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Presidential hopeful Donald Trump will return to host Saturday Night Live on November 7. Trump previously hosted SNL in 2004. Sia, also returning for her second SNL outing, will be musical guest. Hillary Clinton had a cameo on this season’s SNL premiere October 3; that show was hosted by Miley Cyrus.
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ABC handed new thriller Quantico a full-season order. It’s the second freshman series this fall to receive full order, following NBC’s Blindspot. ABC picked up six more episodes of the terrorism drama, which follows an elite group of FBI recruits. Season to date, Quantico ranks as Sunday’s No. 1 broadcast entertainment program in A18-49, improving the 10p hour for ABC by 46 percent.
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Eccentric characters from Sid and Marty Krofft’s cult classic H.R. Pufnstuf are headed back to TV for the first time in 45 years as part of a special episode of the Kroffts’ new live-action preschool series Mutt & Stuff, on Nickelodeon. The network just ordered an additional 20 episodes of the freshman series, bringing the total to 40 for Mutt & Stuff’s first season. Production of “H.R. Pufnstuf Comes to Mutt & Stuff!,” will begin this fall with a premiere date set for early 2016. Mutt & Stuff airs weekdays at 10a.
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CW supernatural drama Beauty And The Beast will end its run with the upcoming fourth season. The series received a fourth season pickup before its third season premiered this summer.
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Girls creator and star Lena Dunham will be working even more closely with HBO, this time with the feminist-themed comedy Max for the network that will star Lisa Joyce (Billy & Billie). Girls executive producers Murray Miller, Jenni Konner and Ilene Landress are exec-producing with Dunham, who also will direct.
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Empire co-executive producer Ingrid Escajeda and LA chef Sang Yoon won over Fox with their pitch for one-hour drama restaurant drama On The Line. The series is inspired by Yoon, but instead has a female chef protagonist who juggles the chaos of her staff, the disdain of her old-school Korean parents, and the return of her estranged ex-husband. Escajeda has an overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV.
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Notorious Cuban ruler Fidel Castro is in the spotlight in one-hour documentary Castro: The World’s Most Watched Man, airing on American Heroes Channel Thursday, October 22 at 10p. The doc will revisit more than 50 years of history and reveal the inner forces that shaped his leadership.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger will cameo as Bill Nye’s therapist on an unconventional episode of Nat Geo series Explorer that examines the five stages of “climate change grief” on Sunday, November 1, at 8p.
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Nominations are out for the 2015 American Music Awards, set to air live from the Microsoft Theater in LA on Sunday November 22, at 8p on ABC. Taylor Swift leads the pack with six noms, followed by Ed Sheeran and the Weeknd with 5 apiece. Jennifer Lopez is onboard to host the event.
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Rihanna, Selena Gomez and The Weeknd will perform at this year’s Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. The winged parade of lingerie down the catwalk airs Tuesday, December 8, at 10p on CBS. The show, seen in more than 180 countries, will include pink carpet interviews, model profiles and behind-the-scenes footage. This marks Riri’s second VS Fashion Show appearance.
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Pretty Little Liars is bringing a new psychologist to the town of Rosewood for season 6, to be played by British actor Huw Collins during the second half of the ABC Family series. The remaining 10 eps of the season will premiere January 12.
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The season 6 debut of The Walking Dead came out fighting, beating out Sunday Night Football, but was a little less fearsome to its competition than the record-breaking season 5 premiere. The new debut grabbed a monstrous 14.6 million viewers on Sunday with 9.4 million A18-49, for a 7.43 ratings, according to Nielsen, but dipped 16 percent and 15 percent, respectively, from season 5.
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A total of 12.17 million viewers on linear and nonlinear platforms checked in to the premiere episode of Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story: Hotel, according to Nielsen data. On a Live+3 basis, the linear telecast posted 6.13 million A18-49 and 3.70 million A18-34, ranking No. 5 and No. 3 respectively in those demos among all new and returning series premieres on television this fall. In addition, the premiere was the second most-watched telecast in FX Networks history, behind only the premiere episode of AHS: Freak Show.
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The Sept. 22 series premiere of CBS’s Limitless, which averaged a Live+SD audience of 9.86 million, jumped 79 percent to 17.6 million viewers with the inclusion of seven-day DVR playback, the unduplicated audience from an encore broadcast and 14 days of video-on-demand/online streaming. Non-linear viewership of Limitless is significantly younger: The show’s median age with online streaming is 39 and is 46 on video-on-demand.
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Crime Watch Daily, the number one new show in syndication, jumped 13 percent the week ending October 4 versus the week prior, to .9, its best rating yet. Fellow newcomer FABLife was steady at .7.
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Syndication’s Dr. Phil (3.1HH) was first in talkers for the seventh straight week, up 3 percent, followed by Live With Kelly & Michael (2.7), up 4 percent. The Doctors (1.0) had the biggest gain, up 25 percent.
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TBS’s exclusive MLB postseason telecasts were averaging 5.3 million total viewers through Monday, tied with 2007 as the network’s most-viewed coverage on record through the third day of the Division Series. The network’s postseason coverage is up 36 percent among total viewers over last year (3,862,000 total viewers in 2014) and 44 percent among A18-49.
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Hallmark Channel drew a 2.6 HH rating for the premiere of its most recent original movie, Harvest Moon, which attracted nearly 3 million total viewers. In its 9-11p time period, Harvest Moon was the highest-rated and most-watched non-sports program across demographics for the night.
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