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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 4/11/16)
BRAVO: The Real Housewives of Dallas (Premiere) at 10pm
FOOD: Cake Masters (Premiere) at 9pm
HISTORY: Iron & Fire (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: Disappeared (Premiere) at 10pm
LOGO: Gay for Play Game Show Starring RuPaul (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: Jackie Robinson (Premiere) at 9pm
SYFY: Hunters (Premiere) at 10pm
TBS: The Detour (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY: Street Outlaws: New Orleans (Finale) at 9pm
SYFY: The Magicians (Finale) at 9pm
Add CBS to networks shooting for more true crime, with an order for an unscripted anthology series that will feature a new case every season, starting with the 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey. The news follows word that NBC is at work on franchise extender Law & Order: True Crime. What thinks Henry Schleiff, group president of Discovery Comm. nets including true crime hub Investigation Discovery? “NBC and CBS are clearly seeing what we’ve known for years – people simply love real-life stories of mystery and suspense,” said Schleiff. “We welcome anyone who brings attention to the true crime genre – as the #1 network for delivery of women season to date, ID remains the one and only 24/7 home for this incredibly compelling programming.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Melissa McCarthy will reprise her role as Sookie on Netflix’s Gilmore Girls revival. The Mike & Molly star shared the news on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Friday. Saying GG had been “near and dear to her heart” but scheduling conflicts had until now prevented her from taking part in the update, McCarthy announced, “They’re going to squeeze me in to do it, and I’m very happy to go back to Stars Hollow.” Filming on the four 90-minute episodes began in February.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Gabrielle Carteris, who had been acting president of SAG-AFTRA since Ken Howard’s death on March 23, was elected president by the union’s board of directors. The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum had been EVP since 2012. “Ken was a great union leader, friend and mentor,” said Carteris. “He left big shoes to fill, but with the support of the national board of directors and the membership, I am committed to improving the lives of all SAG-AFTRA members.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Sleepy Hollow killed off a major character on Friday’s finale. Spoiler alert: Nicole Beharie (Abbie) is off the show. “Alas, Abbie Mills has done all she was meant to do,” said Beharie in a statement. “I’m rooting for my co-stars and crew.” Said the Fox drama’s producers, “We thank Nicole Beharie for bringing Abbie and Sleepy Hollowto life. We are currently discussing Season 4, and should the series be picked up for another season, we have some exciting scenarios and new avenues we want to explore.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire), co-creator and showrunner for HBO drama Vinyl, has left the series ahead of its second season, over creative differences. Scott Z. Burns (The Borne Ultimatum) will step in as showrunner and exec producer and Max Borenstein (Minority Report) has been named exec producer. Rock drama is exec produced by Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Sebastian Maniscalco’s third Showtime comedy special, slated to air this summer, will tape in front of a live audience on May 7 in NYC’s Beacon Theatre. Maniscalco has a comedy pilot based on his life, Sebastian, at NBC.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MTV ordered unscripted pilot Backup Plan, starring waiter-turned-comedian Leonard Ouzts searching for another career in case comedy doesn’t pan out. Triage Entertainment is producing.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Grammy winner Ludacris will host the 2016 Billboard Music Awards for the third year in a row, joined by first-timer Ciara. Ceremony is set to return to ABC Sunday, May 22 at 8p. The premiere will lead into new Cameron Crowe ensemble comedy series Roadies at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Bravo promises secrets will be revealed in a The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion. There must be a lot of them – the event runs across three nights, Tuesday, April 19 at 9p and at 8p on May 3 and May 10.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Showtime set Sunday, June 26 as the season four debut date for Ray Donovan, currently in production in LA.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Esquire issued a season two pick-up of its first original scripted series, Spotless. Dark drama comes from Tandem Productions.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Transformers Rescue Bots returns for season four with new characters, including the first female Rescue Bot, with back-to-back eps beginning Saturday, April 23 at 8a on Discovery Family Channel.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Contractor Jeff Devlin (I Hate My Bath) comes to the rescue of centuries-old homes in DIY’s Stone House Revival, premiering Wednesday, May 11, at 10p. “I’ve been renovating homes around Bucks County for more than 20 years and most of them are older than the country itself,” said Devlin. “People take the heart out of the home when they strip it down or try to change it into something new. We’re going show how we restore and renovate these places and save some history, too.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Calling it “the perfect mash-up of Walking Dead, Sharknado and We Bought a Zoo,” Fuse announced a Friday, May 13 launch date for Zoombies. We can thank The Asylum, producers of Sharknado, for a show about animal zombies aimed at Fuse’s Latino and multicultural 18-34 audience.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Tony Roberts (Law & Order) will play Max Kellerman, owner of Catskills resort Kellerman’s, in ABC’s remake of the 1987 film Dirty Dancing. Abigail Breslin (Scream Queens) will have the time of her life as Baby.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Grant Bowler (Defiance) and Anthony Head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) are onboard ABC drama pilot Still Star-Crossed. The Shondaland drama takes place in 16th century Verona, after the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Paul Adelstein (Scandal) will co-star in Hulu drama Chance, opposite Hugh Laurie and Gretchen Mol. Adelstein is also reprising his Prison Break role for Fox’s event series.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Frankie Faison (Banshee) landed a series regular role on ABC’s Shondaland comedy pilot Toast, showing the flashbacks behind toasts at a couple’s rehearsal dinner.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Young & Hungry co-star Aimee Carrero will jump to a Y&H spinoff series in development at Freeform starring Ashley Tisdale. Carrero will reprise her role as Sofia.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fox’s American Idol ended on a high note. The series finale on Thursday was up 76 percent among A18-49 versus the season 14 ender, to 3.0/10, the best in the demo since May 2013. Versus last week, the show was up 43 percent.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Walking Dead ended season six Sunday with a 90-minute finale that delivered 18.4 million viewers and 11.5 million A18-49 in L+3 ratings. The AMC zombie drama remained the #1 show on television among A18-49, with an average L+3 viewership across the season’s 16 episodes of 18 million total viewers, 11.5 million A18-49 and 11.3 million A25-54.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The premiere of Nat Geo’s The Story of God With Morgan Freeman delivered 3.5 million total viewers and a 1.1 rating among P25-54 in Live+3, making it the fourth most-watched telecast ever on the net. The first global premiere fueled by the newly formed National Geographic Partners’ social reach, social promotion reached 39.7 million people, and drove nearly 500,000 engagements during premiere lead-up.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The season two premiere telecasts of Bounce TV’s Mann & Wife on April 5 combined to reach nearly one million unduplicated viewers.The total audience reach was up 21 percent versus the series premiere last year and the 9p airing was the series’ most-watched telecast ever among P18-49 up (39 percent), W18-49 (up 11 percent) and P25-54 (up 48 percent). The show also skewed younger than season one, with an average median age of 36 years old (versus 40 years in season one).
(Source: Cynopsis)
For the fourth straight week, Discovery’s Naked and Afraid was Sunday’s #1 unscripted cable telecast (excluding sports programming & talk shows) across all key men. The series continues to be up week-to-week across W25-54, all 18-49s, W18-34, P12-17, P2+.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Longtime 60 Minutes producer Philip Scheffler died April 7. He was 85. Starting in 1980, Scheffler had a hand in every report on the CBS news show until his retirement in 2003.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Blood, Sweat & Heels star Daisy Llewellyn died April 8. She was 36. The former magazine editor revealed on the Bravo reality show last year that she had been diagnosed with bile duct cancer.
(Source: Cynopsis)
2016 MTV MOVIE AWARDS (25TH ANNIVERSARY) – WINNERS LIST
http://www.mtv.com/news/2864727/2016-mtv-movie-awards-winners-list/
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
The Boss – $23.5 million
Batman Vs. Superman – $23.4 million
Zootopia – $14.3 million
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 – $6.4 million
Hardcore Henry – $5.1 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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