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| 1 | | Startup Telly plans to give away 500,000 smart TV sets to consumers for free this summer. Founder and CEO Ilya Pozin was previously a co-founder of free ad-supported streaming platform Pluto TV. More: - Telly's initial run of smart TVs are 55-inch sets with 4K HDR picture quality; according to Pozin, they will retail for more than $1,000.
- Unlike many other smart TV manufacturers, Telly sets are not solely intended as streaming hubs, but connected devices with multiple uses, including videoconferencing, music, fitness, and gaming.
- In exchange for the free sets, consumers must agree to surrender certain personal and viewership data to Telly, though Pozin suggests "everything is very transparent" and "opt-in."
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| 2 | | The BAFTA TV Awards were distributed on Sunday evening during a ceremony at London's Royal Festival Hall. The Apple TV+ series "Bad Sisters" took the top prize for Best Drama, along with an award for Anne-Marie Duff's supporting performance. More: - Netflix's "Dahmer" was named top International Series, beating out "The Bear," "The White Lotus," "Wednesday," "Oussekine," and Apple's "Pachinko."
- Ben Whishaw was named Best Leading Actor for "This Is Going to Hurt," which streams on AMC+ in the US.
- A sketch featuring Whishaw voicing Paddington Bear alongside Queen Elizabeth II received a special award voted on by members of the public for the year's Most Memorable TV Moment.
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| 3 | | DAILY CALENDAR MONDAY, MAY 15 THE TOWER: Procedural drama series from the UK, based on the books by Kate London, and starring Tahirah Sharif and Gemma Whelan as police detectives investigating homicides in southeast London. Season 2 premieres today on BritBox in the US. [BritBox] LAND OF GOLD: Indie drama from writer/director Nardeep Khurmi. He also stars as a truck driver who discovers a young Mexican-American girl (Caroline Valencia) in a shipping container and sets out to reunite her with her family. The film debuted at last year's Tribeca festival. [Max] THE JANE MYSTERIES: INHERITANCE LOST: Mystery feature from Hallmark starring Jodie Sweetin as a singer who inherits her family's foundation, which also includes a non-profit detective agency. With a private eye (Stephen Huszar) and her Aunt Sadie (Paris Jefferson) as mentors, she tackles her first case. [Peacock] | | | |
| 4 | | FXX's animated spy comedy series "Archer" will end after its upcoming 14th season. The network never formally announced a Season 14 renewal; star Chris Parnell teased that it was already in production back in January. More: - The 14th and final season will debut on August 30; new episodes air on FXX and then stream the following day on Hulu.
- "Archer" debuted on FX in 2009 and moved over to FXX in 2017; it has received 10 Emmy nominations over the years, and won for Best Animated Series in 2016.
- Adam Reed created the series, co-stars, and executive produces; the cast also includes H. Jon Benjamin, Aisha Tyler, Judy Greer, Amber Nash, and Lucky Yates.
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| 5 | | NBC announced its fall primetime line-up for the 2023-2024 season. The slate includes just three new scripted series, all of which went into production prior to the WGA strike. More: - The new shows -- dramas "Found" and "The Irrational," and the comedy "Extended Family" -- were all picked up early, outside of the traditional development cycle; several episodes have already been produced for each title.
- "Found" was due to premiere in February but the network pushed back its debut to the fall.
- A number of returning series -- including "Night Court" and "Quantum Leap" -- also prepped for the strike by banking some Season 2 episodes early.
- Dick Wolf's "One Chicago" and "Law & Order" franchises, however, remain on NBC's slate and don't have additional episodes ready to go without writers; should the strike continue into the fall, they will need to be replaced by alternative content.
- Unscripted series including "The Voice" and "The Wall" will help to fill out the network's schedule until writers return to work.
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| 6 | | According to Rotten Tomatoes, Netflix's new docudrama "Queen Cleopatra" -- Season 2 of the "African Queens" historical anthology -- has proved unpopular with both critics and audiences. The show has just an 11% score among critics, and an extremely low 2% score from viewers. More: - According to Forbes, this is the lowest audience score in the history of Netflix originals; even widely unpopular shows, such as the streamer's recent "Resident Evil" adaptation, usually end up with audience scores in the teens or 20s.
- The casting of Black British actress Adele James in the role of Queen Cleopatra has proved controversial, particularly in Egypt, where a number of academics and government officials have condemned the series.
- During a recent appearance on the "Wayne Ayers Podcast," James responded to the controversy, saying "I find it sad that people are either so self-loathing or so threatened by Blackness that they feel the need to... separate Egypt from the rest of the continent."
- The first season of "African Queens" related the story of warrior Queen Njinga of Angola; both seasons were produced and narrated by Jada Pinkett Smith.
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| 7 | | Fox announced some new shows and renewals but held off on releasing a full official schedule for the fall TV season. New programming includes "We Are Family," a music-oriented game show to be hosted by father-and-daughter duo Jamie and Corinne Foxx. More: - "We Are Family," premiering in 2024, features the family members of celebrities performing duets with their famous relatives, who will remain hidden; members of the studio audience then try to guess the identity of the secret celebrity.
- Fox also greenlit the game show "Snake Oil," in which contestants are pitched various unlikely products and must guess which are real and which were faked for the show.
- The network renewed the Gordon Ramsay culinary reality series "Kitchen Nightmares" for a new season, its first since 2014.
- "Farmer Wants a Wife" and "Special Forces: World's Toughest Test" also scored renewals.
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| 8 | | Amazon Studios plans to co-produce the English-language action-drama series "Costiera" along with Italian production company Lux Vide and its owners, Fremantle. Typically, Amazon secures global rights to its original productions; "Costiera" will be co-owned by the two companies, which will divide up global distribution. More: - Production is set to begin this summer on the series on Italy's Amalfi Coast; no casting has yet been announced.
- "30 Rock" and "Better Call Saul" vet Adam Bernstein has been tapped to direct.
- Amazon Studios will hold exclusive rights to the show in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal; Fremantle will handle distribution around the rest of the world.
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| 9 | | Several Redditors have noticed a new pop-up on YouTube, asking users to refrain from using ad-blocking software. The messaging suggests that YouTube doesn't allow the use of ad-blockers and prompts the user to sign up for YouTube Premium as a method for skipping over ads. More: - Several messages from users who saw the pop-up have been posted in the r/YouTube community.
- According to data from eMarketer, around 27% of internet users employ some kind of ad-blocking software.
- Google confirmed that they're running the experiment to IGN, noting "Ad blocker detection is not new, and other publishers regularly ask viewers to disable ad blockers."
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| 10 | | QUICK HITS - Netflix canceled the supernatural detective series "Lockwood & Co." after a single season; the show was based on YA novels by Jonathan Stroud.
- In a new chat with TV Insider, "Rabbit Hole" star Kiefer Sutherland said he hopes the series returns for a second season, despite having no sense of how well the first season is performing on Paramount+.
- Max dropped a trailer for "First Five," a three-part docuseries chronicling the administration and all-female cabinet of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who ranked among the youngest world leaders upon taking office in 2019.
- Several actors joined the cast of "Rivals," Disney's series adaptation of Jilly Cooper's "Rutshire Chronicles" novels, including Annabel Scholey, Maggie Steed, David Calder, and Bryony Hannah; David Tennant, Alex Hassell, and Aidan Turner lead the series, which centers on the rivalry between two prominent and powerful men in '80s England.
- ABC canceled the romantic drama series "The Company You Keep," from star and producer Milo Ventimiglia, after one season; "Big Sky" and "Alaska Daily" also won't be returning for new seasons.
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 | Writer | | Lon Harris is the writer and editor of Inside Streaming and was the very first person to ever write an Inside newsletter. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and also writes about TV and film for Fandom, Screen Junkies, Rotten Tomatoes, Gamma Ray and others. Plus he has a Game of Thrones podcast called "Casterly Talk" and competes on The Movie Trivia Schmoedown as "The Professor." | | This newsletter was edited by Eduardo Garcia | |
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