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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 6/14/16)
ABC: To Tell The Truth (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: Uncle Buck (Premiere) at 9pm
ABC: To Tell The Truth (Premiere) at 10pm
E!: Famously Single (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: I Am Homicide (Premiere) at 10pm
TBS: Wrecked (Premiere) at 10pm
TNT: Animal Kingdom (Premiere) at 9pm
BBC AMERICA: Weird Wonders (Finale) at 11pm
ESQUIRE: Boundless (Finale) at 10pm
USA: First Impressions with Dana Carvey (Finale) at 10:30pm
CBS’ broadcast of The 70th Annual Tony Awards delivered the Broadway celebration’s largest audience since 2001, according to Nielsen preliminary Live+SD numbers for Sunday. The ceremony averaged 8.73 million (up 35 percent from 6.46 million last year), 1.6 A18-49 (up 60 percent from 1.0) and 2.0 among A25-54 (up 54 percent from 1.3).
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Nicole Kidman, who just wrapped production on HBO limited series Big Little Lies opposite Reese Witherspoon, is set to star in another TV project. The Oscar winner will headline the sophomore season of SundanceTV thriller Top of the Lake: China Girl. The story picks up four years after the events of Season 1, as Elisabeth Moss’ Detective Robin Griffin investigates the case of an unidentified body that washes up on Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
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Showtime is offering viewers the chance to sample Roadies, the music series from Cameron Crowe, ahead of its linear premiere on Sunday, June 26 at 10p. Consumers who do not subscribe to the network can sample a TV-14 rated version of the show’s debut episode for free on YouTube, Facebook and SHO.com. The pilot is also available for download as a free video podcast on iTunes and across multiple television and streaming providers’ devices, websites and applications and free On Demand channels.
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TNT and TBS are teaming with Wattpad, the global multiplatform entertainment company for original stories, to give the Wattpad community the opportunity to have their stories adapted for the networks. The first project will be The Tales from the Crypt horror block from TNT and executive producer M. Night Shyamalan. “Our partnership with Wattpad is a perfect intersection of content and fan engagement, where fans actually have the chance to directly influence and, in some cases even have their material optioned and developed by our networks,” said Justin Williams, SVP of digital ventures for TNT and TBS. The deal includes access to Wattpad insights and data, which will assist in identifying talent and trends across genres.
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The cultural relevance of programming, and its impact on viewership and engagement, has become an increasingly important part of the media consumption conversation. What’s hitting the right note right now, and why, according to TruthCo.? Here’s the branding and insight firm’s “cultural take”: “We’ve been recommending Ali Wong’s hilarious Netflix special, Baby Cobra. The Fresh Off the Boat writer appears on stage seven months pregnant and makes no effort to hide it; instead, she wears a tight dress and uses her pregnant body as a powerful prop in her extremely filthy comedy. The special is a slap in the face to traditional visions of race and motherhood, reflecting a cultural moment receptive to raw perspectives on mothering as expectations of what a typical female experience looks like are being reframed.”
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OBB Pictures, along with 3 Arts Entertainment and Kids at Play, has announced the pick-up of OBB’s The 5th Quarter with a straight-to-series, 12-episode order. The new scripted comedy will premiere in fall 2016 on Go90. The mockumentary tells the greatest untold and untrue stories in sports history and will feature comedians, actors, professional athletes and others playing both themselves and fictional characters throughout the episodes. Notables include Blake Griffin, Chandler Parsons, Shawne Merriman, JB Smoove, George Lopez, Adam Pally, Chris Parnell, Jerry O’Connell, Kenny Mayne, Mark Cuban and Ahmad Rashad.
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Comedy Central has renewed Idiotsitter for a 10-episode second season to bow in 2017. The comedy, created, executive produced and co-starring Jillian Bell and Charlotte Newhouse, is the second short-form series produced for cc.com to make the transition from digital platforms to a linear series for the network.
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A&E debuts Black And White, a weekly in-studio show that tackles issues of race, on Wednesday, July 13 at 10:30p. Hosted by Christian Finnegan and Sherrod Small, the series covers the headlines sweeping the nation via the points of views of the comedians and longtime friends.
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AT&T and Audience Network premiere My Fighting Season, the next Installment of Ricky Schroder’s war documentary series on Tuesday, July 5 at 9p. It follows US Army soldiers fighting in Afghanistan from the perspective of their own cameras. “My Fighting Season provides the viewer with the most realistic combat experience on the modern day battlefield ever shown,” said EP Schroder. “When you understand what we ask of these men, your respect for them reaches new heights.”
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TVline reports that when Gotham returns this fall, little Ivy Pepper will have transformed into Poison Ivy. Hence, Clare Foley is exiting the FOX drama. Casting is underway for an actress in her late teens to assume the series regular role.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TVline reports that when Gotham returns this fall, little Ivy Pepper will have transformed into Poison Ivy. Hence, Clare Foley is exiting the FOX drama. Casting is underway for an actress in her late teens to assume the series regular role.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Netflix has picked up half-hour animated comedy series Big Mouth. From real-life best friends Nick Kroll (Kroll Show) and Andrew Goldberg (Family Guy), it explores the adventures of two teenagers going through puberty. Kroll and John Mulaney (Saturday Night Live) will voice the lead characters, Nick and Andrew. Series is coming to the streaming service in 2017.
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Daddy Don’t Go bows on Vimeo on Sunday, June 19. Film illuminates the socioeconomic pressures low-income fathers face and provides portraits of men who persevere.
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Netflix has set the second season premiere date for Narcos. The drama returns with ten new episodes on Friday, September 2 at 12:01a.
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The 2016 CMT Awards on June 8 was the most-watched ever, with 3.6 million total viewers in Live+3, up 20 percent versus last year.
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The Monday, June 6 premiere of Investigation Discovery’s first serialized docu-series The Vanishing Women was the network’s best series debut ever for delivery of P2+ (2.042 million) and HH (1.679 million) on L+3 viewing. The premiere was ID’s top primetime telecast ever for delivery of HH, and Monday 6/6/16 was ID’s best night ever for Prime delivery among P2+ (1.582 million) and HH (1.29 million).
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HGTV dominated cable rankings on Thursday, landing in the #1 spot among cable networks in primetime (8p to 12a) with a .71 rating among viewers P25-54 and a .96 rating among W25-54. The night’s performance was anchored by the fourth season premiere of Flip or Flop at 9p, which delivered a 1.00 rating among P25-54, making it the highest-rated season premiere in the series’ history. Flip or Flop ranked as the #1 program on cable that night among W25-54, averaging a 1.28 rating.
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Based on Live+3 viewing, Freeform ’s Baby Daddy and Young & Hungry grew week to week to hit multi-month highs and win its cable time period across key target demographics. The second summer episode of Baby Daddy surged to 10-month highs in A18-34, A18-49 and W18-49 and was its most watched episode in nearly 4 months in Total Viewers (978,000). Young & Hungry posted near 4 month highs with A18-34 and A18-49 and set 3 month highs in Total Viewers and Viewers 12-34 to rank as cable’s #1 show in the time slot in 18-34 and 12-34 categories.
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