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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 10/7/13)
CW: Hart of Dixie (Premiere) at 8pm
CW: Beauty And The Beast (Premiere) at 9pm
DISNEY XD: Mighty Med (Premiere) at 8:30pm
FOX NEWS: The Kelly File (Premiere) at 9pm
SUNDANCE: Dream School (Premiere) at 10pm
MTV TR3S: Bellezas Indominables (Premiere) at 11pm
UNIVISION: Mentir Para Vivir (Premiere) at 10pm
DISCOVERY: Turn And Burn (Finale) at 10pm
Oscar winner Halle Berry will star in sci-fi summer series Extant. The project, from Steven Spielberg‘s Amblin Television and CBS Television Studios, has a 13-episode straight to series order from CBS for 2014. The summer-size order allows Berry to take on a TV commitment without abandoning film work. “For five months a year I’ll get to live with and play this incredibly intelligent an vulnerable woman,” said Berry, “and for the remainder of the year I’ll continue to look for other roles.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
The first series to be cancelled in the new season is ABC‘s Lucky 7. The show drew 4.4 million viewers and 1.3 in the A18-49 demo for its premiere, dropping to 2.6 million and a .7 rating on Tuesday. Repeats of the previous week’s Scandal will fill Lucky’s 10p time slot.
(Source: Cynopsis)
While Jay Leno is stepping down from NBC‘s Tonight Show early next year, CBS is staying the course with David Letterman. The late night host’s contract was set to expire at the end of 2014, but CBS signed him through 2015. Letterman’s Late Show trails in the ratings behind Tonight, but was up 5 percent year-to-year for the first week of the new season. “Les [Moonves] and I had a lengthy discussion,” said Letterman, “and we both agreed that I needed a little more time to fully run the show into the ground.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
On The Big Interview tonight, Daryl Hannah talks to Dan Rather about her battles with Aspberger’s Syndrome. “They recommended to my mom to put me on some medications and institutionalize me,” the actress tells Rather. Conversation airs on AXS TV at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fox has renewed The Simpsons for season 26. “This groundbreaking series is not only the longest-running scripted show in television history, it’s one of the greatest sitcoms of our time,” said Fox chairman Kevin Reilly. The show’s season premiere was the number one entertainment program of the night in the A18-49 demo.
(Source: Cynopsis)
NBC has ordered nine new eps of freshman series The Blacklist. In its first two weeks, the procedural starring James Spader averaged 12 million viewers. In its second week, the show set a Live + 3 record, adding over 5 million viewers to its Live + Same day numbers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Controversial former NFL player Terrell Owens is forced to confront the issues at the root of his bad behavior on OWN self-help series Iyanla: Fix My Life. New episodes of the Harpo Productions show launch Saturday, November 2 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Little People, Big World is returning to TLC for a seventh season. The net announced in 2010 that season six would be the reality show’s last, then aired spin-off Little People, Big World: Wedding Farm in 2012. The Gay Rosenthal Productions series will focus on weddings on the farm, as well as health and relationship issues when it returns Tuesday, October 29 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Nikita launches its six-ep fourth and final season on Friday, November 22 at 9p. CW will air the Sesfonstein/Wonderland Sound and Vision production for six straight weeks.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Cake Boss spin-off Next Great Baker will return to TLC for season four. The High Noon Entertainment competition series averaged 1.3 million viewers in season three.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC has put into development Raising Mom, based on the experiences of Sofia Vergara (Modern Family) as a young single mom, reports Deadline. The show comes from Vergara and Luis Balaguer’s Latin World Entertainment, Electus and ABC Studios.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Kim Raver and William Devane will return to the roles they created on 24 when 24: Live Another Day debuts on Fox in spring 2014. The Teakwood Lane production will be set in London, picking up several years after the action in 24’s 2010 final season.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Peter Fonda will guest star on Darren Star‘s Lifetime pilot, HR. The drama, from Kapital Entertainment, stars Alicia Silverstone as an unorthodox director of human resources.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Topher Grace and Sarah Silverman will play brother and sister in HBO comedy pilot People in New Jersey; Patti Lupone has been cast as their widowed mother in the HBO Entertainment production.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC‘s Scandal opened season three Thursday night at a series-high 10.5 million viewers and 3.6 rating/10 share in A18-49 – up 71 percent over its year-ago premiere in the demo. The drama also scored an evening-high 712,877 tweets.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CBS‘s sitcoms were solid on Thursday. The Crazy Ones dropped 24 percent from last week, when Bang was its lead-in, but still drew 2.9/8 A18-49 and 11.8 million. The Millers, premiering in that sweet spot, became the season’s second-best scoring comedy premiere, after Crazy.
(Source: Cynopsis)
In its regular time slot, NBC‘s The Michael J. Fox Show (5.35 million viewers and 1.7/5 A18-49) fell 15 percent from last week, but built on its Sean Saves the World (1.4/4 A18-49 and 4.4 million) lead-in.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Gravity – $55.6 million
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 – $21.5 million
Runner Runner – $7.6 million
Prisoners – $5.7 million
Rush – $4.4 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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