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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 5/28/14)
NBC: World Music Awards at 8pm
NBC: NBC News Exclusive with Brian Williams: Inside The Mind of Edward Snowden at 10pm
FOX: So You Think You Can Dance (Premiere) at 8pm
OVATION: Big Ballet (Premiere) at 10pm
VELOCITY: Dallas Car Sharks (Finale) at 10pm
Fusion is taking soccer seriously. To capitalize on World Cup mania, the net is turning weekly program The Soccer Gods into a daily primetime show, The Soccer Gods: Brazil 2014, preempting regular 10p programming during the June 12-July 13 global sports event. A mobile-responsive microsite will create and curate content that includes reactions from inside the stadiums, giving users access to live match blogs, the latest stats and celeb videos.
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CMT is exclusively streaming eight tracks from Miranda Lambert‘s upcoming album, “Platinum,” promoted across all of its digital platforms, including CMT.com, CMT Pure, CMT Artists App, CMT HOT 20 COUNTDOWN and CMT Radio Networks. Platforms on sister nets MTV and VH1 will also promote the album stream. “Platinum” hits shelves Tuesday, June 3.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC Family‘s new series, Chasing Life, is available for preview on the WATCH ABC app through Monday, June 9, and can be accessed on demand starting Tuesday, June 3. The drama, based on Mexican telenovela Terminales, officially premieres Tuesday, June 10 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
HGTV picked up 13 more eps of husband-and-wife home remodeling show Fixer Upper. On May 22 at 11p, the series delivered a best-ever .58 rating among P25-54.
(Source: Cynopsis)
HBO bought gay rights drama Open City (wt) from Dave Kajganich (True Story) and Adam Shankman (Hairspray), who will exec produce with Shankman’s Offspring Entertainment partner Jennifer Gibgot.
(Source: Cynopsis)
A slew of stars were named as presenters on the 68th Annual Tony Awards. Among the A-listers are Bradley Cooper, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Bacon, Tony Goldwyn, Kenneth Branagh and Will Ferrell. Ceremony airs Sunday, June 8 at 8p on CBS.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season two of HBO‘s True Detective will center on three leads and be set in California, creator Nick Pizzolatto revealed in a public radio podcast. “The characters are all new, but I’m deeply in love with them,” Pizzolatto said on To the Best of Our Knowledge. “We’ll probably start casting in the coming months.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Marlon Wayans will host the MTV Africa Music Awards, back after a three-year break. The show will air live globally from Durban, South Africa on Saturday, June 7.
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Frequent Maury guest and “family fixer” Dave Vitalli sets kids and parents on a better path in upcoming CMT series My Dysfunctional Family. Shed Media US production launches Saturday, July 5 at 10p.
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Best-selling author Nicholas Sparks makes his TV debut as exec producer with Lifetime revenge drama Deliverance Creek, premiering Saturday, September 13 at 9p.
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Whoopi Goldberg joins Oprah’s Master Class on OWN Sunday, June 1 at 10p. Among The View host’s revelations about her unorthodox appearance: “Glamour’s a lot of work. I’m fundamentally lazy. You know, I have dreads because I didn’t want to comb my hair.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
In honor of gay pride month, Showtime is bringing back Queer as Folk (2000-2005) and The L Word (2004-2009) in June. All seasons will air on Showtime Showcase from June through November, with back-to-back eps of both series running Monday through Friday June 2- June 30. From July 3 through November 13, back-to-back eps will air every Thursday night.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Live! With Kelly & Michael gets its biggest guest yet when President Obama sits down with morning show hosts Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan on Friday, May 30, in the White House Blue Room.
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Memorial Day wasn’t kind to reality shows. In its regular Monday-at-8p time slot, the latest incarnation of ABC‘s The Bachelorette hit a series low 1.4 among A18-49, according to preliminary Nielsens. Fox‘s MasterChef matched The Bachelorette in the A18-49 demo, down 33 percent from its Wednesday premiere.
(Source: Cynopsis)
More holiday weekend blahs: AMC‘s Mad Men ended the first half of its final season on Sunday to 1.9 million total viewers, versus 2.7 million for the season six finale. Among A18-49, the midseason finale scored 854,000 among A18-49.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Monday’s premiere of Lifetime movie Petals on the Wind, sequel to Flowers in the Attic, delivered 3.4 million total viewers, according to Nielsen, averaging 1.5 million among A18-49, 1.5 million among A25-54, 1.3 million among W25-54 and 1.2 million among W18-49.
(Source: Cynopsis)
HBO‘s The Normal Heart delivered 1.4 million total viewers across two airings Sunday night, with just under 1 million at 9p, and 434,000 at 11:15p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 5/25/14)
1) Coldplay – Ghost Stories – 382,665
2) Brantley Gilbert – Just As I Am – 211,288
3) Michael Jackson – Xscape – 66,751 (After 2 weeks – 224,009)
Other Debuts
7) Phillip Phillips – Behind The Lights – 42,407
8) Fault In Our Stars Movie Soundtrack – 34,286
11) The Roots – …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin – 19,614
19) Conor Oberst – Upside Down Mountain – 10,674
21) R.E.M. – Unplugged 1991/2001: The Complete Sessions
25) Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Goin’ Home – 8,816
37) Mud Digger – Mud Digger 5 – 7,202
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