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BET: 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards at 8pm
CNN: Democratic Debate at 9pm
AFRICA CHANNEL: Care For Color (Premiere) at 9pm
BET: #TheWestbrooks (Premiere) at 10pm
COOKING: MasterChef Canada (Premiere) at 8pm
E!: Botched: Post Op (Premiere) at 10pm
FYI: Married At First Sight: The First Year (Premiere) at 9pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Living Alaska (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Killer Confessions (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: Chicago Fire (Premiere) at 10pm
WGN: Manhattan (Premiere) at 9pm
Conan O’Brien is headed to Armenia, where he’ll be the first American late night talk host to do a show. On hand for TBS’s Conan trip will be O’Brien’s longtime assistant, Sona Movsesian, who is of Armenian descent. “I think it’s every boss’s responsibility to take their assistant back to their ancestral land,” said the host. “That’s why I’m going to make sure my next assistant was born in a five-star resort in Tuscany.” Episode is slated for Tuesday, November 10 at 11p.
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Sam Champion, leaving the Weather Channel morning show he launched, AMHQ, next month, is heading to primetime. Champion’s new weekly, science-focused interview show, covering topics like climate change and oceanography, is slated to debut in early 2016, part of the company’s shift to increased weather coverage after dark.
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A comedy project from Key & Peele’s Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele has landed at Fox. Vine personality Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor stars as an undercover cop.
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ABC gave a script plus penalty order for a new iteration of Fantasy Island, from Sony Pictures Television. Unlike the 1977-84 series or short-lived 1998 reboot on the net, there will be no Mr. Roarke. Or island. Drama would center on a female exec who runs a company offering to fulfill clients’ fantasies.
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Also in the works at ABC and Sony TV, along with Intrigue: an adaptation of an Austrian series, Braunschlag, about a small-town mayor. Like Fantasy Island, lead has been changed from male to female.
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Modern Family exec producers Paul Corrigan and Brad Walsh are in business with CBS, with a put pilot commitment for Workplace. Comedy from 20th Century Fox Television focuses on a building that houses an app developer, a real estate company and a cafe.
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Easiest Game Show Ever heads into production on October 19 for Pop. Hosted by comedian/actor Michael Ian Black (The Jim Gaffigan Show), the trivia test (“true or false: Betty White is older than sliced bread”) exec produced by Nigel Lythgoe (American Idol) and Gail Berman (Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life) launches in early 2016.
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Donald Trump has a chat scheduled with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday this weekend. Trump had suggested as much in a tweet on Saturday. “With the fantastic ratings last weekend, @meetthepress & @ThisWeekABC, I think it’s only fair that I go on @FoxNewsSunday w/Chris Wallace,” said Trump (who, after the FNC debate, said Wallace is “only a tiny fraction” of his father, Mike Wallace). It’s the GOP candidate’s first appearance on the program since announcing his candidacy.
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Johnny Depp, Amber Heard and a 1968 Ford Mustang star in the first of the final four episodes of Velocity’s Overhaulin’, airing Wednesday, November 4 at 9p. Series closer is set for November 18. Viewers can take a ride down memory lane with a two-day “Say It Ain’t Overhaulin’” marathon starting Saturday, November 14 at 2p.
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VH1 is presenting a roundtable discussion about being openly gay in the hip hop community on LHH: Out in Hip Hop, Monday, October 19 at 11p. Hour-long special follows the encore ep of Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood in which a West Coast rapper comes out to his former girlfriend.
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On the day Marty McFly arrived in the future, Esquire will air all three Back to the Future films, starting Wednesday, October 21 at 12p. Each movie gets two airings.
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Season three of IFC’s Todd Margaret, starring David Cross (Arrested Development), premieres Thursday, January 7 at 10p, with the first three episodes airing back to back. The remaining threepack debuts January 14 starting at 10p. Jack McBrayer (30 Rock) joins the cast, with the series picking up after the title character reluctantly blew up the world.
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DIY ordered new episodes of three series. Season four of Rescue My Renovation bows on Monday, October 19 at 9p and 9:30p; a new season of Bath Crashers launches Monday, October 26 at 11p, and Renovation Realities is back Sunday, November 21 at 9p.
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Paul Reubens will guest on season two of Gotham as the father of the Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor). Reubens played the same character in the 1992 film Batman Returns, when Danny DeVito played the villain. Fox drama airs Mondays at 8p.
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Dominc Fumusa (Nurse Jackie), LisaGay Hamilton (House of Cards), Antonio Jaramillo (Shades of Blue) and Nadia Alexander (Fan Girl) have joined the cast of Universal Cable Productions and USA pilot The Wilding. Thriller from Tim Kring was announced as back-door pilot pickup.
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Kris Polaha (Life Unexpected) will recur on season eight of ABC’s Castle, reports TVLine. Series airs Mondays at 10p.
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Taye Diggs (Private Practice) landed a guest starring role on Rosewood. Fox medical drama airs Wednesdays at 8p.
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Adrien Brody (The Pianist) and Lorraine Bracco (The Sopranos) will guest star on upcoming Showtime comedy Dice, while Kevin Corrigan (Goodfellas) joins Andrew Dice Clay as a series regular. Series arrives in 2016.
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Empire was the big winner in premiere week, up 40 percent in A18-49 Live+7 ratings to hit a series high 9.4. NBC’s Blindspot had the biggest delayed viewing gain in total viewers (5.894 million), while ABC’s Nashville and Castle, and CBS’s NCIS: Los Angeles were the scripted series with the biggest percentage gains (83 percent) in the demo; Fox’s Scream Queens was close behind with 82 percent.
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Third quarter ratings for Live+3 viewing on broadcast were down an average 9 percent among A18-49 viewers, according to MoffattNathanson Research. ABC dropped 3 percent (to 1.18 million), NBC slipped 6 percent (1.9 million), Fox was down 15 percent (1.1 million) and CBS off 17 percent (1.2 million). Three cable groups rose in total day viewership in A18-49: AMC Networks had a 10 percent lift to 443,000, while Discovery Comm. (1.14 million) and Scripps Networks Interactive (673,000) both inched up one percent.
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Opposite the return of AMC’s The Walking Dead and football on NBC, ABC freshman Quantico, which held onto a 1.9 rating among A18-49 its first two outings, slipped to 1.6 on Sunday. Hold on for a time shift gain: the drama grew to 3.3 in Live+3 the week prior. Fellow frosh Blood and Oil slipped to .8.
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Last Tuesday’s Below Deck on Bravo delivered over 1 million P18-49 (up 8 percent versus last week) in Live+3, 2 million P25-54 (up 17 percent) and over 1.8 million total viewers (up 9 percent), season highs in key demos. On Wednesday the net’s Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles also hit season highs, with 655,000 P18-49 (up 16 percent), 764,000 P25-54 (up 8 percent) and 1.4 million total viewers (up 8 percent).
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