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CMT: Party Down South (Premiere) at 9pm
CMT: Gainesville: Friends Are Family (Premiere) at 10pm
DESTINATION AMERICA: Alien Files (Premiere) at 10pm
IFC: Documentary Now! (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: Nowhere To Hide (Premiere) at 10pm
ABC: The Astronaut Wives Club (Finale) at 8pm
HISTORY: Alone (Finale) at 10pm
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TLC: Love, Lust or Run (Finale) at 9pm
WORLD: The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements (Finale) at 9pm
The Paley Center for Media announced its Los Angeles Board of Governors. Members include: Chris Albrecht, CEO, Starz; Kevin Beggs, chairman, Lionsgate Television Group; Peter Benedek, founding partner, United Talent Agency; Carl Beverly, partner, Timberman/Beverly Productions; Stephen Davis, chief content officer/EVP, Hasbro; Clifford W. Gilbert-Lurie, senior partner, Ziffren Brittenham; Robert Greenblatt, chairman, NBC Entertainment; Doug Herzog, president of music and entertainment, Viacom; Mike Hopkins, CEO, Hulu; Steve Lafferty, managing partner/head of television, CAA; Dick Lippin, chairman/CEO, The Lippin Group; Michael Lombardo, president, programming, HBO; Steve Mosko, president, Sony Pictures Television; David Nevins, president, Showtime Networks; Gary Newman, chairman/CEO, Fox Television Group; Fernando Perez Gavilan, VP, Televisa International and Televisa Cine; Rick Rosen, founding partner/head of television, WME Entertainment; Peter Roth, president/chief content officer, Warner Bros. Television Group; Philip W. Schuman, senior managing director, FTI Consulting; Ben Sherwood, co-chairman, media networks, President, Disney/ABC Television Group; and Nina Tassler, chairman, CBS Entertainment.
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Family drama House Of The Rising Sin, created by Scandal co-exec producer Judy Smith, is in development at NBC. From 20th TV, the series is written by Jeremy Miller and Daniel Cohn (Entourage) and revolves around three generations of a corrupt political family in New Orleans.
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Univision Network’s El Gordo y La Flaca (The Scoop and the Skinny) on Saturday, August 22, at 7p will present “Un Tributo Gigante”. Special honors the network’s top-rated and longest-running variety show, Sabado Gigante, which will finish its run September 19 after 53 years on-air.
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truTV’s Impractical Jokers foursome – Joe, Sal, Q and Murr – celebrate their 100th episode with their most challenging dare yet: a high-wire walk five stories in the air above NYC during the show’s first-ever live punishment spectacular. Howie Mandel plays host on Thursday, September 3 at 10p.
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TV One is partnering with the National Action Network (NAN) and Reverend Al Sharpton to present the first televised airing of The Triumph Awards on Friday, October 10, at 8p. Now in its sixth year, the event honors individuals who have made a positive impact in their community in addition to professional contributions in their respective fields. Honorees include Wanda Sykes and Tyrese Gibson.
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Investigation Discovery announced two new series for the fall. In a nod to the 1993 Paul Newman film of the same name, Indecent Proposal presents people with an opportunity that could drastically change their lives, but would force them to do something immoral. Series debuts Saturday, August 22, at 10p and 10:30p… Death By Gossip With Wendy Williams, now set to premiere Friday, September 4, at 9p, uncovers crimes fueled by rumors and half-truths that lead to betrayal.
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Comedy Central‘s new animated series Moonbeam City debuts Wednesday, September 16, at 10:30p following the 19th season premiere of South Park. The “retro-futuristic cop drama” offers an absurdist take on the gritty, sex-drenched crime dramas from the ‘80s. Voice talent includes Elizabeth Banks, Will Forte, Rob Lowe and Kate Mara.
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Can you leave right now? This was the question that led to one pair of spontaneous travelers heading out on a 50-hour, $50,000 adventure in Abu Dhabi in Travel Channel’s 50/50, debuting Sunday, October 4, at 7p. Hosts Samantha Brown and Chris Grundy, with help from Today’s Al Roker, plucked the pair from the crowd at Rockefeller Plaza and they’re now headed to Abu Dhabi, where Roker will meet up with them as they choose among the extravagant options that await.
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Nickelodeon greenlit 20 episodes of social media-influenced comedy Pinky Malinky, its newest original animated series. Co-created and co-exec produced by Chris Garbutt and Rikke Asbjoern (The Amazing World of Gumball) and exec produced by Scott Kreamer (Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness), the series follows an infectiously positive hotdog living in a human world.
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Bounce TV will launch original series In The Cut on Tuesday, August 25, at 9p. The sitcom was created by Bentley Kyle Evans (Martin) and produced by Evans and Trenton Gumbs. The show, about the owner of several businesses in a strip mall in San Diego, stars Dorien Wilson and Ken Lawson.
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History is renewing survival of the fittest series Alone for a second season. Nine weeks in, season one is averaging 2.5 million Total Viewers, 1.2 million A25-54 and 936,000 A18-49 in Live+3 delivery, according to Nielsen, making it the No. 3 new nonfiction series on cable this year. Season finale premieres Thursday, August 20, at 10p. At stake: $500,000 for the person who survives the longest in complete isolation in the harsh wilderness. Production on season two is slated to begin this fall in Vancouver Island.
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ABC Family still has room on its plate. The network picked up a third season of comedy Young & Hungry, starring Emily Osment and Jonathan Sadowski. Its spring 2015 finale set a series high in A18-49 (973,000) and delivered its No. 2 telecast of all time in A18-34 (685,000).
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New episodes of Tosh.0 are on the way from Comedy Central beginning Tuesday, August 25, at 10p. Host Daniel Tosh will enlist the “Tosh.0 Memorabilia Dump” in an effort to recoup the more than 24 grand he lost in 2012 on a single blackjack hand.
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Syndicated lottery game show Monopoly Millionaires’ Club will debut its second season on September 12. Produced by Scientific Games Productions, the show will move to a half-hour format when it returns with hosts Billy Gardell (Mike & Molly) and Todd Newton (Family Game Night) to Las Vegas. It’s available on Tribune, Sinclair, Hearst, CBS, Gannett, Media General, Graham Holdings, and other station groups.
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Zendaya joins the judges panel for the 2016 Miss America Competition, airing live on ABC on Sunday, September 13, at 9p. The singer/actress joins previously announced celebrity judges country crooner Brett Eldredge; Tara Kyle, author and wife of the late U.S. Navy SEAL “American Sniper” Chris Kyle; Kevin O’Leary of Shark Tank, and 2014 Paralympic snowboarding bronze medalist Amy Purdy.
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Incorporated, the Syfy drama pilot from Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s Pearl Street Films, has added several cast members. Dennis Haysbert (24), David Hewlett and Ian Tracey (Bates Motel) have joined the futuristic espionage thriller, Affleck and Damon’s first scripted cable project.
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Arielle Kebbel (The Vampire Diaries) will return as a regular cast member for the second season of HBO’s Ballers. Kebbel was a frequent recurring player in the football sendup’s first season.
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Bravo cast transgender model Amiyah Scott for the eighth season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, as first reported by Variety. Scott is the first transgender woman to be featured in the Real Housewives franchise.
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TV Land turned to Broadway to fill out the cast of its pilot I Shudder. Megan Hilty (Wicked), John Behlmann (Significant Other), Tony-nominated Geneva Carr (Hand To God) and Brooklyn Shuck (Matilda The Musical) are all onboard for the comedy about an advocate of manners, style and common decency that stars Hamish Linklater.
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The season 4 finale of VH1’s Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta on Monday at 8p was the No. 1 telecast for the day among Women 18-49, W18-34 and A18-49, delivering a 2.3 rating in the latter demo. The series closed out the season as summer’s top cable reality series among A18-49 and W18-49 both on Nielsen’s Live+SD and Live+3 metrics.
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Yvonne Craig, best known for her role as Batgirl in the ‘60s Batman TV series, died Monday after a two-year battle with breast cancer. She was 78.
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Producer/writer/director Bud Yorkin died August 18 of natural causes. He was 89. Yorkin’s television credits include All In the Family, The Jeffersons, Maude and What’s Happening.
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