FIRST LOOK/ ON TV/ MTV MOVIE AWARDS/ WEEKEND BOX OFFICE

FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 4/13/15)
AHC: Hitler: The Rise and Fall (Premiere) at 10pm
AMC: Turn: Washington’s Spies (Premiere) at 9pm
DESTINATION AMERICA: Buying The Bayou (Premiere) at 9pm
FYI: Outback Nation (Premiere) at 10pm
HISTORY: Rivermen (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: Fear Thy Neighbor (Premiere) at 10pm
LOGO: Cucumber (Premiere) at 10pm
LOGO: Banana (Premiere) at 11pm
SCIENCE: Impossible Engineering (Premiere) at 8pm
SCIENCE: Chaos: Caught on Camera (Premiere) at 10pm
TRAVEL: Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmerman (Premiere) at 9pm

Who says you can’t go home? Not Bon Jovi frontman Jon Bon Jovi, who’s teaming with TWC-Dimension to exec produce If I Wasn’t a Rock Star. Reality series has stars returning to their hometowns to see what their lives would have been like if they hadn’t followed their music dreams. “I was drawn to this project simply because it will be a celebration of the working men and women of the country. They are the real rock stars,” said Bon Jovi.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The season five premiere of Game of Thrones aired Sunday, but hundreds of thousands of fans got an early peek when four episodes were leaked to piracy sites Saturday night. By Sunday morning, the eps had been downloaded almost 800,000 times, according to piracy tracker Excipio. They appear to be review copies. “Sadly, it seems the leaked copies of the upcoming season Game of Thrones originated from the group approved by HBO to receive them,” said the net. “We’re actively assessing how this breach occurred.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Fox is working on a remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show for television. Two-hour event is to be directed, exec produced and choreographed by High School Musical’s Kenny Ortega, with big screen Rocky Horror’s producer, Lou Adler, onboard, as well as Gail Berman from The Jackal Group.
(Source: Cynopsis)

AMC eight-part special event The Making of the Mob: New York premieres Monday, June 15 at 10p. Spanning over 50 years, series traces the rise of notorious gangsters like Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel from teenagers to murderous mafiosa.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Scarlett Johansson will take her fourth turn as host of Saturday Night Live on May 2, the day after the release of her upcoming film, The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Johansson last manned the NBC sketch comedy’s stage in 2010.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Sunday’s 2015 TV Land Awards gala, hosted by Terry Crews, featured appearances by Carl Reiner, Judd Apatow and a standing ovation for Betty White. Awards show premieres on TV Saturday, April 18 at 9p, with simulcasts on Nickelodeon and NickMom.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Beth Hoyt (Inside Amy Schumer) landed a female lead role opposite Jon Dore in CBS comedy The Half of It. Project from CBS Television Studios focuses on a newly divorced dad.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The mid-season premiere of AMC’s Mad Men delivered 3.6 million viewers and 1.9 million A25-54 in Live+3 ratings, up 57 percent and 60 percent, respectively, versus Live+SD.
(Source: Cynopsis)

E!’s The Royals delivered 1.1 million viewers P18-49 its fourth outing, up 7 percent versus the average and a series high in the demo.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CBS’s The Odd Couple got an 11 percent bounce versus last week, to 2.1/7. Mom matched last week’s 2.0/6.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The season five premiere of Discovery Family’s My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic on Saturday, April 4 was the series’ top-rated debut ever among K2-11, K6-11 and G6-11, ranking the net second among all of broadcast or cable in its timeslot among G6-11 delivery.
(Source: Cynopsis)

TV One’s Easter specials yielded a combined reach of 3.5 million total viewers in Live+3, reports the net. On Saturday, To Hell and Back delivered .5 (282,000) HH and .44 (131,000) W25-54, while Sunday’s 30th Annual Stellar Awards drew .68 (388,000) HH and .63 (188,000) among W25-54.
(Source: Cynopsis)

2015 MTV MOVIE AWARDS – WINNERS LIST
http://www.mtv.com/news/2130795/mtv-movie-awards-2015-winners-list/

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Furious 7 – $60.6 million
Home – $19 million
The Longest Ride – $13.5 million
Get Hard – $8.6 million
Cinderella – $7.2 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)

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