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ABC FAMILY: Monica The Medium (Premiere) at 8pm
BOUNCE: In The Cut (Premiere) at 9pm
BRAVO: Below Deck (Premiere) at 9pm
BRAVO: My Fab 40th (Premiere) at 10pm
COMEDY CENTRAL: Tosh.o (Premiere) at 10pm
COOKING: Taco Trip (Premiere) at 10pm
EL REY: From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series (Premiere) at 9pm
FOOD: Chopped Teen Tournament (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: Our Little Family (Premiere) at 10pm
TNT: Public Morals (Premiere) at 10pm
UNIVISION: Muchacha Italiana Viene A Casarse (Premiere) at 7pm
COMEDY CENTRAL: Another Period (Finale) at 10:30pm
USA: WWE Tough Enough (Finale) at 8pm
The debut of AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead killed it Sunday, delivering 10.1 million Live+SD viewers, the best cable series launch ever in total viewers and all key demos, including 6.3 million A18-49. “It is increasingly difficult to evaluate a show’s success on night one,” said Charlie Collier, president of AMC and SundanceTV. “However, we are releasing these live/same day ratings because Fear the Walking Dead delivered record-breaking numbers that are all the more special in this era of time-shifted viewing and audience fragmentation.” Fear’s lead-in, a Talking Dead preview of season six of The Walking Dead, drew 4.2 million viewers, 2.5 million A18-49.
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In addition to George Clooney and Jeb Bush, guests for Stephen Colbert’s first week as host of The Late Show include Scarlett Johansson, Amy Schumer, Stephen King, Tesla Motors and Space X CEO Elon Musk and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick. Kendrick Lamar, Toby Keith and Troubled Waters will serve up music, starting Tuesday, September 8 on CBS.
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Jeb Bush is pretty much assured a spot at CNN’s GOP debate, taking place Wednesday, September 16, but presidential hopeful Chris Christie is on the bubble. Taking a seat on NBC’s Tonight Show on Monday, August 31 should hike Christie’s profile. His last visit to Jimmy Fallon earned the New Jersey governor 9 million YouTube views, for their “Evolution of Dad Dancing” video.
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Bindi Irwin, the 17-year-old daughter of the late Steve Irwin (Crocodile Hunter), was the first celebrity contestant revealed for season 21 of Dancing With the Stars. “This is completely different than anything I’ve ever done in my life,” said Irwin, who has been focused on wildlife conservation, on Monday’s Good Morning America. “I’m used to wrangling crocodiles.” The ABC competition series returns Monday, September 14 at 8p.
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FXX is partnering with dineL.A. and seven restaurants to host “Sunday Funday Brunch” on August 30. The one-day event offers $25 specials celebrating the season two premiere of You’re the Worst on Wednesday, September 9 at 10:30p. Hungry for details? Go here.
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Jamie Gangel, who left NBC News in 2013 after 30 years, has joined CNN as special correspondent. Gangel will see at least one familiar face at the news net – she worked with CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker at NBC’s Today. Gangel starts big next week, with an exclusive interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz.
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Secretive CMT is throwing two free “Instant Jam” concerts from a pair of “the genre’s hottest stars” in not-yet-revealed cities sometime in the next two weeks. Specials documenting the experience will air in late summer and early fall.
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Reelz delves into the tragic side of Hollywood in two new docu-series premiering Saturday, September 26. Fame Kills, telling the stories of rising stars who suffered deadly encounters, bows at 8p, followed by Behind the Screams, tracing actual events that inspired horror movies, at 9p.
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Dating profile disasters get a makeover in TLC’s Love at First Swipe. What Not to Wear host Clinton Kelly and online dating guru Devyn Simone whip seemingly hopeless daters into shape in the Jane Street Entertainment reality show launching Friday (perfect!), October 2 at 9p.
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Alejandro Lukini returns as host of Monday-Thursday Azteca America reality series La Isla, starting August 31 at 8p. Also on the way from Azteca: game show Escape Perfecto, featuring contestants grabbing as many prizes as possible in cages, launching October 12 at 7p, and Escandalos, a series dramatizing real-life scandals, coming this fall.
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he first Latin American Music Awards will air live on Telemundo Thursday, October 8 at 9p. Like its American Music Awards cousin, the show’s honorees are fan-voted. Nominees will be announced September 2.
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WGN America’s new “Prime Crime” line-up launches Monday, August 31 at 7p with six back-to-back episodes of Elementary, followed the next night by a three-pack of Person of Interest. The procedurals join Blue Bloods in the new block, kicking off with a 100-episode, two-week event. WGN America acquired exclusive off-network rights to the new entries in 2014.
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TV One’s News One Now focuses on the New Orleans school system in a one-hour special Friday, August 28 at 9a. The New Orleans Charter School Revolution: Ten Years After Katrina, reported and hosted by News One Now’s Roland S. Martin, will pre-empt the regular news program.
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The first Latin American Music Awards will air live on Telemundo Thursday, October 8 at 9p. Like its American Music Awards cousin, the show’s honorees are fan-voted. Nominees will be announced September 2.
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WGN America’s new “Prime Crime” line-up launches Monday, August 31 at 7p with six back-to-back episodes of Elementary, followed the next night by a three-pack of Person of Interest. The procedurals join Blue Bloods in the new block, kicking off with a 100-episode, two-week event. WGN America acquired exclusive off-network rights to the new entries in 2014.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TV One’s News One Now focuses on the New Orleans school system in a one-hour special Friday, August 28 at 9a. The New Orleans Charter School Revolution: Ten Years After Katrina, reported and hosted by News One Now’s Roland S. Martin, will pre-empt the regular news program.
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Katherine Heigl has joined rewritten, recast CBS drama pilot Doubt, from former Grey’s Anatomy exec producers Tony Phelan and Joan Rater. KaDee Strickland (Private Practice) originally had the role of a defense lawyer who gets involved with a client. Still onboard: Dule Hill, Dreama Walker, Elliott Gould, Kobi Libii and Laverne Cox.
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Daniella Alonso (Revolution) landed a series regular role in TNT drama pilot Animal Kingdom, from John Wells Productions in association with Warner Horizon Television.
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Jay Ellis (The Game) and Yvonne Orji (Basketball Wife) join Issa Rae in HBO pilot Insecure. Comedy was co-written by Rae and Larry Wilmore.
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Opposite preseason football on Fox and the record-breaking premiere of Fear the Walking Dead, ABC’s Bachelor in Paradise held its own on Sunday, maintaining its week-ago 1.3/4 A18-49 rating, according to preliminary ratings from Nielsen. And the number is likely to see a significant rise the prior Bachelor was the week’s top broadcast gainer in Live+7 ratings.
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The Tuesday, August 18 season five launch of ID docu-series Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda delivered 3.8 P2+ million viewers and over 1.5 million P25-54 in Live+3, placing ID as the number five net in its time period among ad-supported cable in the demos, and number four among HHs. The episode broke ID’s record for best Prime telecast in net history for delivery among P2+ and HH.
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The summer finale of ABC Family’s The Fosters delivered a near 8-month high in Live+3 ratings among A18-34 (767,000/1.1 rating) and hit 5-month highs in A18-49 (1.16 million/.9) and W18-49 (934,000/1.5). The summer premiere of the net’s Young & Hungry out-delivered its spring 2015 launch by 4 percent in A18-49 (to 747,000) and 13 percent in W18-49 (to 570,000).
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