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FIRST LOOK
http://www.eonline.com/news

ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 6/9/14)
ABC: Hilary Clinton: Public and Private – One on One with Diane Sawyer (Premiere) at 9pm
HBO: Remembering The Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. (Premiere) at 9pm
PBS: Brazil with Michael Palin (Premiere) at 9pm
TNT: Major Crimes (Premiere) at 9pm
TNT: Murder In The First (Premiere) at 10pm
SHOWTIME: Years of Living Dangerously (Finale) at 8pm

A six-car crash early Saturday morning left 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan critically injured and comedian James McNair (aka Jimmy Mack) dead. Morgan was returning from a tour date in Delaware when the limo bus in which he and McNair were passengers was hit by a tractor-trailer in New Jersey. Two other passengers were left in critical condition.
(Source: Cynopsis)

In the late night battle of Jimmy versus Jimmy, Kimmel beat an original telecast of Fallon for the first time on Thursday in the top 25 markets. Boosted by NBA finals and exposure in a prime time pre-game special, ABC‘s Jimmy Kimmel Live scored 3.1/9 in Households and 1.5/8 among A18-49, opposite NBC‘s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon‘s 2.6/7 HH and 1.0/5 A18-49. CBS‘s third place Late Show with David Letterman earned 2.0/5 HH and .3/2 in the demo.
(Source: Cynopsis)

It’s official: Game of Thrones is HBO‘s most popular series. Ever. Season four episodes have averaged 18.4 million viewers, counting repeat showings, VOD and streaming, enough to beat the 18.2 million viewers racked up by the 2002 finale of The Sopranos.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Almost half of people – 48 percent – who don’t pay for cable or satellite use Netflix, up from 29 percent in 2013, according to a study of 1211 households from Leichtman Research Group. Fifteen percent of Netflix customers say they share their subs with people outside their households.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC scrapped its plans to move Celebrity Wife Swap from Tuesdays at 10p to Thursdays at 8p after the NBA finals. The reality show pulled a 1.5/5 A18-49 rating and 4.2 million viewers on its last Tuesday outing. Now, The Black Box will slide from Thursdays at 10p to 8p, with NY Med taking the 10p perch starting June 26.
(Source: Cynopsis)

OWN‘s Love Thy Neighbor is back with all-new eps Wednesday, June 25 at 9p. The most recent cycle of the Tyler Perry comedy averaged .74 among W25-54 and 901,000 total viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Harry Potter’s Dumbledore, Michael Gambon, has been cast in another J.K. Rowling adaptation, HBO/BBC miniseries The Casual Vacancy.
(Source: Cynopsis)

OWN announced the principal cast for Tyler Perry drama If Loving You Is Wrong (formerly Single Mom’s Club). Series regulars include Amanda Clayton (John Carter), Heather Hemmens (Hellcats), Zulay Henao (The Single Moms Club), Edwina Findley (Treme) and April Parker-Jones (Jericho).
(Source: Cynopsis)

Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Smashed) and Jeremy Sisto (Suburgatory) have been cast in A&E‘s The Returned, along with Sandrine Holt (House of Cards) and Agnes Bruckner (24). The supernatural drama from A+E Studios and FremantleMedia is adapted from the hit French series.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Game 1 of the NBA Finals gave ABC its top-rated Thursday among A18-49 since 6/20/13, up 5 percent year to year in both the demo and total viewers (14.9 million).
(Source: Cynopsis)

CMT reports the 13th annual CMT Music Awards on Wednesday delivered 3 million total viewers, the second most-watched ever. With 1.4 among P18-49 (up 7 percent versus last year), it was the top original cable telecast for the day.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Season two of CMT‘s Party Down South debuted to a series-high 1.25 million total viewers for the premiere and its encore, up 75 percent from season one among P18-49 with .67.
(Source: Cynopsis)

THE 68TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS – WINNERS LIST
http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/nominees/index.html

Audra McDonald makes history with her sixth Tony win.
http://www.broadway.com/buzz/176282/six-time-tony-winner-audra-mcdonald-makes-history-in-two-ways-with-lady-day-win/

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
The Fault In Our Stars – $48.2 million
Maleficent – $33.5 million
Edge of Tomorrow – $29.1 million
X-Men: Days of Future Past – $14.7 million
A Million Ways To Die In The West – $7.2 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)

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