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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 4/12/16)
DISCOVERY: The Last Alaskans (Premiere) at 10pm
DIY: Mega Decks (Premiere) at 9pm
ESQUIRE: Boundless (Premiere) at 10pm
GSN: Idiotest (Premiere) at 10pm
LMN: 24 to Life (Premiere) at 10pm
OXYGEN: Living With Funny (Premiere) at 9pm
TRAVEL: Andrew Zimmer’s Driven By Food (Premiere) at 10pm
BRAVO: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Finale) at 9pm
COMEDY: Tosh.0 (Finale) at 10pm
COMEDY: Not Safe With Nikki Glaser (Finale) at 10:30pm
CW: iZombie (Finale) at 9pm
SCIENCE: NASA’s Unexplained Files (Finale) at 10pm
The Commander-in-Chief has another job this week: Science Channel guest presenter. President Obama, who has made science a priority during his administration, has a segment during the net’s nightly news coverage, Science Presents DNews, at 9p. The 2016 White House Science Fair is April 13.
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The national board of SAG-AFTRA approved a tentative agreement on a contract covering upwards of $1 billion/year in performers’ wages for commercials. Deal goes into effect once it is approved by union members.
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The Real deal: Syndicated daytimer The Real has been renewed for the 2016-2017 season on stations covering over 95 percent of the country. “The uniqueness of the series is not in its format, but rather in its hosts, whose individual voices are distinctive and fun and collectively have created a unique destination for conversations that cannot be found elsewhere,” said Ken Werner, president, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. The show will also continue to air weeknights on BET.
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Ian Somerhalder, star of The Vampire Diaries, said the CW drama will have “one last season,” according to the Walker Stalker Con Twitter account. The comment came while Somerhalder was appearing at the Nashville horror convention. Season seven of Diaries wraps Friday, May 13; according to the network, no decision has been made about a ninth run.
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Jon Cryer will emcee the NAB Show Television Luncheon on Monday, April 18 in Las Vegas. Cryer’s former boss, Two and a Half Men exec producer Chuck Lorre, will be inducted into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame. Keke Palmer (Scream Queens) grabs the Chairman’s Award.
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Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz makes his first visit to NBC’s Tonight Show on Thursday, April 14. The Texas senator has already braved sit-downs with Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel.
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GSN jumps into election madness with Political Idiotest. Half-hour special event featuring pundits from both parties airs Wednesday, April 20 at 11p, the same day it tapes.
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HDNet Movies is airing a “Cinco de Mayo Movie Marathon” on Thursday, May 5 (of course) at 8p, with films starring Antonio Banderas. Stunt kicks off with Desperado at 8p.
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TV One renewed Rickey Smiley for Real for a second season. No surprise there in its freshman run, the docu-series was the number two program on cable in its timeslot among Black P25-54, reaching 8.2 million unique P2+ viewers.
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ID is killing it with two new docu-series. Murder Among Friends, about killers who don’t act alone, debuts Tuesday, April 19 at 10p, followed the next day by Murder U, focused on college campus carnage, at 9p.
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The series premiere of Showtime comedy Roadies airs Sunday, June 26 at 10p, following the season four bow of Ray Donovan.
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Unscripted Woman makes its debut on Viceland Tuesday, May 10. Series from Gloria Steinem reports on the global danger of violence against women.
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Pint-sized grillmasters battle it out on new Food Network series Kids BBQ Championship, premiering Monday, May 23 at 8p. Season eleven Food Network Star winner/former NFL player Eddie Jackson hosts with lifestyle expert/wife of Matthew McConaughey Camila Alves.
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Added to the cast of Rectify, which just started production for its fourth and final season: Nathan Darrow (House of Cards) and Scott Lawrence (The Grinder). SundanceTV drama returns in fall 2016.
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Annet Mehendru’s time on The Americans came to an abrupt and violent end last week, but she’s staying in the FX family. The actress will recur in season three of Tyrant, arriving this summer.
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The four-part Gilmore Girls revival will launch “later this year, everywhere that Netflix is available,” said the streaming service. Netflix was more specific about premiere dates for season twos of Marco Polo (July 1) and DeGrassi: The Next Class (July 22), as well as the launch date of drama The Crown (November 4).
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NBC’s Little Big Shots topped Sunday among A18-49 (2.0, up 11 percent week to week) and total viewers (12 million, up 6 percent), CBS’s Masters overrun excluded. CBS was first for the night, with 1.3 in the demo and an average 9.3 million viewers, according to preliminary Nielsens.
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The premiere of the 2016 MTV Movie Awards, simulcast across MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, BET, MTV2, CMT, TV Land, VH 1 Classic and Logo, drew 3.5 million viewers, up 54 percent versus last year, with a gross average rating among P12-34 of 2.4, up 22 percent.
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