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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 8/5/14)
ABC: CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night To Rock (Premiere) at 8pm
HBO: Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Atlanta Falcons (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: Evil Kin (Premiere) at 9pm
REELZ: Hollywood Hillbillies (Premiere) at 9pm
REELZ: Celebrity Legacies (Premiere) at 10pm
A&E: Shipping Wars (Finale) at 10:30pm
TLC: Buddy’s Bakery Rescue (Finale) at 10pm
Breathe easy, Big Bang Theory fans. Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco have come to agreements with Warner Bros. Television for new three-year contracts, with reported $1 million-per-episode paychecks and larger pieces of the CBS comedy’s backend. Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar are also expected to reach new deals. Production on season eight, now slated to start Wednesday, August 6, was delayed a week during extended contract negotiations.
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CBS moved up the finale of Extant to Wednesday, September 17, keeping it out of hot competition with the premieres of ABC‘s Modern Family and NBC‘s Law & Order: SVU during premiere week. The Halle Berry summer event series’ most recent outing scored a 1.1 rating among A18-49 and 5.9 million viewers. On September 24, CBS now has slotted a 90-minute premiere for Survivor, followed by a 90-minute Big Brother finale.
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Spike TV ordered eight eps of Coaching Bad, with the NFL’s Ray Lewis and anger management specialist Dr. Christian Conte helping coaches change bad behavior. Series set to debut in early 2015.
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Nickelodeon gave a straight-to-series order for School of Rock, based on the 2003 Paramount Pictures hit starring Jack Black, from Viacom partner Paramount TV. Production begins this fall for a spring 2015 premiere.
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Music Choice celebrates the 20-year anniversary of the Essence Festival with a 30-minute special featuring performances and music videos from artists who have performed over the years. Essence Turns 20 is available on on Music Choice Video on Demand through Sunday, August 31.
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H2 brings back 10 Things You Don’t Know About, starring punk rock icon Henry Rollins, on Saturday, August 16 at 10p. Spoiler alert from the Asylum Entertainment series: camels once roamed the Texas prairie.
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CW‘s America’s Next Top Model is bringing back the guys for a second season. Cycle 21 will feature seven men and seven women battling out for the title, starting Monday, August 18 at 9p. Encores air Fridays, at 9p, with original eps moving to the Friday slot starting October 3.
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Hot in Cleveland spinoff The Soul Man, currently in season three on TV Land, has been renewed for a 12-ep season four in 2015. Over the last three seasons, the comedy has averaged a 3.19 rating among African-American Women 24-54, and 2.65 among African-American Adults 25-54.
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Rob Morrow (Northern Exposure) stars as an angel on a mission in Hallmark holiday film Debbie Macomber’s Mr. Miracle, now in production in Vancouver.
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Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) will guest on ABC musical comedy Galavant, reports TVLine. Galavant will air in early 2015, sandwiched between Once Upon a Time‘s fall and spring runs.
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ABC‘s The Goldbergs get a visit from David Spade (Rules of Engagement) this fall. Comedy returns for season two Wednesday, September 24 at 8:30p.
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Meredith Baxter (Family Ties) starts boozing it up on Young and Restless Monday, September 8, reports TV Guide, as a charming but manipulative character on the CBS soap.
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More suds: Natalie Zea (The Following) will star in ABC drama Members Only, about the shenanigans of a Connecticut country club’s members and staff.
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Eddie McClintock has hopped aboard Fox midseason crime drama Backstrom, starring The Office‘s Rainn Wilson.
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CBS is getting good Live+7 Playback news for its summer dramas. The third episode of Under the Dome jumped 68 percent among A18-49, to 3.2, while the second outing of Extant got a 53 percent bump in the demo, to 2.3.
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Fox also touted Live+7 numbers, citing a 45 percent increase for the July 14 finale of 24: Live Another Day, to 9.4 million viewers.
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ABC‘s Rising Star wasn’t downed by football counterprogramming Sunday. Opposite NBC‘s Hall of Fame game Sunday night, the talent competition was up 14 percent among A18-34, up 20 percent among M18-34 and held steady in A18-49 with .9/3, per early Nielsens.
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James Brady, the White House press secretary seriously wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, has died after what his family said were “a series of health issues.” He was 73. Left permanently disabled, Brady’s crusade for gun control led to a federal law requiring a background check on handgun buyers. “The law that bears Jim’s name has kept guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals,” said President Obama said in a statement on Monday. “An untold number of people are alive today who otherwise wouldn’t be, thanks to Jim.”
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