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CNBC: The Profit (Premiere) at 10pm
DIY: Lake Life (Premiere) at 10pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Massive Moves (Premiere) at 5pm
MYX TV: Call to Cosplay (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D (Finale) at 9pm
BRAVO: Newlyweds: The First Year (Finale) at 10pm
CBS: NCIS (Finale) at 8pm
CBS: NCIS: New Orleans (Finale) at 9pm
NBC: Undateable (Finale) at 9pm
NBC: Chicago Fire (Finale) at 10pm
American Idol is getting at 15th and final season on Fox. Host Ryan Seacrest and judges Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban and Harry Connick, Jr. will be back for the grand hurrah. The singing completion that once averaged over 20 million viewers now pulls in about 9 million. Co-chairman of Fox Television Group Gary Newman said Fox and Idol producers FremantleMedia and 19 Entertainment “felt collectively” that it was the right time for the franchise to end, but promised “a year-long celebration.” Season 14 finale airs tonight at 9p and Wednesday, May 13 at 8p.
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CBS renewed CSI: Cyber, The Odd Couple, Person of Interest, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Hawaii Five-0, Criminal Minds, Elementary, The Good Wife and Blue Bloods. On the reality show side, Survivor, The Amazing Race and Undercover Boss will all be back, along with newsmags 60 Minutes and 48 Hours. Freshman drama Stalker was axed; missing from the list but not yet canceled: CSI.
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Fox is splitting season two of Empire into two parts, one to air in the fall and one in spring. Ne-Yo, a fan of the hit show, will write music for the hip hop drama’s sophomore run. Chris Rock, Alicia Keys and Lenny Kravitz will guest star.
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, a simulcast of the ESPN radio show, premieres on Fusion May 19 at 4p. The three-hour programs bolsters the net’s live offerings weekday afternoons from 4-7p.
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Selma Blair (Anger Management) joins the cast of FX’s American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson as Kris Jenner (Keeping Up With the Kardashians), ex-wife of Simpson attorney Robert Kardashian.
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Missing from Fox’s fall schedule is New Girl, which is set to return midseason. Freshman sci-fi drama Minority Report lands Mondays at 9p, while all-new Tuesday comedy block is made up of Grandfathered at 8p, The Grinder at 8:30p and Scream Queens at 9p. Rosewood grabs the Wednesday-at-8p slot.
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Fox event series The X-Files landed the plum post-NFC championship premiere slot of Sunday, January 24. Sci-fi drama settles into its regular berth the following night at 8p.
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The 58th Annual Grammy Awards moves from Sunday to Monday, February 15, 2016 (a holiday weekend), at 8p. This year’s broadcast drew 27 million viewers for CBS.
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Disney XD is premiering two specials this month. Team Hot Wheels: Origin of Awesome arrives Saturday, May 6 at 6:30p, followed a week later by Team Hot Wheels: Skills to Thrill. Playground Productions produces.
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Documentary Now!, created by SNL alum Fred Armisen, Bill Hader and Seth Meyers and exec produced by Lorne Michaels, premieres Thursday, August 20 at 10p on IFC. “We’re all fans of documentary film and this allows us to use that love of documentary film and combine it with comedy to present a sort of unique take on the form,” said Armisen, Hader and Meyers in a joint statement.
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Discovery Life’s Psych Week programming launches on Monday, May 25 at 10p with Kids With Tourette’s. One-hour special follows three young boys and their families over six months of living with the incurable condition.
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Nat Geo Wild is kicking off its first all-dog BarkFest weekend, premiering Friday, May 15, with #BarkBreak on Thursday. Fans can follow @natgeowild on Twitter for a link to request that an adoptable dog in NYC, LA or D.C. be dispatched for a 30-minute puppy play date.
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Power returns to Starz Saturday, June 6 for season two, followed by a second run of comedy Survivor’s Remorse later this summer, as well the debut of comedy Blunt Talk, from Seth MacFarlane and Fuzzy Door Productions.
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Three best friends make a middle school bucket list in 100 Things to Do Before High School, premiering on Nickelodeon Saturday, June 6 at 8p.
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Showtime’s 3AM launches Thursday, May 28 at 11p, exploring the late-night lives of five, ahem, uninhibited New Yorkers. “There’s nothing like this on TV,” promises (warns?) exec producer Dick Wolf.
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Stephanie Mills, who starred as Dorothy in the Broadway production of The Wiz, will play Auntie Em in NBC’s live TV version, slated for Thursday, December 3. The search for Dorothy is underway.
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Sunday’s series finale of Revenge delivered a 1.3/4 rating among A18-49 in fast nationals, the ABC drama’s best number since November 16. ABC was tops in the demo for the night with 1.5/5, and second in viewers (5.4 million) to CBS (8.2 million).
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TLC’s 19 Kids & Counting delivered 3.6 million P2+ viewers May 5, with a two-hour birth special that averaged 2.9 among W25-54. New series The Willis Family averaged 1.9 million P2+ viewers and 1.4 W25-54 rating. TLC was the number one network in all of television on Tuesday night with W18-34 and the number one cable network with all key women demos.
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The two-hour 19 Kids & Counting birth special was the #1 cable program in prime on Tuesday night among all key women demos, and was the #1 program in delivery in prime on all of television with W18-34. The series premiere of The Willis Family ranked #1 in cable in its Tuesday 10-11pm time period in delivery among W25-54.
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E!’s Botched delivered 925,000 viewers A18-49 on Tuesday, May 5 in Live+3, a season two record high, ranking as a top 5 show for the night among W18-34 (#3), A18-34 (#4), W18-49 (#4), and a top 10 show for the night among A18-49 (#7), in all of ad-supported cable, excluding sports.
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TV One’s News One Now town hall meeting, “State of Baltimore and Beyond” on Tuesday, May 5 was number one in the 9-11p timeslot among Black P25-54. “African Americans are strong news consumers, and are interested in vital issues such as police brutality,” said Roland S. Martin, host and moderator of News One Now. “At TV One, we speak to our audience in a way that no one else can, and are unapologetic in doing so.”
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