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FYI: Food Factory USA (Premiere) at 9:30pm
FYI: The Feed (Premeire) at 10pm
TLC: Gypsy Sisters (Premiere) at 9pm
ABC: Rookie Blue (Finale) at 9pm
SUNDANCE TV: Rectify (Finale) at 9pm
Billy Crystal will lead the Emmy tribute to his long-time friend Robin Williams at Sunday’s awards show. “We felt we needed to do something powerful and memorable,” said producer Don Mischer. “Billy seemed like the perfect choice.” Williams, who last year honored Jonathan Winters in the Emmys’ In Memoriam segment, was found dead on August 11 at age 63.
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NBC canceled summer series Working the Engels, pulling it from the lineup tonight in favor of an extra helping of Welcome to Sweden. The show premiered to 2.7 million viewers, but had dropped to 1.9 million. Engels’ fellow summer scripted series The Night Shift, Undateable and Sweden have all gotten renewals from the net.
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CBS is offering a double dose of the Madame Secretary series premiere on Sunday, September 21, due to live coverage of The NFL on CBS. Season 47 of 60 Minutes starts off the night at 7:30p ET, followed by Madame Secretary at 8:30p, the season five premiere of The Good Wife at 9:30p and a Secretary encore at 10:30p.
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Season one of Mom will run for four weeks on TBS ahead of the launch of season two on CBS. Starting Monday, August 25, the comedy airs weeknights at 7:30p after The Big Bang Theory. “It’s my hope that this incredible platform will allow people who might not have seen the show on CBS a chance to get acquainted with it,” said exec producer Chuck Lorre. “And perhaps that acquaintance can turn into an ongoing relationship.” Mom’s launches Monday, September 29 at 8:30.
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The star of OWN’s Iyanla: Fix My Life, Iyanla Vanzant, broke with the show’s format to travel to Ferguson, MO, amid protests and unrest following the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, by a white police officer on August 9. A spiritual life coach who specializes in conflict resolution, Vanzant said she hopes to “provide a set of tools to begin the healing process while also promoting peaceful change.” Episode date tbd.
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The NFL is considering charging A-list acts to pay for the privilege of performing at halftime during the Super Bowl, reports the Wall Street Journal. With Rihanna, Katy Perry and Coldplay on their short list of contenders for a 2015 slot, the league asked at least some acts for a financial contribution in return for the high-profile gig, said WSJ – adding the suggestion got “a chilly reception.” Last year’s halftime show drew a record 115.3 million viewers.
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Former Entertainment Tonight correspondent Kevin Frazier returns to the magazine show Tuesday, September 9, replacing Rob Marciano as co-host. Frazier’s spot as The Insider co-host will be filled by Louis Aguirre, co-anchor of Miami show Deco Drive.
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Hallmark is launching the Feline Football League, with adoptable kittens competing (with celeb assistance) on obstacle courses for a spot in the net’s Kitten Bowl II on Super Bowl Sunday. “The newly inducted league makes it possible for Crown Media to build a world-class programming and merchandising franchise around Kitten Bowl,” said Bill Abbott, president and CEO, Crown Media Family Networks, “while still shining a spotlight on the incredibly beautiful and talented pets available for adoption.”
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The fourth Stand Up to Cancer telecast will have no shortage of star power as it raises money for cancer research programs. Celebs joining host Katie Couric in the digital lounge, where they’ll reach viewers on the phone and through social media, include Jennifer Aniston, Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Reese Witherspoon and Halle Berry, to name just a few. The Who, Dave Matthews, Jennifer Hudson, Lupe Fiasco & Common and Ariana Grande are scheduled to perform. Co-exec producing the show are Gwyneth Paltrow and Joe Gallen of Tenth Planet Productions. Hour-long SU2C airs live Friday, September 5 on 31 broadcast and cable nets, streaming on Hulu and Yahoo.
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A series finale date has been set for Sons of Anarchy: The FX biker drama concludes Tuesday, December 9. But Anarchy will live on – a behind-the-scenes companion book, Sons of Anarchy: The Official Collector’s edition will be released the next day, and a DVD and Blu-Ray Collector’s Set has also been announced. Season seven premieres Tuesday, September 9 at 10p, with a supersize episode, and post-show Anarchy Afterward.
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The fourth installment of FX anthology series American Horry Story launches Wednesday, October 8 at 10p. American Horror Story: Freak Show is set in Jupiter, FL, circa 1952.”
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Showtime gave season three orders to summer series Ray Donovan and Masters of Sex. The dramas are “quintessentially Showtime: bold, provocative, premium television with production values at the top of the food chain,” said David Nevins, president, Showtime Networks. Masters is averaging nearly four million viewers across platforms per week, while Donovan is averaging five million weekly.
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TV One’s Celebrity Crime Files, investigating the scandals, misdeeds and mysterious deaths of celebs, landed rapper/actor Ice-T as narrator for season three, premiering Monday, September 8 at 10p. But that’s not the only change for the docu-series. “Though crimes involving celebrities are both fascinating and shocking, this season the series will broaden its lineup by reexamining historically significant events and include topics that have captured the attention of America over the decades,” D’Angela Proctor, SVP programming and production tells Cynopsis.
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Syndicated Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court is back for season two Monday, September 22. The daytime courtroom series, distributed by Orion TV Productions, can be seen in 92 percent of the country.
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Relationship drama Full Circle landed a 10-ep second season at DirecTV, reports TVLine. Story by Keith Huff (House of Cards) will focus on a man dealing with the consequences of putting his father-in-law in prison 28 years earlier.
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Tony Shaloub (Monk) joins the season seven cast of Showtime’s Nurse Jackie. The Emmy winner will recur as a new ER doctor.
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Scott Adsitt (30 Rock) has been added to the cast of AMC pilot We Hate Paul Revere, as Sam Adams. The comedy is set in Colonial Boston.
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Rachel Brosnahan (House of Cards) has been cast as the lead in CBS mini-series The Dovekeepers, set in ancient Israel.
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine welcomes Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives) for a 3-ep arc in season two. Fox comedy returns Sunday, September 28 at 8:30p.
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Megan Mullally will return to Parks and Recreation in the second episode of the NBC comedy’s seventh and final season, slated to launch midseason. Also coming back: Natalie Morales (Girls), who appeared in season two.
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Usher stars in a Honey Nut Cheerios spot launching Monday that has singer/The Voice coach trading dance moves with the cereal brand’s Buzz the Bee. The ad from Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, follows ads with Grumpy Cat and rapper Nelly. Saatchi’s Peter Moore Smith, executive creative director for General Mills business told AdAge, “The work we did with Nelly was very popular, so we felt Usher was the next great chapter; something beyond what an ordinary commercial might achieve.”
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In its third outing Monday, FX’s Kelsey Grammer/Martin Lawrence comedy, Partners, dipped to a low of 380,000 total viewers at 9p and 450,000 at 9:30p, a 55 percent drop in 9p viewers versus last week, and down 36 percent in viewers the next half hour.
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Tuesday’s season four premiere of Braxton Family Values, the season two opener of SWV Reunited, two catch-up specials and the launch of SWV Reunited companion show, WatchIt With SWV, delivered a combined audience of 4.5 million viewers to the net from 8p-12:30a. In primetime cable, WE tv boasted the number one ranking with African American audiences in the A18-49, W18-49 and W25-54 demos.
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