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Tracy Oliver’s adaptation of “First Wives Club,” which was ordered to series at Paramount Network earlier this year, will instead air on BET, the network said on Tuesday.

The comedy, written and executive produced by “Girls Trip” co-writer Oliver, stars Ryan Michelle Bathe, Michelle Buteau and Jill Scott in an update of the 1996 film starring Diane Keaton, Bette Midler and Goldie Hawn.

“We are thrilled that Tracy Oliver and Paramount Television’s ‘First Wives Club’ will be coming to BET Networks,” Bet Networks president Scott Mills said in a statement. “We have been big fans of Tracy, the project and its incredible cast all along.”

“The Amazing Race” is finally returning to the CBS line-up with the 31st season set to premiere on May 22, 2019. This edition of the race was run way back in June. The 11 teams are veterans of previous seasons of “Tar” as well as two other CBS reality competition series: “Big Brother” and “Survivor.” As always, host Phil Keoghan was at the startling line in Hermosa Beach, California on June 10 to send these 22 contestants in a race around the world. The winners crossed the finish line in Detroit on July 3.

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Five of the teams competed on previous seasons of “The Amazing Race” with varying results:

Colin Guinn and Christie Woods (Season 5: second place);

Art Velez and John James “Jj” Carrell (Season 20: second place);

Tyler Oakley and Korey Kuhl (Season 28: third place);

Leo Temory

Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of the megahit Nickelodeon cartoon series “SpongeBob SquarePants,” died on Monday. He was 57.

The cause of death was ALS, which Hillenburg revealed he had been diagnosed with in March of last year. He is survived by his wife of twenty years Karen Hillenburg, son Clay, mother Nancy Hillenburg (nee Dufour) and brother Brian Kelly Hillenburg, his wife Isabel, and nieces Emma and Hazel.

“The Walking Dead” has hit a new midseason finale ratings low for the second year in a row.

The episode that aired this Sunday, the midseason finale for the show’s ninth season, averaged a 2.0 rating in adults 18-49 and 5.1 million viewers, according to Nielsen Live+Same Day data. The Season 8 midseason finale was previously the lowest-rated, with that episode having drawn a 3.4 rating and 7.9 million viewers last year. That means this year’s midway point for the show was down a steep 41% in the key demo and 35% in total viewers compared to the same episode last year. This season

George Eads will be leaving CBS’ drama series "MacGyver," on which has he co-starred since the pilot. I hear he is still filming the show and is slated to wrap production in early December. While Eads has been released from his series regular contract and his character Jack Dalton is being written out, I hear he is not being killed off, with the door left open for Eads to possibly return as a guest star.

"MacGyver," a reimagining of the 1985 show, stars Lucas Till, with Eads as the co-lead Dalton, MacGyver’s (Till) partner and old Army buddy. Till and Eads were the only actors from the original MacGyver pilot to remain when the project was revamped with a new writer/showrunner, Peter Lenkov. As part of the major changes, the series, originally supposed to film in Los Angeles, was moved to Atlanta.

I hear because of the relocation, Eads had

“Twin Peaks” star Kyle MacLachlan has signed on to play U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in “Atlantic Crossing,” the Norwegian-produced World War II drama series.

MacLachlan will star opposite Swedish actress Sofia Helin (“The Bridge”) in the eight-part show, which is being produced by Cinenord for Norwegian pubcaster Nrk and brought to the international market by Beta Film.

The Norwegian- and English-language series is based on the true story of Norwegian Crown Princess Martha, who fled the Nazis and lived in the White House, becoming an influential figure in world politics. Her relationship with Roosevelt will be central to the show,

YouTube Premium has ordered “Dark Cargo,” a neo-noir thriller pilot from Entertainment One (eOne), Counterfeit Pictures and SEVEN24 Films.

The pilot is written by “Sneaky Pete” alums Adam and Max Reid and will be executive produced by Ben Stiller and Nicky Weinstock under their Red Hour Productions banner. The project hails from studio eOne.

Here’s the official logline for the pilot: “Dark Cargo” is a high-octane, cliffhanger-driven, neo-noir thriller set in the big rig cab of Joe Dobbs as he traverses the darkest nights of his life. What begins as a random encounter with a disturbed stranger turns into a race against time, the police, and even more malevolent forces. All the while, Joe just wants to get back to his family.

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No casting details have been released for the pilot, which, if ordered to series, will

In today’s TV News Roundup, watch the trailer for the upcoming fourth season of “Fuller House.”

First Looks

“Fuller House” returns for a fourth season Dec. 14 exclusively on Netflix. This season, Steve and DJ rekindle their flame, and the Tanner-Fuller-Gibblers prepare to welcome a new member of the family with a little help from Kimmy Gibbler.

“Young Justice: Outsiders” returns for a third season Jan. 4, streaming exclusively on DC Universe. This season, the Outsiders face a new threat: a league of superhuman teens and an intergalactic arms race to control them.

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Amazon Prime Video has announced the third

Fuller House is really living up to its name in Season 4, as you’ll see in the just-released trailer for the Netflix comedy’s next run of episodes, arriving on Dec. 14. Picking up shortly after the events of Season 3, Kimmy is now playing surrogate to Stephanie and Jimmy’s baby, though we have it on good authority that this pregnancy will be anything but typical.

“She goes against everything you think a pregnant woman is going to be,” Juan Pablo Di Pace (aka Fernando) recently told TVLine. “She’s doing cartwheels around the kitchen and eating the spiciest foods. She

The epic fantasy novel series “A Song of Ice and Fire” and its mega-popular HBO adaptation “Game of Thrones” may have made author George R.R. Martin a pop culture superstar, but it was “Nightflyers,” a 1980 novella mashing up horror and sci-fi and the 1987 film adaption that followed, that Martin believes saved his life and career during a low point. Now, that story has been adapted for the small screen for Syfy, as well — though Martin’s contractual commitments to HBO preclude him from having any formal involvement in it.

“HBO owns me, body and soul,” he tells Variety with a laugh.

Netflix has ordered a new procedural series that will be set in four different countries.

“Criminal” is a police procedural that takes place exclusively within the confines of a police interview suite. It is described as a stripped-down, cat-and-mouse drama that will focus on the intense mental conflict between the police officer and the suspect in question. Netflix has ordered 12 episodes, with four each set in the following countries: France, Spain, Germany, and the U.K.

All 12 episodes will film at Netflix’s production hub at Ciudad de la Tele in Madrid.

The episodes will be in the local language

It would seem that you can attribute Alicia Vikander’s strength and poise to a great deal of ballet dancing that was sidelined when she suffered a few injuries in her teens. Still, that kind of training ever really seems to go away once your body becomes used to the rigors and is called upon to do anything similar ever again. It’s the same thing with athletes that have been out of their sport for years, they might never be as good but their body still recognizes the stimuli and acts accordingly. But her love for acting might have taken over

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Is Netflix about to raze Fuller House? Will CBS finally call a time of death on Code Black? Is MTV done Screaming? How much longer until I Feel Bad officially feels six feet under?

The fate of nearly a dozen series continue to hang in the balance as the clock ticks closer to 2019, and there are indications that the TV networks may keep fans on pins and needles well into the new year.

While a few of the in-limbo series featured in the attached gallery are as good as dead, many remain firmly entrenched on the proverbial bubble. And in

Telltale Games’ episodic point-and-click adventure series “Minecraft: Story Mode” is now on Netflix.

“Minecraft: Story Mode” features a cast filled with celebrities and veteran voice talent, including Patton Oswalt, Catherine Taber, Brian Posehn, John Hodgman, Matthew Mercer, David Fennoy, and Corey Feldman. The first three episodes are available now, with another two episodes coming on Dec. 5, according to IGN. The original season ran eight episodes when it launched on PC and consoles in 2015. Telltale released a second five-episode season in 2017.

“Minecraft: Story Mode” is the last completed project from Telltale. The studio shut down earlier this year, laying off the majority of its staff.

One of the most popular big hair bands, Poison was among the number of groups that would come out on stage and simply rock the house since they were considered to be edgy, new, and something that hadn’t been seen before. But their beginning was pretty modest since they moved all the way across the country from Pennsylvania in order to find their success in Los Angeles, California. They didn’t know anyone, they didn’t have a lot of money, but they had a dream and a desire to go as far as they could with their career and that was

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Tracy Oliver’s “The First Wives Club” series is going to air on Bet rather than Paramount Network as originally planned.

The series adaptation of the film and book of the same name was ordered to series at Paramount Network back in April. It will follow a group of New York women who band together after their marriages fall apart, and who find strength in their sisterhood and a little revenge. Paramount Network had ordered 10 half-hour episodes. It will star Ryan Michelle Bathe, Michelle Buteau, and Jill Scott in the lead roles.

“We are thrilled that Tracy Oliver and Paramount Television

The long-gestating First Wives Club TV series is undergoing a change of address. Previously set to premiere on Paramount Network in 2019, the show’s 10-episode first season will now debut on Bet in the new year, TVLine has learned.

Based on the classic 1996 film of the same name, Bet’s First Wives Club series follows three New York City women — Ari (This Is Us‘ Ryan Michelle Bathe), Bree (Enlisted‘s Michelle Buteau) and Hazel (Black Lightning‘s Jill Scott) — who form a united front after all of their marriages fall apart. The series, written and executive-produced by Tracy Oliver (Girls

Jude Law is the kind of guy that can be what you need him to be in a movie since he’s capable of being funny but not comedic and he’s very capable of being dramatic and can even take part in something that’s inordinately gory. Repo Men wasn’t exactly one of the best films in the world largely because the story didn’t feel as though it was fully fleshed out, but it was still a different approach for Jude since a lot of the movies he’s in are quite dramatic and allow him to express himself in a very honest

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Discovery and Tiger Woods have struck a multi-year agreement that will weave content crafted with the golfing legend part of the company’s soon-to-launch golf-focused streaming service, part of a joint venture with the PGA Tour.

GolfTV is slated to launch in January of 2019, and Woods will collaborate with Discovery “on a wide range of programming, content creation and storytelling opportunities that will offer fans an authentic and regular look into the life, mind and performance of the game’s ultimate icon,” the parties said in a statement on Tuesday. Fans will get a sense of everything from Woods’ practice

The three-night Arrowverse crossover is just around the corner, and we now know enough to be confident about at least two things. One: It's going to be an awesome launch for the inevitable Batwoman series. Two: It's going to be the most fun thing to happen to you all year.

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