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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 10/9/14)
ANIMAL PLANET: Monsters Inside Me (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: Inside Homicide (Premiere) at 9pm and 10pm

Jay Leno, who left NBC’s Tonight Show in February, is close to a deal with CNBC for a primetime show focusing on one of his great passions: cars, says the Hollywood Reporter. Leno’s web series Jay’s Garage is on NBC.com; special Jay’s Garage: The Ultimate Car Week aired on CNBC in September.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Spike TV will launch in the UK, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman told reporters on Wednesday. “It will begin with a combination of fact-based, reality programming from Channel 5 and our Spike network in the U.S.,” said Dauman. “It is our intention to expand the Spike brand, beginning with the UK, around the world. It will become one of our major global brands.” Viacom acquired Channel 5 for $725 million last spring.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Buddy Valastro, star of TLC’s Cake Boss, is launching his own production company, reports TheWrap. “I wanted the opportunity to create the type of programming I love to be in and watch – wholesome TV shows the entire family can enjoy together,” said Valastro of Cakehouse Media. “We are going to take advantage of Buddy’s global popularity and sell shows all over the world,” added Cakehouse CEO Art Edwards.
(Source: Cynopsis)

A&E reality series Country Buck$ follows a family running a wildlife sporting empire, including a sportsman fantasy camp in Louisiana, with drop-ins on the way from celeb pals like Ducky Dynasty’s Willie Robertson and Swamp People’s Troy Landry. Show from Matador launches Wednesday, November 19 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The founder of a gag gift empire looks for the next “redneck buck teeth” in Billy Bob’s Gags to Riches, premiering Tuesday, November 4 at 10p. Six-part Discovery docu-series comes from Asylum Entertainment.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC Family launches its annual “Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas” on Sunday, November 23, with The Hunger Games at 5p. Other flicks running through November 30: Finding Nemo, Another Cinderella Story, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Mirror Mirror, among others.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Up original movie Heavenly Match premieres Sunday, October 12 at 7p. Samaire Armstrong (Resurrection) stars as a minister facing fork-in-the-road decisions about her career and love life.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Two TLC bridal specials that aired this summer have been picked up to premiere as spring 2015 series. Bride By Design, commencing production next month with Trium Entertainment, follows a staff creating custom gowns. Curvy Brides, from Half Yard Productions, follows the owners of Curvaceous Couture as they help women of all shapes and sizes find the dress of their dreams.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Hilary Swank is co-hosting Fox’s The Great American Dog-A-Thon Thanksgiving night, but the Oscar winner, exec producing the special with Michael Levitt, won’t be the only A-lister on hand. Also shining a light on rescue dogs and encouraging animal adoption will be Josh Duhamel, Scarlett Johansson, Miranda Lambert and Betty White, among others.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Redneck Island is back on CMT for season four with “a hot new twist and a hot new co-host” Thursday, December 4 at 9p. This time around, men and women will bunk together, and country singer Jessie James Decker joins wrestling’s Steve Austin overseeing the drama in North Georgia.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Railroad Alaska is chugging back to Destination America. The docu-series following isolated homesteaders living by the Last Frontier’s critical railway is back for season two Saturday, October 25 at 10p. First up: bear attack.
(Source: Cynopsis)

MTV’s Awkward. was renewed for a fifth and final season. Now in season four, the comedy airs Tuesdays at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Also headed for the last round: MTV’s Snooki & JWoww, launching its fourth and final season Wednesday, November 5 at 10p. “We’re back, bitches, and we’re pregnant,” announce the reality stars in the trailer.
(Source: Cynopsis)

History’s junk divers are back transforming trash into treasure when new eps of American Pickers launch Wednesday, October 29 at 9p. The docu-series ranks seventh among cable non-fiction programs in total viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Season two of Fashion Fund debuts on arts net Ovation Wednesday, November 5 at 10p. Vogue’s Anna Wintour and design icon Diane von Furstenberg are back to help determine the recipient of the 2014 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund prize. And $300,000.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Brian Dennehy (Presumed Innocent) and Neal McDonough (Desperate Housewives) will recur on TNT’s 60s-set Amblin TV police drama Public Morals, from writer, exec producer and star Ed Burns (Mob City).
(Source: Cynopsis)

CW had its highest-rated premiere in five years on Tuesday with The Flash, scoring 1.9/6 among A18-49 to land the net third in the 8p time slot.
(Source: Cynopsis)

New ABC comedies Selfie and Manhattan Love Story were down from last week, with 1.2/4 and .9/3 A18-49 ratings, respectively, versus 1.6/5 and 1.5/5 for their September 30 premieres.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Sunday’s Watch What Happens Live: One-on-One with Teresa and Joe Giudice, which had Andy Cohen interviewing Bravo’s Real Housewives of New Jersey pair for the first time since their sentencing for fraud, delivered 3.2 million viewers across the first three telecasts. The 9p premiere drew 1.7 million total viewers and 841,000 P18-49.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Tabloid headlines didn’t hurt WE tv’s Kendra on Top, either. The show returned for season three on Friday to over one million viewers, up 34 percent over the season two bow, following allegations that the reality star’s husband had an encounter with a transsexual model. From Live+SD to Live+3, the series got a 55 percent bump among A18-49 (to 627,000) and a 52 percent lift in A25-54 (to 620,000).
(Source: Cynopsis)

The Saturday premiere of LeBron James comedy Survivor’s Remorse delivered 203,000 viewers to Starz at 9p, down 56 percent from Power’s June premiere in the timeslot. Counting three encores, the number rose to 391,000 total viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)

That’s rich: CBS claims the number one spot in the upscale demo (A18+/$150,000+ household income) with the top three new series the first two weeks of the season. Scorpion, Madame Secretary and NCIS: New Orleans topped the freshman group.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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