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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 10/16/14)
FYI: Midnight Feast (Premiere) at 10pm
COOKING: Bite This With Nadia G (Finale) at 10pm
WE TV: Braxton Family Values (Finale) at 10pm

Neil Patrick Harris has been tapped to host the 87th Academy Awards. It’s the How I Met Your Mother star’s first time manning the Oscars, but he’s no stranger to emcee duties, having hosted the Emmys twice and the Tonys four times. Harris shared the news via social media on Wednesday, with a video of him crossing “host the Oscars” off his bucket list. Ceremony airs Sunday, February 22 on ABC.
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Netflix just got a lot of Friends. The streaming service has licensed all 236 episodes of the wildly popular Warner Bros. TV series, celebrating the 20th anniversary of its premiere this year. Launch date: January 1.
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It’s official: Jay Leno will host a new primetime show for CNBC, based on his web series, Jay Leno’s Garage. “The show will be about anything that rolls, explodes and makes noise,” said the former Tonight Show host and avid car collector. “We hope to highlight the passion and the stories behind the men and women who made the automobile the greatest invention of the 20th century.” Produced in association with Big Dog Productions with Leno as exec producer, the program debuts in 2015.
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Its sights squarely set on broadband-only homes, HBO will offer a stand-alone, over-the-top streaming service in 2015, said Richard Piepler. “That is a large and growing opportunity that should no longer be untapped,” the chairman and CEO of the pay-TV company told Time Warner Inc. investors on Wednesday. “It is time to remove all barriers to those who want HBO….there are 80 million homes that do not have HBO and we will use all the means at our disposal to go after them.” Details, please…
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Turner Broadcasting trimming is underway, with cuts hitting CNN and HLN. Four CNN shows were canceled, reports TheWrap: Crossfire, Unguarded with Rachel Nichols, Sanjay Gupta MD and CNN Money with Christine Romans. Crossfire hosts Newt Gingrich, S.E. Cupp, Van Jones and Stephanie Cutter will remain with the news net in some capacity, as will Nichols, Romans and Gupta. CNN also disbanded its entertainment unit and canceled Jane Velez-Mitchell’s nightly HLN show; Velez-Mitchell is leaving. Turner had warned last week it would be cutting 10 percent of its workforce as part of a restructuring plan.
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Original The Good Wife cast member Archie Panjabi is leaving the CBS drama at the end of her contract to star in a pilot for 20th Century Fox Television, part of a talent deal with the studio. “It’s been a pleasure to write for her,” said Wife creators Robert and Michelle King. “We’ll be sad to see her go, but we still have her for the rest of season six, so let’s not exhaust our goodbyes yet.” Series airs Sundays at 9p.
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Mission Control has been scratched from NBC’s midseason sked. The workplace comedy from Gary Sanchez Productions, starring Krysten Ritter (Don’t Trust the B—- In Apartment 23), had been picked up to series in May.
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Elisabeth Hasselback was MIA on Wednesday’s Fox and Friends. “She had some surgery yesterday and she’s going to be out for a couple of weeks,” said co-host Steve Doocy, adding that she’s “on the mend.”
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The Minority Report with Larry Wilmore, premiering on Comedy Central in January 2015 as successor to The Colbert Report, has hired Robin Thede as head writer. Most recently head scribe for syndicated talker The Queen Latifah Show, Thede also wrote for the first two seasons of BET reality parody Real Husbands of Hollywood.
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A Love & Hip Hop star gets a reality show of her own, in K.Michelle: My Life. Series follows the recording artist and pals in NYC, starting Monday, November 3 at 9p.
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William Hurt will head the cast of eight-part AMC drama Humans, about a family that buys a refurbished robot “with chilling consequences.” The Damages star joins Katherine Parkinson (The Honourable Woman), Tom Goodman-Hill (Mr Selfridge) and Colin Morgan (Merlin); shooting starts in the UK next week.
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Jes Macallan (Mistresses) will guest in an arc of Fox freshman drama Red Band Society, airing Wednesdays at 9p.
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NBC’s Marry Me premiered Tuesday to a healthy 2.3/7 among A18-49, according Nielsen, tying CBS’s NCIS to top the 9-9:30p timeslot. The season premiere of About a Boy followed, with 1.7/5 in the demo.
(Source: Cynopsis)

A Flash-fueled Tuesday landed CW in third place among A18-49, with a 1.3/4 rating. Superhero’s contribution: 1.7/5.
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ABC freshman Selfie took a two-tenths dip to 1.0/3 on Tuesday, while Manhattan Love Story held last week’s .9/3 A18-49 rating.
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USA’s Chrisley Knows Best opened season two with series high ratings in the 10p half hour among P18-49 (906,000, up 34 percent over the season one launch), P25-54 (880,000, up 54 percent) and delivered 1.6 million total viewers P2+ (up 49 percent). A marathon Sunday, October 26 from 9a-4p will include the entire season one, plus episodes 1-4 of season two.
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After pulling a record million+ viewers in Live+3 for its one-hour season premiere, two 30-minute, back-to-back eps of WE tv’s Kendra on Top on Friday, October 10 grew 14 percent from the premiere, to 1.2million viewers for another series high.
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