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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 6/2/14)
A&E: Longmire (Premiere) at 10pm
ABC: Mistresses (Premiere) at 10pm
BRAVO: Ladies of London (Premiere) at 10pm
DESTINATION AMERICA: Buying the Beach (Premiere) at 9pm
HISTORY: American Restoration (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: I (Almost) Got Away With It (Premiere) at 10pm
SUNDANCE TV: The Writers Room (Finale) at 11pm

The Arsenio Hall Show will not make it to a sophomore season, despite a renewal by CBS Television Distribution in February. “While there are many loyal fans of the show, the series did not grow its audience enough to continue,” said a statement from CBSTVD. “When I started this adventure… we all knew it would be a challenge,” said Hall. “I’m gratified for the year we’ve had.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Tyra Banks (America’s Top Model) is promising to “shake up daytime TV” with a new lifestyle show. Disney-ABC‘s Summerdale will produce along with the former Victoria’s Secret angel; Disney-ABC Domestic Television will distribute. Banks’s first talk effort, The Tyra Banks Show, ran from 2005-2010.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The Wendy Williams Show will remain in production through June and July for the second year, announced Debmar-Mercury, to grab young viewers home from high school and college with fresh episodes. The talker, with a median age of 48, achieved its best metered market May sweep performance ever in share, with a season-to-date gain of 19 percent in HH (to 1.4) and W25-54 (to 1.06).
(Source: Cynopsis)

Actor/country music legend Kris Kristofferson (A Star Is Born) will play President Andrew Jackson in History event series Texas Rising. The eight-hour mini, co-produced by A+E Studios and ITV Studios America and produced by Thinkfactory Media, premieres in 2015.
(Source: Cynopsis)

AMC sci-fi pilot Galyntine signed Peter Fonda (Easy Rider) as a series regular, breaks the Hollywood Reporter. Ridley Scott‘s Scott Free will produce.
(Source: Cynopsis)

India Ennega (Treme) joins Mark Pellegrino (Lost) in A&E‘s upcoming The Returned, an adaptation of the French series, from A+E Studios and FremantleMedia.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Keith Powell (30 Rock) will recur on the third and final season of HBO‘s The Newsroom.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Mark L. Young (We’re the Millers) joins HBO‘s The Comeback, a return of the 2005 Lisa Kudrow comedy, in a recurring role. Show bows this fall.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Richard E. Grant (Girls) has been cast in USA event series Dig, premiering in fall 2014. He joins Jason Isaacs (Awake) and Anne Heche (Save Me).
(Source: Cynopsis)

Jim Rash (Community) and Nat Faxon (Ben and Kate) will guest on upcoming USA comedy, Benched, premiering in 2015.
(Source: Cynopsis)

E!‘s Keeping Up with the Kardashians returns Sunday, June 8 at 9p for season nine, followed by the series premiere of real-life soap Escape Club at 10p. Plastic surgery show Botched bows Tuesday, June 24 at 9p, with #Rich Kids of Beverly Hills heading back for season two in August.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The Thursday premiere of NBC‘s Undateable at 9p and 9:30p earned a 1.3/4 rating among A18-49, outscoring fellow originals Gang Related, on Fox at 9p (1.0/3) and ABC‘s Black Box at 10p (.8/2). Good sign: The comedy held onto its audience for its second ep.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC News finished the May sweep number one in the A25-54 news demo with World News, Good Morning America (also tops in total viewers) and This Week (the first sweep win in the demo in over 20 years). Nightline won in total viewers, beating NBC in a sweep for the first time.
(Source: Cynopsis)

NBC‘s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon was up 34 percent among A18-49 versus last year’s May sweep, averaging 1.1. ABC‘s Jimmy Kimmel Live averaged .6 (down 5 percent), and Late Show with David Letterman scored .5 in the demo (down 13 percent). In total viewers, Kimmel got the biggest boost, up 8 percent to 2.7 million.
(Source: Cynopsis)

AMC‘s Mad Men leaped 87 percent from Live+Same Day viewership of 1.9 million for its mid-season finale, to 3.6 million in Live + 3. Among A18-49, the jump was a whopping 116 percent, to 1.84 million viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CBS‘s daytime shows all finished the season boasting year-to-year growth, with the best season in viewers ever for Let’s Make a Deal 1, up 13 percent to 3.03 million, Let’s Make a Deal 2, up 12 percent to 3.5 million and The Talk, up 16 percent to 2.78 million.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The premiere of NBC pirate drama Crossbones earned a 1.1 rating among A18-49 Friday night and almost 5 million total viewers, according to early numbers. That’s the same rating Hannibal hit in its February premiere.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Tuesday’s 19 Kids & Counting on TLC scored its highest ratings ever, with series best HH (2.2), W25-54 (2.1), P25-54 (1.3) and P2+ delivery (2.8 million viewers). TLC was the number one cable net for the night among W25-54.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Bravo had its most-watched May ever, averaging 858,000 total viewers, according to Nielsen. Year-to-date, Bravo is the number 9 ad-supported cable entertainment net among P18-49, and the number one most affluent and educated in the demo.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The second season premiere of Telemundo‘s El Senor de los Cielos averaged 2.2 million total viewers and 1.4 million A18-49. It’s the first time the net aired a telenovela for more than one season.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Actress Ann B. Davis died June 1 after a fall. She was 88. Davis was best known for her portrayal of housekeeper Alice Nelson on The Brady Bunch.
(Source: Cynopsis)

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Maleficent – $70 million
X-Men: Days of Future Past – $32.6 million
A Million Ways To Die In The West –  $17.1 million
Godzilla – $12.2 million
Blended – $8.4 millón
(Source: Box Office Mojo)

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