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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 3/27/15)
FOX: Grownups (Premiere) at 8pm
TLC: Bride by Design (Premiere) at 9pm
CW: Hart of Dixie (Finale) at 8pm
HGTV: Love It or List It, Too (Finale) at 9pm
(SATURDAY 3/28/15)
NICKELODEON: 28th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards at 8pm
GSN: Monopoly Millionaires’ Club (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Musical Guest: George Ezra at 11:30pm
CNBC: The Suze Orman Show (Finale) at 9pm
HGTV: House Hunters Renovation (Finale) at 10pm
STARZ: Black Sails (Finale) at 9pm
(SUNDAY 3/29/15)
NBC: iHeart Radio Music Awards at 8pm
BRAVO: Blood, Sweat & Heels (Premiere) at 9pm
DIY: Building Alaska (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: Call the Midwife (Premiere) at 8pm
AMC: The Walking Dead (Finale) at 9pm
AMC: Talking Dead (Finale) at 10:30pm
BRAVO: The Millionaire Matchmaker (Finale) at 10pm
SHOWTIME: House of Lies (Finale) at 10:30pm
Season six will be the last for Downton Abbey, the UK’s highest-rated drama of the past decade and a hit for PBS. “Inevitably there comes a time when all shows should end, and Downton is no exception,” said exec producer Gareth Neame on Thursday. “We wanted to close the doors on Downton Abbey when it felt right and natural for the storylines to come together and when the show is still being enjoyed so much by its fans.” But the Crawley clan might live to see another day – Neame said a big-screen production of the show is “definitely something we’re contemplating.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the producers behind the Oscars for the last three years, announced they’re not going for a fourth. This year’s telecast averaged 36.6 million viewers for ABC, the lowest audience in six years.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Meryl Streep narrates PBS’s Caring for Mom & Dad, focused on the emotional challenge and financial burden of caring for aging parents. Says author Jane Gross in the one-hour doc, premiering Thursday May 7 (check local listings), “Your mother or father better have a gazillion dollars, or by the time this is over, mom and dad are broke, and so are you.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Michael Keaton (Birdman) threepeats as Saturday Night Live host on April 4, with Carly Rae Jepson ( “Call Me Maybe”) as first-time musical guest. The following week, Taraji P. Henson (Empire) leads the NBC sketch show for the first time, with Mumford & Sons making their second appearance.
(Source: Cynopsis)
AXS TV goes for laughs with a politically charged stand-up special Lewis Black and Friends: A Night to Let Freedom Laugh on Thursday, April 16 at 10p. Two-hour event was filmed at the Warner Theater in downtown Washington, DC.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MSG is celebrating Walt Frazier’s birthday today with Clyde: 70 Years of Cool, an all-day marathon dedicated to the Knicks legend. In addition to past games and specials running from 7:30a through 3:30a, Frazier will call the Knicks-Celtics game at 7:30p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Lifetime picked up the film Stockholm, Pennsylvania, starring Saoirse Ronan (Atonement) and Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City), to air Saturday, May 2 at 8p. Ronan plays a young woman abducted as a child who struggles readjusting to being home.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Sean Hayes (Will & Grace) follows his ancestral trail to Ireland on TLC’s Who Do You Think You Are?, Sunday, March 29 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Food Network has two new series debuting in May. American Diner Revival sends Ty Pennington (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) and Chopped judge Amanda Freitag to the aid of struggling diners across the country starting Friday, May 22 at 10:30p, while network stars share food secrets in Guilty Pleasures, launching Monday, May 25 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TLC’s The Willis Family follows the 14-member singing group gone viral after making it to the quarterfinals of America’s Got Talent. Docu-series from Figure 8 Films/Heart Bridge Media premieres Tuesday, May 5 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
I Love You…But I Lied, telling true stories of family secrets and betrayal, launches on LMN Wednesday, April 8 at 10. Series from Original Media is based on the hit Dutch format, Behind Closed Doors.
(Source: Cynopsis)
NBC’s suiting up for summer: Reality series The Island premieres Monday, May 25 at 10p, and celeb variety show I Can Do That bows the following day at 10p. Comedies Mr. Robinson, starring Craig Robinson (The Office), and Jerrod Carmichael’s The Carmichael Show make their debuts Wednesday, August 5 at 9p and 9:30p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
History picked up a season four of Vikings, currently the top cable series Thursdays in Live+3 with an average 4.3 million total viewers and 2 million among A18-49. Season finale is slated for Thursday, April 23 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire launches its sophomore run Sunday, March 31 at 10p, with a season exec producer Jonathan Lisco promises will be “brasher and more addictive than ever.” Complete first season is available through Tuesday, April 7 on AMC On Demand and AMC.com.
(Source: Cynopsis)
BBC America’s Ripper Street is back Wednesday, April 29 at 10p. Season three picks up in 1894, four years after the close of season two.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Summer return dates were announced for NBC’s Food Fighters (Thursday, July 2 at 8p), Hollywood Game Night (Tuesday, July 7 at 10p), Running Wild With Bear Grylls (Monday, July 13 at 10p), Welcome to Sweden (Sunday, July 19 at 8p and 8:30p) and Last Comic Standing (Wednesday, July 22 from 9-11p for the premiere, 10p beginning July 29).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Nickelodeon’s 28th Annual Kids Choice Awards will simulcast for the first time across Nickelodeon, TeenNick, Nicktoons and TV Land, and live stream on Nick.com and the Nick App on Saturday, March 28 at 8p.Encores will air across Nickelodeon, Nicktoons, TeenNick and CMT following the show.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Ricardo Hurtado, Lance Lim (Growing Up Fisher), Aidan Miner (Homeroom), Jade Pettyjohn (Henry Danger) and Breanna Yde (The Haunted Hathaways) joined the cast of Nickelodeon musical comedy series School of Rock, based on the 2003 movie. Currently in production, series is slated for fall 2015.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Former American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry is back on television – and Fox – for dramedy pilot Studio City, about a young singer whose songwriter dad (Perception’s Eric McCormack) is a drug dealer. In addition to his recurring role, Daughtry will write music for the show.
(Source: Cynopsis)
William Peterson (CSI) joins the season two cast of WGN America’s Manhattan as a deeply religious military officer called by God to usher in the atomic future.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Colin Ferguson (The Vampire Diaries) landed a recurring role on season three of Hallmark Channel’s Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove. Drama starring Andie McDowell and Dylan Neal returns with a two-hour premiere in July.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fox’s Empire-less Wednesday drew 1.7/6 among A18-49 for a two-hour American Idol, versus 6.5/21 for the final two hours of the hot hip hop drama last week. Idol’s March 11 outing delivered 2.4/8 in the demo.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TV One’s News One Now’s first primetime news special, Mo’Nique: Uncensored, delivered a .24 P25-54 rating (144,000) on Sunday at 10p, an increase of 95 percent among P25-54 versus the prior six-week time slot delivery, and ranked as the number seven program among Black A25-54 in all of cable in the time period.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MOVIES
Home – Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Matt Jones, Brian Stepanek, April M. Lawrence, Stephen Kearin
Get Hard – Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart, Craig T. Nelson, Alison Brie, Edwina Findley, Ariana Neal, Erick Chavarria, Tip “T.I.” Harris
Serena (Limited Release) – Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Toby Jones, Rhys Ifans, David Dencik, Ana Ularu, Sean Harris, Sam Reid
While We’re Young (Limited Release) – Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin, Adam Horovitz, Maria Dizzia, Ryan Serhant
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