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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 5/21/15)
NBC: Red Nose Day at 8pm
FYI: What the Fung?! (Premiere) at 9pm
INSP: Brush of Honor (Premiere) at 9pm
SPORTSMAN: Shed Wars (Premiere) at 8pm
TRAVEL: Mysteries at the Hotel (Premiere) at 10pm
WE TV: Braxton Family Values (Premiere) at 9pm
WE TV: Cutting It: In The ATL (Premiere) at 10pm
DIY: West End Salvage (Finale) at 7:30pm
The premiere of Fox’s Wayward Pines earned a 90 percent Live+3 lift over its soft same day rating, up to 1.9 among A18-49. Total viewership for the limited series ballooned 65 percent, to 6.2 million.
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Alfonso Ribeiro is replacing Tom Bergeron as host of ABC Sunday night staple America’s Funniest Home Videos for season 26. Bergeron, who’s had the gig since 2001, made the announcement during Tuesday’s season finale of Dancing With the Stars, which the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air alum won last season.
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Turner Broadcasting announced a partnership with Spotify to offer video clips from Adult Swim series as well as clips from TBS late-nighter Conan on their new video platform. Full episodes will also be made available to Spotify users in the UK, Germany and Sweden.
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Kanye West released a statement via his publicists complaining that he was “grossly over-censored” during his performance of two songs on Sunday’s Billboard Awards, broadcast live on ABC. “Non-profane lyrics such as ‘with my leather black jeans on’ were muted for over 30 second intervals,” said the release. “As a result, his voice and performance were seriously misrepresented.”
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Seth Meyers, David Duchovny and Jane Krakowski will each host one hour of tonight’s “fun-raiser,” Red Nose Day. The superstar-studded NBC special, airing 8p-11p, will raise money to help nonprofit organizations working to lift children out of poverty.
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HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero launches Sunday, August 16. The period drama set in Yonkers, New York was created by David Simon (The Wire) and directed by Paul Haggis (Crash).
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Exclusive: Filling in for host Mark Steines on Home & Family today is Paul Johansson (Mad Men). Tomorrow, May 22, Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan takes the reins; Amazing Race winners Laura Pierson, one of Home & Family’s senior producers (“We are so happy for her,” said a show rep) and Tyler Adams will guest. Lifestyle show airs weekdays at 10a on Hallmark Channel.
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Rise: The Promise of My Brother’s Keeper will be simulcast on Discovery and OWN on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 21 at 7p. Documentary explores four different programs aiming to change the narrative about young men of color, and addresses President Obama’s challenge to encourage cradle-to-college strategies for improving the life outcomes of all young people.
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Docu-series Livin’ Lozada, following the lives of Evelyn Lozada (Basketball Wives) and her 21-year-old daughter, debuts on OWN Saturday, July 11 at 9p. The new show leads into the season premiere of Flex & Shanice, about financially strapped actor Flex Alexander, his singer wife and their family, all living under one roof, at 10p.
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The first batch of performers announced for The 69th Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming, includes nominee Chenoweth and the cast of “On the Twentieth Century,” nominees Brian D’Arcy James, Christian Borle, Brad Oscar and the cast of “Something Rotten!,” nominee Chita Rivera and the cast of “The Visit,” nominees Kelli O’Hara and Ken Watanabe and the cast of “The King and I,” as well as the casts of “On the Town,” “Fun Home” and “An American in Paris.” Show airs Sunday, June 7 on CBS.
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Tate Donovan (Damages) will guest on two eps of Showtime’s Masters of Sex. Season three premieres Sunday, July 12 at 10p.
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Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek) has joined the cast of FX’s American Crime Story: The People V. O.J. Simpson. Greenwood will play LA County District Attorney Gil Garcetti.
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Tuesday’s penultimate Late Show With David Letterman broadcast earned a 4.9/12 in metered markets, its best number since 2009, up 48 percent from last week and 145 percent from a year ago.
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The head-to-head Tuesday finales of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars and NBC’s The Voice were both down from their fall closers. Dancing scored 2.3/7 among A18-49, steady with last spring’s finale but down 23 percent from its season 19 finale in November. The Voice earned 2.9/9 in the demo, a four tenths dip from its December finale.
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