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Late night host Jimmy Kimmel will be back to host the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, airing Sunday, September 18 at ABC. Kimmel also manned the mic in 2012. Creative Arts ceremonies will take place Saturday and Sunday, September 10 and 11.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, set to take Donald Trump’s seat on season 8 of NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice, announced he is endorsing Trump rival John Kasich for the Republican presidential nomination. Of course, the candidate does still have the endorsement of another reality star, Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson, who went Trump stumping in January (dad Phil is team Cruz). Apprentice returns this spring.
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Season five of Amazon’s Ripper Street will be its last. The period crime drama, first cancelled by BBC One after two seasons, is currently filming in Dublin.
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Hulu will be the Official Media Sponsor for the Paley Center for Media. The partnership begins with the 33rd annual PaleyFest LA from March 11-20; events will include panels with the casts and creative teams from Empire, Scandal, The Big Bang Theory, American Horror Story: Hotel, and Better Call Saul, among others. Hulu subscribers will have exclusive access to content and footage of PaleyFest LA 2016 events, as well as behind the scenes interviews and clips. (Programs will not be livestreamed, but offered through VOD afterward.)
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Freeform picked up comedy Young & Hungry for season four. “Young & Hungry is the first series we’ve renewed under the new Freeform banner,” said Karey Burke, EVP, programming and development. “It remains a staple in our comedy diet. The show’s humor, quality and wonderful actors fit perfectly with our evolving brand.” Freeform rebranded from ABC Family in January.
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E! ordered a second season of Hollywood Medium With Tyler Perry. The show starring a 20-year-old clairvoyant premiered in January as the net’s most-watched unscripted series launch in three years, and is averaging close to 900,000 P18-49 and 1.6 million total viewers in Live+3.
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Geena Davis, fresh from a stint on Grey’s Anatomy, will star in Fox drama pilot The Exorcist, a retell of the story of a family suffering from demonic possession.
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Jenna Fischer (The Office) has been tapped to star opposite Matt LeBlanc in CBS’s untitled comedy about a contractor forced to face the challenges of child-rearing when his wife (Fischer) goes back to work.
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Another The Office star, Craig Robinson, will recur as a guest star on USA’s Mr. Robot, returning for season two this summer.
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Andie McDowell (Cedar Cove) nabbed the lead in ABC drama pilot Model Woman, inspired by the life of Eileen Ford.
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Jessica Camacho (Sleepy Hollow) will play the leader of a motorcycle club in Discovery miniseries Harley and the Davidsons, airing later this year.
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Glenne Headly (Don Jon) and Ed Begley Jr. (Blunt Talk) have joined the cast of Hulu comedy pilot Future Man, from Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg.
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Eddie Cahill (CSI: NY) stars opposite Hayley Atwell in ABC legal drama pilot Conviction.
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Ryan Guzman (Heroes Reborn) landed a series regular role on ABC’s Notorious. Drama pilot stars Piper Perabo and Daniel Sunjata.
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Eric Close (Nashville) was cast as the male lead in ABC revenge drama pilot The Death of Eva Sofia Valdez, centered on a rags-to-riches Cuban immigrant (Gina Torres) with scores to settle.
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NBC pilot Midnight, Texas will feature Francois Arnaud (Blindspot) in the lead role, as a traveling psychic who decides to settle down in a supernaturally creepy town.
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The most recent GOP debate on Fox News delivered 16.9 million viewers and 5.5 million among A25-54, topping all broadcast and cable programming on Thursday. It’s the fourth-highest of the 11 Republican debates so far; the Fox News debate in August was first with 24 million viewers and 7.9 million in the news demo.
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CNN original series Race for the White House, narrated by House of Cards’ Kevin Spacey, premiered after the news net’s broadcast of the latest Democratic debate on Sunday, to 2.56 million total viewers and 885,000 among A25-54, the highest-rated CNN original series telecast ever. The debate itself grabbed 5.5 million viewers and 1.8 million in the news demo, up from MSNBC’s Democratic debate last month, but way down from CNN’s last Democratic face-off in October, which delivered 16 million viewers.
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Opposite Crawleys and zombies on Sunday, ABC’s Once Upon a Time returned from hiatus to 4.0 million viewers and 1.3/4 among A18-49, holding even with its recent winter finale in the demo. Quantico, also back after three months, drew 3.7 million viewers and 1.1/4 among A18-49, versus 1.3/4 in December.
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Emmy-winning visual effects artist Gary Hutzel died March 3 in Vancouver. He was 60. Hutzel’s credits include Star Trek: The Next Generation and the Battlestar Galactica reboot.
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