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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 8/24/16)
TV ONE: Unsung: Howard Hewett (Premiere) at 8pm
CNBC: Cleveland Hustles (Premiere) at 10pm
DISCOVERY: Dual Survival: Untamed (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Betrayed (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda (Premiere) at 10pm
SUNDANCE TV: Gomorrah (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: Toddlers & Tiaras (Premiere) at 9pm
A&E: Duck Dynasty (Finale) at 9pm
A&E: Jep & Jessica: Growing The Dynasty (Finale) at 9:30pm
A&E: Wahlburgers (Finale) at 10pm
BRAVO: The Real Housewives of New York City (Finale) at 9pm
COMEDY: Another Period (Finale) at 10pm
ID: The Perfect Murder (Finale) at 8pm
Sunday’s season two finale episode of The Jim Gaffigan Show will be its last. “After two great seasons, we have mutually agreed to not move forward with season three,” said TV Land. Noting that he acted in almost every scene and his wife, Jeannie, was showrunner, Gaffigan said of the show inspired by his life, “We worked with an amazing cast and crew, learned tons and laughed so much. However the time commitment to make the quality of show we wanted was taking us away from our most important project, our five children.” While the comedy was well-reviewed, it had been averaging just under 500,000 viewers in Live+SD Nielsens.
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Comcast closed its acquisition of DreamWorks Animation, which will fold into NBCUniversal’s Filmed Entertainment Group. The $3.8 billion deal was announced in April.
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Judge George Phelan granted the request of Sumner Redstone’s granddaughter, Keryn Redstone, to review the settlement between National Amusements and Viacom that resulted in Philippe Dauman’s exit with a $72 million severance package. “Keryn Redstone seeks these documents so that she can review for herself whether the settlement adequately protects Sumner Redstone and the trust beneficiaries, or whether it is a back-room deal between Shari Redstone and others seeking to benefit from Redstone’s media empire,” said Keryn Redstone’s attorney, Pierce O’Donnell, in a statement. “On Friday, Judge Phelan will also decide whether Sumner Redstone will undergo a mental examination to evaluate his competency and susceptibility to undue influence.”
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The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills is running a free public exhibit to celebrate the 20th season of Comedy Central’s South Park. The interactive exhibit features life-sized replicas of characters and classic moments, and artwork created by pop culture artist Ron English, today through September 25.
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Director/producer McG, who directed the pilot for Fox fall entry Lethal Weapon, has inked a multi-year deal with 20th Century Fox Television to direct, develop and produce projects through his Wonderland Sound & Vision. “McG is a fantastic director who brings an infectious energy to every pitch and to every set,” said 20th TV president of creative affairs JonnieDavis. “Seeing what he did with Lethal Weapon only reaffirmed that we had to have this amazing talent on our lot working for us. The thoughtful ambition he brings to a project is only surpassed by the flawless execution.”
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Craig Johnson (The Skeleton Twins) has been handed the task of directing and exec producing Showtime comedy pilot Mating (wt), about a recently divorced man (SNL alum Taran Killam) unprepared for single life.
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Let the games begin. BUZZR celebrates the 95th birthday of game show host Monty Hall tomorrow, August 25 at 8p with new-to-the-network episodes of Hall hosting Let’s Make a Deal and The All New Beat the Clock.
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Recently launched science fiction digital broadcast net Comet, from Sinclair Television Group and MGM, landed a license agreement for cult series Mystery Science Theater 3000 from Shout! Factory, to start airing Sunday, September 4. Comet also added Japanese Godzilla films from 1954-1975 to its programming roster.
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Toby Keith and Blake Shelton have been added to the slate of performers at the 10th Annual ACM Honors, airing Friday, September 9 on CBS. They’ll join Dierks Bentley and Keith Urban in a tribute to Glen Campbell.
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The Costume Designers Guild Awards will take place Tuesday, February 21 at the Beverly Hilton. Submissions for excellence in film, TV and short-form design opens Friday, September 30.
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The season finale of Showtime’s Roadies features guest stars who gather to pay tribute to a rock legend. On hand for the Sunday, August 28 ep: Eddie Vedder, Jim James, Nicole Atkins, Robyn Hitchcock, Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig from Lucius, Joy Williams and Gary Clark Jr.
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Showtime’s Martin Lawrence Doin’ Time: Uncut premieres Friday, September 9 at 9p. Stand-up special was filmed live at the Orpheum Theatre in LA.
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NBC offered a taste of what’s to come when Arnold Schwarzenegger takes Donald’s Trump’s season in a promo for the new season of Celebrity Apprentice (or, as it says in the video, The New Celebrity Apprentice). Season launches in January.
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Season 35 of Nature takes flight with “Super Hummingbirds” on Wednesday, October 12 at 8p on PBS. Patricia Clarkson narrates the opener, which features new scientific discoveries about the tiny birds.
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Smithsonian Channel’s Sacred Sites offers scientific breakthroughs and research shedding light on mysterious religious locations. The first of five episodes, focused on Petra and Hegra, premieres Monday, September 12 at 8p.
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Milo’s Law premieres on Disney XD Monday, October 3 at 8p. “Weird Al” Yankovic voices the title role in the animated adventure comedy.
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Science’s NASA’s Unexplained Files returns for season four Tuesday, August 30 at 9p. This time around, abnormalities caught on camera include a star that could mean a “terrible fate” for Earth.
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OWN is acquiring the rights to air talk show T.D. Jakes from Tegna Media and T.D. Jakes Enterprises. Seventy affiliates will premiere the show locally on Monday, September 12, followed by OWN’s launch on September 19 at 6p. “Oprah Winfrey is an icon and a business mogul who has become a national treasure impacting our nation with her creativity,” said pastor/author Jakes. “I consider her a personal friend and I’m honored to have her support of my new show.” Talker is produced by 44Blue Productions, EnLight Productions and T.D. Jakes Enterprises.
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Joseph Fiennes (American Horror Story) will play Commander Fred Waterford in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, based on the Margaret Atwood bestseller. Production starts in Toronto this fall for a 2017 premiere.
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Ryan Murphy muse Sarah Paulson (The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story) joins the cast of Murphy’s FX anthology series Feud as Geraldine Page. Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon star as Joan Crawford and Bette Davis.
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Mekia Cox (90210) landed a recurring role on season two of NBC’s Chicago Med, as the daughter of Dr. Robin Charles (Oliver Platt). Drama returns Thursday, September 22 at 9p.
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SNL alum Cheri Oteri will guest on season 2 of Scream Queens. Fox comedy returns Tuesday, September 20 at 9p.
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Actor/producer Idris Elba (Luther) will train to become a professional kickboxer in Idris Elba: Fighter, produced by Shine North and Elba’s Green Door Pictures. The limited series, which will air on Discovery Networks International factual channels across more than 220 countries starting in early 2017, is part of Elba’s storytelling partnership with DNI.
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NBC’s American Ninja Warrior returned from its Olympics break on Monday to season highs of 7 million total viewers and 2.0 among A18-49.
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The week ending August 14 – a week of significant preemptions and lower than normal coverage levels for syndicated shows – Access Hollywood, leading to the Games, was one of the few big winners with a 1.8 Live+SD rating, up 29 percent versus the week prior.
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Telemundo and NBC Universo’s multiplatform coverage of the Rio Olympics reached 16.6 million total viewers and 8 million A18-49 for 278 hours of Olympic programming in Spanish through Sunday, August 21, according to Nielsen. Telemundo averaged 456,000 total viewers, increasing the Monday to Sunday daytime time slot by 12 percent versus prior year and by 10 percent versus the prior 4 week average. The Games ranked NBC Universo as the # 1 Hispanic cable network from 4p-7p eight times among A18-49 and 5 times among total viewers during a 17-day stretch, marking its best delivery in the time period since its launch in February of 2015.
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Opposite the Olympics closing ceremony, Sunday’s midseason return of AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead drew 3.86 million total viewers and a 1.6 rating among A18-49, still strong but down 12 percent from its last original in May.
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Starz’ Power delivered 2.1 million viewers on Sunday, up 17 percent week to week, making it the second-most-watched episode of any Starz original. Among A18-49 the drama scored 1.0.
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Actor Steven Hill died August 23. He was 94. Hill’s television credits included leading roles on Mission: Impossible and Law & Order. “Steven was not only one of the truly great actors of his generation, he was one of the most intelligent people I have ever met,” said Law & Order’s Dick Wolf.
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