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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 7/16/15)
AHC: Evolution of Evil (Premiere) at 10pm
COOKING: Carnival Eats (Premiere) at 10pm
DIY: Income Property (Premiere) at 9pm
FX: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (Premiere) at 10pm
FX: Married (Premiere) at 10:30pm
GSN: Chair Reaction (Premiere) at 9pm
SYFY: Geeks Who Drink (Premiere) at 11pm
SYFY: Reactor (Premiere) at 11:30pm
TRU TV: Impractical Jokers (Premiere) at 10pm
TRU TV: Friends of the People (Premiere) at 10:30pm
DESTINATION AMERICA: BBQ Pitmasters (Finale) at 10pm
TRAVEL: Mysteries at the Hotel (Finale) at 10pm
WE TV: Cutting It: In The ATL (Finale) at 10pm
The Television Academy and Google have teamed to provide Chromecast devices to all 18,500 Academy members for viewing and voting on final Emmy nominees. It’s “the latest move by the Academy to evolve and enhance the viewing and voting procedures,” said the group, which eliminated paper ballots last year.
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Meghan McCain has joined Premiere Networks news/talk radio program America Now as host. McCain co-hosted Pivot late-nighter TakePart Live, canceled last year.
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The slate of Kennedy Center Honors honorees this year includes rock band Eagles, Carole King, George Lucas, Rita Moreno, conductor Seiji Ozawa and Cicely Tyson. The 38th annual presentation will be broadcast Tuesday, December 29 at 9p on CBS, home of the special every year since its debut.
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The Television Academy’s 67th Annual Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards will take place Saturday, July 25 at The Skirball Cultural Center’s Guerin Pavilion in Herscher Hall. Hosted by Comedy Bang! Bang!’s Scott Aukerman, the show will hand out honors for achievements produced, financed and controlled by LA TV stations and cable systems.
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VH1 hosted a two-mile tandem bike parade that started in Central Park yesterday, with 175 sets of twins onboard. The spectacle celebrated the net’s reality competition Twinning, premiering Wednesday, July 22 at 10p.
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Bravo has three new unscripted projects on its development slate. Shahs of Sunset star/real estate agent Reza Farahan and decorator Taylor Spellman will star in Yours, Mine or Ours (wt), from JV Productions, helping couples find their first home together. Tabatha Coffey (Shear Genius) returns to the net for self-help show Tabatha’s Life Takeover (wt), produced by Morocco Junction Entertainment and All3Media, offering an assist to people in need of a life makeover. And in Heir Heads (wt), from Lime Pictures and All3Media, heirs get a trial period as CEO of the family business.
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After pilot airings of Listed Sisters drew over 2 million viewers and HGTV’s best rating of the year among A25-54 in the time period, the net ordered a full season of 12 episodes of the real estate show. Produced by Coolfire Studios, full season starts in 2016.
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Syfy’s second annual “Sharknado Week,” running July 18-25, includes seven original movies. Roboshark (great white gobbles an alien space probe, terrorizes Seattle) kicks things off Saturday, July 18 at 7p. Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! splashes down Wednesday, July 22 at 9p.
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Spike’s Bar Rescue gets an early start Sunday, July 19, taking the 8p slot to make room for the premiere of three-night event series Tut at 9p. Rescue moves back to 9p the following week.
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Sony Movie Channel will present “The Recline,” a block of westerns, every Wednesday in August starting at 8p. Comanche Station (1960), starring Randolph Scott, kicks things off August 5.
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Self-made millionaires Rooster McConaughey (brother of Matthew) and Butch Gilliam offer entrepreneurs a chance to secure funding in West Texas Investors Club, premiering Tuesday, August 4 at 10p on CNBC.
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Weekly show Fashionably Late with Rachel Zoe launches Thursday, September 24 at 10:30p. The half-hour Lifetime talker looks at the world through the lens of fashion.
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Bigger, better…more onions? Esquire competition series The Next Great Burger offers culinary hopefuls the chance to showcase their high-calorie creations, starting Tuesday, July 21 at 10p.
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TLC’s Our Little Family returns Tuesday, August 18 at 10p, and this time around the clan will cross over with the net’s Little People Big World for an episode. Season one of Family attracted 1.7 million P2+ viewers and was a top 5 cable program in its time period with women.
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The new season of TV One’s Unsung Hollywood, premiering Wednesday, July 22 at 8p, focuses on comedians Bernie Mac and George Wallace, actor Billy Dee Williams, Sammy Davis, Jr. and the movie Carwash.
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Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) has joined the cast of upcoming SundanceTV series Hap and Leonard, picked up for six one-hour eps to air in 2016. Hendricks left the female lead in Showtime’s Roadies after the decision was made to re-conceive the character.
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Anne Winters (Tyrant) stars in The Bride He Bought Online, about teen cyber bullying, premiering on Lifetime Saturday, July 18 at 8p. Travis Hammer (Dig) and Alexandra Paul (Baywatch) co-star.
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Anabelle Acosta (Ballers) will recur on ABC’s upcoming Quantico. Drama starring Priyanka Chopra premieres Sunday, September 27 at 10p.
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Sunkrish Bala (The Walking Dead) landed a season-long story arc on ABC’s Castle. He’ll play a tech analyst with a complicated past.
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Nikki Reed has joined Fox’s Sleepy Hollow as a series regular. The Twilight alum plays Betsy Ross in season three, launching Thursday, October 1.
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The MLB All-Star Game on Fox topped Tuesday but didn’t hurt reality competitions. ABC’s Extreme Weight Loss was up two tenths versus last week, to .8/3 among A18-49, and NBC’s America’s Got Talent also saw a two tenths week to week gain, to 2.5/9 in the demo. Scripted didn’t fare as well: CBS’s Zoo slipped two tenths, to 1.0/3.
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Seven out of 12 syndicated talk shows were up Fourth of July week. Leading the pack: Live With Kelly & Michael, up 4 percent with 2.7 to take first place in the category among HHs, and tied for the top spot among W25-54 with Wendy Williams (1.3). In households, Williams was up 29 percent year to year, the most of any talk show; Jerry Springer (1.4) came next, up 27 percent.
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Family Feud was steady with last week and up 44 percent from last year with 6.2. Wheel of Fortune was down 3 percent versus last week to hit a season low.
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TV journalist Marlene Sanders died July 14 from cancer. She was 84. Sanders, one of television’s first female war correspondents, was the first network newswoman to report from Vietnam, said her son, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.
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