FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 2/6/15)
DISNEY CHANNEL: Miles From Tomorrowland (Premiere) at 9am
ID: Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry? (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Sex Sent Me to the Slammer (Premiere) at 10pm
(SATURDAY 2/7/15)
DISCOVERY AND SCIENCE: What Could Possible Go Wrong? (Premiere) at 10pm
DIY: Renovation Realities (Premiere) at 9pm
FOX: Red Band Society (Finale) at 8pm
TNT: Transporter: The Series (Finale) at 10pm
(SUNDAY 2/8/15)
E!: Live From the Red Carpet: Grammy Awards at 6pm
CBS: The 57th Annual Grammy Awards at 8pm
AMC: Better Call Saul (Premiere) at 10pm
DESTINATION AMERICA: Ghosts in My House (Premiere) at 9pm
DESTINATION AMERICA: Ghostly Encounters (Premiere) at 10pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Flea Market Flip (Premiere) at 8pm
HBO: The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (Premiere) at 8pm
HISTORY: Legend of the Superstition Mountains (Premiere) at 10pm
OWN: Super Soul Sunday (Premiere) at 11am
OWN: In Deep Shift with Jonas Elrod (Premiere) at 12pm
SPIKE: Coaching Bad (Premiere) at 10pm
FOOD: Daphne Dishes (Finale) at 12pm
Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chairman Amy Pascal is stepping down from her position, but isn’t leaving the lot. “I have spent almost my entire professional life at Sony Pictures and I am energized to be starting this new chapter based at the company I call home,” said Pascal, who’s launching a production venture at the studio. “I am happy to say that Amy’s decision is not the end of her relationship with the studio but the start of a new and exciting chapter in her extraordinary career that promises to be mutually beneficial,” said Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton. The announcement comes in the wake of the computer hacking scandal related to Seth Rogan movie “The Interview”.
(Source: Cynopsis)
During Wednesday night’s newscast, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams offered a retraction and apology for his claim that he had been in a helicopter downed by enemy fire in Iraq in 2003. In fact, said Williams, the helicopter he rode in arrived at the site an hour later. “In an effort to honor and thank a veteran who protected me and so many others after a ground-fire incident in the desert during the Iraq war, I made a mistake in recalling the incidents of 12 years ago,” said Williams. “I want to apologize.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Dan Rather, who retired from CBS News ten years ago after being forced to retract a report on George W. Bush’s National Guard service, responded to the Williams scandal by telling Politico Williams is “an honest, decent man,” but the Twitterverse was less generous. Using trending hashtags #BrianWilliamsMemories and #BrianWilliamsMisremembers, social media users Photoshopped pictures of the anchor “reporting” from sites like the creation of the Declaration of Independence and the first moon landing.
(Source: Cynopsis)
NBC handed out early renewals to dramas The Blacklist, Grimm, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD and Law & Order: SVU. Awaiting word: Mysteries of Laura, Constantine, State of Affairs, Marry Me and About a Boy.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Damon Wayans Jr. is leaving Fox’s New Girl at the end of the comedy’s fourth season, airing Tuesdays at 9p. “Working with this incredibly talented and funny cast and crew has been one of the best experiences of my career,” said Wayans. Apparently, the feeling’s mutual. “We are working on crafting an exit for him that will leave the door open for many more returns,” said exec producer Liz Meriwether.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Reality TV, meet crowdsourcing. TV and streaming show The Startup Hour aims to give startup businesses the opportunity to make their pitches directly to registered, approved and accredited viewers, with a web based application that allows average consumers to invest in companies while watching the show. Filming of pitches starts March 13 at the SXSW festival in Austin, followed by an eight-city tour; show launches in six U.S. markets and streams worldwide beginning Wednesday, May 13.
(Source: Cynopsis)
USA picked up six more season three episodes of Chrisley Knows Best, for a total of 18 to launch this summer. Season two of the reality show from Maverick TV and All3Media averaged 1.24 million viewers A18-49 (up 31 percent over season one) and 2.32 million total viewers (up 37 percent).
(Source: Cynopsis)
No sooner had season two launched, than BET gave the go-ahead for season three of Being Mary Jane. Breakout drama starring Gabrielle Union airs Tuesdays at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
James Burrows, whose imposing comedy pilot track record includes future hits Cheers, Friends and The Big Bang Theory, will direct the untitled Suzanne Martin comedy for NBC and Universal Television, and Joe Time for CBS and Warner Bros. Television.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Kathy Griffin, new co-host of Fashion Police, pops in to surprise her bride-to-be assistant with wedding gown guidance when TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress returns for season 13 Friday, March 6 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
HBO’s Game of Thrones, FX’s American Horror Story: Freak Show and Fox/NatGeo’s Cosmos: A Space Odyssey all took home honors at Wednesday’s 13th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards in LA. Thrones was winner in three categories.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Jack Black will appear on the Oscars in “a very special sequence,” announced producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. Awards show takes place live on ABC Sunday, February 22, with Neil Patrick Harris manning the mic.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Jenna Elfman (Dharma & Greg) is set to star in Fox’s untitled comedy pilot produced by Dana Klein (Friends), reports Deadline. Elfman will play a working mom in competition with her stay-at-home sister-in-law.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) will recur on CBS’s Stalker as an FBI agent. Psychological thriller from Kevin Williamson airs Wednesdays at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Meryl Hathaway (The Comeback) and Miles Fisher (Psycho) landed the leads opposite Shaquille O’Neal in TruTV workplace comedy pilot Shaq Inc.
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The series premiere of ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat drew 7.9 million viewers and a 2.5/8 rating among A18-49 on Wednesday, according to Nielsen, the second-best comedy debut of the season behind the net’s black-ish.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fox’s Empire delivered is fourth consecutive total viewer increase, to 11.5 million, and had a .3 lift (to 4.6/14) among A18-49 versus last week.
(Source: Cynopsis)
During the week of January 26, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live had a 27 percent rise in total viewers (to 2.93 million) and 33 percent among A18-49 (to 862,000) to hit 9-week highs.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos ranked number one for the second straight week among A25-54, according to Nielsen, with the top telecast of the season in the demo among any of the Sunday public affair programs.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Actress and singer Mary Healey died February 3 of natural causes. She was 96. Healy’s television work with her husband, Peter Lind Hayes, included sitcom Peter Loves Mary, The Peter Lind Show and The Star of the Family.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MOVIES
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (Animated) – Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, Carolyn Lawrence, Antonio Banderas, Mr. Lawrence, Jill Talley
Jupiter Ascending – Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Douglas Booth, Tuppence Middleton, Doona Bae, James D’Arcy
Seventh Son – Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Ben Barnes, Olivia Williams, Alicia Vikander, Antje Traue, Dijmon Hounsou, Kit Harington
Love, Rosie (Limited Release) – Lily Collins, Sam Claflin, Christian Cooke, Art Parkinson, Suki Waterhouse, Tamsic Egerton, Jaime Winstone, Nick Lee
3 Nights in the Desert (Limited Release) – Wes Bentley, Vincent Piazza, Amber Tamblyn
Enter The Dangerous Mind (Limited Release) – Jake Hoffman, Nikki Reed, Thomas Dekker, Scott Bakula, Gina Rodriguez, Jason Priestley, Noel Gugliemi, Joe Egender
One Small Hitch (Limited Release) – Shane McRae, Aubrey Dollar, Robert Belushi, Rebecca Spence, Heidi Johanningmeier, Ron Dean, Mary Jo Faraci, Janet Ulrich Brooks
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