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ID: Bad Teachers (Premiere) at 9pm
LIFETIME: True Tori (Premiere) at 10pm
MTV: Faking It (Premiere) at 10:30pm
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SYFY: Face Off (Finale) at 9pm
USA: Chrisley Knows Best (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC and SiriusXM struck a deal to air the Today show on the radio service starting June 26. The channel will offer live feeds of Today from both coasts. Said NBC News president Deborah Turness, “We are giving [fans] an opportunity to stay connected even longer when they get in their cars.” SiriusXM currently simulcasts cable news channels including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and CNBC.
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Comcast and Time Warner Cable have held talks to possibly sell 3-5 million subscribers to Charter Communications, or spin off subs into a new company with Charter given a minority stake, ahead of the Comcast/TWC merger. Charter had tried to buy TWC in February, before Comcast stepped in.
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Netflix said Monday it will increase membership costs (currently $7.99 for unlimited streaming) for new subscribers later this quarter by a dollar or two. The fee for existing members would hold firm “for a generous time period.”
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Production on NBC‘s Last Comic Standing was halted on Monday by a strike, reports Deadline. Editors and assistant editors seeking a union contract walked off the reboot, slated for a Thursday, May 22 debut.
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Carrie Underwood, Ellie Goulding and OneRepublic are the finalists for the Milestone Award presented by Chevrolet at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards. The honor, voted on by fans, will be presented at the show Sunday, May 18 at 8p on ABC.
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Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will return to produce the Oscars for the third year straight. “Craig and Neil are masters at tapping into the zeitgeist,” said Academy CEO Dawn Hudson. The 2014 show drew an average 45.4 million total viewers and a 13.7 rating among A18-49, attracting its biggest viewership in 14 years. The 87th Academy Awards will air on ABC Sunday, February 22, 2015.
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Former Nickelodeon star (True Jackson, VP) Keke Palmer, 20, is getting a four-week trial run in Telepictures talk show The Keke Palmer Project (wt) on BET in July. Judge Greg Mathis will exec produce.
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Spike TV‘s Hungry Investors has a new premiere date: Sunday, May 4 at 10p. Series features Jon Taffer (Bar Rescue) scouting for diamond-in-the-rough eateries.
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HBO picked up Veep for a season four, and Silicon Valley for season two. The season three premiere of Veep delivered 955,000 at 10:30p; Sunday’s 10p telecast of Valley drew 1.6 million viewers.
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An Easter preemption of ABC‘s Resurrection (ha!) in favor of TV-movie In My Dreams (1.0/3 A18-49) helped boost NBC‘s Believe 20 percent among A18-49, to 1.2/3. CBS‘s The Good Wife was the most-watched program of the night, with 9.1 million viewers; ABC‘s Once Upon a Time was tops in the demo with 1.7/5.
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Bounce TV‘s One Love reached nearly 1.1 million persons across its series premiere week to become the most-watched original in net history.
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The season two premiere of BBC America‘s Orphan Black delivered 620,000 P2+ and 391,000 A18-49 Saturday at 9p, a 97 percent increase over its season one average in the demo.
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The series premiere of FX‘s Fargo rose from 2.65 million to 4.46 million total viewers in Live+Same Day versus Live+3. The multi telecast gross audience for the premiere episode at 10p and two encore airings on Tuesday night was 6.38 million total viewers on Live+3, up from 4.15 million on Live+SameDay.
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