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BET: 2016 Black Girls Rock (Premiere) at 8pm
A&E: Storage Wars (Premiere) at 10pm
BET: Chasing Destiny (Premiere) at 10:30pm
BOUNCE: Mann & Wife (Premiere) at 9pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Log Cabin Living (Premiere) at 9pm
PBS: 10 Homes That Changed America (Premiere) at 8pm
PBS: Point Taken (Premiere) at 11pm
TBS: America’s Greatest Makers (Premiere) at 9pm
ION: Saving Hope (Premiere) at 11pm
FREEFORM: Shadowhunters (Finale) at 9pm
FX: The People Vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (Finale) at 10pm
LMN: Intervention: Codependent (Finale) at 10pm
BET Networks acquired the Soul Train brand from InterMedia Partners and The Yucaipa Companies. The network relaunched the Soul Train Awards in 2009. Assets acquired include one of the largest libraries of African-American, music-oriented content in the world, including more 1,100 television episodes and 40 television specials.
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It’s a full year for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. TBS ordered 26 episodes of its new series less than two months after star and exec-producer Samantha Bee entered the late-night landscape. TBS’s order brings the total number of eps to 39, taking it to the end of 2016. Series, which offers a satirical take on weekly news, airs Mondays at 10:30p and is averaging 3.7 million viewers (L+7) per episode across TBS’s linear, digital and mobile platforms. The show is executive-produced by Bee, Jason Jones, Jo Miller, Miles Kahn and Tony Hernandez.
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The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will present the 2016 International Emmy Founders Award to Shonda Rhimes at the 44th International Emmy Awards Gala on Monday, November 21 in NY. Rhimes, of course, is behind global hit series including Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, Private Practice and How to Get Away with Murder.
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HBO exec Bill Simmons, formerly an ESPN personality, is producing a post-Game of Thrones program. After the Thrones, hosted by Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan (both from The Ringer), will follow the GoT premiere April 24 and continue through the duration of the upcoming sixth season recapping the latest episode and exploring the complexities of the show.
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Selena Gomez and Aaron Kaplan are developing a drama series project to air on Freeform. Described as “a Latina Empire,” the untitled drama project is set in a low-income Latino neighborhood and unfolds through the eyes of an 18-year-old girl. Gomez exec-produces with Kaplan through his Kapital Entertainment and Mandy Teefey.
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Brooke Shields returns as flower-shop-owner-turned-sleuth Abby Night in the second installment of the Flower Shop Mystery movie series – Flower Shop Mystery: Snipped in the Bud, premiering Sunday, April 24 at 9p on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Based on the bestselling series by Kate Collins, the movie also stars Brennan Elliott and Beau Bridges.
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Oklahoma City’s elite team of street racers, the 405, is back and on the hunt for redemption when Street Outlaws returns to Discovery Channel’s Motor Mondays on Monday, April 25 at 9p. Series, produced by Pilgrim Media Group, is Monday night’s top cable series for M25-54, M18-49 and M18-34, excluding sports shows.
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Reelz has renewed three original series. New episodes of Gangsters: America’s Most Evil will premiere in winter 2016-17, while new episodes of Collision Course and Autopsy: The Last Hours Of will premiere in early 2017.
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NCIS cast British actor Duane Henry as guest star in the final two episodes of the series’ current season, with an option to become a regular in upcoming season 14 of the veteran CBS show.
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Wilson Bethel has been cast in Discovery Channel miniseries Harley and the Davidsons. He’ll play Ray Weishaar, an influential member of the Harley-Davidson “Wrecking Crew.” Dougray Scott has been cast to play the CEO of Harley’s chief competitor. Miniseries premieres September 5.
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Class, the BBC’s Doctor Who young adult spinoff, is expanding its class. The series is bringing in Greg Austin (Mr Selfridge), Fady Elsayed (Silent Witness), Sophie Hopkins (Dark Matters) and Vivian Oparah to play Coal Hill students in the series.
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HGTV delivered its best-ever March in primetime for the A25-54 demo, delivering an average rating of .65 and notching a 14 percent increase over March 2015. The network also snagged the No. 1 slot in primetime in March among upscale W25-54. And HGTV’s ratings among viewers A18-49 grew 16 percent over year-ago levels, making March the highest-rated primetime month ever among that audience. Ratings drivers included Flip or Flop and Fixer Upper – both of which had their highest-rated seasons ever.
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Investigation Discovery closed March with the best quarter in network history for prime delivery of P2+, HH, A25-54, W25-54, A18-49 and W18-49, moving up six positions to secure the No. 9 slot in ad-supported cable for prime delivery of W25-54. Highlights for the quarter included original series Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda, averaging close to 2 million A2+ (1.925 million).
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Science Channel achieved its highest-rated quarter ever among A25-54, A18-49, M18-49 and W25-54/18-49 in L+3 during 1Q16 in primetime, while the network had its highest0rated quarter ever among Total Viewers P2+ and Persons/Men/Women 18-49 in Total Day. Highlights included What on Earth becoming the net’s most watched series of all time with a season average of 794,000 Total Viewers P2+.
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Azteca America boasts its best March prime time delivery in five years, reporting year-over-year average audience increases of 39 percent among total viewers, 33 percent among A18-49 and 71 percent among A18-34, according to Nielsen. Primetime growth among A18-49 was driven by Escape Perfecto (up 241 percent), Desafio Africa (up 65 percent) and Kaçak (up 48 percent).
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The Daily Show With Trevor Noah added NY-based writer and standup comic Michelle Wolf as an on-air contributor and writer. Wolf most recently was a writing supervisor on Late Night with Seth Meyers, on which she has appeared, along with stints on Comedy Central.
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