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AHC: What History Forgot (Premiere) at 10pm
ABC FAMILY: Pretty Little Liars (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC FAMILY: Stitchers (Premiere) at 9pm
BRAVO: Secrets and Wives (Premiere) at 10pm
COOKING: Junk Food Flip (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Southern Fried Homicide (Premiere) at 9pm and 10pm
TRAVEL: Trip Flip (Premiere) at 8pm
TRU TV: How To Be A Grown Up (Premiere) at 10pm
USA: Chrisley Knows Best (Premiere) at 9pm
USA: Royal Pains (Premiere) at 10pm
Ken Howard announced he’s seeking re-election as president of SAG-AFTRA. “Despite countless jobs being created in seemingly endless new ways, performers have to work harder than ever to make ends meet,” said Howard. “For many, it’s a real struggle. It’s my mission to make sure SAG-AFTRA protects our members’ ability to do the work they love and to build their lives around it.” Howard was elected president of SAG in 2009 and 2011, then of the merged SAG-AFTRA in 2013. Ballots will be mailed July 21; Howard has already racked up endorsements from George Clooney, Betty White, Octavia Spencer and Bryan Cranston, among others.
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Monday was a big day for Caitlyn (formerly Bruce) Jenner. Vanity Fair posted its July issue cover pic, the first of Jenner as a transgender woman, and ESPN announced Jenner will receive the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPY Awards, July 15 on ABC. E! docu-series featuring the Olympic champ’s transition journey launches July 26.
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The third annual ABC Discovers: Digital Talent Competition launched yesterday. Aspiring actors or comedians compete for a $25,000 talent deal by submitting a video on https://abcdiscovers.abc.go.com now through June 14.
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Multi-platform music video net Music Choice is featuring an Essence Festival category on demand, featuring content from artists who will be performing at the New Orleans event July 2-5, including Kendrick Lamar, Sevyn Streeter, Mary J. Blige and Usher, among others. Folder available free now through July 12.
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Bobby and Jamie Deen search for local delicacies with a side of outdoor adventure in Southern Fried Road Trip, served up by Food Network starting Monday, July 13 at 10p. Prepare for fried bologna sandwiches, tomato pie and Slugburgers.
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Disney’s Bunk’d, a spin-off of Jessie, debuts Friday, July 31. Comedy follows live-action movie Descendents, premiering at 8p.
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TV One original movie The Summoning arrives Saturday, June 6 at 8p. Thriller focuses on a widow (True Blood’s Paula Jai Parker) who summons her late husband (Switched at Birth’s Terrell Tilford).
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GetTV pays tribute to Rosalind Russell this month, with movies starring the film legend airing every Thursday starting at 7p. First up: The Guilt of Janet Ames on June 4.
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Antenna TV celebrates Father’s Day with a marathon of Father Knows Best episodes, starting Sunday June 21 at 7a and running through 2:30am.
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The Mindy Project, transported from Fox to Hulu for season four, will “push the envelope in ways we haven’t been able to,” said Mindy Kaling at BookCon on Saturday. Kaling was at NYC’s Javits Center to promote her upcoming book, “Why Not Me?”.
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Season two of truTV’s How to Be Grown Up premieres tonight. Anything new this time around? “We have taken the show to a whole new level,” says Michael Agbabian, an exec producer on the show. “In addition to our hilarious returning comics, we have added a new line up of fresh and funny personalities who put a whole new spin to being a grown up. Also, this season we go outside the studio with field pieces and special segments with our comics that are laugh-out-loud hysterical.”
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A sophomore run of supernatural crime drama From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series launches on El Rey Tuesday, August 25 at 9p. Filmmaker and network founder Robert Rodriguez will direct the premiere and finale. World premiere runs at ATX Fest Saturday, June 6.
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Cry Wolfe returns with back-to-back eps Tuesday, June 16 at 10p on Investigation Discovery. Season two of the true crime series begins with a girl being blackmailed by someone threatening to post nude photos online.
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UP reality series Bringing Up Bates is back for season two Thursday, June 4 at 9p. In the premiere, the family celebrates “I Love You Day.”
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Alison Wright (The Americans) has joined the cast of HBO movie Confirmation, playing the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
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Wood Harris and Mack (Tristan) Wilds from The Wire, along with Afton Williamson, David Call and Antoine Harris are onboard VH1 hip hop movie The Breaks, premiering in late fall 2015.
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Sandrine Holt (The Returned) will recur on AMC’s upcoming Fear the Walking Dead. Holt will play a doctor on the Walking Dead companion series.
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Luke Mitchell was promoted from recurring to series regular for season three of ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Mitchell plays Lincoln, a member of the Inhuman tribe.
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Fox’s primetime premiere of Golan the Insatiable, moved from late night, drew .6/2 among A18-49 and 1.6 million viewers, according to preliminary Sunday Nielsens.
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The spring finale of ABC Family’s Young & Hungry hit a series high among A18-34 (618,000/.9) for the third consecutive week, and season high among A18-49 (888,000/.7) for the second week.
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The season finale of Bravo’s Southern Charm last Monday delivered a series high 1.7 million total viewers, 1.1 million P25-54 and 985,000 P18-49, according to Nielsen Live+3, up 11 percent, 21 percent and 9 percent, respectively, from the prior season closer.
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History event series Texas Rising opened to a Live+3 audience of 5 million total viewers and 4.1 million total viewers on May 25 and May 26, respectively, making it the top entertainment cable telecast each night in Live+3 total viewers.
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Across its nine nights, Animal Planet’s Monster Week (May 17-25) averaged 951,000 P2+ viewers, an increase of 13 percent over 2014. The premiere telecast of The Cannibal in the Jungle delivered 1.6 million viewers and ranked among the top three non-sports ad-supported cable programs on Sunday, May 24 among M25-54 (#2, 475,000) and M18-49 (#3, 417,000).
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Actress Betsy Palmer died May 29. She was 88. Palmer appeared in numerous television shows, including Knots Landing, Newhart and Charles in Charge, and was a panelist on game show I’ve Got a Secret, as well as the original letter turner on Wheel of Fortune.
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