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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 4/16/15)
UP: Shannon & Sophie (Premiere) at 9pm
E!: Who Wore It Better? (Finale) at 8:30pm
TLC: My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding (Finale) at 9pm

Emerald City, scrapped eight months ago because of creative differences between executive producer/writer Josh Friedman and NBC, is getting a new lease on life. The network revived the Wizard of Oz event series with a 10-episode order; David Schulner (The Event) has taken over showrunner duties.
(Source: Cynopsis)

TBS’s Conan In Cuba has reached 3.7 million viewers, thanks to multiplatform viewing and encore telecasts on TBS, HLN and truTV. The late night destination special delivered 1.5 million viewers in Live+7 delivery for its March 5 premiere telecast, a 73 percent increase over Conan’s year-to-date average.
(Source: Cynopsis)

There’s closure on the way for fans of NBC‘s Revolution, canceled last year after two seasons. The show’s storylines will wrap up in a four-chapter digital comic book, a project from exec producers Eric Kripke, J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Rockne S. O’Bannon and Jon Favreau, with DC Comics; Revolution writers David Reed and Ryan Parrott penned the chapters. In a letter to fans, Kripke said he wanted to pay them back and give them “something fantastic. And while, unfortunately, we simply can’t make more episodes of the show (alas, there are financial realities we can’t overcome), we can do the next best thing. Which is end the story. On our terms. Exactly the way we would have.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Fashion Police will be back in September – and so will host Giuliana Rancic, despite controversy over comments she made about Zendaya’s Oscars hairstyle, and the departures soon after of fellow hosts Kelly Osbourne and Kathy Griffin. “I will be on the show, Brad Goreski will be on the show,” said Rancic on Access Hollywood Live Wednesday. “Now they just have to fill the other seats.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

TV One has a mix of new series in development. Shows range from scripted comedy The Family Plot, about a former beauty queen who inherits a funeral home from her deceased husband, to reality series Biker Girlz, about members of a female biker club competing for love, to It’s Good To Be Me, a contemporary docu-series that looks at the lives of Black America’s most famous celebs.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Zachary Levi, former star of NBC’s Chuck, is set to executive produce and host new Syfy game show Geeks Who Drink, based on the nationwide pub trivia phenomenon. Games begin Thursday, July 16.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Fusion ordered 10 episodes of My Selfie Life. Produced by Nerd TV, the half-hour series features young Americans filming themselves as they live through life-changing moments. Show premieres this fall.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Oprah talks with film and TV producer Brian Grazer (Empire) on Super Soul Sunday, April 19 at 11a on OWN.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The Paley Center for Media in New York City will pay tribute to African-American achievements in television, saluting seven decades of accomplishments across drama, comedy, news, talk, sports, music and variety on Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Special guests and presenters include Mara Brock Akil, Anthony Anderson, Diahann Carroll, Lee Daniels, Julius Erving, Gwen Ifill, Wynton Marsalis, Phylicia Rashad, Michael Strahan, Cicely Tyson, Larry Wilmore, and Oprah Winfrey.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The prison adventures of Piper and company will continue. Two months ahead of Orange Is the New Black‘s third season debut, Netflix has renewed the dramedy for a fourth season. Season three bows Friday, June 12, while round four is slated to debut in June 2016.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Bravo Media’s Top Chef is heading home to California. The culinary competition series returns to San Francisco and Los Angeles, where it all began, as well as making stops in San Diego, Santa Barbara, Oakland and the Greater Palm Springs area. Season thirteen begins production in late spring.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Christina Cole (The Assets) is joining the season 5 cast of USA‘s Suits. She’ll play Dr. Paula Agard, a Harvard educated psychiatrist specializing in high end corporate consulting.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Cush Jumbo, Hugh Jackman’s co-star in the the Broadway hit The River, has signed on to recur on the CBS drama The Good Wife.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Seven Pasquale, last seen as Alicia Florrick’s campaign manager on The Good Wife, is set to star in DirecTV‘s new comedy series Almost There. He’ll play Jackson Cooper, a commitment-phobic psychiatrist who finally meets the girl of his dreams.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother), who plays Maria Hill in Marvel’s Avengers film franchise, is slated to make a guest appearance on ABC series Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. She announced the news on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
(Source: Cynopsis)

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