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Miss Universe is now Owned by a Thai Business woman who is a Billionaire

Miss Universe is now Owned by a Thai Business woman who is a Billionaire

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Miss Universe has a new owner. Donald Trump owned it in the 1990s, then in 2015, he sold it to IMG. Fans had hoped that Miss Universe would once again become popular in the United States, but this hasn’t happened. South East Asia, Latin America, Australia, and France are what sustain Miss Universe. The pageant recently had changes with the rules as it now allows married women, divorced women and mothers to compete. Those changes are implemented  to make it more inclusive to all kinds of women.   Anne Jakkaphong, a Thai billionaire, is a major lover of pageants. She seized the opportunity when she learned that IMG was selling Miss Universe for just $20 million. One of the top TV networks in Thailand, JKN, is owned by Miss Anne. Some Fans worry that she did it so Thailand will keep on winning because it is one of the Pageant crazy countries. Also there is a controversial Thai owned Pageant known as  Miss Grand International and it has a lot

NBC Releases Fall Schedule One Month Late

NBC Releases Fall Schedule One Month Late

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Believe it or not, we still haven’t received a definitive fall schedule from every broadcast network (I guess you would believe it, since anything’s believable now). ABC still hasn’t revealed theirs, and NBC only just now got around to releasing their fall plans. And after you look at the schedule, you’ll wonder just what the delay was about. NBC’s fall lineup is almost identical to what it was last season. While the network DOES have new shows in the cooker, they have all been shoved to midseason premieres, with the exception of one: a new Law & Order spinoff, Organized Crime, which is bafflingly positioned at 9 PM on Thursdays, cutting into NBC’s traditional Comedy Night. NBC has made weirder decisions in its history (like putting Jay Leno on five nights a week), but this leaves only one hour of comedy in their entire heavy, drama-soaked lineup. Here is NBC’s very familiar Fall 2020. Prepare to be underwhelmed: MONDAY 8-10 PM — The Voice 10-11 PM — Manifest TUESDAY 8-9

Parks And Recreation Returning For One Special Night

Parks And Recreation Returning For One Special Night

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It was asked, “Are we going to let this crisis defeat us as a nation?” And a voice said, “Knope.” Michael Schur, creator of Parks and Recreation, revealed to the press today that Leslie, Andy, Ron and all the others are coming back as themselves for one night only, in an NBC special designed to raise money for COVID-19 relief. How can you have a new Parks and Rec episode out of nowhere, especially now? If you haven’t already guessed, the actors will be playing their characters remotely from their own homes, because the plotline will directly involve our current events. This means that the first scripted TV series to directly include the pandemic in its plotline will be Parks and Recreation…who would have figured? (Actually, to be technical, The Simpsons opened last Sunday’s episode with a chalkboard that simply said “CLASSES ONLINE” and no Bart, though the actual episode had nothing to do with the virus’ impact). “Like a lot of other people, we were looking for ways to

NBC Displays Peacock’s Plumage: Price, Release Date, Library

NBC Displays Peacock’s Plumage: Price, Release Date, Library

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Only a few more months until we’re so drowned in streaming services that we can’t take it. As you know, every major studio is getting one, and NBC Universal finally revealed all the details for their effort, Peacock, today. They are the last to do so, and they’ll be the last to launch, with a public access date of July 15, 2020. With a launch that late, they better be competitive, right? Well, that depends on how you look at it. The complete service costs $9.99 a month, which is higher than Disney+ but lower than HBO Max. Those who already have Comcast or Cox cable services will only have to pay $5, but then you’d have the problem of being shackled to the most overpriced and anti-consumer cable business in all of creation, so it’s kind of a wash. But here’s something Peacock is doing that no other service offers: free access to some of its shows. They’ll come with ads, of course, and what you can view will

Nine New Photos From The Good Place Season Four

Nine New Photos From The Good Place Season Four

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What do these nine juicy new screenshots reveal about the upcoming final season of The Good Place? According to our sources, the characters will DEFINITELY be standing around and talking to each other!! ….seriously, that’s about all you can glean — they chose these images carefully, knowing we’d be inspecting them. But do we really want spoilers? Of course not. Here are the nine images, all taken from the first returning episode, “A Girl From Arizona”: Eleanor Shellstrop Eleanor settling into her new role as pretend Architect of the pretend Good Place. Scene from the latest stuffy cotillion at Tahani’s. Janet spots something GOOD! Tahani looks less impressed. \ “Dis is da biggest birdbath I ever seen, but where we gonna find a bird big enough?” If Eleanor is playing Architect, what job does that leave for Michael? “Hey, I know what you can do, Mike! If you can find a giant bird suit….” Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Altogether an intriguing batch of images, and it’s nice to see Eleanor, Tahani, Jason and

The Good Place To End With Season Four

The Good Place To End With Season Four

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Ooch….this one hurts. The Good Place creator Michael Schur posted a notice on Twitter last night stating The Good Place will last just four seasons. The season that just aired was #3; we’ve got 13 episodes left. That is bullshirt. But it’s his decision, not the network’s. Schur’s letter in full: After The Good Place was picked up for season two, the writing staff and I began to map out, as best we could, the trajectory of the show. Given the ideas we wanted to explore, and the pace at which we wanted to present those ideas, I began to feel like four seasons – just over 50 episodes – was the right lifespan. At times over the last few years we’ve been tempted to go beyond four seasons, but mostly because making this show is such a rare, fulfilling joy,  and at the end of the day, we don’t want to tread water just because the water is so warm and pleasant. As such, the upcoming fourth season will

The Good Place Exposes The Janet Place

The Good Place Exposes The Janet Place

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Last month, before it went on holiday hiatus, The Good Place aired one of its best episodes: “Janets,” which took place almost entirely within Janet’s void and featured the cast entirely rendered in Janet form. D’Arcy Carden performed quintuple duty throughout the episode, accurately portraying Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani and Jason along with her regular role as Janet. To make sure the impressions were flawless, D’Arcy practiced for eight months before filming. So we’ve seen what Janet’s Void is like when others are crammed inside (a feature the Void wasn’t meant for, and it makes Janet belch out Cher tunes). Here’s what Janet’s Void is usually like. The official Good Place YouTube channel turned on a surprise livestream yesterday of Janet standing around in whiteness, waiting to be summoned. It looks something like this: Like a less intense version of Everybody Loves Hypnotoad, this footage is entirely comprised of Janet standing in the middle of nowhere with her arms neatly folded in clasp position. There is an occasional curveball thrown your

Grimm Spinoff In Development At NBC

Grimm Spinoff In Development At NBC

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Grimm is not dead! Deadline reports that NBC is currently developing a spinoff from the cancelled series. The same production team is involved in the attempted revival: Universal Television, Hazy Mills Productions, and that guy from “Will and Grace.” Early reports suggest this new series would have a female lead, which leaves things open to one of two cool possibilities: the show could be about Teresa Rubel, aka “Trubel,” the female Grimm introduced mid-series and criminally neglected for the majority of its run. Or the show could be set in the future and follow the grown-up Diana, revealed in the final shot of the original series: Seeing either of these two ideas realized would send this reporter over the moon with happiness, which more than likely means NBC is planning to just make up a female Grimm no one’s seen before and market that one. It’s network television, where the missed opportunities are as plentiful as the rain. Encouragingly, the Deadline report states “the idea is for the offshoot to

NBC Developing New Vampire Series….With A Twist

NBC Developing New Vampire Series….With A Twist

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NBC has announced they’re developing a new primetime drama centered around a vampire. You might think the “twist” hinted at in the title couldn’t possibly be that big a deal. Trust us, it’s truly interesting. But we’ll get to it. According to Variety the show is called “The Last American Vampire,” and they describe it this way: A supernatural thriller that follows Abby, a young analyst, as she’s recruited into a special division of the FBI that investigates unique and mysterious cases. While working on her first case tracking a string of bizarre murders she discovers her new enigmatic partner also happens to be a 500-year-old vampire. Together, they fight crime! Sounds pretty generic, right? It is until you hear this. “The Last American Vampire” will be based on the novel of the same name. That novel was written by Seth Grahame-Smith, and it was a spinoff from his previous book……Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Yes, it not only takes place in the same universe that has a stake-toting Abe Lincoln

Timeless Will Be Back….One Last Time

Timeless Will Be Back….One Last Time

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In 2016 NBC premiered an ambitious series called Timeless, about a group of secret time-travelers attempting to stop another group of time-travelers from altering American history. It had the unfortunate luck of turning up at the same time as three other shows about time-travel from rival networks. They all banged into each other and cancelled each other out, including Timeless. NBC originally called its death in May 2017. But Timeless has turned out to be the scrappy underdog who just wouldn’t quit. Mere hours after its cancellation was announced, that announcement was taken back and the show was renewed for a surprise second season. That season began airing last March, but the ratings didn’t improve. So last May NBC said “this time, it’s gone for good.” If you read the headline, you know that’s not true. Timeless is back AGAIN, though not in the form you know it in, and only to say goodbye. NBC and Sony Pictures Television have reached a deal to produce a two-hour Timeless movie that

NBC’s “Timeless” Cancelled, Then Uncancelled

NBC’s “Timeless” Cancelled, Then Uncancelled

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This season, four time travel shows on separate networks went head-to-head and cancelled each other out — literally. ABC’s Time After Time, Fox’s Making History, CW’s Frequency and NBC’s Timeless all debuted around the same time and caused instant fatigue for viewers. One timey-wimey show might have been able to succeed on its own, but so many at once killed interest in any of them. But hold the phone — three days after the announcement that all four were cancelled, one was just UNcancelled today: Timeless. NBC made the announcement out of nowhere this morning. The news is so unorthodox that some people are wondering if it was staged this way on purpose, since the show in question is time-travel themed. A tweet from showrunner Eric Kripke played to the theory: “The #TimeTeam went back 3 days, and changed history. @nbc picked us up for 10 episodes. Seriously. Airs next summer.” According to THR, though, this was not an intentional stunt. NBC has been placing a greater emphasis on owning

NBC’s Midnight Texas Looks Nuts

NBC’s Midnight Texas Looks Nuts

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The National Broadcasting Company has begun running promos for some new show called Chicago Texas. Wait, I got the title wrong, but can you blame me? The show is actually called Midnight Texas. Based on a trilogy of books written by supermarket novelist Charlaine Harris, Midnight Texas is one of those places everybody goes who’s too weird to fit into normal society. Our crazily-coiffed protagonist, Manifred, possesses psychic powers and has regular conversations with ghosts. He joins a community made up of a witch named Fiji, a vampire named Lem, a werewolf named The Rev (who apparently changes into a tiger, NOT a wolf) and an angel named….um, Joe. We get a brief clip of Joe’s actor running around with prosthetic wings and he looks hilarious. This show was announced by NBC at their Upfronts nearly a year ago, and they’ve finally made room on their schedule for it….in the middle of the summer. Make your own conclusions about its quality there. No one’s expecting brilliance from Midnight Texas. But

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