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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 8/3/16)
ABC: DCMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock (Premiere) at 8pm
TV ONE: Unsung Hollywood: Charlie Murphy (Premiere) at 8pm
BBCA: Dragon’s Den (Premiere) at 9pm
DA: Smoked (Premiere) at 10pm
E!: Botched by Nature (Premiere) at 9pm
SYFY: Ghost Hunters (Premiere) at 9pm
SYFY: Paranormal Witness (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: Love at First Kiss (Premiere) at 10pm
TRAVEL: Expedition Unknown: Insider’s Guide (Premiere) at 9pm
AUDIENCE NETWORK: Kingdom (Finale) at 9pm
CNBC: West Texas Investors Club (Finale) at 10pm
FREEFORM: Young & Hungry (Finale) at 8pm
FREEFORM: Baby Daddy (Finale) at 8:30pm
Jimmy Fallon will man the mic for the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards. “This is the most spontaneous and uninhibited award show on television, and Jimmy’s playful, disarming comedic brilliance makes him the ideal host,” said NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt. The three-hour telecast airs live on Sunday, January 8 at 8p.
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Houdini & Doyle is disappearing from FOX, cancelled after one low-rated season. The period magic drama drew 2.6 million viewers and a .7 demo rating when it premiered last May.
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NBC’s America’s Got Talent is renewing all four of its judges – Simon Cowell, Mel B, Heidi Klum and Howie Mandel and host Nick Cannon for season 12. “With the addition of Simon, the chemistry between our judges has grown even stronger and it’s easy to see how much enthusiasm they bring to the show night after night,” said Paul Telegdy, President, Alternative and Reality Group, NBC Entertainment.
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Telemundo will honor Dr. Ana Maria Polo with the “Estrella de Tu Mundo” (Star of Your World) award, in celebration of her 15 years on television, during the 2016 Premios Tu Mundo (Your World Awards). The ceremony airs live Thursday, August 25 at 8p. Polo was first introduced to television audiences in 2001 on Telemundo’s Sala de Parejas (Couple’s Court).
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OWN renewed drama series Queen Sugar ahead of its series premiere with a 16-episode second season order. From filmmaker Ava DuVernay and EP Oprah Winfrey, the series chronicling the lives and loves of three estranged sibling debuts as a two-night event on Tuesday, September 6 (commercial-free) and Wednesday, September 7 at 10p. It will regularly air Wednesday nights at 10p. “When we saw the first cut from Ava we knew right away that we wanted a second season,” said Erik Logan, president, OWN.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Iggy Azalea and her Azalea Street production company have inked a first-look deal with Universal Cable Productions and Wilshire Studios, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment’s scripted and non-scripted programming studios. Azalea will create content designed to reach a millennial audience with topics ranging from empowering young women to social justice and tolerance.
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NCIS producer Charles F. Johnson, French producer/director/writer Joy Fleury and producer Karen Gordy have joined forces to develop Amazons. The live-action series centers on 6,000 African female warriors who fought against the French Colonial army and other enemies of the Dahomey Kingdom. A network is not attached to the project.
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CBS Sports and active lifestyle and endurance events company Tough Mudder Inc. have struck a multi-year programming deal that brings Tough Mudder to broadcast, cable and digital on CBS Sports, CBS Sports Network and CBSSports.com beginning this fall. The series will provide an inside look at World’s Toughest Mudder, a 24-hour extreme endurance event. In addition, event series Toughest Mudder will debut in 2017.
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NBC is tossing a birthday bash for one of America’s most treasured musical icons. Two-hour special Tony Bennett Celebrates 90: The Best Is Yet to Come airs Tuesday, December 20 at 9p. The first batch of performers announced includes Andrea Bocelli, Michael Buble, Aretha Franklin, Lady Gaga, Billy Joel, Elton John, Diana Krall, k.d. lang, Rufus Wainwright and Stevie Wonder. Also making appearances are Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Kevin Spacey, John Travolta, Bruce Willis and Homer Simpson.
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E! takes WAGS to an all-new coast when WAGS Miami premieres Sunday, October 2 at 10p. The eight-episode, hour-long reality series documents the extravagant lifestyle and real-life drama that’s part of the game for the wife or girlfriend of a professional athlete.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Saturday Night Live alum Kevin Nealon is heading to Man With a Plan as the older brother and business partner Matt LeBlanc’s character. CBS series bows Monday, October 24 at 8:30p.
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Tristan May is heading back to The Vampire Diaries as Sarah Salvatore. The series’ eighth and final season premieres Friday, October 21 on The CW.
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Josh Kelly is returning to season 2 of UnReal. The Lifetime scripted drama, which gives a fictitious behind-the-scenes glimpse into the chaos surrounding the production of a dating competition program, airs its finale on Monday, August 8 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Babou Ceesay (Getting On, Eye In The Sky), Rory Kinnear (Penny Dreadful, Spectre) and Daniel Mays (Line of Duty, Mrs Biggs) have joined six-part Showtime drama thriller Guerrilla. Also joining the cast are Nathaniel Martello-White (Deadmeat), Denise Gough (People, Places & Things), Brandon Scott (Grey’s Anatomy), Zawe Ashton (Not Safe for Work) and Nicholas Pinnock (Fortitude). Set to air on Showtime and Sky Atlantic in 2017, Guerrilla centers on a politically active couple who set out to change the world.
(Source: Cynopsis)
NBC’s Hairspray Live! has added to its cast. Dover Cameron (Liv and Maddie) will play Amber Von Tussle while Garrett Clayton (Teen Beach Movie) takes on Link Larkin. Show goes on Wednesday, December 7 at 8p.
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Summer ratings were hot during July for Scripps Networks Interactive’s portfolio of cable channels. HGTV ranked #6 in cable for the month, enjoying the highest rated July in network history in both primetime and total day (P25-54). Travel Channel saw its highest rated July since 2013 among P25-54 in prime, posting gains in all demos in prime, including a 22 percent increase among P25-54 and a 28 percent gain among W25-54. DIY Network had its highest rated and most watched July ever in key demos P25-54 (+12 percent), W25-54 (+26 percent), P18-49 and W18-49, and Cooking Channel’s month tied as the highest rated July on record among P25-54.
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Page Six TV (two-week 1.0 metered market average), which began July 18 in seven major cities, was 25 percent higher than the full-run average for its closest tryout rival, The Preachers (0.8) and 400 percent higher than competing test So-Me (0.2). Among W25-54, Page Six TV averaged a 0.7, which was 75 percent ahead of The Preachers (0.4) and 250 percent better than So-Me (0.2).
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In national ratings for the week ending July 24, many syndicated strips were preempted or bumped into the middle of the night by coverage of the Republican National Convention. In daytime time, Live with Kelly (2.3 live plus same day national Nielsen rating, down 8 percent from the week before) and Dr Phil (2.3, down 12 percent) -which went from all originals into all reruns – tied for first place. Among W25-54, Phil (1.1 demo rating) remained in the lead. Ellen DeGeneres (1.7, unchanged) was third.
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In access, Family Feud (7.0, unchanged) dominated all game show rivals for the 13th straight week. Wheel of Fortune (5.3, down 9 percent) held on as the number two game show while Jeopardy (5.0, down 11 percent) fell to a new season low.
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