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Break out those umbrellas because Sharknado 4 will hit in July. Syfy and The Asylum announced today that Ian Ziering will slay again in the newest installment, reprising his role as shark-fighting hero Fin Shepard, while Tara Reid is set to return as April Wexler to reveal the outcome of the fan-voted #AprilLives or #AprilDies social campaign. The fourth addition will also see the return of David Hasselhoff as Gil Shepard and Ryan Newman as Claudia Shepard. The new movie whips up adventure five years after the East Coast was ravaged, and where Fin, his family and the cosmos have been living blissfully sharknado-free. Cast also includes Gary Busey, Tommy Davidson, Imani Hakim, Cody Linley, Masiela Lusha and Cheryl Tiegs. Anthony C. Ferrante returns to direct an original screenplay written by Thunder Levin.
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Guy Fieri welcomes back former Triple G competitors for a second chance to redeem themselves and prove their culinary skills on Guy’s Grocery Games Redemption Tournament, premiering Sunday, April3 at 8p on Food Network. Each week of this five-part tournament, four returning contestants battle it out for a chance at up to $20,000 and to earn a spot in the tournament finale.
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DirecTV’s April 7-10 transmissions from the Masters Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club will be the first live 4K ultra high-definition broadcast in the US. The content will fuel the new DirecTV 4K Channel, launching in April and include content from its Audience Network. The channel will be available to DirecTV Ultimate and Premiere subscribers who also have its Genie HD DVR and a 4K television.
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Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Tim McGraw, Thomas Rhett and Chris Stapleton join the lineup of artists scheduled to perform at the 51st Academy of Country Music Awards. The ceremony, co-hosted by Luke Bryan and Dierks Bentley, will be broadcast live from MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Sunday, April 3 at 8p on CBS.
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Serena, the original documentary about four-time Olympic gold medalist and sports icon Serena Williams, is slated to premiere on Epix on June 22 at 8p. The feature-length doc is exec-produced by Peter Berg and produced by Berg’s Film 45’s Matthew Goldberg and Brandon Carroll, and directed by Ryan White. Jocelyn Diaz, Ross Bernard and Jill Burkhart are exec producers for Epix.
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No quiet retirement for these two. Travel series Grannies on Safari will premiere on RLTV on Tuesday, March 15 at 8p, coupled with the network’s other travel show, Stanley On the Go. Created and starring former airline exec Regina Fraser and Pat Johnson, the series follows the two best friends as they travel the globe and immerse themselves in local culture.
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FYI’s original series He Shed She Shed, celebrating the trend of turning backyard sheds into functional and creative outdoor living spaces, will debut Saturday, April 2 at 10p. Each ep follows two homeowners, friends or neighbors in the ultimate male vs. female backyard shed showdown, as they build and design a unique he-shed and she-shed. He Shed She Shed is produced by Loud TV and Plum Pictures.
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Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point ball. Dale Earnhardt’s legendary pink race car. The American flag draped around goalie Jim Craig after the “Miracle on Ice.” All of those historic objects from indelible moments in sports are either lost or in dispute. Smithsonian Channel docu-series Sports Detectives, debuting Sunday, April 24 at 9 p, will attempt to hunt down the truth of what happened and find missing treasures behind some of the most iconic moments in American sports history.
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OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network’s comedy series Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse returns on Friday, April 1 with back-to-back episodes at 9p and 9:30p. The previous season of the series was Friday night’s No. 1 original series on all of TV among African-American women and was Friday night’s No. 2 original cable series among African-American total viewers.
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Nickelodeon is rocking out Saturday, March 12, with the 2016 Kids’ Choice Awards airing at 8p followed by the debut of new series School of Rock at 9:30p. This year’s KCAs are hosted by Blake Shelton and will feature musical performances by DNCE, Charlie Puth with Wiz Khalifa and Silento, plus appearances by Robert Downey Jr., Amy Poehler, Megan Fox, Ellen DeGeneres, Chris Evans, Meghan Trainor, Fifth Harmony, John Stamos, Heidi Klum and more.
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More casting news for upcoming ABC pilot Broken. Anna Paquin (True Blood) will star in the drama project about a ruthless Dallas divorce attorney who gets an unexpected visit from her emotionally damaged, love-addicted sister.
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David Koechner (The Office), Megyn Price and Sarah Stiles (both of Rules of Engagement) will co-star opposite Brian d’Arcy James and Jermaine Fowler in Superior Donuts, the CBS comedy written by Bob Daily and Neil Goldman & Garrett Donovan, and directed by James Burrows.
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Yasmin Kaur Barn landed a leading role in Recon, the drama from Warner Bros. TV. Series, penned by The Vampire Diaries exec producer Caroline Dries and exec-produced by Vampire’s Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec, follows a rookie FBI agent who embeds herself in a suspected terrorist family.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Torrance Coombs (Reign) has been cast in Still Star-Crossed, ABC’s Romeo and Juliet drama pilot from Shondaland. Coombs will depart Reign when its current season ends but may surface in a guest role.
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Steven Bauer (Ray Donovan) will be a series regular in Four Stars, the CBS drama from Becky Mode, CBS TV Studios and Timberman/Beverly Productions.
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Debra Mooney (Everwood) has been cast alongside Eric Close and Gina Torres in ABC drama The Death Of Eva Sofia Valdez, written by playwright Charise Castro Smith and about a rags-to-riches Cuban immigrant.
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Christine Ko scored a role alongside Joel McHale in The Great Indoors for CBS. Written and exec-produced by Mike Gibbons, the CBS TV Studios project centers on an adventure reporter who has to head up a group of millennials in the magazine’s digital department.
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Jono Kenyon (Step Dave) scored the male lead in ABC pilot Toast, developed at Shondaland. The cast also features Tessa Ferrer (Grey’s Anatomy).
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Hap and Leonard, SundanceTV’s newest original series, premiered March 2 to strong viewership. In Nielsen Live +3 ratings, the premiere episode delivered 641,000 viewers, an increase of 49 percent from live/same day, including 268,000 A25-54 and 217,000 A18-49.
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The season 6 finale of Gold Rush scored big for Discovery with a season high in M25-54 and a 3.21 A25-54 rating with 5.78 million total viewers P2+ on Friday, March 4 in Live+3. It was also the No. 1 nonsports telecast on all of TV every Friday for its entire 19-week run among M25-54 and M18-49. The finale made Discovery the #1 network on all of TV on Friday night across P/M25-54, P/M18-49, and P/M18-34, topping all the broadcasters.
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The premiere ep of Saints & Sinners on Sunday was the highest-rated and most-watched program in Bounce TV history, drawing 1.3 million viewers across two airings the premiere 9p telecast and an encore at midnight.
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For the second consecutive week, TV One’s signature series Unsung held the No. 1 spot on Wednesday night among cable’s top original series in its time slot among African-Americans 25-54 with the March 2 premiere episode on American vocalist Johnnie Taylor. In addition, the network’s newest scripted comedy series Here We Go Again is up 67 percent in the A25-54 demo.
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BROADWAY
Blackbird with Michelle Williams and Jeff Daniels opens on Broadway on Thursday March 10, 2016.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/blackbird/
Noises Off is closing on Broadway on Sunday March 13, 2016.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/blackbird/
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