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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 10/17/13)
CW: Reign (Premiere) at 9pm
DIY: Rehab Addict (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: True Crime with Aphrodite Jones (Premiere) at 9pm
NAT GEO: Big Bad Wood (Premiere) at 9pm
USA: White Collar (Premiere) at 9pm
WORLD: Raw To Ready (Premiere) at 8pm
LIFETIME: Project Runway (Finale) at 9pm

Last night’s episode of Comedy Central‘s South Park was rescheduled because the creative team missed their deadline. “It sucks to miss an air date,” said co-creator Trey Parker, “but after all these years of tempting fate by delivering the show last minute, I guess it was bound to happen.” A lengthy power outage got the blame for Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers being moved to Wednesday, October 23 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Kerry Washington (Scandal) will host NBC‘s Saturday Night Live for the first time on November 2. Musical guest will be Eminem.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Activist Ronan Farrow, son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen (or Frank) will host a show for MSNBC, and contribute to NBC News. “This is a new generation of news show for a new, more engaged generation of viewers,” said Farrow. “I’m excited to shake up people’s expectations for cable news. And to get a ton of Twitter followers.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Hearst is teaming with Awesomeness TV to create a stand-alone YouTube channel for iconic teen mag Seventeen, with original shows and tutorials on fashion, beauty and relationships, as well as multichannel network for girls to produce their own channels. “This is a generation that not only consumes an amazing amount of content but produces it as well,” said Awesomeness TV founder and CEO Brian Robbins.
(Source: Cynopsis)

YouTube will livestream Breaking Bad‘s farewell event in Albuquerque, a funeral for main character Walter White that was inspired by an obituary for White placed in the Albuquerque Journal. Attendees gain entrance with a donation to benefit Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless; there will be a “donate” button on the livestream page for online viewers. Funeral is 4:30 MDT on Saturday.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Universal Television signed a two-year deal with Shaun Cassidy, says the Hollywood Reporter. “With his vast experience in the entertainment business, he understands all the angles of making a TV show,” said Universal TV EVP Bela Bajaria. “He is also a strong supervisor to other writers.” Cassidy’s credits include Blue Bloods, Invasion and Cold Case.
(Source: Cynopsis)

HBO is premiering True Detective, starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, on Sunday, January 12 at 9p. A week later is the launch of gay-themed Looking, January 19 at 10:30p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CMT will honor Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Hunter Hayes and Tim McGraw as country music’s top talent in a 90-minute special, live from Nashville. CMT Artists of the Year airs Tuesday, December 3 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Life in Bayou Pigeon is still filled with crawfish, snakes and money woes when Swamp Pawn comes back for a sophomore season. There will also be new faces on the bayou in the Pilgrim Studios production, CMT‘s second-highest rated series of 2013, coming back Saturday, November 16 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

HBO‘s Girls returns for its third season with a special hour-long ep on Sunday, January 12 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

America Ferrara (Ugly Betty) will exec produce and star in a pilot for CBS about a nun crusading for justice who is challenged by an organization out to destroy her, reports Deadline. The hour-long drama comes from CBS TV Studios.
(Source: Cynopsis)

AMC has greenlit 10 episodes of King of Arms, about the competitive world of arm wrestling. The unscripted series from the producers of Deadliest Catch and Undertow Films is slated to debut in the first quarter of 2014, adding to a growing docu-series slate that includes Small Town Security, renewed for a third season, and Freakshow, coming back for season two.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Nick at Nite airs a Halloween ep of See Dad Run, with David (Scott Baio) trying to get the kids in the spirit of the season on Sunday, October 20 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Even with the fourth season premiere of AMC‘s Walking Dead smashing ratings records Sunday night with 16.1 million viewers, Showtime‘s Homeland averaged 1.81 viewers at 9p, and 2.62 million including 11p and Monday 1a airings, the drama’s second largest audience ever.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The 15th season premiere of NBC‘s The Biggest Loser averaged a 2.3 rating/ 7 share A18-49, down about 25 percent from its last opener January 6. That didn’t stop the net from winning the night in A19-49 – The Voice earned a 4.0/11 for the second battle round, up over 30 percent from the week prior’s recap ep, and Chicago Fire was up two tenths of a point, to 2.3/7.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CW had its best Tuesday night in A18-49 in four years, with new series The Originals up 22 percent, to 1.1/3; Supernatural drew 1.0/3.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The premiere of DIY‘s Vanilla Ice Goes Amish on Saturday ranked as a top ten program for M25-54 in its timeslot on cable, and drew 534,000 total viewers. “This is a classic ‘fish out of water’ programming strategy,” said Steven Lerner, SVP, programming and production for HGTV and DIY Network.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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