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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 3/17/14)
ABC: Dancing With The Stars (Premiere) at 8pm
DISCOVERY: Fast N’ Loud (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY: Lords of the Car Hoards (Premiere) at 10pm
E!: The Fabulist (Premiere) at 8:30pm
GOLF: Feherty (Premiere) at 10pm
SUNDANCE: Loredana, Esq. (Premiere) at 9pm

The Weather Channel‘s AMHQ with Sam Champion debuts today at 7a, with live reporting from St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in NYC, Savannah, GA, Hot Springs AR (“home of the world’s shortest St. Patty’s Day parade”) and Chicago. “It is not a coincidence that AMHQ launches on St Patrick’s Day,” said Champion. “It’s a holiday known for outdoor celebrations across the country, the type of weather-dependent events that AMHQ plans to cover live every week.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Viacom‘s making a real event of the live season three premiere of TV Land‘s The Soul Man, to be simulcast on sister nets BET and Centric. Centric will then run eps of Soul Man on Saturdays, a week and a half after they air on TV Land. Triple premiere is Wednesday, March 26 at 10:30p, after TV Land’s live season premiere of the comedy from which Soul Man was spun, Hot in Cleveland.
(Source: Cynopsis)

TNT has a full slate of original series this summer. Sked launches with the season three premiere of Major Crimes at 9p on Monday, June 9, followed by the series premiere of Stephen Bochco‘s Murder in the First. Season five of Rizzoli & Isles starts Tuesday, June 17 at 9p, with season three of Perception bowing at 10p. Friday, June 20, Cold Justice resumes season two at 8p. New series from Michael Bay, The Last Ship, debuts Sunday, June 22 at 9p, followed by season four of Falling Skies at 10p. Dallas returns Monday, August 18 at 9p to finish its season three, and two days later comes the debut of new drama Legends at 9p, followed by the fourth season premiere of Franklin & Bash at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Oxygen is premiering two new series on Tuesday, March 18. Reality show Chasing Maria Menounos at 10p is “an authentic look into my life with my boyfriend Keven and my parents”. “I can’t wait to share my family with the viewers.” At 10:30p comes Celebrities Undercover. “After transforming celebrities head to toe, we give them a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to find out what their friends, family and fans truly think about them”.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Thomas Lennon (Sean Saves the World) has been cast as neat freak Felix opposite Matthew Perry‘s Oscar in CBS pilot The Odd Couple. Lennon is an exec producer on Comedy Central‘s @midnight.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Anne Heche (Save Me) joins USA event series DIG, as the head of the Jerusalem FBI office.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Killed off of Pretty Little Liars, Bryce Johnson is finding new life on CW spin-off  Supernatural: Bloodlines. The pilot airs as an ep of Supernatural on Tuesday, April 29 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Showtime bumped up season three guest star Nazanin Boniadi to season four regular on Homeland. Boniadi is currently in a story arc on ABC‘s Scandal.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Max Casella (The Sopranos) and Jack Quaid (The Hunger Games) have joined HBO‘s unnamed rock drama pilot to play music execs. Martin Scorsese is directing, with Mick Jagger onboard as an exec producer. The starpower shouldn’t faze Quaid – mom and dad are Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Nancy Lenehan (The New Adventures of Old Christine) will play the mother of Tom Papa’s character in CBS pilot More Time with the Family, exec produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and produced by 20th Century Fox Television.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Melissa George (Grey’s Anatomy) landed a role in ABC‘s Richard LaGravanese pilot starring Rufus Sewell, said the Hollywood Reporter.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Anthony LaPaglia (Without a Trace) will star in the pilot for a CBS terrorism drama, about a former CIA operative yanked back into service.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Comedian David Brenner died on March 15 of cancer. He was 78. In addition to frequent appearances on The Tonight Show during Johnny Carson’s reign, Brenner starred in four HBO specials and hosted a syndicated talk show in 1987. “This leaves an irreplaceable hole,” tweeted comedian Richard Lewis.
(Source: Cynopsis)

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Mr. Peabody & Sherman – $21.2 million
300: Rise of An Empire – $19.1 million
Need for Speed – $17.8 million
Non-Stop – $10.6 million
Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club – $8.3 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)

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