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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 4/6/15)
NICKELODEON: Make It Pop (Premiere) at 7pm
TELEMUNDO: Avenida Brasil (Premiere) at 8pm
AMC: Better Call Saul (Finale) at 10pm
HISTORY: Appalachian Outlaws (Finale) at 10pm
ID: Vanity Fair Confidential (Finale) at 10pm

The series premiere of Spike’s Lip Sync Battle on Thursday delivered 2.2 million viewers, making it the most-watched non-scripted series debut in the network’s history. The episode – in which (spoiler alert) Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson defeated Jimmy Fallon, creator of the lip sync craze on his NBC late night show – also scored the highest rating among A18-49 in network history for a non-scripted series bow (1.3).
(Source: Cynopsis)

Boxing fans will be hit up for $89.95 for Showtime and HBO’s May 2 broadcast of the much-anticipated bout between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Manny Pacquiao ($10 more for hi-def). Previous high for a pay-per-view match: $64.95.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The day after word got out that Saturday Night Live alums Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig had filmed a Lifetime movie, A Deadly Adoption, Ferrell said he and Wiig had decided to “forego the project entirely.” On Friday, Lifetime stepped in. “We are disappointed that our secret project with Will and Kristen was leaked and the network is determining the fate of the movie,” said A+E Networks EVP, corporate communications Michael Feeney.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Look for Anthony Anderson (black-ish), NASCAR legend Jeff Gordon and tennis’s Caroline Wozniacki on LIVE with Kelly and Michael’s special broadcast this morning. For the first time, the full hour of the morning talker will originate live from the White House, during the annual Easter Egg Roll. The show also includes a sitdown with First Lady Michelle Obama.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Linsey (Jade) Berardi, a cast member in season 12 of Oxygen reality show Bad Girls Club last year, died at age 22, the network announced Friday. No cause of death was released. The New York native, who exited the show early voluntarily, alluded to “health problems” in a Facebook message early last month.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Esquire’s The Runner-Up, about American Idol second-placer Clay Aiken’s bid for Congress, premieres Tuesday, April 7 at 10p. But it wasn’t Aiken’s idea to document his political journey. “We found out Clay was running for Congress and thought there was potentially an interesting story to tell there,” says exec producer Jonathan Chinn. “We didn’t know if it was a documentary series or not at that point, but we just followed our hunch and set out to meet Clay and convince him to let us film with him during his Primary race.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Brenda Song (Dads) landed a series regular role on NBC pilot Take It From Us. Comedy centers on a couple advising their son and his fiancee on life lessons they learned in the 90s.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Tracy Spiridakos (Revolution) was cast as female lead opposite Adam Brody (The O.C.)  in an untitled CBS pilot from Dan O’Shannon (Modern Family) and writer Peter Warren.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Discovery had its best quarter in network history during prime time in 1Q15 in both total viewers P2+ delivery (1.65 million) and P25-54 rating (.84), and was cable’s number five net in prime time in the demo. Gold Rush was the number two unscripted series in all of television for M25-54/18-49/18-34, behind NBC’s The Voice.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Turner and CBS Sports’ coverage of Saturday night’s NCAA Tournament National Semifinal between Kentucky and Wisconsin across TBS, TNT and truTV averaged a 13.3/24 overnight rating/share to deliver the highest rating for a college basketball game in the history of cable television and the highest rating for a Final Four game in 22 years(13.8/24 in 1993).
(Source: Cynopsis)

Even NCAA-less, CBS was tops in viewers (8.58 million) and among A18-49 (1.2/5) on Friday, according to early Nielsens. CBS’s Blue Bloods was the most-watched show of the night, averaging 10.67 million viewers, and tied with NBC’s Dateline as top-rated, with 1.3/5.
(Source: Cynopsis)

OWN delivered its most-watched quarter in network history in 1Q15 with581,000 total primetime viewers, up44 percent versus the prior quarter. The net also achieved its highest quarterly rank in prime in network history at number 21 in W25-54 demo among ad-supported cable networks.
(Source: Cynopsis)

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Furious 7 – $143.6 million
Home – $27.4 million
Get Hard – $13 million
Cinderella – $10.3 million
The Divergent Series: Insurgent – $10 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)

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