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Turner Broadcasting continues to elbow its way into live programming with a multi-year deal to bring the iHeartRadio Music Awards to TBS, TNT and truTV. The show will simulcast live on Sunday, April 3, 2016, sandwiched between TBS’s coverage of the NCAA basketball championship Final Four on April 2 and the net’s first-ever telecast of the championship game on April 4. The awards had aired on NBC for two years.
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The Closer joins MyNetworkTV with back-to-back eps starting Wednesday, September 30. The Walking Dead ambles over to Tuesdays on September 29 for its second season on MNT.
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BET Awards vet Jesse Collins will produce the 2015 Soul Train Awards for BET Network’s Centric, via Jesse Collins Entertainment. In addition to awards shows, Collins is an exec producer on BET’s Real Husbands of Hollywood.
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It took ten years, but Reba is headed back to the stage for the CMT Music Awards, airing live from Nashville on Wednesday, June 10 at 8p. Among the presenters are Arnold Schwarzenegger, Billy Ray Cyrus and David Spade.
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Blythe Danner (Meet the Parents) and Lyne Renee (Strike Back) join ABC Ponzi scheme miniseries Madoff. Danner plays Ruth Madoff, wife of Bernie, while Renee plays the second wife of Madoff son Andrew.
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Michael Esper (Nurse Jackie) will recur on NBC’s upcoming cop drama Shades of Blue, starring Jennifer Lopez as a federal informant.
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Debmar-Mercury has extended live production of The Wendy Williams Show for the third summer, through July 23. Wendy has risen 9 percent season to date to a 1.2 rating among W25-54 and 11 percent, to 1.0 among W18-49, the only entertainment talker to gain year-to-year nationally.
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The title for the next season of Saban Brands’ colorful superhero series will be Power Rangers Dino Super Charge, premiering on Nickelodeon in early 2016. Look for new battle gear in the fight to save the universe.
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BabyFirst and the American Heart Association launched an app designed to get young children excited about eating their veggies. Free to download and available for iOS devices in the iTunes App Store, Harry’s Healthy Garden features the TV net’s popular Harry the Bunny helping toddlers grow and prepare vegetables in a virtual garden.
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Opposite Game 2 of the NBA finals on ABC, CBS’s Tony Awards fell 25 percent versus last year to .9/3 among A18-49, an all-time low, and 6.4 million viewers, according to fast nationals. Basketball scored 6.1/19, up 22 percent from last year’s Game 2, and 15.6 million viewers.
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The season three premiere of USA’s Chrisley Knows Best delivered best-ever ratings in A25-54 and total viewers P2+. Both telecasts scored 1.48 million viewers P18-49, up 20 percent over last season, 1.68 million P25-54, up 40 percent, and 2.92 million total viewers, up 30 percent in Live+3.
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Megyn Kelly’s interview with 19 Kids and Counting sisters Jill Dillard and Jessa Seewald delivered 2.2 million total viewers and 641,000 among A25-54 to Fox News’ The Kelly File on Friday. That’s down 28 percent in viewers and 25 percent among A25-54 from Kelly’s talk with alleged Jill and Jessa molester Josh Duggar’s parents, Jim Bob and Michelle, on Wednesday, but up 35 percent in viewers and 114 percent in the news demo from the previous Friday.
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The premiere and encores of TV One’s Unsung on Wednesday delivered 1.7 million total viewers P2+ in Live+3, for the best Wednesday Unsung performance ever among viewers, HH (513,000) and W25-54 (267,000).
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