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DISCOVERY: Sons of Winter (Premiere) at 10pm
FOOD: Chopped All-Stars (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: Mark & Derek’s Excellent Flip (Premiere) at 11pm and 11:30pm
PBS: Last Days in Vietnam: American Experience (Premiere) at 9pm
AHC: America’s Most Badass (Finale) at 10pm
ESQUIRE: The Runner-Up (Finale) at 10pm
NBC: One Big Happy (Finale) at 9:30pm
TLC: 7 Little Johnstons (Finale) at 9pm and 10pm
Twist his arm: Smashing Pumpkins founder Billy Corgan is joining TNA Wrestling as senior producer, creative and talent development. Said TNA EVP of television and talent John Gaburick, “We knew Billy would bring a great viewpoint when we offered, and he graciously accepted, to attend a recent creative summit. During those meetings, Billy’s pioneering perspectives and collaborative approach made it quickly evident we needed to bring him on as a permanent member of our team.” Corgan will develop characters and create storylines for shows including Impact Wrestling, airing Fridays at 9p on Destination America.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The winner of TLC’s Summer Block Party contest is the Pennypack neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia. 19 Kids & Counting’s Duggar family, Cake Boss Buddy Valastro, Kate Gosselin and Say Yes to the Dress’ Randy Fenoli are among the talent slated to be on hand at the free event Saturday, May 30 at the Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season five of Homeland will shoot on location in Germany at the Studio Babelsberg in Berlin, starting in early June. The Showtime drama will be the first American TV series to shoot a full season entirely in the country.
(Source: Cynopsis)
As Netflix readies its Full House Sequel, Lifetime gave the green light to The Unauthorized Full House Story (wt), a look behind the scenes at the 1987-1995 sitcom. Ron McGee (Unauthorized Saved By the Bell) will write.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season three of ASPiRE talk show Exhale premieres Wednesday, May 6 at 9p. First topic: the importance of friendship.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WE tv’s Braxton Family Values returns with new episodes Thursday, May 21 at 9p. Prepare for secrets, divorce and shocking news.
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Live! With Kelly & Michael’s Michael Strahan may have taken home a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host last weekend, but can he beat Hoda Kotb on Lip Sync Battle? Competition airs Thursday, April 30 at 10p on Spike.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The 3rd Annual Reality TV Awards take place Wednesday, May 13 at the Avalon-Hollywood. Confirmed celebs include Bridget Marquardt (E!’s The Girls Next Door) and Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt (WE tv’s Marriage Bootcamp), with cast members from numerous other series expected. Audio Network is a presenting sponsor.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Chris Brown, the number one performer of all time on Music Choice Video on Demand, is the latest artist to be named Music Choice Icon. Brown will be featured across all MC platforms in May, including a special airing Tuesday, May 5 at 8p on Music Choice Play.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Dora Madison Burge (Dexter) joins Chicago Fire in tonight’s episode, the first of a three-part Chicago Fire/Chicago PD and Law & Order: SVU crossover. Burge will guest star on the final three eps of the season as the paramedic replacing Peter Mills.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Byron Mann (Rise of the Legend) joined the cast of AMC’s Hell on Wheels as a series regular. Wheels began production on its fifth and final season last week, with seven eps slated to launch this summer and seven in summer 2016.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Jenny Slate will star in a comedy pilot for FX co-created by Gillian Robespierre and Elisabeth Holm (Obvious Child, which starred Slate) about female friends on a road trip. Ari Graynor (Bad Teacher) also stars.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC, tops in A18-49 on Sunday, hit a seven-week high, up 7 percent versus last week to 1.5/5, according to Nielsen fast nationals. Once Upon a Time and Secrets and Lies tied as Sunday’s top broadcast program in the demo with 1.7/5.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CBS’s Madam Secretary was the most-watched show Sunday night with 10.43 million viewers, but hit a series low 1.0/3 among A18-49.
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The season finale of CBS’s Scorpion on April 20 had the night’s largest Live+3 lift in viewers, A18-49 and A25-54, per Nielsen, adding 3.2 million viewers (to 13.9 million), .9 ratings points in A18-49 (to 3.1) and 1.2 among A24-54 (to 4.2).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Discovery’s 9p episode of Deadliest Catch was the number one program on cable among P25-54 on Tuesday, April 21 in Live+3, with 3.6 million viewers P2+, earning a 2.7 HH rating and 2.76 among M25-54.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Oxygen’s The Prancing Elites Project was the net’s highest-rated series premiere in all key demos since its October 2014 rebrand, according to Live+3 data. Across the premiere and two encores on April 22, the docu-series drew 1.13 million total viewers, 660,000 P18-49 and 525,00 F18-49, up triple digits from the prior four-week time period average.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Pop’s telecast of the 42nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards was seen by nearly 900,000 viewers Sunday night, the net’s (formerly TVGN) most-watched event in eight years. Pop aired a live telecast at 8p and a repeat at 11p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Actress Jayne Meadows Allen died April 26 of natural causes. She was 95. In addition to roles in film and on Broadway, Allen had television roles on shows including Hawaii Five-0, Adam-12 and Meeting of Minds, and was a long-time panelist on I’ve Got a Secret. Her husband, original Tonight Show host Steve Allen, died in 2000.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Don M. Mankiewicz died of congestive heart failure on April 25. He was 93. Mankiewicz, active in the Writers Guild of America, wrote the pilots for Ironside and Marcus Welby, M.D.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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