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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 10/21/13)
COMEDY CENTRAL: @Midnight (Premiere) at 11:59pm
DISCOVERY: Bar Hunters (Premiere) at 10pm
VH1: CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story (Premiere) at 9pm

NBC gave up on Ironside and Welcome to the Family. The drama reboot has been canceled after three episodes, after a soft (1.3 A18-49) Wednesday 10p opening and subsequent ratings slide; comedy Welcome was no laughing matter, either, plunging from its anemic 1.2 opening rating in the demo on Thursdays.
(Source: Cynopsis)

On the bright side, the net named a fifth-season return date for Community (Thursday, January 2 at 8p), and a premiere date for Chicago Fire spin-off Chicago P.D. (Wednesday, January 8 at 10p).
(Source: Cynopsis)

CBS announced back nine pickups for rookie comedies The Millers, The Crazy Ones and Mom. Monday’s Mom has an average 2.6 rating in A18-49 at 9:30p, while Thursday’s Millers has a 3.2 average in the demo at 8:30p, and the Crazy Ones is averaging a 3.6 rating at 9p (though ratings have been lower without the Big Bang Theory lead-in Millers now enjoys).
(Source: Cynopsis)

Fox is showing faith in freshman sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine with not only a back nine pickup, but a one-hour “comedy event,” also featuring New Girl, to follow the Super Bowl on Sunday, February 2.
(Source: Cynopsis)

George Eads is back on the CSI set. The Wrap reports that the actor, who took a break after a scuffle with a writer on the procedural, is working again. CSI airs Wednesdays at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Bones viewers tonight will get a sneak peek at upcoming sci-fi drama Almost Human, the heavily promoted show taking over the long-running Fox procedural’s 8p Monday berth on November 4. Bones moves to Fridays at 8p starting November 8.
(Source: Cynopsis)

You can’t keep Betty White down. NBC didn’t renew Betty White’s Off Their Rockers for a third season, but Lifetime just picked up 20 original episodes of the hidden camera show, says the Hollywood Reporter. The cable channel has aired repeats of the Kinetic Content production, which returns in 2014.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Top Model is strutting on to season 21. The CW reality competition got a ratings lift this year after adding men to the mix; expect to see the guys back next time around. Show airs Fridays at 9p, with the current season finale set for November 15.
(Source: Cynopsis)

TNT is bringing back Franklin & Bash for a fourth go-round. The legal dramedy averaged 1.5 million A25-54 in its third season this summer.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Marilyn Manson is joining ABC‘s Once Upon a Time as the voice of The Shadow. Explained creators/exec producers Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz to Rolling Stone, “We wanted to cast someone with the vocal ability to make our skin crawl.” Manson’s eps are slated to begin in November; show airs Sundays at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Amanda Plummer will guest star on the second season of NBC drama Hannibal. The Pulp Fiction star will play a “hippie-chic acupuncturist,” reports The Wrap. Hannibal returns in early 2014.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Aimee Carrero (Level Up) will recur on FX‘s The Americans, per the Hollywood Reporter. Second season of the political drama bows in January.
(Source: Cynopsis)

MTV ordered eight eps each of teen comedies Faking It, about BFF’s desperate to be popular in high school, and Happyland, about life at a theme park.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Nielsen’s Live + 3 numbers for AMC‘s Walking Dead season four premiere smashed another record. With 20.2 million viewers, the zombie drama was the most-watched non-sports broadcast in cable history. The show scored 16.1 million viewers during its October 13 airing.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CBS’s Undercover Boss was up half a point from last week, according to preliminary Nielsens, with a 1.8 A18-49 rating, helping lead the net to a demo and total viewer victory on Friday.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC‘s Shark Tank also took a jump on Friday, to 1.9 A18-49, enough to make it the highest-rated broadcast program of the night.
(Source: Cynopsis)

A 1.3/4 rating in A18-49 was enough to put CW‘s Vampire Diaries ahead of NBC‘s Welcome to the Family (that won’t happen again – RIP Welcome, .9/3) and ABC‘s Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (1.2/4). But it didn’t help the premiere of Reign, which bowed with a modest .8/2
(Source: Cynopsis)

Lou Scheimer, co-founder of animation studio Filmation, died October 17. He was 84. Filmation produced Saturday morning classics like The Archies, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, and the first animated series for DC Comics.
(Source: Cynopsis)

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Gravity – $31 million
Captain Phillips – $17.3 million
Carrie – $17 million
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 – $10.1 million
Escape Plan – $9.8 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)

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