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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 6/19/15)
ABC: The Astronaut Wives Club (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: Mistresses (Premiere) at 9pm
HISTORY: Mountain Men (Premiere) at 9pm
HISTORY: Alone (Premiere) at 10pm
USA: Complication (Premiere) at 9pm
SPIKE: 2015 Guys Choice Awards at 9pm
Who better to follow in Joan Rivers‘ footsteps than her daughter? E! announced Melissa Rivers will be the new co-host of Fashion Police when the series returns Monday, August 31 with coverage of MTV’s Video Music Awards. Rivers joins current panelists Giuliana Rancic and Brad Goreski, while continuing to serve as executive producer.
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That ’70s Show co-stars Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson are teaming up for new Netflix series The Ranch. The multi-camera comedy, from Two and a Half Men showrunners Don Reo and Jim Patterson, follows a semi-professional football star (Kutcher), who returns home to help his brother (Masterson) run their family’s Colorado ranch. The show has been given a straight-to-series, 20-episode order and is slated to premiere in 2016.
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David Simon, the creative force behind The Wire and Treme, is collaborating with George Pelecanos to develop The Deuce for HBO. The potential new series documents the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s.
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Big Brother season 17 will include a transgender woman among its houseguests. “Audrey Middleton is a Big Brother super fan who applied online, like many other hopeful Houseguests, and was open about her transition in the application process,” said CBS. “It is customary for Big Brother Houseguests to share personal news inside the house, and Audrey plans to discuss her story with the houseguests in her own words during the premiere episode on Wednesday, June 24.” Another twist: BB Takeover, featuring weekly surprise guests who announce a new turn in the game.
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Esquire Network‘s Car Matchmaker returns for a second season on Wednesday, June 24 at 9p. The lineup of celeb guests includes Rolling Stones bassist Darryl Jones, comedian Jay Larson, Grey’s Anatomy alum Patrick Dempsey, Los Angeles Clipper Matt Barnes and Oakland Raider Donald Penn.
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Celebrity Family Feud kicks off Sunday, June 28 at 8p on ABC. Players from the National Football League’s AFC go head-to-head with the NFC, and, in a separate game, professional dancers from Dancing With the Stars face off against participants from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. Teams compete to win money for a charity of their choice.
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Masters of Illusion returns with more mind-bending magic on Friday, July 10 at 8p. The CW series, hosted by Dean Cain, features sleight of hand by cutting-edge illusionists and escape artists in front of a studio audience.
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Transgender teen Nicole Maines makes her acting debut as a guest star in Royal Pains Tuesday, June 23 at 10p on USA. Maines plays Anna, a teenage, transgender choreographer.
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Destination America honors dads with a daytime block of BBQ Pitmasters starting at 10a on Sunday, June 21. The special presentation features five back-to-back episodes of the series as chefs from coast-to-coast duke it out from behind the grill.
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ABC airs three companion piece editions of Extreme Weight Loss – Love Can’t Weight, beginning Tuesday, June 23 at 9p. Hosts and trainers Chris Powell and Heidi Powell will help three obese couples get in shape, both physically and emotionally, for their weddings.
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Laurence Dobiesz is joining season 2 of Starz drama Outlander as villain Jack Randall’s kinder, gentler younger brother.
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Another Coach alum is returning for NBC‘s revival. Bill Fagerbakke, who played special teams coach Michael “Dauber” Dybinski, has signed on as a series regular.
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Charles Grodin nabbed a role in the ABC drama Madoff. He’ll portray entrepreneur and philanthropist Carl Shapiro.
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ABC’s broadcasts of the NBA Finals were the highest-rated in the network’s history. The six-game series averaged a 13.9 overnight rating, up from the 10.6 rating posted by the 2014 Finals. The sixth game, which aired on Tuesday and saw the Warriors win it all over the Cavaliers, posted a 15.9 overnight rating, according to Nielsen, the highest game six in ABC’s history of airing the Finals.
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UP original film Love Finds You In Charm set a new ratings high for the network as its strongest original movie for the year among W25-54 on its premiere night, June 7. Based on Live+SD data, the movie reached 2.2 million viewers P2+ during its premiere week and is UP’s highest rated premiere movie year to date among W18-49 and W25-54.
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The Phineas and Ferb simulcast on Disney XD and Disney Channel delivered 3.8 million unique total viewers, including 2.4 million Kids 2-14 and nearly 1.0 million A18-49. On Disney XD, the show’s primary channel since Summer 2014, the finale stood as the series’ top original telecast on the network in total viewers (1.4 million) and across target kid and boy demographics.
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