FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 4/8/15)
DESTINATION AMERICA: True Supernatural (Premiere) at 10pm
LIFETIME: Little Women: LA: Terra’s Little Family (Premiere) at 9pm
LMN: I Love You But…I Lied (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: Nature: Animal Homes (Premiere) at 8pm
UP: Heartland (Premiere) at 9pm
COMEDY: Workaholics (Finale) at 10pm
COOKING: Extra Virgin (Finale) at 9pm
ID: Web of Lies (Finale) at 10pm
ABC’s World News Tonight With David Muir broke the 288-week total viewer winning streak of NBC Nightly News, with 7.99 million viewers versus NBC’s 7.91 million. ABC also won in the A18-49 and A25-54 demos, its first trifecta in over seven years. NBC was quick to voice support for its anchor, who took over when Brian Williams was suspended in February for misreporting events: “Lester Holt has led NBC Nightly News to great success over the past two months, and we continue to be pleased with his strong performance during this time.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC’s World News Tonight With David Muir broke the 288-week total viewer winning streak of NBC Nightly News, with 7.99 million viewers versus NBC’s 7.91 million. ABC also won in the A18-49 and A25-54 demos, its first trifecta in over seven years. NBC was quick to voice support for its anchor, who took over when Brian Williams was suspended in February for misreporting events: “Lester Holt has led NBC Nightly News to great success over the past two months, and we continue to be pleased with his strong performance during this time.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman stars as Grace Kelly in Grace of Monaco, premiering Monday, May 25, at 8p on Lifetime. The movie follows the former Hollywood star’s life as the Princess of Monaco.
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Yukia Walker and Yuneisia Harris help women of all shapes and sizes in new TLC series Curvy Brides. Owners of Curvaceous Couture, the sisters/entrepreneurs make it their mission to find brides the right dress for their figure on their special day. Series premieres Friday, May 1 at 9:30p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
History‘s Engineering Disasters, investigating the causes of recent catastrophes and engineering dangers, premieres Saturday, April 11 at 10p. The series is produced by Outpost Entertainment.
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National Geographic Channel goes back into the muck for a second season of Filthy Riches on Wednesday, May 6 at 9p, following industrious Americans who would rather wade through deep rivers and underbrush than piles of paperwork.
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DNA series Swab Stories premieres Wednesday, April 29 at 9p on VH1. Jared Rosenthal, who owns and operates the “Who’s Your Daddy?” testing truck, and his assistant Ana Lopez, hit the streets with a clinic on wheels to collect clients’ specimens, then, return to deliver life-changing news.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Truffle foragers battle Mother Nature – and each other – to dig up buried treasure in Discovery Channel’s Unearthed. Series debuts Wednesday, April 29 at 9p.
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Time Inc. and Telemundo launch SOS: Salva Mi Casa (SOS: Save My House) on Saturday, April 11 at 12p. The home improvement show, Time Inc.’s first Spanish-language television program and first major collaboration with Telemundo, follows families in need of room renovations, with host Andrea Minski and general contractor Jose Perez coming to the rescue.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Rugged Justice has been greenlit for a second season on Animal Planet. The documentary series from Shark Teeth Film starts production in Washington State later this month for a fall 2015 return.
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House alum Robert Sean Leonard has been tapped to guest star on a May episode of NBC‘s Law & Order: SVU.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TV Line reports that Jaleel White, Urkel on Family Matters, nabbed a guest spot on ABC‘s Castle. He’ll play a larger-than-life sketch series star.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Anthony Tyler Quinn is heading back to Girl Meets World. He’ll reprise his role of Jonathan Turner, the kids’ main teacher and Shawn’s mentor, in the episode titled “Girl Meets the New Teacher.”
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The 2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball National Championship across TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV was the most-watched NCAA Tournament in 22 years, according to Nielsen Fast Nationals, averaging 11.3 million total viewers, up 8 percent from last year (10.5 million viewers), and is the highest average viewership for the NCAA Tournament in 22 years (12.7 million; 1993).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Facing the NCAA championship on CBS, Fox’s The Following hit a series low .9/3 among A18-49 on Monday, and CW’s Jane the Virgin matched a series low .4/1.
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The return of AMC’s Mad Men on Sunday for the start of its last lap delivered 2.3 million viewers and 1 million among A18-49, even with its year-ago season seven premiere. Stay tuned for Live+3 data the season seven midseason finale saw an 87 percent Live+3 pop in viewers and whopping 116 percent boost in the demo. Series finale is May 17.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Part one of HBO documentary Sinatra: All Or Nothing at All drew 963,000 viewers on Sunday, dropping to 569,000 on Monday opposite the NCAA championship.
(Source: Cynopsis)
He’s still got it: Among W25-54, 76-year-old Maury Povich (Maury: 1.5 demo rating, up 7 percent) was the top-rated talker for the week among W25-54.
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SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 4/5/15)
1) Wale – Album About Nothing – 88,210
2) Ludacris – Ludaversal – 62,289
3) Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly – 53,456 (After 3 weeks – 484,410
Other Debuts
4) Darius Rucker – Southern Style – 51,580
5) Death Cab For Cutie – Kintsugi – 51,285
6) Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell – 50,538
10) Three Days Grace – Human – 35,327
11) Hollywood Undead – Day of the Dead – 34,700
14) Van Halen – Tokyo Dome in Concert – 30,620
18) Jodeci – Past, Present, The Future – 26,651
23) Nightwish – Endless Forms Most Beautiful – 18,267
27) The Maine – American Candy – 13,956
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