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OUTDOOR CHANNEL: GunnyTime with R. Lee Erney (Premiere) at 7:30pm
TV ONE: Unsung Hollywood: Rudy Ray Moore (Premiere) at 8pm
PBS: SuperNature – Wild Flyers (Premiere) at 8pm
PBS: 9 Months That Made You (Premiere) at 10pm
VELOCITY: Wheeler Dealers (Premiere) at 9pm
VH1: Dating Naked (Premiere) at 9pm
VH1: Barely Famous (Premiere) at 10pm
FOOD: Cutthroat Kitchen: Time Warp Tournament (Finale) at 9pm
GSN: Skin Wars (Finale) at 9pm
NBCUniversal will air a record 6,755 hours of Olympics programming across networks and digital platforms this summer, 260.5 of that on NBC and most of it live. In addition to NBC and Telemundo, cable nets Bravo, CNBC, Golf Channel, MSNBC, NBC Sports Network, NBC Universo and USA, plus basketball and soccer specialty channels provided to distribution partners, will all get a piece of the action in Rio. NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app will live stream 4500 hours for subscribers via TV Everywhere. Opening ceremony airs Friday, August 5, on NBC, two days after competition starts with women’s soccer on NBCSN and USA.
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ABC announced a fall premiere schedule that starts Monday, September 12 at 8p with Dancing With the Stars, and stretches through Tuesday, October 11 with The Middle (season 8) at 8p, American Housewife (series premiere) at 8:30p, Fresh Off the Boat (season 3) at 9p and The Real O’Neals (season 2) at 9:30p. In between:
Tuesday, September 20: Dancing With the Stars Results Show at 8p, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season 4) at 10p
Wednesday, September 21: The Goldbergs (season 4) at 8p, Speechless (series premiere) at 8:30p, Modern Family (season 8) at 9p, black-ish (season 3) at 9:30p, Designated Survivor (series premiere) at 10p
Thursday, September 22: Grey’s Anatomy (season 13) at 8p, Notorious (series premiere) at 8:30p, How to Get Away With Murder (season 3) at 10p
Friday, September 23: Last Man Standing (season 6) at 8p, Dr. Ken (season 2) at 8:30p, Shark Tank (season 8) at 9p
Sunday, September 25: Once Upon a Time (season 6) at 8p, Secrets and Lies (season 2) at 9p, Quantico (season 2) at 10p
Sunday, October 2: America’s Funniest Home Videos (season 27) at 7p
Monday, October 3: Conviction (series premiere) at 10p
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Top Gear spinoff Top Gear USA has been canceled by History after a five-season run. “We’d like to thank the entire Top Gear team for five great seasons on History, however we have decided not to order additional season,” said the network. But BBC Worldwide Productions isn’t ready to hit the brakes. “We are fully committed to the hugely successful Top Gear brand – known all over the world – and have begun exploring new opportunities for the series in the U.S.,” said BBCWW.
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The Producers Guild of America is moving from a broadcast season to calendar year for TV series awards categories. In the transition, an extended eligibility period for the 2017 awards stretches from June 1, 2015-December 31, 2016. Awards show takes place January 28, 2017.
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Newly acquired by Charter Communications, Time Warner Cable will be vacating its swank space at Time Warner Center when its lease is up at the end of 2016, reports the New York Post. Destination: Stamford, site of Charter’s HQ. About 350 TWC employees are currently based at Columbus Circle.
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A combat medic injured in Iraq will be honored with the Pat Tillman Award for Service at the 2016 ESPYS Presented by Capital One on Wednesday, July 13 at 8p on ABC. Sgt. Elizabeth Marks is now a world-class paraswimmer and four-time Invictus Games gold medalist who discovered a passion for swimming during rehabilitation. The award commemorates the legacy of former NFL player and U.S. Army Ranger Pat Tillman.
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ood Network star Guy Fieri jumps to Scripps sib Travel Channel for two summer specials. Guy & Hunter’s European Vacation, following the celeb chef and his eldest son, premieres Tuesday, July 5 at 11p. On Guy Fieri’s Cuban Adventure, the Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives host explores the emerging restaurant scene in Havana air date is Tuesday, August 2 at 11p.
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Epix airs the TV premieres of two 2015 hits, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 on Sunday, July 3 at 8p and 007 flick Spectre on Saturday, July 23 at 8p.
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Turner Classic Movies is offering cowboys from sun-up to sundown every Tuesday and Wednesday in July, in “Shane Plus a Hundred More Great Westerns.” Stunt kicks off July 5 with “The Early Years,” including 1903’s The Great Train Robbery.
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Weigel Broadcasting’s Heroes & Icons network will air all five of the original live action Star Trek TV franchises, six days a week, beginning Sunday, July 24 at 8p (two days after the launch of feature film Star Trek: Beyond). For the first time on television, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise will air in a programming block, presented as a 5-hour marathon on Sundays and as 5 hours each weeknight Monday-Friday.
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Entertainment Tonight’s Nancy O’Dell will host CBS’s Boston Pops Fireworks Special on Monday, July 4 from 9p-11p. Event airs live from the Charles River Esplanade on Boston.
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The Amber Rose Show debuts on VH1 Friday, July 8 at 11p. What can we expect from author/actor/feminist/entrepreneur Rose – known as “Muva Rose” to her over 18 million social media followers? “An unfiltered, unapologetic weekly talk show that will dive into the world of pop culture and celebrity from an insider’s perspective,” Rose tells Cynopsis. “I’ve lived this life in the spotlight so I know how to ask the real questions – from tabloid rumors to relationships to sex, my surprise celebrity guests, experts and I, we’re ready to go in.”
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Season three of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Melbourne launches Friday, July 2 at 9p. Drama Down Under ensues.
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Bounce TV comedy In the Cut is back for season two on Tuesday, July 5 at 9p. Series centers on a “large and in charge” barbershop owner (Dorien Wilson) getting to know his illegitimate son (Ken Lawson).
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Animated kids series Fangbone! bows in the U.S. Tuesday, July 5 at 12:30p on Disney XD, with new episodes through Friday, July 15. Developed and produced by Radical Sheep Productions, Fangbone! debuted in Canada in March on Family CHRGD.
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Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) has landed a lead role in six-part limited series Guerilla, slated to air on Showtime and Sky Atlantic next year. John Ridley (American Crime) will write, direct and exec produce; Idris Elba (Luther) will co-star and exec produce through his Green Door Pictures.
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James Van Der Beek (Dawson’s Creek) is onboard Sky 1 comedy Carters Get Rich, playing an American billionaire. Six-parter is slated for a fall debut.
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All seven seasons of The Gilmore Girls (2000-2007) will be available to Netflix subscribers globally starting Friday, July 1. Series star Lauren Graham shared the news from the set of upcoming Netflix four-parter Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, slated for fall.
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All seven seasons of The Gilmore Girls (2000-2007) will be available to Netflix subscribers globally starting Friday, July 1. Series star Lauren Graham shared the news from the set of upcoming Netflix four-parter Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, slated for fall.
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Sunday’s season six finale of HBO’s Game of Thrones drew a series-high 8.89 million total viewers, up 16 percent from the week prior and up 10 percent from the season five closer.
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Coverage of the Orlando terrorist attack caused numerous preemptions of syndicated shows the week ending June 19. But Live With Kelly held onto a 2.7 Live+SD rating, unchanged from the week prior, making it the top talk show for a third consecutive week. Dr. Phil, in reruns, was down 4 percent to 2.5, while Ellen DeGeneres had a 16 percent bounce to 2.2, rebounding from a season low.
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Up 4 percent week to week to 2.4, Hot Bench was in repeats, but still had the greatest improvement over last year among syndicated strips, rising 20 percent.
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Hallmark Channel movie The Wedding March grabbed a 2.2 HH rating and 2.3 million total viewers, to become the top HH-rated program on Saturday among cable networks. The movie is part of Hallmark’s second annual “June Weddings” event.
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Nina L. Diaz has been upped to Executive Vice President and Head of Reality Programming at VH1. Diaz had been SVP of East Coast Production and Development.
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