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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 6/22/15)
A&E: The First 48: Deadly Sexual Encounters (Premiere) at 8pm
AHC: Auschwitz: Hitler’s Final Solution (Premiere) at 10pm
AZTECA AMERICA: Todo o Nada (Premiere) at 7pm
HISTORY: The Woodsmen (Premiere) at 9pm
HISTORY: Forged in Fire (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: POV (Premiere) at 10pm
GAC: Toy Hunter (Finale) at 10pm
The White House is moving to LA. Handed $6.5 million in tax credits by California, Veep is relocating production after four years in Maryland, announced HBO. “Maryland has been home to many vital HBO projects, from The Corner to The Wire to Game Change, and the support has always been extraordinary,” said a net spokesperson. “We look forward to returning with another production in the future.” The tax incentive was part of a new $330 million program intended to bring projects and jobs back to Hollywood.
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“When it really matters, you can depend on him,” says the new promo for NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt, which launches tonight. Holt, who has filled in for suspended Brian Williams since February, was named permanent anchor on Thursday.
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And the winner of the International Audience Award for comedy at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival is…wait for it…CBS’s How I Met Your Mother, the first time a series won the award after leaving the air. Given to the top-rated shows globally, Audience Awards also went to CBS’s Bold and Beautiful, in the soap opera category, and NCIS for drama.
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Also taking trophies at the festival: Best International Comedy Welcome to Sweden, which airs on NBC Stateside, and Steven (Bruce who?) Van Zandt for Outstanding Comedy Actor in Norway’s Lilyhammer, on Netflix.
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MTV is promoting Scream, premiering Tuesday, June 30, with an interactive online game. “Choose Your Own Murder” positions users in horror movie set-ups, with different options (“Run for the door,” Go out window”) as the game progresses.
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Contestants in locked rooms win the big bucks by solving puzzles and unraveling clues in Race to Escape, a game show premiering on Science Channel Saturday, July 25 at 10p. Comedian Jimmy Pardo hosts.
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Shark attack! Nat Geo WILD’s third annual Sharkfest launches Sunday, July 5 at 8p (same time as Discovery’s Shark Week). NGW’s week-long event kicks off with Shark Alley, following sharks hot on the trail of shape-shifting sardine packs.
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No RSVP needed: Home & Family lifestyle expert Paige Hemmis and musician Jason Short, of Australian group ARIA, get married on a special primetime episode of the Hallmark Channel weekday talker, tonight at 8p. “I am so lucky I get to marry the man of my dreams, at my dream wedding in front of the people I love most,” says Hemmis. “I am giddy with excitement and feel blessed beyond belief!”
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It’s “Flash Forward Wednesday” on ABC Family July 8. On Melissa & Joey at 8p, Mel and Joe are frozen and wake up 100 years later, then Baby Daddy’s Ben sees what Emma’s future would be like if she were raised by Bonnie, Tucker and Danny.
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Dan Rather’s back with The Big Interview on AXS TV Tuesday, July 7 at 8p. In the first of six new eps, the newsman talks to country legend Emmylou Harris.
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Cartoon Network’s Regular Show returns Monday, June 22 at 6p with a week of premieres. Season six finale airs Thursday, followed on Friday by a season seven “first look.”
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The season premiere of Sportsman’s Sheep Shape airs Thursday, June 25 at 8:30p. Hunting locations this go-round include Alaska, the Yukon and Northwest Territories.
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Russell Tovey (Being Human), Alistair Petrie (Utopia) and Douglas Hodge (Penny Dreadful) have been added to the cast of The Night Manager. The mini-series, co-produced by AMC with BBC One and The Ink Factory, is an adaptation of the John le Carre 1993 novel.
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Shalita Grant and Daryl Mitchell have been promoted to season regulars on CBS’s NCIS: New Orleans. Sophomore run of the drama launches Tuesday, September 22.
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The season two finale of Hallmark Channel original scripted series When Calls the Heart drew a 2.1 HH rating and 2.1 total viewers in Live+3, making the net the most-watched at 8p on Saturday, June 13 among HHs and total viewers.
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ABC’s Astronaut Wives Club debuted Thursday at 8p to 5.5 million viewers and 1.1/5 among A18-49, according to Nielsen, down from the recent 1.5 debut of the net’s The Whispers but its highest non-sports summer delivery in the hour since August 2013.
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Comcast founder and Chairman Emeritus Ralph Roberts died June 18 of natural causes. He was 95. The entrepreneur and philanthropist started Comcast in 1963, with the purchase of a small cable system in Tupelo, Mississippi.
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Jurassic World – $102 million
Inside Out – $91.1 million
Spy – $10.5 million
San Andreas – $8.2 million
Dope – $6 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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