FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 4/3/15)
ANIMAL PLANET: The Pool Master (Premiere) at 9pm
E!: The Grace Helbig Show (Premiere) at 10:30pm
SCIENCE: Survivorman: Bigfoot (Premiere) at 10pm
TBS: Meet The Smiths (Premiere) at 9pm
TRAVEL: Mysteries at the Museum (Premiere) at 9pm
LIFETIME: Preacher’s Daughters (Finale) at 10pm
TELEMUNDO: La Biblia (Finale) at 10pm
(SATURDAY 4/4/15)
ANIMAL PLANET: My Cat From Hell (Premiere) at 8pm
DISCOVERY FAMILY: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Premiere) at 11am
HGTV: Log Cabin Living (Premiere) at 11pm and 11:30pm
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Michael Keaton, Musical Guest: Carly Rae Jepsen at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 4/5/15)
BET: Black Girls Rock! at 7pm
BET: Black Girls Rock! Post-Show at 9:30pm
ANIMAL PLANET: River Monsters (Premiere) at 9pm
ANIMAL PLANET: 100 Miles From Nowhere (Premiere) at 10pm
DESTINATION AMERICA: Ghost Asylum (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: Five Day Flip (Premiere) at 12pm
LIFETIME: The Lizzie Borden Chronicles (Premiere) at 10pm
NAT. GEO.: The Raft (Premiere) at 10pm
NAT. GEO. WILD: Kingdom of the North (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: A.D. The Bible Continues (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: American Odyssey (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: Wolf Hall on Masterpiece (Premiere) at 10pm
WGN: Salem (Premiere) at 10pm
CNN: Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery (Finale) at 9pm
DISCOVERY LIFE: Body Bizarre (Finale) at 10pm
SHOWTIME: Shameless (Finale) at 9pm
Saturday Night Live alums Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig filmed a Lifetime movie about a couple whose plans to adopt a baby go awry. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news about the secret project, exec produced by Ferrell (apparently a fan of Lifetime movies) and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Productions. A Deadly Adoption, expected to debut in early summer, is described as “campy and fun and a contemporary wink at the genre.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
TV One viewers get three chances to watch the 30th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards – including Michelle Williams performing with former Destiny’s Child band mates Kelly Rowland and Beyonce. The show airs back-to-back at 6p, 8p and 10p on Sunday, April 5, part of the net’s effort to “encourage viewers to spend part of their Easter weekend with TV One,” said D’Angela Proctor, SVP programming and production.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fred Armisen (Portlandia) will host the Peabody Awards ceremony on May 31, in an event moved from lunchtime to evening and complete with red carpet. Winners, for excellence in storytelling, will be announced in four stages, including one on Good Morning America; the evening ceremony airs in primetime on Pivot. “The changes better represent what the awards are and have been,” said Jeffrey P. Jones, director of the George Foster Peabody Awards at the University of Georgia.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Looks like well-known germaphobe Howie Mandel will be shaking hands on season ten of America’s Got Talent. At NBCU’s summer press tour on Thursday, Mandel said that while he’d put his therapist in a “whole new tax bracket” dealing with his OCD, it took all of five minutes for one of the upcoming season’s contestants to hypnotize him into “touching things I never touched before.” New season launches May 26 on NBC.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Tommy Tune is set to receive a special Lifetime Achievement award at the Tonys, airing Sunday, June 7 on CBS. The nine-time Tony winning performer/director/choreographer is currently touring in a one-man show.
(Source: Cynopsis)
In a summer slate packed with ten original series, TNT announced launch dates for three new arrivals: drama Proof, starring Jennifer Beals and Matthew Modine, bows Tuesday, June 16 at 10p, after Rizzoli & Isles; spin-off Cold Justice: Sex Crimes premieres Friday, July 31 after Cold Justice and police drama Public Morals, from Edward Burns and Steven Spielberg, debuts Monday, August 17 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Drama continues when the cast of VH1’s Love & Hip Hop NYC reunites for a two-part special Monday, April 6 and April 13 at 8p. Season five has been the top non-sports telecast on Mondays among W18-49 since its premiere.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season three of WE tv’s Marriage Boot Camp Reality Stars launches Friday, May 29 at 9p. Cast includes Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett (Kendra on Top), Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino and Lauren Pesce (The Sorrentinos), Aubrey O’Day and Travis Garland (Making the Band, All About Aubrey), Tami Roman and Reggie Youngblood (Basketball Wives), and Jeff Schroeder and Jordan Lloyd (Big Brother).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Annaleigh Ashford (Masters of Sex) joins CBS pilot Super Clyde as a series regular. Comedy is centered on a fast-food worker (Charlie McDermott) who decides to become a superhero.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Late Show with James Corden averaged 1.5 million viewers and .4/3 among A18-49 and .5/3 among A25-54 for its premiere week, up 6 percent in viewers versus last year, and even in the demos. Socially speaking, the show’s YouTube channel jumped 330 percent in subscribers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC freshman black-ish rose .3 among A18-49 Wednesday to reach 2.4, its highest demo number since November 19.
(Source: Cynopsis)
HGTV’s Fixer Upper closed the season up 72 percent among viewers P25-54 versus season one, and 104 percent versus the same period last year. The January 20 episode was the highest-rated single telecast of any series on the net in five years, and among the top 25 ever on HGTV. Tuesdays at 10p, the renovation show was the number two cable program among upscale W25-54.
(Source: Cynopsis)
GSN announced it closed 1Q15 with its most-watched quarter ever in primetime, total day, fringe, late night and weekend daytime in key demos.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Bounce TV posted double-digit gains in 1Q15 in households and key sales demos during Total Day with increases of 15 percent among Households (133,000), 13 percent in P2+ (174,000), 12 percent in P18+ (155,000) and 13 percent among P25-54 (79,000).
(Source: Cynopsis)
In 1Q15, CBS This Morning Saturday delivered the net’s largest Saturday morning news first quarter audience ever. The broadcast was up 9 percent from last year, to 2.19 million viewers, with a 20 percent increase in A25-54 (to .6/4) versus 2014.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Cooking Channel’s Rev Run’s Sunday Suppers season 2 premiere P25-54 impressions were up 23 percent versus the season one launch, and up 42 percent versus year-ago.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TV One posted a 49 percent increase in P18-49 and 36 percent lift among P25-54 in 1Q15, for the net’s best-ever quarterly performance in primetime, to rank among the top ten ad-supported cable nets in primetime among Black W25-54.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MOVIES
Furious 7 – Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludracris” Bridges, Jordana Brewster, Djimon Hounsou
Effie Gray (Limited Release) – Emma Thompson, Dakota Fanning, Julie Walters, Tom Sturridge, David Suchet, Greg Wise, Claudia Cardinale, Robbie Coltrane
Woman in Gold (Limited Release) – Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Bruhl, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany, Max Irons, Charles Dance, Elizabeth McGovern
NYC STREET FAIRS
Saturday April 4, 2015
Astor Place Festival – on Astor Place from Lafayette St. to Broadway
Sunday April 5, 2015
Union Square/Broadway Festival – on Broadway from 17th St. to 23rd St.
2015 NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW
It is from Friday 4/3/15 – Sun. 4/12/15.
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