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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 3/22/16)
CNBC: Billion Dollar Buyer (Premiere) at 10pm
COOKING: Cheap Eats (Premiere) at 9pm
DIRECT TV: You Me Her (Premiere) at 9pm
ESQUIRE: Friday Night Tykes: Steel Country (Premiere) at 10pm
FREEFORM: Stitchers (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: Good Bones (Premiere) at 11pm
MYX TV: Call To Cosplay (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: Heartbeat (Premiere) at 9pm
WEATHER: 23.5 Degrees with Sam Champion (Premiere) at 11pm
ESQUIRE: Friday Night Tykes (Finale) at 9pm
TV ONE: Here We Go Again (Finale) at 8pm
Turner Classic Movies will honor filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola during a handprint-footprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX on Friday, April 29. The event is part of the 2016 TCM Classic Film Festival.
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The Battle of Versailles, an HBO movie focused on the legendary 1973 fashion show that shone a light on American designers and black models, has Ava DuVernay (Selma) onboard as director as well as co-writer with Michael Starbury. DuVernay is also at work on upcoming OWN drama Queen Sugar, a co-creation with Oprah Winfrey.
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Freeform’s Dead of Summer, set in a late 1980s midwestern summer camp, started production yesterday in Vancouver. Produced by ABC Signature Studios and Kitsis/Horowitz, drama stars Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost), Zelda Williams (Teen Wolf), Mark Indelicato (Ugly Betty), Alberto Frezza (Charlie’s Angels), Eli Goree (The 100), Ronen Rubenstein (Orange Is the New Black), Amber Coney (Class) and Paulina Singer (Gotham).
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A comedy special starring a young comic diagnosed with terminal cancer will air on HBO this spring. A Kickstarter campaign was launched on behalf of 32-year-old Quincy Jones (real name Quami) that led to a March 15 appearance on Ellen; host Ellen DeGeneres surprised Jones with the HBO news in a follow-up visit on Monday: http://ellentube.com/videos/0-x71zfym3/. Quincy’s standup show will be recorded April 4 in LA.
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10 Homes That Changed America launches on PBS Tuesday, April 5 at 8p (check local listings). The three-parter highlights spaces from Monticello to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater to 19th century NYC tenements, that transformed residential living.
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The season one finale of FX’s Baskets airs Thursday, March 24 at 10p. Highlight: Chip hits rock bottom, but “on the plus side, there are curly fries down there.”
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Limp Bizkit’s Wes Borland and fiancee Carre Callaway renovate a Detroit dream home they bought after just seeing pictures, on DIY’s Sight Unseen. Six-episode series premieres in July.
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Season four of VH1’s Black Ink Crew premieres Monday, April 4 at 9p, with two new tattoo shops and three new artists. Watch for rivalries heating up, a fall off the wagon and a newcomer with a checkered past.
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All 10 episodes of the second season Bloodline will be released Friday, May 27 on Netflix. This time around, “Good people may have to do some very bad things,” teases the streaming service.
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Games of Thrones is back for season six Sunday, April 24 at 9p on HBO. And if they do say so themselves, it’s “the best one we’ve ever done,” David Benihoff told EW, speaking for himself and co-creator Dan Weiss. “Usually there’s an episode or two we’re kind of nervous about, that didn’t turn out as well as we hoped. This season there is not a weak episode.”
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Music Choice’s Today’s Country music channel is featuring Academy of Country Music Awards content now through April 10. The channel will be co-branded Today’s Country: ACM Awards starting Friday, April 1 through Sunday, April 3, when the 51st annual awards show airs on CBS. Additional content, including ACM Awards flashback vignettes, will also appear on MC Today’s Country Video Channel via web and app.
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Speaking of the ACMAs, Dolly Parton and Katy Perry will duet, and Parton will be honored for her 2015 TV movie, Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors during the ceremony.
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Nominations for the 43rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be announced live on CBS’s The Talk on Thursday, March 24 at 2p. Ceremony for the Creative Arts Awards takes place Friday, April 29, while the Daytime Emmy Awards event is set for Sunday, May 1. The Talk holds its fifth annual “After Party” honoring winners on Monday, May 2.
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Recipients of the 41st annual Gracie Awards, recognizing the outstanding achievements of women in media, include Tina Fey, Jada Pinkett Smith, Angela Bassett, Cynthia Nixon and Kathie Lee Gifford, among others. The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation event will take place Tuesday, May 24 in Beverly Hills.
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MTV is rounding up big names for its 2016 Movie Awards. First round of presenters includes Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Jessica Chastain, Seth Rogan, Zac Efron, Olivia Munn and Gigi Hadid, for a show hosted by Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart on Sunday, April 10 at 8p.
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Mary Louise Parker (Weeds), Rachel Griffiths (Six Feet Under) and Guy Pearce (Memento) landed lead roles in ABC mini-series When We Rise, centered on the LGBT rights movement. Gus Van Sant is directing.
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Lucas Till (X-Men) will star in CBS drama pilot MacGyver, a reboot of the 1985-1992 series starring Richard Dean Anderson as a secret agent with way with paper clips and chewing gum. Also joining the cast is Joshua Boone (Fan Girl).
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Esai Morales will co-star in Fox’s untitled workplace comedy starring Judy Greer as the head of HR for a plastics molding plant. Patton Oswalt plays the new CEO.
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Fox’s star-studded live musical The Passion averaged a solid 1.6/5 rating among A18-49 and 6.6 million viewers on Sunday, according to preliminary figures. That’s an improvement of 45 percent in the demo and 153 percent in viewers versus last Sunday, but down from the 4.3/13 and 12.21 million viewers the net’s Grease: Live delivered in January.
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