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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 5/20/15)
ABC: 500 Questions (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: Celebrity Wife Swap (Premiere) at 10pm
DISCOVERY: Air Pressure (Premiere) at 10pm
FOX: Masterchef (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: Modern Family (Finale) at 9pm
ABC: Black-ish (Finale) at 9:30pm
CBS: Survivor (Finale) at 8pm
CW: Supernatural (Finale) at 9pm
ID: Dangerous Persuasions (Finale) at 10pm
LIFETIME: Little Women: LA (Finale) at 9:30pm
NBC: The Mysteries of Laura (Finale) at 8pm
NBC: Law & Order: SVU (Finale) at 9pm
NBC: Chicago PD (Finale) at 10pm
CBS: Late Show with David Letterman (Finale) at 11:30pm
AMC’s Mad Men ended after seven seasons on Sunday with finale highs of 3.3 million viewers and 1.4 million among A18-49, scoring a best-ever 1.7 million A25-54. The episode was the third most-watched episode ever, after the premieres for seasons five and six.
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Former NFL player Jesse Palmer has joined Good Morning America as a special contributor across ABC News platforms, continuing as college football analyst on ESPN and SEC Network. For those who don’t follow sports, Palmer hosted three shows on Food Network, and is known as the Bachelor who gave the final rose hopeful standing a plane ticket instead of a ring.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The first round of performers were announced for the CMT Awards, airing live from Nashville Wednesday, June 10 at 8p. Taking the stage: Carrie Underwood, Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean, Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Lady Antebellum and Luke Bryan.
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MTV ordered an animated pilot presentation for comedy Fancy Bastards (wt) from exec producers Jason Micallef and Kristen Schaal; studio is Titmouse. Cast includes Brittany Snow (Pitch Perfect), Sharon Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne and SNL’s Nasim Pedrad.
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The season two premiere of ID’s How (Not) to Kill Your Husband launches Saturday, May 23 at 10p – but the net has a few season finales on deck this month, too. Dangerous Persuasions finishes up tonight at 10p, the season five closer of True Crime With Aphrodite Jones airs Monday, May 25 at 9p, House of Horrors: Kidnapped wraps Tuesday, May 26 at 10p and Mansions & Murders closes its doors for the season Wednesday, May 27 at 9p.
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Season two of FX’s The Strain debuts Sunday, July 12 at 10p. Its freshman year, the Carlton Cuse drama was 2014’s most-watched new scripted series among basic and cable nets in A18-49 (2.4 million). In Live+7, the show drew 6.28 million total viewers and 3.49 million A18-49.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SundanceTV non-fiction series Close Up With the Hollywood Reporter premieres Sunday, August 2 at 11a. First seven eps lead up to the 2015 Emmy Awards on Sunday, September 20; second seven take a look at Oscar nominees.
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TV One’s Unsung returns during Black Music Month on June 3, continuing on Wednesdays at 8p.The season opener features Ike Turner. The net’s slate also includes The Gospel Tradition: In Performance at the White House on Friday, June 26 at 9p, a joint premiere with PBS.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Leading up to the end of David Letterman’s historic 33-year run as a late night host, tonight on CBS’s Late Show, friends and colleagues have been paying tribute.
“He was, for me, and I think many comics of my generation, an incredible epiphany of how a talk show or how entertainment or how television could… for God’s sake, the man put a camera on a monkey.” Jon Stewart
“Not one single writer/performer in the last 35 years has had Dave’s seismic impact on comedy.” Conan O’Brien to EW
“I remember after 9/11, we needed somebody. The city was in shock….He said, ‘There is only one requirement for any of us and that is to be courageous, because courage, as you know, defines all other human behavior.’ We needed that.” Jimmy Fallon
“David Letterman, growing up, was my Jesus to the point where it’s embarrassing.” Jimmy Kimmel
“While I can still be freshly awestruck by his intelligence and his creative genius, I like his humanity even more.” Keith Olbermann
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NBC topped the ratings for the second year in a row for the 2014-2015 primetime season with a 2.4/8 rating/share in A18-49, ahead of CBS (2.3/7), ABC (2.2/7), FOX (1.9/6) and the CW (.8/3). CBS was first in total viewers with 11.3 million, followed by NBC (8.6 million), ABC (8 million), FOX (5.8 million) and the CW (2.1 million). Bragging rights for ABC: it’s the only major network to grow its young adult audience this season.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC’s The Bachelorette had its strongest season premiere since 2012, with 7.2 million viewers and 2.1/7 among A18-49, and was the top show of the night in A18-34, W18-34 and W18-49.
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Part one of the Keeping Up With the Kardashians two-night event on E! focused on Bruce Jenner was up 40 percent versus the week prior, to 2.9 million viewers. Among A18-49, the ep had a 33 percent bump, to 1.77 million.
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Syndicated Dr. Phil held steady at 3.3 to lead talkers for the 17th straight week (including ties). Live With Kelly & Michael, down 3 percent, was a solid second with 2.8.
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TBS’s new comedy Your Family or Mine drew a combined audience of 2.7 million viewers in Live+7 for its April 28 episode and encores, including 1.3 million A18-49. Across TBS’s linear, on-demand, digital and mobile platforms, the series is reaching an average of 2.8 million viewers per episode.
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The truTV special Impractical Jokers: Funny ‘Cause It Hurts episode scored 1.4 million viewers to rank 6th in its timeslot among A18-49 and M18-49, and a top 10 finish among total viewers.
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SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 5/17/15)
1) Pitch Perfect Soundtrack – 92,077
2) Mumford & Sons – Wilder Mind – 47, 390 (After 2 weeks – 279,353)
3) Incubus – Trust Fall (Side A) EP – 39,322
Other Debuts
7) David Guetta – Listen – 29,375
8) Snoop Dogg – Bush – 27,231
17) Music of Nashville Soundtrack (S3, Vol. 2) – 12,220
21) Veil of Maya – Matriarch – 9,401
29) Tallest Man on Earth – Dark Bird is Home – 7,990
31) Hinder – When The Smoke Clears – 7,239
34) Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell – Traveling Kind – 7,054
40) Steve Aoki – Noen Future II – 6,581
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