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TV ONE: Unsung Hollywood: Meagan Good (Premiere) at 8pm
E!: Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry (Premiere) at 8pm
MTV: Catfish (Premiere) at 10pm
The exits continue at Saturday Night Live. Following word that Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah will not be returning for Season 42, NBC has confirmed that Jon Rudnitsky has been let go from the sketch comedy series.
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FOX is nationally broadcasting Alex Rodriguez’s final MLB game this Friday, when the New York Yankees host the Tampa Bay Rays. The 22-year vet, who announced his retirement on Sunday, will transition into an advisor role with the Yankees.
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The Paley Center for Media’s annual celebration of the Fall TV season rounds out its 10th annual festival with a panel around Hulu’s The Mindy Project on Thursday, September 15 at its Beverly Hills location. Also added to the festival is a line-up of El Rey Network talent from From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series and Lucha Underground.
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Azteca America has partnered with AIGA, a professional association for design, as a media supporter for their “Get Out The Vote” campaign. Through the partnership, Azteca will feature PSAs about the campaign throughout the 2016 presidential election to encourage viewers to participate in the election and to vote.
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ABC has made a put pilot commitment to Criminal, a drama from Blindspot creator/EP Martin Gero, EPs Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter and co-EP Brendan Gall. The project follows a con man and his ragtag team of criminals, who after falling prey to a CIA sting, must complete a series of missions to clear their names.
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Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore are attached to star in a potential TV series from David O. Russell (American Hustle). The project has yet to be pitched to a network or streaming outlet.
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Directors Guild of America statistics for the 2014-15 TV season revealed FX had one of the worst records for hiring female and non-white directors, with only 12 percent of the net’s directors in the category. Landgraf noted that the network has taken great strides in making big changes for the 2016-17 season, which will see 51 percent of the directors hired by FX and FXX being men and women of color or white women.
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Castle vet Stana Katic is heading to Lifetime. Sister Cities, an indie film the actress filmed in 2015, will make its television world premiere on the network on Saturday, September 17. Project tells the story of four estranged sisters (played by Katic, Jess Weixler, Michelle Trachtenberg and Troian Bellisario) who reunite to mourn after their mother’s passing and discover a secret that could tear them apart.
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Discovery’s latest ID FILMS documentary, Dream Killer, premieres Sunday, August 14 at 8p. A selection of the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, the doc tells the story of Ryan Ferguson’s wrongful murder conviction, which inspired his new MTV show Unlocking the Truth.
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Former world champion Ishe “Sugar Shay” Smith battles once-beaten contender Frank “Notorious” Galarza in a 10-round super welterweight showdown that headlines Premier Boxing Champions: The Next Round on Bounce TV Friday, September 16 at 9p.
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AXS TV celebrates the music of Prince, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and more on a new season of The World’s Greatest Tribute Bands. Series returns on Wednesday, September 14 at 10p with a special 90-minute tributes to Prince.
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TLC has begun production on a sophomore season of Outdaughtered. Series follows Danielle and Adam Busby, adjusting to their new normal after bringing home the only all-female set of quintuplets in the country. Premiere is slated for November.
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Strut debuts on Oxygen on Tuesday, September 20 at 9p. Executive produced by Whoopi Goldberg of One Hoe Productions, and 44 Blue Productions, the series follows transgender models as they chase their dream of becoming household names in the fashion world.
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Adam Ruins Everything makes its mid-season premiere on Tuesday, August 23 at 10p on truTV. Rachel Bloom guests and exposes the hidden truths behind Hollywood’s glitz and glamour.
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Richard Rawlings, Aaron Kaufman and the entire Gas Monkey Garage crew return with new builds and new episodes of Fast N’ Loud on Monday, August 29 at 9p on Discovery.
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Stephen Moyer (True Blood) will star in the second season of ITV drama Safe House as Tom Brook, an ex-cop who runs a police safe house on the coastline of Anglesey.
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French actress Irene Jacob joins the Season 3 cast of The Affair. She’ll play Juliette Le Gall on the Showtime drama, returning Sunday, November 20 at 10p.
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Legends of Tomorrow has tapped Sarah Grey (Wayward Pines, Lucifer) to play Stargirl in Season 2. Series returns Thursday, October 13.
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Chris Vance (Supergirl) will guest-star on CBS’ Hawaii Five-0, this season, as a British MI6 agent who initially goes up against Five-0 before teaming with them to solve a big story.
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Ben Folds has nabbed a guest spot on FXX comedy You’re the Worst. “He plays kind of a twisted version of Ben Folds,” said creator/EP Stephen Falk at the TCA tour. Series returns on Wednesday, August 30.
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The season finale of Bravo’s Shahs of Sunset ranked as the most watched (P2+) episode of the season, delivering 1.1 million P18-49 (up 22 percent versus the prior week’s episode), 1.3 million P25-54 (up 25 percent), and 2.1 million total viewers (up 21 percent) in Live+3. The net’s Real Housewives of New York City hit a season high among all key demos, delivering 1.3 million P18-49 (up 4 percent), 1.6 million P25-54 (up 4 percent), and 2.8 million total viewers (up 11 percent).
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Un Camino Hacia el Destino helped Univision rank as the No. 3 network in the hour among A18-34. The series saw week-to-week growth among Total Viewers 2+ (up 2 percent to 2.0 million), A18-49 (up 5 percent to 833,000) and A18-34 (up 3 percent to 409,000).
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Only two of the top nine talk shows were in positive territory in the summer session ending July 31: Dr. Phil reruns (2.4 in Live+SD, up 4 percent from the week before) and LIVE with Kelly (2.4, up 4 percent). Among W25-54, Kelly (1.2 demo rating, up 20 percent) was number 1 in talk.
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Judge Judy (6.4, up 2 percent) – in reruns on four days – was the only one of the six court shows moving up and the highest-rated strip in daytime by a wide margin (4 rating points).
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Nationally, top-rated syndication newcomer Page Six TV (1.0 metered market average for week ending August 5) finished its preview by outperforming its last remaining test-run challenger, So-Me (0.3) by 233 percent.
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In access, Family Feud (6.6, down 6 percent) dipped a bit, but still crushed all the game shows for the 14th week in row in the national ratings. Next in line Wheel of Fortune (5.2, down 2 percent) dropped to its lowest rating since 2012.
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Nickelodeon has hired Dave Perry as Vice President of Social Media. He previously served as Vice President of Future TV and Innovation at VH1.
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Sagan Lewis, former co-star of NBC’s St. Elsewhere and the wife of TV creator Tom Fontana, died of cancer on August 7 at her home in New York City. She was 63.
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