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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 10/29/14)
DISCOVERY: Dude, You’re Screwed (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY FAMILY: That’s Superhuman! (Premiere) at 10pm
EL REY: Lucha Underground (Premiere) at 8pm
ESQUIRE: Weekend Fix (Premiere) at 10pm
TRU TV: Barmageddon (Premiere) at 10pm
CNBC: The Filthy Rich Guide (Finale) at 10pm
FXX: Ali G. Rezurection (Finale) at 10:30pm
All four of CBS’s new dramas – NCIS: New Orleans, Scorpion, Madam Secretary and Stalker – got full season orders. The NCIS spinoff is the season’s top new series, averaging 16.16 viewers and a 2.8 rating among A18-49; Scorpion is second. “These four shows have had an immediate impact on our schedule by improving nights, winning time periods and adding more hours of success across our primetime lineup,” said Nina Tassler, chairman, CBS Entertainment.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Mysteries of Laura was the first of NBC’s new series to get a full-season order. In Live+7, the police dramedy is averaging 1.9 in A18-49 and 9.3 million total viewers.
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Queen Latifah-hosted Hollywood Film Awards is rounding up A-listers. The first batch of celebs announced for the event’s inaugural broadcast, airing Friday, November 14 at 8 on CBS, includes Gerard Butler, Robert Duvall, Michael Keaton, Julianne Moore, Chris Pratt, Channing Tatum, Reese Witherspoon and Shailene Woodley.
(Source: Cynopsis)
HBO is expected to eliminate about 7 percent of its 2400 employees starting as early as this week, reports Variety. The trim is part of cost-cutting measures at parent company Time Warner already felt at Turner.
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Sons of Anarchy creator/exec producer Kurt Sutter was directing the series finale when he had to be rushed to the hospital Monday for an emergency appendectomy. Exec producer Paris Barclay took over, with Sutter expected back in the director’s chair today. Sutter’s Twitter followers were treated to a pic of his removed appendix.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Designing women: To mark the launch of E! reality competition House of DVF, six Lady Liberty statues will be installed in NYC, adorned on Diane Von Furstenberg prints, today through November 1. Show launches Sunday, November 2 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MTV ordered 10 eps of Scream, an adaptation of the horror film franchise, from Dimension TV. Jill Blotevogel is exec producer and showrunner. Also among the exec producers: Harvey and Bob Weinstein, and Wes Craven.
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Recording artist Pitbull is developing two reality series with The Weinstein Company. Pitbull: The Lyfe explores the “We Are One” singer’s on-the-road and recording studio experiences, while The REAL Change Project focuses on celebs talking about how they made it big, and who inspired them, with an eye toward raising money for educators.
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Big Brother is headed to China. The Endemol reality format launches a ten-week run in early 2015 on digital video platform Youku Tudou.
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Logo TV ordered a satirical news show offering gay and straight perspectives on the week’s headlines. Comedian Stephen Guarino (The Big Gay Sketch Show) and Mike E. Winfield (The Office) host The Straight Out Report, launching Friday, November 7 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
A comedy from The Daily Show’s Jason Jones & Samantha Bee, based on their experiences with family vacations, got a pilot order from TBS. Jones, who wrote the pilot with wife Bee, will star.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will weigh in on midterms in special live, consecutive Comedy Central editions election night. Stewart’s “Democalypse 2014: America Remembers it Forgot to Vote” premieres at 11p, followed by Colbert in (deep breath) “Midterms ‘014: Detour to Gridlock: An Exciting Thing That I Am Totally Interested In – Wait! Don’t Change the Channel. Look At This Video of a Duckling Following a Cat Dressed Like a Shark Riding a Roomba! ‘014” at 11:30p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
History’s Ax Men logs on for season eight Sunday, November 30 at 9p. Two new timber teams join the reality show from Original Productions.
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GSN gave a season two pick-up to Idiotest, with Ben Gleib returning for a 65-ep run. The order comes on the heels of renewals for matchmaking series It Takes a Church and body painting competition Skin Wars.
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Hulu is adding more series from Viacom to its lineup, including The Ren & Stimpy Show, Drake & Josh and Hey Arnold from Nickelodeon, as well as shows from Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, BET, Logo, Spike and TV Land.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Kelli Garner (Pan Am) landed the role of Marilyn Monroe in Lifetime biopic Marilyn. Susan Sarandon has already been tapped to play the blonde bombshell’s mentally ill mom.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Dynasty’s Joan Collins will guest on upcoming Pop docu-series Queens of Drama, reports TheWrap. Thinkfactory Media show about soap stars trying to develop a new series premieres after TVGN rebrands as Pop in 2015.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CBS’s 2 Broke Girls returned Monday to a solid 2.4 rating among A18-49, up 9 percent versus its 8p time slot premiere last season, according to Nielsen. For the second week of its sophomore run, The Millers scored a 1.7 in the demo, down 19 percent from its season premiere last week.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Court show Hot Bench remained the top newcomer in first-run syndication the week ending October 19, with a 1.5 HH rating, followed by Meredith Vieira and Celebrity Name Game, both with 1.2. In the A25-54 demo, Name Game was first with .9; Bench and The Real tied for second with .8, and Vieira was fourth with .7.
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Syndie talker The Wendy Williams Show set an HH rating high of 1.8 the week ending October 19, as well as a season-high 1.2 among W25-54.
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Food Network’s Sunday night ranked third among cable nets with a .6 rating among A25-54. The season finale of Halloween Wars landed third in its 9p timeslotwith a .9 rating, up 13 percent from last season’s finale, while Cutthroat Kitchen ranked second at 10p with .7.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The season premiere of TBS’s American Dad! rose to 2.7 million total viewers in Live+3 delivery, for the launch on TBS and encore on Adult Swim. Toss in digital plays and preliminary VOD and the reach grows to 3.2 million viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TBS game show Deal With It returned Friday with a preliminary Live+SD audience of 1.1 million viewers for the premiere and encore.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 10/26/14)
1) Slipknot – 5: The Gray Chapter – 131,807
2) T.I. – Paperwork – 79,788
3) Neil Diamond – Melody Road – 78,051
Other Debuts
4) Logic – Under Pressure – 72,501
7) Little Big Town – Pain Killer – 41,979
9) Pentatonix – That’s Christmas To Me – 32,156
10) Annie Lennox – Nostalgia – 31,765
13) Aretha Franklin – Sings The Great Diva Classics – 22,642
16) Susan Boyle – Hope – 19,595
17) Primus – Primus & The Chocolate Factory – 17,669
23) Ben Howard – I Forget Where We Were – 11,842
34) Billy Idol – Kings & Queens of the Underground – 8,770
37) Boyz II Men – Collide – 8,018
42) Kiesza – Sound of a Woman – 6,766
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