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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 10/9/15)
A&E: The Endfield Haunting (Premiere) at 10pm
CW: Reign (Premiere) at 8pm
DIY: Breakneck Builds (Premiere) at 11pm
FOOD: BBQ Blitz (Premiere) at 10:30pm
HISTORY: True Monsters (Premiere) at 10pm
MSG NETWORK: The AV Squad (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: Undateable (Premiere) at 8pm
CINEMAX: Strike Back (Finale) at 10pm
ID: Death By Gossip with Wendy Williams (Finale) at 9pm
(SATURDAY 10/10/15)
BBC AMERICA: The Last Kingdom (Premiere) at 10pm
FOOD: Unwrapped 2.0 (Premiere) at 8pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Celebrity Motor Homes (Premiere) at 3pm
ID: Hell House (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Fatal Vows (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Amy Schumer, Musical Guest: The Weeknd at 11:30pm
PBS: Austin City Limits (Premiere) at 8pm
COOKING: Kimberly’s Simply Southern (Finale) at 3pm
GAC: Lake Life (Finale) at 9pm
(SUNDAY 10/11/15)
AMC: TheWalking Dead (Premiere) at 9pm
AMC: Talking Dead (Premiere) at 10:30pm
BRAVO: Real Housewives of New Jersey: Teresa Checks In (Premiere) at 8pm
COOKING: Unique Sweets (Premiere) at 10pm
DIY: Barnwood Builders (Premiere) at 9pm
HGTV: Island Life (Premiere) at 9pm and 9:30pm
OXYGEN: Snapped: Killer Couples (Premiere) at 9pm
WEATHER: 3 Scientists Walk Into A Bar (Premiere) at 10pm
Politically angled Middle East drama Tyrant will get a third season FX. The series landed a 10-episode order; season 2 averaged 2.47 million total viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Celebrities and professional dancers will swap partners on ABC’s Dancing With the Stars on Monday, October 12, at 8p. Fan engagement through social media has helped to switch up the nine remaining couples – but just for a week.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Strong ratings for the launch of freshman Fox series Rosewood have translated to an order for three backup scripts for crime drama.
(Source: Cynopsis)
It’s beginning to feel a lot like the holidays on Hallmark Channel. The net’s annual Countdown To Christmas TV event returns October 31 with 55 continuous days of holiday-themed family entertainment, including 17 original holiday-themed movie premieres. This year’s lineup features the directorial debut of Grammy-winning artist Mariah Carey in the original film A Christmas Melody, in which she also stars, airing December 19. In 2014, Countdown to Christmas brought 74 million viewers to the network in November and December.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TV One will present today a two-and-half hour programming event in recognition of the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, including the network TV premiere of documentary The Million Man March Story, followed by a News One Now primetime roundtable discussion led by host and managing editor Roland S. Martin.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Calling all armchair sleuths. A&E Network’s non-fiction crime slate will be back for new seasons this fall. The First 48 returns for its 15th season on Thursday, November 5, at 9p, followed at 10p by the second season premiere of Nightwatch, from executive producer Dick Wolf. Nightwatch follows elite teams of emergency responders in New Orleans as they brave the the perilous overnight shift. In its first season, Nightwatch averaged 1.3 million total viewers and is currently A&E’s No. 1 new series of 2015 across all key demos.
(Source: Cynopsis)
David Tutera is back for a brand new celebrity-filled third season of David Tutera’s CELEBrations, premiering on WE tv Friday, October 30, at 10p. Celebrity clients include Vanessa Williams (Ugly Betty) Vivica A. Fox (Celebrity Apprentice), Kim Coles (Living Single), Ian Ziering (Sharknado), Cynthia Bailey (The Real Housewives of Altanta), Big Ang Raiola (Mob Wives) and Reza Farahan (Shahs of Sunset).
(Source: Cynopsis)
AMC committed to ‘80s tech-boom drama Halt and Catch Fire for a third season. Season 2 averaged 865,000 viewers according to Nielsen’s Live Plus-3 ratings, and just shy of 1 million in Live Plus-7.
(Source: Cynopsis)
IFC set the third season premiere of original comedy series Todd Margaret for Thursday, January 7, 2016. Starring David Cross (Arrested Development), the show about an American’s business snafus in London will return with the first three episodes of the six-episode series airing back-to-back beginning at 10p. The remaining three episodes will premiere the following week on Thursday, January 14 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Also in the laughs department, TruTV renewed Impractical Jokers for a 26-ep fifth season. The order for new outrageous dares and punishments guaranteed to keep Sal, Joe, Murr and Q looking over their shoulders for what is next comes on the heels of the series’ biggest episode ever, a live highwire walk at South Street Seaport to celebrate their 100th episode that aired live September 3 and drew 3.7 million total viewers in Live + 3, truTV’s most watched telecast in 19 months. Series airs Thursday nights at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
British actress Melanie Liburd (The Grinder) is seeing red. Liburd has been cast as the Red Priestess in HBO’s Game Of Thrones. The shape-shifting character previously has been played by Carice Van Houten.
(Source: Cynopsis)
USA pilot Poor Richard’s Almanack (wt) added a series of cast members. Lynn Collins (Man On Carrion Road), Athena Karkanis (Low Winter Sun), Carly Pope (24) and Barbara Eve Harris (Prison Break) join the series as regulars.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Wednesday’s season five premiere of FX’s American Horror Story (hi, Lady Gaga!) checked in with 5.81 million viewers for its Hotel installment. That’s a slight dip from last year’s season premiere of American Horror Story: Freak Show, which drew a viewership high of 6.13 million, but a healthy delayed viewing bump is expected.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TV One’s broadcast of the 2015 Triumph Awards premiere reached 1.7 million viewers P2+, according to Nielsen TV Toolbox, Live+3. Additionally, the television debut of the awards on October 3 was a top three ad-supported cable entertainment telecast in Prime among key black demographics, including: W25-54 (2.42, 137,000), A25-54 (1.97, 194,000) and A18-49 (1.09, 118,000).
(Source: Cynopsis)
For the third consecutive season, the Bounce TV original series Family Time more than doubled its household viewership and increased all key demographic delivery over its season 2 premiere last year. The season premiere on Tuesday, October 6, at 9p delivered 237,000 households, an increase of 104 percent over the series premiere last year.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Across the pond, the finale of BBC cooking show Great British Bake-Off wins as most-watched TV program of the year, with an average audience of 13.4 million people and a peak audience of 14.5 million.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MOVIES
Pan – Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara, Levi Miller, Adeel Akhtar, Tae-joo Na, Nonso Anozie, Kathy Burke
Steve Jobs (Limited Release) – Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, Michael Stuhlbarg, Katherine Waterston, John Ortiz, Sarah Snook
Big Stone Gap (Limited Release) – Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg, John Benjamin Hickey, Jane Krakowski, Anthony LaPaglia, Jenna Elfman, Judith Ivey
The Final Girls (Limited Release) – Taissa Farming, Malin Ackerman, Alexander Ludwig, Nina Dobrev, Alia Shawkat, Thomas Middleditch, Adam Devine, Angela Trimbur
NYC STREET FAIRS
Friday October 9, 2015
Bowling Green Park Fair – on Broadway and Whitehall St.
New York Comic Con – Jacob Javits Center – 34th St. & 11th Ave.
Night At The Museum Halloween Sleepover – Museum of Natural History on 79th St. & Central Park West
Jamaica Friday Fair (Queens) – on 160th St. from Jamaica Ave. to Archer Ave.
Saturday October 10,2015
New York Comic Con – Jacob Javits Center – 34th St. & 11th Ave.
Times Square Autumn Carnival – on Broadway from 47th to 57th St.
American Crafts Festival at Lincoln Center – Lincoln Center Plaza on 63rd St. and Columbus Ave.
Pumpkin Carving Demonstration – Hippo Playground on 91st St. in Riverside Park from 3:30 to 5:30pm
23rd Annual Upper Broadway Fall Festival – on Broadway from 110th St. to 116th St.
63rd Drive “Rego Park” Festival (Queens) – on 63rd Dr. from Austin St. to Queens Blvd.
Sunday October 11, 2015
New York Comic Con – Jacob Javits Center – 34th St. & 11th Ave.
Times Square Fall Fair – on 45th St. from 6th to 7th Ave.
American Crafts Festival at Lincoln Center – Lincoln Center Plaza on 63rd St. and Columbus Ave.
Monday October 12, 2015
Columbus Day Parade – on 5th Ave. from 47th to 72nd St.
Columbus Day Festival – on Broadway from Liberty St. to Battery Pl.
Broadway Astoria Festival (Queens) – on Broadway from Steinway to Crescent St.
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