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BRAVO: Million Dollar Listing: Los Angeles (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY FAMILY: The Surprising Life of Billionaires (Premiere) at 8pm
DISNEY XD: Pickle And Peanut (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Suspicion (Premiere) at 10pm
ABC: Celebrity Wife Swap (Finale) at 10pm
A&E: Wahlburgers (Finale) at 9:30pm
A&E: Donnie Loves Jennie (Finale) at 10pm
BRAVO: Million Dollar Listing: San Francisco (Finale) at 10:15pm
LIFETIME: Little Women: LA: Terra’s Little Family (Finale) at 10:30pm
NAT. GEO.: Southern Justice (Finale) at 10pm
PBS: Big Blue Live (Finale) at 8pm
TLC: Leah Remini: It’s All Relative (Finale) at 9pm
TV ONE: Hollywood Divas (Finale) at 10pm
USA: Mr. Robot (Finale) at 10pm
David Hill and Reginald Hudlin have been tapped to produce the 88th Oscars. Hill last served as SVP of 21st Century Fox and produced the 6th annual Governors Awards; Hudlin received a 2012 Oscar nomination as producer of Django Unchained. “David is a true innovator with a dynamic personality. His vast experience as a live events producer, coupled with Reginald’s energy, creativity and talent as a filmmaker, is sure to make this year’s Oscar telecast a memorable one,” said Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs. Ceremony airs Sunday, February 28 on ABC. The duo replaces Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.
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The straight-to-series revival of Coach took a big detour – NBC has elected to cancel the project starring Craig T. Nelson. Barry Kemp, who created the original series, was slated to write and exec produce.
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NBC‘s The Voice earned Guinness World Records recognition during its fifth season as the most tweeted TV series in one minute, generating 310,000 tweets across the US in 60 seconds. The tweet feat happened during the live semi-final results show on May 13, 2014. HBO global hit Game of Thrones made the record book, too, by broadcasting episode one of season five in 173 countries simultaneously, an attempt to thwart piracy. Thrones beat the previous record by two countries, set by CSI just five weeks earlier.
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In a Celebrity Wife Swap first, the husbands trade places on the show’s season finale. Actor Robert Carradine, who lives on a private island off of Tahiti with his wife Edie and their daughter Marika, changes places with former NFL star Terrell “T.O.” Owens, who lives LA with his friend Melissa, her daughter Mikayva and his son Terique. The episode airs Wednesday, September 2 at 10p.
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The first group of presenters has been announced for the 2015 Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Celebrities handing out trophies will include Beau Bridges (Masters of Sex), Mel Brooks, Cat Deeley (So You Think You Can Dance), Allison Janney (Mom), Ken Jeong (Dr. Ken), Wendi McLendon-Covey (The Goldbergs), Gina Rodriguez (Jane The Virgin), Bradley Whitford (Transparent) and Fred Willard (Modern Family). Ceremony takes place on Saturday, September 12. FXX will broadcast a two-hour version of the awards show on Saturday, September 19 at 8p and 10p.
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Get ready for spider cupcakes and mummy macaroons – Food Network‘s Halloween Baking Championship premieres Monday, October 5 at 9p. Host Richard Blais oversees contestants proving their baking abilities to judges Ron Ben-Israel, Carla Hall, and Sherry Yard.
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The journeys of athletes Alex Morgan (United States women’s soccer team; Portland Thorns FC), Chris Paul (Los Angeles Clippers), CC Sabathia (New York Yankees), Henrik Lundqvist (New York Rangers) and Tim Howard (United States men’s soccer team; Everton Football Club) will be featured in upcoming episodes of Disney XD and ESPN Films‘ Becoming. The athlete profile documentary series debuts Sunday, September 13 at 7p.
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Music Choice launches its sophomore season of Pioneers on Monday, August 31 nationally On Demand. The mini-series will focus on Slash, The Band Perry, Sevyn Streeter and Allen Stone.
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Donald Trump pays a visit to NBC’s Tonight Show with Trump impersonator Jimmy Fallon on Friday, September 11. Also on the agenda premiere week: Justin Timberlake appears Wednesday, September 9, Carrie Underwood on Thursday, September 10 and Pharrell Williams on Trump day, September 11.
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Hollywood Divas airs its season finale on Wednesday, September 2 at 10p, but the drama keeps on coming. Cast members Golden Brooks, Countess Vaughn, Lisa Wu, Paula Jai Parker and Elise Neal reunite for two, one-hour reunion specials hosted by exec producer Carlos King on Wednesday, September 9 and September 16 at 10p.
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Yo Adrian… and other Rocky fans. El Rey Network offers ringside seat to a “Rocky” Movie Marathon, running Saturday, September 5 at 6p through Monday, September 7 at 6p. Creator and star Sylvester Stallone will provide intros before each film.
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Vice President Joe Biden stops by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday, September 10 at 11:30p on the CBS. He joins previously announced guests Toby Keith and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.
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Eric Stoltz will be doing double duty on Madam Secretary. The actor, who serves as co-executive producer on the political drama, will moonlight as Elizabeth McCord’s (Tea Leoni) brother. Season two of the CBS drama premieres Sunday, October 4 at 8p.
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Patti LuPone, who guested as the Cut-Wife on Penny Dreadful last season, is returning as a series regular in a new role: Dr. Seward, an American therapist. Also in guest spots: Shazad Latif (The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Christian Camargo (Dexter), Wes Studi (Hell On Wheels) and Jessica Barden (The Outcast). Showtime drama returns in 2016.
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Sarah Carter (Falling Skies) has booked a recurring role on Hawaii Five-0. The CBS drama is back on Friday, September 25.
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Ke$ha nabbed a guest spot on an upcoming episode of Jane The Virgin. The CW series returns Monday, October 12 at 9p.
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ABC Family was cable’s #1 network in Prime for the 3rd time in the last 4 summers in W18-34, and placed among the Top 5 cable TV networks for the 6th consecutive summer in A18-34 and W18-49, and the 7th summer in a row in Viewers 12-34. Pretty Little Liars ranked as cable TV’s #1 series for the summer across key 18-34 and 12-34 demographics and was the #1 scripted basic cable TV series in A18-49 and W18-49. The Fosters stood as the #2 scripted cable TV series in W18-34 and Females 12-34 and was the #3 scripted basic cable TV series in A18-34.
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Bolstered by premieres of original movies Descendants and Teen Beach 2 and the launch of comedy series Best Friends Whenever and Bunk’d, Disney Channel ranked as TV’s #1 network for the 4th summer in a row in Kids 2-11 (689,000/1.8 rating), 7th-consecutive summer in Kids 6-11 (504,000/2.1 rating) and 10th-straight summer in Tweens 9-14 (482,000/2.0 rating). It was also the #1 cable TV network for the fourth summer in Total Viewers (1.38 million).
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Dr. Phil (3.2 full season most current national rating) will finish the 2014-2015 season in first place among the talk shows for the fourth year in a row. In the session ending August 23, the show (2.6 Live+SD rating, up 4% from the week before), was also the top talker in a week where it and almost all other shows were in reruns. For the entire season, Dr Phil averaged more than 4.4 million viewers per day.
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Scripps Networks held the No. 1 and No. 2 spots in ad-supported cable among A25-54 on Friday, August 29. HGTV took the top spot with a .50 rating, followed closely by Food Network with a .49. The networks’ House Hunters, House Hunters International, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives and Carnival Cravings captured six of the top 10 primetime slots for the evening.
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Zoo, the #1 scripted summer broadcast in viewers, Under the Dome and Extant all delivered week-to-week growth in viewers and key demographics for CBS. The Wednesday and Thursday editions of Big Brother led their respective nights in key demographics, while Sunday’s edition matched season-best deliveries on any night in A18-49, A25-54 and S18-34. All three were among the week’s top five broadcasts in A18-49.
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