FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 6/15/15)
A&E: The First 48: Killer Confessions (Premiere) at 8pm
AMC: Making of the Mob: New York (Premiere) at 10pm
FOOD: Top 5 Restaurants (Premiere) at 10:30pm
GOLF: Altered Course (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Over My Dead Body (Premiere) at 10pm and 10:30pm
TRAVEL: Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern (Finale) at 9pm
A year and a half after joining Yahoo as global news anchor, Katie Couric has renewed her contract, confirmed her spokesman on Friday. There had been speculation that Couric, who was co-host of Today when Andy Lack was president of NBC News, might rejoin NBC now that Lack has returned to the network.
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Fusion grabbed exclusive broadcast rights to Can You Dig This, a doc about the urban garden movement in South LA. Exec produced by John Legend and his Get Lifted Film Co., show is slated to air on the net in spring 2016.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC’s Bachelorette might have unwittingly revealed the winner of the dating competition. Kaitlyn Bristowe posted – then hastily deleted – a photo of herself on Snapchat lounging in bed with one of the contestants (we won’t play spoiler and tell you who), which would appear to indicate he is the winner of season eleven. Red herring…or caught red-handed? Show airs Mondays at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Turner Classic Movies will honor actor Christopher Lee with an eight-film tribute Monday, June 22, that includes 1957’s The Curse of Frankenstein and 1958’s Horror of Dracula. Lee passed away June 11 at age 93.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Kaitlyn Leeb (Heartland) joins the cast of ABC Family’s Shadowhunters as guest star. Drama is based on fantasy book series “The Mortal Instruments.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Danny Deferrari (Pan Am) and Stephen Gevedon (Hellbenders) are onboard ABC miniseries Madoff, starring Richard Dreyfuss as Ponzie schemer Bernie. Defarrari will play Madoff’s son Andrew and Gevedon money manager Robert Jaffe.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Game 4 of the NBA finals on ABC was up 32 percent in viewers (19.8 million) and 27 percent among A18-49 (7.6/26) versus last year. On average, the finals are tracking as the series’ most-watched performance on ABC and the biggest overall 4-game average since 2001.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Against the game, Fox much-DVRed drama Wayward Pines managed to increase one tenth, to 1.2/4. NBC’s Aquarius also saw a one tenth bump in the demo, to .8/3.
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The premiere of CNN series The Seventies on Thursday beat the cable news competition at 9p among viewers A25-54 with 291,000, versus 278,000 for Fox News and 94,000 for MSNBC. CNN was the only cable news network to increase (up 29 percent) in the news demo versus last year. In total viewers Fox News was first with 1.95 million, followed by 887,00 for CNN and 647,000 for MSNBC.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Actress/singer Monica Lewis died June 12. She was 93. Lewis appeared on numerous TV series, including Marcus Welby, M.D., Remington Steele and Falcon Crest.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Jurassic World – $204.6 million
Spy – $16 million
San Andreas – $11 million
Insidious Chapter 3 – $7.3 million
Pitch Perfect 2 – $6 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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