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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 3/23/15)
DISCOVERY: Fast N’ Loud (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY: Misfit Garage (Premiere) at 10pm
ESTRELLA TV: Tengo Talento Mucho Talento (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC FAMILY: The Fosters (Finale) at 8pm
ABC FAMILY: Chasing Life (Finale) at 9pm
AHC: Codes and Conspiracies (Finale) at 10pm
Mila Kunis joins Tom Hanks as James Corden’s first guests on CBS’s newest iteration of The Late Late Show, premiering tonight at 12:37a. Also dropping in this week: Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart and Chris Pine, and musical guests Leon Bridges and Modest Mouse.
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The Television Academy ruled that hour-long Glee, Jane the Virgin and Shameless can compete as comedies in the 2015 Primetime Emmy race, but Orange Is the New Black is back in the drama bucket. “While we’re disappointed in the committee’s decision, we believe that Orange represents the best of television in either category,” said Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos. Last year, Orange was nominated in seven comedy categories and won three, including Uzo Aduba as Outstanding Supporting Actress.
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Nat Geo’s Killing Jesus gets the red carpet treatment with a premiere at Lincoln Center tonight. Stars of the three-hour event, including Kelsey Grammer (Frasier), Emmanuelle Chriqui (Entourage) and Eoin Macken (The Night Shift) will be on hand, as well exec producer Bill O’Reilly (yup, that one), who wrote the book on which the three-hour event is based. Premieres on NatGeo Palm Sunday, March 29 at 8p.
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Layoffs hit the programming department of E!. “As we evolve E!’s programming strategy, our production needs have shifted and several production positions have been impacted as a result, including Betsy Rott,” said the net. As Senior Vice President of Original Programming, Rott had oversight of non-scripted series and specials.
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Winners of GLAAD Awards, handed out Saturday in LA: ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder for drama, Amazon’s Transparent for comedy, Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva for individual episode, HBO’s The Normal Heart for TV movie or mini-series and Days of Our Lives for daily drama. Scandal’s Kerry Washington picked up the Vanguard Award.
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Showtime gave Dice, starring polarizing actor/comedian Andrew Dice Clay, a six-episode straight-to-series order. Comedy from Fox 21 Television Studios focuses on Dice trying to resurrect his career. Will schadenfreude lure the haters? “We realized there was a lot of humor and heart in the story of a once-superstar comedian having to crawl back to have a career,” said Fox 21 TV Studio’s Bert Salke.
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NBC ordered competition pilot Songland from Maroon 5 frontman/The Voice coach Adam Levine and Voice exec producer Audrey Morrissey. Music industry experts will judge ordinary people’s original compositions.
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Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) drama pilot Codes of Conduct landed a limited series order from HBO, with McQueen directing all six episodes about an African-American man’s experience in New York high society.
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HBO is developing a family drama from rapper Snoop Dogg and director/producer Allen Hughes (Gang Related). The untitled project is set in early 1980s LA.
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Flipping Out’s original showrunner, Billy Taylor, is returning to the Bravo reality show for season eight, reports TheWrap, to return the show to its creative roots. Andrew Hoegl held the job for the past three seasons.
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Sony Movie Channel offers Robert De Niro two-pack Taxi Driver and The Fan on April 24 at 10p, part of the net’s Friday Features block.
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It’s all part of the season two premiere of Bravo’s Blood, Sweat & Heels, airing Sunday, March 29 at 9p. The reality show about NYC go-getters was the net’s highest-rated non-Housewives-related series premiere among all key demos, with 2.6 million total viewers and 1.6 million among P25-54.
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Season five of FX’s Louie launches Thursday, April 9 at 10:30p, after the series premiere of The Comedians.
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Logo is bringing back RuPaul’s Drag Race for season eight; production begins immediately. “Logo is like the Jay Z to my Beyonce,” said RuPaul Charles, who exec produces and stars in the series. “I was a star before we met, but together we have raised the bar to new heights, and created a brand that has taken over the world.” Season seven, recently launched to a 20 percent ratings hike among P18-49, was one of the most-watched premieres in net history.
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Kevin Nealon (Weeds) and Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm In the Middle) will co-star in CBS’s untitled pilot inspired by the life of comedian Tommy Johnagin.
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Minnie Driver guest stars with a series regular option on CBS comedy pilot Happy Life. Driver’s NBC show, About A Boy, is still teetering on the renewal bubble.
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Michael Chiklis (The Shield) and Cheryl Hines (Suburgatory) hopped aboard NBC comedy pilot Cuckoo, an adaptation of the BBC Three hit that starred Andy Samberg (Brooklyn Nine-Nine).
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James Caan had only been part of Fox pilot Fantasy Life for a few days when he was forced to bow out due to a scheduling conflict with the filming of Sicilian Vampire, starting production in Toronto. Caan’s role, as a gruff ex-football player/coach, will be recast.
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Andrew Howard (Hatfields & McCoys) landed an arc on TNT’s Agent X, about a top secret agent overseen by the Vice President (Sharon Stone).
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D.L. Hughley (ComicView) joined the cast of NBC drama pilot Heart Matters, as a psychiatrist at the hospital where the show is set.
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Jason Scott Lee (Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story) nabbed a series regular role on NBC martial arts drama pilot Warrior.
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Maggie Lawson (Psych) stars in CBS comedy pilot Angel From Hell, opposite Jane Lynch as her character’s supposed guardian angel.
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Jaime Lee Kirchner (Mercy) landed the female lead in CW pilot Dead People, from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television.
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Turner Sports and CBS Sports’ third round coverage on Saturday generated the all-time highest rating for the first Saturday of the NCAA Tournament(since the tournament expanded to four telecast windows for the entire day in 1991), with games averaging 7.4/17, up 14 percent versus 2014, according to Nielsen metered market ratings.The tournament to date across TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV is averaging a 6.5/14 overnight rating/share, the highest-ever rating for the event through the first Saturday.
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The series finale of Glee on Friday had a season-high viewership of 2.7 million, up 44 percent from the season five closer, according to early Nielsens. With .8/3 among A18-49, the episode was up 33 percent.
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The 100th episode of Bravo’s The Millionaire Matchmaker delivered a season high 1.8 million total viewers and nearly 1 million among P18-49, according to Nielsen Live+3 data. Double-digit growth in all key demos included a 12 percent boost in P18-49 versus the week prior.
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TV One is on pace for a historic best first quarter in primetime and total day. Highlight: During their premiere weekend, Fear Files and Hear No Evil pulled in a combined reach of 3.3 Million total viewers 2+ across their premiere and encore airings.“TV One’s investment in creating original movies that speak to Black viewers is yielding the results we’ve hoped for,” said net president Brad Siegel. “In an increasingly competitive content landscape, we are pleased to see that original movies resonate so strongly.”
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The Sunday, March 15 season 10 premiere of E!’s Keeping Up with the Kardashians garnered a combined L+3 audience of 4.8 million total viewers, 3.1 million among A18-49 and 1.7 million W18-34 across a three airings. The net’s first original scripted series, The Royals, opened to a combined L+3 audience of 3.4 million total viewers, 1.6 million A18-49 and 729,000 in W18-34 across its three airings.
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WABC-TV reporter Lisa Colagrossi died at 49, the New York ABC affiliate announced Saturday. Colagrossi was returning from an assignment the morning of March 19 when she suffered a brain hemorrhage. “She was an amazing reporter, committed to Eyewitness News,” said the station. “She was dedicated to telling a story with honesty, a working woman, a hockey mom, she was gutsy and fearless.”
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Director Walter E. Grauman died March 20. He was 93. In addition to films, Grauman directed numerous episodes of TV series, including Murder, She Wrote, Barnaby Jones and The Twilight Zone.
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
The Divergent Series: Insurgent – $54 million
Cinderella – $34.5 million
Run All Night – $5.1 million
The Gunman – $5 million
Kingsman: The Secret Service – $4.6 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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