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GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Made From America (Premiere) at 9pm
CBS: Mom (Finale) at 9pm
FOX: Backstrom (Finale) at 9pm
Revenge has officially been canceled. That the ABC drama’s season four finale on May 10 will be its last doesn’t come as a complete surprise – series star Madeline Stowe was just killed off, and a recent network promo advised viewers to “be there for the final four episodes.”
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Don’t rule out a television return for David Letterman, leaving CBS’s Late Show on May 20 after 22 years. Might he be back on the small screen soon? “It just depends on the number of bridges I’ve burned,” Letterman told the NY Times. “Jane Pauley is now on the CBS Sunday Morning Show. Perfect fit…So maybe one day, something of that level will happen to me.”
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First Lady Michelle Obama makes her fifth and final appearance on Late Night tonight. Also saying goodbye: musical guests Hootie & the Blowfish, who made their network TV debut on the show in 1994.
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Not that there’s anything wrong with that: Hulu will also be the exclusive SVOD provider of all nine seasons of Seinfeld, per a deal with distributor Sony Pictures Television. The announcement was made at Hulu’s Upfront presentation in NYC yesterday.
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Cheating men learn their lesson the hard way in Oxygen series Player Gets Played, launching Wednesday, June 10 at 9:30p. Each episode follows women who band together after discovering their boyfriends have been unfaithful.
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Nine DIY enthusiast couples compete to revive dilapidated houses, and the last pair standing wins their dream home in Fox’s Home Free. Reality show hosted by Mike Holmes (Holmes on Homes) from Relativity TV and exec producer Tom Forman (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) premieres Wednesday, July 22 at 9p.
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Food Network Star is back for an eleventh run Sunday, June 7 at 9p, with Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentis returning as mentors/judges for the cooking competition. Winner is crowned Sunday, August 16 at 9p.
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Season two of Deion’s Family Playbook launches on OWN Saturday, May 9 at 9p, as the former football and baseball star, caring for ten children, settles not all to comfortably into a smaller temporary home.
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Wendell Pierce (Treme) will play Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in HBO film Confirmation. Kerry Washington (Scandal) stars as Anita Hill.
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Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (The Returned), Gary Cole (Veep) and Broadway star Cherry Jones are among the cast of PBS’s Mercy Street, from Ridley Scott. Civil War drama is slated to join the Sunday night lineup in winter 2016.
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ABC’s 20/20: Bruce Jenner – The Interview collected another 3.6 million viewers in Live+3, for a total of 20.7 million. The A18-49 rating grew 31 percent, from 5.2 to 6.8, the highest lift for a newsmagazine since 2007, when delayed viewing numbers were first recorded by Nielsen.
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HGTV delivered its best April ratings ever, averaging a .54 P25-54 rating in prime and .48 P25-54 rating on weekends.The net had its best prime time ratings growth year over year at 15 percent, ranking number 7 among P25-54 in prime and second among W25-54 in prime. Its weekend rating was up 4 percent year over year.
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Cooking Channel had its most-watched April in network history, with viewership at its highest ever among P25-54 and W25-54, both up 6 percent year over year. Doing their part for YOY gains: Dinner at Tiffani’s (up 65 percent), season two of Rev Run’s Sunday Suppers (up 50 percent), and Unwrapped 2.0 (up 30 percent).
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ABC’s Dancing With the Stars anniversary special Tuesday delivered a 1.7/6 rating, up 30 percent versus last week’s finales of Fresh Off the Boat and Repeat After Me, but 15 percent off Monday’s regular show. Up against the hoofers, NBC’s The Voice was down four tenths, to 2.2/8, but still led the night in the demo.
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