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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 5/29/14)
CNN: The Sixties (Premiere) at 9pm
NAT. GEO.: The Savage Line (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: Undateable (Premiere) at 9pm
OWN: Our America With Lisa Ling (Premiere) at 10pm
A&E: The Killer Speaks (Finale) at 10pm
ID: Karma’s A B*tch (Finale) at 8pm
SPORTSMAN: Amazing America with Sarah Palin (Finale) at 8pm

E! late nighter Chelsea Lately will last air Tuesday, August 21 at 11p, in a live, hour-long event, following a month of special eps and surprise guests. “I myself am more surprised than anyone that I was able to hold down a job for seven years, and it was a fantastic seven years,” said Handler. “I will always look back at my time on E! as most people look back at their time in college. I’m glad I went.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Politically outspoken conservative actress Stacey Dash (Clueless) has signed onto Fox News as a contributor offering cultural analysis and commentary. “Stacey is an engaging conversationalist whose distinctive viewpoints among her Hollywood peers have spawned national debates – we’re pleased to have her join Fox News,” said EVP programming Bill Shine.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Bravo‘s The People’s Couch, featuring the reactions of regular foks to TV’s buzz- and cringeworthy moments, expands to an hour starting Tuesday, June 3 at 10p. The first installment of the expanded version features clips from Modern Family, I Wanna Marry Harry, LA Hair and So You Think You Can Dance.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Canceled freshman comedies Friends With Better Lives and Bad Teacher have slipped off the CBS schedule, replaced by repeats of renewed series Mom, taking up Friends’ Monday-at-8:30p slot, and The Millers, bunking for now in Teacher’s Thursday-at-9:30p berth. Friends has four unaired eps remaining; Teacher has eight.
(Source: Cynopsis)

FX led the field of nominees for the Critics’ Choice Television Awards with 19 nods, followed by HBO with 18. Up for Best Comedy: The Big Bang Theory (CBS), Broad City (Comedy Central), Louie (FX), Orange Is the New Black (Netflix), Silicon Valley (HBO) and Veep (HBO). Dramas in contention are The Americans (FX), Breaking Bad (AMC), Game of Thrones (HBO), The Good Wife (CBS), Masters of Sex (Showtime) and True Detective (HBO. For a full list of nominees, go here. Awards show airs live on The CW Thursday, June 19 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Lifetime does a little well-deserved horn-tooting, pointing out that its nine Critic’s Choice noms are a net record, placing it, along with BBC America, after only FX among ad-supported nets for the most nominations.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Nick at Nite is adding the full 208-episode run of How I Met Your Mother, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air‘s 148 eps and all 212 Everybody Loves Raymond installments to its primetime slate. HIMYM arrives in early fall, with Prince and Raymond due in early 2015.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Hollywood billboards from The Society for the Prevention of Celebrity Divorce (sample message: “Dear Hollywood… Try keeping up with your marriage vows, and others will too”) turned out to be a publicity stunt to promote WE tv‘s upcoming original series, Marriage Boot Camp Reality Stars, premiering Friday, May 30 at 9p. “This real show reflects the fake organization’s core objective,” explained net president Marc Juris, “helping celebrity couples stay together.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) will be honored with Spike TV‘s “Decade of Hotness” award at its eight annual “Guys Choice” celebration, premiering Wednesday, June 11 at 9p. “We’ve been courting Sandra so long for this award that she was eventually going to say yes or take out a restraining order,” said Casey Patterson, exec producer and EVP, event production & talent development, Viacom Entertainment Group. “Our audience adores her.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

CBS‘s The Price Is Right will feature “Socially Awesome Week,” with interactive, fan-driven episodes spanning social media platforms from Monday, June 2 to Friday, June 6 at 11a. Highlights include an Instagram contestant search and “The You Decide Show,” with content decided by the show’s fan base.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Chef Bobby Flay‘s back on the grill with new eps of Food Network‘s Barbecue Addiction: Bobby’s Basics, launching Sunday, June 22 at 11a. Meanwhile, season two of cooking competition Beat Bobby Flay begins production next month, to air later this summer.
(Source: Cynopsis)

One-hour special The Peabody Awards by Pivot celebrates 13 of this year’s winners, including Scandal, Orange Is the New Black and Breaking Bad. Produced by Den of Thieves, the show premieres Sunday, June 1 at 9p on Pivot.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock airs Tuesday, August 5 at 8p on ABC, with Little Big Town back to host.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Melora Hardin (The Office) has signed on to new Amazon comedy Transparent, about a family whose father (Jeffrey Tambor) reveals he’s a transwoman.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Charlie Cox will star in the title role on Netflix‘s Daredevil, based on the Marvel Entertainment comics.
(Source: Cynopsis)

NBC drama Night Shift made a solid debut Tuesday, with a 1.6 rating among A18-49, according to preliminary Nielsens. But Fox‘s I Wanna Marry Harry is a royal dud, sinking from a paltry .7 among A18-49 for its May 20 premiere to .4.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The season premiere of ABC‘s Extreme Weight Loss delivered a 1.3 rating/4 share among A18-49, up 8 percent over its year-ago premiere in the time period, equaling its highest rating since July 2012. At 10p, Celebrity Wife Swap jumped 33 percent versus its last original episode, for a season high 1.2/3.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The season two premiere of VH1‘s Hit the Floor on Monday delivered a 1.4 rating among P18-49, up 40 percent versus its May 27 premiere in 2013. Combined with an 11p encore, the show drew 3.5 million total viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC World News won the May sweep in A25-54 (2.014 million), its first sweeps victory in over 6 years and first win during a May sweep in 7 years. And Diane Sawyer made history – it was the first evening news program hosted by solely a woman to win a sweep month in the news demo.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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