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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 5/5/16)
DIY: Building Off The Grid: Big Sky Ranch (Premiere) at 10pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Lake Guys (Premiere) at 8pm
OVATION: Millennials: Growing Up In The 21st Century (Premiere) at 7pm
REVOLT: Global Spin Presents: Respect The DJ (Premiere) at 7pm
SEESO: Flowers
E!: L.A. Clippers Dance Squad (Finale) at 8pm
ID: Motives and Murders: Cracking The Case (Finale) at 9pm
ID: House of Horrors: Kidnapped (Finale) at 10:30pm
LIFETIME: Project Runway All Stars (Finale) at 9pm
WE TV: Mary Mary (Finale) at 9pm
Seth MacFarlane will star in and exec produce a sci-fi dramedy for Fox, slated for the 2017-2018 season. Fox gave a 13-episode straight-to-series order for the show, produced by 20th Century Fox and set 300 years in the future. Fox Television Group CEOs Gary Newman and Dana Walden called MacFarlane “one of the smartest, funniest and most talented people we’ve ever had the pleasure to work with.” Right back at you, said MacFarlane: “I’ve wanted to do something like this show ever since I was a kid, and the timing finally feels right. 20th and Fox have been good to me for many years, and of course, Dana and Gary have been fantastic bosses and true pals, so it was a no-brainer to come to them with the project. I think this is gonna be something special.”
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Today news anchor and third hour co-host Natalie Morales is headed for Access Hollywood, where she’ll replace Billy Bush as host, confirms Broadcasting & Cable. Meanwhile, Bush is moving to New York join Today this fall. It’s expected Morales will contribute to Today from her West Coast perch.
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Fox News lost Chief White House correspondent Ed Henry, at least for now, in the wake of a tabloid report that he had a 10-month affair with a Las Vegas hostess. “We recently became aware of Ed’s personal issues, and he’s taking some time off to work things out,” said the news net. Henry, married since 2010, joined Fox News in 2011.
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Fox News landed Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s pen pal Kate del Castillo (La Reina del Sur), who arranged the drug lord’s secret meeting with Sean Penn, for a one-hour special. Fox News Reporting: Beauty & the Beast – When Kate Met Chapo, premiering Saturday, May 7 at 8p, will be hosted by Geraldo Rivera.
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And in possibly-related news, Kate del Castillo’s series for Netflix, Ingobernable, has moved production from Mexico to the U.S., reports Deadline. Del Castillo, now a U.S. citizen, has said she fears her connection to El Chapo could lead to her arrest and prosecution in her native country.
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OWN co-president Sheri Salata is leaving the network to launch her own firm, leaving Erik Logan as sole president. “I give my deep thanks and appreciation to Sheri not only for helping to create a strong platform of growth for OWN and our digital business, but for her tireless commitment and sacrifice producing the final years of ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show.’ It was an unparalleled time of our lives,” said OWN CEO Oprah Winfrey. It’s not goodbye for long – OWN and Oprah Media Group will be clients of Salata’s new venture. “Oprah has been my North Star and spiritual mentor for 20 years and her faith in me and this next venture means everything,” said Salata. “Erik and the entire OWN team are simply the nest in the business.”
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Ellen DeGeneres announced the launch of the Ellen Digital Network, with a slate that includes a series for Snapchat, Damn, Daniel; animated Ellen’s Pet Dish; viral hit Brielle; new episodes of Dance Challenge and user-generated #MadeByYou, among others. The talk show host also announced a content development deal with social media star Tyler Oakley. DeGeneres is no stranger to digital TheEllenShow YouTube channel averages over 300 million views per month, and she ranks as the most-followed TV personality on Twitter.
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Jessie Anderson, co-captain on the all-female crew for season two of Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks, will trade TV time for speaking engagements and her charter fishing business. “After all the drama last season on the Reel Action, I’ve concluded that it’s just not for me,” said Anderson, whose crew caught just one fish. The season finale of Wicked Tuna, the show from which Banks was spun, airs Monday, May 16 at 9p.
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AMC originals generated an average 972 tweets per minutes, according to a Nielsen Social tally from September 1-April 17, more than any other network (sports and specials excluded). VH1 was next with 596, followed by USA (493), Fox (437) and ABC (402).
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Dawn Wells (Gilligan’s Island) is joining MeTV as its first marketing ambassador, making appearances and visiting affiliates and advertisers on behalf of the net, as well as serving as on-camera hostess for MeTV’s annual programming event, “The Summer of Me.” She’ll also be featured in promos and interstitial elements. What prompted Wells to take the job? “There is so much negative influence on children and young people today, and MeTV provides a wholesome alternative,” Wells tells Cynopsis. “When visiting the Weigel Broadcasting headquarters last year, I was struck by the feeling of family throughout.” For MeTV fans unfamiliar with the Professor and Mary Ann, Gilligan’s Island joins the lineup Monday, May 30 at 9:30p.
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Celine Dion will receive the Icon Award, honoring an artist’s impact on culture, at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards. Dion, whose husband, Rene Angelil, died in January, will perform “The Show Must Go On,” a song she chose herself. “I think at this moment in her life, the song has many meanings, and it’s an amazing choice,” said exec producer Mark Bracco. The ABC show goes on Sunday, May 22 at 8p.
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Craig Ferguson will host NBC’s second annual Red Nose Day Special on Thursday, May 26 at 9p, to raise money to help lift kids out of poverty. Ferguson will get an assist from a slew of celebs, including Ellen DeGeneres, Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, Sarah Silverman, Tracy Morgan, Key & Peele,Anna Kendrick, Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Emma Thompson, among others. The event has raised more than $1 billion globally over the last 25 years.
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Syfy’s Sharknado: The 4th Awakens announced the first wave of cameo appearances, and they did not disappoint. Among the reality show celebs popping up will be Real Housewives of Atlanta’s Cynthia Bailey and Dancing With the Stars’ Kym Johnson as rocket scientists; Duane Chapman (Dog the Bounty Hunter) as a chainsaw dealer; Shark Tank’s Lori Greiner as a home shopping guru and Dr. Drew Pinskey (Loveline) as a pastor. Premiere date: Sunday, July 31 at 8p.
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Joining Donald Trump and Michael Douglas on Megyn Kelly Presents, the Fox News star’s special on Fox, will be Laverne Cox (Orange Is the New Black). Cox is set to play Dr. Frank-N-Furter in Fox event The Rocky Horror Picture Show this fall.
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Pop and country collide on CMT Crossroads: Jason Derulo and Luke Bryan, bowing Saturday, May 21 at 10p. Expect to hear both “That’s My Kinda Night” and “Talk Dirty to Me.”
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Submissions for the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will open on Monday, June 11 at http://www.sagawards.org/submissions, and close October 24. Ceremony will be simulcast on TNT and TBS on Sunday, January 29, 2017 at 8p.
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Saturday Night Live originals resume May 7 with Room star Brie Larson as host and musical guest Alicia Keys. Drake does double duty as host and musical guest for the second time on May 14, and SNL vet Fred Armisen hosts the May 21 season 41 finale with musical guest Courtney Barnett.
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Up celebrates Moms all during May – the “Month of Mom” (#ThanksMom) starting with a Bringing Up Bates special tonight at 9p. And Gilmore Girls alert: an 11-hour marathon kicks off Sunday, May 8 at noon.
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E! is adding four new unscripted series to its programming slate. Cosmo Life (wt), from Bunim/Murray Productions, follows a group of staffers at Cosmopolitan magazine; The Abbey Diaries (wt), produced by Banijay Studios North America, centers on workers at a famous gay hot spot; Studio Lambert and All3Media America’s Famously Married digs into the lives of women recently married to or planning to marry wealthy older men, and WAGS: Miami, produced by Machete Productions, builds on E!’s WAGS (Wives And Girlfriends of Sports Stars) franchise. “On the heels of a strong first quarter, we will continue to build momentum by delivering more of the stories our audience loves, anchored by larger than life personalities, in over-the-top worlds,” said Jeff Olde, EVP, programming & development at the TV home of Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
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Agribusiness net RFD-TV and FarmHer, dedicated to updating the image of women in agriculture, are teaming for a 30-minute series to premiere on RFD-TV this fall celebrating women in agriculture. Extended behind-the-scenes footage and digital content will be included as part of the FarmHer online community.
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Nat Geo is getting in the true crime game with Missing Dial, premiering Sunday, May 22 at 10p. Six-part doc follows the investigation into the disappearance of 27-year-old outdoorsman Cody Dial, who never returned from an expedition into a Costa Rican rain forest. After months of fruitless searching, Dial’s parents went to Costa Rica with private investigators and a film crew and within a week, had a significant break. How does it all end? With “a shocking plot twist that rivals that of a blockbuster movie,” promises the net.
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GSN’s Skin Wars is getting its first spin-off. Skin Wars: Fresh Paint, launching Wednesday, June 15 at 10p, features three former Skin Wars contestants mentoring six new artists. RuPaul Charles hosts.
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Not surprisingly on a newsworthy night Tuesday, as Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders scored victories in Indiana and Ted Cruz threw in the towel, news nets did well. Fox News was on top, averaging 5.25 million viewers and 1.3 million among A25-54 during Trump’s speech. CNN averaged 3.3 million with 1.2 million in the news demo, and MSNBC delivered 1.8 million/500,000.
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Up against the drama of Donald and Bernie, the season four finale of CBS’s Person of Interest delivered 7.4 million viewers and 1.2/4 among A18-49 on Tuesday, versus a season average of 1.5 in the demo. NBC’s The Voice hit a 1.6/6 rating, down 20 percent.
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CW averaged .9/3 among A18-49 on Tuesday, besting .8/3 for ABC and Fox.
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BROADWAY
Disaster! is closing on Sunday May 8, 2016.
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