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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 2/26/15)
CMT: Party Down South (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: Welcome to Myrtle Manor (Premiere) at 10pm
CBS: The Victoria’s Secret Swim Special (Premiere) at 10pm
ABC: How To Get Away With Murder (Finale) at 9pm
ANIMAL PLANET: Wild West Alaska (Finale) at 9pm
DIY: American Rehab Detroit (Finale) at 9:30pm
SPORTSMAN: MeatEater (Finale) at 8pm

Lady Gaga, the talk of the Oscars for her Sound of Music medley, is joining season five of FX anthology series American Horror Story. It’s the singer’s first major role as an actress; no other cast members have been confirmed for the AHS chapter, called Hotel.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart offered a novel defense of Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, accused of exaggerated accounts of reporting during the Falklands War in 1982. The media is “putting in a tremendous amount of work to say the emperor has no clothes,” said Stewart Tuesday night, “when the emperor has spent like the last 20 years going, ‘Look… I’m naked!’”
(Source: Cynopsis)

The date of the 2016 SAG Awards has moved from Sunday, January 31 to Saturday, January 30. TBS and TNT will again simulcast the ceremony.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Montgomery, AL-based Raycom Media honors the Selma Voting Rights Movement with one-hour documentary Selma: A March to Remember, airing on 42 Raycom Media owned or managed stations starting Friday, February 27. Bounce TV will air the special Wednesday, March 4 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Round three of TLC’s Trailer Park: Welcome to Myrtle Manor premieres tonight at 10p, and it is “by far the strongest yet,” says Matt Sprouse, VP of Programming/exec producer, Jupiter Entertainment.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Naomi Judd pops into the first of two back-to-back season finale episodes of Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta on Friday, February 27 at 10p, to help her assistant find the gown of her dreams. A month later, TLC’s Bride By Design kicks off with back-to-back eps Friday, March 27 at 9p; first up, a baseball player’s fiancee who wants to impress with two different dresses.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Andrew J. West (The Walking Dead) has been cast in the lead in CW pilot Dead People, from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros. TV, about a cab driver who can suddenly communicate with ghosts.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Adam Rodriguez (CSI: Miami) landed the male lead in ABC drama pilot Runner. Rodriguez recurs on NBC’s The Night Shift.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Liam McIntyre (Spartacus) will co-star in NBC drama pilot Unveiled. Stephan James stars, as a guardian angel.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Jack Griffo (The Thundermans) joins Syfy’s Sharknado 3, as the boyfriend of Ian Ziering’s daughter. Sequel premieres in July.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat dipped one tenth versus last week, to 1.8/6 among A18-49 at 8p Tuesday, against a premiere night for NBC powerhouse The Voice (3.9/12), according to Nielsen. At 10p following the singing competition, the series finale of Parks and Recreation scored 1.6/5, up 45 percent versus last week; its 4.2 million total viewers was a three year high.
(Source: Cynopsis)

With PUT levels hitting a seven-week low the week of February 9, syndicated Dr. Phil Show was down five percent versus the week prior, but up 13 percent versus last year, to 3.5. Second place talker Live with Kelly & Michael took a 3 percent week-to-week dip to 3.2. Wendy Williams, steady at a series high 1.9, was up 19 percent from last year.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court was up for the fifth straight week among W25-54 (.75), A25-54 (.62) and Persons 2+ (1.8 million). The show also hit a series high among A18-49 (.49).
(Source: Cynopsis)

HGTV had its best month ever performance in February, with a .58 primetime rating among P25-54, up 18 percent versus February 2014. Weekends in February grew 6 percent to deliver a .55 rating among P25-54 on Saturday and Sunday from 7a-8p. Among cable networks in primetime for the month, the net ranked number two among W25-54 and number one among upscale W25-54; on weekends the net was number one among all cable networks for P25-54 and W25-54 ratings.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Monday’s finale of Kids Baking Championship on Food Network ranked number three in cable in its timeslot with a .7 A25-54 (720,000 impressions), making it the net’s highest-rated ever Monday 8p hour. By midway through its run,the series was the number one co-viewing program in its time period within top 20 cable networks, with nearly 30 percent of the A25-54 audience sharing the experience with their children.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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