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Will Ferrell will appear at five Arizona spring training baseball games and play nine positions today, in a stunt for a Funny or Die special airing later this month on HBO. Ferrell Takes the Field, in partnership with Major League Baseball, honors Bert Campaneris’ feat 50 years ago of playing every position on the field; the special will also be dedicated the fight against cancer. “This latest collaboration is one of those things only Will could pull off,” said Michael Lombardo, president, HBO programming.
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The CW announced season finale dates, including Monday, May 11 for The Originals and Jane the Virgin; Wednesday, May 13 for Arrow; Thursday, May 14 for The Vampire Diaries and Reign; Tuesday, May 19 for The Flash and Wednesday, May 20 for Supernatural. All seven shows have been renewed.
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They’re keeping the Kardashians (at least for three more seasons), but the E! docu-series following Bruce Jenner’s transgender journey has been put on hold, TMZ reports. The former Olympian’s show had never been given a premiere date.
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Season four of Food Network’s Chopped All-Stars premieres Tuesday, April 28 at 10p. And more than bragging rights are at stake for the celebrated chefs – the grand prize is $75,000 donated to the charity of their choice.
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Pat Sajak and Vanna White, hosts Wheel of Fortune, and Alex Trebek, host of Jeopardy!, have renewed their contracts with Sony Pictures Television through the 2017/18 season. Wheel, which averages 11.4 million viewers daily, is currently is season 32, while Jeopardy!, 31 years young, hauls in 10.7 million viewers.
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Linda Gray (Dallas) will play mother of the groom on Hallmark Channel movie A Perfect Wedding (wt). The premiere will be part of the net’s June Wedding Month celebration.
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Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford landed the lead in ABC pilot Boom, joining Don Johnson and Delroy Lindo.
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Dylan Walsh (Unforgettable) will recur on CBS’s NCIS: New Orleans as a friend of Special Agent Dwayne Pride (Scott Bakula). NCIS: NO airs Tuesdays at 9p.
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Danny Trejo (Machete) and Briana Evigan (Step Up 2) are onboard the sophomore season of El Rey’s From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, currently in production in Austin. Trejo, who appeared in the film franchise as Razor Charlie, will play The Regulator, a “horrifying agent of evil.” Evigan plays a tattoo artist/passport forger.
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Actress/singer Christina Milian has been cast opposite John Stamos in Fox’s Grandpa, about a longtime bachelor who discovers he’s a father and a grandfather.
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Matt Bennett (Victorious) will guest star as Howard’s (Simon Helberg) half-brother on the April 9 episode of CBS’s The Big Bang Theory. Carol Ann Susa, who voiced the role of Harold’s mother, died November 11 at age 62.
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Fox News was the week’s number one cable channel last week in primetime with 1.93 million viewers, despite a lack of breaking news. Unless you count host Bill O’Reilly, under fire for allegedly embellishing news stories. The O’Reilly Factor hit a 2015 high 3.38 million viewers on Tuesday, up 40 percent among A24-54 versus the prior year.
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ABC boasts it’s the only net up this season among A18-49, with a 7 percent rise on total viewers (to 7.9 million) and a 5 percent boost in the demo (to 2.2/7).
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