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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 10/23/13)
FOOD: Restaurant: Impossible (Premiere) at 10pm
A&E: Duck Dynasty (Finale) at 10pm
Sean Combs knows how to make an entrance. “The revolution will be televised,” said the rapper/record producer/entrepreneur as he launched his new music network, Revolt, at 8p Monday night from the steps of the late Notorious B.I.G.‘s childhood home in Brooklyn. “Biggie and I had this dream,” said Combs. “Today marks the beginning of an amazing journey for us and the music industry.” Listings can be found at www.revolt.tv.
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NBC didn’t pick up Sarah Silverman‘s TV pilot, but that doesn’t mean you can’t watch it. The comedienne posted the episode of Susan 313, produced by 20th Century Fox and Imagine TV, on her YouTube page with the blessing of owner 20th- a gesture she calls “pretty cool” in her intro.
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Showtime renewed Masters of Sex for season two and Homeland for season four. Homeland, the net’s top-rated series, is up 26 percent for the year with 6.5 million weekly viewers. Masters of Sex averages 5.4 million viewers, up 33 percent from Homeland’s first season. Homeland airs Sundays at 9p, followed by Masters.
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Attention, Walmart shoppers! Wheel of Fortune is teaming with the retail giant for the third annual “Secret Santa Sweepstakes.” From Monday, November 11 through the day before Thanksgiving, Wednesday, November 27, Wheel viewers who are part of the game show’s loyalty program, the Wheel Watchers Club, will be eligible to win the prizes won by in-studio contestants. In addition to cash, cars and luxury vacations, prize package segments will include Walmart products.
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Set to debut in syndication in 2014, 20th Century Fox TV comedy Raising Hope has achieved clearance in 80 percent of the country. Season four of the show premieres Friday, November 15 on FOX.
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Janeane Garofalo has joined the Bravo pilot, The Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce, says the Hollywood Reporter. Lisa Edelstein (House) stars in the one-hour dramedy based on the book by Vicki Iovine.
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Lela Loren (Snitch), Naturi Naughton (Fame) and Joseph Sikora (Boardwalk Empire) have been added to the cast of upcoming Starz drama Power. The CBS Television Studios production, about a wealthy nightclub owner, is expected to debut in 2014.
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Comedienne Jessica Chaffin (Arrested Development) is joining New Girl as a potential love interest for Winston (Lamorne Morris). The Fox comedy airs Tuesdays at 9p.
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Channing Tatum is teaming with Nick Zano (2 Broke Girls) on a comedy for CBS and Warner Bros. TV, based on Zano’s real life. Tatum and Zano will exec produce, with Andrew Reich and Ted Cohen.
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Even with a drop from last week’s 4.5, NBC‘s The Voice topped the ratings Monday with a 4.3 share/12 rating in A18-49. And Voice proved a healthy lead-in for The Blacklist, which held onto a 3.0 rating in the demo to make it the night’s highest-rated scripted show.
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Fox got two tenths of a point boost for Bones‘s Booth/Brennan wedding Monday night, scoring a 2.2 rating/6 share in A18-49. An encore ep of Sleepy Hollow drew 1.0/3.
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Doesn’t look like Hallmark Channel will be getting out of the original series game anytime soon. The net’s movie pilot premiere of When Calls the Heart drew more than 3.2 million viewers on October 19, making it the number one movie of the week on ad-supported cable. The series, starring Lori Loughlin (Full House), launches in January 2014.
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The second episode of American Horror Story: Coven set a record for the highest delivery of A18-34 in FX history, with 2.95 million in the demo in Live+3, topping the premiere ep’s 2.92 million Live+3. In total viewers, counting DVR data Coven was just a hair’s breadth from its huge premiere numbers with 7.1 million Live+3, versus 7.2 million.
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VH1 original movie CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story lived up to the hype, becoming the highest-rated telecast on VH1 in over five years with 2.9 in A18-49 and 4.5 million viewers. The October 21 movie was also the most-tweeted show of the night, according to SocialGuide, with over 1.92 million tweets. The biopic has its first encore Sunday, October 27 at 8p.
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SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 10/20/13)
1) Pearl Jam – Lightning Bolt – 165,879
2) Miley Cyrus – Bangerz – 72,145 (After 2 weeks – 343,073)
3) Paul McCartney – New – 67,196
OTHER DEBUTS
5) Avett Brothers – Magpie & The Dandelion – 57,520
6) Scotty McCreery – See You Tonight – 52,240
9) Willie Nelson – To All The Girls – 42,622
10) The Head and the Heart – Let’s Be Still – 42,403
13) Gavin DeGraw – Make A Move – 25,266
15) Trivium – Vengeance Falls – 17,228
16) Chase Rice – Ready Set Roll – 16,903
17) Natalie Grant – Hurricane – 16,140
23) Mary J. Blige – Mary Christmas – 11,659
24) Fall Out Boy – Pax Am Days – 11,530
POWERBALL
Today’s Jackpot is $216 million.
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