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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 2/23/15)
CARTOON: NINJAGO Masters (Premiere) at 6:30pm
NBC: The Voice (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: The Night Shift (Premiere) at 10pm
E!: Fashion Police: 2015 Academy Awards Edition (Premiere) at 9pm
BET: BET Honors 2015 (Premiere) at 9pm
BRAVO: Friends to Lovers? (Finale) at 10:30pm
FOOD: Kids Baking Championship (Finale) at 8pm
FOX: Sleepy Hollow (Premiere) at 9pm
In a rule change that might not amuse Orange Is the New Black, which has reaped awards show gold as a comedy, the Television Academy decreed that only 30-minute shows will be considered comedies come Emmy time. It will take a two-thirds vote from a nine-member panel for a show to be reassigned. On the miniseries front, the category is now called limited series, with distinctions including no recurring stories or characters that would disallow shows like Luther and Sherlock.
(Source: Cynopsis)
More Emmy moves: the number of nominees in drama and comedy series categories has increased from six to seven, the variety category has been split into variety talk and variety sketch and the guest actor categories exclude performers who appear in more than 50 percent of a program’s episodes. “As our growing membership creates and produces more content for ever-changing platforms, today’s changes in the rules and procedures are vital,” said academy chairman Bruce Rosenblum. “We’re sure that in coming years we will continue to evolve our rules as our dynamic industry grows.”
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Mary Murphy, replaced on upcoming season 12 of Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance by Paula Abdul, hasn’t put away her dance (judging) shoes. Murphy, along with former U.S. Latin Dance champ Tony Meredith, will offer commentary on America’s Ballroom Challenge, back in PBS after a six-year hiatus. Three one-hour eps of the competition launch Friday, April 24 at 9p.
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Network rivals HBO and Showtime are partnering for a pay-per-view boxing match between boxing rivals Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. “Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather have been the two most prominent fighters in the sport of boxing for the past decade, and fight fans around the world have been clamoring for them to face each other,” said HBO Sports president Ken Hershman. “May 2nd will be a signature moment for the sport of boxing.” Mayweather has a contract with Showtime, while Pacquiao’s pact is with HBO.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Actor Ben Woolf (American Horror Story: Freak Show) was admitted to the hospital in critical condition Thursday night. Woolf had been hit in the head by the side mirror of a passing car on Hollywood Boulevard.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Ricky Martin has signed on as executive producer and the first judge for Univision music reality competition La Banda. The former Menudo star, who joins Simon Cowell and Saban Brands in the Latino boy band search premiering in September 2015, will also manage the winning group.
(Source: Cynopsis)
James Corden’s first guest on CBS’s The Late Late Show will be Tom Hanks. Also onboard for Corden’s first week at the helm: Kerry Washington and Get Hard stars Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart. Corden debuts in the host’s seat, vacated by Craig Ferguson in December, on Monday, March 23.
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Missing from Meryl Streep’s mantle: a Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award. But this could be her year – the three-time Oscar winner landed a nod with a slew of other first-timers, including Sam Smith and Angelina Jolie. Former boy bander Nick Jonas hosts the slimefest Saturday, March 28 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Dave Foley (Newsradio) has been admitted to the cast of ABC comedy pilot Dr. Ken, opposite Ken Jeong, as the head of a hospital.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Scandal fan Lena Dunham (Girls) will guest on the ABC drama, reports TheWrap. Episode is slated for March.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Stephen Schneider (Broad City) and Jack Carpenter (The Good Wife) landed leads in NBC workplace comedy pilot Sharing, from Universal Television and Jimmy Fallon’s Eight Million Plus.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Laurie Holden (The Walking Dead) has ambled over to Chicago Fire planted spinoff Chicago Med, to be introduced in the NBC drama’s 19th ep.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC cleaned up, winning every Friday of the February sweep in the A18-49 demo for the first time in 20 years. The net also ranked first in all four Thursdays of the sweep for the first time since 2007.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CBS’s The Odd Couple had the best premiere for a new comedy this season in viewers (13.57 million) and among A25-54 (4.6/12) on Thursday. The series finale of the net’s Two and a Half Men delivered 3.2/9, up from 2.1/7 the week prior.
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An encore on Friday of its February 15 Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary special earned NBC a 1.5/5 rating among A18-49 and second place in the demo. CBS’s Blue Bloods matched that number for a season five high in young adults and 11.62 million total viewers, the most of the night. ABC grabbed the demo win with 2.2/7 for Shark Tank, to tie a season high.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Influential jazz trumpeter and educator Clark Terry died at age 94. Terry, who recorded with leading jazz artists, was the first African-American join NBC’s in-house group of musicians, and a member of the band on The Tonight Show for 12 years.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Harris Wittels, co-executive producer of NBC’s Parks and Recreation, was found dead in his Los Angeles home on February 19. He was 30. “Anyone that was ever in a writers room with him knew he was probably the funniest comedy writer out there,” said the show’s Aziz Ansari. “Besides being so unbelievably hilarious, Harris was truly a sweet guy.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Rapper and reality star Ahmad Givens died February 21 after a long battle with colon cancer. He was 33. Givens starred in dating series Real Chance of Love and Real and Chance: The Legend Hunters.
(Source: Cynopsis)
2015 OSCARS – WINNERS LIST
http://oscar.go.com/nominees
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Fifty Shades of Grey – $23.2 million
Kingsman: The Secret Service – $17.5 million
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water – $15.5 million
McFarland, USA – $11.3 million
The DUFF – $11 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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