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ON TELEVISION (WEDNEDAY 6/17/15)
TV ONE: Unsung: DJ Quik (Premiere) at 8pm
TV ONE: A Genius Leaves The Hood: The Unauthorized Story of Jay-Z (Premiere) at 9pm
MTV2: Not Exactly News (Premiere) at 11:30pm
SUNDANCE TV: Deutschland 83 (Premiere) at 11pm
BBC AMERICA: Ripper Street (Finale) at 10pm
What does Donald Trump’s presidential bid, announced Tuesday, mean for his TV roles? NBC is taking a wait-and-see stance with Celebrity Apprentice, not currently airing but renewed for season 15. “We will re-evaluate Trump’s role as host of Celebrity Apprentice should it become necessary, as we are committed to his franchise,” said the network. It’s a different story over at Fox & Friends. Fox News Channel said the real estate mogul/reality star’s weekly appearances will be suspended while he’s working the campaign trail. No hard feelings there – Trump’s first post-announcement interview went to FNC’s Bill O’Reilly.
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Showtime renewed drama Penny Dreadful for a third season, once again shooting on location in Dublin, and slated for a 2016 debut. Season two airs Sundays at 10p, headed for a July 5 finale.
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Debbie Matenopoulos, one of the original co-hosts on The View, is replacing Thea Andrews on The Insider, effective July 6. Matenopoulos, who joined the entertainment newsmag as a special correspondent in May, will host with Louis Aguirre. “She has great chemistry with Louis and the team,” said exec producer Brad Bessey. “She’s down-to-earth, plugged into celebrity news and pop culture, has a vibrant personality and is a true industry insider.”
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Mireya Villarreal has been named a CBS News Correspondent and Weijia Jiang a Correspondent for CBS Newspath, the network’s 24-hour television newsgathering service for CBS stations and broadcasters. Villarreal joins CBS News from KTVT-TV in Dallas, where she was a reporter. Jiang was part of the team at NYC’s WCBS-TV that won a regional Emmy award for coverage of Superstorm Sandy.
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CBS Summer Preview, the net’s first digital special focused on original summer programming, offers a 10-minute sneak peek at shows including drama Zoo, returning event series Under the Dome and Extant and reality show Big Brother as well as highlights from The Late Late Show with James Corden. Hosted by Brother host Julie Chen, the special is available on demand online, on mobile devices and on TV through Tuesday, July 14.
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Elizabeth Banks (“The Hunger Games”, “Pitch Perfect”), along with producing partner Max Handelman, has signed a multi-year overall producing deal with Warner Bros. Television to develop and produce series.
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Ripped from the headlines Prison Break: Killers on the Run, a one-hour special about the June 6 escape of two inmates from the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York, premieres on Investigation Discovery Thursday, June 18 at 9p. Presented under ID’s “instamentary” series strand, Front Page, the show is produced by NBC News’ Peacock Productions.
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A&E has a lineup of three premieres featuring former boy banders set for Wednesday, July 15. Season four of Wahlburgers launches at 9:30p, followed by season two of Donnie Loves Jenny at 10p and newcomer Lachey’s Bar, focused on 98 Degrees alums Nick and Drew Lachey as they launch a business in Cincinnati, at 10:30p.
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Controversial documentary A Genius Leaves the Hood: The Unauthorized Story of Jay Z makes its debut on TV One tonight at 9p. The 90-minute film chronicles how the rapper/mogul made it to the top.
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AXS TV will air 17 hours of coverage of The Firefly Music Festival from Friday, June 19 to Sunday, June 21. On stage: Kings of Leon, Modest Mouse, AWOLNATION, Bastille, Sublime with Rome, Hozier, Cage the Elephant, Foster the People, Dirty Heads and more perform, beginning nightly at 7p.
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Regina King will be back as a series regular for season two of ABC anthology drama American Crime, along with Felicity Huffman and Timothy Hutton. King will be “at the center of a story that deals with physicality, sexuality, and societal boundaries with the same urgency as our first season dealt with race and faith,” said creator/exec producer John Ridley.
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Adria Arjona has been cast as transported 20-year-old Dorothy Gale in NBC event series Emerald City. Arjona will also be seen in upcoming season two of HBO’s True Detective.
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ABC Family cast Jade Hassoune (Cyberbully) as a recurring guest star on upcoming series Shadowhunters. Houssoune plays a creature equal parts angel and demon on the saga based on fantasy book series The Mortal Instruments.
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Las Vegas is onboard as partner for TV One one-hour special HelloBeautiful Interludes Live: Johnny Gill, premiering Saturday, June 20 at 10p, part of the net’s “Black Music Month” programming. Vegas was highlighted in several features, including an exclusive concert performance, a co-branded promo showcase and custom vignette. Other official sponsors include Ford, MetroPCS and McDonalds.
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The season five finale of HBO’s Game of Thrones hit a series high 8.1 million viewers, up from 7.14 million the week prior and 7.09 million for its 2014 finale.
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The premiere of Bravo’s second original scripted series, Odd Mom Out, delivered over 1.2 million total viewers and 705,000 P18-49 on Monday. The net had its best Monday in prime since February 2014, with Mom, a Shahs of Sunset reunion (1.6 million viewers/926,000 P18-49) and season ten launch of The Real Housewives of Orange County (2.6 million total viewers and 1.6 million P18-49).
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Discovery’s Deadliest Catch was Tuesday’s number one prime cable telecast across total viewers, P25-54, M25-54 and M18-49 on June 9 in L+3, earning a 2.33 among P25-54 and averaging 3.58 million total viewers P2+. Driven by Deadliest, Discovery was the top cable network during Tuesday prime time in the demos.
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Live! With Kelly and Michael was the top syndicated talker, unchanged at 2.7 versus last week with original eps, squeezing past Dr. Phil, down 7 percent with reruns to 2.6. Dr. Oz, down 8 percent to 1.2, dropped 29 percent from last year to match its all-time low.
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Scripps sisters HGTV and Food Network more than held their own against ABC’s record-breaking NBA Finals game and the Game of Thrones finale on Sunday, landing four of the top six ad-supported cable show slots. HGTV’s Island Hunters delivered its highest rated episode ever with a .9 rating among P25-54, helping HGTV rank number one in cable nets among P25-54 and W25-54.Over at Food, Food Network Star was no slouch, either – the second episode of the season was number one across all ad-supported cable for the night, drawing 4 million P2+ viewers during the 9p hour and posting a .9 rating among A25-54 (900,000 imp), up 19 percent versus year-ago.
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MTV2 scored its highest-rated day in the network’s nearly 20-year history on Wednesday, June 10, reaching 4.4 million unique total viewers with a .3 rating across total day. The season seven premiere of Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘N Out was the number one original series in its 11p timeslot with a 1.3 L+3 rating in the P12-34 demo across two new episodes. “After a record three years of ratings growth, we’re aiming higher with our new summer slate,” said Chris McCarthy, GM of MTV2 and Logo TV. In addition to record ratings, “Wild ‘N Out helped us own the cultural conversation with the number one social series of the day across all of TV.”
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TNT’s coverage of the 2015 NBA Playoffs gave the net a clean sweep of primetime in final Live+7 ratings for the month of May, with number one rankings among total viewers and all key adult demos. TNT claimed eight of basic cable’s Top 20 programs for the month among A18-49 and total viewers.
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The freshman run of Bounce TV’s Mann & Wife delivered over 5.7 million viewers and 3.7 million homes across all plays. Each of the ten premiere eps was in the top ten among target African American A18-49 in ad-supported cable Tuesdays at 9p.
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WE tv landed the number one and number five spots in the W 25-54 demo in all of cable on Thursday night. Braxton Family Values delivered 810,000 for first place in the demo, while newcomer Cutting It: In the ATL delivered 466,000 to place fifth.
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SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 6/14/15)
1) Muse – Drones – 79,429
2) Of Monsters & Men – Beneath The Sun – 56,642
3) Taylor Swift – 1989 – 31,842 (After 4,930,123)
Other Debuts
6) Various Artists – Now Country 8 – 19,206
8) A Thousand Horses – Southernality – 16,894
14) Tamia – Love Life – 15,694
20) Tremonti – Cauterize – 13,083
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