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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 4/7/16)
AL JAZEERA AMERICA: The Limits of Hope: Inside Obama’s White House (Premiere) at 10pm
CBS: The Odd Couple (Premiere) at 8:30pm
COOKING: Carnival Eats (Premiere) at 10pm
NAT. GEO.: Primal Survivor (Premiere) at 10pm
TRAVEL: Mysteries at the Museum (Premiere) at 9pm
CMT: Party Down South (Finale) at 9pm
FOX: American Idol (Season Finale) at 8pm
UP: Bringing Up Bates (Finale) at 9pm
President Obama will be interviewed by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday April 10. It will be the Commander in Chief’s first Fox News Channel chat since 2014.
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FYI will stop serving Kocktails With Khloe after its final season one episode Wednesday, April 20. Viewership for the talker has dropped to 197,000 total viewers and .1 among A18-49 in Live+7. The show will go out with a bang, featuring power couples Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, and John Legend and Chrissy Teigen.
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Melissa McCarthy will be honored with the “Comedic Genius” award at Sunday’s 2016 MTV Movie Awards. Previous winners were Will Ferrell in 2013 and Kevin Hart – this year’s host, with Dwayne Johnson – in 2015.
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TBS ordered season two of The Detour ahead of the show’s official launch on Monday, April 11 at 9p. Created, written and exec produced by Jason Jones and Samantha Bee, the series had sneak preview telecasts following the NCAA tournament, and is available to stream. “I’m very excited to be going back to making my favorite show not yet on TV and look forward to making outrageous demands in my rider for the second season,” said Daily Show alum Jones.
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Byron Allen issued a statement in response to Comcast’s opposition to the Entertainment Studios/National Association of African-American Owned Media petition to the FCC. Characterizing accusations that it had failed to fulfill its obligation to carry minority-owned channels as “unadulterated bunk,” Comcast noted of ASPiRE and Revolt, “That the networks have attracted investors who are not owned by African Americans does not change the fact that the networks are majority or substantially owned by African Americans.” In his response, Allen said, “Everybody talks about diversity, and everybody complains about the lack of diversity. These lawsuits were filed to provide distribution and real economic inclusion for 100% African American-owned media…. The cable industry spends $70 billion a year licensing cable networks and 100% African American-owned media receives ZERO.This is completely unacceptable.”
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Uberproducer Dick Wolf and NBC are developing Law & Order: True Crime, starting with an eight-parter based on the Menendez brothers murder case. Calling the scripted limited anthology series a “natural evolution of the Law & Order brand,” Wolf points out, “There is no shortage of compelling real-life criminal cases, and the Menendez trial was more scintillating than most crime fiction.”
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Cake Boss Buddy Valastro leaves his batter behind to take a cross-country trek with his wife and kids on Food Network’s Buddy’s Family Vacation. RV road trip commences Friday, May 27 at 8p.
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Nat Geo WILD celebrates Earth Day on Friday, April 22 with short films from this year’s “Wild to Inspire” competition, starting at 6:30p, followed by Mission Critical: Orangutan on the Edge at 9p.
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FX will air a marathon of The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story on Saturday, April 9 at 2p, starting with a commercial-free broadcast of the first episode. The critically acclaimed limited series wrapped its first run on Tuesday.
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AXS TV is re-airing Dan Rather’s interview with Merle Haggard on Friday, April 8 at 11:30a, Saturday, April 9 at 9a and Sunday, April 10 at 8a. The Big Interview episode originally aired in September 2013. The country music legend died Wednesday, on his 79th birthday.
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Nickelodeon renewed School of Rock for a second season. Musical comedy series based on the 2003 movie airs Saturdays at 8:30p.
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Season two of Ovation’s Raiders of the Lost Art bows Wednesday, May 11 at 10p. Series explores the world’s greatest art crimes and mysteries.
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Boundless is back for season three Tuesday, April 12 at 10p on Esquire. Newcomers Rory Bosio and Hunter McIntyre join Simon Donato and Paul “Turbo” Trebilcock going to extremes across three continents.
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OWN docu-series Livin’ Lozada, the net’s highest-rated freshman series among W18-49, returns Saturday, May 7 at 10p. It’s a season of mother/daughter drama, with a visit from medium John Edward.
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Brad Garrett won’t be playing it for laughs when he guests on the two-part season finale of NBC’s Law & Order: SVU on Wednesday, May 18 and May 25 at 9p. The Everybody Loves Raymond star will play a corrections officer with a history of violence and corruption.
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The Blacklist’s Ryan Eggold is set as the male lead in a possible extension of the NBC spy drama. Planted spinoff, with Famke Janssen, will air Thursday, May 12.
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Jennie Garth (Beverly Hills 90210), Dan Payne (All Yours) and Corbin Bernsen (LA Law) star in Hallmark Movies & Mysteries drama Karen Kingsbury’s A Time To Dance, premiering on Sunday, May 15 at 9p.
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Trevor Donovan (Texas Rising) landed the role of country star Eddy Arnold in upcoming CMT scripted drama Million Dollar Quartet (wt).
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Lili Simmons (True Detective) is onboard HBO drama Westworld in a recurring role.
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The third season of DIY’s Texas Flip N Move wrapped its highest rated season to date, attracting more than 3.7 million total viewers and growing ratings 92 percent over the prior two seasons. The finale on Friday averaged nearly 196,000 impressions among viewers P25-54, up a whopping 156 percent from year ago levels in the Friday at 9p timeslot, the highest-rated telecast for the series.
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And the winners on Wisconsin primary night were…Fox News, with 3 million viewers from 8p-11p, and CNN, news demo leader with 650,000. CNN delivered 1.9 million total viewers and MSNBC drew 1.5 million. Among A25-54, Fox News collected 601,000 viewers and MSNBC 378,000.
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Up against the Wisconsin primary, the finale of FX’s The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story drew 3.27 million viewers and 1.7 million among A18-49, its best audience since episode 3, but down from the premiere’s 5.11 million Live+SD/2.0-in-the-demo haul.
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ABC newcomer The Real O’Neals was even week to week on Tuesday in total viewers (3.7 million) and A18-49 (1.0/4), with its best lead retention out of Fresh Off the Boat (88 percent/91 percent), which tied a series low 1.1.
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Tuesday’s American Idol special on Tuesday averaged a 1.4 rating among A18-49 for Fox, versus .7 for the net’s comedies in the space last week.
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