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DESTINATION AMERICA: What’s For Sale: With A View (Premiere) at 10:30pm
DIY: Nashville Flipped (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: Strong (Premiere) at 9pm
SUNDANCE TV: The Last Panthers (Premiere) at 10pm
VELOCITY: Iron Resurrection (Premiere) at 10pm
A&E: Donnie Loves Jenny (Finale) at 10pm
ID: Web of Lies (Finale) at 9pm
LMN: My Crazy Ex (Finale) at 9pm
LMN: I Love You…But I Lied (Finale) at 10pm
SYFY: Face Off (Finale) at 9pm
SYFY: The Internet Ruined My Life (Finale) at 10pm
Gavin Polone, original producer of Gilmore Girls, filed suit against Warner Bros. Television for failing to compensate him for the show’s upcoming four-episode revival on Netflix. “Defendant [makes]…the absurd claim that the Subsequent Episodes are derivative works based on the television series,” alleges the suit. “Defendant also appears to erroneously believe the Subsequent Episodes are not considered a ‘television series’ because they are being produced for Netflix, rather than a traditional broadcast network.” Polone is looking for $195,000.
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Looks like season six of MTV’s Teen Wolf won’t include Arden Cho. “Unfortunately it looks like we are wrapped up with Kira’s storyline and she won’t be coming back,” posted the actress on YouTube. Cho joined the drama in season three.
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CBS and Time Warner inked a deal that will have March Madness games airing on CBS, TBS, TNT and tru TV through 2032. Price tag: a combined $8.8 billion for any new media platform including ones that haven’t been invented yet.
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David Letterman, documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson and The Daily Show With Jon Stewart will be honored at the 75th Peabody ceremony May 21 in New York. The gala will be air as a 90-minute special on Pivot on Monday, June 6 at 8p. In announcements beginning April 19, winners to be known as The Peabody 30 will also be named.
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Sarah Palin will be at the NAB show in Las Vegas next week hawking her prospective syndicated court show, Palin Rules (wt), to station groups, reports TVNewsCheck. The outlet also notes the show’s developers are toying with the idea of having the former Alaska governor be addressed as “Governor,” since Palin has never had real-world experience as a judge. Or a lawyer. Warm Springs Productions has teamed with Palin for the project.
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Lifetime is developing Flint, an original movie about the drinking water disaster in Flint, Michigan. Fact-based drama comes from Craig Zadan and Neil Meron (The Wiz Live) and Sony Pictures Television.
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A 75th birthday celebration concert for Joan Baez, with guests including Jackson Browne, Judy Collins, David Crosby, Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Indigo Girls, among others, premieres on Thirteen’s Great Performances Friday, May 6 at 9p on PBS in New York, expanding nationwide in June.
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Season two of Pop’s Rock This Boat: New Kids on the Block launches Thursday, June 9 at 8p. This trip will include virtual reality and 360 degree video (selfies with Donnie!).
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New Girl will be back for season six. “Every network comedy should aspire to what Liz Meriwether is achieving in New Girl, with its bravura dialogue, inventive and witty performances by the talented cast and emotionally engaging storytelling,” said Fox’s David Madden. “The series is as creatively strong today as it ever was.”
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Season two of Secret Lives of Americans has a premiere date: Friday, May 20 on Pivot. First up is a young woman leading a double life, who decides to reveal her identity as a Muslim.
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Man Seeking Woman landed a season three renewal from FXX. Total viewers in season two increased 2 percent over season one, to 399,000.
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The third and final season of ITV’s Broadchurch will include Julie Hesmondhalgh (Happy Valley), Georgina Campbell (Murdered By My Boyfriend), Sarah Parish (Atlantis), Charlie Higson (The Fast Show) and Mark Bazeley (Home Fires). Crime drama airs on BBC America on this side of the pond.
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FX limited series The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story wrapped as cable’s most-watched new series of 2016. On a Live+7 basis (through eight weeks, first-run), the series is averaging 7.5 million total viewers, 4.0 million A18-49 and 1.9 million A18-34, number six in delivery of A18-34 and eighth in A18-49 among all primetime TV shows (broadcast and cable) in 2016. Time spent viewing adds up to 143.9 hours, or 8.63 billion minutes.
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The season two premiere of Starz’ Outlander delivered 1.46 million Live+SD viewers, more than double its series debut (721,000), for a Starz premiere record. Counting re-airings and on demand data so far, the tally stands at 2.68 million viewers. The Girlfriend Experience launched to a strong 1.49 million viewers for premiere night viewership, the best for a new series since Outlander in August 2014.
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AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead started its sophomore season (opposite the MTV Movie Awards) the number one show in all of television with 6.7 million total viewers and 3.9 million among A18-49, but down 34 percent in total viewers and 37 percent in the demo versus its August season 1 launch. L+3 numbers will likely provide a hefty lift.
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Several syndicated talk shows were up week to week the week ending April 3. Leader Dr. Phil saw a 15 percent lift to 3.1 Live+SD, Steve Harvey had a 6 percent boost to 1.9 (up 12 percent year to year), and Maury rose 6 percent, to 1.7. Dipping to season lows: Ellen DeGeneres (down 9 percent to 2.1) and just-renewed The Real (down 11 percent to .8).
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Hallmark Channel original movie Hearts of Spring ranked the net to be number one among HH rating in Saturday primetime with a 2.0 HH rating and 2.2 million viewers, the highest-rated program of the day as well as the top-rated movie of the week.
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