheer up a miserable Elliot, who is missing Alan, while Sofia wrestles with her conscience when a department store clerk (Mindy Sterling) makes an error in her favor.
Launch to date, “Young & Hungry” is ABC Family’s # comedy of all time in Becomers 12-34 and Women 18-34 and wins its cable time period across the key target demographics. The series and cast have been nominated for five Teen Choice Awards since its premiere in the summer of 2014.
“Young & Hungry” is produced by David Holden, Ashley Tisdale, Jessica Rhoades, Caryn Lucas, and Eric Tannenbaum and Kim Tannenbaum in association with CBS Television Studios. Gabi Moskowitz, of BrokeAssGourmet.com, is a San Francisco based food blogger and contributed to the development of this project. The series stars Emily Osment, Jonathan Sadowski, Aimee Carrero, Kym Whitley and Rex Lee.
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21:40 - The Royals - Season 2 - Cast Promotional Photos
21:40 - CBS BRINGS “CBS ALL ACCESS” SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE TO APPLE TV
CBS BRINGS “CBS ALL ACCESS” SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE TO APPLE TV
For $5.99/Month, “CBS All Access” Delivers Full Seasons of
Current Primetime Programming, Plus Leading Daytime and Late Night CBS Shows, Thousands of Episodes from CBS’s Library of Classics, and the Ability to Livestream Local CBS Stations in More Than 100 Markets
NEW YORK – Oct. 20, 2015 – CBS Corporation today announced the launch of CBS All Access, the CBS Television Network’s digital subscription video on demand and live streaming service, on Apple TV.
For $5.99 a month, CBS All Access will offer Apple TV users more than 7,500 episodes from the current season, previous seasons and classic shows on demand, as well as the ability to stream their local CBS Television station live in more than 100 markets across the U.S., including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia, with more to be added soon.
New subscribers can sign up for a CBS All Access subscription and a free week-long trial directly through Apple TV, while current CBS All Access subscribers can simply log in using their existing username and password.
The CBS All Access channel brings all of the benefits currently available to CBS All Access subscribers to Apple TV, including:
● Full current seasons of 24 shows with episodes available the day after they air, including LIMITLESS, ELEMENTARY, THE GOOD WIFE and SCORPION.
● The ability to live stream the local CBS station in more than 100 markets across the U.S., with more to be added as affiliates join the CBS All Access service.
● Full past seasons of 10 major current series, including THE GOOD WIFE, NCIS and HAWAII FIVE-0.
● More than 7,500 episodes available on-demand in an advertising-free environment, including all episodes of popular CBS classics such as STAR TREK, CHEERS, MEDIUM and CSI: MIAMI.
● Access to exclusive additional content for CBS Television’s biggest special events, including THE GRAMMY® AWARDS, THE ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS and THE VICTORIA'S SECRET FASHION SHOW.
To learn more about CBS All Access on Apple TV and to sign up for a free week-long trial, visit CBS All Access on Apple TV, or go to http://cbs.com/all-access/appletv.
To view a video introduction to CBS All Access, visit: http://www.cbs.com/allaccess.
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14:30 - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - I'm So Good At Yoga - BTS Video
BTS tonight's #Bollywood dance scene w/@ImGabrielleRuiz! Ready for your craziest yoga class ever? #CrazyExGirlfriend https://t.co/nnqHyMZEsM
— CBS TV Studios (@CBSTVStudios) October 20, 2015
