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ON TELEVISION (TUES. 10/6/15)
ABC: Beyond The Tank (Premiere) at 10pm
A&E: Storage Wars: Miami (Premiere) at 10pm
AHC: America: Facts vs. Fiction (Premiere) at 10pm
BOUNCE TV: Family Time (Premiere) at 10pm
BRAVO: The People’s Couch (Premiere) at 10pm
CW: The Flash (Premiere) at 8pm
CW: iZombie (Premiere) at 9pm
DIY: Building Alaska (Premiere) at 9pm
E!: Botched (Premiere) at 9pm
OXYGEN: Pretty. Strong. (Premiere) at 10pm
COOKING: Man Fire Food (Finale) at 8pm
E!: WAGS (Finale) at 10pm
ESQUIRE: The Agent (Finale) at 10pm
HGTV: Flipping Virgins (Finale) at 11pm
PBS: Gorongosa Park – Rebirth of Paradise (Finale) at 8pm
WORLD: POV (Finale) at 9pm
UP has launched a multi-platform campaign to raise awareness about bullying prevention. “UPLIFT SOMEONE Stand UP Against Bullying,” part of the family friendly net’s UPLIFT SOMEONE pro-social initiative, supports October as National Bullying Prevention Month and is the first time UP has enlisted talent from its original series and movies in a PSA effort. Said Wendy McCoy, SVP, marketing, “We are committed to doing all that we can to help families conquer difficult situations – bullying is high on the list.”
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Hallmark Channel is introducing a new holiday custom this year with the debut of its own signature float in the 89th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The net’s “Heartwarming Holiday Countdown” float will spotlight a live performance and comes as it prepares to unveil its inaugural Thanksgiving Weekend Event featuring an unprecedented five consecutive nights of new original movie premieres from November 25-29.
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Fox picked up The 808, an hourlong surfer soap opera from Sony Pictures TV and Vendetta, Sheldon Turner & Jennifer Klein’s studio-based operation. Penned by Oscar nominee Turner, the show is named for the Hawaii area code.
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Nicholas Sparks is on a television roll. The best-selling author sold his first half-hour comedy project, The Next Chapter, a semi-autobiographical story of a newly single top-selling romance novelist learning to date again while keeping up his public persona as a love expert. (Sparks and his wife separated in January.) The show is written by Austin Winsberg (Gossip Girl) and is housed at Warner Bros TV and Sparks’ studio-based Nicholas Sparks Productions. Sparks also has an adaptation of his popular book The Notebook in the works at the CW.
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Season three of The Big Interview returns to AXS TV on October 20 at 8p. Hosted by Dan Rather, the series features exclusive, in-depth discussions with big names in music, film, and television, beginning with this season’s openers, rock’n’rollers Ann and Nancy Wilson of the band Heart. Also on the roster this season is Patti LaBelle.
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The CW is feeling the love for new show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and sophomore series iZombie. The network gave both shows orders for five additional scripts one day ahead of iZombie’s season two premiere (tonight) and a week ahead of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s series October 12 premiere.
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The second season of late-night talk show StarTalk kicks off on National Geo on October 25 at 11p, with an interview with former President Bill Clinton. Other guests this season include Larry Wilmore, Seth MacFarlane, David Byrne and Susan Sarandon.
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National Geo and Fox will air this year’s Breakthrough Prize ceremony honoring today’s most prominent scientists and mathematicians. The event, hosted by Seth MacFarlane, will be broadcast live on Nat Geo Sunday, Nov. 8, at 10p with a one-hour version of the ceremony scheduled for Fox on Sunday, Nov. 29, at 7p.
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FXM, formerly Fox Movie Channel, will air the entire first season of FX’s limited series Fargo on October 11, the day before the premiere of the second season. The Fargo marathon will air all 10 episodes in sequence beginning at 2p. Season two premieres on FX on October 12 at 10p.
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Emmy-winning comedian Wanda Sykes (Alpha House) will guest in at least three episodes during the fifth season of Showtime comedy House of Lies. Her character, Wanda, will be a love interest for Jeremiah. Also set to guest during the season are Ken Marino (Children’s Hospital) and Nicky Whelan (Franklin & Bash).
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Kevin Rankin (Gracepoint) has joined the cast of Fox drama Lucifer. Based on the DC Entertainment property Vertigo, the series is from Warner Bros TV and Jerry Bruckheimer TV.
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Jordana Spiro (The Good Wife) will be the lead in The Wilding, USA Network’s two-hour backdoor pilot from Universal Cable Productions. The supernatural drama is exec-produced by Tim Kring and Silka Luisa, the show’s writer/creator.
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Character actor Jeff Doucette is expanding his recurring role as science teacher Mr. Norton on Disney Channel family comedy Girl Meets World. Norton first appeared in the episode Girl Meets Sludge in Season two, Episode 24, which will be followed by episodes of the new season in February 2016.
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The Miley Cyrus-hosted Saturday Night Live season 41 premiere saw a 13 percent rise over last year’s opener in Nielsen metered-market households (4.5 rating compared with 4.0). Cyrus and guest Hillary Clinton (aka Val the bartender) helped SNL reach its highest household rating since January 24, when Blake Shelton was the host and musical guest.
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The series premiere of CBS medical drama Code Black added nearly 3 million viewers with Live+3 viewing and increased its A18-49 rating by 53 percent, according to Nielsen ratings for Wednesday, Sept. 30. With L3 added, Code Black remained first in its time period in viewers and tied for the top spot among A25-54.
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ABC’s new series Quantico held 100 percent in the A18-49 demo in week two, and built on its debut in A18-34 and W18-34. Surging from its lead-in for the second week in a row at 10p (58 percent) the series (1.9/6) was Sunday’s top broadcast drama in A18-49 at 1.9/6, according to Nielsen data.
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Velocity closed out summer by delivering its best-ever third quarter primetime numbers in several key demos including Men 25-54 (up 5 percent), A18-49 (5 percent) and Men 18-49 (13 percent), according to Nielsen Live+3 data. Since launching in October 2011, the network’s delivery among its Men 25-54 target demo has grown 142 percent.
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VH1’s primetime ratings for the third quarter rose 34 percent over the prior quarter among A18-49, according to Nielsen ratings. Total Day ratings also saw an increase, of 21 percent.
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