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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 9/24/15)
ABC: Grey’s Anatomy (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: Scandal (Premiere) at 9pm
ABC: How To Get Away With Murder (Premiere) at 10pm
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NBC: Heroes Reborn (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: The Player (Premiere) at 10pm
A&E: Behind Bars: Rookie Year (Finale) at 10pm
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MTV: Teen Mom 2 (Finale) at 10pm
Complaining that Fox News has been treating him unfairly, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump declared via Twitter Wednesday, “I won’t be doing any more Fox shows for the foreseeable future.” What’s Trump’s beef? Fox News attributed the boycott to the net cancelling a scheduled Trump appearance on The O’Reilly Factor. “When coverage doesn’t go his way, he engages in personal attacks on our anchors and hosts, which has grown stale and tiresome,” said the net. “He doesn’t seem to grasp that candidates telling journalists what to ask is not how the media works in this country.”
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Taking a break from trashing Fox News, Trump played nice with Late Show’s Stephen Colbert, tweeting, “Wow! What a great night,” of his Tuesday appearance on the CBS late nighter. Colbert would likely agree – Late Show delivered a 3.7 HH rating in overnight markets, the highest since its premiere and up 61 percent from last Tuesday. The Trump Bump was enough to catapult Colbert over NBC’s The Tonight Show (2.8) in HHs; the shows tied among A18-49 with 1.0.
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The first guest on the Trevor Noah incarnation of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, launching Monday, September 28, will be actor/comedian Kevin Hart. GOP candidate Gov. Chris Christie shuffles in on Wednesday.
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Count Susan Sarandon out of Epix’ first original comedy series Graves, where she was set to star as the wife of a former U.S. President played by Nick Nolte. Epix chalked up the exit to “creative differences”; a replacement will be named “shortly.” Graves got its series order in May.
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TV One’s Unsung returns with new episodes Wednesday, October 7 at 8p. First up: The ups and tragic downs of KC and the Sunshine Band.
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VH1 isn’t playing games with Basketball Wives: LA – the net picked up the reality series for a fifth season ahead of its season four finale on Sunday, October 4 at 9p. Wives has averaged as the top show in its 9p time slot in cable among W18-34, posting a 157 percent gain in the demo versus year ago.
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FX Networks wants more Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, the FX comedy created by and starring Denis Leary. Of the show’s season two renewal, Leary said, “The only thing that could make me happier about this announcement is if David Bowie decided to be a guest star during season two. In which case, my head would explode. Hopefully on-camera so we get a kicka$$ viral video out of it. Not to mention awesome Live+3s.” Your move, Bowie.
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Tom Payne (Waterloo Road) will recur as Paul Monroe, aka Jesus, in season six of AMC’s The Walking Dead. Zombie drama returns with a 90-minute premiere on Sunday, October 11 at 9p.
ABC’s The Muppets premiered Tuesday to 8.9 million viewers and a 2.8/10 rating among A18-49, the number two new show (so far!) of the season in the demo behind NBC’s Blindspot on Monday. Fox’s Ryan Murphy horror/comedy Scream Queens drew 4 million viewers and a 1.6/5 among A18-49, while CBS’s Limitless was the night’s most-watched new series, with 9.8 million viewers and 1.8/6.
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UniMas was the #2 Spanish-language network (behind Univision) for the weekend. The net’s Saturday line-up of back-to-back films delivered 733,000 total viewers 2+, and 350,000 A18-49. Sunday’s Liga Mexicana soccer match drew 835,000 total viewers and 464,000 A18-49, while its 8p movie delivered 803,000 viewers and 400,000 in the demo. At 10p, new series Nino Santo attracted 756,000 total viewers and 369,000 A18-49.
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The season three finale of Telemundo’s El Senor de los Cielos drew 2.96 million viewers and 1.79 million among A18-49, according to Nielsen. The closer ranked as the #1 Spanish-language broadcast network program in its time slot, and outperformed English-language networks at 10p including CBS and ABC in the A18-49 and A18-34 demos.
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Tuesday’s season finale of The Haves and the Have Nots delivered a record 3.7 million viewers to OWN, the net’s most-watched telecast ever and the night’s top cable telecast among W25-54 (3.1). The season premiere of If Loving You is Wrong at 10p delivered 2.9 million total viewers and 2.6 rating W25-54, ranking number one in the time period across cable in all key demos.
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