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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 10/28/13)
FUSION: America with Jorge Ramos (Premiere) at 7pm
FUSION: Open Source with Leon Krauze (Premiere) at 10pm
VH1: Love & Hip Hop (Premiere) at 8pm
VH1: Chrissy & Mr. Jones (Premiere) at 9pm
HGTV: Love It or List It (Finale) at at 9pm
Millennial news/pop culture net Fusion launches tonight with a bang: an interview with President Obama. The President’s talk with Fusion/ABC News correspondent Jim Avila will take place this afternoon at the White House, and air first on Fusion show America at 7p. Fusion is a joint venture between Univision and Disney/ABC Television.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fox picked up nine more episodes of Dads, for a full 22-ep order. Though the comedy drew criticism at first for offensive humor, it’s averaging a 2.2/7 rating in A18-49 in Live + 7, and is one of the top 10 new series among Men 18-34. The 20th Century Fox production airs Tuesdays at 8p.
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The Big Bang Theory has released a song on iTunes. “If I Didn’t Have You (Bernadette’s Song)”, performed by Simon Helberg (Howard) on the October 24 ep with backup vocals from the rest of the cast of the CBS comedy, was written by recurring star Kate Micucci (Lucy) and can be downloaded in recognition of the show’s support of MusiCares, a safety net for people in the music business.
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MTV is amping up fan investment in the EMAs. Miley Cyrus, who was voted Best U.S. Act for the 2013 MTV EMA, moves on to compete against Canada’s Justin Bieber for the North America title. The net’s global music celebration, sponsored Stateside by 5 Gum, LG Mobile, Herbal Essences, Taco Bell and T-Mobile, airs Sunday, November 10 at 7p.
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MTV released all 12 episodes of high school docu-drama Wait ‘Til Next Year via the MTV app, allowing viewers to binge-watch the whole season a week before its TV premiere on Friday, November 1 at 8p. The move drives usage of the app, and gets the teen audience engaged – hopefully enough to splash chat about the show all over social media.
(Source: Cynopsis)
New Greg Kinnear legal drama Rake gets a two-night kick-off on Fox, following the NFC Championship game on Sunday, January 19 at 10p, and continuing in its regular time slot Thursday, January 23 at 9p.
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Dance company director Abby Lee Miller goes on a scouting tour for new talent in season four of Lifetime hit Dance Moms, premiering Wednesday, January 1 at 9p, after a reunion show at 8p recaps last season’s drama. Moms takes up its regular Tuesday 9p slot the following week.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season three of the Collins Avenue docu-series averaged 2.1 million total viewers to make it the top unscripted program in its time slot among women.
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American Idol launches its thirteenth season with a two-night premiere. The Fox singing competition, with judges Keith Urban, Jennifer Lopez and Harry Connick, Jr. comes back Wednesday, January 15 and Thursday, January 16 from 8-10p. Thursday’s regular results shows will be cut from one hour to 30 minutes for eight weeks in the spring, making room for new comedy, Surviving Jack at 8:30p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fox drama The Following begins its 15-week uninterrupted second season on Monday, January 20 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Drop Dead Diva is coming back for a sixth season. Lifetime cancelled the dramedy after its fourth season, but worked out a deal with Sony Pictures Television to rein in costs that revived the series. Show airs Sundays at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Adina Porter has been bumped from recurring to series regular on True Blood. Season seven for the HBO vampire drama premieres in 2014.
(Source: Cynopsis)
A new version of witch drama Charmed is in early development at CBS, reports Vulture. The WB show ran from 1998-2006.
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Everyone was a winner Friday night. NBC was number one in A18-49, thanks to the third season premiere of Grimm scoring a 1.8 rating/6 share at 9p, according to preliminary Nielsen numbers, and the series premiere of Dracula at 10p drawing 1.6/6 in the demo. ABC‘s Shark Tank was the top show in A18-49 (2.0/7), and CBS‘s Blue Bloods, with 11 million viewers, was the most-watched show.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The first two games of the World Series averaged 13.9 million viewers for Fox, up 13 percent from last year’s San Francisco Giants/Detroit Tigers matchup. Twitter activity was up from 2012, too – by 63 percent, with 452,000 tweets. But while the Cardinals took the game, the Red Sox won the battle on Facebook, drawing 58 percent of comments, likes and posts.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Bravo scored its most-watched Wednesday of the year in primetime and total day on October 23 with a big assist from the finale of Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles. Delivering 1.7 million total viewers and 793,000 in the 18-49 demo, Listing hit a franchise high.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Oxygen had its best primetime Wednesday ever, thanks to Preachers of L.A., which drew 1.2 million total viewers and 634,000 in A18-49. During the 10p hour, Oxygen was the number five cable net among W18-49.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Actress Marcia Wallace died on October 25. She was 70. Wallace played receptionist Carol Kester on The Bob Newhart Show and won an Emmy in 1992 for Outstanding Voiceover Performance for playing Bart’s chain-smoking teacher, Mrs. Krabappel, on The Simpsons. A tribute to Wallace is scheduled to air on the November 3 episode of the Fox comedy.
(Source: Cynopsis)
English director Antonia Bird passed away on October 25. She was 54. In addition to films including Mad Love and Face, Bird directed TV shows like EastEnders and MI-5.
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – $32 million
Gravity – $20.3 million
Captain Phillips – $11.8 million
The Counselor – $8 million
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 – $6.1 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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