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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 3/1/16)
BRAVO: Tour Group (Premiere) at 10pm
INSP: Handcrafted in America (Premiere) at 8pm
LIFETIME: The Mother/Daughter Experiment: Celebrity Edition (Premiere) at 10pm
SCIENCE: What On Earth? (Premiere) at 9pm
SPIKE TV: Ink Master (Premiere) at 10pm
VICELAND: Noisey (Premiere) at 10pm
VICELAND: Weediquette (Premiere) at 11pm
ABC: The Muppets (Finale) at 8pm
ABC: Marvel’s Agent Carter (Finale) at 9pm
A&E & FYI: Married At First Sight (Finale) at 9pm
CBS renewed NCIS for two more seasons, with series star and exec producer Mark Harmon onboard with a new two-year deal. The procedural, now in season 13, is TV’s most-watched drama series, averaging 20.47 million viewers, up 4 percent from one year ago. The show is also licensed in (ka-ching) over 200 markets.
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Bounce TV is offering the HD series premiere of its first drama series, Saints & Sinners, to network affiliates for airing on their primary channel between March 7-13. Drama launches on Bounce Sunday, March 6 at 9p. What’s the deal? “This special play of Saints & Sinners will allow our affiliates to promote their carriage of Bounce and encourage sampling of the series, both of which will enhance their ad sales revenue opportunities locally,” said Bounce TV SVP of affiliate relations Tracy Underwood. African American-focused Bounce airs on the broadcast signals of local television stations and corresponding cable carriage.
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Mad Dogs won’t make it to season two on Amazon. The well-reviewed dark comedy, based on a British format, landed on the streaming service January 21. Exec producer Shawn Ryan said via Twitter that while he and original creator Cris Cole were ready to proceed with a story they believed in for a second season, “Amazon didn’t want to make that story, and we didn’t want to make the kind of story they wanted us to make, so it made more sense to declare victory after ten episodes, which was our original plan all along anyway.”
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Fusion anchor Mariana Atencio will be telling the stories of young Hispanic voters across the country in Searching for the Latino Voter, a series running across the net’s digital, social and OTT platforms, as well as newsmag AMERICA With Jorge Ramos. “We all know Hispanics are playing an increasingly important role in national elections, but as a young Latina journalist I am tired of seeing my community being talked about in stereotypes and monolithic terms,” Atencio said. “We are traveling the country to explore the issues that are driving young Hispanics at the ballot box this election season.”
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Becki Newton (Ugly Betty) landed the female lead in Fox’s untitled comedy pilot from Chris Chase (Reba), about an African American former NFL lineman, his white wife (Newton) and her two quirky sons.
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Sarah Shahi (Person of Interest) will star in CBS pilot Drew, a contemporary take on the classic Nancy Drew mystery stories, with intrepid Nancy a thirtysomething working for the NYPD.
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Kate Jennings Grant (Love & Other Drugs) and J. August Richards (Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce) join the cast of ABC drama pilot Notorious. Story was inspired by the relationship between criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos and Larry King Live exec producer Wendy Walker.
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Sunday’s Academy Awards on ABC slipped to an eight-year low 34.3 million total viewers and 10.4 rating among A18-49, down 8 percent and 5 percent from last year. The 2015 event, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, slipped 14 in total viewership and 16 percent among A18-49 from 2014. Bright spot: the 2016 broadcast grew year to year in A18-34 and across all key Men demos.
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Street Outlaws: New Orleans was Discovery’s highest-rated Monday debut ever, with a 1.73 rating among P25-54 and 2.83 million total viewers P2+ in Live+3. The show was primetime’s top unscripted telecast excluding sports in all of television among M25-54.
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Academy Award-winning actor George Kennedy died February 28. He was 91. In addition to films, Kennedy appeared on TV series including Sarge, The Blue Knight and Dallas.
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