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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 3/20/15)
ADULT SWIM: Children’s Hospital (Premiere) at 12 midnight
DIY: I Want That: Consumer Electronics Show 2015 (Premiere) at 11pm
FOX: Glee (Finale) at 8pm
TLC: Love, Lust or Run (Finale) at 9pm
TLC: Style by Jury (Finale) at 9:30pm
(SATURDAY 3/21/15)
NAT. GEO. WILD: Aloha Vet (Premiere) at 9pm
BBC AMERICA: The Musketeers (Finale) at 9pm
(SUNDAY 3/22/15)
A&E: Intervention (Premiere) at 9pm
A&E: Neighbors with Benefits (Premiere) at 10pm
NAT. GEO. WILD: Secret Garden (Premiere) at 10pm
WEATHER: BrainStormers (Premiere) at 9pm
AHC: Secrets of the Bible (Finale) at 10pm
HBO: Girls (Finale) at 9pm
HBO: Looking (Finale) at 10pm
NAT. GEO.: Ultimate Survival Alaska (Finale) at 10pm
Fox’s Empire wrapped up its smash season on Wednesday with a 6.5 rating among A18-49 and 16.7 million viewers. From its January 7 premiere, the hip hop drama rose in viewers every week, for a total gain of 69 percent, and grew 71 percent among A18-49, with only one demo dip. Season one is now streamed exclusively to subscribers of Hulu Plus.
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Mr. T is the latest celeb to sign on for a DIY home improvement series. In I Pity the Tool (get it, A-Team fans?), he’ll lead a construction team giving home makeovers, with an assist from HGTV Design Star winner Tiffany Brooks. And he’s no amateur. “Before I worked in show business, I worked in the demolition business,” said T. “Even after I made it in Hollywood, I kept on building things.” Daryl Hall and William Shatner are among the other stars who took renovations to the small screen for DIY.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Bounce TV founder Martin Luther King, III did not take kindly to Time Warner Cable’s decision to drop the net from NYC, and its lack of carriage on TWC in LA, feelings he made clear in a letter to group vice president David Lange that was made public on Thursday. “I am very disappointed that Time Warner Cable is denying their African-American subscribers in the two largest cities in the country the ability to see Bounce TV, one of the fastest-growing networks in all of television”. “It is my hope that my letter helps Univision, our distribution partner in New York and Los Angeles, in their Bounce TV carriage discussions with Time Warner Cable.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Comedy Central returns as a development partner for the New York Television Festival. What will catch Comedy’s eye: scripted comedy formats including sketch, narrative/single-camera sitcom, animated and late night.
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The TV Academy ruled that hour-long Shameless, Jane the Virgin and Glee can compete in the Emmy comedy category.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Music In Me, starring actress/singers Debbie Gibson and Gloria Reuben (E.R.), debuts on UP Sunday, April 12 at 7p. Movie tells the story of a woman who works with a failing church choir.
(Source: Cynopsis)
GSN original game show Lie Detectors, hosted by famed Australian talk show host Rove McManus (Rove Live), launches Monday, April 20, airing weekdays at 6:30p. McManus appears regularly on @midnight.
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The top-selling duo in history perform at a sold-out show in Dublin on AXS TV concert premiere Daryl Hall & John Oates Live in Dublin Sunday, March 29 at 8p.
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AMHQ is off to the fair. The Weather Channel morning show heads to D.C. for the White House Science Fair Monday, March 23, reporting on President Obama’s Educate to Innovate initiative, as well as student projects focused on weather and environment issues.
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GetTV pays tribute to Melvyn Douglas with 12 films starring the Oscar winner, every Thursday in April at 7p. First up: She Married Her Boss, with Claudette Colbert.
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Pit Bulls & Parolees returns to Animal Planet for a 21-episode season seven in fall 2015. Two-hour season six finale airs Saturday, March 21 at 9p, after an all-day “Viewer’s Choice Marathon” on AnimalPlanet.com.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Bring a blanket: “A place where a troubling breakup refers to an icy river and not a terrible boyfriend,” aka remote Alaska, is the setting for Life Below Zero, launching a new season on NatGeo Thursday, April 9 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
GSN’s Idiotest launches season two Wednesday, April 1 at 8p, with an April Fools prank the net is keeping under wraps. Count on host Ben Gleib (Chelsea Lately) to take part.
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Disney Channel is developing a movie about Mo’ne Davis, the 13-year-old girl who pitched a shutout at the Little League World Series last summer and was the first Little Leaguer to make the cover of Sports Illustrated. “A year ago, I never would have thought that Disney Channel would make a movie about me,” said Davis. “I can’t wait to get started, and I hope it will encourage other viewers to believe that dreams really do come true.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
CBS comedy pilot Joe Time landed Rita Moreno as a series regular. Moreno will play mom to Steven Weber’s (Wings) character.
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Mario Van Peebles (Ali) will guest with a series option on CBS drama pilot For Justice. Leonardo Nam (Vantage Point) is also onboard, as a series regular.
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The Talk edged past ABC rival The View in both viewers and W18-49 the week ending March 15, 2.61 million versus 2.59 million, and .7/5 versus .6/5. It’s the first time the CBS morning daytimer beat The View in both categories the same week.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The third episode of Hallmark Channel’s Good Witch garnered a 2.3 HH rating and 2.4 million total viewers, according to Live+3 data. During its run, Good Witch has elevated Hallmark Channel to be the highest-rated and most-watched cable network in the Saturday 8p time period, reaching nearly 8.8 million unduplicated viewers, according to Live+3 data.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MOVIES
The Divergent Series: Insurgent – Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Octavia Spencer, Jai Courtney, Ray Stevenson, Zoe Kravitz, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort
The Gunman – Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Ray Winstone, Mark Rylance, Javier Bardem, Jasmine Trinca
Do You Believe? – Mira Sorvino, Sean Astin, Alexa Pena Vega, Delroy Lindo, Ted McGinley, Andrea Logan White, Madison Pettis, Brian Bosworth
Danny Collins (Limited Release) – Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale, Christopher Plummer, Josh Peck, Melissa Benoist, Giselle Eisenberg
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