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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 3/15/16)
E!: LA Clippers Dance Squad (Premiere) at 10pm
FYI: Bride & Prejudice (Premiere) at 9pm
MTV: Faking It (Premiere) at 10:30pm
OWN: If Loving You Is Wrong (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: Jill & Jessa: Counting On (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: The Willis Family (Premiere) at 10pm
A&E: Fit to Fat to Fit (Finale) at 10pm
FREEFORM: Pretty Little Liars (Finale) at 8pm
HBO: Gonzaga: The March to Madness (Finale) at 10pm
MYX TV: Bagged (Finale) at 10pm
TNT: Rizzoli & Isles (Finale) at 9pm
Oprah Winfrey will be on hand, along with fellow cast members and exec producers of OWN mega-church drama Greenleaf, for the show’s premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival next month, part of an expansion of the festival’s Tribeca Tune In television coverage. “TFF has long since championed storytelling in a multitude of ways, including traditional and online television platforms,” said festival director Genna Terranova. “Tribeca Tune In gives us the opportunity to invite people off their couches and share their love and curiosity for great storytelling together.”
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The BBC apologized for a Top Gear shoot in London that drew criticism for a stunt that had host Matt LeBlanc and a driver doing donuts near a war memorial. The angle of images taken made it appear the memorial was closer than it really was, and “I would like to apologize unreservedly for what these images seem to portray,” said host Chris Evans. Last year, longtime host Jeremy Clarkson got the boot after he assaulted a producer, leading to a revamp of the show.
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Turner Classic Movies will open the 7th annual TCM Classic Film Festival on April 28th with a 40th Anniversary screening of 1976 political thriller All The President’s Men. The festival, from April 28 – May 1 in Hollywood, honors Carl Reiner and Elliott Gould.
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Panic! At The Disco is teaming up with Music Choice to give high school students a chance to submit music videos in an All American High School Film Festival category. Winning video of the Music Choice Presents: Panic! At The Disco Music Video Challenge will air on Music Choice On Demand, the Music Choice App and premiere at the 2016 AAHSFF.
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The popular Halloween Walking Dead haunted maze attraction is going year-round at Universal Studios Hollywood. The zombie drama’s fans (at least, those over age 13) can be scared witless at the “most intense, realistic Walking Dead experience ever,” said Talking Dead host Chris Hardwick.
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Rihanna will receive the “Rock Star” award at the 2016 Black Girls Rock Awards on BET. Show tapes April 1 for Tuesday, April 5 at 8p premiere.
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E!’s Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry features a visit with Carnie Wilson on Sunday, March 20 at 10p. Docu-series from 44 Blue Productions follows a 19-year-old clairvoyant.
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Red Sox superstar Ted Williams is profiled in the last episode of Major League Legends, Monday, March 21 at 8p on Smithsonian Channel. Martin Sheen narrates.
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AMC’s Preacher premieres Sunday, May 22 at 10p, after the mid-season finale of Fear the Walking Dead. An encore of the pilot will air Sunday, May 29, with new eps launching Sunday, June 5 in the series’ regular 9p timeslot. Supernatural comedic drama is based on the ‘90s comic book franchise.
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Upcoming Cinemax horror series Outcast, from Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and Chris Black, will premiere Friday, June 3 – and has been renewed for a second season. “What we’ve been able to achieve on Cinemax, with its unprecedented creative freedom, frankly, almost scares me at times,” said Kirkman at SXSW.
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Showtime comedy Dice bows Sunday, April 10 at 9:30p. Scripted, semi-autobiographical series follows the life and up-and-down career of comedian Andrew Dice Clay.
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Chris Noth (The Good Wife) will play a general in upcoming FX drama Tyrant, about an American family sucked into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern country.
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Added to the cast of Discovery miniseries Harley and the Davidsons: Daniel Coonan (Law & Order), Annie Read (Awkward) and newcomer Essa O’Shea. Production begins this month, to air later this year.
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Christopher Mintz-Plasse joins CBS pilot The Great Indoors. Comedy stars Joel McHale (Community) as an adventure reporter reassigned to a magazine’s digital department.
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Hamilton’s Christopher Jackson takes a break from playing George Washington to tackle the role of a former All-American lineman/stylist on CBS drama pilot Bull, reports Deadline.
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Patrick Warburton landed a role in Netflix eight-parter Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. The Rules of Engagement vet also stars on NBC comedy Crowded, bowing Sunday, March 20.
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Joshua Sasse (Galavant) nabbed the male lead in CW pilot No Tomorrow, from Jane the Virgin co-exec producer Corinne Brinkerhoff and exec producer Ben Silverman.
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Fans of Freeform’s Shadowhunters learned via Facebook on Monday that the drama would return for a second season. Show based on the fantasy book series “The Mortal Instruments” airs Tuesdays at 9p; finale is April 5.
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Orphan Black returns to BBC America for season four on a new night and time, Thursday, April 14 at 10p.
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The Last Alaskans returns for season two on Discovery Tuesday, April 12 at 10p. Docu-series follows the few people still living in Alaska’s remote Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Steve Harvey welcomes the father and sister of murder victim Ron Goldman, as well as former O.J. Simpson houseguest Kato Kaelin, today to share their memories of the murder trial of Simpson as well as their thoughts on current FX series The People v. O.J. Simpson, airing Tuesdays at 10p.
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Little Big Shots was NBC’s biggest Sunday entertainment show (post-Super Bowl shows excluded) in 11 years, with a 2.8 rating among A18-49 and 14.8 million viewers, according to preliminary Nielsens – up 16 percent from it’s The Voice-led premiere.
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Sunday’s Democratic Town Hall brought CNN 2.7 million total viewers and 811,000 among A25-54. Co-host TV One drew 164,000 viewers and 54,000 in the news demo. The debate was the third-highest in viewers and A25-54. Episode two of Kevin Spacey’s Race for the White House followed on CNN, attracting 2 million viewers and 646,000 among A25-54, to finish first in the timeslot among cable news nets.
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The season eight premiere of Logo’s RuPaul’s Drag Race, also the show’s 100th episode, was its highest in three years, besting its prior season launch by 6 percent among P18-49 in Live+3. Across the night, the episode was watched by almost 1 million people and was streamed 1.5 million times.
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WGN America’s Underground was the net’s most-watched program since 1998, when baseball’s Mark McGwire hit his 62nd home run to beat Roger Maris’ single season record. In Live+3 numbers, the show drew 3.5 million total viewers (up 43 percent) and 1.5 million A25-54 (up 51 percent) for last Wednesday’s premiere and three encores.
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The Tuesday, March 8 episode of Esquire’s Friday Night Tykes delivered the net’s most watched original premiere ever among A18-49 (236,000). Season three of the franchise has posted continual growth throughout its run, averaging an 8 percent lift per week among A18-49. New series Team Ninja Warrior ranks as Esquire’s most watched original debut ever; the season one finale posted the network’s second-most-watched original premiere among A18-49 (206,000) in L+3, behind Tykes beforehand.
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