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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 7/21/14)
FOX: Hotel Hell (Premiere) at 9pm
SCIENCE: Close Encounters: Examined (Premiere) at 9pm
TRU TV: Way Out West (Premiere) at 10pm
BRAVO: Ladies of London (Finale) at 10pm
Emmy-winning actor James Garner died Saturday at age 86. Garner, who found success in film (Victor/Victoria, The Notebook), as well as television, was best known as the star of detective series The Rockford Files (1974-80).
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AMC‘s Breaking Bad won the TCA Program of the Year, CBS‘s The Good Wife took home Outstanding Achievement in Drama (phew!) and HBO‘s Veep and FX’s Louie tied in the Outstanding Comedy category. Winners were chosen by the TCA’s 220 critics and reporters. No big surprises – the list had been leaked online Saturday afternoon, ahead of the evening’s ceremony.
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Rob Marciano has jumped from his co-anchor spot at Entertainment Tonight to ABC News, as senior meteorologist. Marciano will report weather headlines on Good Morning America Weekend and partner with chief meteorologist Ginger Zee for coverage across all ABC News broadcasts and platforms. Zee replaced Sam Champion, who decamped for The Weather Channel, in December.
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CW ordered another round of improv show Whose Line Is it Anyway? from Angst Productions and Hat Trick Productions. The 24 new half-hour eps will debut in 2015.
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Principal photography is underway in Montreal for action-thriller The Fixer. Four-hour mini-series from Muse Entertaiment starring Eric Dane (Grey’s Anatomy) and Kathleen Robertson (Boss) is distributed worldwide by Sonar Entertainment.
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The 12th and final season of CBS‘s Two and a Half Men will feature heterosexual Walden (Ashton Kutcher) marrying Alan (Jon Cryer) so they can adopt a child as a gay couple.
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Comedian Rodney Carrington‘s stand-up special, Laughter’s Good, premieres on CMT Friday, July 25 at 9p.
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Showtime announced premiere dates: Season four of Homeland, set in the Middle East and shot in South Africa, arrives Sunday, October 5 at 9p. The Affair, currently in production on Montauk, NY, makes its bow two weeks later at 10p.
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More on Showtime: documentary Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes, chronicling the recording of new music from long-lost Bob Dylan lyrics, has a Friday, November 21 at 9p premiere. Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens, Taylor Goldsmith, Jim James and Marcus Mumford create music for two-dozen recently-discovered lyrics written in 1967.
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TNT‘s Falling Skies, averaging 5.5 million viewers in Live+7, will return for a fifth and final season. The net is also bringing back The Last Ship, averaging 7.2 million viewers in Live+7, for a sophomore run, and The Closer spin-off Major Crimes, averaging 7 million viewers in Live+7, for a fourth go-round.
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Jaime Pressly, currently starring in TV Land comedy Jennifer Falls, will recur on season two of CBS‘s Mom, premiering Monday, September 29 at 8:30p.
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Hank Azaria (The Simpsons) joins upcoming Fox animated comedy Bordertown as the voice of border patrol agent Bud Buckwld.
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Wentworth Miller (Prison Break) will guest star on CW‘s The Flash. The Arrow spin-off premieres Tuesday, October 7 at 8p.
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Steven Pasquale (Broadway’s The Bridges of Madison County) is onboard season six of CBS‘s The Good Wife, launching Sunday, September 21 at 9p.
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Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters) landed a recurring role on Lifetime thriller The Lottery. Drama airs Sundays at 10p.
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FX‘s The Strain premiere and encore runs drew 8 million total viewers and 4.2 million A18-49 in Live+3 viewing. The first airing, on July 13, delivered 4.73 million total viewers and 2.43 million A18-49. “For a show to come out of the gate like this in the most crowded environment in TV history is just amazing,” said John Landgraf, CEO, FX Networks and FX Productions.
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Season two of HGTV‘s recently wrapped Brother vs. Brother posted a 19 percent ratings increase versus year ago, and outperformed the net’s prime average by 21 percent among P25-54. The fall finale was the number two ranked ad-supported cable program on Sunday at 9p among upscale P25-54.
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The premieres of USA‘s Rush and Satisfaction each drew 1.7 million viewers Thursday night, with 493,000 A18-49 for Rush and 626,000 in the demo for Satisfaction.
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VH1‘s Dating Naked premiered Thursday to 826,000 total viewers and 480,000 A19-49, up 150 percent in the demo and up 147 percent in total viewers over the same time period last quarter. Candidly Nicole‘s debut drew 551,000 viewers (up 51 percent in A18-49 with 325,000), while the premiere of LeAnn and Eddie at 10:30p brought 374,000 viewers and 252,000 among A18-49, up 19 percent.
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Emmy-nominated writer Jerry McNeely died July 14 of Parkinson’s disease. He was 86. McNeely wrote for numerous TV series, including Ironside, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Lucas Tanner, and produced Our House. He earned an Emmy nod for writing the TV-movie Something for Joey.
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Actress Skye McCole Bartusiak (“The Patriot”) died July 19. She was 21. No cause of death was given. In addition to guest star appearances on TV shows including CSI and Lost, Bartusiak had a recurring role as Megan Matheson on 24.
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – $36 million
The Purge: Anarchy – $28.4 million
Planes: Fires And Rescue – $18 million
Sex Tape – $15 million
Transformers: Age of Extinction – $10 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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