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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 6/19/14)
ABC: Rookie Blue (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Southern Fried Homicide (Premiere) at 10pm
SUNDANCE: Rectify (Premiere) at 9pm
SYFY: Defiance (Premiere) at 8pm
SYFY: Dominion (Premiere) at 9pm

NBC‘s playing hardball, pitting a new episode of summer hit America’s Got Talent (instead of the planned repeat) against the 9p-11p premiere of ABC singing competition Rising Star on Sunday. NBC is also powering up the night with a “Showstopping Sunday” stunt, featuring attempts to break world records (jumping over moving cars, diving into fire), airing as interstitials hosted by Talent judge Howie Mandel throughout the night.
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Carson Daly (The Voice) and Mindy Kaling (The Mindy Project) will lend an assist to Television Academy chairman and CEO Bruce Rosenblum for the reveal of the 66th Primetime Emmys nominees, selected for the first time via online voting. The announcement will be streamed live on Emmys.com on Thursday, July 10 at 8:40a. New key art was unveiled Wednesday, showing Emmy off as “elegant, powerful and triumphant.”
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Tuesday’s World Cup match between Brazil and Mexico drew more than 68 million Facebook interactions, from 33 million users. Brazil had the most active users, followed by the U.S.
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HBO vampire drama True Blood could morph into a musical. Series composer Nathan Barr told the Associated Press at an event Tuesday night that he’s pitched the idea to HBO and show creator Alan Ball, and hopes to present a workshop version of the show next year. True Blood star Stephen Moyer, who played Captain Von Trapp in NBC‘s Sound of Music Live! special last year, said he lent a hand with the project proposal. Blood’s seventh and final TV season launches Sunday, June 22 at 9p.
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Jay Leno landed the 17th annual Mark Twain Prize for American humor, to be presented at a gala at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC on October 19. Like Twain, “no one was too high or low” to escape Leno’s wit, said Kennedy Center chairman David Rubenstein, “and we are all better for it.” Last year’s honoree was Carol Burnett. Ceremony airs on PBS Sunday, November 23.
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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip will tour the Game of Thrones set next week during a visit to Northern Ireland, tweeted the monarchy. The HBO drama is credited with creating over 900 full-time and 5700 part-time jobs.
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Al Roker Entertainment developed PSAs to raise awareness of the work the Coast Guard Foundation does on behalf of the U.S. Coast Guard and their families. “I have always admired the invaluable work of the men and women in the U.S. Coast Guard,” Al Roker, CEO of ARE. “It has been an extraordinary experience for us to capture their hard work in the Coast Guard series.” The company’s Coast Guard Cape Disappointment/Pacific Northwest starts the second half of its premiere season on The Weather Channel Monday, June 23 at 9p.
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ABC ordered a 13-ep season five of Extreme Weight Loss from Eyeworks USA, topped with three franchise “Love Can’t Weight” specials, about couples slimming down for their weddings.
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AMC marks Independence Day with a “Dead, White and Blue” weekend. All four seasons of zombie drama Walking Dead will air back to back starting Friday, July 4 at 9a; special Talking Dead Season 5 Preview caps the weekend, Sunday, July 6 at 9p. The following week, AMC is airing two Dead docs from Big Machine: Inside The Walking Dead on Tuesday, July 8 at 10p, and Inside the Walking Dead: Walker University Tuesday, July 15 at 10p.
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Revolt airs two-hour doc Happy on the Ground: 8 Days at Grammy Camp, a behind-the-scenes look at students participating in the Grammy Foundation’s music industry camp, on Sunday, June 22 at 7p and 10p. A Revolt Live sneak preview precedes it on Thursday, June 19 at 5p.
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Craig Frank (Mixology) has joined upcoming CW thriller The Messengers as a series regular. He had guest-starred in the pilot.
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History added to the season three cast of Vikings: Lothaire Bluteau (The Tudors), Kevin Durand (The Strain) and Morgane Polanski (The Ghost) join previously announced Ben Robson (Dracula: The Dark Prince).
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America’s Got Talent‘s solid 2.6 rating/9 share among A18-49 on NBC Tuesday was even with last week, but The Night Shift lost two tenths in the demo (1.3/4), according to Nielsen.
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ABC‘s Extreme Weight Loss, thrust last minute in the slot the net had reserved for game six of the NBA finals (thanks, Miami), returned with little promotion to a meager .8 A18-49 rating, down 33 percent from the last original.
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BROADWAY
Holler If Ya Hear Me officially opens on Broadway tonight.  It uses the lyrics of Tupac Shakur to tell an original story.
http://ppc.broadway.com/buzz/176426/here-we-go-turn-it-up-holler-if-ya-hear-me-opens-on-broadway/