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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 3/2/16)
TV ONE: Unsung: Johnnie Taylor (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: The Real O’Neals (Premiere) at 8:30pm
COOKING: Extra Virgin Americana (Premiere) at 9pm
DISNEY XD: Lab Rats: Elite Force (Premiere) at 8:30pm
PBS: A Year in Space (Premiere) at 8pm
SUNDANCE TV: Hap And Leonard (Premiere) at 10pm
VICELAND: Gaycation (Premiere) at 10pm
VICELAND: Balls Deep (Premiere) at 11pm
A&E: Duck Dynasty (Premiere) at 9pm
BRAVO: Newlyweds: The First Year (Finale) at 10pm
FUSE: Saturday Morning Fever (Finale) at 11pm
USA: Suits (Finale) at 10pm
Dan Harris, co-anchor of ABC’s Nightline, will host season two of ABC’s event game show 500 Questions, from Mark Burnett and Mike Darnell. CNN journalist Richard Quest hosted the first season.
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Bravo is taking viewers along for the ride for the new season of The Real Housewives of New York City, launching Wednesday, April 6 at 9p. The net has partnered with On Location Tours to give bus riders a tour of locations from the upcoming season. First stop: Tipsy Parson.
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Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton will address the seventh annual BET Networks’ Leading Women Defined Summit, presented by Covergirl. Goal is to set a national agenda and actionable solutions for issues impacting the black community.
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TheBlaze is broadcasting live from the Conservative Political Action Conference. The annual event, run by the American Conservative Union, takes place today through March 5 in National Harbor, Maryland.
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n the first of an expected series of scripted announcements leading up to its March 15 Upfront, Nat Geo said it has ordered a pilot script for The Black 22s (wt), the true story of an African-American detective and the first all-black police squad in America. Show will be executive produced by David Oyelowo (Selma), Paul Guyot (The Librarians), John Rogers (The Librarians) and Jennifer Court of Kung Fu Monkey. Guyot will pen the pilot script and serve as showrunner.
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Universal Cable Productions is developing scripted true crime series The von Bulow Affair, based on the trial and aftermath of socialite Sunny von Bulow’s murder. Ilene Rosenzweig (Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce) is attached as writer.
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Fox ordered eight episodes of competition series Superhuman, with Kal Penn as host. A two-hour Superhuman special, based on the hit international format, aired in January.
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Wind Dancer Films is launching a new division targeting kids. The production company’s president, Dete Meserve, will be in charge of children’s programming, which already includes PBS Kids animated series Ready, Jet, Go!.
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Nickelodeon is bringing back kids game show Legends of the Hidden Temple (1993-95) as a TV movie. Isabela Moner (100 Things to Do Before High School) will star.
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Disney Channel is gearing up for High School Musical 4, ten years after the 2006 original premiered to 7.7 million viewers. The 2007 sequel is the number one basic cable telecast ever with a premiere audience 18.6 viewers; number three premiered the following year on the big screen, grossing over $250 million globally.
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Fitness competition Strong, exec produced by Sylvester Stallone, launches on NBC Wednesday, April 13 at 9p, following The Voice, and settles into its regular timeslot the next night at 8p. Pro volleyball player/model Gabrielle Reece hosts.
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Greatest Animal Commercials Countdown airs tonight at 8p on CW. The pickings weren’t slim for the special from Juma Entertainment and IMG Productions. “As we see each year with Super Bowl Commercials – advertisers love using animals to pitch their products,” exec producer Robert Horowitz tells Cynopsis. “The Countdown features the greatest animal commercials from around the world. And no matter what continent we searched, the vault of animal spots was enormous.”
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Season two of E! reality show I Am Cait premieres Sunday, March 6 at 9p. Jenner and pals go on a cross-country road trip that includes Tulsa, New Orleans and more, as the former Olympian opens up to “new possibilities.”
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Vanessa Williams (Desperate Housewives) landed the lead in VH1 scripted series Satan’s Sisters, inspired by former The View co-host Star Jones’ 2011 book set at a daytime talk show.
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Nicole Scherzinger (Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris) will play Johnny’s (Cole Prattes) dance partner in ABC’s three-hour TV-movie remake of the 1987 film Dirty Dancing.
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Jason Lee (My Name Is Earl) plays a dad raising teenagers in CBS comedy pilot What Goes Around Comes Around.
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Gaius Charles (Friday Night Lights), Monique Gabriela Curnen (Fast & Furious) and James Landry Hebert (Gangster Squad) nabbed series regular roles in NBC’s straight-to-series drama Taken, adapted from the movie franchise.
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Kyle Bornheimer (Angel From Hell) will co-star opposite Courteney Cox in Fox comedy pilot Charity Case, about a woman managing her late billionaire husband’s charity.
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Casey Wilson (Happy Endings) stars in ABC comedy pilot Hail Mary, about the small-town mayor of nearly bankrupt town who needs a miracle, so makes one up.
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NBC procedural comedy The Trail, about a big city lawyer and his quirky defense team, has added Krysta Rodriguez (Smash) to a cast that includes John Lithgow and Nick D’Agosto.
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Joanna Garcia Swisher (The Astronaut Wives Club) will play the wife of Geoff Stults’ character in CBS comedy pilot The Kicker, from Tina Fey, Jack Burditt and Robert Carlock.
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Merrin Dungey (Once Upon a Time) has been cast in ABC drama pilot Conviction, centered on LA’s Conviction Integrity Unit. Name sound familiar? Dunghey’s sister, Channing Dungey, is the new head of ABC Entertainment.
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Josh Salatin (Show Me a Hero) and Alyssa Diaz (Army Wives) join the season two cast of CBS summer series Zoo.
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The 2016 presidential primaries may be leaving candidates bruised, but they’ve been a shot in arm for the major cable news channels. Fox News was the most-watched basic cable network in primetime and total day for the past six weeks, a run it hasn’t matched since 2003. CNN was the top news net among A25-54, with its best numbers since 2008, and MSNBC had its best Monday-Friday primetime score since December 2012.
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NBC’s The Voice returned Monday to start season 10 with 13.2 million viewers and a 3.4 rating among A18-49, up in viewers but down one tenth in the demo from its fall premiere. Blindspot was back to series lows of 6.8 million and a 1.8 rating.
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The Voice elbowed ABC’s The Bachelor out of first place Monday, but the dating competition still tied a Monday season high of 2.5/8 among A18-49.
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Cooking Channel had its highest-rated, most-watched February, with Junk Food Flip and Rev Run’s Sunday Suppers up 25 percent in ratings and 30 percent in impressions for A25-54, with overall network ratings and impression gains of 12 percent and 15 percent, respectively, across A25-54. Food Network’s February saw the highest ratings ever for the Monday at 8p timeslot with nearly a quarter of the Kids Baking Championship A25-54 audience co-viewing with a K2-17; the series finale last week posted a .9 rating for A25-54 and a .8 for A25-34.
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Oscars excitement gave syndicated entertainment magazines a lift. Next day coverage on Entertainment Tonight was the big winner on Monday, with a 4.0/7 primary run weighted metered market average, up 18 percent versus year-ago. Access Hollywood was also up 18 percent, to 2.6/5, and Extra was up 22 percent, to 2.2/5. The Insider saw a 14 percent rise, to 1.6/4.
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The week of February 15, Family Feud was down 4 percent from the week prior, but took top game show honors for the first time since last December with 7.0 in Live+SD Nielsens. Wheel of Fortune was second with 6.8, down 8 percent.
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CBS’s 48 Hours had its largest audience of the season on February 27 with 5.77 million viewers in Live_SD, up 12 percent from the week prior.
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DJ and TV announcer Charlie Tuna died February 19. He was 71. In addition to his hefty radio resume, Tuna worked on television shows including The Mike Douglas Show, The $25,000 Pyramid and Inside Hollywood.
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Public relations vet and former governor of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Clifford Dektar died February 22. He was 90. Dektar worked with ABC Sports and series including The Rifleman and Hee Haw.
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