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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 3/4/14)
AHC: CIA Declassified (Premiere) at 10pm
BET: The Game (Premiere) at 10pm
H2: Rise of the Machines (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: Flip It To Win It (Premiere) at 11pm
SCIENCE: Close Encounters (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: The Little Couple (Premiere) at 10pm

Viacom, NBCUniversal and ESPN might have to fork over $1.9 million if a proposed FCC fine is approved. The companies aired an ad for the film Olympus Has Fallen in March that included a noise that so resembled the Emergency Alert public warning system, charged the regulator, that it could “undermine the effectiveness of the system in the event of an actual emergency.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Coca-Cola was replaced as exclusive Oscars sponsor by PepsiCo this year, but the soda brand got prime placement anyway Sunday night when host Ellen DeGeneres brought out pizza to feed the A-list crowd – and the Coca-Cola logo was visible on the sides of the boxes. Pepsi “has brought the situation to ABC‘s attention,” said AdAge.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Fresh off his win as Best Actor at the Oscars Sunday night, Matthew McConaughey said he won’t be back for a second season of HBO‘s True Detective. “Season one was finite,” said the actor backstage. Crime drama airs Sundays at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

VH1 greenlit Rico Suave (wt), a docu-series following the life of Gerardo Mejia, a 1990s Latin singer-turned-music exec and his clan. “I can’t wait for VH1’s audience to meet my wild family,” said  Mejia. “We’re like Ricky and Lucy but with a handful of crazy kids trying to run my casa.” Show from Blank Paige Prods. slated to premiere later in 2014.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Lifetime original movie A Day Late and a Dollar Short premieres Saturday, April 19 at 8p, with Whoopi Goldberg as a meddling matriarch. The Ostar Productions film was adapted from Terry McMillan‘s best-seller.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Bill Rancic may be winding up his run as co-host of canceled syndicated show America Now, but the entrepreneur/restaurateur/reality show star (Giuliana & Bill) still has plenty on his plate as host of Food Network‘s Kitchen Casino. Rancic oversees chefs competing for a $30,000 jackpot in the Jane Street Production series, debuting Monday, April 7 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Damon Herriman (Justified) joins Dean Winters (Law & Order: SVU) as a recurring character in CBS‘s Battle Creek, the Sony Pictures Television detective drama from David Shore (House) and Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad).
(Source: Cynopsis)

Benito Martinez (The Shield) and W. Earl Brown (Deadwood) have been tapped for roles in ABC pilot American Crime.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC‘s telecast of the Oscars Sunday night drew an average audience of 43.0 million total viewers and a 12.9 rating among A18-49, according to Nielsen true fast nationals. Hitting a 10-year high, the awards show was TV’s most-watched entertainment telecast since 2004.
(Source: Cynopsis)

And when viewers weren’t watching, they were tweeting. Nielsen SocialGuide reports that during the show, 2.8 million people wrote 11.2 million event-related Tweets that were seen by a Unique Audience of 13.9 million people and tallied 1.04 billion Twitter TV impressions across the night.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Sunday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live – After the Oscars was up over the prior year for the third year in a row, growing 22 percent in total viewers (to 7 million) and 20 percent in A18-49 (to 2.4 million).
(Source: Cynopsis)

The Oscars beat AMC’s The Walking Dead in the A18-49 demo Sunday night, according to preliminary fast nationals, with a 6.4 rating and 8.1 million viewers in the timeslot versus a 12 rating and 15.3 million for ABC. But it wasn’t a significant dip from the zombie drama’s week prior numbers, a 6.6 rating and 8.4 million A18-49.
(Source: Cynopsis)

While the season two return of FX‘s The Americans delivered just 1.9 million viewers, down from 3.22 million in January 2013, time-shifted viewing tells a different story. Live+3 day increased a whopping 81 percent among A18-49 (to 1.57 million) and 72 percent in viewers (to 3.3 million).
(Source: Cynopsis)

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