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Tribeca Film Festival: ‘Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary’ coming to A&E this year

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Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
Feature Documentary
Country: USA
Director: Brent Hodge
Tribeca alum Brent Hodge examines the untold stories and pivotal moments from the making of one of the greatest “one-season wonders” ever produced — one that influenced pop culture far beyond the series’ short TV life. With Paul Feig, Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Linda Cardellini, Busy Philipps, James Franco.

Coming to A&E this year.

If you’re a fan, there’s nothing revolutionary to be learned, but it’s enjoyable to be in this world again. You’ll be grinning for the entire ride, often laughing out loud.

You’re Terminated…NBC Finds Donald Trump’s Replacement for the Celebrity Apprentice

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NBC has found its new host of Celebrity Apprentice and it’s none other than the former Governor of California and iconic actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger!

“We are thrilled to be opening a powerful new chapter in the story of the Apprentice franchise,” NBC alternative programming chief Paul Telegdy said in a statement. “Arnold Schwarzenegger is the epitome of a global brand in entertainment and business, and his accomplishments in the political arena speak for themselves. It was Arnold’s personal passion for the format that Mark Burnett and Donald Trump built over the last decade, as well as his fresh take on how to take it to new heights for today’s audiences, that made him the man to hire. ‘The Celebrity Apprentice … will be back!”

“I have always been a huge fan of The Celebrity Apprentice and the way it showcases the challenges and triumphs of business and teamwork,” Schwarzenegger said in a statement. “I am thrilled to bring my experience to the boardroom and to continue to raise millions for charity. Let’s get started!”

Celebrity Apprentice will return for the 2016-17 television season with Schwarzenegger as “CEO.”

RED NOSE DAY USA is today! Live on NBC tonight at 8/7c

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Red Nose Day, the U.K.’s #1 television fundraising event, is coming to America in a spectacular live star-studded special Thursday, May 21 (8-11 p.m. ET) on NBC.

redNoseDay_marketingBand_learnMore_1080x350Hollywood’s biggest stars, including Julia Roberts, Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Jodie Foster and more, are coming together to have fun, raise money and change lives in an incredible “fun-raising” special. Featuring great comedy, videos produced by Funny Or Die, incredible music performances and Hollywood’s favorite stars, the benefit event will help 12 charity organizations lift children and young people out of poverty, in the U.S. and throughout the world.

RND_Tonight_350x467_v1Julianne Moore, Jack Black, Coldplay and Neil Patrick Harris will also appear, along with John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Michelle Rodriguez, Gwyneth Paltrow and music sensations John Legend and “Voice” coaches Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Christina Aguilera and Pharrell Williams. Sienna Miller, Paul Rudd, Olivia Wilde, Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sir Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Leslie Mann, January Jones and Simon Cowell will also be joining the fun, as well as Matt Lauer, Carson Daly, Nick Offerman, Elizabeth Banks, Chris Pine, Jeff Goldblum, Billy Eichner, Martin Short, Laura Linney, Anna Kendrick, Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, John Michael Higgins, Bill and Melinda Gates, Stephen Merchant, Naomi Campbell, Anna Camp, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Yvette Nicole Brown, Retta, Natalie Morales, Danny Pudi and Rob Huebel.

In addition, the star-studded event for charity will feature “Game of Thrones” cast members Kit Harington, Peter Dinklage, Iwan Rheon, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Emilia Clarke, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Mark Addy, John Bradley, Rose Leslie, Alfie Allen and Charlotte Hope.  “Orange is the New Black” cast Dascha Polanco, Samira Wiley, Yael Stone, Selenis Leyva, Lea DeLaria, Adrienne C. Moore and Jackie Cruz will also be part of the charity special.

Nick CanonDancathonNick Cannon will kick off the festivities for NBC’s broadcast of “Red Nose Day” with “Red Nose Day Danceathon with Nick Cannon,” streaming live on NBC.com beginning Wednesday, May 20. “America’s Got Talent” host Nick Cannon will attempt to dance non-stop for 24 hours in honor of the inaugural Red Nose Day celebration in the United States, leading into the “Red Nose Day” telecast on Thursday, May 21. Streamed live from the NBC Experience Store at Rockefeller Center in New York City, the day of dance will be filled with guest DJs and musicians, celebrity drop-ins, and a variety of dance acts and troupes. Viewers can support Cannon’s endeavor through sponsorship and donation.

DonateThe money raised during Red Nose Day will be used to fund programs that address the immediate needs of children and young people living in poverty in the U.S. and internationally in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The money will be split between domestic and international poverty issues. The pre-selected charity partners are Boys & Girls Clubs of America; charity: water; Children’s Health Fund; Feeding America; Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance; the Global Fund; LIFT; National Council of La Raza; National Urban League; Oxfam America; Save the Children and United Way.

In the U.K., Red Nose Day has been a tradition for 30 years and is an inspiring cultural phenomenon that unites people from all walks of life in the interest of saving and changing lives across the globe. With superstar presenters and comedians, original sketch comedy, hilarious film parodies and amazing musical performances, Red Nose Day has been one of the BBC’s highest-rated Friday night shows for many years and raised more than $1 billion in donations so far for organizations addressing poverty.

Created in 1985 by Oscar nominee and Emmy Award-winning writer-director-producer Richard Curtis (“Four Weddings and a Funeral,” “Bridget Jones Diary,” “Notting Hill”), Red Nose Day was built upon the foundation that mass media and celebrities can help raise money and increase awareness of poverty in order to save and change millions of lives.

Curtis is an executive producer for the NBC telecast (a Universal Television production), along with Hamish Hamilton and Ian Stewart of Done + Dusted Productions. Henrietta Conrad and Lily Sobhani will also serve as executive producers, as will Mike Farah, Anna Wenger and Joe Farrell from Funny Or Die. Hamilton is set to direct.

NBC to Release Entire Series ‘Aquarius’ Online Following Premiere

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To offer viewers the same binge-viewing experience they now enjoy on streaming platforms, NBC will make the unprecedented move of releasing all 13 episodes of David Duchovny’s new series “Aquarius” on NBC.com and the NBC app after the show’s two-hour linear network premiere on May 28, 2015. The entire series will also be offered to all other video-on-demand platforms for release at that time as well.

In making the announcement, NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt said, “With ‘Aquarius’ we have the opportunity to push some new boundaries to give our audience something no broadcast network has done before. We are fully aware how audiences want to consume multiple episodes of new television series faster and at their own discretion, and we’re excited to offer our viewers this same experience since all 13 episodes of this unique show have been produced and are ready to be seen. I appreciate the enthusiasm we’ve gotten from the producers of the show and our partner Marty Adelstein of Tomorrow Studios to launch this series in a new, forward-thinking way.”

One of the key points of the arrangement is that the show will be available to only a handful of certain advertising partners so the linear broadcast on NBC will mirror the commercial load on the VOD platforms. This will result in limited interruption — both on-air and off — giving viewers and advertising partners an enhanced and innovative experience.

The full 13 episodes will remain up on the various digital platforms for a four-week period, while each new one-hour episode will continue to premiere, as planned, each week in the 9 p.m. Thursday timeslot on NBC.

Los Angeles. 1967. Sam Hodiak (David Duchovny, “Californication,” “The X-Files”), a decorated World War II vet and homicide detective, barely recognizes the city he’s now policing. Long hair, cheap drugs, rising crime, protests, free love, police brutality, Black Power and the Vietnam War are radically remaking the world he and the Greatest Generation saved from fascism 20 years ago.

So when Emma Karn (Emma Dumont, “Salvation,” “Bunheads”), the 16-year-old daughter of an old girlfriend, goes missing in a sea of hippies and Hodiak agrees to find her, he faces only hostility, distrust and silence. He enlists the help of Brian Shafe (Grey Damon, “True Blood,” “Friday Night Lights”) — a young, idealistic undercover vice cop who’s been allowed to grow his hair out — to infiltrate this new counterculture and find her.

The generational conflict between the two is immediate and heated, yet they’re both dedicated officers and soon realize the need to bring Emma home is more urgent than they foresaw. The immediacy arises because she has joined a small, but growing, band of drifters under the sway of a career criminal who now dreams of being a rock star: Charles Manson (Gethin Anthony, “Game of Thrones”).

Ringing with the unparalleled music of the era, “Aquarius” is a sprawling work of historical fiction that begins two years before the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders. It’s a shocking thriller, a nuanced character drama and, in the end, the story of how we became who we are today.

Writer John McNamara serves as executive producer with Marty Adelstein (“Prison Break”), David Duchovny, Becky Clements and Melanie Greene. “Aquarius” is a production of Tomorrow Studios, a joint partnership between Marty Adelstein and ITV Studios.

Please visit the official show site at:  http://www.nbc.com/Aquarius

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‘Coach’ is Returning to TV with Craig T. Nelson

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File this one under, “huh?!” NBC (you know, the network where shows go to die) is bringing 90’s sitcom Coach back to TV and star Craig T. Nelson is returning as well. The show will not be a reboot of the popular series, but rather a sequel of sorts. The original comedy series ran for nine seasons on ABC from 1989 to 1997.

NBC has ordered 13 episodes of the series, in which Coach Hayden Fox, in the present day, has retired from coaching. He is called back to become assistant coach to his own grown son, who is the new head coach at an Ivy league school in Pennsylvania that is just starting up a new team.

Barry Kemp, the original creator of Coach, will write and executive produce. No word on if any of the other actors from the original series will return at this time.

More as it becomes available

NBC to Host Screenings of New Mideseason Drama “AMERICAN ODYSSEY” in 10 Cities on March 25th

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NBC will host screenings of its new midseason drama series “American Odyssey” in 10 cities on March 25, prior to the show’s network debut on Sunday, April 5, at 10-11 p.m. ET/PT.

In conjunction with the screenings, NBC will honor 10 female veterans and active servicewomen at each regional “American Odyssey” screening.  Hailed as “Women Warriors” by NBC, these honorees will represent the 2 million female veterans and 200,000 women who currently serve in the U.S. Armed Forces and serve as inspiration for the perseverance and strength of “American Odyssey’s” main character Sgt. Odelle Ballard.

Nominations for “Women Warriors” can be submitted online at:  http://bit.ly/1AZ67rK

Open to the general public, the screenings will take place in the following cities and theater locations on March 25at 7:30 p.m.:

  • Atlanta, Ga. – Midtown Art Cinema (931 Monroe Drive, Atlanta, GA 30308)
  • Chicago, Ill. – Kerasotes Showplace ICON (150 W Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60605
  • Houston, Texas – Studio Movie Grill City Centre (805 Town & Country Blvd, Houston, TX 77024)
  • Los Angeles, Calif. – Pacific The Grove Stadium 14 (189 The Grove Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90036)
  • Minneapolis, Minn. – Showplace ICON at The West End (1625 West End Blvd, Saint Louis Park, MN 55416)
  • New York, N.Y. – Regal E-Walk Stadium 13 & RPX (247 W. 42nd St. New York, NY 10036)
  • Philadelphia, Pa. – Ritz East (125 S. 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA 19106)
  • San Francisco, Calif. – AMC Metreon 16 (135 4th St, San Francisco, CA 94103)
  • Seattle, Wash. – AMC Pacific Place 11 (600 Pine St, Seattle, WA 98101)
  • Washington, D.C. – AMC Loews Georgetown 14 (3111 K St NW, Washington DC 20007

In Washington, D.C and Philadelphia, confirmed dignitaries Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) and the Honorable Patrick Murphy will recognize the “Women Warriors” and speak about the important role of female veterans and servicewomen that the show’s main character Odelle represents. 

In addition to the screenings, NBC and its veteran partner organizations are encouraging fans to share photos and stories of inspirational women serving or who have served in the military by using the social media hashtag #WomenWarriors.

We have tickets for the following screenings:

Philadelphia, PA http://www.gofobo.com/AmericanOdysseyPhilly

Seattle, WA http://www.gofobo.com/ppgum86652

NYC http://www.gofobo.com/AmericanOdysseyCinemit  ****Free popcorn and soda for all screening attendees!!****

For additional tickets for other city screenings visit: www.gofobo.com/OdysseyNBC.

From writer-director Peter Horton (“Grey’s Anatomy”) and writers Adam Armus (“Heroes”) and Kay Foster (“The Following”) comes “Odyssey,” a complex journey through global politics, corporate espionage, and military secrets involving three strangers who only have one thing in common … the truth. In this “Traffic”-like action drama, an international conspiracy explodes when the lives of a female Special Forces soldier, a disillusioned corporate lawyer and a political activist from a privileged family unexpectedly collide. The series stars Anna Friel (“Pushing Daisies”), Peter Facinelli (“Nurse Jackie”), Jake Robinson (“The Carrie Diaries”), Nate Mooney (“The Riches”), Jim True-Frost (“The Wire”), Sadie Sink, Omar Ghazaoui, Elena Kampouris (“Men, Women & Children”), Daniella Pineda, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (“Lost”) and Treat Williams (“Everwood”).  In addition to Horton, Armus, and Foster, Mikkel Bondesen (“The Killing), Henrik Bastin (“Bosch”), Kristen Campo (“The Killing”) and Simon Maxwell (“Off the Hook”) serve as executive producers. Premiering on April 5, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on NBC, “Odyssey” is a Universal Television, Fabrik Entertainment, and Red Arrow Entertainment production.

Please visit the official show site at:  http://www.nbc.com/american-odyssey

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NBC Considering a Move for ‘Constantine’

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One of the best shows on television has had a difficult time finding an audience in its first season. NBC’s Constantine has been well written and, more importantly, well acted, but NBC has mishandled the show from the beginning and is now on the verge of making a monumental change. After the network decided to limit the first season order to 13 episodes, a move many considered the death blow for the show, NBC has now began to rethink its position and are considering moving the show to its sister station SyFy. Word also comes that the show could take on the title Hellblazer, and perhaps be even closer to the comics on which it is based.

At this stage this is no more than a rumor so keep checking back as we monitor the situation.

What do you think of a move for the show? Has NBC dropped the ball again?! Will a move save the show or doom it for good? Sound off!

TV: ‘Constantine’ Midseason Wrap Up and Interview with Charles Halford!

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[Warning: This story contains spoilers for Friday’s midseason finale of Constantine, “The Saint of Last Resorts.”]

This fall TV season has been jam packed with quality shows that makes keeping up on each one a full time job. One of the most anticipated and well received shows has been Constantine, based on the DC comic book series “Hellblazer“. Producers Daniel Cerone and David S. Goyer developed the show for NBC with the intent to bring a faithful adaptation of one of comics most beloved antihero’s; John Constantine into our homes, and succeed they have. Handcuffed by the constraints of network TV, the show pushes the boundaries of acceptable television, while making sure that the core fans stay engaged and coming back each and every week. With this weeks midseason finale taking the show to its darkest place yet, the moment has come for John and his associates to meet their toughest test to date. Read More →

Fall TV Show Season Starts Now!

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It’s Fall TV Season! Want to know when your favorite show or that new series is debuting? Reel News Daily has your list and its glorious! Time to set those DVR’s and plan on many nights of vegging on the couch stuffing your face and add a few unwanted pounds while watching the best in what television has to offer..take a look! Read More →