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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 3/29/16)
DISCOVERY: Deadliest Catch (Premiere) at 9pm
FOOD: Chopped Champions (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: Good Bones (Premiere) at 10pm
OXYGEN: Like A Boss (Premiere) at 9pm
TRU TV: Hack My Life (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: Fixer Upper (Finale) at 9pm
TV ONE: Born Again Virgin (Finale) at 8:30pm
Former Meet the Press host David Gregory has landed at CNN, where he’ll serve as a political analyst based in D.C. Gregory, who will appear primarily on New Day, has offered commentary on CNN and Fox News since he was bumped from NBC.
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The TV Land Icon Awards will honor legendary TV creator Norman Lear and “pop culture icon” John Stamos in a ceremony taking place April 10 and airing Sunday, April 17 at 9p. The Beach Boys, with whom Stamos has frequently played in the past, will perform a medley of their hit songs as part of the Grandfathered star’s tribute.
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GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz will make his first visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday, March 30. Should be interesting last week the ABC late nighter ran an ad parody pointing out the “differences” between Cruz and rival Donald Trump. “This is key,” says the narrator. “Ted Cruz has called for carpet bombing terrorists until the sand glows in the dark. Whereas, Donald Trump doesn’t have any position on whether the sand should glow.”
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VH1 and hip hop’s Ice Cube and Common team for a Chicago Town Hall special on Monday, April 11 at 10p. Spotlight is on issues facing young people, including relationships, gun violence and the importance of barbershops to community activism. The special is the inaugural episode of VH1’s Behind The… series, exploring pop culture and political issues.
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Add Charles Kelley, Blake Shelton, Little Big Town and Old Dominion to the list of artists slated to perform at the 51st Academy of Country Music Awards. Ceremony co-hosted by Luke Bryan and Dierks Bentley airs Sunday, April 3 at 8p on CBS.
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Chrisley Knows Best’s Todd Chrisley gets real on the red carpet as Access Hollywood’s guest correspondent for the ACMAs. Chrisley’s interviews will air Monday, April 4.
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Fox’s MasterChef is back for season seven on Wednesday, June 1. Wolfgang Puck is among the guest judges.
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El Rey’s “April Ghouls” marathon begins Friday, April 1 at 4p and runs through Sunday, April 3, with the Critters and Ghoulies film series, as well as recent release Ghouls.
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getTV viewers get a double dose of Spencer Tracy on Friday, April 1, with The Devil at 4 O’Clock at 8p, followed by Man’s Castle at 11p. On Sunday, April 3 it’s a Gregory Peck twofer, with I Walk The Line at 8p and Behold a Pale Horse at 10:20p.
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Food blogger Ali Khan has 12 hours and $35 to find culinary deals in cities across the country in Cooking Channel’s Cheap Eats, launching Tuesday, April 19 at 9p. First stop: Austin.
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Nickelodeon animated comedy The Loud House launches Monday, May 2 at 5p. Series based on creator Chris Savino’s life growing up in a family of ten kids is the first to be greenlit from Nick’s annual Animated Shorts Program, aimed at cultivating new talent.
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NBC Universo is launching its first original scripted series, El Vato, starring Mexican singer El Dasa, on Sunday, April 17 at 10p. Series for the U.S. Hispanic market follows an aspiring singer navigating life in LA.
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Kelly Rutherford (Gossip Girl) has been cast in a multi-episode arc in Quantico, reports TVLine, as Shelby’s presumed-dead mother. ABC drama airs Sundays at 10p.
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Tattiawna Jones (Flashpoint) landed the lead female role in the untitled ABC comedy pilot about a dysfunctional friendship between a lesbian and her best friend, a straight male (Andy Ridings).
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NBC newcomer Little Big Shots was the top broadcast program on Sunday with 10.3 million viewers and a 1.9 rating among A18-49, but against AMC’s The Walking Dead and March Madness, not to mention the Easter bunny, that was down 23 percent and 27 percent versus last week.
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HGTV’s Flip or Flop averaged a .91 Live+SD rating among P25-54 in season four, the highest ratings ever, up 26 percent over season three and making it the number one rated cable program for the Thursday at 9p time period among viewers P25-54 and upscale W25-54. More than 16 million total viewers tuned in to watch the series in its fourth season.
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Discovery’s Motor Mondays are proving to be a ratings driver. Street Outlaws: New Orleans scored a three week high with a 1.35 P25-54 rating with 2.10 million total viewers P2+ on March 21 in L+3. The series remained Monday’s top unscripted cable Prime telecast (excluding sports) for the fifth straight week in M25-54 and the fourth straight week in M18-49. Misfit Garage was up week-to-week and notched season highs across all 25-54s, all 18-49s, P12-17, P2+.
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The season two finale of TV Land‘s Younger reached series highs in Live+3, netting 1.3 million total viewers. Among A18-49 the season average was up 64 percent versus season one; among A25-54 it was up 70 percent. The median audience age is 12 years (ahem) younger, at 46, than TV Land’s channel prime average, and four years younger than season one.
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Producer and writer Howard Berk died on March 27. He was 91. Among Berk’s television credits were episodes of Columbo, The Rockford Files and McMillan & Wife.
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