FIRST LOOK/ ON TV/ WEEKEND BOX OFFICE

FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 6/23/14)
DISCOVERY: Street Outlaws (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY: Fat ‘N Furious: Rolling Thunder (Premiere) at 10pm
MTV: Teen Wolf (Premiere) at 10pm
OWN: Operation Change (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: POV (Premiere) at 10pm
TBS: CeeLo Green’s The Good Life (Premiere) at 10:30pm

Winners of the Daytime Emmy Awards, presented Sunday night in LA, included Outstanding Morning Show Good Morning America (ABC), Drama Series, The Young and the Restless (CBS), Talk Show/Informative Steve Harvey (syndicated), Talk Show/Entertainment The Ellen DeGeneres Show (syndicated), Game Show Jeopardy (syndicated), Court Program The People’s Court (syndicated) and Morning Program in Spanish Un Nuev Dia (Telemundo). For a full list of winners go here.
(Source: Cynopsis)

PBS‘s Sesame Street nabbed the most Creative Arts Daytime Emmy Awards with six, and Ellen DeGeneres scored five, it was announced at Friday’s presentation of the Creative Arts Emmys. Altogether, PBS brought home 12 twelve trophies, followed by Nickelodeon and syndicated programs, with ten each.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The first three seasons of murder mystery The Killing are available globally on Netflix, ahead of the fourth and final season premiere on Friday, August 1.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Basketball superstar Magic Johnson, chairman and CEO of ASPiRE, stopped by Cablevision‘s Bronx customer contact center on Friday to shine a light on the launches of ASPiRE and UP on Optimum TV, as well as behind-the-scenes workers. Joined by Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and network execs, Johnson lauded the company’s customer service reps, “who are on the frontlines everyday providing the critical support necessary to ensure that customers can thoroughly enjoy their cable TV programming.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Storage Wars auctioneer Dan Dotson underwent surgery after suffering a double brain aneurysm. His wife Laura reported on Twitter Thursday that he was “on the road to recovery.” “Everyone at A+E Networks wishes Dan a speedy recovery,” said A&E in a statement.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Targeting what it calls “funseekers,” a younger, dual-gender audience, rebranded truTV is rollingout eight new series over the next seven months: car-design competition Motor City Masters (Tuesday, June 24), reality western Way Out West (Monday, July 21), Impractical Jokers spin-off Jokers Wild (Thursday, September 25), competition show Fake Off (Monday, October 27), sketch comedy Friends of the People (Tuesday, October 28), and ambush game show Hair Jacked and How to Be a Grown Up, both in October. Arriving in winter is Local News (wt), about small-town news teams.
(Source: Cynopsis)

HGTV‘s latest fixer-upper series premieres Thursday, August 7 at 11p. My Big Family Renovation features mommy blogger Jen Hatmaker tackling a redo of a 105-year-old farmhouse with her pastor husband and five kids.
(Source: Cynopsis)

On season four of TLC‘s Next Great Baker, launching Tuesday, June 24 at 9p, contestants will work in pairs to win $100,000 and the chance to manage Carlo’s Bakery in Las Vegas – and the Cake Boss will have some “extra muscle” helping him make his choice.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Rosario Dawson (Unstoppable) has joined the cast of 13-ep superhero drama Marvel’s Daredevil, debuting on Netflix in 2015.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Gethin Anthony (Game of Thrones) will play Charles Manson in upcoming NBC event series Aquarius, starring David Duchovny (Californication) as an undercover cop tracking the killer. Grey Damon (Friday Night Lights) and Emma Dumont (Bunheads) have also signed on.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Jason O’Mara (Life on Mars) will play the father of our country in History miniseries Sons of Liberty, which began production in Bucharest, Romania, reports EW.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Cheyenne Jackson (Glee) will guest on season six of USA‘s Royal Pains, airing Tuesdays at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Naveen Andrews (Lost), Daryl Hannah (Splash) and Brian J. Smith (Stargate Universe) are onboard Netflix sci-fi drama Sense8, reports Deadline, slated for a 2015 arrival.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Fox‘s Hell’s Kitchen on Thursday earned its best rating among A18-49 in almost three months, according to Nielsen, with 1.8/7. ABC‘s Black Box landed in its new 8p time slot with a .7/3 in the demo, down one tenth from its last airing three weeks ago.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The premiere of Syfy‘s Dominion on Thursday averaged 805,000 A18-49 and 935,000 A25-54, after the season two launch of Defiance drew 776,000 and 948,000 in the demos.
(Source: Cynopsis)

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Think Like A Man Too – $30 million
22 Jump Street – $29 million
How To Train Your Dragon 2 – $25.3 million
Jersey Boys – $13.5 million
Maleficent – $13 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)

 

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