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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 5/5/14)
FOX: 24: Live Another Day (Premiere) at 8pm
FX: Louie (Premiere) at 10pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Feasting on Asphalt (Premiere) at 8pm
A&E: Bates Motel (Finale) at 10pm
CBS: 2 Broke Girls (Finale) at 8pm
CW: The Tomorrow People (Finale) at 9pm
E!: The Fabulist (Finale) at 8:30pm

NBC News named Chris Jansing senior White House correspondent, and shifted White House correspondent Peter Alexander to the position of national correspondent. NBC News president Deborah Turness said the moves will allow NBC News political director Chuck Todd “to dedicate more of his time to the signature razor-sharp analysis and expertise our audiences can’t get enough of” ahead of the mid-terms and 2016 Presidential elections. Jansing has anchored MSNBC‘s Jansing & Co. since 2010.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Meet the Press producer Chris Donovan left after 12 years at the NBC News show to join ABC as senior producer for rival This Week, as well as GMA and specials. Responding to reports that his exit was the result of friction with Press anchor David Gregory, Donoval told Page Six, “I had an incredible run at Meet the Press and only left because I was given an amazing opportunity at ABC News.” NBC News’ Deborah Turness characterized the rumors as “vindictive, personal and, above all, untrue.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

As original cast member Sandra Oh heads for the exit at Grey’s Anatomy, the still-going-strong hospital drama re-upped Sara Ramirez, Justin Chambers, Chandra Wilson and James Pickens Jr. for two-year deals. Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey inked two year extensions in January. Season ten finale airs Thursday, May 15 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Lifetime placed an 8-ep order for docu-series Child Genius, a Shed Media US production, in cooperation with MENSA, showing gifted children and their families preparing for a national intelligence competition. The show, based on U.K. format Child Genius, is currently casting for “the most intelligent kids in the country.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

CBS Daytime gives a shout-out to moms this week, with The Talk‘s annual Mother’s Mystery Week, featuring the show’s hosts trying to guess the celeb offspring of guest moms; bouquets and beauty packages on Friday’s Let’s Make a Deal (mothers at home can get in on the action at www.cbs.com/deal), and a themed Price Is Right on Friday for an audience of mothers and their kids.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond) is onboard HBO‘s untitled rock ‘n roll drama pilot with Bobby Cannavale as a record exec trying to resurrect his label. Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, George Mastras (Breaking Bad) and Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire) are executive producers.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Will Yun Lee (The Wolverine) will recur on season seven of HBO‘s True Blood, as a revenge-seeking urban cowboy.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC‘s Grey’s Anatomy led the 9p hour on Thursday in Households and among A18-49 with an ep featuring former cast member Isaiah Washington. CBS‘s Big Bang Theory had the evening’s high of 9.7/17 in HH and 4.5/16 in the young adult demo.
(Source: Cynopsis)

In competition with the first iHeartRadio Music Awards on NBC (1.7/5), Thursday’s Idol fell to a series low among A18-49, to 1.5/5.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Spiderman couldn’t rescue NBC‘s Saturday Night Live from tying a season low. While host Andrew Garfield‘s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 burned through the weekend box office, his SNL appearance rated 2.0 A18-49 in the 25 People Meter markets and 3.9 in metered households.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC won Friday night with a 1.8 rating among A18-49, according to preliminary Nielsens, its best number since November 2012. Special Shark Tank: Swimming with Sharks opened at 8p with 1.5, followed by 2.2 for Shark Tank. A 20/20 with Barbara Walters’ eleventh hour V. Staviano interview scored 1.7 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The season three premiere of TV One‘s R&B Divas Atlanta was the network’s highest rated primetime original series year-to-date among P25-54 (.57 and 338,000 viewers) and HH (.63 and 357,000) in Live +3 ratings.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. died April 2. He was 95. Zimbalist starred in 77 Sunset Strip and The F.B.I., and guested on numerous shows including Maverick, Hotel and Murder, She Wrote. He also had a recurring role on Remington Steele, starring his daughter, Stephanie Zimbalist.
(Source: Cynopsis)

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – $92 million
The Other Woman – $14.2 million
Heaven Is For Real – $8.7 million
Captain America: The Winter Soldier – $7.7 million
Rio 2 – $7.6 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)

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