FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 4/2/14)
BRAVO: Million Dollar Listing New York (Premiere) at 9pm
COMEDY: Triptank (Premiere) at 10:30pm
COOKING: Extra Virgin (Premiere) at 8pm
E!: Worst Thing I Ever Posted (Premiere) at 8pm
HISTORY: Down East Dickering (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: Dark Minds (Premiere) a 8pm
REELZ: Treasure King (Premiere) at 10pm
VELOCITY: Dallas Car Sharks (Premiere) at 10pm
TV ONE: Unsung Hollywood: Cooley High (Premiere) at 10pm
HBO: Doll & Em (Finale) at 10:30pm
UP: Bulloch Family Ranch (Finale) at 9pm
Low-rated Fox drama Rake, starring Greg Kinnear, has been bumped to Saturday, April 5, churning through its last to eps for a two-hour finale. Taking its spot this Friday: a repeat of last season’s Kitchen Nightmares finale. Rake debuted in the post-American Idol Thursday slot before relocating to Fridays on March 14.
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Lifestyle Network, geared to the Filipino audience, has launched a series hosted by model Kara Birkenstock focused on food and fashion. Style Bites airs daily with new episodes premiering weekly. For details on the channel go here.
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Former President Bill Clinton, the Dalai Lama and Sir Elton John are among the luminaries featured in 10-part OWN documentary, Operation Change. The series, focused on local organizations working to empower the community, launches Monday, June 23 at 10p.
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TVOne‘s live interview Dr. Ben Carson, the first neurosurgeon to successfully separate conjoined twins, on Friday, April 4 at 9a will get an encore telecast that night at 6p.
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Ellie Goulding and Zedd will perform selections from the Divergent soundtrack during the 2014 MTV Movie Awards, live on Sunday, April 13 at 9p on CBS.
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Steve Schirripa (The Sopranos) once again helps settle scores when Investigation Discovery‘s Karma’s a B*tch returns Thursday, April 17 at 10p. Among the successful payback plots: A woman who sues her ex over “failure to marry” and wins $150,000, and a debt collection agency forced to turn over $10 million for harassment.
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Nat Geo WILD‘s Fish Tank Kings comes back “bigger and bolder than ever.” One project: building an underwater oasis for “Dog Whisperer” Cesar Millan. New season launches Monday, April 28 at 9p.
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Esquire didn’t let a little controversy keep it from tossing youth football docuseries Friday Night Tykes a second season. “Friday Night Tykes sparked a national debate about competitive sports, and we think it’s important to continue that discussion,” said Matt Hanna, the net’s head of original programming.
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Brazilian film star Wagner Moura will play politician Pablo Escobar in Netflix original series Narcos, the story of notorious drug trafficking ring, the Medellin Cartel. The show from Gaumont International Television is set for an early 2015 debut.
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Cory Michael Smith (Camp X-Ray) will play Edward Nygma, the future Riddler, in Fox‘s Batman prequel, Gotham.
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Talk shows Tricia and The Test have been cancelled. NBC Universal‘s Tricia is averaging a .6 HH rating and .4 in W25-54; CBS Television Distribution‘s The Test is also averaging .6 and .4 ratings.
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How I Met Your Mother went out with a bang Monday night, with the CBS show’s ninth and final season-ender earning series highs in viewers, A18-49 (5.4/16), A18-34 (5.9/20) and A25-54 (5.5/14). At 9p, the series premiere of the net’s Friends with Better Lives averaged 8 million viewers and 2.6/7 in A18-49.
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What zombies? On Sunday night, Showtime‘s Shameless had its best night ever, delivering 2.8 million viewers for the night. Season-to-date, Shameless’ season 4 averages 5.7 million weekly viewers, up 8 percent vs. last season, on track to rate as its highest-rated season ever. The net’s House of Lies had its best night of the season with 1.44 million viewers for the night; season-to-date, season 3 is averaging 3 million weekly viewers.
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A visit from Vice President Joe Biden gave Rachael Ray a sweet bump. The show grew 15 percent in metered markets (1.5/5) the day of the veep’s appearance March 31, compared to the prior Monday.
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OWN boasts its most-watched quarter ever, averaging 508,000 total viewers and delivering double-digit growth across all demos versus the previous quarter, up 32 percent W25-54, up 48 percent total viewers and up 47 percent African-American W25-54.
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Sunday’s Total Divas was the E! series’ second most-watched episode ever and best this season-to-date with 1.55 million total viewers, 616,000 W18-49 and 416,000 W18-34.
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SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 3/30/14)
1) Various Artists – Frozen – 161,377 (After 18 weeks – 1,794,623)
2) Shakira – Shakira – 84,476
3) Johnny Cash – Out Among The Stars – 53,804
Other Debuts
4) Memphis May Fire – Unconditional – 27,394
6) Erica Campbell – Help – 23,329
8) Barry Manilow – Night Songs – 21,735
9) My Chemical Romance – May Death Never Stop You – 20,453
12) Kari Jobe – Majestic (Live) – 18.453
18) Jerrod Niemann – High Noon – 14,261
22) Glee Cast – Glee: The Music – Celebrating 100 Episodes – 13,311
23) Animals As Leaders – Joy of Motion – 12,995
25) Michael W. Smith – Hymns – 12,409
28) Hold Steady – Teeth Dreams – 11,940
32) Karmin – Pulses – 10,091
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