FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 3/21/14)
BLOOMBERG: Bracket Business (Premiere) at 9:30pm
CW: Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Premiere) at 8pm
HGTV: America’s Most Outrageous Backyards (Premiere) at 8am
DISCOVERY: Sons of Guns (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: Say Yes to the Dress (Premiere) at 8:30pm
(SATURDAY 3/22/14)
HGTV: House Hunters Renovation (Premiere) at 10pm
STARZ: Da Vinci’s Demons (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: Obsession: Dark Desires (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry? (Finale) at 8pm
(SUNDAY 3/23/14)
HGTV: Living Alaska (Premiere) at 10:30pm
LIFETIME: Drop Dead Diva (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: American Dream Builders (Premiere) at 8pm
OWN: Super Soul Sunday (Premiere) at 11am
OWN: Oprah & Eckhart Toile: A New Earth (Premiere) at 12pm
OWN: Oprah Prime: Kevin Hart (Premiere) at 9pm
VELOCITY: Overhaulin’ (Premiere) at 9pm
HBO: Girls (Finale) at 10pm
Reality show Breaking Boston is off A&E‘s schedule after debuting to just over 310,000 viewers last week. Producer Mark Wahlberg‘s docuseries Wahlburgers, also from 44 Blue Productions, wrapped a successful first season on A&E on Wednesday.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Shark Tank is moving to Thursday, at least for one night. The ABC reality competition will have a special airing on April 10 at 8p, says the Hollywood Reporter, with a new episode following in its regular berth, Friday at 9p. A permanent transplant to the ratings-challenged night is a possibility, speculates HR.
(Source: Cynopsis)
New York state leaders are throwing a wrench in Comcast‘s plan to acquire Time Warner Cable, according to the New York Post. The paper says a proposed change in state rules would force Comcast to prove the merger is in the public’s best interest. A Comcast spokesman, however, said the company is “not troubled by these amended procedures.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fox drama Gotham, a prequel to Batman, released a photo of Donal Logue as detective Harvey Bullock. The Warner Bros. TV project stars Ben McKenzie as future police commissioner James Gordon.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CBS announced season finale dates, including one-hour sendoffs for How I Met Your Mother and The Crazy Ones, and a two-hour Survivor finale.
Monday, March 31: How I Met Your Mother 8-9p, Intelligence at 10p
Monday, April 14: Mom at 9:30p
Thursday, April 17: The Crazy Ones 9:01-10:01p
Monday, May 5: 2 Broke Girls at 8p
Wednesday, May 7: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation at 10p
Thursday, May 8: Two and a Half Men at 9:01p
Friday, May 9: Hawaii Five-0 at 9p, Blue Bloods at 10p
Tuesday, May 13: NCIS at 8p, NCIS: Los Angeles at 9p, Person of Interest at 10:01p
Wednesday, May 14: Criminal Minds at 9p
Thursday, May 15: The Big Bang Theory at 8p, The Millers at 8:31p, Elementary at 10:01p
Sunday, May 18: The Amazing Race at 8p, The Good Wife at 9p, The Mentalist at 10p
Monday, May 19: Mike & Molly at 9p
Wednesday, May 21: Survivor 8-10p, Survivor Reunion Special at 10p
(Source: Cynopsis)
WE tv renewed Braxton Family Values for a fourth, 26-episode season and SWV Reunited for an expanded sophomore season of 10 eps. “WE tv has become a true destination for quality unscripted originals on Thursday nights,” said Lauren Gellert, SVP, original production & development. “These shows have played a significant role in expanding our audience, reaching new viewers, attracting advertisers and building momentum for the network.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
A new cast of young mothers are introduced when MTV docu-series 16 and Pregnant returns Tuesday, April 29 at 11p. The net points to a study crediting the franchise with reducing teen births by 5.7 percent since the premiere of the show in 2009.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Tracey Ullman (State of the Union) is co-starring as a therapist in CBS pilot Good Session, the Warner Bros. Television project about a couple in marriage counseling.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Patricia Wettig (Thirtysomething) has joined the cast of CW terrorism drama pilot Identity, as the matriarch of a powerful family.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Patton Oswalt (Young Adult) will guest on a ep of ABC‘s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. “I got a call from my agent saying they want you,” recalled Oswalt, “and I said, ‘Hell, yes.'” Series returns Tuesday, March 25 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fred Armisen (Portlandia) guests on Showtime comedy House of Lies on Sunday, March 23 at 10p, as a volatile new client of Monicas.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Broadcasting from the SXSQ festival in Austin the week of 3/10/14, ABC‘s Jimmy Kimmel Live saw its third consecutive week of growth in total viewers (plus 3 percent) and A18-49 (plus 4 percent), tightening the gap with NBC’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in both total viewers (-77 percent) and A18-49 (-75 percent), compared to the margins between the shows during Fallon’s first week.
(Source: Cynopsis)
In the battle of veteran reality shows on Wednesday, CBS‘s Survivor beat Fox’s American Idol for the second straight week among A18-49 in their common hour, 2.5/8 versus 2.2/7, a series low in the demo for Idol.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Mixology, the sole original ep in a sea of ABC repeats on Wednesday, also hit a new low, 1.2/3, down three tenths from last week.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The premiere of CW‘s The Hundred scored .9/3 among A18-49, up a tenth from its lead-in, Arrow.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MOVIES
Divergent – Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Miles Teller, Ashley Judd, Zoe Kravitz, Jai Courtney, Maggie Q, Tony Goldwyn, Ansel Elgort
Muppets Most Wanted – Tina Fey, Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell, Ray Liotta
God’s Not Dead (Limited Release) – Kevin Sorbo, Korie Robertson, David A.R. White Willie Robertson, Dean Cain, Shane Harper
Blood Ties (Limited Release) – Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, James Caan, Marion Cotillard, Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldana, Matthias Schoenaerts
Nymphomaniac: Volume 1 (Limited Release) – Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgard, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater
50 to 1 (Limited Release) – Skeet Ulrich, Christian Kane, Madelyn Deutch, William Devane, Todd Lowe
Maladies (Limited Release) – James Franco, Catherine Keener, David Strathairn, Alan Cumming, Fallon, Goodson
McCanick (Limited Release) – David Morse, Cory Monteith, Mike Vogel, Ciaran Hinds, Trevor Morgan, Aaron Yoo, Tracie Thoms, Rachel Nichols
MEGA MILLIONS
Today’s Jackpot is $15 million
You can now play in 43 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
POWERBALL
Saturday’s Jackpot is $96 million.
Powerball is played in 43 states.
BROADWAY
Norm Lewis who played Senator Edison Davis on Scandal will play the first Black Phantom in ”Phantom of the Opera” starting Monday May 12, 2014.
http://ppc.broadway.com/buzz/175066/whos-your-daddy-norm-lewis-on-starring-opposite-former-onstage-daughter-sierra-boggess-in-phantom-just-go-with-it/
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