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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 10/14/14)
BET: BET Hip Hop Awards at 8pm
BET: Real Husbands of Hollywood (Premiere) at 10pm
BOUNCE TV: Family Time (Premiere) at 10pm
COOKING: Restaurant Redemption (Premiere) at 10pm
ESQUIRE: Car Matchmaker (Premiere) at 9pm
ESQUIRE: White Collar Brawlers (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: Marry Me (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: About A Boy (Premiere) at 9:30pm
USA: Chrisley Knows Best (Premiere) at 10pm
AMC: 4th And Loud (Finale) at 10pm
BBC AMERICA: Planet Earth: Human Planet (Finale) at 10pm
The season five premiere of AMC’s Walking Dead drew a record 17.3 million total viewers and 11 million among A18-49, the zombie drama’s best ever, topping everything else on television in the demo. Aftershow Talking Dead delivered 6.9 million viewers, with 4.5 million A18-49.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The week after season four’s debut broke FX ratings records, American Horror Story was greenlit for a 13-ep season five. With Live+3 viewing, Wednesday’s premiere of American Horror Story: Freak Show is the most-watched single program in FX’s 20-year history, including programs with Live+7 deliveries. The creepy drama’s debut delivered 10 million total viewers and 6.54 million A18-49 with time-shifted viewing; the premiere and two encores combined to deliver 13.36 million total viewers and 8.6 million A18-49.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fox made its first full season order this fall, for six more episodes of freshman drama Gotham. With Live+7 viewing, the premiere of the Batman prequel from Warner Bros. Television scored a 6.0 rating among A18-49. Series airs Mondays at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Reelz and Muse Entertainment are following up 2011’s The Kennedys with four-hour mini-series The Kennedys – After Camelot. Katie Holmes (Dawson’s Creek) will reprise her role as First Lady Jackie Kennedy, as well as direct one of the episodes and serve as exec producer. Mini is slated for a 2016 premiere on Reelz and Canada’s Corus Entertainment.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Actor/writer Wilson Bethel joins the cast of upcoming ABC limited series The Astronaut Wives Club, written and exec produced by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage. The pair exec produce CW’s Hart of Dixie, where Bethel plays Wade. Hyphenate Bethel also struck a blind script deal with Warner Bros. TV for a CW drama project.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are developing a futuristic thriller for Syfy, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Incorporated comes from their Pearl Street Films and CBS Television Studios; Ted Humphrey (The Good Wife) will act as showrunner and exec produce.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC Family’s “25 Days of Christmas” event launches on (of course!) December 1. For the first time, holiday programming will include seasonal eps of series Pretty Little Liars, The Fosters, Switched at Birth and Chasing Life, during the week of December 8.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Syfy time travel series 12 Monkeys will premiere Friday, January 16 at 9p. The adaptation of the 1995 film stars Aaron Stanford (Nikita) as the character played by Bruce Willis in the movie, and Emily Hampshire (Rookie Blue) putting a female spin on Brad Pitt’s Jeffrey (now Jennifer).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Hip hop artist Iggy Azalea scored the most nominations for the American Music Awards, with six nods. John Legend, Katy Perry and Pharrell Williams followed with four apiece. Show from Dick Clark Productions airs Sunday, November 23 at 8p on ABC; for a complete list of nominees go here.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Ozzy Osbourne will receive the MTV EMA’s Global Icon award, during a show kicking off in the U.S. live from Miami and broadcast on MTV channels globally Sunday, November 9th at 7p from Glasgow, Scotland.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Chris Brown topped the nominee list for the 2014 Soul Train Awards, with seven nods. Pharrell Williams and Beyonce were right behind with six. Trophyfest airs live from Las Vegs Sunday, November 30 at 8p on BET. Full list of nominees is here.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Nominations for the 2014 International Emmys were announced and for the first time recognize programs from the U.S., in the non-English Language U.S. Primetime Program category. Telemundo received noms for three telenovelas; a Nat Geo Mundo doc rounds out the list. Click here for more.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) landed an arc in Comedy Central satirical historical comedy Another Period. Ten-ep series from Red Hour, debuting in 2015, was created by and stars comedian Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome (Garfunkel and Oates).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Sam Neill (Merlin) has joined four-hour miniseries The Dovekeepers, from exec producers Roma Downey and Mark Burnett, debuting on CBS in 2015. Neill joins Cote de Pablo (NCIS), Rachel Brosnahan (House of Cards) and Kathryn Prescott (Skins) on the limited event, in production in Malta.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica) and Riley Smith (True Blood) are joining CW midseason drama The Messengers, reports EW.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Katherine Parkinson (The Honourable Woman), Tom Goodman-Hill (Mr. Selfridge), Gemma Chan (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit), Colin Morgan (Merlin) and Neil Maskell (Utopia) will star in AMC/Channel 4 sci-fi drama Humans, adapted from a Swedish series, set for a fall 2015 debut.
(Source: Cynopsis)
With an assist from football on Sunday, Fox’s The Simpsons was up 70 percent in viewers versus last week (to 7.3 million) and 65 percent in A18-49 (3.3/9 rating), according to preliminary Nielsens. Freshman Mulaney rose a tenth in the demo from its premiere, to 1.1/3, after a repeat Family Guy (1.7/4).
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC’s Once Upon a Time was down 16 percent in viewers (7.7 million) and 21 percent in the demo (2.6/7) versus the Sunday prior, according to fast nationals. The net’s Resurrection, facing the double whammy of football and the season premiere of AMC’s Walking Dead, was down 18 percent in total viewers, to 5.5 million, and 30 percent among A18-49, to 1.4/4. Still, points out ABC, with a 1.6/4 rating, it was the only broadcast net up year to year on Sunday in A18-49.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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