FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 3/7/14)
DISCOVERY FIT & HEALTH: Sydney ER (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY FIT & HEALTH: Vegas ER (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: Extreme Homes (Premiere) at 11am
NAT. GEO. WILD: Cesar 911 (Premiere) at 9pm
WE TV: Marriage Boot Camp (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Imposters (Finale) at 10pm
(SATURDAY 3/8/14)
DISCOVERY: Timber Kings (Premiere) at 10pm
DIY: Vanilla Ice Project (Premiere) at 10pm
FOOD: Heartland Table (Premiere) at 10:30am
HUB: Spooksville (Premiere) at 5pm
NBC: Dateline Saturday Night Mystery (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Lena Dunham, Musical Guest: The National at 11:30pm
ID: Scorned: Love Kills (Finale) at 10pm
(SUNDAY 3/9/14)
ABC: Resurrection (Premiere) at 9pm
AMERICAN HEROES CHANNEL: Codes And Conspiracies (Premiere) at 10pm
BRAVO: Online Dating Rituals of the American Male (Premiere) at 10pm
FOOD: Chopped Tournament of Stars (Premiere) at 9pm
FOX, FX, NAT. GEO.: Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Premiere) at 9pm
HISTORY: No Man’s Land (Premiere) at 10pm
OWN: Oprah Prime: Russell Brand (formerly Oprah’s Next Chapter) (Premiere) at 9pm
OWN: Lindsay (Premiere) at 10pm
SPIKE: Catch A Contractor (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: Long Island Medium (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: My Five Wives (Premiere) at 10pm
DIY: West End Salvage (Finale) at 8pm
HBO: True Detective (Finale) at 9pm
HBO: Looking (Finale) at 10:30pm
HGTV: Scoring The Deal (Finale) at 5pm and 5:30pm
TELEMUNDO: Top Chef Estrellas (Finale) at 8pm
E! greenlit its first original scripted series, The Royals, about a fictional British royal family. “The Royals will… imagine the private, lush, fun, sexy world of the most-watched celebrity family on the planet,” said Jeff Olde, EVP of original programming & development. “It’s a perfect series to introduce E! viewers to scripted pop culture programming on the network.” The Lionsgate drama, starring Elizabeth Hurley (Bedazzled) and William Moseley (The Chronicles of Narnia), premieres in 2015.
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Writer/producer/director Judd Apatow will receive the 2014 Paleyfest Icon Award at the Paley Center for Media on Monday, March 10. Tickets on sale at www.paleyfest.org.
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Russell Brand opens up to Oprah Winfrey about his struggle with heroin addiction on the debut of OWN‘s Oprah Prime Sunday, March 9 at 9p. The new series from Harpo Studios looks at issues and current events through the lens of both newsmakers and real-life families.
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HBO Boss documentary Bruce Springsteen’s High Hopes debuts April 4 at 9:30p, two days before the rock icon starts the North American leg of his tour. The doc, with studio and rehearsal footage, follows Bruce and the E-Streeters as they create their 18th studio album.
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VH1 takes viewers behind the scenes at an iconic New York hip hop radio station in a new unscripted series. This Is Hot 97 shows the “lovingly dysfunctional family” churning out the music starting Monday, March 31 at 10:30p.
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Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation) brings the funny to a new Old Navy spot as a “cat criminal attorney” fixated on a potential employee’s pants, one of a series of ads set to run through summer. “We gave her a lot of creative control,” Ivan Wicksteen, global CMO at Old Navy, told AdAge. “We’re not dictating what she has to say in advertisements.”
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Animal Planet is bringing Pit Bulls & Parolees back for season six. Produced by 44 Blue Productions and Rive Gauche Television, the series about a pit bull rescue operation returns later this year.
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HGTV‘s Flip or Flop returns for a second season on Tuesday, April 8 at 9p. The series, about a young couple who turn over houses for profit, attracted over 9 million viewers P25-54 during its freshman run.
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Mountain Monsters is set for a sophomore session on Destination America. On its first outing, the docu-series, following the Appalachian Investigators of Mysterious Sightings, was DA’s best series ever among all key demos in delivery. Season two launches Friday, April 4 at 10p; new after show Mountain Monsters: Behind the Hunt follows on DestinationAmercia.com.
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Sundance TV will launch season two of critically acclaimed Rectify on Thursday, June 19 at 9p.
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Kroll Show landed a third season on Comedy Central. Premiere eps of the sketch comedy series are averaging 1.1 million viewers Tuesdays at 10:30p.
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More Lilo news: Lindsay Lohan guests on CBS‘s 2 Broke Girls as an indecisive bride-to-be on Monday, April 14 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Paul Reiser (Mad About You) will recur on upcoming FX comedy Married, bowing this summer. Nat Faxon and Judy Greer star.
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MTV announced nominees for the 2014 MTV Movie Awards. In addition to the usual suspects (Amy, Leonardo, Matthew), fans can vote for James Franco, Ashley Benson and Vanessa Hudgens for Best Kiss (!), or Ethan Hawke for Best Scared-as-S**t Performance. Conan O’Brien-hosted trophyfest airs live Sunday, April 13 at 9p.
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Win or lose, ACM Award nominees Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, George Strait, Keith Urban and The Band Perry will take the stage at the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards as performers. Ceremony will be broadcast live from Las Vegas Sunday, April 6, at 8p on CBS.
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The Little Couple scored big numbers for TLC on Tuesday. The return of season six at 10p was the number one ad-supported primetime cable program and the series’ highest-rated episode ever among HH (3.0), W25-54 (2.3) and P2+ delivery (3.9M P2+ viewers).
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ABC‘s Good Morning America won the February 2014 sweep in total viewers (5.851 million), according to Nielsen. It was GMA’s seventh consecutive sweeps win and its first back-to-back February win since February 1993 and 1994.
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Fox‘s American Idol was first in A18-49 Wednesday night, but ABC‘s Modern Family was the night’s top program in the demo with 3.4/10. CBS points out Criminal Minds, Wednesday’s most watched program, matched its closest-ever competitive position to Idol in A18-49 (2.6/7 versus 2.7/8).
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC‘s This Week was number one for the second straight week in total viewers and A25-54, its first back-to-back wins in viewers since 1998 and in the news demo since 2009.
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Wednesday’s The Arsenio Hall Show saw a 56 percent bump from its February sweep average rating, to 1.4/3, with sole guest Prince. Among A18-49, Arsenio (.6/2) surged 50 percent to tie ABC‘s Jimmy Kimmel Live (.6/3).
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CBS‘s Let’s Make a Deal 1 averaged a best-ever February audience of 3.23 million, up 8 percent versus a year ago. Let’s Make a Deal 2 had its largest audience (3.8 million, up 11 percent) and W25-54 rating (1.2/1, up 9 percent).
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Game show host Geoff Edwards died on March 5 of complications of pneumonia. He was 83. Edwards, who also worked as a DJ and actor, hosted shows including Treasure Hunt and Jackpot.
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MOVIES
Mr. Peabody & Sherman (Animated) – Ty Burrell, Max Charles, Stephen Colbert, Allison Janney, Ariel Winter, Leslie Mann, Patrick Warburton, Stanley Tucci, Mel Brooks, Lake Bell
300: Rise of An Empire – Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Rodrigo Santoro, Lena Headey, Hans Matheon, David Wenham, Noam Murro
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Limited Release) – Saoirse Ronan, Ralph Fiennes, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Jeff Goldblum, Jason Schwartsman, Willem Dafoe, F. Muray Abraham, Adried Brody, Edward Norton
The Face of Love (Limited Release) – Amy Brenneman, Robin Williams, Annette Bening
A Farewell to Fools (Limited Release) – Gerard Depardieu, Harvey Keitel
Grand Piano (Limited Release) – Elijah Wood, John Cusack, Tamsin Egerton, Kerry Bishe, Alex Winter
MEGA MILLIONS
Today’s Jackpot is $270 million
You can now play in 43 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
POWERBALL
Saturday’s Jackpot is $50 million.
Powerball is played in 43 states.
BROADWAY
Previews start on Saturday March 8, 2014 for “A Raisin In The Sun” with Denzel Washington, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Anika Noni Rose, and Sophie Okonedo. It opens on Broadway on Thursday April 3, 2014.
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