FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 3/19/14)
CNBC: Money Talks (Premiere) at 10pm
CW: The 100 (Premiere) at 9pm
DIY: I Want That: Consumer Electronics Show (Premiere) at 10pm
FOOD: Save my Bakery (Premiere) at 8pm
HBO: Doll & Em (Premiere) at 10pm
NUVO TV: Nu Point of View: The Emerging Latino Filmmakers (Premiere) at 10pm
TV ONE: Unsung Hollywood: Dick Gregory (Premiere) at 10pm
TBS: Deal With It (Premiere) at 10:30pm
A&E: Wahlburgers (Finale) at 10pm
Craig Ferguson (The Late Late Show) and Drew Carey (The Price Is Right) are trading places on April Fool’s Day. Carey will host the CBS late night talker on Tuesday, April 1 at 12:37a, and Ferguson will host the net’s 11a game show. Ferguson’s robot skeleton sidekick and pantomime horse will lend an assist as Price models.
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Good Morning America debuted digital studio #socialsquare on Tuesday, an expansion of its current Times Square studio and a social “nerve center” that allows guests to interact with viewers throughout the broadcast. “This will revolutionize how our show is produced,” said the ABC morning show’s senior executive producer, Tom Cibrowski.
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Season three of Nick at Nite comedy See Dad Run will be its last, reports Deadline. Production on the Scott Baio starrer wraps in May.
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Following the March 14 death of Wesley Warren Jr. at age 49, TLC has scheduled an encore of the special The Man with the 132-lb Scrotum on Wednesday, March 19 at 10p. The program documents Warren’s mission to find a doctor who could perform life-saving surgery for a rare medical condition.
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Steve Levitan is staying put at 20th Century Fox TV. The co-creator of Modern Family extended his deal with the studio for four years, to exec produce the hit ABC comedy (with co-creator Christopher Lloyd), as well as develop new projects.
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Kate Gosselin (Jon & Kate Plus 8) is returning to TLC for a special this summer. The hour looks back at memorable moments from the last several years, along with updates on the twins, now 13 and the sextuplets, about to turn 10.
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The fourth special hosted by ELLE Creative Director Joe Zee, Revealing: True or Faux, premieres on SundanceTV Wednesday, April 16at 9p, with commentary from the fashion world’s Narciso Rodriguez, Kelly Cutrone and Simon Doonan. Topic: New York’s thriving fashion black market.
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TVOne reality series R&B Divas Atlanta returns for season three on Wednesday, April 23 at 10p. LaTavia Roberson (Destiny’s Child) and Meelah Williams (702) join original cast members Syleena Johnson, Keke Wyatt, Angie Stone and Monifah Carter.
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Christian Slater (Mind Games) and Fred Armisen (Portlandia) lend their voices to FX animated series Archer on Monday, March 24 at 10p. Slater plays a drug smuggler, and Armisen is the dictator of a Central American nation.
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Michael A. Goorjian (Party of Five) will guest on USA‘s Covert Affairs as a disillusioned former soldier. Season five launches in summer 2014.
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Singer Macy Gray joined Fox drama project Empire in a recurring role. The show is set in the world of hip-hop.
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Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad) will join the season two cast of Masters of Sex, reports Hollywood Reporter, playing secretary to Martin Sheen’s William Masters.
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Academy Awards afterglow made up for daylight savings time lags for most syndicated entertainment mags the week ending March 9. Entertainment Tonight (4.0, up 3 percent from the week prior) hit its second-highest rating of the season.The day after the Oscars, ET jumped 26 percent from the prior week to a 4.9. Inside Edition was up 3 percent for the year to 3.3, and up 13 percent, to 3.6, on March 3. Access Hollywood jumped 26 percent on March 3 to a 2.4, while The Insider surged 29 percent, to a 1.8 on the Monday post-Oscars.
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ABC crunched the numbers and declared its Resurrection the season’s most-watched regular-time-slot drama debut in Live+3, edging out freshman NBC hit The Blacklist. Resurrection‘s premiere drew 13.9 million total viewers in the Live + Same Day window, plus an additional 3.1 million timeshifted viewers in days 1-3. The Saturday encore garnered 3.9 million viewers, and the episode was viewed 849k times across ABC’s Full Episode Player, Hulu, MVPD partners and Live Linear (ABC Online) over its first 7 days.
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Last week TNT‘s Rizzoli & Isles earned its best Live + 3 deliveries this winter with over 6.5 million total viewers, up 26 percent versus the week prior, and grew 25 percent in A25-54, to 2.1 million.
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SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 3/16/14)
1) Various Artists – Frozen Soundtrack – 99,242 (After 16 weeks – 1,431,280)
2) Luke Bryan – Spring Break 6: Like We Ain’t Ever – 74,296
3) Rick Ross – Mastermind – 49,020 (After 2 weeks – 228,235)
Other Debuts
4) Aloe Blacc – Life Your Spirit – 45,277
6) 311- Stereolithic – 41,147
7) Young Money – Rise of an Empire – 31,490
9) Sara Evans – Slow Me Down – 26,509
14) Ledisi – Truth – 19,711
29) Divergent Soundtrack – 10,182
31) KXM – KXM – 9,836
36) Juanes – Loco De Amour – 8,553
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