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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 9/17/14)
DESTINATION AMERICA: Building Log Homes (Premiere) at 9pm
FOX: Red Band Society (Premiere) at 9pm
NAT. GEO.: Southern Justice (Premiere) at 9pm
NAT. GEO.: Smoky Mountain Money (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: The Mysteries of Laura (Premiere) at 10pm
CBS: Extant (Finale) at 10pm
NBC: America’s Got Talent (Finale) at 8pm
TV ONE: Unsung (Finale) at 8pm
The People’s Choice Awards kicks off trophy season 2015, airing live from LA on Wednesday, January 7 at 9p on CBS. Said Mark Burnett, producing the show for the sixth year in a row, “This awards show has gone from 62 million votes five years ago to 700 million votes for 2014. These awards are from the fans who actually watch TV shows, buy tickets and download music.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Netflix ordered two seasons of a comedy from Judd Apatow (Freaks and Geeks), starring Paul Rust (I Love You, Beth Cooper) and Gillian Jacobs (Community). Apatow Productions and Legendary Television are producing a 10-ep season one premiering in 2016, and a 12-ep season two for 2017.
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The Big Bang Theory actor Kevin Sussman sold a comedy to CBS, says the Hollywood Reporter. Sussman will co-exec produce Wife of Crime, about a man who marries into a family with mob ties, for CBS Television Studios, with exec producers Neil Moritz and Vivian Cannon (Save Me) for Original Film.
(Source: Cynopsis)
GSN ordered 20 eps of Baggage on the Road, a spinoff of the dating game show Baggage, with host Jerry Springer again along for the ride. Produced by Wilshire Studios, show is set for a 2015 premiere.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Spike TV is developing a drama series, Deep Web, inspired by a TIME Magazine cover story about an Internet underworld crime boss. The net is partnering with Tony Krantz (24) of Flame Ventures, and Flying Studios, the production partnership of actor/producer Gary Oldman (Dracula) and producer Douglas Urbanski (The Contender). Scott Gold (Under the Dome) will exec produce and write.
(Source: Cynopsis)
“The king of the highwire” will attempt a tightrope trek in the Windy City on Discovery’s Skyscraper Live with Nik Wallenda, airing live in over 220 countries on Sunday, November 2 at 7p. The Peacock Productions event will be hosted by NBC News’s Willie Geist and Natalie Morales and The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore. Wallenda’s walk across the Grand Canyon in June 2013 was Discovery’s highest-rated event ever.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Bravo announced the sixteen restaurants competing in its new cooking competition, Best New Restaurant, hosted by restaurateur Tom Colicchio and headed for a January debut. The short list (New York and LA): L’Apicio, Morgan’s Barbecue and The Pines in the Big Apple, and Doma Beverly Hills, Little Sparrow, The Church Key and Union Restaurant in the City of Angels. (Special mention for best name: Miami’s Tongue & Cheek.)
(Source: Cynopsis)
T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle spin-off Tiny & Shekinah’s Weave Trip launches Monday, October 13 at 9:30p. VH1 docu-series follows Tiny and her BFF and hairstylist criss-crossing the country to promote their new mobile hair salon business.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Veronica Mars spin-off Play It Again, Dick premieres on digital CW Seed Tuesday, September 16. Veronica’s Rob Thomas created and exec produces the “mostly meta” series.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Live From Lincoln Center launches its 40th season on PBS with the New York Philharmonic’s staging of Sweeney Todd. Welsh opera star Bryn Terfel and Oscar winner Emma Thompson star on Friday, September 26.
(Source: Cynopsis)
It’s back to the bayou on CMT, with season three of Swamp Pawn launching Saturday, October 11 at 9p, followed by the season two premiere of Swamp Hunters at 10p. A crossover ep airs Saturday, November 8 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
OWN’s Oprah: Where Are They Now? is back with new eps Sunday, October 5 at 9p. First up: That’s So Raven alum Raven-Symone on her Tweet in support of gay marriage, singer Jackie Evancho detailing her troubling experience with bullies and General Hospital star Maurice Bernard discussing his battle with bipolar disorder.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Mark Feuerstein (Royal Pains) will recur as a guest star on six eps of the seventh and final season of Showtime’s Nurse Jackie, as a cutthroat lawyer.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Casey Deidrick (Days of Our Lives), John Garet Stoker and Kiersey Clemon (Austin & Ally) have joined the cast of MTV drama Eye Candy, starring Victoria Justice (Victorious).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Monday’s season premiere of Dancing with the Stars delivered a 2.4 rating/7 share among A18-49 to top the night, down 23 percent versus its year-ago premiere, but off only two-tenths from its spring airing.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The season premiere of ABC’s The View delivered 3.9 million viewers, the best launch in eight years and the second best ever. Among W25-54, the show drew 911,000 viewers, up 20 percent versus last year.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Showtime’s Ray Donovan delivered a series high 1.8 million viewers at 9p Sunday, up 10 percent versus last week’s high, and best total night ever with 2.4 million viewers, up 9 percent versus last week.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Adult Swim’s Black Jesus on Thursday at ranked number one in its 11p time period among A18-24, A18-34 and A18-49. The net’s programming accounted for 21 of the top 50 telecasts for the second week of September on basic cable among A18-34, and 23 of the top 50 among M18-34.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Last Monday’s episode of Dallas on TNT drew over 2.8 million viewers in Live+3 delivery, up 3 percent versus the prior week.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The week of September 1, LIVE with Kelly and Michael was up over its year-ago premiere week by 8 percent in HH and 7 percent in total viewers, for its most-watched premiere week since 2007 and second-highest in HH in seven years (after the first week of the co-hosts’ partnership in 2012).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Hot Bench, syndicated court show from Judge Judy’s Judy Sheindlin, opened Monday, September with the highest first day ratings of any court show in three years (.8/2 preliminary run average), up 14 percent from year-ago time periods.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The season 16 premiere of Divorce Court earned a 2.0 HH rating, its highest debut in five seasons, to become the second-highest-rated court show, after Judge Judy, for the first time.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The season three finale of History’s Mountain Men on Sunday delivered 3.0 million viewers, making it cable’s number one program for the night. The show averaged 1.1 million A25-54. On a Live+7 basis, the series is averaging 3.6 million total viewers and 1.5 million in the demo.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 9/14/14)
1) LeCrae – Anomaly – 88,437
2) Maroon 5 – V – 80,027 (After 2 weeks – 244,424)
3) Jhene Aiko – Souled Out – 69,744
Other Debuts
4) Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams – 44,639
5) Brice Lee – I Don’t Dance – 38,495
7) Interpol – El Pintor – 31,355
8) Dustin Lynch – Where It’s At – 30,866
10) Robert Plant – Lullaby & The Ceaseless Roar – 29, 281
12) Banks – Goddess – 24,610
14) Rittz – Next To Nothing – 21,523
15) Meghan Trainor – Title – 20,996
17) Vance Joy – Dream Your Life Away – 18,114
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