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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 9/12/14)
DESTINATION AMERICA: Alaska Monsters (Premiere) at 9pm
SYFY: Z Nation (Premiere) at 10pm
TRAVEL: Mysteries At The Museum (Premiere) at 9pm
DIY: Elbow Room (Finale) at 12:30pm
VELOCITY: All Girls Garage (Finale) at 8pm
VELOCITY: Car Fix (Finale) at 8:30pm
(SATURDAY 9/13/14)
COOKING: Lorraine’s Fast, Fresh And Easy Food (Premiere) at 11:30am
PBS: Great Performances (Premiere) at 8pm
CBS: Reckless (Finale) at 8pm
(SUNDAY 9/14/14)
ABC: Countdown To Miss America at 8pm
ABC: The 2015 Miss America Competition at 9pm
DESTINATION AMERICA: Amish Haunting (Premiere) at 9pm
FOX: American Dad (Premiere) at 9pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Farm Queens (Premiere) at 6pm
HGTV: Buy Like A Mega Millionaire (Premiere) at 1pm & 1:30pm
HGTV: Lakefront Bargain Hunt (Premiere) at 8pm and 8:30pm
PBS: The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (Premiere) at 8pm
CBS: Unforgettable (Finale) at 10:30pm
SPIKE: Hungry Investors (Finale) at 9pm
Barbra Streisand will make her first late night TV guest appearance since 1963, as Jimmy Fallon’s sole guest “for a night of talk, comedy and performances” on NBC’s Tonight Show on Monday, September 15. Streisand’s new album, Partners, gets released the next day.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The former Late Show intern who filed a class action suit against CBS and David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants production company for unpaid wages withdrew the lawsuit and issued an apology, saying in a letter that she was “caught in a weak, vulnerable time, facing student debt.” In fact, Mallory Musallam told the New York Post, “I have nothing but respect for David Letterman and the whole organization.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Former NFL-er Tim Tebow joins ABC’s Good Morning America as a contributor starting Monday, September 15. Tebow, already an analyst for Disney-owned ESPN and known for his religious faith, will follow inspiring stories of triumph across the country for the morning show.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CBS can’t get enough football this fall. Four gridiron greats will guest on CBS dramas: Tony Gonzalez plays a special agent on NCIS, airing Tuesday, September 30 at 8p, while Boomer Esiason, Eric Dickerson and Phil Simms play themselves on, respectively, Blue Bloods Friday, October 3 at 10p; Hawaii Five-0 Friday, October 31 at 9p and Elementary Thursday, November 13 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Discovery Fit & Health and ABC News are partnering for a quick-turn documentary, Ebola: Inside the Deadly Outbreak, about the highly infectious disease. The one-hour special, featuring ABC News chief medical editor Dr. Richard Besser and produced by ABC News’ Lincoln Square Productions, airs Thursday, September 18 at 10p, part of a special night of programming titled “Ebola: Are We Next?”.
(Source: Cynopsis)
VH1 movie Drumline: A New Beat premieres Monday, October 27 at 9p. The film, inspired by the 2002 movie about a marching band, starring Nick Cannon, was produced in partnership with Fox Television Studios and exec produced by original film producers Wendy Finerman, Dallas Austin and Jody Gerson, along with Cannon.
(Source: Cynopsis)
AMC ordered a 10-ep second season of Game of Arms. The unscripted series focused on the subculture of arm-wrestling averaged 747,000 total viewers and 450,000 among A18-49 its first go-round.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Lifetime is back documenting Tori Spelling’s drama-filled life for Tru Tori. Season one of the reality show over-delivered the net’s 2014 primetime average by 74 percent among W25-54, 47 percent among A18-49 and 15 percent with total viewers. Filming has started for the first of eight new eps from Studio Lambert and All3Media premiering Tuesday, October 21 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Two series return to Spike TV on Sunday, October 5 at 9p. Bar Rescue takes the 9p slot, with nightlife expert Jon Taffer helping turn around struggling establishments, followed at 10p by “gotcha!” renovation show Catch a Contractor.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Science Channel’s The Unexplained Files, the net’s most-watches series of 2013, returns for season two Tuesday, September 16 at 10p, with an analysis of bones that appear to belong to a human over nine feet tall.
(Source: Cynopsis)
David Fumero (CSI: Miami) landed a series regular role on season two of Starz’s Power, as a SoCal transplant in the NYC-set drama.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Arjay Smith (Perception) will play a street-smart kid on the seventh and final season of FX’s Sons of Anarchy, airing Tuesdays at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Portia Doubleday (Carrie) and Carly Chaikin (Suburgatory) join USA pilot Mr. Robot, about computer programmer with a social disorder.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC’s Good Morning America led NBC’s Today by 738,000 total viewers and by 135,000 among A25-54 the week of September 1, according to Nielsen, the fourth straight week GMA increased its news demo lead compared to its year-ago week lead.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Chuck Todd’s first outing as moderator of Meet the Press – featuring an exclusive interview with President Obama – earned the Sunday morning news show its most-watched week in six months, up 19 percent year-over-year among A25-54, and 11 percent in total viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Actor Richard Kiel died September 10. He was 74. The 7-foot-2 performer, who played assassin Jaws in two James Bond movies, appeared in TV series including The Twilight Zone, The Rifleman and Laramie.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MOVIES
Dolphin Tale 2 – Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd, Kris Kristofferson, Morgan Freeman, Nathan Gamble, Cozy Zuehlsdorff, Austin Stowell, Betsy Landin
No Good Deed – Idris Elba, Taraji P. Henson, Leslie Bibb, Kate Del Castillo, Henry Simmons, Mirage Spann, Kenny Alfonso, Dan Caudill
The Drop (Limited Release) – Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, Matthias Schoenaerts, John Ortiz, Ann Dowd, Michael Aronov, James Frecheville
Bird People (Limited Release) – Josh Charles, Anais Demoustier, Roschdy Zem, Taklyt Vongdara, Geoffrey Cantor, Camelia Jordana Radha Mitchell, Manuel Vallade
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (Limited Release) – Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Viola Davis, William Hurt, Isabelle Huppert
My Old Lady (Limited Release) – Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Dominique Pinon
The Skeleton Twins (Limited Release) – Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, luke Wilson, Ty Burrell, Boyd Holbrook, Joanna Gleason, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Paul Castro Jr.
NYC STREET FAIRS
Friday September 12, 2014
Midtown East Block Party – on 54th St. from Lexington to 3rd Ave.
Saturday September 13, 2014
Waverly Place Festival – on Waverly from Broadway to 5th Ave.
Guardian Angels Fair – on Broadway from 47th to 57th St.
Woodside Festival (Queens) – on Woodside Ave. from 63rd St. to Roosevelt Ave.
Sunday September 14, 2014
52nd St. Jazz Fair – on 52nd St. from 6th to 7th Ave.
92nd St. Y Lexington Ave. Festival – from 79th to 96th St.
Myrtle Ave. Fair (Brooklyn) – from Forest to Wycoff Ave.
MEGA MILLIONS
Today’s Jackpot is $52 million
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POWERBALL
Saturday’s Jackpot is $149 million.
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