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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 4/29/15)
BBC AMERICA: Ripper Street (Premiere) at 10pm
COOKING: Tia Mowry at Home (Premiere) at 9pm
HBO: The Casual Vacancy (Premiere) at 8pm
LIFETIME: Tallest Virgin in the World (Premiere) at 11pm
SCIENCE: Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman (Premiere) at 10pm
VH1: Swab Stories (Premiere) at 9pm
A&E: Shipping Wars (Finale) at 10pm
FOOD: Mystery Diners (Finale) at 9:30pm
For the first time in its history, Showtime is bringing two films to theaters, under the new Showtime Documentary Films banner. Listen to Me Marlon, charting the life and career of Marlon Brando, and Prophet’s Prey, a look inside the world of cult leader Warren Jeffs and the FLDS, will roll out in theaters nationally before their TV premieres.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Bounce TV announced a 17-city comedy tour, Off the Chain Live!, based on its stand-up comedy show. Series host Rodney Perry will headline all performances, starting April 29 in Charlotte, NC.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Viola Davis (How to Get Away With Murder) is onboard an untitled project for HBO from Amblin TV based on biography Bound for the Promised Land, about Harriet Tubman. Davis will play the abolitionist, as well as serve as an exec producer. Kirk Ellis (John Adams) writes.
(Source: Cynopsis)
USA picked up a pilot for Paradise Pictures, set in 1940s Hollywood. Period drama is written and exec produced by Suits writer Rick Muirragui and exec produced by Suits creator/exec producer Aaron Korsh.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Scout Comics & Entertainment announced its summer 2015 formation as a multi-media entertainment company, touting itself as “the leading film and television content company for the comic book industry.” Debut title: Solarman, a reboot of the 1989 Marvel comic book written by Stan Lee, for all platforms.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Bravo hits the North Shore of Long Island for Secrets and Wives, premiering Tuesday, June 2 at 10p. New reality series from Haymaker follows a tight-knit group of women navigating new marriages, second (and third) divorces and empty nests.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Atlanta-set hair salon reality show Cutting It: In the ATL premieres Thursday, May 21 at 10p. WE tv promises “a wild season of dos, disses and divas.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Animated comedy Golan the Insatiable landed a Sunday summer slot on Fox. The series, which originally ran in 15-minute segments on the net’s Animated Domination HD late night Saturday block, premieres May 31 at 9:30p. Rob Riggle (Modern Family) and Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation) lead a new voice cast.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Oxygen is partnering with NBCUniversal’s FLUENCY Productions for the TV debut of bilingual romantic comedy Ana Maria in Novela Land, about a young woman who wakes up inside the telenovela she’s obsessed with. “Oxygen and FLUENCY share the same passion for telling optimistic and compelling stories that reflect a diverse, vibrant-minded audience,” said Rod Aissa, Oxygen EVP, programming and development. “We are constantly looking for new and unique content that resonates with our viewers.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
History’s American Pickers are back Wednesday, May 6 at 9p. In the opener, Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys eyes a vintage Chet Atkin’s Gretsch guitar.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season six of Spike TV’s Ink Master launches Tuesday, June 23 at 10p, with eighteen tattoo artists competing for $100,000 and an editorial feature in Inked.
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VH1 renewed Barely Famous for season two. The reality TV spoof starring sisters Erin and Sara Foster is slated to start its second run in 2016.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Disney Junior ordered season two of Miles From Tomorrowland. The animated series is the year’s top show among preschool nets in total viewers, kids 2-5 and boys 2-5. Look for more shelves of Tomorrowland toys and items to hit mass retailers this summer.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Lucky Dog, part of CBS’s Dream Team…It’s Epic! weekend lineup, will be back for the 2015-2016 season – more good news for the show. When Brandon McMillan was announced Outstanding Lifestyle/Travel/Children’s Series Host at the Daytime Emmys, he tells Cynopsis, “I swear I thought I was dreaming. All of us who work on Lucky Dog make sure we pour our blood, sweat and tears in this show day after day.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Dr. Phil had the top talk spot to itself, holding steady at 3.1 while Live With Kelly & Michael dipped 10 percent to take a solid second place 2.8.
(Source: Cynopsis)
E! delivered year on year primetime growth in April 2015, including finishing up 29 percent among A18-49. The growth marks E!’s most-watched delivery in primetime in the demo since August 2014.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The launch of new TBS comedy Your Family Or Mine delivered a combined audience of 2.7 million viewers in Live+7 delivery for its April 7 premiere and encores, with 1.3 million A18-49 and 581,000 A18-34. Across TBS’s television, digital and mobile platforms, the show has reached 5.2 million viewers for its series premiere.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TNT‘s spring launch of Cold Justice drew a combined audience of 2.4 million viewers in Live+7 delivery for its April 10 premiere and encore. That includes 1.0 million A25-54 and 829,000 A18-49.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The season finale of Discovery’s Dual Survival delivered a series high among key demos that included total viewers P2+ (2.3 million), P18-49 (1.12 rating), W25-54 (.95) and W18-49 (.85) in L+3. The series also grew both its women and men ratings by double digits since the season premiere.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Childrens Hospital ranked as basic cable’s number one program in its midnight Friday time slot among A18-24,18-34 and A18-49 and M18-34 and M18-49, charting double-digit delivery gains versus the prior week’s premiere among all key adults and men.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Part one of TV One’s R&B Divas LA Reunion special premieres and encores had a combined reach of 1.3 Million total viewers P2+ on April 22. The episode delivered .74 HH (422,000), 1.05 W25-54 (315,000) and .59 P25-54 (345,000). Part two airs tonight at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC’s World News Tonight ranked first for the week of April 20 in total viewers for the fourth consecutive week, and topped the A18-49 demo for the fifth week. Versus last week, the newscast is up 4 percent in viewers, 15 percent in A25-54 and 12 percent among A18-49.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Actor and former Entertainment Tonight correspondent Paul Ryan died April 23 of leukemia. He was 69. In addition to conducting celebrity interviews for ET, Ryan had credits on numerous shows, including Night Court, Murder, She Wrote and Bewitched.
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Partridge Family cast member Suzanne Crough died April 27. She was 52. Crough, who played youngest Partridge daughter Tracy, also had roles on 1970s shows including Wonder Woman and Mulligan’s Stew. In a 2010 Partridge Family reunion on the Today Show, Crough said she had left show business and was working as an office manager.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 4/26/15)
1) Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color – 90,888
2) Yelawolf – Love Story – 51,472
3) Drake – If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late – 27,806 (After 11 weeks – 862,962)
Other Debuts
6) Mana – Cama Incendiada – 20,347
8) KB – Tomorrow We Live – 18,220
11) Passion Pit – Kindred – 16,295
18) Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen – Hold My Beer: Vol. 1 – 12,522
21) Frank Sinatra – Ultimate Sinatra – 11,440
29) Curren$y – Even More Saturday Night Car Tunes – 9,186
35) They Might Be Giants – Glean – 8,029
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