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TV ONE: Unsung: Kwame (Premiere) at 8pm
CNBC: Jay Leno’s Garage (Premiere) at 10pm
COMEDY CENTRAL: Another Period (Premiere) at 10pm
DISCOVERY: Dual Survival (Premiere) at 9pm
GSN: Skin Wars: Fresh Paint (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: My Big Fat Fabulous Life: Extra Fabulous (Premiere) at 8pm
LIFETIME: Little Women: NY (Finale) at 9pm
LIFETIME: Atlanta Plastic (Finale) at 10pm
Everyone’s favorite curmudgeon comes back to HBO when Larry David returns for a ninth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm after a five-year hiatus. HBO president of programming Casey Bloys announced the news at the Banff World Media Festival. Although no additional cast members have been confirmed, many original cast members, including Jeff Garlin and J.B. Smoove, said they’d be onboard if David was.
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It’s official. The DC Circuit upheld the FCC’s Open Internet rules. FCC chairman Tom Wheeler said, “Today’s ruling is a victory for consumers and innovators who deserve unfettered access to the entire web, and it ensures the Internet remains a platform for unparalleled innovation, free expression and economic growth. After a decade of debate and legal battles, today’s ruling affirms the Commission’s ability to enforce the strongest possible Internet protections both on fixed and mobile networks that will ensure the Internet remains open, now and in the future.”
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The Walt Disney Co. announced a donation of $1 million to the OneOrlando Fund, established to aid survivors of the attack Saturday night on patrons of an LGBTQ dance club that left 50 people dead and 53 wounded. Disney will also match dollar for dollar any “eligible donations” made by Disney company employees through the Disney Employee Matching Gifts: A Program of The Walt Disney Company Foundation.
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Jane the Virgin star Jaime Camil will host the Television Critics Association (TCA) Awards on Saturday, August 6, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
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TV Guide Magazine unveiled its re-engineered publication, featuring a cover story about the host of Late Night with Seth Meyers. In celebration of the June 20 issue, on stands June 16, the magazine will be feted at an event tonight in New York.
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20/20: In an Instant returns for a second season on Saturday, June 18 at 9p on ABC, with a change in the previously announced premiere episode. The series, which features dramatizations of the moments before and after life was forever changed, will launch with a focus on heroic teachers protecting the lives of their students as a deadly tornado barrels through an elementary school. Ep replaces the previously announced “Murder in the Maternity Ward.”
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CBS is bringing in 12 new houseguests who will embark on a new season of Big Brother during a record 99 days inside the house. The show’s three-hour premiere spans two nights, with two hours on Wednesday, June 22 at 8p and one hour on Thursday, June 23 at 9p. Julie Chen returns as the host of the hit summer series.
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Adventure lovers Jeremy and Wendy Gilbert reveal the greatest off-the-beaten-path spots and experiences throughout the Hawaiian Islands in Travel Channel’s new series Island Explorers. Premiering Sunday, July 3 with back-to-back episodes at 11p and 11:30p, series highlights activities including diving with sharks and zip-lining. The show is part of the network’s “Dive Into Summer” summer programming lineup.
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TLC’s Return To Amish will head back to where it all began in a new season beginning Sunday, July 10 at 9p. The crew visits NYC to remember the pivotal moments and groundbreaking memories they had when they first experienced the culture outside of the Amish community.
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Bravo Media series Flipping Out returns for its ninth season with a two-night premiere starting Wednesday, July 13 at 10p and continuing with its regular timeslot on Thursday, July 14 at 9p. This season is one of extreme changes, with house flipper Jeff Lewis stumbling, but refusing to fall after a lucrative job with a major furniture company and business with high-end clients take an unexpected turn and he finds his way back to his first passion house flipping.
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New Smithsonian Channel series Hell Below will chart the stealthy game of undersea warfare from the greatest submarine campaigns of World War II. The six-ep series premieres Sunday, July 17 at 9p, profiling the strategic masterminds behind the brutal tactics of Nazi U-boats and the feats of Allied subs in the Atlantic and Pacific.
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Young rappers have the opportunity to work with Grammy winner and producer Jermaine Dupri in the new season of The Rap Game, premiering Friday, July 22, at 10p on Lifetime. Joining Dupri this season to help mentor are Mariah Carey, Snoop Dogg, Timbaland, Flo Rida and others. One winner will receive a recording contract with Dupri’s label, So So Def Recordings. Dupri exec produces with Queen Latifah.
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Viceland has a plethora of series launches coming in July. Among them: Black Market, featuring Michael K. Williams exploring underground economies in America and around the world, premieres Tuesday, July 5 at 10p, followed by the premiere of Cyberwar at 10:30, which taps into the geopolitics of hacking and surveillance. On Wednesday, July 6, Vice Does America premieres at 10p, following network staffers on a road trip across the country, during the intensely polarized 2016 election. Thursday, July 7 will see the premieres of culinary travel show Dead Set On Life at 10p and Party Legends, where notable personalities including Margaret Cho, Dennis Rodman and Fred Armisen share their most candid and entertaining party stories, at 10:30p.
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TV Land gave an early season 4 renewal to comedy series Younger, from Sex and the City creator Darren Star. Season three of Younger will premiere on Wednesday, September 28 at 10p, followed by the season 2 premiere of Impastor, which was originally scheduled for this summer.
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History is casting up its new 10-episode Knightfall. Joining the drama series are Bobby Schofield (Black Sea, Our World War); Sabrina Bartlett (DaVinci’s Demons); Julian Ovenden (Downton Abbey, Person of Interest); Sarah-Sofie Boussnina (The Bridge, The Absent One); Padraic Delaney (The Wind That Shakes the Barley, The Tudors); Simon Merrells (Spartacus, Dominion), and Olivia Ross (War and Peace, Blowing Louder than the Wind). They join previously announced Tom Cullen (Downton Abbey), who stars as Landry, a veteran warrior of the Crusades, who becomes the leader of the Templars and serves as the driving force behind their quest to retrieve Christianity’s most prized relic: The Holy Grail. Exec producer Jeremy Renner is expected to guest star. Dominic Minghella of Island Pictures has signed on as an executive producer and showrunner for the series.
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Omid Abtahi (Argo) will take a recurring role in season 1 of American Gods, Starz‘s straight-to-series adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s fantasy novel. Abtahi has an option to become a regular in season 2 of the series, which chronicles a war that is brewing between old and new gods.
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Following his appearance in The Husbands of River Song, Matt Lucas returns to Doctor Who for Season 10, which starts filming next week in Cardiff. Also coming aboard for the new season are Pearl Mackie, in the role of the Doctor’s companion, and Stephanie Hyam, who will have a guest role.
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The nail-biting fifth game in the NBA finals, where the Cleveland Cavaliers shut down the Golden State Warriors’ opportunity to walk off Monday night with the trophy, drew 20.5 million viewers and a 7.6 rating for ABC, according to Nielsen data, up from last year’s 7.5. Bring on game 6!
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Food Network Star posted another week of ratings growth Sunday night with its highest-rated episode to date with a .8 rating A25-54 (777,000 impressions), an increase of 13 percent week to week and ranking third within the 9pm timeslot across all ad-supported cable; overall Food Network ranked sixth for the night.
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Hallmark Channel’s June Weddings programming event is in full swing with its most recent original premiere, Stop the Wedding, averaging a 2.0 rating and 2.3 million total viewers. The Saturday, June 11 debut was the top HH rated program of the day and catapulted Hallmark Channel to be the No. 1 HH rated cable network in primetime, according to Nielsen.
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Live with Kelly was steady week to week with a 2.8 Live+SD rating the week of May 30, one of the few syndicated shows to buck a downward trend the week of May 30. The talker was up 4 percent from last year. Second place Dr. Phil slipped 19 percent in reruns, to 2.6, but was even with last year.
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Family Feud rose 6 percent to 7.2, up 14 percent for the year, while Wheel of Fortune went in a different direction, dipping 5 percent versus last week to 5.9, down 8 percent from last year.
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Exclusive: TV One’s Unsung feature film, Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story broke record ratings on its premiere night, Sunday, June 12, delivering the #1 original movie in network history (HH .93, W25-54 .73, W18-49 .73, P2+ .48, P25-54 .36). The biopic ranked as the #1 ad-supported cable telecast among all key black demos with a combined reach of 2 million total unique viewers 2+ for the night. Encore presentations will air tonight at 9p, Saturday, June 18 at 10p and Sunday, June 19 at 6p.
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Telemundo staffer Jonathan Antonio Camuy Vega was among those killed in the massacre at Orlando nightclub Pulse. Camuy Vega, 24, worked on La Voz Kids, which is produced in Orlando, and was a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
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