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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 10/6/14)
ASPIRE: ABFF Independent (Premiere) at 8pm
CW: The Originals (Premiere) at 8pm
FYI: House Vs. House (Premiere) at 10pm
DISCOVERY: Highway To Sell (Finale) at 10pm

TNT will leave Dallas fans dangling, cancelling the Ewing saga reboot after a season three cliffhanger that had one major family member die, and (spoiler alert!) J.R.’s long-lost daughter show up. “We are extremely proud of the series, which defied expectations by standing as a worthy continuation,” said TNT. Finale earned a .4 rating among A18-49.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Also off the air: TV Land’s Jennifer Falls, which won’t make it to a second season on the net. The news follows the net’s pickups of comedies Impastor and Teachers.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Steve Martin will receive the American Film Institute’s 43rd Life Achievement Award, presented on June 4 at a gala in LA and airing on TNT, with an encore on TCM. Last year’s honoree was Jane Fonda.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Taylor Swift joins The Voice as mentor for all the artists in the NBC talent competition’s knockout rounds, airing Monday, October 27, Tuesday, October 28 and Monday, November 3 at 8p. The “Shake it Off” singer’s album comes out October 27.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Peter and Bobby Farrelly (Dumb and Dumber) will serve as judges with exec producers Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Adaptive Studios’ Marc Joubert, then go on to mentor the winner, on HBO’s resurrected Project Greenlight. The Farrelly Brothers aren’t new to the filmmaker competition series – their 2011 movie Hail Pass was written by the season one victor. Launched on HBO in 2001, Greenlight’s last run was on Bravo in 2005.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Chris Collins (Sons of Anarchy) and Marc Abrams (Pinkerton) have joined drama Rain as writers and showrunners. Action series from Slingshot Global Media stars and is exec produced by Keanu Reeves (The Matrix).
(Source: Cynopsis)

Amazon plucked two pilots from the set released in August to take to series: Hand of God, with Ron Pearlman (Sons of Anarchy) as a corrupt judge turned vigilante, and Steven Soderbergh’s Red Oaks, starring Mad About You’s Paul Reiser and Richard Kind and Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing). (Amazon binge alert: season two of Alpha House launches Friday, October 24.)
(Source: Cynopsis)

Season two of ID’s A Crime to Remember, back Tuesday, November 11 at 10p, looks at long-forgotten and infamous crimes of the 1950s and ‘60s with a fresh eye and new details. First up: The shocking case of Kitty Genovese, murdered in front of 37 witnesses who did nothing to help.
(Source: Cynopsis)

NBC picked up a third season of Hollywood Game Night. In addition to scoring a Best Reality Show Host Emmy for Jane Lynch, the alternative series averaged 1.5/4 among A18-49 and 5 million total viewers in Live+7 during the 2013-2014 season, up from 1.4/4 and 4.1 million viewers the season prior.
(Source: Cynopsis)

BET’s Real Husbands of Hollywood has been renewed for season four. A reunion special airs Tuesday, October 7 at 10p, ahead of the season three premiere of “the fakest reality show ever” (their words!) on October 14 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ASPiRE’s ABFF Independent, a compilation of shorts and documentaries from emerging black artists, returns tonight at 8p with eight works focused on families. Omari Hardwick (Power) narrates.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Gilles Marini joins season three of Lifetime’s Devious Maids as a series regular, after guesting on the sophomore season finale. Maids returns in 2015.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Thandie Newton (Crash) and Melissa George (In Treatment) have been cast in NBC miniseries The Slap, from Universal Television and Australia’s Matchbox Pictures.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Ed Begley Jr. (Arrested Development) and Stephanie Hunt (Californication) join TBS’s Your Family or Mine as series regulars, and Collette Wolfe hops aboard as guest star. Family comedy is slated for a summer 2015 premiere.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Bailey Chase (Longmire) landed a story arc in NBC’s Chicago PD. Procedural airs Wednesdays at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Hugh Laurie (House) and Tom Hiddleston (Thor) will star an adaptation of John le Carre’s The Night Manager, says the Hollywood Reporter. Spy drama from Ink Factory is being developed in partnership with the BBC.
(Source: Cynopsis)

NBC’s Bad Judge premiered with 5.9 million viewers and a 1.3 rating/4 share in A18-49, followed by 1.2/3 in the demo and 4.8 million viewers for A to Z. Lead-in to the freshman comedies was The Biggest Loser, with 1.3/4 and 4.7 million viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Opposite CBS football and Scandal, Fox’s Gracepoint debuted with 1.2/3 among A18-49 and 4.8 million viewers on Thursday.
(Source: Cynopsis)

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Gone Girl – $38 million
Annabelle – $37.2 million
The Equalizer – $19 million
The Boxtrolls – $12.4 million
The Maze Runner – $12 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)

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