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A&E: Bates Motel (Premiere) at 9pm
A&E: Damien (Premiere) at 10pm
LOGO: RuPaul’s Drag Race (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY: Misfit Garage (Premiere) at 10pm
UNIVISION: Antes Muerta que Lichita (Finale) at 8pm
HGTV: Ellen’s Design Challenge (Finale) at 9pm
The stars shone at the BET Honors, which were held Saturday night at the Warner Theatre in Washington, DC, and will air on the network March 14 at 8p. Honorees this year are Lee Daniels, Mellody Hobson, Eric H. Holder, Jr., Patti Labelle and L.A. Reid. BET chair/CEO Debra Lee said on the red carpet, about this year’s Oscars diversity controversy “makes me prouder of what we do, because we celebrate our own. We don’t wait for other organizations to celebrate us, we celebrate ourselves.”
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Honoree Daniels, who among other credits is co-creator and exec producer of Empire, said he isn’t aboard the bandwagon bashing Hollywood for lack of diversity. “There’s been a lot of talk of lack of diversity in Hollywood. I’m trying to understand it myself,” he said. “I just don’t blame Hollywood. For me, I get my own money, I get my own actors, I make my own material and I do my own thing.”
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Hillary Clinton is now in to join Bernie Sanders at Fox News Channel’s town hall tonight in Detroit. The former Secretary of State and the Vermont senator will convene at 6p on the eve of the Michigan primary and field questions from FNC chief political anchor Bret Baier. It’s Clinton’s first appearance on FNC in more than two years.
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Kevin From Work is getting laid off. Freeform opted not to renew the comedy for a second season. The show, from creator Barbie Adler, premiered last August.
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Emmy-winning series Childrens Hospital will close its doors after its seventh season, currently airing on Adult Swim.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus is stepping out of Capitol Hill and into wartime for Soldier Girls, another series she’ll helm for HBO. The Emmy-winning star and exec producer of HBO’s Veep is developing the series based on the nonfiction book Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War by Helen Thorpe, which tells the stories of three real women who enlist in the National Guard during the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars and form lifelong friendships. Former soldier Nicole Riegel will write and will serve as co-producer. Louis-Dreyfus will exec produce with her husband, Brad Hall.
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Oh snap. MTV will reveal the nominees for the 2016 MTV Movie Awards, the network’s 25th incarnation of the event, tomorrow (March 8) with first-of-its-kind fanfare. The nominees will be announced at 8a via MTV’s new Snapchat Discover channel. In another first for the show, MTV partnered with Google for voting on the Movie of the Year category, allowing fans to vote by typing keywords “MTV Vote” into the Google search bar. Hosted by Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart, the awards show airs Sunday, April 10 at 8p.
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Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, DNCE, Shawn Mendes and One Direction are among the top nominees for the 2016 Radio Disney Music Awards. Voting opened this weekend through April 10 for the awards, which will bestow golden “Ardys” at the event on Saturday, April 30 at the Microsoft Theater in LA. The two-hour televised special will air Sunday, May 1 at 7p on Disney Channel.
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ABC is showing love for its current lineup, giving pickup orders for a slew of series for the 2016-17 season: America’s Funniest Home Videos, The Bachelor, black-ish, Dancing with the Stars, Fresh Off the Boat, The Goldbergs, Grey’s Anatomy, How to Get Away with Murder, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Middle, Modern Family, Once Upon a Time, Scandal, Shark Tank and Quantico. “We’re very proud of our strong roster of performers, and we’re excited about what they will bring us creatively next season,” said ABC Entertainment pres Channing Dungey.
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Dan Bucatinsky (Scandal) joins the cast of Fox pilot 24: Legacy, playing a CTU communications analyst opposite Miranda Otto and Corey Hawkins. Coral Pena (Blue Bloods) and Charlie Hofheimer (Mad Men) also join as series regulars.
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NBC pilot Miranda’s Rights added Monique Coleman and Noel Fisher as series regulars. Written/co-exec produced by Katie Lovejoy and exec-produced by John Glenn, show is about an idealistic group of lawyers.
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Matt Cook (Clipped) and Grace Kaufman (Bubble Guppies) joined the cast of CBS comedy currently known as the Untitled LeBlanc Filgos Project and written by Jeff and Jackie Filgo. The project stars Matt LeBlanc as a contractor who learns how tough it is to raise his kids.
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Blair Underwood will be the leading man in ABC’s still-untitled Meaghan Oppenheimer drama, exec-produced by Reese Witherspoon. The show follows a ruthless Dallas divorce attorney whose personal and professional lives begin to fray when her emotionally damaged sister resurfaces.
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Brian Howe (Masters of Sex) and Jayne Taini (Ray Donovan) are in as series regulars with Jeremy Sisto and Archie Panjabi in ABC’s drama pilot The Jury, written by VJ Boyd and Mark Bianculli and exec-produced by Carol Mendelsohn.
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Diedrich Bader (The Drew Carey Show) will head back to ABC as the male lead opposite Katy Mixon in comedy pilot The Second Fattest Housewife In Westport.
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Mr. Robot has elevated Michael Cristofer (Ray Donovan) and Stephanie Corneliussen (Legends of Tomorrow) to series regulars. The two join previously announced regular Grace Gummer (Extant) for the summer return of USA Network’s Golden Globe-winning series. Additionally, rapper Joey Bada$$ will make his TV debut as a recurring guest star on the series, playing a new friend of Elliot’s from the neighborhood.
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Gina Torres (Suits) will step into the title role in ABC drama pilot The Death Of Eva Sofia Valdez. Torres is also onboard to remain a regular on Suits through its next season, the show’s sixth. Also onboard the revenge drama, from writer Charise Castro Smith and producers Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters, is Angelica Celaya (Constantine).
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Madchen Amick (Twin Peaks) will take on the role of Betty’s mom Alice Cooper in Riverdale, The CW pilot from producer Greg Berlanti that’s based on the Archie Comics characters.
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Sarah Baker (Go On) has been cast opposite Casey Wilson in ABC comedy pilot Hail Mary, about a woman named mayor of a near-bankrupt small town who needs of a miracle to help rise above dysfunctional siblings, a dying father, disgruntled citizens and a tangle with the mafia.
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Kathleen Rose Perkins (Episodes) has joined ABC comedy Pearl opposite Candice Bergen. The show is written and exec-produced by Andrew Reich and centers on the title character, a larger-than-life matriarch who tries to control all aspects of her family’s life after she is diagnosed with cancer.
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Radio and TV personality Lionel will play himself on the season 4 of Netflix series House of Cards, which was released Friday.
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Former CBS VP Ralph M. Baruch died Thursday at his home in NY. He was 92. Baruch, who served as Viacom’s president and CEO from 1971-83, and later as chairman and a member of the Office of the CEO, was inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Bud Collins, the reporter, announcer and author who helped popularize the sport of tennis, died Friday at age 86. Collins covered tennis for the Boston Globe in the early ‘60s and then for PBS outlet WGBH. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Zootopia – $73.7 million
London Has Fallen – $21.7 million
Deadpool – $16.4 million
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot – $7.6 million
Gods of Egypt – $5 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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