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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 10/14/13)
BOUNCE: My Crazy Roommate (Premiere) at 10pm
BOUNCE: BRKDWN (Premiere) at 10:30pm
DISCOVERY: Pure Evel: American Legend (Premiere) at 10pm
MTV: The Hook Up (Premiere) at 6pm
MYX TV: Cheap Date (Premiere) at 8pm
NICK MOM: NickMom Night Out (Premiere) at 10pm
SCIENCE: How To Build A Planet (Premiere) at 10pm
Dan Harris is the new co-anchor on Nightline, announced ABC News President Ben Sherwood on Friday. Harris replaces Bill Weir, who is leaving his post to join CNN as an anchor and “chief innovation correspondent.” Harris will continue to co-anchor the weekend edition of Good Morning America.
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Hollywood A-lister Meg Ryan returns to TV (remember when she was on As The World Turns?) in a project from Universal TV in development at NBC. Ryan would exec produce and star in a sitcom about single mom who takes a job at her old workplace, and finds her boss is a woman who was once her intern.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The CW ordered three more scripts for freshman dramas Reign, The Originals and Tomorrow People. The Originals scored a .9 rating/3 share in A18-49 for its debut on Tuesday, while Wednesday’s premiere of Tomorrow People drew a .9 rating/2 share. Reign bows Thursday, October 17 at 9p.
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GLAAD‘s 18th annual “Where We Are on TV” study reports that 3.3 percent of series regulars on primetime broadcast scripted series were lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, down from 4.4 percent in 2012. On cable, the survey showed 42 LGBT characters, an improvement from last year’s 35.
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The CW will air the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2013 concert from NYC as a two-hour special, featuring Miley Cyrus, Robin Thicke and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, among other performers, on Wednesday, December 18 at 8p.
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Despite finishing fourth in its time slot on its last outing with a 1.3 rating in A18-49 and 3.1 million viewers, sitcom Dads got a vote of confidence from Fox in the form of an additional six-ep order.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC Family picked up The Fosters for a second season. The drama, exec produced by Jennifer Lopez, was the number one new cable TV series of the summer in viewers 12-34. New season one eps launch in January.
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MTV renewed Teen Wolf for season four, premiering Monday, January 6 at 10p. New companion talk show Wolf Watch will air immediately afterward. Season three of Teen Wolf averaged a 2.5 P12-34 rating and 2.8 million viewers, its highest season to date.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Teen magnet Victoria Justice (Victorious) will star in MTV pilot Eye Candy, about a woman targeted by a cyberstalker. Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) will direct and exec produce the Blumhouse Prods. project.
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AMC‘s The Walking Dead has added Josh McDermitt (Retired at 35) to its fourth season cast as Dr. Eugene Porter and Michael Cudlitz (Southland) as Abraham. Both characters come from the comic series on which the zombie drama, airing Sundays at 9p, is based.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Max Adler (Glee) and comedian Sandra Bernhard will recur on ABC Family drama Switched at Birth. Both will appear in the drama’s third season premiere in January.
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Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad), Oliver Platt (The Big C), Kate Walsh (Private Practice) and Glenn Howerton (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) have been added to the cast of FX mini-series Fargo. The 10-ep show, produced by FX Productions and MGM Television and inspired by the quirky 1996 film, is scheduled to premiere in spring 2014.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Cutie-pie cousins Sophia Grace Brownlee, 10, and Rosie McClelland, 7, frequent guests on Ellen, will star in a direct-to-video feature for Degeneres’ A Very Good Production, as well as a TV show in with a script commitment from NBC, reports Deadline.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MTV is elbowing its way into the singing competition space. Copycat, a half-hour afternoon series from Warner Horizon TV and Next Entertainment, has crooners being judged by a studio audience on how well they can imitate their favorite singers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
A project co-written by Justin Long has a script commitment from NBC, reports Deadline. The show, from 20th Century Fox TV and Small Dog Picture Co., is about a man happily married to an older woman.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CBS has ordered More Time with Family from exec producers Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, for put pilot commitment. The comedy will star Tom Papa (Inside Amy Schumer) as a man who doesn’t find what he expected when he leaves his job on the road to be at home.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Glee ratings jumped for the Fox show’s Cory Monteith tribute episode, drawing a 2.9 rating/8 share among A18-49, up 75 percent from last week.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The premiere of ABC‘s Once Upon a Time in Wonderland on Thursday scored a 1.7 rating/5 share among A18-49, down 23 percent from the premiere of Last Resort in the time slot last year. With 3.1/9 in the demo, Scandal was off 14 percent from its premiere last week, but still the number one-rated drama of the night, and second-highest rated program after CBS‘s The Big Bang Theory.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Most NBC shows Thursday suffered big dips in ratings week to week. Taking the biggest tumbles were The Michael J. Fox Show and Sean Saves the World, both down 29 percent with a 1.2 and 1.0 rating in A18-49.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC‘s Shark Tank topped the demos Friday night with 1.7 A18-49, according to preliminary Nielsen numbers. CBS won the night with a 1.4 rating and 9 million viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Oxygen docu-series Preachers of L.A. drew 1.1 million viewers, the net’s strongest Wednesday season premiere ever, and second-highest series premiere in net history for any day among W25-54.Preachers airs Wednesdays at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Gravity – $44.3 million
Captain Phillips – $26 million
Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs 2 – $14.2 million
Machete Kills – $3.8 million
Runner Runner – $3.7 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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