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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 4/21/16)
BRAVO: Million Dollar Listing (Premiere) at 9pm
COMEDY: Inside Amy Schumer (Premiere) at 10pm
COOKING: Cheap Eats (Premiere) at 10pm
HISTORY: Alone (Premiere) at 9pm
TRU TV: Comedy Knockout (Premiere) at 10:30pm
FOOD: Cooks Vs. Cons (Finale) at 9pm
HISTORY: Vikings (Finale) at 10pm
VELOCITY: AmeriCarna (Finale) at 9pm
VICELAND: That’s Delicious (Finale) at 10pm
VICELAND: Flophouse (Finale) at 10:30pm
Lifetime announced multi-platform initiative The Fempire, featuring content for women, by women and about women. Projects include a scripted Selena Gomez drama, inspired by the singer and Justin Bieber ex’s time in Hollywood. The net also inked movie deals with Janet Jackson, Serena Williams and mixed martial artist/actress Ronda Rousey. Jackson will EP the true story of 1920’s New York City mobster, Queenie (wt), the first and only woman gangster during the prohibition, Williams will serve as EP on Sister Dance (wt), a story inspired by the annual dance-off competition she hosts with her sister, Venus, and Rousey signed a three-picture movie deal.
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Kelly Ripa was a no-show Wednesday on her morning talk show, Live With Kelly And Michael, the day after her co-host Michael Strahan announced he was decamping for a full-time job on ABC’s Good Morning America. While ABC said Ripa had a “previously scheduled vacation” slated for Friday-Monday, her absence before that offered credence to reports that she was blindsided by Tuesday’s announcement.
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The Weather Channel was named the 2016 Harris Poll EquiTrend TV News Brand of the Year for the sixth consecutive year. The Index is comprised of three factors: familiarity, quality and consideration.
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Singer-songwriter P!nk will make the world television debut of her new single, “Just Like Fire,” at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards. The original song will appear in Disney’s upcoming film Alice Through the Looking Glass, which hits theaters May 27. The ceremony airs live from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, May 22 at 8p on ABC.
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Screen icon Faye Dunaway is set to attend the 2016 TCM Classic Film Festival, taking place in Hollywood April 28 to May 1. Dunaway will participate in a sit-down interview about her life and career, as well as introduce a screening of the 1976 film Network, for which she won the Oscar for Best Actress.
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Fusion is set to serve as the exclusive media partner for the 2016 Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards, recognizing individuals who are passionate in their dedication to innovative social justice issues. Ceremony takes place in Louisville, KY on Saturday, September 17.
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BET Networks announced its 2016 programming schedule for BET and Centric at its upfront presentation on Wednesday. “We have developed a deep and authentic relationship with our audience over the last 36 years, and it is that genuine connection that has allowed BET to expand into a global multiplatform brand. This year, we are committed to reaching far beyond the television screen and continuing to deliver more of the premium content that our audiences have come to expect,” said Debra Lee, chairman and CEO, BET Networks. “With BET being more accessible across more platforms, we are creating a powerful 360 degree experience for our audience to interact with the BET brand like never before.”
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New scripted shows include Tales, a 60-minute anthology series weaving hip-hop songs into 3-act narratives, and The Yard, starring Tony Award winners Anika Noni Rose and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, which takes viewers inside the unique, culture-filled world of historically Black colleges and universities. On the docu-series front, Music Moguls explores the lives of Birdman, Dame Dash, Jermaine Dupri and Snoop Dogg as each entrepreneur navigates everything from grooming new talent to raising their college-bound children. New Edition: The Movie, a 3-part miniseries about the boy band, and Madiba, an original production that focuses on the story of Nelson Mandela, cap off the net’s movie events.
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Empowering new programming on Centric include Queen Bee, a reality competition that discovers entrepreneurs building real-life companies, and Monica Morton, P.I., centered on a real-life investigator and crisis manager.
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To usher in its 100th Disney Channel Original Movie, the re-imagined tale of the 1980s film Adventures in Babysitting, starring Sabrina Carpenter (Girl Meets World) and Sofia Carson (Descendants), Disney Channel is airing a programming event featuring every DCOM ever made. The four-day marathon of the net’s 51 most popular movies begins Friday, May 27. The movies, which include High School Musical 2, The Cheetah Girls 2 and Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior, will be seen on Disney Channel, the Disney Channel app and VOD through summer.
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Tatyana Ali returns to TV One in made-for-television movie Second Sight, premiering Saturday, April 23 at 8p. The movie focuses on a young teacher whose gift of “prophesy” leaves her haunted by premonitions of horrific kidnappings.
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TBS has set a premiere date for Wrecked. The ensemble comedy about a group of strangers stranded on a deserted island following a plane crash bows Tuesday, June 14 at 10p with back-to-back episodes.
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E! extreme-plastic surgery spinoff, Botched By Nature, premieres Tuesday, August 9 at 9p. Dr. Nassif and Dr. Dubrow go on the road to change the lives of those who have been botched by genetics or a traumatic incident in eight one-hour. Other E! shows making their debut: Famously Single, focused on Hollywood’s most notorious daters, bows Tuesday, June 14 at 10p, while EJ and the City (wt), exploring EJ Johnson’s life after dropping 180 pounds, premieres Sunday, June 19 at 11p, before moving to its regular night on Thursday at 9p, beginning June 23.
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Two unscripted series coming to Lifetime this year are Fashion Inc., offering aspiring fashion and beauty entrepreneurs the chance to grow their budding ventures, and docu-series Gold Medal Families, premiering this summer, showcasing six Olympic hopefuls and their families.
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History ordered a third season of Alone. The survival series, which places ten hardcore survivalists alone in the wilderness, will move from Vancouver Island to South America. The show’s second season premieres tonight.
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MTV renewed The Shannara Chronicles, its adaptation of the international best-selling fantasy novels by Terry Brooks, for a second season. The show averaged a 0.98 L+3 rating in the net’s core P12-34 demo, ranking as its top-rated new series this year.
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Kody and his Sister Wives will be back for a supersized new season on TLC, beginning Sunday, May 8. Marriages, births and relationship struggles will be served up for two hours every week in the new time slot.
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FX set summer premiere dates for two series. Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, the comedy created by and starring Denis Leary, bows its second season on Thursday, June 30 at 10p. Tyrant, the drama from EP Howard Gordon, is back for its third season on Wednesday, July 6 at 10p.
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E! announced return dates for several series. Keeping Up with the Kardashians bows Sunday May 1 at 9p, followed by season four of #RichKids of Beverly Hills at 10p. Botched debuts Tuesday, May 10 at 9p, while WAGS premieres Sunday, June 26 at 10p. Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry returns Sunday, August 7 at 10p.
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Mr. Robot, the USA hacker drama, returns for its second season on Wednesday, July 13 at 10p.
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Danish actor Alex Hogh Andersen has landed a series regular role on Vikings. He makes his debut in the History drama’s Season 4 finale, airing tonight.
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Bravo‘s season six finale of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills hit a season high among viewers, earning 1.6 million P18-49 (up 6 percent versus the previous week’s episode), 1.9 million P25-54 (up 8 percent) and 3.1 million total viewers (up 9 percent). In addition, the season five premiere of Shahs of Sunset earned 1.1 million P18-49, 1.2 million P25-54 and 2 million total viewers.
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A&E’s 60 Days In has averaged 2.4 million total viewers and 1.4 million A 18-49 in Live+3. The series has also averaged 1.5 million A 25-54, becoming the #1 new unscripted cable series of 2016 in the demo.
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The penultimate episode of Saints & Sinners reached 1.4 million unduplicated viewers, tying it as the second most-watched program in Bounce TV‘s history with two other episodes of the drama series. The 9p telecast became the most-watched program in the net’s history among total viewers, delivering 720,000 Persons 2+ while also posting the highest audience peak of the series to-date with 799,000 total viewers.
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Ghost Brothers‘ was the #1 series premiere in Destination America history in several key ratings and delivery demos, including P2+ (.41, 599,000), HH (.84, 471,000), W25-54 (.65, 191,000) and P25-54 (0.59, 339,000). In total, for Live+3, the premiere episode on Friday, April 15 at 10p attracted 1 million unique viewers P2+.
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BROADWAY
American Psycho opens on Thursday April 21, 2016.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/american-psycho/
Waitress with Jessie Mueller opens on Sunday April 24, 2016.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/waitress/
Fully Committed with Jesse Tyler Ferguson opens on Monday April 25, 2016.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/fully-committed/
Tuck Everlasting opens on Tuesday April 26, 2016
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/tuck-everlasting-bway/
Long Day’s Journey Into Night with Jessica Lange & Gabriel Byrne opens on Wednesday April 27, 2016.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/long-days-journey-into-night/
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