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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 8/8/16)
SCIENCE: How Do They Do It? (Premiere) at 9:30pm
TRAVEL: Secret Eats With Adam Richman (Premiere) at 10pm
Z LIVING: The Healthy Gourmet (Premiere) at 8pm
LIFETIME: Devious Maids (Finale) at 9pm
LIFETIME: UnReal (Finale) at 10pm
TBS: Angie Tribeca (Finale) at 9pm
Season 5 will be that last for Bravo’s Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, with the remaining three seasons totaling 19 episodes. “This 19 episode order across 3 seasons enables Marti [Noxon] to tell the story she envisioned for the characters she created without the constraints of season to season orders, fully realized through to completion,” said Frances Berwick, president of lifestyle networks at NBCU Cable Entertainment. “This also keeps the series relevant and top of mind for viewers with less waiting time between seasons.” The season 2 finale delivered a season high 1.2 million viewers in Live+3.
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Fox wants to hit it out of the park with baseball drama Pitch. “Pitch Night at the Ballpark,” featuring events, meet-and-greets and a screening of the pilot episode on the scoreboard, will be held in 43 Minor League stadiums and 12 independent college and summer league ballparks during August and September. Series launches for the rest of us Thursday, September 22 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Winners of the 32nd Annual TCA Awards included The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story for Program of the Year and Outstanding Miniseries, as well as Individual Achievement in Drama for Sarah Paulson; black-ish for Comedy; The Americans for Drama; Making a Murderer for Reality Programming; Mr. Robot for New Program; Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Rachel Bloom for Individual Achievement in Comedy; Full Frontal with Samantha Bee for News and Information, and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood for Youth Programming. Since acting nominees are not split by gender, “This was truly a landmark season – not just for television, but for women in television,” said Amber Dowling, TCA president. “We had an unprecedented amount of female winners this year, which is a testament to both the talented actresses who were honored tonight, as well as to the growing number of high-quality roles being created for and by women.”
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Nathan Fillion, late of ABC’s Castle, will recur in a story arc on season 8 of the net’s Modern Family, revealed Family co-creator/EP Steve Levitan at TCA. Fillion will play a local weatherman named Rainor Shine. Also guesting: Martin Short. Season premieres Wednesday, September 21.
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The Mindy Project showrunners Mindy Kaling and Matt Warburton sung the praises of Hulu, which picked up the comedy after it was dropped by Fox. “The single best improvement in my life is working for people who are not having the forefront of our concern be the number of people who are watching,” said Kaling. Agreed Warburton, “It’s so short-sighted to look at week-to-week ratings.” Season five premieres Tuesday, October 4.
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Hulu head of content Craig Erwich announced the streaming service inked a deal with Disney for over 500 episodes of kids content, noting that children’s programming subscribers have grown by 30 percent over the past three years. Erwich also revealed the initial lineup for Hulu’s Limelight documentary series, including a doc about 1996 flop-filled-with-future-stars The Dana Carvey Show.
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ABC’s black-ish is filming the season three premiere at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, as Dre decides to give his family the vacation experience he never had as a kid. Jim Rash (Community) guests as a VIP tour guide on the opener Wednesday, September 21 at 9:30p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season three of History competition series Forged in Fire premieres Tuesday, August 23 at 9p, with a special champions edition. The launch is followed by back-to-back premiere episodes of new series Milwaukee Blacksmith, focused on a family practicing the 5,000-year-old craft, at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WGN America’s Salem returns Wednesday, November 2 (Halloween week!). Season three has the witches dealing with the fact that the devil they’d hoped would free them from Puritan hypocrisy has very different plans.
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Rapper Jim Jones and on-and-off fiancee Chrissy Lampkin face a bumpy rode to the altar in new reality show Jim & Chrissy: Vow or Never. Series bows Thursday, September 1 at 10p on WE tv.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Rachel Brosnahan (House of Cards) landed the lead in Amazon dramedy pilot The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, about a 1950s housewife who becomes a standup comic after her husband leaves her, reports Deadline.
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Raymond J. Barry (Justified) will co-star opposite Cam Gigandet, Jeremy Sisto, Ray Winstone and Donald Sutherland in Audience drama Ice. The series about a family involved in the diamond trade is slated to debut later this year.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Real-life marrieds Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) and Nick Offerman (Community) will guest on season two of CBS comedy Life in Pieces, as brother and sister. Pieces picks up Thursday, October 27.
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Tone Bell (Truth Be Told) nabbed a series regular role in Netflix comedy Disjointed. Kathy Bates stars.
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Joelle Carter (Justified) has been replaced in the role of Jake’s (Scott Foley) bride on ABC’s Scandal with Jessalyn Gilsig (Glee), reports TVLine. The swap is due to Carter’s series-regular commitment to NBC’s upcoming spinoff, Chicago Justice.
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Season one of AMC’s Preacher averaged 3.0 million viewers, with 1.7 million A25-54 in Live+3. The finale hit 3.1 million total viewers, up 78 percent from Live+SD; among A25-54 the episode jumped 101 percent from Live+SD, to 1.7 million.
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Thursday’s finale of ABC’s Greatest Hits grew 50 percent week to week in both total viewers (to 3.6 million) and A18-49 (.9/4). During its six-week run, Greatest Hits improved its time period 16 percent in total viewers and 29 percent in the demo.
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CBS’s Big Brother was the biggest winner of the night on Thursday, drawing 4-week highs of 5.9 million total viewers and 1.9 among A18-49. The finale of Fox’s Home Free was flat with 2 million/.6, and NBC’s early Olympics coverage scored 5 million and a 1.1 rating.
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The Opening Ceremony of the Rio Olympics delivered 26.5 million viewers for NBC, down 35 percent from the all-time high London viewership in 2012. On the other hand, soccer coverage on NBCSN the first two Games days was up 24 percent over London viewership.
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Suicide Squad – $135.1 million
Jason Bourne – $22.7 million
Bad Moms – $14.2 million
The Secret Life of Pets – $11.6 million
Star Trek Beyond – $10.2 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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