Update: AZA Open to ALL

Vol 158: Let's chatty chat!

Jun 24, 2024

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“CBS Mornings” co-host Nate Burleson has been enlisted to host CBS’ revival of “Hollywood Squares,” set to debut in January and air Wednesdays at 10p. Drew Barrymore will sit in the center square seat. The game show premiered on NBC in 1966 with Peter Marshall as host.
Two-part documentary “One South: Portrait of a Psych Unit” debuts Tuesday, June 25 at 9p on HBO. The show tells stories of some of the patients in Northwell’s Zucker Hillside Hospital in Queen, NY.
Amid uncertainty about who will carry NBA games after next season, Charles Barkley announced that he is retiring. “I talked to all the other networks, but I ain’t going nowhere other than TNT,” said the Emmy-winning Basketball Hall of Famer, who has spent 25 years at TNT’s “Inside the NBA,” on Friday. “I have made the decision that no matter what happens, next year is going to be my last year on television.”
There will be no interruptions during CNN’s June 27 presidential candidate debate – when the allotted time for President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump has run out, their mics will be muted. There will be two commercial breaks during the debate, during which candidates will be prohibited from consulting with campaign staff.
Add NBC, MSNBC, Peacock, NewsNation, Newsmax and Newsmax 2, Telemundo and Scripps News to the list of outlets planning to simulcast CNN’s presidential debate on Thursday, June 27. CBS News, C-SPAN, ABC News, PBS and Fox News already announced plans to air the event, with their own pre- and post-debate coverage.
REELZ series “On Patrol: Live” will wrap the season with a new episode on Saturday, June 29 at 9p that runs for its regularly scheduled three hours, and continue with a bonus hour from 12-1a. New live episodes return with a new season starting Friday, July 12 and Saturday, July 13 at 9p.
Firsthand accounts from inside natural disasters are revealed in the new series, “In the Eye of the Storm.” The show premieres Sunday, July 14 at 10pm on Discovery Channel, right after the net’s Shark Week.
Alex Trebek will live forever in the hearts of “Jeopardy!” fans, as now he’s being memorialized on a U.S. forever stamp. “This naturalized U.S. citizen hosted the quiz show ‘Jeopardy!’ for 37 seasons,” reads the stamp, with the response: “Who is Alex Trebek?” The stamp, which coincides with the game show’s 60th anniversary, comes out July 22. Trebek died November 8, 2020, at age 80.
ID has three new true crime series on tap. “Bodies in the Water” premieres Monday, July 8 at 10pm; “The Black Widower: The Six Wives of Thomas Randolph” runs Monday, July 15 from 9pm-12am; and “Family Affairs” arrives Monday, July 22 at 9pm.
Six-part docuseries “Mafia Spies” will premiere Tuesday, July 16 on Paramount+. The show chronicles the world of spies, gangsters, honeypots and mistresses that unraveled a hidden conspiracy between the CIA and the Chicago mob to assassinate Fidel Castro during the Cold War.