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Spike TV is partnering with screenwriter Kurt Wimmer (Salt) for his first TV project, scripted series When the Levee Breaks. Drama focuses on an African-American cop who crosses an LAPD strike line to investigate two murders.
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Monami Entertainment (Mona Scott-Young’s company; creator of Love & Hip Hop shows) is inviting emerging producers to pitch TV and film ideas today, June 3 in Santa Monica. Pitch meetings will be 10 minutes each; attendees can use development materials like treatments, sizzle reels and power point presentations. Register here. Location revealed upon registering.
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WE tv greenlit two unscripted series centered on law. Docu-dramas Ladies of Law (wt), from Eastern and Monami Entertainment, and Sisters in Law, produced by Collins Avenue Entertainment, join WE tv’s line-up in 2016. Production on both one-hour series begins this summer.
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It’s a wrap. Production concluded over the weekend in Vancouver for Up premiere movie Welcome Home, starring and exec produced by Luke Perry. Drama from Entertainment One Television will make its debut this year.
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Adult Swim renewed live action comedy Childrens Hospital for season seven. “I’m happy,” said creator/exec producer Rob Corddry. “After our season six cliffhanger, people will be dying for us to turn our backs on the notion of series continuity even more.” Season six finale airs Friday, June 19 at midnight.
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Comedy Central ordered Not Safe With Nikki Glaser to series, as well as a one-hour special featuring the Inside Amy Schumer recurring guest. Series blending interviews, pre-taped segments and social experiments will launch in 2016.
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Logo gave the green light to new series Food to Get You Laid, with celeb chef Ronnie Woo, part of a summer “Sunday Funday” block kicking off July 26 at 7p that also includes RuPaul’s Drag Race: Season 4 RuVealed and Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’ Secret Guide to Fabulous. The net’s annual special, Traiblazers Honors, airs Saturday, June 27.
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Season six of VH1 Couples Therapy with Dr. Jenn returns this fall with more high-profile pairs at a crossroads. Relationship therapist Dr. Jenn Mann helps Angela “Big Ang” Murphy (Mob Wives), Creed front man Scott Stapp, RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Carmen Carrera, model Janice Dickinson and hip-hop star Joe Budden and their significant others decide whether or not it’s time to call it quits.
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The 2016 Miss America Competition will air live from Atlantic City on Sunday, September 13 at 9p on ABC. It’s the first walk down the runway since Dick Clark Productions teamed with the Miss America Organization.
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Add Eric Church, Jake Owen, Sam Hunt and Zac Brown Band to the performers hopping onstage for the CMT Music Awards. Show airs live from Nashville Wednesday, June 10 at 8p.
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Homeland added four performers to its season five cast: German actor Sebastian Koch (The Lives of Others), Miranda Otto (The Lord of the Rings trilogy),Alexander Fehling (Inglorious Basterds) and Sarah Sokolovic (Cold Comes the Night) filming in Berlin this week for the Showtime drama.
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Tom Lipinski landed the role of Bernie Madoff son Mark in ABC miniseries Madoff. Richard Dreyfuss plays the Ponzi schemer.
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Adam Rodriguez (CSI: Miami) will recur on season two of Fox’s Empire. Rodriguez will play a concert promoter on the hip hop drama, premiering September 23 at 9p.
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Frances Fisher (Titanic) and Michael O’Keefe (The Great Santini) will play Virginia’s parents on season three of Masters of Sex, reports EW. Showtime drama returns Sunday, July 12.
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ABC’s The Bachelorette had a 19 percent boost versus last week in the young adult demo, to 1.9/6 among A18-49, and a 20 percent lift in total viewers, to 6.5 million. Lead-in The Whispers bowed with 1.5/5, the net’s best summer scripted premiere since Rookie Blue in 2010.
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A&E’s broadcast of Sunday’s Critics’ Choice TV Awards delivered 522,000 viewers, with 315,000 for an encore immediately following. Last year on The CW (admittedly, apples to oranges), the show drew 1 million total viewers.
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Lifetime scripted series UnReal, a critically well-received drama skewering reality dating shows, launched to 815,000 viewers on Monday with 363,000 among A18-49, down from 1.47 million viewers and 671,000 in the demo for lead-in Devious Maids.
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HGTV had its best May ever among viewers P25-54 in primetime thanks to series including Flip or Flop, on pace for its best season ever, Lakefront Bargain Hunt, Caribbean Life and Fixer Upper. The net averaged a 0.51 P25-54 primetime rating in May, up 9 percent over 2014.HGTV was the number one cable network in primetime and on weekends (SS 7a-8p) among upscale W25-54 and again ranked as a top 10 cable network in primetime, eighth among P25-54 and third among W25-54.
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SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 5/31/15)
1) A$AP Rocky – At.Long.Last.A$AP – 116,731
2) Boosie Badazz – Touch Down To Cause Hell – 59,392
3) Hillsong United – Empire – 47,033
Other Debuts
14) Lifehouse – Out Of The Wasteland – 14,872
16) Lacs – Outlaw In Me – 14,260
22) Alesso – Forever – 9,430
25) Dizzy Wright – Growing Process – 8,791
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