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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 6/16/16)
FOX: Home Free (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: Aquarius (Premiere) at 9pm
BBC AMERICA: Orphan Black (Finale) at 10pm
COMEDY CENTRAL: Inside Amy Schumer (Finale) at 10pm
DESTINATION AMERICA: UFOs: The Untold Stories (Finale) at 9pm
ID: Las Vegas Law (Finale) at 10pm
CBS struck a deal with the Recording Academy to broadcast the Grammy Awards through 2026. The extended agreement will keep the awards on CBS for 54 consecutive years, a record for the longest continuous partnership between an awards show and a network. The 58th Annual Grammys drew 24.95 million viewers, CBS’s best Monday in viewers since 1994. The 59th annual ceremony moves back to Sunday next year, on February 12.
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NBC announced fall premiere dates for the 2016-2017 season. First up: the season two premiere of Blindspot on Wednesday, September 14 at 10p, following the season finale of America’s Got Talent. More launch dates below:
Monday, September 19: The Voice at 8p, The Good Place (preview) at 10p
Tuesday, September 20: The Voice at 8p, This Is Us at 10p
Wednesday, September 21: Blindspot (time slot premiere) at 8p, Law & Order: SVU at 9p, Chicago PD at 10p
Thursday, September 22: Superstore at 8p, The Good Place (time slot premiere) at 8:30pm Chicago Med at 9p, The Blacklist at 10p
Friday, September 23: Caught on Camera With Nick Cannon at 8p, Dateline NBC at 9p
Monday, October 3: Timeless at 10p
Tuesday, October 11: This Is Us at 9p (time slot premiere), Chicago Fire at 10p
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It looks like Donald Trump won’t be heading to NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers anytime soon. Meyers banned the presumptive Republican presidential nominee after Trump barred the Washington Post from his events. “We here at Late Night believe in freedom of the press and therefore have decided to stand in solidarity with them,” Meyers said. “So as long as the Washington Post is banned from Donald Trump’s campaign, Donald Trump will be banned from ever coming on this show. You missed out, buddy.”
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Meyers added of a Trump trip, “To be fair, he wasn’t coming on here anyway.” Bad blood? Back in 2011, as host of the White House Correspondents dinner, Meyers had poked fun at the mogul with jokes like, “Donald Trump has been saying he will run for president as a Republican. Which is surprising, since I just assumed he was running as a joke.”
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MTV head of reality programming Lauren Dolgen is leaving the network. Dolgen, who clocked 19 years at the company, moved to her most recent post in March 2015. “Lauren has been discussing the next chapter in her career … for a few months now and I want to thank her for helping with the transition and for her work in helping jumpstart the development pipeline,” said Michael Klein, who took the job of MTV’s EVP, original content in March, in a memo. “I look forward to digging in with the team and working to push this brand forward.”
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If Adria Alpert Romm, chief human resources & global diversity officer; Henry Schleiff, group president ID, Destination America and American Heroes Channel; Patrice Andrews, GM of Animal Planet; and Marc Etkind, GM of Science Channel aren’t in their offices June 17, they’re not playing hooky.More than 1,000 Discovery Communications employees in the DC area and 500 employees in the NYC area will be among the 4,200 global Discovery employees that will skip work this Friday to volunteer in their communities for “Discover Your Impact Day.” Overall, employees from over 60 offices in nearly 40 countries will take part in the initiative, launched in 2010.
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The two-hour season three launch of TNT’s The Last Ship will air Sunday, June 19 at 9p, bumping the premiere of Murder in the First to Sunday, June 26 at 10p. The Last Ship bow, originally scheduled for June 12, was bumped due to the Orlando shooting tragedy.
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Bravo special Before They Were Housewives traces fan fave Luann de Lesseps’ rise from humble beginnings to reality show fame on Wednesday, June 22 at 10p, after a new episode of The Real Housewives of New York City at 9p.
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Discovery Family is hoping for more ratings fireworks by airing the Back to the Future film trilogy starting Monday, July 4 at 5p. Last year’s marathon, in October, drove the network to its best night ever among P25-54 (354,000), M25-54 (186,000), W25-54 (168,000), P18-49 (347,000), M18-49 (182,000) and W18-49 (165,000) delivery.
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HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher will air four live specials during the Republican and Democratic conventions, on July 20-21 and July 27-28 at 11p. The shows will air from home base LA. The show will continue in its Friday-at-10p slot both weeks.
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The Rising Star award was a “staple for me in my professional career,” says Pamela Lambros from Nickelodeon. The award “positively reinforced my love for the television industry,” offered Litton Entertainment’s Justin Aranda. To join the ranks these up-and-coming leaders, nominate yourself (or a colleague) for the 2016 Rising Star Awards by the 6/24 deadline. For more information please visit: http://www.cynopsis.com/event/16-rising-star-entries/.
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Challengers take on obstacles in the jungle, mountains, canyons and coast while living off the land in Discovery’s American Tarzan, bowing Wednesday, July 6 at 10p.
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Travel Channel’s Top Secret Swimming Holes, premiering Sunday, June 19 at 10p, shows how to suss out swimming spots all over the world. The show is part of Travel’s “Dive Into Summer” programming lineup.
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Kids can start getting hooked on animated Future-Worm! on Monday, August 1 at 8a on Disney XD. Each episode of the comedy adventure will include an 11-minute story, a 7-minute story and a 3-minute story; previews of the shorter segments will be available on the Disney XD app beginning Monday, July 11.
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Celebs are tasked with creating themed sweet treats on special episodes of Food Network’s Cupcake Wars, debuting Monday, June 11 at 8p. Stars competing include Drake Bell, Coolio, Perez Hilton, Grace Helbig, Carson Cressley and more.
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Disney’s Stuck in the Middle was renewed for a second season. The comedy, just over halfway through its freshman run, has been a top five rated series among kids 6-11 and tweens 9-14. During 1Q16, the series reached 27 million total viewers in the U.S.
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Esquire is marking Dad’s Day with a two-hour special featuring American Ninja Warrior’s most memorable stories of fathers and sons attempting to conquer the course. Program airs Sunday, June 19 at 9p.
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Country singer/actor Dwight Yoakum (Wilfred) joins Billy Bob Thornton, his castmate in 1996’s Sling Blade, in upcoming Amazon drama Goliath. David E. Kelley is exec producing.
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Rosario Dawson (Daredevil) will serve as celebrity correspondent on Epix’ America Divided. Exec produced by Norman Lear, Shonda Rhimes and Common, the documentary series will feature stories about inequality in education, housing, healthcare, labor, criminal justice and the political system.
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Amy Hargreaves (Homeland) landed a series regular role in Netflix’s 13 Reason Why, which just began shooting.
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Kelsey Grammer (Frasier), Rob Perlman (Beauty and the Beast) and Anton Yelchin (Huff) will star in the voice cast for Netflix’s Trollhunters. Animated series is slated for a December 2016 debut.
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Orlando Jones (Madiba) will play an African trickster god in Starz’ upcoming American Gods. Also joining the series, as “the keeper of stories, past and present,” is Demore Barnes (12 Monkeys).
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Courtney B. Vance (The People v. O.J. Simpson) and Bradley Whitford (Transparent) are onboard TNT drama pilot Civil, a political and social drama about a second American Civil War.
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Alphonso McAuley (Walk of Shame) joins upcoming Netflix comedy Girlboss as a series regular. The 13-episode series comes from Charlize Theron’s Denver & Delilah.
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Syfy’s Blood Drive has added Christina Ochoa (Animal Kingdom) as the female lead. Straight-to-series drama is set in a near-apocalyptic future LA.
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Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad) will recur on season two of NBC’s Shades of Blue, as a former protegee of Ray Liotta’s character.
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CW’s MadTV revival rounded a set of eight comedians for eight on-hour episodes: Jeremy D. Howard, Adam Ray, Amir K, Michelle Ortiz, Lyric Lewis, Carlie Craig, Piotr Michael and @Midnight’s Chelsea start going for laughs on Tuesday, July 26 at 9p.
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ABC’s Uncle Buck premiered to a 1.5/5 rating, the best summer comedy launch among A18-49 since 2009.
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Univision Deportes reports that through all 24 matches of the group stage, Copa America Centenario averaged 2.6 million total viewers 2+ and 1.4 million A18-49 per match, besting the 2014 World Cup group stage performance by 3 percent in the demo. The Mexican national team matches averaged 4.9 million total viewers 2+ and 2.8 million A18-49.
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Bravo Southern Charm (aired June 6) delivered its most-watched episode in series history and hit a season high among both P25-54 and total viewers, garnering 928,000 P18-49, 1.1 million P25-54 and 1.8 million total viewers in Live+3 numbers. Versus the prior week’s episode, this was up 7 percent, 9 percent and 5 percent in each respective demo. The Real Housewives of Dallas (aired June 6) delivered its most-watched episode ever with 1.5 million total viewers, while The Real Housewives of New York City (aired June 8)hit its fourth consecutive season high among P25-54, delivering 1.2 million P18-49, 1.5 millionP25-54and 2.4 million total viewers.
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HGTV was the #1 cable network for the week of June 6 among W25-54 and upscale W25-54 in primetime (M-Su 8p-12a), averaging a .73 rating among viewers W25-54 and attracting more than 23 million total viewers for the week.
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BROADWAY
Eclipsed with Lupita Nyong’o is closing on Sunday June 19, 2016.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/eclipsed/
The Father with Frank Langella is closing on Sunday June 19, 2016.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/father/
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