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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 6/5/13)
CMT: 2013 CMT Music Awards at 8pm
BOUNCE TV: Forever Jones (Premiere) at 9pm
BRAVO: Chef Roble & Co (Premiere) at 10pm
CMT: Redneck Island (Premiere) at 10:30pm
ID: Most Likely To…(Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Southern Fried Homicide (Premiere) at 10pm
REELZ: Beverly Hills Pawn (Premiere) at 9pm
SYFY: Paranormal Witness (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: Toddles & Tiaras (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: The Good Buy Girls (Premiere) at 10pm
OXYGEN: Best Ink (Finale) at 10pm

Three producers – Denny O’Neil Jr., Jake P. Hall and Charles W. Malcolm – have filed a $60 million lawsuit over Oxygen‘s 2011 reality series sTORIbook Weddings, starring Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott. The suit was filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court against Oxygen Media, Bunim-Murray Productions, World of Wonder Productions and Spelling and McDermott’s production company, Life in a Bowl Productions. Among the charges are breach of implied in fact contract, breach of fiduciary duty and slander of title in connection with what they allege was theft of their idea. The suit seeks more than $8.5 million on each of seven causes of action. It also alleges that the three producers pitched Oxygen and Bunim-Murray a reality series called Tattoo Star, which shares “nearly every creative element” with current series Best Ink.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Amazon has struck a multiyear licensing deal with Viacom to carry hundreds of TV shows on Amazon’s Prime Instant Video. The agreement includes popular kids shows Dora the Explorer, The Backyardigans, and SpongeBob SquarePants. It also includes programming from MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central such as Awkward, Tosh.0 and Workaholics. The move comes weeks after Viacom programming came off Netflix, which chose not to renew its licensing deal with the company.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Modern Family has a new member. Up All Night creator and former Saturday Night Live scribe Emily Spivey has joined the ABC comedy’s writing team.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Eager for a sneak peek of Devious Maids? To support the June 23 premiere of its new series, Lifetime will make the pilot available in English and Spanish across multiple platforms, including myLifetime.com and the Lifetime video watch app, as well as A+E Networks‘ distribution partners’ VOD services, sites and apps, beginning June 9. The multi-platform initiative marks the first time a network has offered a pre-linear sneak peek of a new program in both languages.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Following the success of the Downton Abbey-inspired special Secrets of Highclere Castle, PBS has announced three new one-hour specials that explore some of England’s other storied homes. The Sunday night lineup this summer will include Secrets of Henry VIII’s Palace, Secrets of Althorp  The Spencers and Secrets of Chatsworth, all part of the ongoing series by Pioneer Productions. Each of the three specials precede Masterpiece Mystery! on Sundays, June 30 to July 14 at 8p on PBS.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Debmar-Mercury has renewed the nationally syndicated The Wendy Williams Show through the 2016-17 television season on FOX Television Stations. The renewal covering the top TV markets secures the talk show’s return for its sixth, seventh and eighth seasons.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Brian J. Smith guest stars in Syfy‘s Defiance on Monday, June 10 at 9p. Smith portrays Gordon McClintock, a NASA hero who was presumed dead following a space station catastrophe in 2013. Smith starred in the Syfy original series Stargate Universe and the Syfy original movie Red Faction.
(Source: Cynopsis)

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 6/2/13)
1) Daft Punk – Random Access Memories – 92,677 (After 2 weeks – 432-299)
2) Alice In Chains – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here – 61,045
3) John Fogerty – Wrote A Song For Everyone – 50,993

Other Debuts
4) Little Mix – DNA – 49,800
16) The Dream – IV Play – 22,885
26) Kid Ink – Almost Home EP – 14,606

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