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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 10/1/13)
PIX 11: iHeartRadio Music Festival, Night 1 (Premiere) at 8pm
DISCOVERY: The Blue Grass Boys (Premiere) at 8pm
DISNEY: Wolfblood (Premiere) at 8pm
ID: Beauty Queen Murders (Premiere) at 10pm
VELOCITY: Overhaulin’ (Premiere) at 9pm
A&E: Barter Kings (Finale) at 10pm
HGTV: Renovation Unscripted (Finale) at 9am and 9:30am
PBS: Latino Americans (Finale) at 8pm
Both CNN and NBC have scrapped their Hillary Clinton projects. The director of CNN‘s planned Clinton documentary, Charles Ferguson, claimed in a blog on HuffPost that he pulled the plug because no one would cooperate; NBC said, “We’ve decided that we will no longer continue developing the Hillary Clinton mini-series.” Though the Republican National Committee voted to ban CNN and NBC from its 2016 Presidential debates because of the projects, Ferguson said CNN had always supported the film.
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Music net Revolt has an official premiere date, Monday October 21 – and founder Sean Combs is confident his team can create a music outlet that will attract the millennial crowd. “There are a lot of semi-artists with wack music that have snuck in the last decade,” the rapper/entrepreneur told AdAge. “What makes us different is curation and our track record. We know how to pick them.”
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Netflix adds new eps of NBC sitcoms to its streaming arsenal today, with swan song seasons nine of The Office and seven of 30 Rock. A 2011 deal with NBCUniversal gives Netflix airing rights.
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Singer Rihanna‘s reality show, once set to run on the now-defunct Style Network, has found a new home on fellow NBCUniversal cabler Bravo. Styled to Rock, in which wanna-be designers battle each other for $100,000 and a chance to join exec producer Rihanna’s style team, premieres Friday, October 25 at 8p.
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NBC‘s 1st Look gets a second reality star host. Audrina Patridge (The Hills) is replacing former Bachelorette Ali Fedotowsky in January on the LX.TV production, giving Fedotowsky more time to focus on her new correspondent gig at E! News.
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“Family loving, God-fearing” Kentucky marijuana growers try to give the law the slip in The Blue Grass Boys, a new Discovery show from Al Roker Entertainment. “It’s a fun look at a real-life Dukes of Hazzard, following a group of friends who stay one step ahead of the law”. Series bows tonight at 8p.
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MTV will mark World Mental Health Day with a one-hour special, Life Continued: Defeating Depression. From The Office vet Rainn Wilson‘s SoulPancake production company, the show aims to empower viewers with powerful stories of survival on Thursday, October 10 at 7p.
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Singer Bruno Mars has a Grammy; now his sisters have a reality series. The Lylas follows Jaime, Tiara, Tahiti and Presley on the rocky road to their own hoped-for music careers. Series premieres Friday, November 8 at 9p on WE tv.
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CNN is bringing back travel series Parts Unknown for season three. The show, from Zero Point Zero Production, will return for eight eps in spring 2014.
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Ink Master and Tattoo Nightmares have made their mark on Spike TV. The net has renewed Original Media‘s Ink for a fourth season and 495 Productions‘ Nightmares for season three in 2014.
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The knives come out again on Food Network, as the star-charged teams face off on Rachael Vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off. Rosters for 2014’s season three include Florence Henderson, Vanilla Ice and Herschel Walker.
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After delivering solid ratings for Hallmark Channel right out of the gate, the net’s first primetime series will be back for a second season. Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove, which delivered a 2.4 HH rating and over 3.8 million unduplicated viewers, will return in 2014.
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Brad Schmidt has been cast in Showtime‘s House of Lies. He’ll recur as a devout Christian in the Don Cheadle comedy. Season three premieres Sunday, January 12.
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AMC‘s Breaking Bad hit a series record Sunday night with 10.3 million viewers and a 5.2 rating A18-49, up 442 percent from its finale two years ago. BB’s one-hour after show, Talking Bad, drew 4.4 million viewers and 2.9 million A18-49. The show lit up Twitter, too, with a peak of 22,373 tweets per minute as the final ep began on the East Coast.
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Homeland‘s season three bow on Showtime delivered 1.9 million viewers Sunday night, an impressive number opposite the Breaking Bad finale and broadcast premieres. Masters of Sex followed, with an average 1 million viewers in its regular timeslot; the new show had been offered on demand prior to its official debut.
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The picture isn’t pretty for Sunday night broadcast premieres, according to preliminary numbers. ABC dramas Once Upon a Time and Revenge were down double digits year to year, and freshman series Betrayal earned a disappointing 1.5/4 in A18-49. Fox‘s animated comedies were all down double digits, too, along with CBS‘s Amazing Race/The Good Wife/The Mentalist lineup.
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ABC reports that its Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which drew 12.1 million viewers in Nielsen’s live plus same day estimates, has reached more than 22 million viewers when DVR, VOD and an on-air rerun are tallied, making it the net’s most-watched premiere in the five-day streaming window.
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