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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 7/14/16)
TRU TV: Impractical Jokers (Premiere) at 10pm
TRU TV: Impractical Jokers: Inside Jokes (Premiere) at 11pm
WE TV: Cutting It: In The ATL (Premiere) at 10pm
COOKING: Carnival Eats (Finale) at 9pm
HISTORY: Alone (Finale) at 10pm
Disney Media Networks is hosting a town hall tonight with President Obama and officers, families and students affected by the violence in Baton Rouge, Minneapolis and Dallas. Focused on race relations, justice, policing and equality, the event will be simulcast uninterrupted and commercial-free on ABC, ESPN and Freeform, and stream across ABC News Digital, Freeform Digital, Watch ABC, WatchESPN, Yahoo and ABC Radio. World News Tonight anchor David Muir moderates the discussion, joined by ESPN’s Jemele Hill, starting at 8p. After the town hall, Nightline will air a special edition.
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Also reacting the recent spate of violence and unrest, Bounce TV is launching an on-air, online initiative calling for de-escalation training for police. Martin Luther King III, a founding father of Bounce, and the casts and producers of the net’s original shows including Ed Gordon, In The Cut, Saints & Sinners, Mann & Wife and Family Time, will participate in the campaign. The Root, the news, opinion and culture site for African-American influencers, is supporting the effort.
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Correspondent Luke Russert is leaving NBC News to focus on “other endeavors that I’ve long wanted to pursue,” he tweeted on Wednesday. Russert, the son of the late Tim Russert, long-time moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, said, “It has been a privilege and an honor for me to have worked for NBC News for the last eight years.”
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WWE star John Cena inked a development deal with Leftfield Entertainment for unscripted television and online projects. The agreement extends a relationship that led to Fox’s American Grit – and Cena’s ready to get cracking. “Whether I’m in the ring for WWE or on a TV or film set, I approach all of my work the same way with focus, authenticity and total commitment,” said Cena. “I’m eager to bring that same work ethic to the team at Leftfield, and to create new kinds of programming that can inspire and push people to be their best.”
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Coming out of retirement, boxer Manny Pacquiao will fight in an HBO PPV event this fall. That’s good news for the premium cabler – Pacquiao’s bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2015 made upwards of $400 million in revenue for HBO and Showtime. Pacquiao is currently a member of the Philippines Senate.
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Season one of Showtime’s Roadies is going out on a high note on Sunday, August 28 at 10p. The episode will feature performances by Jim James, Eddie Vedder, Nicole Atkins, Jackson Browne, Robyn Hitchcock, Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig from Lucius, and Gary Clark Jr. And it won’t be the last you’ll hear about it – a Roadies soundtrack will be released by Republic Records and Stardog Records.
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Patton Oswalt (BoJack Horseman) will voice a new character on the mid-season premiere of Discovery Family Channel’s My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic on Saturday, July 30 at 11:30a. In the Comic-Con themed episode, Oswalt will play a pony named Quibble Pants.
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CMT’s Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team returns for season 11 on Thursday, August 25 at 9p, followed by the season two launch of I Love Kellie Pickler at 10p. Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge was picked up for a new season, to premiere later this year.
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A second season of Disney Channel’s Descendants: Wicked World is on the way. No surprise there – the animated short-form series has reached over 130 million viewers across platforms. A half-hour interactive special on Friday, July 15 at 8p will give fans a taste of what’s to come in Descendants 2.
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Killer Instinct with Chris Hanson returns for a sophomore season, investigating more shocking homicide cases, on Monday, July 25 at 9p.
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Netflix renewed Bloodline for season three. The Sony Pictures Television family drama will return in 2017.
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Young rappers once again get the chance to be mentored by producer Jermaine Dupri when season two of The Rap Game premieres on Lifetime Friday, July 22 at 10p, following the season 3B launch of dancing reality show Bring It!.
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Vanity Fair Confidential got the green light from ID for season three, slated to launch in 2017. True-crime docu-series featuring archival footage and interviews, as well as access to VF writers and editors, was created by True Entertainment, in partnership with Conde Nast Entertainment and ID.
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Season four of Hulu’s East Los High starts streaming Friday, July 15, replete with wedding bells, broken hearts and danger lurking in the streets of East LA. Season one of The Last Panthers, starring Samantha Morton, John Hurt and Tahar Rahim, arrives Monday, July 18.
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Start-up companies vie for a $1 million cash infusion in Funded (wt), the first series from the newly formed Universal Television Alternative Studios. NBC gave a series order for the business competition show, featuring mentors Rob Dyrdek, Tyra Banks and Rohan Oza.
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New HBO comedy High Maintenance bows Friday, September 16 at 11p. The look at the daily routines of a diverse group of New Yorkers was created and written by Katja Blichfield and Ben Sinclair.
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Smithsonian Channel’s Hell Below, charting undersea warfare during submarine campaigns in WWII, launches Sunday, July 17 at 9p. The premiere follows the season seven bow of Mighty Ships.
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Crackle drama StartUp, starring Martin Freeman (Fargo) and Adam Brody (CHiPS) is headed for a Tuesday, September 6 launch. One-hour series about the emergence of a new digital currency is set in Miami.
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Hamilton’s Renee Elise Goldsberry is onboard Netflix sci-fi drama Altered Carbon, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The Tony winner will play a strategist leading a rebellion.
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Alyssa Sutherland (Vikings) has joined the cast of Spike’s The Mist, based on the Stephen King novella. Drama goes into production this summer for a 2017 debut. Also added to the mix: Gus Birney (Chicago Med), Dan Butler (Crazy, Stupid Love), newcomer Luke Cosgrove, Serbian-Danish actress Dania Curcic, Okezie Morro (World War Z), Darren Pettie (The Good Wife), Russell Posner (Fading Gigolo) and Isiah Whitlock, Jr. (Chi-Raq).
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Pearl Thusi (Lip Sync Battle Africa) will play a type-A lawyer in season two of ABC’s Quantico. Drama returns Sunday, September 25 at 10p.
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Floriana Lima (The Family) will play Maggie Sawyer, one of the first openly gay characters in comics, on CW’s Supergirl. Season two premieres Monday, September 10 at 8p.
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History’s two-part documentary special from LMNO, exploring the 45–year–old mystery surrounding the only unsolved skyjacking in American history, D.B. Cooper: Case Closed?, averaged 1.8 million viewers over two nights (Sunday&Monday).
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The season finale of ABC’s To Tell the Truth on Tuesday was up 16 percent in total viewers versus last week, to 5.1 million, and rose 10 percent among A18-49, to 1.1/4.
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VH1’s Hip Honors: All Hail the Queens on Monday drew over 3 million viewers, bested its time period norm by 109 percent and was the number one cable program in its time period among women.
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Univision Deportes’ inaugural Balon De Oro de la Liga Bancomer MX awards show on Saturday delivered 829,000 total viewers and 410,000 A 18-49. The event celebrated the best in Mexican soccer.
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During a slow summer period for syndication the week ending July 3, Judge Judy managed to rise 5 percent versus the week prior to 6.8, its highest rating since the week of May 23. Top talkers Dr. Phil (unchanged) and Live With Kelly (down 4 percent) tied with 2.5.
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The Preachers, starting a three week test in nine cities on July 11, earned a metered market average of .8/3 after two days, down 13 percent from its average lead-in but up 14 percent from its year-ago time periods. A trial run for So-Me drew a soft .3/1 metered market average, down 25 percent from its lead-in and sinking 40 percent from its year-ago time period average.
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BROADWAY
The Crucible with Saoirse Ronan is closing on Sunday July 17, 2016.
http://www.broadway.com/shows/crucible/
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