FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 9/24/14)
ABC: The Middle (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: The Goldbergs (Premiere) at 8:30pm
ABC: Modern Family (Premiere) at 9pm
ABC: Black-ish (Premiere) at 9:30pm
ABC: Nashville (Premiere) at 10pm
ASPIRE: Changemakers (Premiere) at 8pm
CBS: Survivor (Premiere) at 8pm
COMEDY: South Park (Premiere) at 10pm
COMEDY: Key & Peele (Premiere) at 10:30pm
NBC: Law & Order: SVU (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: Chicago PD (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: Penguins: Spy In The Huddle (Premiere) at 8pm
TLC: Extreme Cheapskates (Premiere) at 9pm
CBS: Big Brother (Finale) at 9:30pm
CW: Penn & Teller: Fool Us (Finale) at 8pm
GSN: Skin Wars (Finale) at 9pm
TRAVEL: American Grilled (Finale) at 9pm
Vince Vaughn (The Wedding Crashers) joins Colin Farrell (Saving Mr. Banks) on season two of HBO’s True Detective, with Justin Lin (Fast & Furious) set to direct the first two episodes. Farrell will play a cop; Vaughn a career criminal.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Michael Eisner and his Tornante Company are being sued for breach of contract and fraud. Former Judge Judy director Jerry Kupcinet alleges he was booted from a show he helped create, just-launched syndicated court show Judge Faith, receiving no compensation for three months of work on the pilot. Trifecta Entertainment and its CEO Hank Cohen were also named in the suit.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Rocsi Diaz’s Entertainment Tonight days are numbered. “As both Rocsi and ET have grown and evolved over the years, she has elected to pursue hosting opportunities that are available at the start of the year,” said the show. Diaz, a correspondent and weekend host, had been with the entertainment news magazine for two years.
(Source: Cynopsis)
J.J. Abrams (Lost) will receive the Visual Effects Society’s Visionary Award, for “his expert blending of visual effects, evocative
characters and a remarkable imagination.” The 13th Annual VES Awards takes place February 4th at the Beverly Hilton.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Music Choice has partnered with Established 1980 Inc. and will feature singer Estelle in the multi-platform video and music network’s “Take Back Your Music” branding campaign. The effort, launched last summer, has featured artists including Robin Thicke and Florida Georgia Line.
(Source: Cynopsis)
OWN docu-series Surgeon Oz, featuring the star of The Dr. Oz Show, Mehmet Oz, premieres Thursday, October 23 at 10p. The 10-parter goes behind the scenes at New York-Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center to show life-and-death moments faced by the cardiothoracic surgeon and his patients.
(Source: Cynopsis)
AXS TV will broadcast John Mellencamp live on Saturday, September 27 at 9p from the artist’s recording studio in Bloomington Indiana on iHeartRadio Icons Live. The performance will feature a mix of classics and new songs from newly-released album Plain Spoken.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Starz IN Black will air the U.S. television debut of the film Half of a Yellow Sun, starring Thandie Newton (Crash), Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) and Aniki Noni Rose (Dreamgirls). Network premiere is Sunday, September 28 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season five of Spike TV’s Auction Hunters launches Saturday, October 11 at 9p, and this season the guys tackle more than storage units in their quest for fortune. The premiere is followed by the sophomore debut of Thrift Hunters at 9:30p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The search for treasure continues when The Curse Oak Island returns to History for season two on Tuesday, November 4 at 9p. A quest of a different kind follows at 10p with the debut of Search for the Lost Giants, looking for proof of the existence of a race of 9- to 12-foot-tall humans.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Coke, Pepsi and Dr. Pepper want everyone to lighten up. Execs from Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Dr Pepper Snapple announced at the Clinton Global Initiative on Tuesday a pledge to “promote calorie awareness,” and increase consumer awareness of no- and lower-calories beverages and smaller portion sizes. Former President Bill Clinton called the move “a critical step in our ongoing fight against obesity.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Riley Keough (Magic Mike) landed the lead in Starz anthology series The Girlfriend Experience, based on the 2009 Steven Soderbergh film.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fox’s Gotham premiere on Monday earned a solid 3.2/10 rating among A18-49 and 8 million total viewers, up 39 percent in demo in the time slot versus the premiere of Bones last fall. The debut of CBS’s Scorpion drew a 3.2/9 rating and 14 million total viewers, up 22 percent among A18-49 versus last year, when 2 Broke Girls and Mom filled the 9p time slot. Over at ABC, drama Forever earned 1.7/5 in the demo at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Sunday’s season finale of Naked and Afraid on Discovery delivered an average 2.27 million viewers P2+, claiming the top unscripted spot on cable TV among Persons and Men 25-54 delivery (no exclusions), and driving Discovery to the number two spot in cable among Persons and Men 25-54, behind only FX.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Food Network‘s Sunday night ranked number three among ad-supported cable networks with an average .8 rating and averaging 755,000 impressions among A25-54 from 8p-11p. The season finale of Rachael vs. Guy: Kids Cook-Off posted a .9and was the number three program in its timeslot with 830,000 impressions, followed at 9p by The Great Food Truck Race posting a .7 rating with 717,000 impressions, the number five program in its timeslot. Cutthroat Kitchen’s .7 rating with 720,00 impressions claimed fourth place at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The original series premiere of Tim & Eric’s Bedtime Stories Thursday at 12:15a ranked number one in its time period among all targeted adults and men, growing delivery by double-digits across key demos versus last year’s time period. Black Jesus at 11p also was tops its time period among A18-24.
(Source: Cynopsis)
OWN’s Iyanla: Fix My Life delivered 1.15 million total viewers and a .99 rating among W25-54 on Saturday night, the highest-rated episode since November 2013 and the third most watched episode in the history of the series on OWN.
(Source: Cynopsis)
In the launch of the new season, Dr. Phil was the only talk show to pass a 3.0 HH rating, with 3.2, up 10 percent from its premiere week last year. Freshman talker Meredith Vieira (1.3) scored the third best opening week of all the 14 talk shows that have premiered in the past four years.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 9/21/14)
1) Barbra Streisand – Partners – 195,723
2) Chris Brown – X – 145,449
3) Tim McGraw – Sundown Heaven Town – 71,253
Other Debuts
4) George Strait – The Cowboy Rides Away: Live – 51,318
5) Train – Bulletproof Picasso – 50,452
9) Motionless In White – Reincarnate – 30,961
10) Slash (Feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators) – World On Fire – 29,269
13) For King & Country – Run Wild. Live Free. Love Strong – 21,561
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