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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 9/17/15)
CBS: NFL Football (Premiere) at 8:30pm
FX: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (Finale) at 10pm
TV ONE: Lexus Verses and Flow (Finale) at 10pm
USA: Graceland (Finale) at 10pm
Comedy Central, which has a special starring Stephen Rannazzisi scheduled for Saturday, is considering its options now that the comedian has been outed for lying for years about being at the World Trade Center on 9/11. “We just learned about this last night. We are very disappointed to hear about Steve’s misrepresentations and are currently determining how we will move forward,” said the net. FXX, home of The League, in which Rannazzisi stars, was none too pleased, either, saying, “It is upsetting that he would fabricate a story about having survived that horrible tragedy. It is also unfortunate that he did not admit to the truth sooner.” Rannazzisi apologized in a series of tweets. “This was inexcusable,” he offered on Wednesday. “I am truly, truly sorry….I made a terrible mistake.”
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ABC News becomes the first major news net to go the virtual reality route with a project in collaboration with VR tech company Jaunt that will explore historical sites in Damascus, Syria. The story, an extension of a Nightline report, is available on Jaunt’s mobile app and by visiting ABCNews.com/VR.
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A reboot of Hart to Hart, the 1979-1984 detective series starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers, is in the works at NBC and will focus on a gay couple, reports Deadline. Project from Carol Mendelsohn and Sony Television has a script commitment.
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Judd Apatow will direct and produce Crashing for HBO. Comedy pilot stars comedian Pete Holmes as a man who crashes on fellow comics’ couches after his wife leaves him.
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Late Show’s Stephen Colbert welcomes a special guest tonight: Jon Stewart’s Daily Show replacement, Trevor Noah, who starts his Comedy Central hosting gig Monday, September 28 at 11p. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon also stops by.
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The Big Interview: Nashville Special Edition airs on AXS TV Tuesday, September 22 at 8p, with the ABC drama’s stars, Connie Britton and Charles Estan. Episodes of Nashville start airing on AXS Saturday, September 26 at 8p.
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WE tv’s Marriage Boot Camp Reality Stars won renewals for seasons four and five. Season three was the highest-rated so far, averaging 1.2 million viewers, up 32 percent versus season two.
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Pop picked up another run of Rock This Boat: New Kids on the Block. While season one focused on starry-eyed fans who took a cruise with the boy band, this time around cameras will capture more backstage footage of the guys. The fan perspective will still be key – five “Blockheads” have been hired as consulting producers.
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TLC’s 90 Day Fiance is back for a third go-round on Sunday, October 11 at 10p. A special “Where Are They Now” ep airs the week before, updating viewers on the most buzzed-about couples from the prior season.
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Champion boxer Laila Ali and chef Vic “Vegas” Moea are back as hosts for season two of fyi competition series Late Nite Chef Fight, launching Thursday, October 15 at 10p.
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The Amazing Race will get a little more amazing this season, with teams traveling for the first time to Zimbabwe and the city of Rotterdam, Netherlands. New season premieres Friday, September 25 at 8p on CBS.
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SundanceTV’s eerie thriller The Returned will be returning for season two, appropriately, on Halloween, October 31 at 10p. The net gives viewers a chance to catch up with a marathon of season one on Sunday, October 18 starting at 6a.
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Billy Eichner is joined by Tina Fey in the season four premiere of Billy on the Street. Their mission? Find Fey a friend, on Thursday, October 8 at 10:30p on truTV.
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First challenge for chefs on Food Network’s next run of Holiday Baking Championship: Nuts. Hopefuls must incorporate one into a chocolate confection when the series returns Sunday, November 1 at 9p.
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CBS game shows The Price Is Right and Let’s Make a Deal start their new seasons with theme weeks on Monday, September 21. Price launches season 44 featuring a different decade each day, while on Deal it’s all about the benjamins, with a record $500,000 worth of prizes.
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A+E Networks’ Roots reboot will star Forest Whitaker (Lee Daniels’ The Butler), Anna Paquin (True Blood), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors), Anika Noni Rose (Dream Girls), Chad L. Coleman (The Walking Dead), Erica Tazel (Justified) and Derek Luke (Antwone Fisher).Mario Van Peebles and Bruce Beresford have been set as directors for nights two and four. Production is underway in New Orleans, headed for South Africa later this month.
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Andrew Buchan (Broadchurch) and JoBeth Williams (Dexter) have joined the cast of TNT pilot Home, from Jerry Bruckheimer, about family with ugly secrets.
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The debut of FX’s Bastard Executioner delivered 2.1 million viewers and 1 million A18-49 on Tuesday. Kurt Sutter’s previous drama, Sons of Anarchy bowed to 2.5 million in 2008.
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The premiere of NBC’s Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris hit a solid 1.8/7 rating among A18-49. Lead-in America’s Got Talent scored 2.4/9 in the demo.
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TV One’s Wednesday, Sept. 9 line-up of original programming landed in the number one cable net position in primetime among Black viewers P2+, P18-49, P25-54, W18-49 and W25-54. Lending a big assist was the premiere of Hollywood Divas: Reunion Part I, the top telecast of the night in cable in key Black demo, including W25-54 (4.45, 254,000).
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Bounce TV had its best week ever the week of September 7, delivering net records of 246,000 HH, 336,000 total viewers, 132,000 A18-49 and 139,000 A25-54 in Prime.
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