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Investors sent shares of Discovery up 4 percent on Thursday after the company revealed that its ad sales — dragged down by the pandemic earlier this year — have been rebounding.
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CBS All Access is beaming fans into the anniversary of the “Star Trek” franchise. On Tuesday, September 8, the streaming network will host a 24-hour virtual celebration to mark the 54th anniversary of the original “Star Trek” series premiere on Sept. 8, 1966. The virtual event will feature panel discussions with actors past and present, …
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In a first for the “Star Trek” franchise, characters who are gender non-binary and transgender will appear on the third season of “Star Trek: Discovery,” CBS All Access announced on Wednesday. Ian Alexander (“The OA”) will play Gray, a trans man who has spent his life planning to be a Trill host for a symbiotic …
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CBS has (inter)stellar plans to fill out its coronavirus-hobbled fall TV lineup. The network announced Wednesday it will broadcast the first season of “Star Trek: Discovery” — a series that normally airs on subscriber-based streaming channel CBS All Access — during prime time. And in a synergetic switcheroo, CBS also will air seven episodes from …
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Jim Belushi is eager for you to see how his career has gone to pot. The actor, Blues Brother and TV veteran (ABC’s “According to Jim”) stars in “Growing Belushi,” a three-part Discovery series taking viewers inside the legal cannabis business he runs from his southern Oregon spread, Belushi’s Farm. It premieres Wednesday at 10 …
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Mike Tyson’s encounters with agents and promoters didn’t prepare him for the actual sharks he faces as part of Discovery’s annual “Shark Week” programming lineup. “I was scared all the way through and was just trying to get through it alive,” Tyson, 54, tells The Post. “I’m a scary guy but not when it comes …
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Husband-and-wife actors Jerry O’Connell and Rebecca Romijn are on parallel career treks these days. They both play gold-shirt-wearing first officers, traditionally nicknamed “No. 1,” in separate “Star Trek” series: Romijn in Season 2 of “Discovery” and its upcoming prequel “Strange New Worlds,” and O’Connell in the animated “Lower Decks,” premiering Thursday on CBS All Access. …
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Discovery, home of “90 Day Fiancé” and Guy Fieri’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” said Wednesday that it plans to launch a new streaming service as the coronavirus took a bite out of its second-quarter income. The broadcasting giant, which owns channels TLC, Food Network and HGTV, plans to launch a new, subscription-based streaming service that …
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Season 3 of “Star Trek: Discovery” will beam to CBS All Access on Oct. 15, the network announced on Monday. The franchise installment, which stars Sonequa Martin-Green as redeemed Commander Michael Burnham, will head into previously uncharted territory: Namely, a starship and crew launched into a timeline 930 years into the future. When the second …
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In the wake of Grant Imahara’s death, Discovery and Science Channel will have a “Mythbusters” marathon from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday and from 3 to 9 p.m. Saturday. Imahara died Monday at 49 from a brain aneurysm. The engineer and roboticist co-hosted the popular science show from 2005 to 2014, for over 200 …
Investors sent shares of Discovery up 4 percent on Thursday after the company revealed that its ad sales — dragged down by the pandemic earlier this year — have been rebounding. The media company
