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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 3/13/14)
A&E: Breaking Boston (Premiere) at 10pm
FOX: Hell’s Kitchen (Premiere) at 8pm
MTV: Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory (Finale) at 10:30pm
TBS: King of the Nerds (Finale) at 10pm

More Bang for their bucks: CBS renewed television’s most-watched comedy through the 2016-2017 season. “Comedy is a big part of our schedule, and The Big Bang Theory is the biggest comedy force on television,” said Nina Tassler, chairman, CBS Entertainment. “This multi-year deal further strengthens our network’s position for future seasons.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

He made ’em laugh – and now they’re looking into health insurance. Since President Obama’s interview on Funny or Die with Zach Galifianakis, traffic for Healthcare.gov has surged 40 percent, White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett told CBS This Morning on Tuesday.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Comedy Central‘s Key & Peele isn’t just coming back for a fourth season – an animated spinoff is also in development, based on the Vandaveon & Mike characters. The third season of the sketch comedy averaged 2 million total viewers and was first in M18-34 Wednesdays at 10:30p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Actor/author/host/father-of-Robin Alan Thicke (Growing Pains) landed a reality sitcom at TVGN. Unusually Thicke focuses Thicke’s much-younger wife, Tanya and 16-year-old son, Carter, along with appearances by an assortment of celebrity friends (hi, David Hasselhoff!) and family. Launch date is Wednesday, April 16 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The dangers of meeting over the Internet are explored in two specials airing on TLC. Cyber Stalkers offers reenactments of online connections gone wrong (Wednesday, April 9 at 10p), and Web of Deceit follows private investigators untangling a web of online lies (Wednesday, April 16 at 10p).
(Source: Cynopsis)

Logo TV is running a St. Patrick’s Day programming block with a different slant (but still lots of drinking): “St. Patsy’s Day.” The marathon of Absolutely Fabulous eps featuring over-imbiber Patsy Stone kicks off at 10a and runs until 4p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Aloe Blacc (“Wake Me Up”) and American Authors (“Best Day of My Life”) will perform on Nickelodeon‘s 27th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards, airing Saturday, March 29 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Season 25 of The Challenge has 28 players expecting to form alliances and outwit another team to snag a $350,000 prize – only to learn they’re on their own. MTV‘s The Challenge: Free Agents premieres Thursday, April 10 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Nic Bishop (Body of Proof) has joined USA‘s Covert Affairs for its fifth season. The Universal Cable Productions series returns in summer 2014.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Nickelodeon vet Keke Palmer (True Jackson, VP) will recur on season two of Showtime‘s Masters of Sex. Production begins this month in LA.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Once Upon a Time‘s Rose McIver (“Tinker Bell”) won the lead in CW drama pilot iZombie, based on the DC Comics strip.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC enjoyed a ratings lift on Tuesday. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. got a three-tenths boost (2.1/7 A18-49) versus last week, according to Nielsen, Trophy Wife was up one tenth (.9/3) and Mind Games boasted a two-tenths jump, to .8/3. NBC powerhouse The Voice was down six-tenths of a point, to 3.5/12 among A18-49, but that was still enough to easily claim the demo for the night.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Glee‘s move from Thursdays appears to be doing the Fox series no favors. The show dropped to a series low in the A18-49 demo, .9/3.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The season finale of OWN‘s The Haves and the Have Nots on Tuesday drew a network record 3.6 million total viewers, ranking as the night’s number one cable telecast among W25-54 (2.75).
(Source: Cynopsis)

Rizzoli & Isles delivered more than 4.7 million viewers to rank as basic cable’s most-watched program on Tuesday, reports TNT. The drama scored 1.4 million A25-54 in Live + Same Day delivery (up 43 percent vs. last week) and 1.1 million A18-49 (up 31 percent), its strongest deliveries so far this winter.
(Source: Cynopsis)

BROADWAY
Rocky officially opens on Broadway tonight.
http://ppc.broadway.com/buzz/174950/the-italian-stallion-enters-the-broadway-ring-happy-opening-night-to-andy-karl-the-cast-of-rocky/

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