FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 5/23/16)
E!: Fashion Police: 2016 Billboard Music Awards (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: The Bachelorette (Premiere) at 9pm
CW: Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Premiere) at 9pm
FOOD NETWORK: Kids BBQ Championship (Premiere) at 8pm
MSG: Hahn & Humpty (Premiere) at 7pm
NAT. GEO.: Mygrations (Premiere) at 9pm
PBS: POV (Premiere) at 10pm
UNIVISION: Tres Veces Ana (Premiere) at 9pm
CBS: The Odd Couple (Finale) at 9:30pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Building Off The Grid (Finale) at 11pm
FOX: Gotham (Finale) at 8pm
NBC: Blindspot (Finale) at 10pm
Just days after Fox’s Upfront presentation, the net made a change to its fall schedule. Baseball-themed Pitch, which was to launch in the spring, stole the fall Thursday-at-9p timeslot once reserved for the final season of Bones. (Synergy alert: Fox starts airing Major League Baseball’s Fall Classic starting October 25.) Moved to Thursdays at 9p in January, Bones displaces reboot Prison Break, which slides into Pitch’s original Tuesdays-in-spring spot.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The upcoming Netflix revival of Gilmore Girls has a title: Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Cast member Lauren Graham made the announcement on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Each episode of the four-part miniseries will take place during a different season in one year.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Grey’s Anatomy cast member Sara Ramirez is leaving the ABC drama after 10 seasons. Ramirez, who joined the final episode of season two, said she was “taking some welcome time off.” In the season finale, Ramirez’s character, Callie, left for New York City to be with her daughter. “Dr. Callie Torres came into our lives dancing it out in her underwear almost a decade ago, and I could not be happier or more proud of her journey,” said Shonda Rimes. “I will miss Callie tremendously, but I am excited for what the future holds for Sara. She will always have a home at Shondaland.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
A&E canceled Damien after one low-rated season. The drama followed the character from The Omen horror movie franchise. “I really loved making #Damien. We all did,” tweeted showrunner Glen Mazzara on Friday. “We just never got the numbers there.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Jon Stewart, among the honorees at the 75th Peabody Awards on Saturday night, said he and his wife were celebrating their 16th wedding anniversary. “Every year on our anniversary, I try to get her a prestigious award and every year I fail,” Stewart said. “This is the first year it’s worked out. Usually I just write on a piece of paper, ‘Nobel prize for having married out of your religion.’” For more on the ceremony, go here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/stories. An edited version will air on Pivot Monday, June 6 at 8p.
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ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel plays host to both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders this week. Trump takes his chair on Wednesday, while Sanders drops in on Thursday.
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The Paley Center for Media announced its Hollywood Tribute to Hispanic Achievements in Television will take place Monday, October 24 at the Beverly Wilshire. The event will celebrate seven decades of pioneers in drama, telenovelas, comedy, news, talk, reality, sports and music.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The season ten finale of NBC’s The Voice will feature performances by Ariana Grande, Little Big Town, coach Blake Shelton, Sia and ZAYN. Two-hour telecast airs tomorrow, May 24 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
AMC’s Feed the Beast, starring David Schwimmer (Friends) and Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe) as buddies on the brink of losing everything who decide to open a restaurant, bows Sunday, June 5 at 10p. Series moves to its regular timeslot Tuesday, June 7, with a premiere of the encore at 9p and a new episode at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Univision telenovela Tres Veces Ana (The Three Sides of Ana), starring Angelique Boyer playing triplets with very different personalities, premieres with a two-hour episode tonight at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Science Channel’s How It’s Made launches season 14 with two back-to-back episodes premiering Monday, May 30 at 9p, after a full-day marathon. Second ep features a special summer cookout countdown.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ID has a killer night planned for Wednesday, June 1. The season three premiere of The Perfect Murder airs at 9p, followed by the series debut of American Monster, showing never-before-seen home movie footage of criminals, at 10p.
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Wannabe homesteaders learn the hard way that the wilderness isn’t their friend on Homestead Rescue, a new docu-series launching Friday, June 10 on Discovery. Families learn survival skills, then decide whether they want to tough it out, or pack their bags and head back to civilization.
(Source: Cynopsis)
AMC’s Making of the Mob: Chicago launches Monday, July 11 at 10p. Eight-part docu-drama chronicles the rise and fall of gangster Al Capone and the emergence of the Chicago mafia. Making of the Mob: New York delivered an average 1.5 million viewers in Live+3.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Ewan McGregor (Star Wars) will play two brothers in FX anthology Fargo: Emmit, the Parking Lot King of Minnesota, and younger brother Ray, a balding, pot-bellied loser. Season three premieres in 2017.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The season 12 finale of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy hit a 2.3/9 rating among A18-49, up 10 percent from last week and up 5 percent versus its year-ago season ender.
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Will King, who helped launch CNN in 1980 and remained until his retirement in 2014, died May 19 after a battle with cancer. He was 64. “A kind, sincere and brilliant journalist, he had the unique ability to remain calm in the midst of breaking news no matter how intense or chaotic things got,” said CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker in a memo to staff.
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Actor Alan Young died May 19. He was 96. The role for which Young was best known is horse owner Wilbur Post in Mr. Ed. Young later worked as a voice actor, including in Duck Tales.
(Source: Cynopsis)
2016 BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS – WINNERS LIST
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/bbma/7378353/billboard-music-awards-2016-complete-winners-list
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
The Angry Birds Movie – $39 million
Captain America: Civil War – $33.1 million
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising – $21.8 million
The Nice Guys – $11.3 million
The Jungle Book – $11 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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