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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 4/21/14)
CARTOON: The Boondocks (Premiere) at 10:30pm
FOOD: Rewrapped (Premiere) at 8pm
HGTV: House Hunters Off The Grid (Premiere) at 10:30pm
ID: Cell Block Psychic (Premiere) at 9pm
MTV: The Ex and The Why (Premiere) at 6pm
MTV: Time’s Up (Premiere) at 6:30pm
BRAVO: Southern Charm (Finale) at 10pm
DISCOVERY: Lords of the Car Hoards (Finale) at 10pm
FX: Archer (Finale) at 10pm

Lara Spencer has been upped to co-anchor on Good Morning America, joining Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos. New ABC News president James Goldston broke the news in a memo to staff on Friday. “A key member of our on-air team, Lara Spencer, rejoined ABC three years ago – bringing her style, humor, sunny confidence, wonderful journalism and storytelling to GMA,” said Goldston. “Lara clearly is an essential ingredient in the success we have enjoyed.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Gwen Stefani will step in for a pregnant Christina Aguilera as a coach on NBC‘s The Voice, reports TMZ. The No Doubt singer joins newcomer Pharrell Williams and regulars Adam Levine and Blake Shelton when filming for season seven begins in June.
(Source: Cynopsis)

First Lady Michelle Obama guests on ABC‘s Nashville, along with country star Kellie Pickler, when Rayna organizes a charity concert at Fort Campbell. Episode airs Wednesday, May 7 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

NBC announced the date for a three-hour special celebrating the 40 anniversary of Saturday Night Live: February 15, 2015. Calling it “just one of the many ways we plan to celebrate SNL’s historic 40th season next year,” NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt didn’t offer specifics about who’ll be onboard. SNL premiered October 11, 1975.
(Source: Cynopsis)

TLC ordered 18 more eps of wedding series Something Borrowed, Something New, with production slated to begin later this month. Before season two wrapped Friday, the show was averaging 1.1 million P2+ viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Crackle, a unit of Sony Pictures Television, today debuts SuperSong, an hour-long special documenting the experiences of singer Ricky Martin and music producer Salaam Remi as they record a track for the official album of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The tune was written by the winner of a contest launched last December by Sony; “Vida” and its video will be available for download on iTunes tomorrow, April 22.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Add comedian Blake Anderson (Workaholics) to the guest list on the season finale of NBC‘s Parks and Recreation, reports EW. Anderson, playing the founder of a tech start-up, appears on the season six closer Thursday, April 24 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Rhys Coiro (Hostages) and Joe Egender (Hunger) join Ray Liotta, Brendan Fraser, Bill Paxton and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in History mini-series Texas Rising (wt), from A+E Studios and ITV Studios.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC‘s Scandal posted its best-ever season finale numbers on Thursday, up 15 percent from last year for its second-largest audience ever.
(Source: Cynopsis)

On a different note, NBC‘s Parks and Recreation hit a series low .9 A18-49 rating, while Fox’s Surviving Jack is hanging onto life support with 1.0.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Time-shifting is giving Mad Men a healthy boost. In Live+3, the AMC drama’s season seven premiere was up 62 percent in total viewers versus same day, to 3.7 million, and up 74 percent among A18-49, to 1.8 million.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC‘s Jimmy Kimmel Live: Behind the Scandalabra on Thursday scored season highs in HH (3.4/8) in the 56 U.S. Metered Markets and A18-49 (1.4/6) in the 25 LPM Markets. The Scandal-themed episode, featuring an interview with show creator Shonda Rimes and appearances by cast members, was the show’s highest-rated telecast since moving to 11:35p in January 2013 and beat late night rivals NBC‘s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and CBS‘s Late Show with David Letterman, both in repeats.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Writer Doris Kanter died March 18. She was 95. The widow of writer/producer/director Hal Kanter and an accomplished video artist, Kanter wrote for television shows including Night Court and Chico and the Man.
(Source: Cynopsis)

TV and music producer and personal manager Ken Greengrass died April 10 at age 87. Greengrass produced numerous television shows, winning an Emmy Award for NBC’s How the Beatles Changed the World. Among his clients were Diahann Carroll, Florence Henderson and Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gourme.
(Source: Cynopsis)

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Captain America: The Winter Soldier – $26.6 million
Rio 2 – $22.5 million
Heaven Is For Real – $21.5 million
Transcendence – $11.2 million
A Haunted House 2 – $9.1 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)

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