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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 7/12/16)
ID: Killer Women with Piers Morgan (Premiere) at 8pm
OXYGEN: Sisterhood of Hip Hop (Premiere) at 9pm
Z LIVING: Kim’s Rude Awakenings (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: To Tell The Truth (Finale) at 10pm
NBC: Maya & Marty (Finale) at 10pm
Former MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry has joined BET News as special correspondent. Harris-Perry, who left MSNBC in February after denouncing preemptions of her show for election coverage, will develop longform news specials and contribute to BET News programs, including co-anchoring election coverage for the national conventions with BET News’ Marc Lamont Hill.
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Fox launched a live stream of its primetime entertainment programming last night, with plans to simulcast programming seven nights a week as well as Saturdays during late night. The stream, available to pay-TV customers in all 210 television markets, enables Fox affiliates to dynamically insert local market advertising and station branding. “From the start of the on-demand and over-the-top viewing revolution, Fox has been at the forefront of providing greater access to our buzz-defining shows,” said Dana Walden and Gary Newman, chairmen and CEOs of Fox Television Group.
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Showtime Networks and Amblin Partners struck an exclusive agreement under which Amblin Entertainment, Dreamworks Pictures and Participant Media films released theatrically through December 2021 will air on Showtime, The Movie Channel and Flix, as well as Showtime multiplex channels and streaming services. Upcoming theatrical releases include The Light Between Oceans, The Girl on the Train and Ghost in the Shell.
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WE tv ordered Dr. Miami, a reality show focused on Snapchatting plastic surgeon Michael Salzhauer, known for using social media platforms to bring viewers into the operating room. The show, from 2C Media, “represents a bold and fresh twist that connects old and new media and will give us additional opportunities to attract and engage WE tv viewers,” said net president Marc Juris.
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Solo performers for CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock include Jason Aldean, Kelsea Ballerini, Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Brett Eldredge, Florida Georgia Line, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Rascal Flatts, Thomas Rhett, Blake Shelton, Chris Stapleton, Cole Swindell, Steven Tyler, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban. Collaborations for the ABC special, filmed in June and airing Wednesday, August 3 at 8p, include Dierks Bentley performing with Elle King, Luke Bryan with Keith Urban, Brett Eldredge and Thomas Rhett, Lady Antebellum with Cam, Little Big Town with Pharrell Williams, Rascal Flatts with Maren Morris, Steven Tyler with Martina McBride, Hank Williams, Jr. with Chris Janson and Justin Moore, and Chris Young duetting with Cassadee Pope.
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Here he comes…The Bachelor’s Chris Harrison will return as host for the 2017 Miss America Pageant, airing Sunday, September 11 at 9p on ABC. Sage Steele, host and commentator for ABC’s and ESPN’s NBA Countdown, will co-host.
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AXS TV TV-movie Elvis Lives! premieres Tuesday, August 16 at 9p. The film, from The Asylum (Sharknado) explores the question: What if Elvis never really left the building?
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PBS doc Spillover – Zika, Ebola & Beyond, tracing the spread of viruses, premieres Wednesday, August 3 at 10p. Graphics along with personal stories provide scientific context for devastating outbreaks.
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In addition to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show airing two weeks of special convention coverage from July 19-22 and July 26-29 at 11p, two clip-based specials looking back at the primary season will run on the Monday of each convention week. RNC edition The Daily Show With Trevor Noah: The Road To ‘The Road,’ debuts July 18; DNC special The Daily Show With Trevor Noah: What To Expect When You’re Expectant bowson July 25. The Daily Show also announced first-of-their-kind digital partnerships with SiriusXM, Amazon and Snapchat.
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TV One’s News One Now is airing a live two-hour special this morning from 7a-9a, with a 12a-2a encore. “Black and Blue America: The Race Crisis,” hosted by Roland Martin, will cover the Black Lives Matter movement, community policing and strategies to eradicate police brutality.
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The season two premiere of E!’s Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry has been moved up, from August 17 to Wednesday, August 10 at 8p. Special Hollywood Medium: Tyler’s Top Ten airs Wednesday, August 3 at 8p. The reality show debuted in early 2016 as E!’s most-watched unscripted series in three years, excluding spinoffs.
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Carrie Coon (The Leftovers) will star opposite Ewan McGregor in season three of FX anthology series Fargo. Coon will play the newly divorced chief of the Eden Valley police. Series returns in 2017.
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Jennifer Esposito (Blue Bloods) has joined the cast of CBS’s NCIS as a series regular. Esposito will play an NCIS special agent in the long-running procedural, returning Tuesday, September 20 at 8p.
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NBC was tops in viewers and the A18-49 demo on Sunday with coverage of the U.S. Olympics trials for track and field and gymnastics. While track earned a 1.0 rating among A18-49 and 4.3 million total viewers at 7p and 1.7/6.5 million at 8p, the first full hour of gymnastics vaulted to 2.5/8.5 million at 9p and 2.7/8.9 million at 10p.
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Univision Deportes announced it ranked as the number one cable sports network in primetime among A18-49, 18-34, M18-49 and M8-34 for the month of June. “This is a milestone for Univision,” said Juan Carlos Rodriguez, net president. “These stellar ratings underscore the relevance of our best-in-class soccer content and the power of Hispanic sports fans as viewers and consumers of the sport.”
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The premiere of Disney Channel’s Adventures in Babysitting ranked as the number one cable telecast of 2016 among kids and tweens and the number one cable TV movie of 2016 in total viewers. In Live+7, the movie increased 55 percent among Kids 6-11 (1.9 million/8.2 rating), 54 percent among Kids 2-11 (2.4 million/6.0), 44 percent among Tweens 9-14 (1.7 million/7.1), 36 percent among A18-49 (1.3 million) and 41 percent in total viewers (4.8 million), compared to Live+SD data.
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Comedy director Matt Villines, best known as half of Saturday Night Live directing duo Matt & Oz, died July 9 of cancer. He was 39. Villines and directing partner Oz Rodriguez joined SNL in 2012; their sketches included “Darrell’s House,” “Sad House” and “Monster Pals.”
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