FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 4/10/15)
DISCOVERY FAMILY: Horrible Histories (Premiere) at 7pm
HISTORY: Hangar 1: The UFO Files (Premiere) at 10pm
LIFETIME: Jump! (Premiere) at 10pm
SYFY: 12 Monkeys (Finale) at 9pm
(SATURDAY 4/11/15)
DISCOVERY LIFE: New Girls On The Block (Premiere) at 10pm
EL REY: Cutting Crew (Premiere) at 6am
HISTORY: Engineering Disasters (Premiere) at 10pm
REELZ: Hollywood Hillbillies (Premiere) at 9pm
REELZ: Polka Kings (Premiere) at 9:30pm
TELEMUNDO: SOS: Salva Mi Casa (Premiere) at 12pm
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Taraji P. Henson, Musical Guest: Mumford & Sons at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 4/12/15)
MTV: 2015 MTV Movie Awards Pre-Show at 7:30pm
MTV: 2015 MTV Movie Awards at 8pm
FOX NEWS: Legends & Lies: The Real West (Premiere) at 8pm
HBO: Game of Thrones (Premiere) at 9pm
HBO: Silicon Valley (Premiere) at 10pm
HBO: Veep (Premiere) at 10:30pm
HGTV: Lakefront Bargain Hunt (Premiere) at 8pm and 8:30pm
SHOWTIME: Nurse Jackie (Premiere) at 9pm
UNIVISION: Nuestra Belleza Latina (Finale) at 8pm
Face the Nation anchor Bob Schieffer announced he is retiring this summer, after 46 years with CBS News. Scheiffer, 78, became CBS’s chief White House correspondent in 1982, and anchor of Face the Nation in 1991. He also served as interim anchor of CBS Evening News in 2005-2006, after the exit of Dan Rather. Said CBS News president David Rhodes in a memo to staff, “He’s been an inspiration and mentor to so many colleagues.”
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Tyra Banks will man the mic as host of the 42nd Annual Daytime Emmys, airing on Pop Sunday, April 26 at 8p. Banks is a two-time Daytime Emmy winner for The Tyra Banks Show.
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Eddie Murphy will be the recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on October 18. The Kennedy Center cited Murphy’s “uncompromising perspective on social injustice and personal folly.” Last year’s honoree was Jay Leno.
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Bunim/Murray Productions (Keeping Up With the Kardashians) is developing a docu-series with Culture Club’s Boy George. Project follows the Karma Chameleon singer as he launches his first tour in four years.
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Starz limited series Flesh and Bone, about a young dancer with a troubled past, premieres Sunday, November 8. Dark drama from Breaking Bad writers and exec producer Moira Walley-Beckett stars Sarah Hay (Black Swan) and Ben Daniels (House of Cards).
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TLC’s new Psychic Matchmaker uses the intuition of psychic Deborah Graham to connect soulmates, starting Friday, May 1 at 10:30p.
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Charli XCX is slated to perform with Ty Dolla $ign and Tinashe at the MTV Movie Awards Sunday, April 12 at 8p. Fashion Police departee Kelly Osbourne hosts the pre-show with Jessie J and Josh Horowitz.
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Home & Family hosts a reunion for the cast of Clean House on Monday, April 13. Niecy Nash, Mark Brunetz, Trish Suhr and Home & Family’s own Matt Iseman will participate in the get-together. “We have greatly enjoyed providing our viewers with cast reunions,” says exec producer Marty Tenney. “Having the cast of Clean House reunite with our own family member Matt Iseman makes this reunion extra special for us.”Lifestyle/talk show airs weekdays at 10a.
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HBO anthology series True Detective returns in its new, sophomore year iteration, led by Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch and Kelly Reilly, on Sunday, June 21 (happy Father’s Day!) at 9p. Season two focuses on a bizarre murder case that brings together three law enforcement officers and a career criminal. New comedies Ballers and The Brink ride the premiere wave, at 10p and 10:30p.
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Pivot’s Fortitude, which ended its first season Thursday night, has been renewed for a sophomore run. Series was the net’s first foray into scripted drama.
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CBS Television Distribution announced that TV’s top game shows, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, were renewed through the 2017-2018 season, two years beyond stations’ current contracts in 80 percent of the country including the ABC Owned Television Station Group, Sinclair, Media General, Gray Television, Hearst, Graham Media, Tribune, Cox, Meredith, Dispatch Broadcasting, NBC and Scripps.
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In a battle of reality shows, CBS’s Survivor bested both NBC’s The Voice and Fox’s American Idol in viewers and among A18-49 on Wednesday, squeaking past The Voice with 9.84 million viewers versus 9.64 million for NBC (Idol drew 6.58 million). In the demo, Survivor hit 2.5/9, versus 2.2/8 for The Voice and 1.4/5 for Idol.
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In the neck-and-neck competition for daytime viewers, CBS’s The Talk eked out a victory over ABC’s The View in both viewers and W18-49 for the second time in four weeks in the week ending April 3. Stats: 2.55 million viewers versus 2.49 million, and .7/5 versus .6/5 in the demo.
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The premiere of Mann & Wife was the most-watched original in Bounce TV history. Across its two premiere night timeslots, the sitcom reached nearly 800,000 viewers and 540,000 HHs, and ranked third among all ad-supported cable television in total African-American viewers in its time period.
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Emmy-winning actor Richard Dysart died April 5. He was 86. Dysart, who starred on stage and screen, was best known for his television role as L.A. Law’s Leland McKenzie.
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MOVIES
The Longest Ride – Scott Eastwood, Britt Robertson, Alan Alda, Jack Huston, Oona Chaplin, Lolita Davidovich, Melissa Benoist, Gloria Reuben
Clouds of Sils Maria (Limited Release) – Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloe Grace Moretz, Lars Eidinger, Johnny Flynn, Angela Winkler, Hanns Zischler, Aljoscha Stadelmann
Desert Dancer (Limited Release) – Freida Pinto, Reece Ritchie, Tom Cullen, Nazanin Boniadi, Makram J. Khoury, Marama Corlett, Bamshad Abedi-Amin, Daniel Bass
Lost River – Christina Hendricks, Iain De Caestecker, Eva Mendes, Saoirse Ronan, Matt Smith, Ben Mendelsohn, Barbara Steele, Reda Kateb
NYC STREET FAIRS
Saturday April 11, 2015
Waverly Place Festival – Washington Square North bet. University and MacDougal St.
6th Ave. Chelsea Festival – from 23rd to 32nd St.
Sunday April 12, 2015
Forest Hills Festival (Queens) – on Queens Blvd. from 70th Road to Yellowstone Blvd.
MEGA MILLIONS
Today’s Jackpot is $39 million
You can now play in 43 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
POWERBALL
Saturday’s Jackpot is $80 million.
Powerball is played in 43 states.
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