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America, you want a song to write, we got it!
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We're dancing! Again!
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and Stars screwing up a format. Probably.
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The most important blog of the week begins..........now.
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Now, America's favorite contestant, Pierre Kelly!
Me:Welcome everybody to Game Show Live! where we get lit and get involved. Let's kick it off with......
The Talking Through The Medias opening toss up story.
NBC's "American Song Contest" announces the 56 artists, representing the 50 states, five U.S. territories and our nation's capital, who will compete to win the country's vote for the best hit song.
The 56 artists span a wide range of performers, from undiscovered talent, up-and-coming new artists, and rising stars to established and legendary icons. An incredible solo artist, duo, group or band will represent each location and perform a new original song, celebrating the depth and variety of different styles and genres across America. The full list of "American Song Contest" artists can be found below.
From the producers of "Eurovision Song Contest" and "The Voice," the all-live music competition series, hosted by Snoop Dogg and Kelly Clarkson, will premiere Monday, March 21 from 8-10 p.m. ET/PT from the NBCUniversal lot.
Atlantic Records will serve as the exclusive music partner for "American Song Contest" and will release the original songs featured on the series. Beginning Monday, March 21, Atlantic will release each week's new batch of songs at 12 a.m. ET / 9 p.m. PT.
"Launching a new series is always a massive undertaking but mounting one that involves producing 56 original songs is a herculean task. Selecting the right label partner to dig in with us was crucial and we found the perfect partner in Atlantic Records," said executive producer Audrey Morrissey. "We can't wait for viewers to discover new music from our incredibly talented artists from across the country and help decide America's next big song."
Kevin Weaver, Atlantic Records President, West Coast adds, "Atlantic Records is thrilled to partner with NBC and all the artists competing on 'American Song Contest.' As an innovative music label, we're always looking for new ways to discover and showcase talent and 'American Song Contest' is the perfect stage for America to see the best of the best from each state and territory. We're honored to be working with NBC, all of the incredibly talented artists and the entire 'American Song Contest' team."
Meet the Artists: To learn more about each artist, visit here to view on an interactive map: https://www.nbc.com/americansongcontestmap
· Alabama: Ni/Co
· Alaska: Jewel
· American Samoa: Tenelle
· Arizona: Las Marias
· Arkansas: Kelsey Lamb
· California: Sweet Taboo
· Colorado: Riker Lynch
· Connecticut: Michael Bolton
· Delaware: Nitro Nitra
· Florida: Ale Zabala
· Georgia: Stela Cole
· Guam: Jason J.
· Hawaii: Bronson Varde
· Idaho: Andrew Sheppard
· Illinois: Justin Jesso
· Indiana: UG skywalkin
· Iowa: Alisabeth Von Presley
· Kansas: Broderick Jones
· Kentucky: Jordan Smith
· Louisiana: Brittany Pfantz
· Maine: King Kyote
· Maryland: Sisqó
· Massachusetts: Jared Lee
· Michigan: Ada LeAnn
· Minnesota: Yam Haus
· Mississippi: Keyone Starr
· Missouri: Brett Seper
· Montana: Jonah Prill
· Nebraska: Jocelyn
· Nevada: The Crystal Method
· New Hampshire: MARi
· New Jersey: Brooke Alexx
· New Mexico: Khalisol
· New York: ENISA
· North Carolina: John Morgan
· North Dakota: Chloe Fredericks
· Northern Mariana Islands: Sabyu
· Ohio: Macy Gray
· Oklahoma: AleXa
· Oregon: courtship.
· Pennsylvania: Bri Steves
· Puerto Rico: Christian Pagán
· Rhode Island: Hueston
· South Carolina: Jesse LeProtti
· South Dakota: Judd Hoos
· Tennessee: Tyler Braden
· Texas: Grant Knoche
· U.S. Virgin Islands: Cruz Rock
· Utah: Savannah Keyes
· Vermont: Josh Panda
· Virginia: Almira Zaky
· Washington: Allen Stone
· Washington, D.C.: NËITHER
· West Virginia: Alexis Cunningham
· Wisconsin: Jake'O
· Wyoming: Ryan Charles
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If all that singing on FOx is too much then dancing is the next best thing. We bring back an old favorite in a few.
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Me: Hi ho people, we are back on Live!
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If you're thinking of a sports drama lkike Friday Night Lights and Coach Carter, then All American is the perfect CW show that revolves around sports and they have a new spinoff show. Our recap analyst maria Starr has more.
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Nigel Lythgoe appears to be ending his long run on So You Think You Can Dance.
The co-creator of the show, who has been a judge on the series since 2005, said that he will not be returning for season 17, which is set to return to Fox after a three year, Covid-related break.
“I am so thrilled that America’s young aspiring dance talent will get to work with some of our greatest creative choreographers,” he tweeted. “On a personally sad note, I have not been asked to be on the judging panel this season. I don’t know who will be saying “Cue Music” but I wish them well.”
The series is returning for its 17th season this summer, having previously had production paused in 2020 after being hit by the Covid-19 shutdown.
So You Think You Can Dance is officially returning for Season 17, about three years after it last aired, the network has announced. All episodes will be also be available on Fox’s free streaming platform, Tubi as well as Fox Now, Hulu, and On Demand.
Auditions for the multi-Emmy Award-winning dance competition series will be held beginning in March in New York City, Los Angeles, and New Orleans. The new episodes will feature skilled young dancers (ages 18-30), showcasing their talents in various dance styles, including contemporary, tap, hip-hop, ballroom, animation, and breaking. Those who are selected to move on to the SYTYCD studio will work with world-renowned choreographers and compete each week in a variety of styles. Expect to see brand-new twists and turns introduced into the competition. More details, including when this summer it will premiere, will be announced at a later date.
Dancers can submit their auditions online by registering and providing a link to a video of their performance. Selected dancers will be invited to attend auditions in New York, Los Angeles and New Orleans. After that, dancers will be invited to Los Angeles to perform for the judges and try to win a spot as a final contestant.
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Netflix is getting into the game show space with an interactive twist.
The streamer has announced Trivia Quest, a game billed as Netflix’s first daily interactive trivia series. The project is based on the hit Etermax app Trivia Crack and has debuted its first trailer, which you can watch in the link below.
In the story, players help the hero Willy (C-Note: that's the name of the Wheel guy in the picture) rescue the animated citizens of Trivia Land from the Evil Rocky, “bent on hoarding all the knowledge in the world.”
Each episode will feature 24 questions (12 standard and 12 “hard”) across categories including science, history, entertainment, sports, art and geography. Players can replay quizzes to get the right answers and accumulate points, with some of the released characters inspired by favorite Netflix characters.
While Netflix has carried library episodes of Jeopardy!, Trivia Quest could be considered its first original daily game show.
The series is produced by Daniel Calin and Vin Rubino of Sunday Sauce Productions and launches April 1. The streamer will roll out a new episode every day throughout the month.
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Escargot she betta don't! RuPaul's Drag Race season 12 alum Nicky Doll — the first French queen to compete on the American edition — has been crowned the host of Drag Race France.
The Marseille-born queen will preside over the panel on Drag Race France's first season, alongside resident judges Daphné Bürki and Kiddy Smile. Together, they'll judge the cast of queens — to be announced in the near future — who will compete for the first French crown in Drag Race her-story.
Nicky is the second Drag Race alum to head up an international spin-off's roster of judges, after the American version's season 11 finalist Brooke Lynn Hytes hosted two seasons of Canada's Drag Race since 2020.
"I'm honored and thrilled to be the mistress of ceremonies of this emblematic show, which is going to revolutionize French drag and give prominence to incredible queer artists!" Nicky said in a statement. "So, start your engines, and may the best drag queen… win!"
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NBCUniversal is serving up a decadent menu of integrated brand partnerships for the upcoming 19th season of Bravo's "Top Chef" located in Houston, Texas. World-leading brands including BMW of North America, Chipotle, S.Pellegrino(R), Talenti, Universal Pictures' Jurassic Park Dominion, and Vrbo will captivate audiences throughout the savory season with bespoke, engaging brand activations through Quickfire and Elimination challenges and more on the journey to naming the next "Top Chef."
The power of Top Chef's storytelling paired with NBCUniversal Advertising and Partnerships' unparalleled creativity, and capabilities delivers premium content Bravo fans expect and advertising that drives +29% lift in brand favorability, +26% in product interest and inspires action across the country with +25% in purchase intent. Plus, taking it a step further, an advertiser who partnered with "Top Chef" rapidly saw strong audience engagement with consumers 7.5 times more likely to search for a brand after airing during the series and their 1 ad in "Top Chef" was equivalent to almost 8 ads in a competitive show. In addition, for the season, 34% of all social sentiments included a love element for the program. The beloved competition series continues to showcase that great content and great advertising can both live alongside one another and thrive.
The highly anticipated food program premieres Thursday, March 3 at 8pm ET/PT on Bravo. From grand prizes to Quickfire challenges and the digital companion series "Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen," viewers everywhere will experience the #1 most affluent culinary program on cable and interact with the brands they know in a whole new way.
"We are thrilled to be working with both new and returning esteemed partners for this season of Bravo's 'Top Chef.' Season after season, "Top Chef" continues to be an exciting and engaging destination for brands to organically weave their messaging directly into Emmy Award winning content creating a seamless and memorable experience for fans and providing significant brand impact for our marketers," said, Ann Scheiner, Executive Vice President, Advertising and Partnerships, NBCUniversal. "And with One Platform advertisers will reach consumers at scale through cross platform video, digital first content, social amplification, custom spots and more. We cannot wait for everyone to dig into the biggest season of "Top Chef" yet."
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Sony Pictures Television has acquired Industrial Media in a $350 million deal as part of a push toward more nonfiction content.
“At SPT our focus is on leadership and quality in growing areas of television, and nonfiction content makes up a significant share of TV viewing,” Ravi Ahuja, Chairman of Global Television Studios and SPE Corporate Development, said in a statement. “Acquiring Industrial Media gives us scale and expertise that nicely complements our current TV production businesses. Eli, Aaron and their talented group of producers have consistently succeeded with high-quality series and documentaries. We can’t wait to get to work with them.”
Industrial Media has produced titles including “American Idol” for ABC, “So You Think You Can Dance” for Fox, the “90 Day Fiancé” franchise for TLC, “Indian Matchmaking” for Netflix, “We’re Here” for HBO, “The Curse of Von Dutch” and “The D’Amelio Show” for Hulu and “Secrets of Playboy” for A&E.
Industrial Media’s portfolio of producers includes 19 Entertainment, B17 Entertainment, House of NonFiction, Sharp Entertainment, The Intellectual Property Corporation (IPC), This Machine Filmworks, This Radicle Act, and Trilogy Films.
SPT also announced the formation of a new Game Show production division to be led by longtime SPT executive, Suzanne Prete. In her most recent role as EVP, Business & Strategy, Prete oversaw the business operations of “Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune.”
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Taskmaster, the quirky British game show, is taking another swing at the U.S. market with its own global streaming service.
The team behind the series, which is produced by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver producer Avalon Television, is launching Taskmaster SuperMax+. The SVOD service launches today with a particular focus on the U.S. and Canada.
The show’s YouTube channel has had over 3B impressions with around a third coming from North America.
It’s one of the first shows, rather than companies, to launch its own standalone subscription video platform. It comes after a slightly damp squib of a launch in the U.S. in 2020 when The CW, which had acquired the original version of the show, pulled the show off the air after one episode. A U.S. remake of the show, hosted by Reggie Watts, aired for one season on Comedy Central in the U.S. in 2018.
The idea now is to drive fans online, where they will be able to see all seasons of the British show, all international versions and new unseen specials.
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You've seen the images while scrolling social media, no doubt: pictures or videos of seemingly inedible objects or savory food items that are then sliced by a knife to reveal they were actually cake all along.
It's always a mesmerizing sight to see, and Netflix is here to capitalize on it. The streaming service has a new show coming this month called Is It Cake?, which combines the food phenomenon with a good old fashioned reality baking competition series.
Hosted by Saturday Night Live star Mikey Day, Is It Cake? brings together nine of the world's most talented bakers to compete to create hyper-realistic cakes that look exactly like everyday objects.
The bakers — Andrew Fuller, April Julian, Dessiree Salaverria, Hemu Basu, Jonny Manganello, Justin Rasmussen-Ellen, Nina Charles, Sam Cade, and Steve Weiss — all are ready to play, coming in to the competition having made a name for themselves in this niché field.
"What I do is the weirdest thing in the world," Manganello says in the trailer, which dropped on Monday. "Like, there are people saving lives and I am making cake look like other things."
They'll need the skill, too. In order to win, their creations will need to be good enough to deceive a panel of celebrity judges like Karamo Brown, Loni Love, Michael Yo, Bobby Moynihan, Fortune Feimster, Rebecca Black, King Princess, Arturo Castro, Day's SNL costar Heidi Gardner and Meme queen Brittany Broski.
The top three best bakers will go on to compete for the final prize of $50,000..
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And we move on to a Mistplay Game Break. Let's see if anybody knows their edible stuff.
Think real hard on it after we continue Madi2theMax-imum March Madness. Here's her with a fashion report.
Um........okay. But what's the answer? If you said Denny's, you're in the wrong place. It was IHOP.@madi2themax Let this be your sign to do the thing that makes you happy#LinkBudsNeverOff #cottagecore #fairycore #cloaks #renfairetiktok #renessaincefaire ♬ Howl's Moving Castle - Merry-Go-Round of Life - Vitamin String Quartet
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