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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 4/15/15)
BRAVO: Million Dollar Listing New York (Premiere) at 10pm
DISCOVERY FAMILY: Weird Wild and Deadly (Premiere) at 8pm
ID: Dangerous Persuasions (Premiere) at 10pm
OUTDOOR CHANNEL: GunnyTime with R. Lee Ermey (Premiere) at 8pm
ID: My Dirty Little Secret (Finale) at 9pm
NAT. GEO.: Alaska State Troopers (Finale) at 9pm
TV ONE: R&B Divas LA (Finale) at 10pm
Welcome to the family: Leading up to the season three premiere of BBC America’s Orphan Black, sister net IFC will air a 21-hour marathon of the first two seasons starting at midnight on Friday, April 17. Round three of the sci-fi drama launches across all AMC Networks channels – IFC, AMC, WE tv, SundanceTV and BBC America – on Saturday, April 18 at 9p.
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Bruce Jenner has been making headlines as the clock ticks down to his April 24 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer, but son Brody grabbed the spotlight Tuesday with the announcement that E! has picked up relationship series Sex with Brody. Based on the younger Jenner’s podcast, the talk show is “taking a fun approach that leaves nearly nothing off limits,” said EVP original programming & development Jeff Olde. Therapist Dr. Mike Dow and comedian Stevie Ryan round out the discussion panel. First of four eps launches Friday, July 10 at 10:30p.
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On the heels of MTV2’s highest-rated quarter ever (“outpunching its weight class,” as GM Chris McCarthy put it), the net gave a pilot order and two series greenlights. Animated pilot Celebrity Deathmatch revives fantasy fights, while docu-series Kingin’ with Tyga follows the recording artist and his crew, and talk show Uncommon Sense with Charlamagne tha God is hosted by the Guy Code star.
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HLN ordered a game show based on the “Heads Up!” game and app from The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Comedian Loni Love (The Real) will host the weekday offering from Telepictures, launching in 1Q16. “I’m so excited thatHeads Up!is going to be a game show,” said DeGeneres. “It’s so fun and addictive. I play it on my show all the time. I play it at home. I played it last night at Jennifer Aniston’s house. She wasn’t home, so please don’t print that part.” Heads Up!, downloaded over 16 million times, was Apple’s top paid app of 2014.
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The Weinstein Company grabbed rights to Truman Capote crime story In Cold Blood, to adapt for TV as a miniseries. Gary Oldman and Douglas Urbanski’s Flying Studios will produce.
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ABC Family announced it is doubling its original programming slate over the next four years, with a mix of scripted and reality series. Renewed scripted hits Pretty Little Liars, Switched at Birth and The Fosters will be joined by Stitchers, Becoming Us and Kevin From Work this summer; Shadowhunters, based on young adult book series The Mortal Instruments, and drama Recovery Road are slated for fall. Eight additional shows are in development. “We are going to expand in all genres,” said EVP Programming Karey Burke. “The goal is to get more year-round originals, so we need to have more of everything.”
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Let it go – to television. Blockbuster Disney film Frozen will premiere on TV across Disney/ABC nets Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Disney X D, ABC and ABC Family beginning in February 2016.
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Hallmark Channel daytime lifestyle series Home & Family was renewed for season four. The only cable series to produce 52 consecutive weeks of new episodes, H&F airs weekdays at 10a.
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Gino Anthony Pesi (Dallas) will recur on upcoming NBC drama Shades of Blue. Cop series stars Ray Liotta, Drea de Matteo and Vincent Laresca.
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HBO’s on a winning streak. Sunday’s season five premiere of Game of Thrones delivered 7.99 million same day viewers, up 1.16 million from its season four bow and a series high. The premium cable net’s Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief is also setting records. Having racked up 5.5 million viewers since its March 29 premiere, the documentary is on pace to rank behind only 2013 Beyonce as HBO’s most-watched doc.
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Sunday’s MTV Movie Awards drew an average 1.55 million viewers for its premiere, down from 2.84 million last year. Among A18-34, numbers slipped from 1.45 million to 680,000.
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The season seven premiere of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York City delivered 2.2 million viewers and 1.4 million among P25-54 in Live+3, up 27 percent in the demo and 22 percent in total viewers versus the prior season bow. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season five reunion led the night at 8p with 2.9 million viewers and 1.8 million among P25-54, giving the net its best Tuesday of the year.
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The March 24 season two finale of Friday Night Tykes was Esquire’s highest-rated original telecast. Season two grew 58 percent from season one in L+7 among A18-49 and 71 percent among M18-49, reaching a combined total audience of 7.3 million viewers for the entire season, with over 6.3 million total viewers and an additional 950,000 VOD transactions.
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HGTV boasts it was the number one cable network among W25-54 with .69 rating for the week of April 6.The network also ranked first among upscale W25-54 for the week.
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Food Network’s Sunday night line-up ranked number four among cable, posting double digit gains versus year ago for P25-54. A trio of prime series rated .7: Guy’s Grocery Games rose 24 percent versus last week (670,000 impressions), All-Star Academy had a 14 percent boost (720,000 impressions) and Cutthroat Kitchen jumped 12 percent (640,000 impressions).
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Syndicated Dr. Phil (up 3 percent versus the week prior) and Live with Kelly & Michael (up 7 percent) shared the top talk spot with 3.0 the week ending April 5. Ellen DeGeneres bounced back form a season low, up 14 percent to 2.5.
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There was heated competition in the game show space, with Jeopardy tying usual ratings leader Wheel of Fortune with 6.6. Family Feud was third with 6.3.
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The day after it was announced that The Bachelor’s Chris Harrison will replace Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) as host next season, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire fell to a series low 1.6, down 24 percent versus the same week last year.
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SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 4/12/15)
1) All Time Low – Future Hearts – 75,375
2) Furious 7 Movie Soundtrack – 45,084
3) Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly – 28,806
Other Debuts
10) Lord Huron – Strange Trails – 18,443
16) Brian Wilson – No Pier Pressure – 15,503
22) Matt And Kim – New Glow – 12,499
32) Mountain Goats – Beat The Champ – 8,452
36) Flo Rida – My House – 7,572
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