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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 4/24/14)
ABC: Black Box (Premiere) at 10pm
CBS: Bad Teacher (Premiere) at 9:30pm
HGTV: Fixer Upper (Premiere) at 11p
CNN: Chicagoland (Finale) at 10pm
NBC: Parks And Recreation (Finale) at 8pm

Meg Ryan has been tapped to narrate CBS‘s How I Met Your Mother spinoff pilot How I Met Your Dad, as an unseen Bob Saget voiced “future Ted” in the original. Ryan’s character is played in flashback by Greta Gerwig.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Sorry, Netflix. Amazon.com struck a deal with HBO for exclusive SVOD rights for past seasons of certain HBO programs including The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood and Boardwalk Empire. Girls, Newsroom and Veep will eventually be available as well, about three years after air. New shows are not part of the deal – for that, viewers still have to sign up for HBO.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Now-unionized post-production editors on NBC‘s Last Comic Standing are back at work after a two-day strike. The reality show reboot is slated for a Thursday, May 22 premiere.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Saturday Night Live alum Andy Samberg (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) will make his hosting debut for the late night sketch comedy’s May 17 finale with St. Vincent as musical guest. Charlize Theron hosts for the second time May 10, with The Black Keys returning for a third time as musical guests.
(Source: Cynopsis)

VH1 canceled pop culture recap show Best Week Ever. Launched in 2004, it was canceled in 2010, but revived in 2012. The series “served as a national launching pad for many talented creatives and comedians,” said the net in a statement. “We thank them, and the viewers who tuned in each week.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

The VMAs are headed back to Southern California. MTV announced via video Wednesday that the 2014 music awards show will air live from the newly renovated Forum in Inglewood, CA on Sunday, August 24th. Last year, the show – you might remember a little performance by Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke? – was broadcast from Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center.
(Source: Cynopsis)

TLC‘s I Found the Gown comes back for season three with back-to-back eps on Friday, April 25. A chaotic Gown Rush sale is center stage at 10p, with the focus on a bride on a budget at 10:30p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Rob Lowe will narrate Nat Geo miniseries The ’90s: The Last Great Decade?, premiering in July. The former Brat Packer narrated the net’s The ’80s: The Decade That Made Us last spring, and starred in last fall’s Killing Kennedy. “No one has really examined the ’90s like this before,” said Lowe. “I think viewers will be fascinated by the dramatic changes we’ve seen in even the small amount of time that’s passed since Y2K.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Coldplay‘s getting plenty of NBC exposure ahead of the release of their new album Monday, May 19. In addition to front man Chris Martin‘s guest gig on The Voice and a May 3 performance on Saturday Night Live, the band headlines the net’s one-hour special, Coldplay: Ghost Stories on Sunday, May 18 at 7p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

WE tv‘s L.A. Hair is back for season three on Thursday, May 22 at 9p. First up in the A-list salon chair: Being Mary Jane‘s Gabrielle Union.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CW‘s Supernatural on Tuesday got a two-tenths bump to .9/3 in A18-49, beating ABC for the hour in the demo, and tying with CBS‘s NCIS: Los Angeles in M18-34 (.7/2).
(Source: Cynopsis)

The season 10 premiere of Discovery‘s Deadliest Catch was the highest rated premiere of the series in three seasons in P25-54 and the top Tuesday cable program among both Persons and M25-54 delivery, no exclusions, and the number three program in all of television among M25-54, no exclusions. Discovery was also the number one network in all of television, in Men.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Tuesday’s premiere of Lifetime docuseries Tru Tori drew 1.2 million viewers, averaging 625,000 A25-54 and 615,000 A18-49.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The season one finale of USA reality series Chrisley Knows Best on Tuesday drew its highest ratings to date in the key demos, growing week-to-week with 890,000 P18-49 (up 10 percent) and 803,000 P25-54 (up 19 percent).The episode delivered 1.5 million total viewers P2+; when combined with the encore telecast, the finale delivered 1.4M P18-49, 1.3M P25-54 and 2.4M total viewers P2+.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Actor Dana Craig died March 20 of a heart attack. He was 68. In addition to film and theater roles, Craig appeared on TV shows including Murphy Brown, Murder, She Wrote, L.A. Law and The Waltons.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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