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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 8/5/15)
ABC FAMILY: Job or No Job (Premiere) at 9pm
AXS TV: Exploring Kaman (Premiere) at 11pm
AHC: One Giant Leap (Premiere) at 10pm
CW: America’s Next Top Model (Premiere) at 8pm
CW: A Wicked Offer (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: Mr. Robinson (Premiere) at 9pm
TV ONE: Unsung Hollywood: Car Wash (Premiere) at 8pm
TV ONE: Born Again Virgin (Premiere) at 10pm
ABC FAMILY: Melissa & Joey (Finale) at 8pm
ABC FAMILY: Baby Daddy (Finale) at 8;30pm
CNBC: Blue Collar Millionaires (Finale) at 10:30pm
EL REY: Lucha Underground (Finale) at 8pm
PBS: Life On The Reef (Finale) at 8pm
UP: Heartland (Finales) at 9pm
Fox News named the Republican presidential hopefuls who will take part in the first televised debate for the 2016 race. Joining Donald “It is certainly my intention to be very nice” Trump onstage: ex-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, neurosurgeonDr. Ben Carson, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Games begin Thursday at 9p.
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TV One is producing two companion movies, Royal Family Thanksgiving and Royal Family Christmas, featuring an ensemble cast led by Vivica A. Fox, Romeo Miller and Debbi Morgan. The films will premiere on November 21 at 8p and December 5, respectively. Both are directed by Lance Kawas (Paid in Full), written by Rhonda Freeman-Baraka and produced by George Shamieh and exec producer Chevonne O’Shaughnessy.
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Reese Witherspoon’s production company with Bruna Papandrea, Pacific Standard, landed a two-year overall deal with ABC Studios. Pacific limited series Big Little Lies received a straight-to-series order from HBO in May.
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Animal Planet is roaring into the conversation surrounding the killing of Cecil the Lion with a 12-hour marathon of lion programming on Monday, August 10 – World Lion Day. Programming will include large predator expert Dave Salmoni’s Into the Pride, Into the Lion’s Den. The network is also launching its AnimalsAreNotTrophies.com campaign to provide resources to help fight trophy hunting and poaching.
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Documentary Prophet’s Prey will get its television premiere on Showtime on Saturday, October 10, at 9p. The film, which puts the lens on Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint Warren Jeffs, debuts theatrically nationwide under the Showtime Documentary Films banner on September 18 in NY with other cities to follow. It’s written and directed by Academy Award nominee Amy Berg (Deliver Us from Evil).
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The Weeknd has been confirmed to perform at the upcoming VMAs, hosted by Miley Cyrus on August 30 at 9p on MTV.
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NUVOtv will broadcast the season 2 finale of its original weekly boxing docu-series Knockout on August 16, live from the Grand Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino from 7-10p. Event will feature the show’s host and four-time division champion Roy Jones Jr. (61-8) squaring off against, WBC USNBC Light-Heavyweight titlist William Bailey.
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Original series Cutting It: In the ATL has made the cut for a second season on WE tv. Ranking as one of the net’s top five new unscripted summer series, Cutting It follows four salon owners as they compete to dominate the Atlanta hair game.
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Season 6 of HBO drama Game of Thrones will see the return of the Three-Eyed Raven, with a reboot and Max von Sydow stepping into the role originated by Struan Rodger.
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The Young Pope, the Vatican-themed series from Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino, has added James Cromwell and Ludivine Sagnier to round out a cast led by Jude Law as an American pope, and Diane Keaton as Sister Mary. The series is a joint production of Sky, HBO and Canal Plus.
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Feeling old. Beloved Peanuts animated tale A Charlie Brown Christmas turns the big 5-0 this year and Kristen Bell will host a special holiday retrospective, It’s Your 50th Christmas, Charlie Brown, on Monday, November 30, at 9p on ABC.
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This week marks the end of Jon Stewart’s 17-year run as host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. Brad Adgate, SVP, research at Horizon Media, takes a look back at some notable talk show sendoffs (All figures after 2006 are live + 7 day DVR playback): Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show finale on May 22, 1992, is by far the biggest, averaging 41.4 million viewers. The following year (June 25, 1993) David Letterman’s Late Night finale on NBC (before he moved to CBS) averaged 8.1 million viewers. Jay Leno first stepped down as Tonight Show host on May 29, 2009, and generated 13.2 million viewers. Conan O’Brien’s short-lived tenure as Tonight Show host ended on January 22, 2010, and averaged 11.5 million viewers. Leno’s second final telecast as Tonight Show host on February 6, 2014 averaged 17.7 million viewers. The Colbert Report’s last telecast on December 18, 2014, averaged 4.0 million viewers. The following night, Craig Ferguson hosted his last Late Late Show, which averaged 2.7 million viewers. On May 20, 2015, Letterman ended his historic 33-year late night career averaging 17.7 million viewers.
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Sunday night’s Food Network Star posted a season high 1.2 rating (1.2M impressions) among A25-54, ranking No. 4 among cable for the night, a gain of 29 percent year-over-year, making it the series’ most watched telecast since 2013.
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Disney Channel won Primetime Friday night with the premiere and encore presentation of its original movie Descendants, ranking as the top cable network in Total Viewers (2.3 million) and across major youth demographics.
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The season two finale of Weather Channel’s original series Fat Guys in the Woods reached 1.5 million viewers, an increase of 57 percent in average HH ratings over the first season finale, according to Nielsen’s Live+SD day tally. The finale aired Sunday, July 26, at 9p.
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In the metered markets, the Boris and Nicole test (0.6/2) ended on a low note, with its fourth and final week sinking 14percent from week three. The rating was down 25 percent from both its lead-ins and year-ago July time periods. Ice and Coco’s (1.2/4) three-week test, which began Monday, August 3, moved up 50 percent from its lead-ins and 71 percent ahead of its year-ago time periods.
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