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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 6/7/16)
CNBC: West Texas Investors Club (Premiere) at 10pm
COMEDY: Tosh.o (Premiere) at 10pm
COMEDY: Not Safe with Nikki Glaser (Premiere) at 10:30pm
COOKING: Big Bad BBQ Brawl (Premiere) at 10pm
DISCOVERY: Dark Woods Justice (Premiere) at 10pm
HULU: Casual (Premiere)
TLC: My Giant Life (Premiere) at 10pm
TRAVEL: Bert The Conqueror (Premiere) at 8pm and 8:30pm
BET: Chasing Destiny (Finale) at 10pm
BOUNCE: Mann & Wife (Finale) at 9pm
OXYGEN: Bad Girls Club (Finale) at 8pm
TBS: Separation Anxiety (Finale) at 10pm
President Barack Obama will make his first ever appearance on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday, June 9 at 11:35p. It’s not Fallon’s first appearance with the Commander in Chief, however – Fallon previously interviewed and slow jammed the news with President Obama in April 2012 during a special “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” broadcast from the campus of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Pierce Brosnan is set to headline upcoming AMC drama The Son. The series is a multi-generational epic tale of America’s birth as a superpower through the bloody rise and fall of one Texas family. Brosnan will play Eli, the head of the McCullough family. The role was originally awarded to Sam Neill, who opted to vacate the project for personal reasons. Production begins in Austin later this month and is slated to debut in 2017.
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The second season of Supergirl, now on The CW, will feature another super popular superhero: Superman. According to Warner Bros., “The iconic character of Superman will first be seen visiting his cousin Kara in National City at the beginning of the series’ second season.” Casting is underway.
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Shark Week returns to Discovery Channel on Sunday, June 26 thru Sunday, July 3. Action begins with Tiger Beach starring Dr. Neil Hammerschlag, the world’s leading tiger shark expert.
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CMT has added to the roster of performers at the 2016 CMT Music Awards. Count on Carrie Underwood, Pitbull, Leona Lewis and Cassadee Pope to take the stage on Wednesday, June 8 at 8p.
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The list of presenters for The 70th Annual Tony Awards, airing Sunday, June 12 at 8p on CBS, is also expanding. The latest additions are: Uzo Aduba, Claire Danes, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Neil Patrick Harris, Sean Hayes, James Earl Jones, Daniel Dae Kim, Diane Lane, Angela Lansbury, Lucy Liu, Marlee Matlin, Andrew Rannells and Blair Underwood.
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GSN’s Skin Wars presents a breast cancer awareness episode on Wednesday, June 8 at 9p, with five young survivors serving as body paint models. The women, volunteers of Young Survival Coalition, work with the artists who paint a representation of their breast cancer journey.
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Outlander‘s Book Two finale will air Saturday, July 9 at 9p on Starz with a special 90-minute episode. Brianna (Sophie Skelton) and Roger Wakefield (Richard Rankin) will be introduced in the episode. Ahead of the finale, Starz will air a marathon of the first 12 episodes of Book Two, beginning Saturday, July 2 at 12p.
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Discovery Education will broadcast an exclusive virtual field trip for students around the world on June 10 at 9:30a, celebrating the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II. The special will transport students to Windsor Castle in England for an exploration of The Queen’s life and a celebration of Britain’s longest reigning monarch.
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CNBC’s West Texas Investors Club makes its sophomore season premiere tonight at 10p. “This season, West Texas Investors Club really came into its own. The businesses we brought down to Texas got bigger and better and Butch and Rooster’s core value of helping the little guy really came to life,” executive producer Charlie Ebersol, Founder and CEO of The Company, tells Cynopsis. “This season we’ve got higher stakes and bigger investments – this season is the realization of our original vision.”
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Season 3 of TLC’s My Big Fat Fabulous Life, premieres Wednesday, June 8 at 9p. Whitney Thore faces the challenge of a lifetime, when hidden secrets are revealed and her family and friends call into question her actions.
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Six-part television event Ghosts of Shepherdstown premieres Sunday, June 12 at 10p on Destination America. Series follows the real-life 911 calls that haunt Shepherdstown, West Virginia, as paranormal investigators try to find the reasoning behind them.
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New duos take on extreme wilderness obstacles in the upcoming season of Discovery’s Dual Survival, bowing Wednesday, June 15 at 9p. The series features survivalists from different backgrounds, relying on minimal resources and tools.
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Home renovation and fantasy destinations unite in new HGTV series, Beachfront Bargain Hunt: Renovation. Premiering Saturday, July 2 at 9p, the show follows home buyers as they purchase oceanfront fixer uppers and transform them into idyllic vacation getaways. HGTV also debuts new seasons of four fantasy lifestyle favorites, including Beachfront Bargain Hunt on Sunday, July 3 at 8p and 8:30p; Mexico Life on Sunday, July 3 at 9p and 9:30p; Island Hunters on Sunday, July 3 at 10p and 10:30p; and Caribbean Life on Sunday, August 28 at 9p and 9:30p.
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House flips, yard overhauls and more are on the way this summer when DIY Network premieres fresh seasons of six series. Yard Crashers returns Monday, July 11, at 10p; Texas Flip and Move debuts Friday, July 15, at 9p; Salvage Dawgs is back Sunday, July 31, at 9p; Blog Cabin bows Monday, August 1 at 9:30p; House Crashers premieres Monday, August 29 at 10p and 10:30p and First Time Flippers returns Saturday, September 24, at 9p.
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Carla Pope (Tomorrow People) has nabbed a recurring role on Season 6 of USA Network drama Suits. She’ll play Tara Messer, a cultured and perceptive commercial architect.
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Justified’s Raymond J. Barry will recur on Season 4 of Showtime’s Roy Donovan. He’ll portray a high-ranking Russian mobster.
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Crackle, Sony’s free streaming network, has released the trailer for season eight of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Premiering Thursday, June 16, the new season features six original episodes to stream weekly beginning Thursday, June 16. Guests set to appear this season include Margaret Cho, Lorne Michaels, Jim Gaffigan, John Oliver, JB Smoove and Judd Apatow.
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ABC Talent and Casting has launched its fourth annual ABC Discovers: Digital Talent Competition. The event takes place through Friday, June 17 and aims to discover actors who may not have had the opportunity to be seen yet by a team of professional casting executives. Actors 18 and older are encouraged to visit ABCDiscovers.com to enter the contest for the chance to receive a one-year $25,000 talent deal with the net. The top ten finalists and their entries will be posted to the website Friday, July 22, and the 2016 winner will be announced Tuesday, July 26.
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Moved from NBC to Fox (with a pit stop last year at Reelz, courtesy of the Donald Trump controversy), Sunday’s Miss Universe pageant dropped 27 percent in total viewers (4 million) and 21 percent among A18-49 (1.1/4) versus 2014. The contest had tough competition in Game 2 of the NBA finals on ABC, which averaged 13.4 million viewers and 5.1/16 in the demo.
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TLC ranked as the #1 female network on Sunday nights among W25-54 in May, driven by the season return of Sister Wives, which averaged 2 million P2+ viewers. The network’s Sunday night was up double to triple-digits among HH, P2+ and P/W25-54/18-49/18-34 versus 2015.
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Discovery Channel had its highest-rated May ever among P25-54 and its most-watched May ever (P2+). It was also the highest-rated May ever among households. Alaskan Bush People led the way as the month’s #1 Friday cable series, driving the highest-rated May Fridays ever across P/W25-54 and W18-49 as well as the most-watched ever in P2+.
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Bravo’s Southern Charm (5/23) delivered its most-watched episode in series history with 1.8 million total viewers. In addition, The Real Housewives of New York City (5/25) hit a season high among all key demos, delivering 1.2 million P18-49, 1.5 million P25-54 and 2.5 million total viewers. Million Dollar Listing New York (5/26) delivered its highest ratings of the season to-date among all key demos, earning 780,000 P18-49 (up 5 percent versus the prior week’s episode), 910,000 P25-54 (up 4 percent) and 1.7 million total viewers (up 5 percent).
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