FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 2/26/14)
ABC: Mixology (Premiere) at 9:30pm
CBS: Survivor (Premiere) at 8pm
DESTINATION AMERICA: Road To Sturgis (Premiere) at 8pm
FX: The Americans (Premiere) at 10pm
FXX: Legit (Premiere) at 10pm
FXX: Rezurection (Premiere) at 10:30pm
INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY: House of HorrorsL Kidnapped (Premiere) at 10pm
MNET: Alphagirls (Premiere) at 8pm
TV ONE: Unsung Hollywood: Pam Grier (Premiere) at 10pm
UP: Bulloch Family Ranch (Premiere) at 9pm
FUSE: Warped Roadies (Finale) at 11pm
OXYGEN: Best Ink (Finale) at 10pm
TV LAND: Kirstie (Finale) at 10:30pm
In addition to Alec Baldwin – fresh off his anti-media rant in New York Magazine – playing a NYC newspaper columnist on the March 19 episode of NBC‘s Law & Order: SVU, comes word that Katie Couric will appear as well, as herself. Procedural airs Wednesdays at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Syfy canceled drama Being Human, now in its fourth season. Thanking production company Muse Entertainment for their work on the show, the net said in a statement, “They’ve saved the best for last with the final six episodes that revisit the story’s beginning.” Being Human airs Mondays at 9p; finale is April 7.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather will face WBA Welterweight World Champion Marco Maidana on Saturday, May 3 live on Showtime PPV. Over 100,000 votes on various online polls named Maidana the man fans want to see in the ring with undefeated Mayweather.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Lena Dunham (Girls) will host NBC‘s Saturday Night Live for the first time on March 8. Also making an SNL debut will be musical guest The National.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fresh from covering the Olympics, best-dressed commentators Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski landed jobs covering the Oscars red carpet for Access Hollywood. Said Weir, “I hope to bring my own special brand of sparkle to the broadcast.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Kenny Loggins lends his voice to FX‘s Archer on Monday, March 3 at 10p, performing his hit song, “Danger Zone.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
A&E‘s Storage Wars returns for season five with back-to-back eps on Tuesday, March 18 at 9p and 9:30p. New limited series Barry’d Treasure, featuring Storage Wars fave Barry Weiss, follows at 10p and 10:30p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Showtime is offering a sneak peek at upcoming horror series Penny Dreadful at the SXSW film conference on Sunday, March 9. Stars Josh Hartnett and Harry Treadway and director Juan Antonio Bayona will be on hand in Austin for a Q&A. Showtime premiere is Sunday, May 11 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) will guest host WWE’s Monday Night Raw on USA March 3. Paul’s movie Disney movie, Need for Speed, comes out eleven days later.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WORLD Channel celebrates Women’s History Month with programs featuring inspiring stories from women around the word, including America Reframed: LuLu Sessions (Tuesday, March 4), Global Voices: A Working Mom (Sunday, March 16) and America ReFramed: Mothers of Bedford. Check local listings.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Nominees for the 2014 MTV Movie Awards will be announced Thursday, March 6 in categories including “Best Kiss,” “Best Shirtless Performance” and “#WTF Moment.” Fan voting takes place at www.MovieAwards.MTV.com; awards show airs Sunday, April 13 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Oscar nominee Viola Davis is set to star in ABC drama pilot How to Get Away, the Hollywood Reporter revealed, as a brilliant criminal defense attorney. Show comes from Shonda Rimes and Betsy Beers (Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Jamie Lee Curtis has been cast in a CBS pilot as a doctor and mother of four quadruplets who were raised on a reality show. Yet-to-be-named project comes from CBS Television Studios.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Ashley Judd will star in NBC pilot Salvation as the widow of a mega-church pastor.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Wings alum Tim Daly will play the husband of the Secretary of State (Tea Leoni) in CBS drama pilot Madam Secretary.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Six episodes away from its series finale, CBS‘s How I Met Your Mother was the number one program Monday night among A18-34 with 3.6/12, edging past the return of NBC‘s The Voice (3.5/11) in the demo. The singing competition handily won the night in total viewers (14.3 million) and in A18-49, lifting The Blacklist 24 percent higher than its last, Voice-less outing four weeks ago.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Episode 6 of HBO’s Matthew McConaughey/Woody Harrelson drama anthology True Detective delivered a series-high average 2.6 million viewers on Sunday, up from 2.3 million for its January premiere.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TBS‘s Cougar Town attracted2.0 million viewers in Live + 3 viewing (up 18 percent versus the prior week), with 1.3 million A18-49 up (15 percent) and 620,000 A18-34 (up 23 percent). TBS ranked as basic cable’s number one network in primetime delivery of A18-49 for the month of February.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Its telecast of the 45th NAACP Awards was TV One‘s most-watched programming event ever among total households (718,000) and P2+ (935,000) from 9p-11p, and placed sixth on Nielsen’s Twitter TV Top 10 list for the week.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Monday’s BET Honors premiere drew over 2 million viewers. The show, honoring distinguished African Americans, was up 5 percent from last year, and was the top Monday telecast on BET for the 2013-2014 season so far.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game on TNT was basic cable’s number one sporting event for the month among total viewers (7.5 million), A18-49 (4.2 million), A25-54 (3.4 million) and A18-34 (2.5 million).
(Source: Cynopsis)
SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 2/23/14)
1) Various Artists – Frozen Soundtrack – 89,216 (After 13 weeks – 1,140,910)
2) Eric Church – Outsiders – 73,798 (After 2 weeks – 361,769)
3) Cole Swindell – Cole Swindell – 63,247
Other Debuts
9) Issues – Issues – 22,397
11) Phantogram – Voices – 20,635
14) Candice Glover – Music Speaks – 18,636
18) Lake Street Dive – Bad Self Portraits – 14,737
24) Bayside – Cult – 12,375
29) We Are The In Crowd – Weird Kids – 10,101
34) Ellie Holcomb – As Sure As The Sun – 8,253
42) The Allman Brothers Band – Play All Night: Live At The Beacon Theater 1992
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