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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 7/14/14)
COOKING: Bite This With Nadia G (Premiere) at 10pm
CW: Backpackers (Premiere) at 8:30pm
CW: Seed (Premiere) at 9:30pm
NAT. GEO.: Going Deep with David Rees (Premiere) at 10pm
FOX: 24: Live Another Day (Finale) at 9pm
Christopher Walken (Deerhunter) will play Captain Hook in NBC holiday event Peter Pan Live. “He might just be the first tap-dancing Captain Hook,” said chairman of NBC Entertainment Bob Greenblatt at the TCA press tour Sunday. “I started my career in musicals and it’s wonderful after all this time, at this point in my career, to be in this classic musical I watched as a child and to work with [producers] Neil Meron and Craig Zadan again after Hairspray,” said Walken.
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NBC announced the renewals of all three of its unscripted summer series: American Ninja Warrior will return for a season six, Last Coming Standing for season eight and America’s Got Talent for a tenth go-round.
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NBC‘s still in business with Bill Cosby. A series for the Cosby Show star is in development, confirmed Bob Greenblatt at TCA – and scant details are no indication of the network’s interest. “We haven’t made a bigger series commitment, [but] we have a big commitment to Bill himself,” said Greenblatt.
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Tracy Morgan was released from the rehabilitation center where he was recovering from injuries suffered in a car wreck on June 7. He will continue his recovery with “an aggressive outpatient program,” shared his publicist. Morgan and other victims in the accident, including the widow of James McNair, are suing Wal-Mart; a limo bus in which the 30 Rock alum was riding with other passengers was rear-ended by one of the retailer’s tractor-trailers.
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MTV‘s Catfish: The TV Show has been picked up for a fourth season. The Relativity Television and Catfish Picture Company series has been Wednesday’s number one original cable series among P12-34.
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Season two of MTV‘s Are You the One has a launch date: Monday, September 29 at 10p. The Lighthearted Entertainment romance competition was the top program in its time slot among W18-24. The second half of season four of the net’s Awkward, Tuesday’s top cable series with P12-34, arrives September 23 at 10p.
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Pivot likes Please Like Me enough to give the coming-of-age comedy a third-season pickup, ahead of its season two premiere Friday, August 8.
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Esquire cooking competition Knife Fight returns with 13 new episodes Tuesday, July 29 at 10p. What’s in store: “Crazy ingredients, few rules and even fewer prizes.”
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AMC confirmed series regulars for Better Call Saul, starring Bob Odenkirk and Michael McKean. Also onboard: Jonathan Banks (Breaking Bad), Rhea Seehorn (House of Lies), Patrick Fabian (Big Love) and Michael Mando (Orphan Black). Breaking Bad spin-off premieres in early 2015.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Ophelia Lovibond (UK’s The Wilsons) will recur on season three of Elementary, premiering Thursday, October 30 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – $73 million
Transformers: Age of Extinction – $16.5 million
Tammy – $12.9 million
22 Jump Street – $6.7 million
How To Train Your Dragon 2 – $5.9 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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