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Comedy Central canceled The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, a victim of stagnant ratings. The late nighter created and exec produced by Jon Stewart replaced The Colbert Report in January 2015; it will air its final episode on Thursday. @midnight slips into the slot temporarily. “I’m really grateful to Comedy Central, Jon Stewart, and our fans to have had this opportunity,” Wilmore said in a statement. “But I’m also saddened and surprised we won’t be covering this crazy election or ‘The Unblackening’ as we’ve coined it. And keeping it 100, I guess I hadn’t counted on ‘The Unblackening’ happening to my time slot as well.” Comedy Central president Kent Alterman said that while he applauded Wilmore and his creative team, the show “just wasn’t resonating with our audience.”
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The NFL and Super Bowl sponsor Pepsi say no official offer was made to Adele to perform during the 2017 halftime show. After the “Hello” singer told fans during a concert in LA that she’d declined an offer because “That show is not about music,” the football league and Pepsi issued a statement saying that although they are “big fans” of Adele, they have had conversations with several artists, and “have not at this point extended a formal offer” to anyone.
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FX ordered a pilot for futuristic comedy Singularity, from writer Sonny Lee (Silicon Valley) and producers Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg. Studio is FX Productions.
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ID greenlit a second season of Las Vegas Law, focused on prosecutors pursuing justice in Sin City. Production is underway on six episodes slated for 2017.
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HGTV ordered a second season of Vintage Flip, focused on a team restoring homes in Orange County. Couldn’t have been a tough sell – first run delivered double digit ratings growth among viewers P25-54 during the 11p hour versus the year before.
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Kathleen McGhee-Anderson (The Nelson Mandela Story) is joining OWN’s Greenleaf as executive producer for season 2. The megachurch drama, which drew 2.3 million viewers and a 1.79 rating among W25-54 on Wednesday, is the summer’s top new cable series among women and total viewers.
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Alan Cumming (The Good Wife) will host the International Emmy Awards Gala in New York on Monday, November 21. Shonda Rhimes will receive the International Emmys Founders Award.
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NBC comedy event series Better Late Than Never kicks off Tuesday, August 23 at 10p, with the motley crew of Henry Winkler, William Shatner, Terry Bradshaw, George Foreman and comedian Jeff Dye starting on a trek across Asia. First stop: Tokyo… where they can’t find their way out of the train station.
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The Bachelor follow-up Ben & Lauren: Happily Ever After? and relationship show The Letter (“Dear Friend, here’s how you need to change”) debut Tuesday, October 11 at 8p and 9p, respectively, on Freeform.
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Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition is back for season 2 on Food Network Wednesday, September 14 at 9p. Stars put through their paces in culinary boot camp include Mindy Cohn, Matt Dallas, Tommy Davidson, Barbara Eden, John Henson, Loni Love, Kenya Moore, Mike Sorrentino and Nicole Sullivan.
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Craft in America starts season 8 on PBS celebrating teachers, on Thursday, September 15 at 8p. The show is part of PBS’s Education Week programming.
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NBC Universo launches season three of AMC hit The Walking Dead en Espanol on Wednesday, August 31 at 10p. The zombie drama “has resonated immensely with U.S. Hispanic audiences,” said Bilai Joa Silar, SVP, programming & production and NBC Universo.
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Last Chance U is getting another chance. Netflix renewed its first sports docu-series, which goes behind the scenes of junior college football, for a sophomore run.
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Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech) will star as Albert Einstein in Nat Geo’s upcoming global anthology series, Genius, from Fox 21 Television Studios, Imagine Television, OddLot Entertainment and EUE/Sokolow. Johnny Flynn (Lovesick) will play Einstein in younger years.
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Joining the cast of AT&T Audience crime drama ICE are Cam Gigandet (The Magnificent Seven), Jeremy Sisto (Suburgatory), Ray Winstone (The Departed), Judith Shekoni (Heroes Reborn), Raymond Barry (Training Day) and Donald Sutherland (The Hunger Games). Series will premiere this year on DirecTV and AT&T U-verse.
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Carrie Preston will co-star in TNT pilot Claws, a scripted dramedy set in a nail salon. Niecy Nash and Karrueche Tran are already onboard.
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Matt Cedeno was promoted from recurring to series regular for season 4 of Starz drama Power. Season three airs Sundays at 9p.
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Abbie Cobb (Suburgatory) stars in Boy in the Attic, premiering Saturday, August 20 at 8p on Lifetime.
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Usain Bolt’s successful bid for a third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the men’s 100-meter dash, and another gold for gymnastics phenom Simone Biles landed NBC a 17.4 HH rating/29 share in metered markets and a 9.0 rating among A18-49 on Sunday. Games coverage is averaging a 15.6 household rating.
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During M-F primetime last week, Telemundo ranked as the #2 network among A18-34, and #4 among A18-49 for the fourth consecutive week. The net delivered 778,000 viewers A18-49 and 376,000 A18-34 for the week.
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