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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 5/3/16)
E!: Fashion Police: 2016 Met Gala (Premiere) at 8pm
BRAVO: Below Deck Mediterranean (Premiere) at 9pm
CBS: Person of Interest (Premiere) at 10pm
HISTORY: Car Hunters (Premiere) at 10pm
MYX TV: Mom Vs. Matchmaker (Premiere) at 8pm
PASIONES: Mercy (Premiere) at 7pm
Z LIVING: House Hazards (Premiere) at 9pm
LIFETIME: Dance Moms (Finale) at 9pm
TLC: Jill and Jessa: Counting On (Finale) at 9pm
Oprah Winfrey will star in as well as executive produce The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, greenlit by HBO Films, about a poor black farmer whose cells were taken without her knowledge and used to make major discoveries in medical research. Winfrey’s Harpo Films acquired the book rights in 2010 and will produce along with Your Face Goes Here Entertainment and Cine Mosaic. Filming begins this summer.
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Studio audience chairs from The Oprah Winfrey Show will be up for auction starting Thursday, May 5 at 3p, five years after the Queen of Daytime’s final episode in 2011. Preview is on oprah.screenbid.com; proceeds benefit the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation.
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Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan had a good excuse for skipping the Daytime Emmy Awards Show, held Sunday in LA – and it wasn’t due to any lingering bad feelings over ABC/Strahan’s surprise announcement that he’s decamping for Good Morning America. The winners in the best entertainment talk show host category explained Monday on Live With Kelly and Michael that until they started receiving congratulatory emails, they weren’t aware the (non-televised) event in L.A. was taking place – and in any case they wouldn’t have been able to trek cross-country from their NYC base. Strahan’s exit date is May 13.
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Talk show The Preachers, starring four outspoken preachers, will have a three-week summer test run on Fox-owned TV stations in New York and LA starting July 11, with more stations to come. (The Real and Bethenny had similar starts.) Bill Geddie (The View) is exec producing. ‘“After The View, I figured I’d never do another panel show, but these preachers knocked me off my feet,” said Geddie. “They’re not just another set of talking heads yakking about the events of the day; they bring real-world experience as pastors and counselors.”
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Scandal star Kerry Washington is expecting her second child with husband Nnamdi Asomugha. During Washington’s pregnancy with her first child, during season three, the drama’s episode order was cut from 22 to 18. One option this time around, reports TVLine, is delaying the show’s season six return until midseason.
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Zac Brown Band’s tribute to Prince with “Let’s Go Crazy” is one reason to catch coverage of the third annual iHeartCountry Festival, airing on AT&T Audience Network on Friday, May 13 at 9p. Event took place in Austin over the weekend.
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Britney Spears will receive the Millennium Award, and show how she earned it with a medley of her greatest hits, on the 2016 Billboard Music Awards. Show airs Sunday, May 22 at 8p on ABC.
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Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander floats his shark, ahem, expertise during promos for IFC’s “Shark Half-a-Day,” a 12-hour block of Jaws films. (Sample: “Did you know there’s a breed of Great Whites that feeds entirely on small amphibious helicopters?”.) How did Alexander’s enlistment come about? “We love sharks. We love Jason Alexander. Seemed like a perfect fit,” says Kevin Vitale, SVP of brand marketing. ”It’s always fun when a celebrity wants to get ‘slightly off’ with us.” Marathon starts Monday, May 30 at 6a.
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Hannah Montana! Lizzie McGuire! Kim Possible! Freeform’s “That’s So Throwback” event starts Monday, May 2, with old fave series airing Monday-Thursday, and Disney Channel Original Movies airing from midnight-2a.
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GetTV honors the Armed Forces with a block of war epics every Thursday in May at 8p. And on Sunday, May 8 starting at 6p, the net celebrates Mother’s Day with a variety block kicking off with Moms Mabley on The Merv Griffin Show.
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HGTV gave the green light for a season two of Good Bones. The home renovation show starring a mother/daughter team, airing Tuesdays at 10p, has attracted over 14 million viewers since its premiere in March. A sophomore run is slated for January 2017.
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New docu-series Teenage Newlyweds joins FYI’s relationship series franchise (Married at First Sight, Arranged, Seven Year Switch), following very young couples taking the big step. First of eight eps from A. Smith & Co. launches Tuesday, May 31 at 10p.
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Spanish-speaking food lovers can get a taste of Italy in La Italia de Lidia en America (Lidia’s Italy in America), featuring chef Lidia Bastianich, on HITN-TV. “I know how important family and cooking is to me, and I know it will resonate with this wonderful Spanish-speaking community in America,” said Bastianich. Series premieres Saturday, May 7 at 4p.
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Pasiones, the multicultural net dedicated to telenovelas and soaps, premieres Turkish drama Mercy tonight at 7p. “In recent years, Turkish dramas have become a sensation throughout Latin America, and interest in these high quality drama-packed productions continues to grow among Latin American audiences,” said Alan J. Sokol, president and CEO of Hemisphere Media Group, Pasiones’ parent company. Series will air Monday through Friday.
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Guy Fieri makes a stop in Cuba for Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, airing Friday, June 3 and Friday, June 10 at 10p.
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Telemundo’s 2016 Billboard Latin Music Awards on Thursday reached a cumulative audience of 5.45 million viewers, according to Nielsen. The show averaged a combined audience of 2,554,000 total viewers and 1,248,000 A18-49 with the simulcast broadcast with NBC Universo.
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Discovery’s Street Outlaws was back for another spin on Motor Mondays, scoring 1.65 P25-54 rating with 2.54 million total viewers P2+ in L+3 and topping last season’s premiere across all 25-54, P18-49 P2 demos. The show was Monday’s #1 unscripted cable prime telecast in M25-54 and M18-49. Misfit Garage followed with season highs across the board and gains week-to-week.
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With a big boost from NBC’s Little Big Shots on Sunday (1.6/6), Carmichael was up 43 percent in the demo versus last week, to 1.0/3.
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Nat Geo had its most-watched month in network history in April 2016 in Prime, averaging 684,000 total viewers in Live +3. The Story of God with Morgan Freeman premiered as the fourth most-watched telecast of all time for NGC US, averaging 3.54 million total viewers and 995,000 P25-54. Sib Nat Geo WILD had its most-watched Prime, 254,000 total viewers (Live +3) ever for the month of April, with the new season of Dr. Oakley, Yukon Vet averaging 696,000 P2+ across three premieres.
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The Animal Planet Presents premiere of Life After: Chernobyl on April 26 delivered 1.1 million viewers in L+3 and ranked as the net’s most watched Tuesday night telecast in 10 years as well as the most watched Tuesday night telecast in both P25-54 and P18-49 in nearly three years. The special, which will air again on May 11 at 9PM, helped push Animal Planet into cable’s Top 10 ad-supported networks in the timeslot among P18-49, excluding news and sports.
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Actor/director/writer/producer Wayne Crawford died April 30. He was 69. Among Crawford’s television credits were FX’s Okavango: The Wild Frontier, which he created, wrote for and co-starred in, and documentary productions focused on the natural history of southern Africa.
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