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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 8/20/14)
TV ONE: Unsung: Martha Wash (Premiere) at 8pm
TLC: Who Do You Think You Are?: Kelsey Grammer (Premiere) at 9pm
A&E: Epic Ink (Premiere) at 10:30pm
BRAVO: Million Dollar Listing: Los Angeles (Premiere) at 9pm
OXYGEN: Preachers of L.A. (Premiere) at 10pm
SMITHSONIAN: Speed Kills (Premiere) at 8pm
UP: Heartland (Finale) at 9pm
USA: Suits (Finale) at 9pm
Discovery had its highest-rated “Shark Week” in the stunt’s 27-year history. The week delivered over 42 million viewers (P2+cume), with Discovery the top network in all of television among M18-34 and M18-49 delivery for the week. Making the biggest splash: Shark of Darkness: Wrath of Submarine, ranking as the top non-sports cable telecast in 3Q14 in the men under 50 demos.
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Late night hosts Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report), Jimmy Fallon (The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon) and Jimmy Kimmel (Jimmy Kimmel Live) join the roster of presenters for an Emmys that awards telecast and Late Night host Seth Meyers promises will be “upbeat and fun.” Find out Monday, August 25 at 8p on NBC.
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The fun actually started before the show even began, with a promo for the Emmys that features nominees Julia Louis-Dreyfus (VEEP) and Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul in a send-up of pawn shop reality shows. The 6-minute clip has Louis-Dreyfus attempting to pawn an Emmy from her Seinfeld days, which fails to impress the owners of Barely Legal Pawn. “You know what they say, comedy is easy, drama is hard,” drawls Paul. Video comes from Audi of America, a sponsor of this year’s awards show.
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The pilot for upcoming ABC comedy Selfie is available on Hulu, ahead of its premiere on Tuesday, September 30 at 8p. Series focuses on a social media star who needs to rebrand her reputation after a workplace slip-up.
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This Sunday’s episode of Showtime’s Ray Donovan (August 24 at 9p) was directed by series star Liev Schreiber. It’s Schreiber’s first time directing for the small screen.
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Kelly Ripa (Live! With Kelly and Michael) and hubby Mark Consuelos (Alpha House) team to exec produce Logo TV’s Secret Guide to Fabulous, from the couple’s Milojo Productions. Lifestyle series premieres Wednesday, September 3 at 11p.
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Lauren Conrad (Laguna Beach) expands her brand (clothes! books! jewelry!) with E! special Pop Innovators: Lauren Conrad, premiering Thursday, December 11 at 8p.
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Tattoo Nightmares Miami joins Ink Master and Tattoo Nightmares on Spike TV’s “Tattoosday” programming block. Series premieres Tuesday, September 2 at 11p. The current season of mother ship Tattoo Nightmares, also from 495 Productions, has improved its time period by 147 percent in A18-49, reports the net.
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Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin will ring in the New Year again for CNN, live from NYC’s Times Square. It’s the eighth consecutive year the pair will co-host the net’s coverage of Auld Lang Syne night.
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The first season of multi-platform video and music net Music Choice Play’s Chronicles kicks off Tuesday, August 26 with a look at the life and career of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. The rapper/actor/producer’s other TV projects include Power, now airing Tuesdays at 10p on Encore Black following its Starz run, and SundanceTV’s Dream School.
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UP original movie My Other Mother, starring Essence Atkins (Half & Half), Lynn Whitfield (The Josephine Baker Story) and Jasmine Guy (A Different World) debuts Sunday, September 21 at 8p. The Swirl Films production is the fifth movie to be produced and air on UP as a result of the net’s Faith & Family Screenplay Competition at the American Black Film Festival.
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America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) will host documentary series Panoramica. Films air in Spanish on Univision or UniMas, and are simulcast in English or with English subtitles on Pivot.
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FX ordered a 13-ep season two of The Strain. The drama is averaging 4.5 million total viewers on a first-run Live+7 basis, and 2.6 million among A18-49. The FX Productions show, ranking as the number one new series on cable in 2014 delivery of A18-49, airs Sundays at 10p.
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Finding Carter nabbed a second season on MTV. The net ordered 12 more eps of the teen drama, averaging a 2.0 rating among P12-34 and 2.2 million total viewers in Live+3.
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SundanceTV renewed Rectify for a third go-round, to air in 2015. Season two of the drama, the net’s first wholly owned original scripted series, concludes Thursday, August 21 at 9p.
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Fuse is bringing back Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce for seasons three and four. The second season averaged 74 percent more total viewers and a whopping 192 percent more P18-34 viewers than its freshman run.
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The Awesomes, from Late Night’s Seth Meyers and Mike Shoemaker, was renewed by Hulu for a third season. Round two of the animated comedy debuted August 4.
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Rapper Bow Wow joins upcoming CBS midseason spin-off CSI: Cyber as a series regular. Patricia Arquette stars as a special agent.
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Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights) landed a guest star role in season two of ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., returning Tuesday, September 23 at 9p.
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Andrea Savage (Step Brothers) joins Showtime’s Episodes in a season-long arc as the head of a network.
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Justin Hartley is returning to his daytime roots on CBS soap opera Young and the Restless. The former Smallville star appeared on NBC’s Passions from 2002-2006. “What can I say? I love a good soap,” Hartley told TV Guide.
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The penultimate episode of HBO’s True Blood on Friday averaged 3.9 million viewers for its premiere, and 4.3 million across three airings.
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The summer finale of ABC Family’s Switched at Birth on Monday hit 4-week highs in total viewers (1.3 million), W18-34 (355,000/1.1 rating) and W18-49 (574,000/.9) at 8p, while the summer finale of The Fosters at 9p scored the drama its second-best ratings for the season in A18-34 (514,000/.8) and A18-49 (791,000/.6).
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Judge Judy won the syndie ratings race the week ending August 10 by the widest margin in its 18-year history, up 8 percent versus last year, with 6.7.
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In another indication of the longer shelf life of scripted series versus reality shows, CBS’s Under the Dome got a big enough lift in Live+7 data among A18-49 to count as the number one program in the demo for the episode debuting July 28, passing ABC’s The Bachelorette, NBC’s American Ninja Warrior and Fox’s MasterChef.
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Food Network’s Rachael vs. Guy: Kids Cook-Off posted a .8 among A25-54 on Sunday, up 14 percent from last season’s premiere to rank number three in cable at 8p. The season five premiere of Great Food Truck Race drew the same rating in the demo, placing it number four in cable at 9p.
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TNT’s Major Crimes ended its summer run as basic cable’s top program for the week. The summer finale has drawn 7.3 million viewers in Live + 3, including 2.0 million A25-54 and 1.6 million A18-49.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SOUNDSCAN (8/17/14)
1) Guardians of The Galaxy Soundtrack – 92,585 (After 3 weeks 261,372)
2) Various Artists – Now 51 – 51,767 (After 2 weeks – 145,793
3) Various Artists – Frozen Soundtrack – 42,959 (After 38 weeks – 3,301,251
Other Debuts
4) Gaslight Anthem – Get Hurt – 32,824
13) Tank – Stronger – 16,594
18) Porter Robinson – Worlds – 12,951
20) Soja – Amid The Noise & Haste – 12,199
24) Caleb Johnson – Testify – 11,366
30) FKA Twigs – LP1 – 10,306
33) Watsky – All You Can Do – 9,705
36) Sam Hunt – X2C – 8,059
39) Upon A Burning Body – World Is my Enemy Now – 6,946
40) Twista – Dark Horse – 6,675
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