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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 4/22/16)
VELOCITY: Competition Ready (Premiere) at 7:30pm
ABC: Last Man Standing (Finale) at 8pm
ABC: Dr. Ken (Premiere) at 8:30pm
ID: A Stranger In My Home (Premiere) at 10pm
(SATURDAY 4/23/16)
DISCOVERY FAMILY CHANNEL: Transformers Rescue Bots (Premiere) at 8am
DIY: The Vanilla Ice Project (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: We Bought The Farm (Finale) at 11pm and 11:30pm
OWN: Oprah: Where Are They Now? (Finale) at 10pm
(SUNDAY 4/24/16)
CNN: United Shades of America (Premiere) at 10pm
COOKING: Follow Donal to Europe (Premiere) at 9:30am
DIY: Barnwood Builders (Premiere) at 9pm
HBO: Game of Thrones (Premiere) at 9pm
HBO: Silicon Valley (Premiere) at 9pm
HBO: Veep (Premiere) at 10:30pm
SMITHSONIAN: Sports Detectives (Premiere) at 9pm
SUNDANCE TV: Rebellion (Premiere) 8pm
BOUNCE TV: Saints & Sinners (Finale) at 9pm
CNN: Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (Finale) at 9pm
E!: I Am Cait (Finale) at 9pm
LIFETIME: Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned (Finale) at 9pm
TLC: Long Lost Family (Finale) at 10pm
Univision is now the sole owner of Fusion, its former news joint venture with Disney/ABC. Univision already has replaced ABC to run network distribution and ad sales. Fusion is part of the Univision unit that also includes the company’s interests in El Rey, Univision Digital, The Root, The Onion, A.V. Club, Clickhole, Starwipe, Flama and Univision Music. Fusion launched in 2013.
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HBO is prepping for the return of Game Of Thrones for a seventh season; lengthy negotiations have surrounded the flagship drama and its seventh and eighth final seasons. The network also picked up comedies Veep for a sixth season and Silicon Valley for a fourth.
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OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network ordered a 13-episode second season of original drama Greenleaf ahead of the show’s June 21 premiere. From Lionsgate TV and writer/producer Craig Wright (Six Feet Under), the series is set against the backdrop of a Memphis megachurch. Season one will launch with a two-night premiere on Tuesday, June 21 and 22 at 10p.
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Music television executives are reacting to the unexpected death of music icon Prince yesterday at age 57. The star of the film Purple Rain and provider of one of the best Super Bowl halftime shows, in 2007, appeared on Saturday Night Live in 2014. “It’s right up there with MJ passing. Complete icon,” Jermaine Hall, VP and managing editor, digital, at BET. “He was such a self-contained artist who pushed the boundaries, and has influenced so many artists after him.”
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MTV changed its logo to purple all day yesterday, and MTV and MTV2 aired a dedicated block of the artist’s most influential music videos. “MTV is heartbroken and in utter disbelief at the news that the world has lost Prince Rogers Nelson so suddenly and so before his time,” the network said in a statement. “Prince was a once-in-a-lifetime artist who transcended every medium and genre he touched and created music with a passion and individuality that inspired multiple generations.” Beginning yesterday and planned through the weekend VH1 is airing Purple Rain numerous times and a block of Prince’s most memorable music videos.
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AXS TV celebrates Prince’s legacy with a tribute block Saturday, April 23 featuring the Prince episode of AXS TV’s Rock Legends at 1p and the TV premiere of documentary Slave Trade: How Prince Re-made the Music Business at 2p.
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Turns out the bark between Dish and Viacom was bigger than the companies’ bite. The two announced a multiyear renewal yesterday, minus live and VOD rights which Dish extracted for Sling TV, ensuring that BET, MTV, Nickelodeon, TV Land and the rest of the Viacom networks suite remain on Dish’s menu.
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At its Upfront presentation last night at NY’s Skylight at Moynihan Station, MTV unveiled a programming slate of 14 new series and specials, including the fall debut of LA-based Wonderland, the network’s first weekly live music performance series in nearly 20 years. Among those the network is partnering with on new content are Mark Burnett, Zac Efron, Drew Barrymore, Pitbull, John Legend, Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia.
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Among other series getting the green light are Sweet/Vicious, a dark dramedy about odd couple vigilantes avenging sexual assault victims on a college campus; The Outsiders (wt), a docu-series following families living on the fringes of society; and Acting Out, a new format in which stand-up routines are reenacted. Also, Mary + Jane, a comedy about enterprising weed dealers navigating LA hipster culture; docu-series Shinesty, and MTV’s The Investigation (wt), a reality series in which Ryan Ferguson, who spent 10 years wrongly imprisoned, digs into cases of the wrongfully convicted.
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Efron will exec produce and host a docu special about the ever-expanding role of food and the culinary arts in millennial culture. Burnett is developing comedic reality half-hour First World Problems (wt), and rapper Pitbull will executive produce Miami-based drama 305 (wt). MTV also announced the MTV Music Video Awards will air Sunday, August 28, live from NYC’s Madison Garden for the first time.
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The Upfront was hosted by Nicole Byer (MTV’s Girl Code) and featured a performance by Kendrick Lamar.
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First Lady Michelle Obama will appear in the May 3 episode of CBS’ NCIS in conjunction with Joining Forces, a nationwide initiative supporting service members, veterans and their families. In the episode Obama welcomes NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and the wife of a Marine to the White House for a Joining Forces roundtable with military spouses. The extras are actual military spouses.
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VICE and A+E Networks’ Viceland network will premiere Dear President Obama today, April 22 at 8p to coincide with Earth Day. The documentary from Oceans 8 Films and narrated by political activist and Academy Award-nominated actor Mark Ruffalo juxtaposes a look at drilling, highlighting its variety of contaminations, the stories of its victims and the false promise of an economic boom, with clean energy solutions. It’s written, directed and produced by Jon Bowermaster.
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Bow down. Smithsonian Channel is celebrating Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday with two-hour program The Queen at 90, culled from sweeping access to Her Majesty and the Royal family’s lives at Buckingham Palace and across the UK and overseas. Elizabeth McGovern will narrate the special, which interviews with President Barack Obama, Minister David Cameron and David Beckham.
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CBS will broadcast a new one-hour special featuring two classic episodes of I Love Lucy on Sunday, May 22 at 8p. The two eps, “Lucy Visits Grauman’s” and “Lucy and John Wayne,” are newly colorized with a vintage look, reminiscent of the ‘50s period in which they were filmed.
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UP this summer will welcome Growing Up McGhee, premiering Wednesday, June 8, at 9p. Series heralds the television return of Ro and Mia McGhee and their sextuplets, now 5 years old, as the couple tries to balance their hectic life.
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Bringing Up Bates will return to UP for a fourth season on Thursday, June 2, at 9p. In the new season, change is in the air as a lot of the kids are beginning to forge their own paths outside of the family.
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Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley) has casted up her one-off BBC drama To Walk Invisible. The series, about the Bronte family, will star Jonathan Pryce (Game of Thrones), Chloe Pirrie (War & Peace), Finn Atkins (Common), Charlie Murphy (Happy Valley) and Adam Nagaitis (Banished).
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TBS’ Angie Tribeca will return for its second season June 6, with another bevvy of guest-stars in tow. For one, James Franco will be back, plus Heather Graham, Mary McCormack, Noah Wyle, Maya Rudolph, Eriq La Salle, Danny Pudi, Busy Philipps, Kevin Pollak, Rhys Darby, Ed Begley Jr., Joe Jonas and Joey McIntyre, according to Deadline.
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MOVIES
The Huntsman: Winter’s War – Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Jessica Chastain, Emily Blunt, Nick Frost, Rob Brydon, Sheridan Smith, Alexandra Roach
Elvis & Nixon (Limited Release) – Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettier, Johnny Knoxville, Colin Hanks, Evan Peters, Sky Ferreira, Tracy Letts
A Hologram For The King (Limited Release) – Tom Hanks, Alexander Black, Sarita Choudhury, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Tracey Fairaway, Jane Perry, Tom Skerritt, Ben Whishaw
The Meddler (Limited Release) – Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne, J.K. Simmons, Jerrod Carmichael, Cecily Strong, Lucy Punch, Casey Wilson, Jason Ritter
NYC STREET FAIRS
Saturday April 23, 2016
Tribeca Film Festival/ ESPN Sports Day/Street Fair – on Greenwich St. from North Moore St. to Chambers St.
6th Ave. Chelsea Festival – on 6th Ave from 23rd to 32nd St.
Greenpoint Ave. “Sunnyside” Festival – on Greenpoint Ave. from 42nd to 48th St.
Sunday April 24, 2016
Columbus Eats – on Columbus Ave. from 66th to 72nd St.
Steinway Street Festival – on Steinway from 28th Ave. to 34th Ave.
MEGA MILLIONS
Today’s Jackpot is $97 million
You can now play in 43 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
POWERBALL
Saturday’s Jackpot is $251 million.
Powerball is played in 43 states.
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