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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 3/18/15)
AHC: FBI Takedowns (Premiere) at 10pm
DISNEY XD: Lab Rats: Bionic Island (Premiere) at 8:30pm
FOOD: Restaurant: Impossible (Premiere) at 10pm
GALAVISION: Los Reyes de Trueque (Premiere) at 8pm
LMN: Diabolical Women (Premiere) at 10pm
POP: Impress Me (Premiere) at 10:30pm
TV LAND: The Soul Man (Premiere) at 10:30pm
VH1: Walk of Shame Shuttle (Premiere) at 9pm
VH1: Barely Famous (Premiere) at 9:30pm
COMEDY: Broad City (Finale) at 10:30pm
FOX: Empire (Finale) at 8pm
FXX: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Finale) at 10pm
FXX: Man Seeking Woman (Finale) at 10:30pm
OWN: Love They Neighbor (Finale) at 9pm
NBC’s Undateable will air a live episode Tuesday, May 5, with separate live shows for the East Coast and West Coast. Season two of the comedy launched March 17.
(Source: Cynopsis)
President Obama’s “Mean Tweets” segment on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, posted on the ABC late nighter’s YouTube channel March 12, is the most-watched video ever in the series, with over 17 million views. Sample: “How do you make Obama’s eyes light up? Shine a flashlight in his ears.” “That’s pretty good,” said the president.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling, the director and producer of HBO’s The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, released a statement saying, “Given that we are likely to be called as witnesses in any case law enforcement may decide to bring against Robert Durst, it is not appropriate for us to comment further.” Jarecki was interviewed on CBS This Morning on Monday, but canceled scheduled appearances on other shows, including The Tonight Show.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Durst was arrested for murder on Saturday; on Sunday’s HBO doc, he was heard mumbling that he’d “killed ‘em all” when he didn’t know his mic was on. Said Durst’s lawyer, “We believe the arrest warrant came from a television show, not actual facts.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
HBO hasn’t been the only net on Durst’s trail. ID is premiering an updated version of Vanity Fair Confidential: The Robert Durst Story on Sunday, March 22 at 7p. Episode includes information about the accused’s relationship with alleged victim Morris Black.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Comedy net LAFF, set to debut Wednesday, April 15, secured TV rights to over 250 theatrical films in deals with Sony Pictures Television, The Walt Disney Studios and Miramax. Titles include the likes of Jerry Maguire, Stir Crazy and This Is Spinal Tap.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Apple is planning a streaming service with a “skinny” bundle of about 25 channels, including ABC, CBS and Fox. But not, at least for now, NBC, reports the Wall Street Journal, suggesting Apple soured on Comcast after past talks didn’t bear fruit. Apple’s service would be available on Apple devices, with the goal of a September launch date.
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An African American, gay and gender non-conforming dance team is the focus of Oxygen docu-series The Prancing Elites Project, bowing Wednesday, April 22 at 10p. The group’s perseverance through rejection and adversity “will tug at the heartstrings of Oxygen’s young, open-minded and diverse audience,” promises Rod Aissa, EVP of original programming and content.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The divas are back and the drama’s intense when Real Housewives of New York returns for season seven Tuesday, April 7 at 9p. Stirring things up: Bethenny Frankel, back after a three season hiatus and dealing with divorce.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fig leaves optional: Season two of Discovery’s Naked and Afraid launches Sunday, April 19 at 10p. Reality show from Renegade 83 plops extreme survivalists in remote locations for 21 days, with no food, no water and, of course, no clothes.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Pop ordered season two of comedy Schitt’s Creek, created by the father and son team of Eugene and Daniel Levy and commissioned by Canada’s CBC. Season one finale is Wednesday, May 6 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
James Caan will co-star opposite Kevin Connolly and Vanessa Williams in Fantasy Life, the Fox pilot about a man navigating a new job hosting a fantasy football show.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Adrian Pasdar (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) is onboard ABC drama pilot The Kingmakers, focused on the investigation into a girl’s death at an Ivy League university. Pasdar plays a Senator running for president.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Hill Harper (CSI: NY) nabbed a co-starring role in CBS drama pilot Limitless, based on the 2011 movie starring Bradley Cooper.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Robbie Kay (Once Upon a Time) landed a co-starring role in NBC event series Heroes Reborn, from Heroes creator Tim Kring.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Jack Wagner (General Hospital) will guest on season three of Showtime’s Ray Donovan, as a game show host.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SNL alum Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph and Haley Joel Osment (Tusk) have signed on for the second season of IFC comedic miniseries The Spoils Before Dying, debuting this summer. Wiig and Osment also appeared in the first installment of the franchise, The Spoils of Babylon.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Wes Bentley, who recurred on FX’s American Horror Story: Freak Show, is upped to series regular on AHS: Hotel.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Count Dominic Purcell in on CW’s upcoming Arrow/The Flash spin-off series, says Deadline. Purcell, who plays Mick Rory on The Flash, will star with Wentworth Miller.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Doctors was the only top 13 syndicated talk show not to dip the week of March 2, up 9 percent to 1.2. Wendy Williams took the steepest drop, down 32 percent to 1.3 in Nielsen Live+SD.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The finale of HBO’s The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst delivered 802,000 for its 8p airing on Sunday, according to Nielsen estimates. The previous high for the documentary series was 752,000 for its premiere on February 8. Among A18-49, the show drew 350,000, double the week prior.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TBS‘s King of the Nerds drew a combined audience of 1.9 million viewers in Live+7 for its February 27 premiere and encores, including 1.2 million A18-49 and 529,000 A18-34. In its third season, the series is reaching an average of 2.7 million viewers per episode across TBS’s linear, VOD, digital and mobile platforms.
(Source: Cynopsis)
For the week of February 23,truTV drew the youngest primetime audience in the network’s history, with a median age of 33.The audience was ten years younger than the same week last year-and three years younger than the previous week.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The week before its spring finale, ABC Family’s The Fosters rose to season highs in A18-34 (508,000/.7), W18-34 (460,000/1.4), A18-49 (728,000/.6) and W18-49 (619,000/1.0) on Monday at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 3/15/15)
1) Madonna – Rebel Heart – 116,115
2) Empire Cast Soundtrack – 109,584
3) Luke Bryan – Spring Break…Checkin’ Out – 88,782
Other Debuts
25) Kevin “K.O.” Olusola – Renegade EP – 9,173
36) Olly Murs – Never Been Better – 7,134
38) Cinderella Soundtrack – 6,509
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