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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 5/19/15)
FUSE: Got Ur # (Premiere) at 7pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Massive Moves (Premiere) at 5pm
NAT. GEO. WILD: Are You Smarter Than (Premiere) at 9pm
SYFY: Troy: Street Magic (Premiere) at 10pm
ABC: Dancing With The Stars (Finale) at 9pm
BBC AMERICA: Nature’s Weirdest (Finale) at 9pm
CW: The Flash (Finale) at 8pm
NBC: The Voice (Finale) at 9pm
Finding Carter was picked up for 12 more episodes, premiering on MTV later this year. Cast member Alex Saxon shared the good news via YouTube; season two began in March.
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Nicki Minaj and Chris Brown tied for the most BET Awards nods, with six each, while Beyonce and Lil Wayne earned four. Trophies will be handed out live from the Nokia Theatre Sunday, June 28 at 8p.
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ABC Family launched a summer sampling strategy yesterday that will make all the net’s new summer series available for sampling across digital, social and physical platforms. “We are eventizing the entire summer and offering a massive sampling campaign to showcase our new shows,” said Nigel Cox-Hagan, SVP marketing, creative and branding. Digital premieres on EW.com (Stitchers), HRC.org (Becoming Us), Facebook (Kevin From Work) and Tumblr (Job or No Job, Next Step Realty, Monica the Medium and Startup U) are part of the game plan.
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Turner has extended its deal to broadcast the American Film Institute’s annual AFI Lifetime Achievement Award gala tribute on TNT or TBS through 2018, with encores on Turner Movie Classics. This year’s event, honoring Steve Martin, takes place June 4 for a special premiering Saturday, June 13 at 10p on TBS.
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Rose Byrne, Cheryl Burke, Jeff Dye and SNL cast members Jay Pharoah, Colin Jost and Michael Che join the dozens of celebs pitching in for NBC’s Red Nose Day airing 8p-11p on Thursday, May 21. “Fun-raising” effort earns money to lift children out of poverty.
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Seth MacFarlane, the brains behind Family Guy and Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey will receive the Critic’s Choice Louis XIII Genius Award, for demonstrating excellence in the television arts this year. Viewers are also invited to vote for the “Most Bingeworthy Show” on Twitter or www.AETV.com/Bingeworthy. Show airs Sunday, May 31 at 8p on A&E.
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NBC 4 New York, Telemundo 47 and the New York Giants are teaming for the third annual Health & Fitness Expo, presented by Quest Diagnostics. The free, open-to-the-public health events will be held at MetLife Stadium on Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28 from 10a-3p.
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Hallmark Channel is adapting “The Beach House,” by Mary Alice Monroe, for a TV-movie premiering in 2016. Andie McDowell, star of the net’s Cedar Cove, returning for season three Saturday, July 18, has the lead.
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HBO put in development a miniseries written by John Sayles (Lone Star) about Bass Reeves, who escaped from slavery to become a legendary lawman. Project comes from Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment.
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Max Roy (Heartland) has joined the cast of ABC Family’s “saga series” Shadowhunters in a recurring role.
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Women in need of a maxi-makeover are the focus on Love, Lust or Run, returning to TLC Friday, June 12 at 9p. Reality show comes from True Entertainment.
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Nominations for the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards will be announced Thursday, December 10. Ceremony airs Sunday, January 10 at 8p on NBC.
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Comedian Chuck Nice hosts a Memorial Day marathon of Quantum Leap starting at 6a on Cozi TV, with an assist from astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (Cosmic Queries). The time travel drama then airs Sundays in June (except Father’s Day) from 1-5p.
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TV One’s News One Now primetime special, black-ish A Backstage Pass has an encore Wednesday, May 20 at 8p. Upcoming movies on the net include thriller The Summoning, Saturday June 6 at 8p and romantic comedy Will to Love, debuting Saturday, June 27 at 8p.
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BET’s summer slate includes new series Desean Jackson: The Home Team (wt), a reality show about the Washington Redskins’ wide receiver, from Rogue Atlas Productions in association with Lionsgate Television, launching Tuesday, June 30 at 10p. A reboot of hidden camera series Punk’d premieres Tuesday, August 18 at 10:30p.
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With the Billboard Awards, ABC had its best Sunday showing in viewers and young adults (Oscars excepted) since November, according to early Nielsens. America’s Funniest Home Videos was up 10 percent in total viewers, to 6.4 million, and steady among A18-49), while the music awards delivered 11.1 million viewers (a 14-year high) and 3.7/12 in the demo (12-year high).
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Opposite ABC’s Taylor Swift-fest, CBS’s I Love Lucy special scored .9 among A18-49, ahead of two-hour, canceled Battle Creek, down two tenths to .6 in the demo. NBC’s A.D.: The Bible Continues and American Odyssey hit series lows with .8 and .4, respectively, among A18-49.
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