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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 6/1/16)
TV ONE: Unsung: Kelly Price (Premiere) at 8pm
AUDIENCE NETWORK: Kingdom (Premiere) at 9pm
DESTINATION AMERICA: Smoked (Premiere) at 10pm
FOOD NETWORK: Cutthroat Kitchen: Time Warp Tournament (Premiere) at 9pm
FOX: MasterChef (Premiere) at 8pm
FREEFORM: Young & Hungry (Premiere) at 8pm
FREEFORM: Baby Daddy (Premiere) at 8:30pm
HGTV: Brother vs. Brother (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: The Perfect Murder (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: American Monster (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: American Ninja Warrior (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: The Night Shift (Premiere) at 10pm
POP: Rock This Boat (Premiere) at 8:30pm
SUNDANCE TV: Cleverman (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: I Am Jazz: More Jazz (Premiere) at 10pm
VELOCITY: Fantomworks (Premiere) at 10pm
ABC: 500 Questions (Finale) at 8pm
DISCOVERY: Bering Sea Gold (Finale) at 9pm
POP: Schitt’s Creek (Finale) at 8pm
SCIENCE: Alaska Mega Machines (Finale) at 10pm
During a news conference on Tuesday, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called ABC News reporter Tom Llamas “a sleaze” for asking him about money raised to support veterans organizations. “Your critics say you tend to exaggerate, you have a problem with the truth. Is this a prime example?” asked Llamas, who tweeted after the name-calling, “Trump just called me a ‘sleaze.’ Should be an interesting week.” Asked if he’d continue to rail against the media if he becomes president, Trump replied, “It is going to be like this.”
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Katie Couric acknowledged “misleading” editing in her gun violence documentary Under the Gun. While the movie shows members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League pausing before answering a question, making them appear speechless, “I went back and reviewed it and agree that those eight seconds do not accurately reflect their response,” said Couric, adding that the beat was added by the film’s director, Stephanie Soechtig, for dramatic effect. “I regret that those eight seconds were misleading and that I did not raise my concerns more vigorously,” she said in a statement.
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Julia Roberts will be named Woman of the Decade at Spike TV’s 10th Annual Guys Choice, airing Thursday, June 9 at 9p. “We have been inviting Julia Roberts to be honored on Guys Choice for nine years and to have her gracing our big 10th anniversary show is a dream come true,” said executive producer Casey Patterson. Theme of this year’s show is Rat Pack Las Vegas.
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Samsung Electronics is adding new tile ads to the main menu bar of its premium Internet-connected TVs, reports the Wall Street Journal, part of an effort to bolster revenue with more advertising. Profit margins on the TV have been a weak 3-5%, reports WSJ.
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Dance music media platform BE-AT.TV struck a distribution deal with Music Choice that calls for BE-AT.TV to take over two blocks of programming on Music Choice Dance/EDM Music Channel (3-5p and 10p-12a), seven days a week. Co-branded facts and photos will appear onscreen.
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FX Networks ordered an eight-episode season one of X-Men drama Legion, about a troubled young man who may be more than human, to debut on FX in early 2017. Fargo’s Noah Hawley is showrunner; Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey), Rachel Keller (Fargo), Jean Smart (Fargo) and Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation) star. Production on the first live-action cable Marvel series begins in Vancouver this summer.
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The Hills star Lauren Conrad announced via Twitter that the MTV reality show is airing a tenth anniversary special on Tuesday, August 2. The Hills: That Was Then, This Is Now (wt) will be exec produced by The Hills producer Jason Sands. Final episode of the original series aired in 2010.
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Esquire announced plans for a 16-episode season two of Team Ninja Warrior, including five-part special event Team Ninja Warrior: College Edition (wt), featuring college students competing against rival schools. Season one of the series set records as the most watched series premiere among A18-49 in net history.
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E! is offering themed weeks of summer programming with exclusive content across linear, digital,mobile and social. This week is “Hot Bodies Week”; coming up later this month are “Couples Week” (June 6-10), “Plastic Surgery Week” (June 13-17) and “Business of Celebrity Week” (June 27-July 1).
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Antenna TV will celebrate Father’s Day with a 17-hour marathon of Sanford and Son on Sunday, June 19, starting at 5a. The ‘70s sitcom regularly airs on Antenna weeknights at 6p.
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FOX Television Stations is launching four-week summer series Top 30, featuring the top 30 news stories of the day in 30 minutes, on Monday, June 6 on select FOX-owned, Media General and Sinclair stations. “The millennial voice and text is what we expect now from bite-sized news sources we find online and on mobile,” said Fox’ TV Stations’ Stephen Brown, EVP of programming and development.“Quick, fun, smart and fresh. That’s Top 30.”
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Patti Stanger, star of Bravo’s Millionaire Matchmaker from 2008-2015, dishes out more tough love to relationship-challenged moguls on Million Dollar Matchmaker. New series launches on WE tv Friday, July 8 at 10p. “She is the perfect personality to help us continue to solidify our place in the relationship and dating space,” said WE tv president Marc Juris when Stanger’s two-show deal was announced in September.
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Season 4 of Freeform’s The Fosters premieres Monday, June 20 at 8p, followed Tuesday, June 21 by the season seven return of Pretty Little Liars at 8p. The PLL summer launch follows an all-day marathon of season six.
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A cast that includes a comedian, a tech expert, a mad inventor, an astronaut and a race car driver, among others, populate Science Channel’s How to Build…Everything. Self-explanatory series launches Wednesday, June 22 at 10p. “We continue to explore the ingenuity behind engineering and manufacturing while introducing a new group of this generation’s science vanguards,” said Marc Etkind, general manager of Science.
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Skyler Gisondo (Vacation) landed a role on upcoming Netflix comedy Santa Clarita Diet, starring Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant.
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Amazon gave the go-ahead for a fourth season of Emmy winner Transparent, to air on Prime Video on 2017. Season three launches this fall.
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NFL-less ABC may have finished fourth among A18-49 for the season, but the net won the May sweep crown, averaging 1.3 in the demo. That’s one tenth ahead of CBS and two tenths over NBC; Fox averaged .9. It’s the third straight May win for the alphabet net.
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Monday’s premiere of So You Think You Can Dance’s “Next Generation” season on Fox delivered 3.7 million total viewers and 1.0 among A18-49, down from last year’s 4 million/1.3 debut. The reality show faced fierce cable competition from TNT’s NBA playoffs, game 1 of NBC’s Stanley Cup Finals and the premiere of mini-series Roots across A+E nets.
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Speaking of that NBA game with 15.9 million viewers, Game 7 was the most-viewed Western Conference final ever on cable, and most-watched program in TNT’s 28-year history, according to Nielsen fast nationals.
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Meanwhile, 5.3 million viewers caught the premiere of Roots. The 9p debut of the miniseries was watched by 2.1 million A25-54 and 1.8 million A18-49 on History, Lifetime, A&E and LMN. Over the course of the night’s three telecasts, 8.5 million viewers watched the episode, the biggest audience for a cable mini-series since Bonnie & Clyde in 2013.
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