FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 9/29/14)
CW: iHeart Radio Music Festival Night 1 (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: Castle (Premiere) at 10pm
CBS: NCIS: Los Angeles (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: The First Kill (Premiere) at 8pm
Bravo assumed control of production of season 4 of Shahs of Sunset from Ryan Seacrest Productions on Friday. Work on the reality show, originally scheduled to return on Monday, October 13, has been held up by 16 editors striking for an IATSE contract. “RSP has deferred to the network’s decision for Bravo to assume all remaining production duties,” said an RSP statement, adding it “will be unable to continue working with the editors that were previously engaged on this production.” The Motion Pictures Guild weighed in, saying “it is an egregious violation” to discharge an employee for exercising their right to organize, and promising to “aggressively defend the rights of our membership.”
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Who’s the biggest-grossing SNL alum of them all? Bloomberg Businessweek released a list of Saturday Night Live’s top box office stars and Eddie Murphy ($5.79 billion) was head of the class, followed by Dan Aykroyd ($4.26 billion), Robert Downey Jr. ($3.9 billion), Ben Stiller ($3.87 billion) and Bill Murray ($3.43 billion). SNL launched its 40th season on Saturday.
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TV One has partnered with the National Urban League in a campaign to encourage the African-American community to fight for equitable implementation of education standards in public schools. Two spots for the “Put Our Children 1st” initiative are designed to “provide clarity and understanding regarding the significant need for high-quality educational standards like Common Core State Standards,” said Alfred Liggins III, chairman of the board of TV One.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Celebs sure like their caffeine fix. Hopping aboard the new season of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee for chats with Jerry Seinfeld will be Jimmy Fallon, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, Bill Burr, Fred Armisen, Ali Wentworth and Colleen Ballinge. Season five launches on Crackle and at ComediansinCarsGettingCoffee.com on Thursday, November 6.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The 46th NAACP Image Awards airs live on TV One on Friday, February 6 at 9p. Expect nominees announcements Tuesday, December 9 at 9a.
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CMT celebrates five of the biggest country music stars of 2014 in a live, 90-minute special, CMT Artists of the Year. The net promises “rocking performances and surprise guests” in – where else? – Nashville on Tuesday, December 2 at 8p.
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Viewers tuning into ABC Family’s “Hunger Games” weekend will get a sneak peek at the net’s Pretty Little Liars Christmas special episode during the first hour of The Hunger Games’ Sunday, October 12 airing at 8p. Fans who tweet pics to @ABCFamily using #HungerGamesWeekend have a chance to be featured in a ten-second spot airing during the film.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Lifetime placed a 13-ep order for season three of Devious Maids, exec produced by Marc Cherry and Eva Longoria. Season two of the soapy drama, which ended July 13, made Lifetime the top cable net in its Sunday 10p time period with total females, W18+, W25-54 and W18-49.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TV One renewed R&B Divas LA for season three, a decision D’Angela Proctor, SVP of programming and production, called “a no-brainer.” The music reality show, among the top five original series in primetime among A25-54 African Americans in the third quarter, is slated for an early 2015 return. Part two of last season’s reunion show airs Wednesday, October 1 at 10p, hosted by talk show host Wendy Williams.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Animal Planet’s Redwood Kings is back for a sophomore run in spring 2015. Season one delivered 764,000 P2+ viewers.
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Syfy ordered six more episodes of magic-themed reality competition Wizard Wars, said the Hollywood Reporter. The series from A. Smith & Co. delivered 1.3 million total viewers in Live+7 and was the net’s number one unscripted series of the year among men.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Actor Josh Holloway will star in USA sci-fi pilot Colony. The project reunites Holloway with Colony writer-producer Carlton Cuse, showrunner on Lost.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Angela Kinsey (The Office) will recur on upcoming TBS comedy Your Family or Mind, replacing Mary Elizabeth Ellis, who played the role in the pilot. Kinsey also stars in Hulu parody The Hotwives of Orlando.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Patricia Richardson will guest on former Home Improvement co-star Tim Allen’s Last Man Standing, as a woman handy with a tile saw and bitter about her ex. Comedy returns to ABC Friday, October 3 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Ernie Hudson’s busy this season. The Ghostbusters star, recurring in CBS’s Scorpion, will guest as the ex-husband of Wendie Malick’s character on Hot in Cleveland and play a love interest for Lily Tomlin’s character in an arc on new Netflix comedy Grace and Frankie, both in airing in 2015.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Dutch actor Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner) will recur on ABC midseason musical fairytale series Galavant, as King Richard’s older brother.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Ksenia Solo (Lost Girl) joins AMC Revolutionary War drama Turn for season two, launching in 2015.
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Thursday night’s Yankees/Orioles game was the most-viewed game ever on the YES Network. Derek Jeter’s moving last hurrah at Yankee Stadium averaged 1.25 million viewers in the New York Designated Market Area (a 10.84 average HH rating), peaking at 1.99 million viewers from 10:15-10:30p, for the most-viewed quarter in YES’ history.
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It was a Shonda Rimes trifecta on ABC Thursday: In its earlier, 8p time slot Grey’s Anatomy had its most-watched telecast in two years (9.8 million total viewers, with 3.0/11 A18-49), Scandal delivered series highs in total viewers (11.9 million) and in the demo (3.9/11) in its new 9p time slot, and the series premiere of How to Get Away with Murder killed it with 14 million total viewers and a 3.9/12 rating.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The season six premiere of ABC’s Shark Tank on Friday was the business reality show’s most-watched-ever season debut, with 7.1 million total viewers, according to early numbers, and equaled its 1.8/7 high among A18-49. The showing helped ABC score its best opening season Friday in six years.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fox’s Uptopia had a 39 percent lift versus the Friday prior among A18-49, to .7/3. The ep included an audience vote for elimination.
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Animal Planet’s Friday, September 19 episode of Tanked, featuring Shaquille O’Neal, delivered more than 1.3 million P2+ viewers across its 10p premiere and 12a encore. A special episode of Treehouse Masters, renewed for three, drew 1.7 million P2+ viewers in its two airings; series returns in January.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
The Equalizer – $35 million
The Maze Runner – $17.5 million
The Boxtrolls – $17.2 million
This Is Where I Leave You – $7 million
Dolphin Tale 2 – $4.8 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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