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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 3/26/14)
TV LAND: Hot In Cleveland (Premiere) at 10pm
TV LAND: The Soul Man (Premiere) at 10:30pm
TV ONE: Unsung Hollywood: Flip Wilson (Premiere) at 10pm
A&E: Duck Dynasty (Finale) at 10pm
ID: My Dirty Little Secret (Finale) at 9pm
USA: Psych (Finale) at 9pm
GMA host Robin Roberts will serve as a guest judge on Dancing with the Stars March 31. “I am nervous… but you got to step out of your comfort zone,” said Roberts on the ABC morning show Tuesday. Roberts isn’t a stranger to the competition – she celebrated her 50th birthday on GMA in 2010 by dancing the cha-cha with Dancing pro Maksim Chmerkovsky.
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Viacom International Media Networks shared the results of a study focused on Millennials and according to “MTV Knowing Youth: 2020 Vision,” they see the world as more competitive and less secure – but are excited about the future nonetheless. 84 percent said their generation has the potential to make the world a better place, and most describe themselves as “very happy.” “We’ve talked to more than 60,000 Millennials over the past year all over the world about all aspects of their lives and know this audience better than anyone else,” said Christian Kurz, Viacom VP of research, insights and reporting. “It allows us to keep our finger on the pulse and our MTV brand as fresh and evolving as possible.”
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The contracts of Grey’s Anatomy series regulars Tessa Ferrer (Dr. Leah Murphy) and Gaius Charles (Dr. Shane Ross), who joined the medical drama last season, were not picked up for season eleven, Deadline was first to report. Season ten of Grey’s airs Thursdays at 9p.
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CBS’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is losing Captain Jim Brass. Original cast member Paul Guilfoyle is leaving at the end this season, said the Hollywood Reporter; season fourteen finale airs Wednesday, May 7 at 10p.
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Shailane Woodley and Ansel Elgort, from upcoming The Fault in Our Stars, have been added to the roster of presenters at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards. A sneak preview of the film will air during the awards event’s pre-show on Sunday, April 13 at 8:30p; show airs live at 9p.
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MTV2 launches Jobs That Don’t Suck, profiling “Millennial millionaires, entrepreneurs, inventors, app developers, YouTube sensations, CEO’s and one or two weirdos,” on Wednesday, April 16 at 11:30p. Lead-in is the season four premiere of the net’s Guy Code at 11p.
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ABC Digital Music Studio’s docu-web series, On the Record, gets the TV treatment when cast members from Nashville take to the stage at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium to perform tunes from the ABC drama, then talk, along with the songwriters, about what the music means. The experience plays out on Nashville: On the Record airing Wednesday, April 23 at 10p.
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TLC’s Sex Sent Me to the ER is back with new episodes Saturday, April 12 at 9p, with tales of passion turning to panic running through the end of the year.
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Cooking competition Knife Fight returns for a sophomore season on Esquire Tuesday, April 15 at 9p. At stakes in the raucous chef battles? Not much, admits host (and Top Chef season two winner) Ilan Hall: “We have a combination of Michelin star owners, James Beard Award-winners, Food & Wine ‘Best New Chefs,'” he says, “and still the only prize is a sh***y knife.”
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MTV’s Are You the One? was picked up for a second go-round by MTV. Season one of the hit dating show, the number one original series across TV in its time slot among A12-34, ended Tuesday, March 25 at 11p; a reunion special airs in the slot April 1 that the net promises will include “stunning feuds that have surfaced since filming wrapped, and a shocking proposal.”
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Matthew Modine (Full Metal Jacket) has joined TNT medical drama pilot Proof, exec produced by Kyra Sedgwick. Jennifer Beals (Flashdance) stars as a brilliant surgeon grieving the loss of her son.
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Debra Jo Rupp (That ’70s Show) and Andrea Anders (Joey) are onboard CBS pilot Cuz-Bros, reports Deadline. Comedy centers on a suave ladies man stuck with his loser cousin.
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The cast of How I Met Your Mother spinoff pilot, How I Met Your Dad, no longer includes Krysta Rodriguez (Smash). A table read sent the character in a different direction.
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Friday’s Shark Tank was the series’ most-watched-ever telecast (8.3 million total viewers), leading into 20/20, which drew its biggest audience in over four years (8.5 million).
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The week before its series finale, CBS’s How I Met Your Mother was up six tenths of a point from the week prior, for a 3.5/11 A18-49 rating.
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SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 3/23/14)
1) Various Artists – Frozen – 201,966 (After 17 weeks – 1,633,246)
2) YG – My Krazy Life – 60,913
3) Foster The People – Supermodel – 53,773
Other Debuts
4) Skrillex – Recess – 46,510
5) The Pretty Reckless – Going To Hell – 35,294
8) Enrique Iglesias – Sez And Love – 23,665
10) Taking Back Sunday – Happiness Is – 22,418
13) Rend Collective – Art of Celebration – 18,443
16) Demon Hunter – Extremist – 17,928
17) Kevin Gates – By Any Means – 15,237
23) Tycho – Awake – 14,135
26) War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream – 13,623
28) Various Artists – 2014 ACM Awards Zinepak – 12,632
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