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Employees at Warner Bros. have been warned of impending staff cuts. “It pains me to say this, [but] positions will be eliminated – at every level – across the studio,” said chairman and CEO Kevin Tsujihara in a memo Thursday. Time Warner’s Turner Broadcasting started offering buyouts for older workers in August, after Time Warner rejected an $80 billion bid from 21st Century Fox, and CEO Jeff Bewkes announced plans to increase efficiency and profits.
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ox reality show Utopia got over 1 million online views ahead of its premiere last night, reports EW, with average views going from 13 to 23 minutes the first four days it was available. What kept ‘em coming back? Nudity (albeit blurred), fighting, sex and a medical evacuation. Series takes its regular berth Tuesdays and Fridays starting September 9 and 11 at 8p.
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CBS is moving Big Brother to make room for Thursday Night Football. The reality hit will air Tuesdays and Wednesdays instead of Wednesdays and Thursdays starting September 9 at 8p.
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The premiere of USA’s It Takes a Choir, bumped off the sked last November, finally makes its bow Friday, October 24 at 11p. Gareth Malone builds a community choir in eight episodes.
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An alternate ending to the series finale of How I Met Your Mother swept the Internet before being blocked by 20th Century Fox TV on copyright grounds. The supposed new version has Ted ending up with very-much-alive Tracy, not Robin. An upcoming DVD with all nine seasons of the CBS comedy hits the shelves September 23.
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AMC has ordered a pilot episode of a companion series for monster hit The Walking Dead, set in a different location with a new cast of characters. Dead’s Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd and David Alpert will exec produce the project from AMC Studios, scheduled for production in 2014. “We all take our stewardship of the original franchise incredibly seriously,” said AMC president Charlie Collier, and “are all proceeding with extreme care in order to ensure that we are offering fans something truly compelling, engaging and distinct.”
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TV One expands its Wednesday lineup with docu-series Hollywood Divas, debuting October 8 at 10p. What’s in store for the ladies? Stars Golden Brooks (Girlfriends),Countess Vaughn (The Parkers),Lisa Wu (Real Housewives of Atlanta),Paula Jai Parker (Hustle and Flow) and Elise Neal (The Hughleys) “show us just how unkind Hollywood can be.”
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SundanceTV’s Dream School is back in session Wednesday, October 1 at 9p. Season two of the series from exec producers Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Chuck D, Andrew Jameson and Jamie Oliver offers kids who’ve failed a school a second chance graduate, with the help of mentors like lawyer Gloria Allred, skater Johnny Weir and chef David Chang.
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Season two of Sportsman’s Meet the McMillans launches Thursday, September 11 at 8:30p, following a week-long season one marathon starting Monday, September 8 at 7p. Series focuses on a couple running a guided hunt business. New challenge: a baby’s in the mix.
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TV Land tacked on 12 more eps to its season four order of The Exes, for a total of 24, in advance of the comedy’s premiere Wednesday, November 5 at 10:30p. “Everything we’ve seen from the upcoming season is telling us it’s going to be the best one yet,” said TV Land president Larry W. Jones.
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Austin Butler (Carrie Diaries) will recur on season three of Arrow, reports EW. CW series returns Wednesday, October 8 at 8p.
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Lev Gorn is bumped up to series regular for season three of FX’s The Americans. The USSR-born actor will also recur on CBS’s NCIS, returning Tuesday, September 23 at 8p.
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With Madeline Carroll bowing out of ABC’s Scandal due to scheduling conflicts, Mary Mouser (Body of Proof) will play the First Daughter in season three, premiering Thursday, September 25 at 9p.
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The season premieres of 19 Kids & Counting and Little People, Big World drew record ratings Tuesday, making TLC the top ad-supported cable net of the night in all key women demos. 19 Kids was number one in all of television with W18-49 and W/P18-34, and the highest-rated episode ever for the series with 3.3 million P2+ viewers. Little People had its most-watched season premiere ever, averaging 2.1 million P2+ viewers, ranking number one in its time period in delivery among HH, P2+, P25-54, and all key women demos.
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Showtime’s Ray Donovan and Masters of Sex had series highs in Live+3 viewers last week. Episode 8 of Donovan had 2.5 million Live+3 viewers at 9p; for the total night, Ray Donovan garnered over three million viewers for the first time this season. Masters of Sex delivered a series high of 750,000 viewers at 10p and a season high of 1.5 million Live+3 viewers.
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Former political correspondent Bruce Morton died September 5 after battling cancer. He was 83. Morton won six Emmys for his work at CBS News, and became co-anchor of the CBS Morning News in 1975. He left the network after 29 years to join CNN in 1993, retiring from the news net in 2006.
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G.R.L. band member Simone Battle was found dead in LA on September 5. She was 25. Battle was a finalist on The X Factor in 2011.
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Guardians of the Galaxy – $10.2 million
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – $6.5 million
If I Stay – $5.8 million
Let’s Be Cops – $5.4 million
The November Man – $4.2 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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