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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 10/2/14)
A&E: Dead Again (Premiere) at 10pm
CW: The Vampire Diaries (Premiere) at 8pm
CW: Reign (Premiere) at 9pm
FOX: Gracepoint (Premiere) at 9pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: All-American Amusement Parks (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: Bad Judge (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: A to Z (Premiere) at 9:30pm
NICK AT NITE: Instant Mom (Premiere) at 8pm
PBS: This Old House Hour (Premiere) at 8pm
REELZ: Jean-Claude Van Damme: Behind Closed Doors (Premiere) at 11pm
TRAVEL: No Reservations (Premiere) at 10pm
COOKING: Chuck’s Eat The Street (Finale) at 10pm
TLC: Gypsy Sisters (Finale) at 9pm
A day after ABC announced a season three pickup for Mistresses, Alyssa Milano took to the Internet to announce she won’t be returning to the summer drama, which is relocating shooting to Vancouver. “I have two babies under four,” the actress explained on her web site. “Being a wife and mother comes first…I will miss this job desperately and wish everyone the absolute best.”
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Also saying goodbye: Yvette Nicole Brown, exiting Community to minister to her ailing father. “My dad needs daily care and he needs me,” Brown told TV Guide. “It was a difficult decision for me to make, but I had to choose my dad.” Community moves from NBC to Yahoo for season six.
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Netflix ordered CGI-animated series Kong: Planet of the Apes, set in 2050, from exec producer Avi Arad (Iron Man). A feature-length film will be followed by 12 half-hour eps in 2016.
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If you’re in the Times Square neighborhood this morning, you can watch history in the making, sort of: TNT is attempting to break the Guinness world record for the tallest pancake stack. The stunt promotes the premiere of new cooking competition On the Menu, with show host Ty Pennington (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) and chef Emeril Lagasse on hand. Flapjack reveal happens at 8a; show launches Friday, October 3 at 8p.
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MTV, FX and ABC Family all received excellent grades in GLAAD’s annual Network Responsibility Index, rating LGBT content during the 2013-2014 season based on their percentage of LGBT-inclusive hours of primetime programming. MTV and FX tied at the top 49 percent; ABC Family followed with 42 percent, and featured the highest percentage of impressions made by lesbians and LGBT people of color among cable nets. Among broadcast, NBC was first with 37 percent, followed by Fox (36 percent), ABC (34 percent), The CW (33 percent) and CBS (28 percent).
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Eight young women compete for a job working with fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg in E! reality competition House of DVF, premiering Sunday, November 2 at 10p. The show will launch in 100 countries next month.
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In support of National Bullying Prevention Month, UP is premiering two movies focused on teens overcoming bullying. Nowhere Safe, starring Natasha Henstridge (CSI: Miami), Jamie Kennedy (The Cleveland Show) and Danielle Chuchran (Little House on the Prairie) debuts Sunday, October 5 at 7p. If I Had Wings, with Richard Harmon (Continuum), Jaren Brandt Bartlett (Artic Air), Jill Hennessy (Law & Order) and Craig Bierko (Cinderella Man) arrives Sunday, October 19 at 7p.
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We’ll drink to that! Travel is going on what it dubs a spirit’ual journey with Booze Traveler, launching Monday, November 24 at 10p. Former bartender Jack Maxwell circles the globe exploring local cultures through the lens of alcoholic concoctions, in 15 one-hour eps from Karga Seven Pictures.
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A music video for Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul will air at 6:15p on Sunday, October 5, during the final night of a two-month AMC’s Bad marathon. Saul is slated to premiere in February.
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Fusion has acquired a series of half-hour JAY Z’s Life+Times Presents specials, launched by RocNation and IconicTV with content curated by Shawn Carter that covers art, sports, music, fashion and culture. Fusion will launch with episodes from the “Where I’m From” series.
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NASCAR + anglers = Wheels & Reels, a new half hour reality fishing competition that has racers letting reels fly for charity alongside their biggest fans. Series from Texo Entertainment launches Sunday, October 12 at 12p on World Fishing Network.
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Arts net Ovation will air the world television premiere of Kevin Spacey documentary NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage on Sunday, November 9 at 8p. Film chronicles the tour of Spacey and Sam Mendes’ production of Richard III.
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Showtime set Sunday, January 11 as the premiere date for three returning series. Season five of Shameless launches at 9p, followed by the fourth season bows of House of Lies at 10p and Episodes at 10:30p.
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NBC’s The Sing-Off will return for a fifth round as a holiday event, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Last time around, the Sony Pictures Television/One Three Media a cappella competition was a seven-night event ending Christmas Eve.
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Freshman grades: ABC comedies Selfie and Manhattan Love Story premiered Tuesday with A18-49 ratings of 1.6/5 and 1.5/5, respectively. In week two, CBS’s NCIS: New Orleans held 95 percent of its premiere viewers (16.4 million) and 92 percent among A18-49 (2.3/7).
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OWN posted gains in 3Q14 across key demos in prime: up 7 percent among W25-54, up 12 percent in total viewers and up 18 percent among African-American W25-54) versus the prior quarter.
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Tuesday’s season 10 finale of Little People, Big World brought TLC 2.3 million P2+ viewers, propelling the network to the top spot on cable with W18-49/18-34. The season finale episode was also the highest rated episode in nearly six years with W25-54.
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September was Bounce TV’s most-watched month ever in primetime HH (168,000, up 60 percent) and A25-54 (101,000, up 55 percent) delivery. For the quarter versus 3Q13, the net was up 45 percent in HH and 21 percent in the demo.
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