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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 11/3/14)
BRAVO: Vanderpump Rules (Premiere) at 9pm
BRAVO: Euros of Hollywood (Premiere) at 10pm
VH1: K.Michelle: My Life (Premiere) at 9pm
FOOD: Restaurant Impossible (Finale) at 10pm
ID: Beauty Queen Murders (Finale) at 10pm

NBC canceled low-rated Thursday comedies Bad Judge and A to Z. The freshman shows, which delivered .9/3  and .7/2 among A18-49, respectively, on their last outings, will remain in the 9p and 9:30p timeslots as they finish out their 13-ep orders. The Blacklist had already been scheduled to move to Thursdays at 9p post-Super Bowl.
(Source: Cynopsis)

A fatal crash of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo on Friday put the future of an NBC-ordered reality series in question. The net had reached a deal a year ago with Virgin Galactic and Mark Burnett’s One Three Media for Space Race, which would have contestants compete to win a flight into space aboard the craft. In Friday’s tragedy, the pilot was killed and another person seriously injured during a test flight in California’s Mojave Desert.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction) will replace Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds) in upcoming NBC mini-series The Slap, reports TVLine. Parker, recovering from pneumonia, had to bow out for health reasons. Filming has already started in New York.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Stephen Colbert announced an official end date for Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report: December 18. Colbert slides over to CBS’s Late Show next year; Larry Wilmore and The Minority Report take the Comedy slot in January.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Starz mob drama Magic City, canceled last year after two seasons, will be revived on the big screen with Bruce Willis and Bill Murray joining series regulars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Danny Huston, Olga Kurylenko and Kelly Lynch. Mitch Glazer, who created the 1962-set show, wrote the script and will direct.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Woody Harrelson (True Detective) will take a third stab at hosting Saturday Night Live, on November 15. Musical act is hip hop’s Kendrick Lamar. It’s been a while since Harrelson last manned the NBC late night sketch comedy show – his prior stints were in 1989 and 1992.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Reelz has two new reality series ready for launch. Extreme Escapes, featuring death-defying stunts (i.e., a magician attempting an “insane car drop before being crushed”) premieres Saturday, November 29 at 8p, and Screen Machines (misfits building replicas of famous cars) makes its debut Tuesday, December 2 at 11p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Regular people with fabulous inventions are the focus of Game Changers, premiering on Science Friday, November 7 at 8p. The following week, the net launches “Space Week,” a five-night event including the debut of new series Strip the Cosmos on Wednesday, November 12 at 10p. Breakthrough Prize, simulcast with Discovery on Saturday, November 15 at 6p, honors excellence in science with accolades – and tens of millions of dollars.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Cooking decks the channel with specials Holiday Feast with Kelis on Sunday, December 7 at 8p, and Rev Run’s Happy Holidays on Sunday, December 14 at 8p. Not feeling festive? Grinches can fill up on new series Pizza Masters and Taco Trip, premiering Tuesday, December 16 at 9p and 9:30p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Dead on Campus,a thriller starring Katelyn Tarver (Big Time Rush), Tamara Duarte (De Grassi: The Next Generation) and Noam Jenkins (Rookie Blue)premieres on Lifetime Saturday, November 8 at 8p. Movie was produced by Reel One Entertainment.(Source: Cynopsis)

The Meredith Vieira Show has been renewed on the NBC Owned Television Stations for a sophomore season. “Meredith has grown creatively since launch, continues to gain viewers and we are optimistic it will emerge as a staple in daytime,” said Ed Swindler, president, NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution and NBC Broadcast Operations. The talker is currently sold in 98 percent of the country.
(Source: Cynopsis)

With Thursday football over, CBS placed second to ABC in the A18-49 demo on the night. Two and a Half Men returned with 2.4/7; the premiere of The McCarthys lost seven tenths of that lead-in with a rating of 1.7/5. Elementary started season three with a 1.2/4.
(Source: Cynopsis)

LeBron James didn’t have a great night on Thursday, but TNT did, as 4 million viewers tuned in to see the Knicks play spoiler for the return of the Cavaliers’ prodigal son. That’s up 51 percent versus the same slot last year.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Over 30 days of multi-platform viewership, Fox reports the series premiere of Gotham drew an average audience of 22.2 million viewers, up 168 percent versus its Live+SD viewership. Five million of that audience came from non-linear viewing, on Hulu, FoxNow and 4+ Day VOD.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Live with Kelly and Michael scored its highest-rated Halloween show in 9 years in Households, with 4.0/13 in Metered Markets, and its highest-rated telecast since its post-Oscars broadcast in March.
(Source: Cynopsis)

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Nightcrawler – $10.9 million
Ouija – $10.9 million
Fury – $9.1 million
Gone Girl – $8.8 million
The Book of Life – $8.3 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)

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