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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 6/28/16)
BET: Music Moguls (Premiere) at 9pm
CBS: Zoo (Premiere) at 9pm
FREEFORM: Dead of Summer (Premiere) at 9pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Barnwood Builders (Premiere) at 9pm
LIFETIME: Gold Medal Families (Premiere) at 9pm
MTV2: Wild N’ On Tour (Premiere) at 11pm
MTV2: Guy Code vs. Girl Code (Premiere) at 11:30pm
NAT. GEO.: No Man Left Behind (Premiere) at 9pm
HISTORY: Top Gear (Finale) at 9pm
ID: Murder Among Friends (Finale) at 9pm
Dance Moms host Abby Lee Miller pleaded guilty yesterday to federal bankruptcy fraud charges. Miller had been accused of trying to hide $775,000 in income during her Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and sneaking cash into the U.S. from Australia in her group’s luggage to avoid reporting the money. Miller’s lawyers asked for a maximum sentence of six months in jail; she could face 24-30 months. Sentencing is scheduled for October 11.
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The Weather Channel and congressional representatives from around the country have joined forces to emphasize the importance of severe weather preparedness to local communities. Locally targeted PSAs began airing on Monday. Among the 17 members involved in the initial campaign were Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Sen. Tim Kaine and Sen. Tim Scott.
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Freeform greenlit Baby Daddy for a sixth season, which will take the series to 100 episodes. The pickup comes on the heels of strong ratings for the back-half of its fifth season, growing week-to-week to near one-year ratings highs in key target demos.
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SundanceTV has renewed Hap and Leonard. Series star James Purefoy confirmed the news on Twitter, noting that the show has been officially picked up for a second season. The show, which debuted in March 2, is the network’s highest-rated original series. Season one averaged 456,000 viewers in Live+3 and 147,000 in A18-49 demo.
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USA Network issued a pilot order for Damnation. Created by Tony Tost (Longmire), the 1930-set drama focuses on a man masquerading as a small-town preacher in Iowa who aims to launch an insurrection against the status quo, but runs up against an industrialist tycoon with whom he shares a bloody past.
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Travel Channel’s new series of specials, Celebrity Adventure Club, premieres Friday, July 1 at 11p. Each segment follows a celebrity as they embark on an intimate adventure of discovery and exploration. In the premiere, avid space enthusiast Jon Cryer heads off on a journey that tops his bucket list, suiting up for a trip to the global hubs of all space activity: Washington, D.C., Houston and Russia.
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AMC is airing a marathon of Preacher beginning Thursday, June 30 at 9p. Viewers who need to catch up on the action can watch the show’s first five episodes as well as bonus behind-the-scenes footage. The series’ new sixth episode airs Sunday, July 3 at 9p.
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Outdoor Channel premieres travel and outdoor adventure series Nick’s Wild Ride on Friday, July 1 at 7:30p. Show follows host Nick Hoffman, a member of country music trio The Farm, on a journey into the food, culture, music, history and heartbeat of a location, while he hunts and fishes.
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E!’s Total Bellas premieres Wednesday, October 5 at 8p. The new series exposes the lives of WWE superstars Nikki and Brie Bella and their fellas, John Cena and Daniel Bryan, as the foursome coexist under one roof for the first time.
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Megan Mullally is headed to Hulu’s sci-fi/fantasy anthology Dimension 404. She’ll play Director Stevens, a hardened, no-nonsense military commander. Constance Wu (Fresh Off the Boat) has been cast alongside Mullally as Jane, a military psychologist.
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Matthew Goode (The Good Wife, Downton Abbey) is set to star in WGN America pilot Roadside Picnic. He plays Red, a veteran “stalker” who illegally ventures into the once inhabited zone of aliens on Earth and scavenges the remains of their culture.
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Cheyenne Jackson, who played Will Drake on American Horror Story: Hotel, confirmed on Twitter that he will be back for the next chapter of the FX horror anthology series. The theme, title and full cast list for Season 6 has yet to be disclosed.
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Sex and the City alum Jason Lewis, who appeared in the pilot of NBC midseason supernatural drama Midnight, Texas, has been upped to series regular.
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Bethany Joy Lenz (One Tree Hill, Marvel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) has been tapped to recur on CBS’ American Gothic. She’ll play April, a nurse at a rehab facility who develops a meaningful bond with one of the Hawthornes.
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British actor Jules Knight is headed to Season 3 of E! drama The Royals. He’ll recur as Spencer Hoenigsberg, the new Lord Chamberlain to the Queen of England, according to TVLine.
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The 2016 BET Awards on Sunday June 26 was the #1 cable awards show among P18-49 for the second consecutive year. The live simulcast premiere drew 7.2mm Total Viewers across 12 Viacom Networks, including MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, Logo, Spike and Centric., up 11 percent vs. last year. It also garnered 3.8mm P18-49 Viewers across 12 Viacom Networks, up 10 percent.
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Fox Business Network was the number one rated business channel on cable Sunday night as Brexit voting results were reported and dissected. FBN’s special edition of Varney & Co. (11p-1a) delivered 238,000 total viewers; earlier coverage brought 242,000 total viewers from 7p-11p.
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“Sunday Fun and Games” opened big for ABC. With a repeat of America’s Funniest Home Videos leading into the game show premieres, the network won the night in Total Viewers (6.6 million) and A18-49 (1.3/5). ABC’s premieres of $100,000 Pyramid (1.7/5), Celebrity Family Feud (1.5/6) and Match Game (1.5/5) ranked as the Top 3 broadcasts of the evening in A18-49 (tied with Big Brother’s 1.5/5), respectively. summer’s #1 new show in Total Viewers and A18-49.
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TV One’s June 14 episode of docu-series Rickey Smiley For Real is the series’ most watched episode among P25-54, W25-54, P18-49 and P2+. In addition, the episode posted a combined reach of 1.2 million total unique viewers 2+ and delivered the following: 0.60 HHLDs, 0.76 W25-54, 0.61 W18-49, 0.51 P25-54, 0.43 P18-49, and 0.34 P2+.
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