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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 2/22/16)
DISCOVERY: Street Outlaws: New Orleans (Premiere) at 9pm
FOOD: Kids Baking Championship (Finale) at 8pm
FOX: The X-Files (Finale) at 8pm
NBC: Superstore (Finale) at 8pm
NBC: Telenovela (Finale) at 8:30pm
NBC: The Biggest Loser (Finale) at 9pm
TRU TV: Fameless (Finale) at 10pm and 10:30pm
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Kevin Hart will host the 2016 MTV Awards, airing Sunday, April 10 at 8p. Johnson and Hart star in upcoming comedy Central Intelligence, due out in June.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The season one soundtrack to The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was released Friday, with 25 songs, available in “both explicit and clean versions.” Said the show’s co-creator and exec producer Aline Brosh McKenna, “The level of inspiration and flat-out funny is amazing…They’re catchy and funny, and they might also break your heart.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Amy Adams is set to star in a drama series adapted from Gillian Flynn bestseller Sharp Objects, being shopped to cable and streaming services by Entertainment One and Blumhouse Productions. Marti Noxon (UnREAL) will exec produce with Flynn.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Gail Mancuso (Modern Family) will direct ABC Shondaland pilot Toast, set at a wedding rehearsal dinner. Mancuso is also directing and exec producing Fox comedy pilot The Enforcers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TV Land is developing a comedy created by and starring author Kelly Oxford (Everything Is Perfect When You’re a Liar) and Jimmy Kimmel Live co-head writer Molly Mcnearney, centered on best friends and their families.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Glenn Weiss will makes his debut as Oscars director when the Academy Awards airs Sunday, February 28 on ABC. Weiss’s live credits include the BET Awards, Peter Pan Live! and the American Music Awards, among others.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Kate Winslet narrates PBS’s Nature: Snow Chick, airing Wednesday, February 24 at 8p. The film, showing the journey of a tiny penguin chick “from egg to independence,” trended number one on Twitter for over two hours when it aired in the UK.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Who’ll be slipping on dancing shoes this spring? The season 22 celebs competing on ABC’s Dancing With the Stars will be announced live on Tuesday, March 8 during Good Morning America. Dancing premieres Monday, March 21 at 8p without Julianne Hough, who served as judge on for the past three seasons, but with Len Goodman, returning after a season off.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Smithsonian Salutes Ray Charles: In Performance at the White House honors the legacy of the musician with performances by, among others, Usher, Demi Lovato, Yolanda Adams and Leon Bridges. The event tapes on February 24 for a Friday, February 26 broadcast on PBS stations nationwide and TV One (check local listings.)
(Source: Cynopsis)
ID documentary OJ Simpson Trial: The Real Story eschews modern interviews in favor of contemporaneous archival material to delve into the controversial criminal trial on Saturday, February 27 at 8p. FX dramatization The People v. O.J. Simpson is airing Tuesdays at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Thirty-second ads during The Academy Awards this year will average as much as $2 million, estimates Kantar Media, with total ad revenue for the broadcast hitting $120-135 million. Last year’s show hauled in $110 million.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad) and Andy Daly (Review) will co-star in ABC comedy pilot Chunk & Bean, focused on the friendship of a pair of misfits.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Tony Danza will star opposite Sebastian Maniscalco in NBC comedy pilot Sebastian, from CBS Television Studios and Amigos De Garcia Productions and based on Maniscalco’s life.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Chicago Law, the fourth in NBC’s Dick Wolf Chicago franchise, has found its lead in Philip Winchester (The Player).
(Source: Cynopsis)
American Crime’s Felicity Huffman will guest star on ABC drama pilot Presence, also created by John Ridley.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Arielle Kebbel (Ballers) landed a series regular role in NBC pilot Midnight, Texas. Supernatural drama is based on the bestsellers by Charlaine Harris.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Series regular roles also went to Sarita Choudhury (Homeland) and Karan Oberoi (NCIS) in Fox drama pilot Recon, about a rookie FBI agent who embeds herself in a suspected terrorist family.
(Source: Cynopsis)
NBC procedural comedy pilot The Trail has its lead: Nick D’Agosto (Gotham). John Lithgow, Sherri Shepherd, Jayma Mays and Steven Boyer were already onboard.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Golden Brooks (Girlfriends) will co-star opposite Damon Wayans Sr. in the Fox pilot based on the Lethal Weapon film franchise.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The week ending February 12, CBS This Morning earned its best morning news delivery in 22 years and is in the closest competitive position for a CBS morning news broadcast with NBC in 21 years. The show is up 16 percent year-to-year in viewers (4.17 million) and 10 percent in the news demo (1.1/8).
(Source: Cynopsis)
More good daytime news for the Eye Network: the entire daytime lineup grew the week ending February 14: Let’s Make a Deal (3.36 million), Let’s Make a Deal 2 (3.87 million), The Price Is Right (5.46 million), The Price Is Right 2 (6.22 million), The Young and the Restless (5.01 million), The Bold and the Beautiful (3.74 million) and The Talk (2.9 million) were all up in viewers week to week and year over year.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Anderson Cooper’s interview with Donald Trump on Thursday at 10p, part of CNN’s two-night town hall event, drew 3.4 million viewers and 989,000 among A25-54 for the hour, beating Fox News (1.86 million/445,000) and MSNBC (1.66 million/387,000). For the night, it was CNN (2.88 million/780,000), FNC (2.23 million/424,000) and MSNBC, which hosted Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders (1.46 million/314,000).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Premio Lo Nuestro placed Univision as the number two network on Thursday night among A18-34. The Latin music awards show delivered 7.3 million total viewers, 1.9 million A18-49 and 932,000 among A18-34.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Thursday’s Legends of Tomorrow rose 33 percent among A18-34 (.8/3) week to week, and 43 percent among M18-34 (1.0/5) for its best rating in the demo since the CW series’ premiere.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The basic cable premiere of Disney’s Frozen and sneak peek of upcoming original comedy series Stuck in the Middle on February 14 were the week’s top 2 TV telecasts among Kids 2-11 and Kids 6-11 and the top 2 telecasts across kid cable TV networks in total viewers and A18-49, based on Live+3 data.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Deadpool – $55 million
Kung Fu Panda 3 – $12.5 million
Risen – $11.8 million
The Witch – $8.7 million
How To Be Single – $8.2 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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