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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 9/3/15)
ABC: Mistresses (Finale) at 9pm
ABC: Rookie Blue (Finale) at 10pm
A&E: Beyond Scared Straight (Finale) at 9pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Lakefront Bargain Hunt (Finale) at 9pm
NBC: Food Fighters (Finale) at 8pm
UP: Bringing Up Bates (Finale) at 9pm
WE TV: Braxton Family Values (Finale) at 9pm
Just two days after his brief, tumultuous tenure at ABC’s The View came to an end, Bill Wolff was named executive producer for Chelsea Handler’s upcoming Netflix talker, arriving in 2016. “Bill is the visionary we have been looking for to create a dynamic new format that’s global, informative and entertaining,” said Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos.
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The collection of celebs for the next edition of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars includes Alex Skarlatos, one of the three Americans who received France’s Legion d’Honneur for subduing a suspected terrorist on a Paris-bound train last month. Also of interest in the group: Spy Kids star Alexa PenaVega and her husband Carlos PenaVega, the first married competitors; once-disgraced chef Paula Deen; former Celebrity Apprentice contestant Gary Busey and jockey Victor Espinoza. Full list here. Season 21 premiere date: Monday, September 14 at 8p.
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Samantha Bee’s upcoming show has a name, Full Frontal, and a (not for the prudish) new promo. The former Daily Show correspondent’s late nighter launches in January on TBS.
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More late night news: The Daily Show added three new correspondents. Comedians Ronny Chieng, Desi Lydic and Roy Wood Jr. join host Trevor Noah and his Comedy Central team for a Monday, September 28 launch.
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Not to be outdone, CBS announced the 11 new teams set for Amazing Race, launching Friday, September 25 at 8p. Among the crowd ready to take off from Venice Beach, CA: former New York Jets cheerleaders, street dancing brothers, TMZ personalities, dating news reporters and an engaged couple whose Amazing Race-themed marriage proposal went viral.
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NBC renewed hit reality competition America’s Got Talent for an 11th season. Season 10 wraps Wednesday, September 16.
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Funny or Die’s Billy on the Street has added guests: Sarah Jessica Parker, Bill Hader and Jason Sudeikis will join previously announced Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Anna Kendrick and Julianne Moore during season four, launching Thursday, October 8 at 10:30p on truTV.
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OWN’s Oprah: Where Are They Now? kicks off a new season Saturday, September 19 at 10p with Selma star David Oyelowo, and Ashley Smith, whose story of being held hostage is featured in the upcoming movie, Captive.
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Tichina Arnold (Survivor’s Remorse) will host the 2015 Triumph Awards, filming September 12 in Atlanta and broadcast for the first time in October on TV One. Honorees include civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Joseph Echols Lowery, John Legend, Tyrese Gibson, Wanda Sykes and Intel’s Rosalind Hudnell.
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Middle school-aged gaming moguls are the focus of Nickelodeon live-action comedy Game Shakers, debuting Saturday, September 12 at 8:30p. Dan Schneider (iCarly) created the series.
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E! will mark the anniversary of the death of Joan Rivers with a tribute special hosted by the daughter of the iconic comedian, Melissa Rivers. Half-hour Celebrating Joan airs tonight at 8p. Rivers died September 4, 2014.
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Stepping in for vacationing Home & Family host Cristina Ferrare will be Nancy Grace today, Family’s Matt Rogers and Matt Iseman on Friday, September 4, Kenny and Gwendolyn Smith on September 8 and 9, and Family’s Kym Douglas on September 10 and Debbie Matenopoulos on September 11.
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The sophomore run of E!’s House of DVF premieres Sunday, September 13 at 9p, moving to its regular Sundays-at-10p slot the following week. Diane von Furstenberg promises to “continue to provide empowering messages to a generation of millennial women.”
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Alex Kingston returns to Dr Who as Professor River Song for the show’s 2015 Christmas special on BBC America. Series returns Saturday, September 19; special airs Friday, December 25.
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Pilou Asbaek (Lucy) has joined the season six cast of HBO’s Game of Thrones. The Danish actor will play Euron Greyjoy, uncle of Theon and Yara. Drama returns in 2016.
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The season three premiere of Bravo’s Below Deck delivered 1.6 million total viewers, over 1 million P25-54 and 850,000 P18-49, according to Nielsen Live+3 data. The episode was up 7%, 15% and 4%, respectively, from the prior season premiere.
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A volatile stock caused headaches for many this summer, but Fox Business News is celebrating its highest-rated month of the year. The net saw business day grow 98 percent in total viewers and 167 percent in A25-54 versus August 2014.
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Cooking Channel’s also crowing after posting its highest-rated and most-watched August in network history among A25-54 (+41%) and W25-54 (+36%) versus year-ago. Seven of the net’s last eight months have posted gains among both A25-54 and W25-54, and August 2015 was Cooking’s youngest month in network history, with impressions +64% among A25-34 and +54% among A18-49 versus year-ago, with a median age of 47.
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WE tv achieved ratings growth of more than 30 percent year-over-year, in key demos, reaching 52 million viewers this summer. Versus summer 2014, the net was up 36% among A25-54 (to 239,000), up 35% among W25-54 and W18-34 (169,000 and 144,000) and up 32 percent among A18-49 (200,000).
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GSN boasts June, July and August marked the net’s most-watched summer in its 20-year history in primetime and total day in Total Viewers (P2+) and its key demos, P18-49, W18-49, P25-54 and W25-54. Versus summer 2014, in primetime, GSN is up 29% in total viewers, 63% in W18-49 and 39% W25-54. In total day, the net’s up 36% in total viewers, 60% in W18-49 and 37% in W25-54.
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Lifetime posted double digit year-to-year growth for the month of August in key demos, while ranking #3 among Women 25-54 in cable, its best monthly ranking in the demo in five years, and #4 in Women 18-49, its highest August rank in three years. For the month, among total viewers, Lifetime was up 10% versus August 2014, up 20% among W25-54, its best monthly increase in nearly three years, and up 4% among W18-49, its first month of growth since January 2014.
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OWN also boasts double-digit growth in August among its key W25-54 demo (0.37 W25-54, up 54% versus year-ago), making it the third fastest-growing Top 25 ad-supported cable network in the demo.The net also grew double-digits in total viewers (up 39%).
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BROADWAY
On The Town will close on Broadway on Sunday September 6, 2015.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/town/#loc=highlights
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