FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 3/5/14)
BRAVO: Flipping Out (Premiere) at 10pm
FOOD: RESTAURANT: Impossible (Premiere) at 10pm
LIFETIME: Preacher;s Daughters (Premiere) at 9pm
LIFETIME: Bring It! (Premiere) at 10pm
NAT. GEO.: Hustling America (Premiere) at 9pm
OXYGEN: The Face (Premiere) at 10pm
SCIENCE: Through The Wormhole with Morgan Freeman (Premiere) at 10pm
TV ONE: Unsung Hollywood: Robin Harris (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: Buying And Selling (Finale) at 9pm
Sam Champion was jazzed about his new morning show, AMHQ, debuting Monday, March 17 at 7a. It’s designed to “get the family up and running and give them what they need, and that starts with the weather,” said the anchor and managing editor.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Producer/songwriter Timbaland will write and produce music for Lee Daniels‘ Fox hip hop drama Empire. Pilot stars Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow) and Taraji P. Henson (Person of Interest).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Great American Country is running a watch-and-win contest in March during rehabbed treasure series Flea Market Flip, Sundays at 9p. Viewers will see a code word on air, and have 24 hours to enter the word online for a chance to win $5000.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TBS issued a pilot order for a workplace comedy from David Kohan and Max Mutchnick (Wlll & Grace), set in a barbershop.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fancy footing at Fox: The season 12 premiere of Hell’s Kitchen on Thursday, March 13 at 8p means American Idol moves to 9p on the night. Ratings-challenged freshman legal drama Rake relocates from Thursdays to Fridays at 8p on March 14; when Idol results shows shrink to half-hour eps starting Thursday, March 27 at 9p, new comedy Surviving Jack slips in at 9:30p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TCM celebrates the career of Eva Marie Saint on Monday, March 31. Tribute kicks off at 8p with Robert Osborne Hosts Eva Marie Saint: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival, and continues with movies including On the Waterfront (1954) and North by Northwest (1959).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Amy Poehler, Bill D’Elia, Bill Maher, Chris Cookson, Joe Morgenstern, and Katey Sagal have been added to the list of presenters for the Television Academy 23rd Hall of Fame induction gala. Honorees at the March 11 event include sound engineer Ray Dolby, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David E. Kelley, Jay Leno, Rupert Murdoch and Brandon Stoddard.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The contestants for season 18 of ABC‘s Dancing with the Stars were announced on Good Morning America Tuesday. Putting on their dancing shoes: Olympic-gold- medal-winning ice dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White, Danica McKellar (The Wonder Years), Drew Carey, swimmer Diana Nyad, Billy Dee Williams, Candace Cameron Bure (Full House), reality star NeNe Leakes, singer Cody Simpson, actor/singer James Maslow, Paralympian snowboarder Amy Purdy and former hockey player Sean Avery. Two-hour premiere airs Monday, March 17 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Mila Kunis will guest on Two and a Half Men as a free-spirited traveler who connects with Walden, played by Kunis’ fiance, Ashton Kutcher. CBS comedy airs Thursdays at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Virgina Madsen has joined NBC pilot Babylon Fields. The 20th Century Fox Television drama is about residents of a town who come back from the dead.
(Source: Cynopsis)
David Mazouz (Touch) has been cast in Fox drama project Gotham as a young Bruce Wayne, and newcomer Camren Bicondova will play Selina Kyle.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Stacey McGunnigle landed the lead in NBC pilot Ellen More or Less, from Universal Television and True Jack Productions. The Canadian actress is a member of the Second City comedy troupe.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Time Warner Cable announced it is launching EPIX on Tuesday, March 18. TWC’s digital basic tier customers will get three months of EPIX, including its multi-plex services, free.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Univision Television Group expanded its distribution agreement with Bounce TV to include its stations in NYC, LA, Dallas, Orlando and Phoenix, and renewed its deal for San Francisco, Boston, Miami, Denver, Sacramento, Raleigh and Tampa.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Olympics might have tamped down ratings, but in metered markets Monday, the Oscars gave entertainment shows a big lift. Entertainment Tonight was up 40 percent versus last year (4.9/8), Access Hollywood jumped up 38 percent (2.9/5) and Extra saw a 42 percent (2.7/5) lift.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Live with Kelly and Michael‘s post-Oscars show on Monday earned 4.9/14 in Households and 2.5/14 in W25-54 in metered markets, the show’s highest-rated telecast on any day since the final broadcast of Live with Regis and Kelly in November 2011.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres felt the love, too. Monday’s live post-Oscar The Ellen DeGeneres Show was the highest-rated episode in the series’ 11-year history, averaging a 4.8 Household rating/11 share in the overnight markets. The series’ previous high was 3.8, in January 2004.
(Source: Cynopsis)
In its second week, NBC‘s The Voice held most of its premiere numbers, 4.5 A18-49 and 15.7 million total viewers, versus 4.7 and 15.9 million the week prior.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TNT‘s Perception started its winter run on Tuesday with 3.3 million viewers in Live+3, 1.3 million A25-54 and 1.0 million A18-49. The night’s winter premiere of Rizzoli & Isles grew to more than 5.4 million viewers in Live+3, grabbing 1.9 million A25-54 and 1.5 million A18-49 in Live+3.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 3/2/14)
1) Schoolboy Q – Oxymoron – 138,630
2) Various Artists – Frozen – 91,314 (After 14 weeks – 1,232,224)
3) Beck – Morning Phase – 87,248
Other Debuts
4) Kid Cudi – Kid Cudi Presents Satellite Flight – 87,122
5) Romeo Santos – Formula Vol. 2 – 84,593
6) Dierks Bentley – Riser – 63,315
8) The Fray – Helios – 36,790
12) St. Vincent – St. Vincent – 29,261
13) James Fortune & Fiya – Live Through It – 24,972
28) Bethel Music – Tides Live – 10,435
29) Celtic Woman – Emerald: Musical Gem – 10,328
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