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The complete fall 2018 lineup is available now, with all the returning and new shows. Enjoy!

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The CBS, ABC, FOX, and NBC fall 2018 lineups are available now, with all the returning and new shows. Take a look!

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The ABC, FOX, and NBC fall 2018 lineups are available now, with all the returning and new shows. Check it out!

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Walton Goggins has joined the L.A. Confidential television reboot pilot. Based on the novel by James Ellroy, the drama follows three homicide detectives, a reporter, and an actress whose lives intersect while the detectives pursue a sadistic serial killer among the secrets and lies of glamorous and gritty 1950s Los Angeles.

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Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o has signed on to star in Born A Crime, the film adaptation of The Daily Show host Trevor Noah's bestselling debut autobiography.

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Four months before Universal Pictures unleashes Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the studio is making plans for a third installment of the rebooted dinosaur adventure movie series with a June 11, 2021 release date.

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Netflix's British supernatural teen series The Innocents has found its cast. Guy Pearce will star in the series, alongside Percelle Ascott and Sorcha Groundsell. The newly titled eight-episode series is created and written by Hania Elkington and Simon Duric. The series will explore what happens when teenagers Harry (Ascott) and June (Groundsell) run away from their repressive family lives to be together.

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Director and Star Wars fan Jon Favreau is going to be voicing an important alien in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

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Illumination Entertainment is gearing up for their Benedict Cumberbatch-voiced The Grinch movie, and Warner Bros. is planning a new Seuss film series, so the beloved children's author is having a bit of a moment. And you can throw a new project on that list because director Stephen Chbosky is set to direct a biopic based on the life of Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss.

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The 2018 Winter Games begin this week, bringing the world's best athletes to PyeongChang, South Korea, to compete. The games, which will have its opening ceremony on Feb. 9 and end with the closing ceremony on Feb. 25, will include figure skating, luge, bobsled, snowboarding, alpine skiing, hockey, and curling.

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The 25th Annual SAG Awards will be held Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019, SAG-AFTRA announced Thursday. The show will be simulcast on TNT and TBS starting at 8 p.m. Et/5 p.m. Pt.

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Legion, the acclaimed drama series from creator and executive producer Noah Hawley, will return to FX on Tuesday, April 3 at 10 Pm ET/PT.

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The Gong Show is back for season two, and now is the time for unusually talented and unique performers to see if they have what it takes to appear on the show and survive the gong! The Gong Show is offering you or someone you know the opportunity to show off your wonderfully unpredictable, strange, weird, odd, one-of-a-kind and original acts that could lead to a performance on The Gong Show stage in front of a celebrity-filled judging panel and viewers across the country. Potential contestants can apply online at www.gongshowcasting.com or attend an open casting in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 24. A parent or legal guardian must submit on a minor's behalf.

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Nickelodeon today revealed a first-look of the characters in its brand-new animated series, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which follows the band of brothers as they discover new powers and encounter a mystical world they never knew existed beneath the streets of New York City. The 2D-animated series debuts later this year on Nickelodeon.

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American Ninja Warrior: Ninja vs. Ninja pits top ninjas from the hit American Ninja Warrior franchise against each other in a nail-biting head-to-head competition. The 16-episode series is hosted by comedian Matt Iseman and former NFL player Akbar Gbajabiamila, with in-the-moment sideline reporting from Fox Sports' Alex Curry. The obstacles will showcase the ninjas' agility, athleticism and meticulous skill - all in a side-by-side battle to the finish.

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Ben & Jerry's is adding two new Saturday Night Live ice cream flavors, paying homage to a favorite character and skit. Gilly's Catastrophic Crunch, a combination of chocolate and sweet cream ice creams with caramel clusters, fudge-covered almonds and marshmallow swirl, is as a nod to the character Gilly, played by Kristen Wiig. Lazy Sunday, made up of vanilla cake batter ice cream with chocolate and yellow cupcake pieces and a chocolate frosting swirl, is a reference to the skit of the same name starring Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg.

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Tony nominee Andrew Rannells will takeover the main role in Hedwig And The Angry Inch on Broadway as the first replacement for Neil Patrick Harris, who departs the show on August 17.

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The CW unveiled One Magnificent Morning, a five-hour Saturday morning block targeting teenagers and their families. Set to launch October 5, the 7 Am-noon block will feature 10 new series, including shows about wildlife, farm veterinarians and America's national parks.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, together with Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, are partnering to launch a new feature film trilogy that reimagines the 1994 film Stargate.

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James Cameron will develop an Avatar inspired live production with Cirque du Soleil, which will debut in late 2015. The live show is expected to debut before the first of three announced Avatar sequels is released.

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Syfy has acquired the U.S. basic cable rights to all 39 episodes of the Starz's series Spartacus. The deal includes all three of Spartacus' main seasons, Blood And Sand, Vengeance and War Of The Damned, plus the six-episode prequel series Gods Of The Arena. Spartacus will make its basic cable premiere on Thursday, June 26 at 10 p.m.

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Alcon Entertainment has offered Harrison Ford to reprise his role as Rick Deckard in its sequel to Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott. Hampton Fancher, co-writer of the screenplay of 1982s Blade Runner film, and Michael Green are the screenwriters. The story is being kept under wraps other than being set several decades after the conclusion of the original, which took place in a dystopian 2019 Los Angeles.

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44 Blue Productions has signed a deal with Whoopi Goldberg's production company, One Ho Productions, to develop a docudrama around Goldberg's daughter and her extended family. The series will follow daughter Alexa Martin as she tries to navigate through life with her husband, three adolescent children and oldest daughter, Amara, who decides to move back home with her fiance and new baby. Martin's best friends Leisa and Ron will also be featured in the show.

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Syfy plans to make a Sharknado 3 movie to be aired upon the channel this fall. Additionally, drama series Killjoys has been picked up for 10 episodes as has the Town Of The Living Dead comedy series.

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Peter Jackson, director of the Hobbit movie franchise, announced that the third and final Hobbit movie will be called Battle Of The Five Armies.

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TV Land has given a 12-episode series order to Younger, a comedy pilot written and executive produced by Sex And the City creator Darren Star. The show, starring Sutton Foster, Hilary Duff, Debi Mazar and Miriam Shor, will premiere in the fall.

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NBC announced that its two-part movie Rosemary's Baby will air on Sunday, May 11 and Thursday, May 15. It will air from 9-11 p.m. both days.

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Wil Wheaton will have a new television series, currently known as The Wil Wheaton Project, which will premiere at 10pm Tuesday, May 27 on Syfy. The channel has ordered 12 episodes, scheduled to run through the summer.

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Ben Mckenzie will play Detective James Gordon in upcoming series Gotham. The show will follow Gordon in the Batman universe as he navigates dangerous crime, going up against super villains. The cast also includes David Mazouz as a young Bruce Wayne, Jada Pinkett Smith as Fish Mooney, Robin Lord Taylor as the Penguin and Sean Pertwee as Pennyworth.

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Cinemax???s series Banshee, now in its second season, just got an early renewal for a third season to air next year.

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More than 20 years after The Cosby Show ended its run on NBC, Bill Cosby is returning to the network to star in a new family comedy. Cosby will work with former Cosby Show producer Tom Werner of Carsey Werner for a new show in which he'd star.

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Gerard Butler is in final negotiations to star in the Point Break movie remake. The new version of the 1991 bank-robbing surfers film will be directed by Ericson Core. Butler will be playing Bodhi, the role originally played by Patrick Swayze.

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The return of Sherlock delivered nearly a record ratings in the UK. The third season of the detective drama was seen by 9.2 million viewers on BBC One. That's the most-watched episode of the series to date, and would also represent a successful viewership number for a broadcast show here in the U.S.

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Dominic Cooper stars as 007 creator Ian Fleming in Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond, a Mat Whitecross directed series about the author's real life exploits as part of the British Naval Intelligence which later went on to inspire the adventures of James Bond. The series airs on BBC America starting January 29th at 10pm.

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CBS will air the one-hour series finale of How I Met Your Mother on March 31 instead of waiting unti May.

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Fox has picked up the screen rights to the Agatha Christie murder-mystery book Murder On The Orient Express. Producers Ridley Scott, Simon Kinberg and Mark Gordon will producethe project.

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Former X Factor judge Cheryl Cole sued producers Blue Orbit Productions for more than $2.3million and the case has now been settled out of court, with producers paying an undisclosed sum to the pop star.

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Paramount Pictures has stopped plans by independent producers to mount a sequel to Frank Capra's iconic Christmas tale It's A Wonderful Life. The studio said that Star Partners and Hummingbird Prods. have not obtained the sequel rights to the movie.

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Terrence Howard is still upset about his removal from the Iron Man series after the first hit film. He points a finger at Robert Downey Jr., who he says suggested him for the superhero job in the first place.

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Disney and Lucasfilm will release J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: Episode VII on December 18, 2015. Shooting is scheduled to begin this spring at Pinewood Studios.

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Owen Wilson is teaming with Starz to develop a new television series set in the world of the 1980s pornography business.

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Director J.J. Abrams and Raiders Of The Lost Ark writer Lawrence Kasdan have taken over screenwriting duties from Michael Arndt on Star Wars: Episode VII. The movie is scheduled for release in 2015.

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Robert Zemeckis is developing a new drama called Marwencol for Universal. It tells the unique story of Mark Hogancamp and the way he coped with the severe memory loss he suffered after he was attacked and beaten by a group of teenagers.

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Meg Ryan will executive produce and star in a new halfhour, single-camera comedy from Universal TV that is in development at NBC.

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HBO has renewed Boardwalk Empire for a fifth season. The renewal comes three weeks after the show's Season 4 premiere.

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Lionsgate announced that Julianne Moore has joined the cast of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2 as President Alma Coin. Moore will star opposite Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth in the third and fourth installments of the global blockbuster Hunger Games franchise.

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Syfy has signed a trio of television veterans for its upcoming supernatural drama pilot Dominion, based upon characters from the 2010 film Legion. Christopher Egan, Tom Wisdom and Alan Dale will co-star in the pilot which takes place 25 years after the film, depicting the aftermath of an epic war between humans and angels.

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HBO has made a pilot production commitment for a Westworld adaptation from J.J. Abrams and Warner Bros television.

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A television series based on action film Rambo is in the works. Sylvester Stallone, the star of the Rambo film franchise, is in negotiations to be involved with the Rambo television show.

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From the Bronx girl On the 6 to global superstar, Jennifer Lopez is one of the most influential and iconic pop stars of our time. She has accomplished what few have with record breaking success in movies, television, music and fashion. Now, NUVOtv's original Jennifer Lopez: Her Life. Her Journey. offers a rare and personal look into the life of this inspiring artist and entrepreneur. Debuting Thursday, July 18th at 8pm on NUVOtv.

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The Season 2 premiere of the hit modeling reality series Curvy Girls haooens on Tuesday, June 11th at 10pm on NUVOtv! Ivory, LornaLitz, Denise and Rosie return to Manhattan with a fierce new friend, American Idol alum Joanne Borgella, and all of the drama and chisme the Big Apple can handle. Fiery romances are rekindled, baby gossip blossoms, mommy-hood beckons, envy escalates and guest stars like Perez Hilton, Kimora Lee Simmons, Coco Austin, Carnie Wilson and Clark Gable III help guide the girls through Gotham's celebrity jungle.

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NBC has given a second season to its serial-killer drama Hannibal. The 13-episode second season follows serial killer Hannibal Lecter in his early days, and his relationship with criminal profiler Will Graham, who has a unique ability to peer into the mind of serial killers.

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Known for billboard-sized photographic portraits of everyday people in urban settings, French street artist JR has a simple call to action: "Tell me what you stand for, and together we'll turn the world inside out." To transform his idea into reality, he created the Inside Out Project, the world's largest participatory art project and a remarkable testament to the power of the image and the role art can play in transforming lives. Inside Out: The People's Art Project visits locations around the world, including: Haiti, Tunisia, North Dakota, and the West Bank. Inside Out: The People's Art Project explores this groundbreaking global art movement when it debuts Monday, May 20 (9:00-10:15 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

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NUVOtv, the first and only English-language cable network for U.S. Latinos, held its upfront event today at the Edison Ballroom in New York City where the network announced an exciting and expansive new programming line up that kicks off on July 18th. Artist, entrepreneur, and NUVOtv creative and business partner Jennifer Lopez took the stage as the network's newly appointed Chief Creative Officer. The network also revealed a rich new on-air look to complement deeper investments in programming and marketing. In her new key role, Lopez joined NUVOtv's Chief Executive Officer, Michael Schwimmer, Head of Programming Bill Hilary and Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales Craig Geller to present the network strategy, target audience research, and robust programming lineup.

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Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players. The new one-hour series stars Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominee Liev Schreiber in his first lead television role as the go-to-guy who makes the problems of the city's celebrities, superstar athletes, and business moguls disappear. This powerful drama unfolds when his father, played by Oscar winner Jon Voight, is unexpectedly released from prison, setting off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core. Watch the premiere Sunday, June 30th at 10PM ET/PT, immediately following Dexter!

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The Weight Of The Nation For Kids is a family-friendly three-part series of half-hour specials for young people spotlighting decisions children and their families can make to improve their health now and in the future. Directed by Emmy winners Shari Cookson and Nick Doob, the second and third parts of the series, Kebreeya's Salad Days and Quiz Ed!, debut back-to-back Tuesday, May 7 (5:30-6:30 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO, followed by an encore play of the first The Weight Of The Nation For Kids special, 2012's Emmy-nominated The Great Cafeteria Takeover, at 6:30 p.m.

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Jennifer Lopez will be presenting at NUVOtv's upfront event in New York City on May 15. She will be unveiling the network's 2013-14 programming slate as well as their new branding campaign. NUVOtv is the first English-language TV network created for US Latinos, and is currently available in more than 30 million homes nationwide. Nuyorican, Lopez's TV and film production company, is developing original programming and first run series for NUVO.

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For more than two decades, he was the target of intense scrutiny, with an entire unit at the CIA dedicated to tracking his every move and trying to determine what violence he might perpetrate. When 9/11 confirmed Osama bin Laden's intentions, these same analysts and operatives were now blamed for failing to prevent it, though they had spent years warning about the possibility of an attack. Manhunt features testimonials from CIA Analysts, Targeters, and Operatives who tracked Bin Laden for nearly two decades, turning years of careful planning and intelligence into action on May 1, 2011. The documentary debuts Wednesday, May 1 (8:00-9:45 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

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Elephants are among the Earth's most majestic and intelligent creatures - but for hundreds of years, they have suffered under the hands of humans. We have poached them for their tusks, chained them up in captivity, and destroyed their natural habitats. Narrated and executive produced by Oscar nominated actress Lily Tomlin and directed and produced by Emmy winner Amy Schatz, An Apology To Elephants is an HBO family documentary that illustrates how elephants live in the wild - from their matriarchal structure to their truly impressive memories - and examines the problems and issues that arise when they are brought to live in captivity in zoos and circuses. This film traces our long history with elephants and features beautiful nature footage, juxtaposed with disturbing behind-the-scenes video of the cruel ways that circuses break down elephants' spirits in order to get them to perform. The film also shows how people have been striving to spread awareness and improve the conditions for the scores of elephants still living in North America. Premiering on HBO on Monday, April 22nd (Earth Day 2013), An Apology To Elephants provides many lessons on elephants' importance to global ecology and the environment.

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On April 20, 2011, shortly after the release of his Oscar-nominated documentary "Restrepo", photographer and filmmaker Tim Hetherington was killed by mortar fire in Misrata, Libya, where he'd been covering the civil war. His death ended a brilliant ten-year career in which he covered such dramatic stories as the conflicts in Liberia and Afghanistan, but also transcended the conventional boundaries of image-making to become one of the most important journalists of his generation. Illuminating the risks of the combat journalist's profession, Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life And Time Of Tim Hetherington chronicles his work on the battlefield to reveal what made him such a singular talent, and a remarkable human being. Hetherington's close friend Sebastian Junger, who co-directed "Restrepo" with him, directed the powerful documentary. The film debuts Thursday, April 18 (8:00-9:15 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO, two days before the anniversary of Hetherington's death.

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In this all-new edition of the Emmy-nominated YoungArts Masterclass, iconic actress Patti LuPone - star of such memorable stage hits as Evita, Gypsy and many more - mentors four young student actors, selected from the YoungArts national performing-arts program and invited to attend a special onstage workshop on the Belasco Theatre stage on Broadway. Awed by their surroundings, but brimming with energy and excitement, they limber up their voices on the venerable stage before meeting LuPone, who greets each actor warmly before getting down to the business of working with each singer and critiquing his or her performance. Later, the group will relax together during lunch at Joe Allen's, a famous theater-district restaurant frequented by actors and decorated with Broadway posters. Patti LuPone: A YoungArts Masterclass debuts Monday, April 1 (7:30 PM EST/PST), exclusively on HBO.

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For Jim McGreevey, August 12, 2004 was, in his words, "a train wreck." That was the day the former New Jersey governor famously announced his resignation and declared himself a gay American on live TV. After his political downfall and the ugly divorce that followed, McGreevey found himself at an existential crossroads. Fall To Grace reveals how McGreevey moved through that painful period, reinventing himself as a spiritual advisor to women in prison. Fall To Grace debuts this Thursday, March 28, 2013 (8:00 ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

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Directed by Emmy-winning filmmakers Joe and Harry Gantz, American Winter features struggling Oregon families who called into the state's ???211info??? social services hotline in search of help in the winter of 2012. The film presents an intimate snapshot of the state of the nation's economy as it is playing out in the lives of many American families, and reveals the human consequences of rising economic insecurity, budget cuts to the social safety net, and the fracturing of the American Dream. The latest U.S. census data shows that 48.5 million Americans are living in poverty, the largest number in the 53-year history of published poverty estimates. This includes 16.1 million children. American Winter debuts Monday, March 18 (9:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

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Oscar-nominated documentary King's Point debuts Monday, March 11 (9 PM ET/PT) on HBO. Director and Producer Sari Gilman tells the stories of five seniors living in a typical American retirement resort - men and women who came to Florida decades ago with their spouses by their sides and their health intact, and now find themselves grappling with love, loss, and the universal desire for human connection. King's Point is a film that breaks through the denial of aging and death that is so pervasive in our culture to unerringly steer us down a road of honest reflection. Shot over the course of 10 years, Kings Point is a bittersweet look at our national obsession with self-reliance, exploring the dynamic tension between living and aging while underscoring society's powerful ambivalence toward growing older.

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Every year, the YoungArts program of the National YoungArts Foundation offers 15- to 18-year-old emerging artists from around the country the chance to be mentored by some of the world's greatest artists in an intimate environment. In this all-new YoungArts MasterClass presentation, three student writers join Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare for a once-in-a-lifetime workshop in Rome, Italy when the HBO Family documentary special John Guare: A YoungArts Masterclass debuts Tuesday, March 5 (7:30-8:00 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO.

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Multiple Grammy winner, entrepreneur, and actress Beyonc? is the focus of an intimate feature-length HBO documentary film that debuts Saturday, February 16 on HBO in Beyoncé: Life Is But A Dream. Directed by the superstar herself, the film is a fusion of video that provides raw, unprecedented access to the private entertainment icon and high-voltage performances. The film is a multi-faceted portrait of the 16-time Grammy Award-winning singer, businesswoman, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, wife and mother, showing off the extraordinary gifts that have made her a global phenomenon, and stripping away the veneer of stardom. It includes extensive first-person footage, some of it shot by Beyonc? on her laptop, in which she reflects on the realities of celebrity, the refuge she finds onstage and the transcendent joy of becoming a mother last year.

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Every year, the YoungArts program of the National YoungArts Foundation offers 15- to 18-year-old emerging artists from around the country the chance to be mentored by some of the world's greatest artists in an intimate environment. In this all-new YoungArts MasterClass presentation, four young singers participate in a memorable workshop and performance with a Grammy-winning vocalist when the HBO Family documentary special Bobby McFerrin: A YoungArts Masterclass debuts Tuesday, February 12 (7:30-8:00 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO.

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February 1 marked the launch of USA Network's Characters Unite Month, a multi-platform effort to shine a spotlight on the importance of combating hate and discrimination; encourage candor and dialogue around tough issues like racism, gender inequality, homophobia and bullying; and inspire people to say ???I won't stand for ...??? it anymore. Through inspiring original programming, digital content, talent involvement and above all - the power of each individual's voice - the initiative aims to cultivate greater mutual acceptance in our community. Highlights from the month include the following: