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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 4/6/16)
BRAVO: The Real Housewives of New York City (Premiere) at 9pm
CNBC: Follow The Leader (Premiere) at 10pm
DISNEY XD: Walk The Prank (Premiere) at 8:30pm
REELZ: Stalkers Who Kill (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: Two In A Million (Premiere) at 10pm
A&E: Wahlburgers (Finale) at 9pm
AMERICAN HEROES CHANNEL: American Lawmen (Finale) at 10pm
FREEFORM: Young & Hungry (Finale) at 8pm
FREEFORM: Baby Daddy (Finale) at 8:30pm
SUNDANCE TV: Hap & Leonard (Finale) at 10pm
Mark Burnett is getting in business with Steve Harvey. The mega-producer and game show/talk show/Little Big Shots star Harvey are teaming for a series for ABC featuring rival entrepreneurs pitching ideas to a live studio audience. “My dream has been to work with Steve, and this is the perfect project for us to do together,” said Burnett, who will exec produce; Harvey will host. “He is an amazing talent and has an enormous heart for entrepreneurs, some of whom will get their business jump-started because of him.”MGM Television is producing.
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Taye Diggs (Murder in the First) will host Fox game show You’re Back in the Room (wt), based on a UK format that has contestants hypnotized. “It’s the most unique blend of comedy and competition I’ve seen in years,” said Diggs.
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Summer slate dates: Season three of CW’s Masters of Illusion bows Friday, May 20, Whose Line Is It Anyway? returns Monday, May 23 and season three of Penn & Teller: Fool Us is back Monday, July 11.
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Vermont senator Bernie Sanders will appear NBC’s Late Night on Thursday, April 7. The Democratic presidential candidate last sat down with Seth Meyers in January. One week later, Sanders and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton face off in a debate on CNN hosted by Wolf Blitzer.
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Fox ordered 10 episodes of summer comedy Famous, from Ralph Farquhar (Moesha) and Ty Hodges (A Girl Like Grace), about a couple put to the test when one of them gains overnight stardom. Premiere date is Sunday, June 12 at 9p.
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Debra Martin Chase (Sparkle) will produce ABC miniseries The Black Calhouns. The project in development is based on a family history story written by Gail Lumet Buckley, daughter of Lena Horn.
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The 2016 MTV Movie Awards will include a sneak peek at Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, set for theatrical release on November 18. Eddie Redmayne, who stars in the film, will present the exclusive footage during the awards ceremony Sunday, April 10 at 8p.
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The royals treatment: Reelz documentary specials William and Kate: The Journey – Part 3: “The Birth of Prince George” premieres Monday, April 25 at 10p, followed by “The Birth of Princess Charlotte” at 11p.
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The 69th annual DGA Awards will take place February 4, 2017 at the Beverly Hilton, honoring film, television and commercials.
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NBC renewed Grimm for season six. Friday night originals are averaging 1.7 among A18-49 and 6.4 million viewers in L+7 data, growing an average of 90 percent in the demo from Live+SD. Bonus: Grimm’s upscale audience indexes at a 111 among A18-49 living in homes with $100K+ incomes.
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Fat N Furious: Rolling Thunder is back on Discovery’s Motor Mondays starting May 2 at 8p. Docu-series shows beat-up cars restored and racing on the drag strip.
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Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ is the first Seeso series to get a renewal from the NBCUni comedy streaming service. Two-part season one finale of the semi-scripted real estate spoof airs Thursday, April 28.
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Season two of FYI’s Arranged, following singles whose traditions include an arranged marriage, launches Tuesday, May 10 at 9p. Three new couples take the plunge.
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Angela Kinsey (The Office) and Steve Little (The Grinder) join Netflix comedy Haters Back Off, based on YouTube character Miranda Sings (Colleen Ballinger-Evans).
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J.D. Evermore was promoted from recurring to series regular for the fourth and final season of SundanceTV’s Rectify.
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The season 12 premiere of Discovery’s Deadliest Catch was TV’s #1 unscripted cable telecast with M25-54 and M18-49. The series also helped propel Discovery to be cable’s #1 network in prime Tuesday night with P25-54, M25-54 and M18-49.
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The NCAA men’s basketball championship was Monday’s most-watched TV program, peaking with 22.3 million viewers on TNT, TBS and truTV. It was the big game’s first year on cable; last year on CBS it delivered 28.3 million viewers.
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All six Scripps Networks Interactive brands saw double-digit ratings increases in primetime (A25-54) for Saturday, April 2. HGTV was #4 and Food Network hit #8 in cable for the night. HGTV earned .6, a 20 percent bump year over year, while .5 for Food was u p 25 percent. Travel Channel had a hefty 33 percent boost with .4, and DIY Network grew 38 percent, Cooking Channel grew 84 percent and Great American Country grew 63 percent over last year.
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A week of reruns didn’t keep Judge Judy down the week ending March 27. The court show topped syndication ratings with 6.7, up 3 percent versus the week prior, and up 10 percent versus year-ago. Hot Bench was down 4 percent for the week to 2.4, but up 50 percent versus last year.
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With coverage of the Brussels terrorist attack and NCAA March Madness causing preemptions in syndication, few syndicated shows were up week to week. Talk shows that managed to rise included Rachael Ray (1.5, up 7 percent), Steve Wilkos (1.4, up 8 percent) and Dr. Oz (1.4, up 8 percent).
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Hallmark Channel ranked as the #1 HH-rated cable network in primetime on Saturday, April 2, excluding March Madness. The premiere of original movie All Yours averaged a 2.0 HH rating, the highest-rated non-sports program of the day. Averaging 2.2 million viewers, the movie also boosted Hallmark Channel to be the most watched cable network in the 9p-11p time period, barring sports.
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The fifth episode premiere telecasts of Bounce TV’s Saints & Sinners on Sunday reached 1.5 million unduplicated viewers, tying it with the series’ second episode as the most-watched program in the net’s history.The 9p telecast set a Bounce TV record for the delivery of P25-54 and had the highest audience peak of the series to date with 747,000 total viewers. The telecast racked up double-digit gains of 24 percent in Households, 32 percent in P18-49, 34 percent in P25-54 and 27 percent in P2+ versus last week.
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The week of March 28, Univision ranked as the number 5 broadcast network among A18-34 and A18-49, with week-to-week growth (up 4 percent Total Viewers 2+, up 6 percent A18-49 and A18-34) and out-delivered one or more of the English-language broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC or FOX) on five nights among A18-34.
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