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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 2/25/16)
BBC AMERICA: Prey (Premiere) at 10pm
HISTORY: “Night Class” Comedy Block (Premiere) at 11:30pm
ID: Murder Book (Finale) at 9pm
ID: Real Detective (Finale) at 10pm
MSG: NETWORK: The Garden’s Defining Moments (Finale) at 11:30pm
WE TV: Tamar & Vince (Finale) at 9pm
Jeremy Clarkson, whose Top Gear contract was not renewed after a fracas with a producer last year that involved the lack of hot food after taping, has settled the resulting racial discrimination and injury claim. “I would like to say sorry, once again, to Oisin Tymon for the incident and its regrettable aftermath. I want to reiterate that none of this was in any way his fault,” said Clarkson in a statement. Added the BBC, “Oisin is a valued member of the BBC who behaved with huge integrity in dealing with the very difficult circumstances.” Clarkson and his former Top Gear co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May get a fresh start in a new car series to be released on Amazon later this year.
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NBC and Litton Entertainment are partnering to expand NBC’s public service awareness brand “The More You Know” into a Saturday morning programming block, familiar territory to Litton. Six half-hour educational and informational series targeted to 13- to 16-year-olds will feature experts in nature, science and technology. Litton’s other family friendly Saturday morning fare includes programming for “CBS Dream Team, It’s Epic!” and “Litton’s Weekend Adventure” on ABC stations.
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CNN and HLN host and analyst Sunny Hostin jumped to ABC News as senior legal correspondent and analyst. “She has brought clarity and context to complicated legal and social justice issues in covering some of the biggest stories of the past decade,” said ABC News President James Goldston. Before CNN, Hoston had filled in as co-anchor on ABC’s World News Now and America This Morning.
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El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle airs Thursday, March 10 at 9p on Reelz. One-hour doc tells the story of the ill-fated meeting between the most dangerous drug lord in the world and the Oscar-winning actor/Madonna ex.
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GetTV’s March Comedy Month block, airing every Thursday at 8p, starts Thursday, March 3 with a trio of Three Stooges offerings, beginning with The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze at 8p.
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“Comedic, dramatic and intimate” is how OWN bills For Peete’s Sake, a new docu-series following the lives of Holly Robinson Peete (21 Jump Street) and her husband, former NFL quarterback Rodney Peete. Laughs/tears start Saturday, March 10.
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There’s more renovating and flipping in store on HGTV in new series Good Bones. Launching Tuesday, March 22 at 11p, the show features a mother/daughter team of fixer-uppers. First up: a one-bedroom wreck infested with termites.
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At the end of Scott Kelly’s 12-month stay on the International Space Station, the astronaut will be featured in PBS’s A Year in Space. First episode, slated for Wednesday, March 2 at 8p (check local listings), is timed to air within a day of Kelly’s planned return to Earth.
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Season three of Bravo’s Southern Charm debuts Monday, April 4 at 9p.
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Wildfire on the tundra: The villagers of Tanana, Alaska face extinction on this season of Yukon Men, premiering on Discovery Friday, March 18 at 10p.
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Hulu’s Deadbeat is back for season three on Wednesday, April 20. Tyler Labine stars as an overweight slacker who can see ghosts, and Kal Penn as an aimless stoner he met in jail.
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Dermot Mulroney (Shameless) has been cast in CBS medical drama pilot Bunker Hill, as a veteran surgeon with a controversial past.
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Elizabeth Shue (CSI) will play an influential image-maker in Fox drama pilot Pitch, about the first female to play in the major leagues.
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Netflix’s The Ranch, starring That ‘70s Show alums Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson, has added Kathy Baker (Picket Fences) in a recurring role as a waitress.
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Patrick Gallagher (Glee) joins NBC’s untitled royal family comedy pilot as a series regular. Gallagher will place the Palace chef.
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Anthony Edwards (ER) co-stars in Nancy Drew pilot Drew, inspired by the classic mysteries.
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Erin Hayes (Children’s Hospital) landed the female lead in CBS’s untitled comedy starring Kevin James (The King of Queens) as a retired police officer who finds spending time at home more challenging than working on the mean streets.
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ABC comedy pilot The Fluffy Shop cast Richard Gant (Men of a Certain Age) to star opposite Gabriel Iglesias in a project inspired by the comedian’s life.
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Mouzam Makkar (The Vampire Diaries), Carl Beukes (Dominion) and Tongayi Chirisa (Crusoe) landed series regular roles on CW’s Untitled Mars Project pilot, from CBS Television Studios.
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Fox Television Stations renewed Divorce Court with Lynn Toler through the 2019 season. The show, which has undergone various iterations since the 1950s (when actors reenacted real divorce proceedings), is produced by Lincolnwood Productions and distributed by Twentieth Television.
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Syndication’s Judge Judy hit its biggest numbers of 2015-16 the week of February 8, up 4 percent versus the week prior and up 11 percent from last year to 8.1HH in Live+SD. Second place court show Hot Bench scored an all-time high 2.7.
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Top talker Dr. Phil rose 6 percent versus last week to 3.5, a new season high. Leading magazine show Entertainment Tonight was also up 6 percent, to 3.6, its second highest rating of the season.
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CBS warhorse NCIS was Tuesday’s top show among A18-49 and total viewers (2.4/8 and 17.4 million), but the net’s freshman Limitless hit a season low 1.1/4, with 5.9 million total viewers.
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Fox News Channel drew 2.6 million viewers and 585,000 among A25-54 from 8p-midnight on Tuesday, when Donald Trump won the Nevada caucuses. CNN nabbed 1.7 million viewers and 523,000 in the news demo, followed by 952,000/250,000 for MSNBC.
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Up movie Love Finds You in Valentine reached over 1.3 million viewers on its February 14 premiere night. The film outperformed 2015 Up movie premiere averages among P25-54 (up 63 percent) and W25-54 (up 57 percent).
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BROADWAY
Hughie with Forest Whitaker (who makes his Broadway Debut) opens today on Broadway.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/hughie-bway/
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