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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 7/15/14)
EL REY: Matador (Premiere) at 9pm
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FYI: B.O.R.N. To Style (Premiere) at 10pm
HISTORY: Counting Cars (Premiere) at 9pm
TRAVEL: Underground BBQ Challenge (Premiere) at 9pm
TVGN: The Sorrentinos (Premiere) at 10pm
DIY: I Hate My Yard (Finale) at 10pm
NBC: The Night Shift (Finale) at 10pm
PBS: Time Scanners (Finale) at 8pm
Jenny McCarthy‘s jumping from The View to SiriusXM Radio, for weekly Dirty, Sexy, Funny With Jenny McCarthy. Said McCarthy, who’s wrapping up a one-year stint on the ABC talker, “It’s no secret that I love to talk. I’m excited to do it on SiriusXM without having to interrupt anyone or keep things clean. You can bet your sweet ass this show will live up to its title.” Show launches Wednesday, July 16 at 6p.
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Alisyn Camerota, who left Fox News‘ America’s News Headquarters in March, has landed at CNN. “I’ve always admired the fine work of the journalists at CNN and I’m honored to join their ranks,” said Camerota, who spent 16 years at FNC.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Africa Channel will make television history with the soft launch of morning weekday series Expresso on Friday, July 18, the birth date of Nelson Mandela. On its official premiere in the fall, Expresso will be the first series to air live on the African continent and then on tape the same day in the U.S.
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A four-year battle over control of the Golden Globes came to an end when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions reached a deal to have DCP produce the glitzy Globes on NBC until 2018.
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Logo TV is reviving Don’t Trust the B in Apt 23, the cult fave comedy canceled by ABC early last year. A “The B Is Back” marathon of already-aired episodes airs Saturday, July 19 from 1p-10p, ahead of the roll-out of unaired eps Saturdays at 10p.
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There may be grumbling that Orphan Black‘s Tatiana Maslany was shut out of the Emmys, but focus on the positive: the critically acclaimed drama got a third season pickup. Perry Simon, GM of BBC America Worldwide shared the news at TCA, telling Cynopsis, “We now see Orphan Black as an anchor, a show that will enable us to launch other shows. It continues to give the channel an identity for our sponsors, advertisers and affiliates. To have a series that is so unique and buzzed-about, it elevates everything.”
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TV One docu-series Unsung, the net’s longest-running original series, returns Wednesday, July 30 at 8p. Artists to be profiled include The Emotions, Wilson Pickett, Peaches & Herb and Hi Five.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Teresa Caputo is back – hair, nails and all – for TLC‘s Long Island Medium: On the Road. The season starts in Las Vegas Sunday, August 3 at 9p.
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The Great Food Truck Race heads back to Food Network for season five Sunday, August 17 at 9p. Eight teams of three get a vehicle for the race, but the grand prize winner gets to keep the truck, plus $50,000 to start a business.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Reality star Melissa Rycroft (The Bachelor, Dancing with the Stars) is onboard season nine as judge and mentor for CMT‘s Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team. Competition premieres Friday, August 8 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Ben Kingsley (Ghandi) will lead the cast of Spike TV event series Tut as Ay, Grand Vizier to the young Egyptian ruler. Tut will be shot on location in Morocco and Canada this fall, for a 2015 premiere.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Thomas Jane (Hung) will star in Syfy‘s The Expanse. The 10-ep “space opera” debuts in 2015.
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Telenovela alum Angelica Celaya joins the cast of NBC‘s upcoming supernatural drama Constantine, premiering Friday, October 24 at 10p. It was announced last week that co-lead Lucy Griffiths (True Blood) was leaving after a decision to take the show in a different direction.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Kristen Connolly (House of Cards) replaces Brianna Brown in ABC midseason drama The Whispers. Brown played Lena Lawrence in the pilot, but left in June.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Cry for Argentina, but not ABC: Sunday’s World Cup final averaged 17.3 million viewers, the most-watched World Cup final ever. The match gave a lift to ABC’s prime time lineup: America’s Funniest Home Videos surged 75 percent in the A18-49 demo, to 1.5/6 in early Nielsens, while Wipeout (1.3/4) and Rising Star (1.4/4) were up two tenths versus last week.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Swapping timeslots paid off for CBS Sunday. Unforgettable gained two tenths at 9p (.9/3 among A18-49) versus last week; Reckless held steady at 10p with .6/2.
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CNN‘s The Hunt with John Walsh was the-highest rated premiere ever for an original series on the net, with 330,000 viewers A25-54. With 989,000 total viewers, the investigation show beat Fox News Channel by 21 percent and MSNBC by 174 percent in viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Amazon UK reported CBS‘s Extant drew a record audience to its Prime Instant Video, with streaming three times higher than any other opening episode of a TV show.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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