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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 7/27/15)
CARTOON: We Bare Bears (Premiere) at 6:30pm
FYI: Unplugged Nation (Premiere) at 10pm
ABC: The Bachelorette (Finale) at 8pm
AHC: Auschwitz: Hitler’s Final Solution (Finale) at 10pm
DISCOVERY: Street Outlaws (Finale) at 9pm
Showtime is pulling the plug on Happyish after one season. Picked up to series in January 2014 with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Kathryn Hahn in the lead roles, the dark comedy was eventually revived after Hoffman’s untimely death with Steve Coogan starring. The one-and-only season finale drew a soft 348,000 viewers in Live+3 ratings.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Comedy Central’s Key & Peele will end in September after five seasons. Co-creator Keegan-Michael Key told TheWrap the acclaimed sketch series was shuttering because it’s time for he and co-star Jordan Peele “to explore other things, together and apart.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Wrestling star Hulk Hogan apologized for racist comments he made in a 2012 radio interview, but it wasn’t enough to get him back in WWE’s good graces. “I am disappointed with myself that I used language that is inconsistent with my own beliefs,” said Hogan in a statement after tapes linked to a lawsuit Hogan brought against Gawker.com were posted online. Hogan is out as judge on USA’s WWE Tough Enough, his name and likeness have been erased from WWE’s website and his contract with WWE terminated. He does have his defenders, though. “There isn’t a racist bone in that man’s body,” tweeted NBA alum Dennis Rodman.
(Source: Cynopsis)
NBC half-hour comedies Mr. Robinson and The Carmichael Show, originally set to air from 9-10p starting Wednesday, August 5, are breaking up. Now Mr. Robinson will air back-to-back eps for three weeks, followed by three weeks of doubled-up Carmichaels launching August 26. The maneuver gives audiences “a chance to fully engage,” said the net, as well as giving each show a shot an America’s Got Talent lead-in.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Zac Roloff and Tori Patton of TLC reality show Little People Big World were married on July 25 on the Roloff family farm in Oregon. The wedding will air as a two-hour special on Tuesday, August 25 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Jay-Z and Will Smith are producing an HBO miniseries with Aaron Kaplan about African American Emmett Till, murdered in 1955 for asking a white woman on a date. Project comes from Kapital Entertainment, Overbrook Entertainment and Roc Nation.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Faran Tahir (Iron Man) has joined the cast of ABC’s American Crime. Season two is filming in Austin, TX.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Actress/supermodel Naomi Campbell landed a multi-ep arc on FX’s American Horror Story: Hotel. New season launches in fall 2015.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Amy Brenneman will reprise her role as Marie de Guise on an episode of CW’s Reign, reports EW. Season three launches Friday, October 9 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The July 19 premiere of Spike’s Tut delivered 2.6 million viewers, growing to 3.8 million with re-airs that night factored in, and a 1.0 among A18-49in Live+3. The three-night event series is tracking to be the highest-rated scripted series in network history.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Thursday’s season finale of Fox event series Wayward Pines hit 1.2/5 among A18-49, up 33 percent off the prior week, matching its Live+SD high. And the best is likely yet to come: Pines has boasted time shift lifts of up to 130 percent.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The July 17 episode of WE tv’s Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars had the highest time-shifted gains of the season. In Live+3, Hank Bassett’s confession to wife Kendra Wilkinson delivered 1.3 million P2+ viewers (up 66 percent from Live+SD), 748,000 among W25-54 (up 102 percent) and 694,000 among W18-49 (up 107 percent).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Food Network ranked sixth among cable Thursday night with Beat Bobby Flay posting a .7 rating A25-54 (630,000 impressions), with 1.3 million P2+ impressions (up 22 percent versus year ago) and ranking number six in its 10p timeslot among cable.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 7/23/15)
1) Future – DS2 – 121,495
2) Alan Jackson – Angels & Alcohol – 45,361
3) Tyrese – Black Rose – 43,202
Other Debuts
4) Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free – 39,775
5) Tame Impala – Currents – 33,480
9) Anthony Brown & Group Therapy – Everyday Jesus – 18,869
12) Sublime With Rome – Sirens – 10,935
21) Ratatat – Magnifique – 8,308
22) Highly Suspect -Mister Asylum – 8,301
29) Karen Clark Sheard – Destined To Win – 6,562
32) Chemical Brothers – Born In The Echoes – 6,321
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Ant-Man – $24.8 million
Pixels – $24 million
Minions – $22.1 million
Trainwreck – $17.3 million
Southpaw – $16.5 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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