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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 5/8/14)
NBC: American Comedy Awards at 9pm
DESTINATION AMERICA: Alien Files (Premiere) at 9pm
IFC: Maron (Premiere) at 10pm
IFC: Comedy Bang! Bang! (Premiere) at 10:30pm
CBS: Two And A Half Men (Finale) at 9pm
FOX: Surviving Jack (Finale) at 9:30pm

NBCUniversal grabbed domestic media rights to the Olympics through 2032, for $7.65 billion. Plus a $100 million signing bonus, “to be used for the promotion of Olympism and the Olympic values,” said a statement on Thursday from the International Olympic Committee, which called the deal “a major contribution to the long-term financial stability of the entire Olympic Movement.” Added NBCU CEO Steve Burke, “This is one of the most important days in the history of NBCUniversal. The Olympics are part of the fabric of our company.” In 2011, NBCU acquired the broadcast rights to the Games until 2020.
(Source: Cynopsis)

HGTV pulled the plug on greenlit real estate series Flip it Forward after the group Right Wing Watch reported hosts David and Jason Benham were anti-gay activists. On Tuesday, Right Wing Watch said the brothers had participated in a prayer protest; on Wednesday, HGTV tweeted, “HGTV has decided not to move forward with the Benham Brothers’ series.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Community exec producer Chris McKenna alarmed fans with a Wednesday tweet: “Community is dead. Pick a new show to make unthreatening threats about.” An hour later came the message, “Rumors of its death may be exaggerated. But prepare yourself for non-exaggeration.” The NBC comedy, up against CBS monster hit The Big Bang Theory, averaged 1.5 among A18-49 for its fifth season.
(Source: Cynopsis)

With Yard Crashers host Matt Blashaw on location for new HGTV series Vacation House for Free, premiering in July, the net has tapped Going Yard‘s Chris Lambton to fill in temporarily. “Yard Crashers is in great hands with Chris at the wheel,” said Blashaw. “I’m asking fans to show him love and support until I return. I’m off to build homeowner dreams and work on my tan.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

NBC ordered dramas  State of Affairs, Odyssey and Allegiance to series. Affairs, a Universal Television/Abishag production, stars Katherine Heigl as a CIA agent and Alfre Woodward as the president. Action series Odyssey comes from Universal Television, Fabrik Entertainment and Red Arrow Entertainment, and Allegiance, another CIA-centered show, hails from Universal Television, Keshet Media and Yes!.
(Source: Cynopsis)

NBC went for laughs, too, greenlighting Marry Me, a relationship comedy starring Casey Wright (Happy Endings) and Ken Marino (Veronica Mars) from Sony Pictures Television and FanFare Productions.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Red Band Society, starring Oscar winner Octavia Spencer (The Help), got a series order from Fox. The ABC Studios and Amblin Television dramedy, written by Margaret Nagle, counts Steven Speilberg among its exec producers.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Fox gave the green light to Lee Daniels and Danny Strong‘s Empire, from Imagine TV and 20th Century Fox TV. The hip hop family drama stars Terrence Howard (Lee Daniels’ The Butler).
(Source: Cynopsis)

TBS ordered three comedies: Angie Tribeca, a police procedural spoof starring Rashida Jones from Steve and Nancy Carell‘s Carousel Television; barbershop-set Buzzy’s, from Warner Horizon and marriage comedy Your Family or Mine, from Sony Pictures Television.
(Source: Cynopsis)

TNT grabbed procedural Proof from Kyra Sedgwick, starring Jennifer Beals (Flashdance), and cop drama Public Morals from Ed Burns, who will star.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The R&B divas of Atlanta and LA will be joined by TV One‘s Hollywood Divas, launching in 4Q14 as part of the net’s Wednesday night original programming. The new entry will follow Elise Neal (The Hughleys), Golden Brooks (Girlfriends), Paula Jai Parker (Hustle and Flow), Countess Vaughn (The Parkers) and Lisa Wu (Real Housewives of Atlanta) as they deal with life in the entertainment industry. It’s a genre “that strongly resonates with our viewers,” D’Angela Proctor, SVP of programming and production, tells Cynopsis. “We anticipate Hollywood Divas to be an entertaining insiders look at the Black actress’ experience.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Fuse‘s most-watched original series, unscripted Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce, is back for season two Wednesday, June 11 at 11p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC News docu-series NY Med returns for season two on Tuesday, June 24 at 10p. The eight-parter chronicles the operating room action in New York Presbyterian and Newark University hospitals.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Actor/former NFL-er/Old Spice pitchman Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) will replace Cedric “The Entertainer” as host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire with the game show’s season 13 premiere in fall 2014, when the show relocates to Stamford, CT. Meredith Vieira was host for the first 11 seasons. Also hopping aboard for season 13: James Rowley as exec producer.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Bravo! The one-two punch of Sunday’s Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion show (1.8/6 among A18-49, according to Nielsen estimates) and Watch What Happens Live (1.7/5), capped off by Married to Medicine (1.0/3) averaged 1.54 in the demo, the net’s highest score ever. Housewives was the number one unscripted cable entertainment program of the week in A18-49, topping CBS‘s Amazing Race (1.7/5).
(Source; Cynopsis)

The finale of Fox‘s The Mindy Project earned the same rating in the A18-49 demo as its first season finale, 1.3, besting lead-in New Girl by one tenth and its own prior week rating by two tenths, according to Nielsen.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Monday’s season three premiere of VH1‘s Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta delivered a 2.3 rating P18-49 Live+SD, up 15 percent from its April 2013 season two debut, and 5.6 million viewers for the 8p show and its 9:30p encore. VH1 claims the top among cable nets at 8p among A18-49, W18-49, and W18-34.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Child actress Jackie Lynn Taylor died of Alzheimer’s disease on May 5. She was 88. Taylor played Jane in five of the Our Gang shorts, and went on to become a television reporter for California stations and host of The Little Rascals Family Theatre.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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