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The moderators for the presidential and vice presidential debates were announced on Friday. Up first: NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt, managing the debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on September 26. CNN’s Anderson Cooper and ABC’s Martha Raddatz are up next, for a town hall debate between the candidates on October 9. Chris Wallace will be the first Fox News Channel personality to moderate a presidential debate on October 19. CBS’s Elaine Quijano was handed the task of moderating the VP debate between Mike Pence and Tim Kaine on October 4.
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At least one person was less than pleased with the choice of moderators. Randy Falco, president and CEO of Univision, wrote to Janet Brown, executive director of The Commission on Presidential Debates, to “express disappointment, and frankly disbelief,” that a Hispanic journalist didn’t make the cut. Pointing out that no candidate for president has won without 30 percent of the Latino vote, and the number of Hispanic registered voters is trending upward in key battleground states, Falco says it is essential that the Hispanic community “hears firsthand where the candidates stand, what their policy solutions are and how they plan to implement their vision through the prism of a trusted journalist who represents Hispanic America and appreciates the nuances of this diverse demographic.” Read Falco’s letter in its entirety here.
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AMC doesn’t want a second helping of Feed the Beast. “We have great respect and admiration for the entire team associated with Feed the Beast,” said AMC in a statement.“Unfortunately, the show simply didn’t achieve the results needed to move forward with a second season.” Beast debuted to 976,00 viewers and .3 among A18-49 in Live+3, falling to just over 400,000 and .1 in the demo.
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Jill Soloway (Transparent), Tony Hale (Veep), Michael Kelly (House of Cards), Niecy Nash (Getting On) and Derek Hough (Dancing with the Stars) are among the Emmy nominees being honored at the Television Industry Advocacy Awards. The event on Friday, September 16 in LA, salutes industry leaders who use the power of celebrity to advocate for social change. TV Guide and TV Insider host the awards, which will benefit advocacy organization Creative Coalition.
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Singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens will recur on season five of Nashville, relocated from ABC to CMT. Country music drama is back January 5.
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Recent Juilliard graduate Marianne Rendon landed a series regular role on Bravo comedy My So Called Wife, about a con artist who gets men and women to marry her, then vamooses.
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ABC has launched four ABCD originals for the new ABC app. Short-form series include What to Text Him Back, with relationship expert “Get the Guy” Matthew Hussey; This Isn’t Working, from social media influencer Lisa Schwartz; Farm to Plate, from Tastemade, and She Talks, focused on women who turn their passions into paychecks. September 15 will bring A Little of Your Time with Quinn Marcus, in conjunction the Girl Code star’s role as social media correspondent for the 2016 Emmys.
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Netflix ordered unscripted original series White Rabbit Project from Beyond Productions (Mythbusters). Kari Byron, Tory Bellecci and Grant Imahara, who busted myths for the Discovery series, reunite to once again use science to investigate topics.
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The revival of Fox’s Prison Break, not set to debut until spring 2017, is getting more social chatter than any other new or returning broadcast show, with 19.5 million total engagements from May-August, according to a study from ListenFirst Media. ABC’s Funniest Home Videos came in second with 19.3 million. NBC’s This Is Us came second among new shows with 1.56 million engagements, followed by 558,073 for CBS’s MacGyver reboot and ABC sitcom Speechless, with 505.161. (Study does not include Twitter ranking data, which is exclusive to Nielsen.)
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OWN’s Greenleaf was the most-watched new cable show of the summer; the season finale on August 31 delivered 2.4 million viewers and 1.84 million among W25-54, the most-watched and highest-rated Wednesday telecast in network history.
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ABC scored with Sunday football. The Texas Longhorns’ double overtime defeat of Notre Dame earned a 3.0/12 among A18-49 and 10.46 million viewers, according to fast affiliate numbers. Opposite the game, CBS’s Big Brother delivered 1.3/6 in the demo, down 35 percent from last week’s early numbers.
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Bounce TV posted double-digit primetime growth among key demos in August, up 26 percent in P18-49, 37 percent W18-49, 13 percent in P25-54 and 28 percent in W25-54 versus August 2015. The net boasts it was one of the fastest growing networks among W18-34 for the summer, surpassing 85 other nets in overall growth with gains of 26 percent.
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They’re also doing a happy dance at Katz Broadcasting’s Grit and Escape, which celebrated their second anniversaries last month. Grit viewership grew by 16 percent in HHs, 38 percent in P18-49 and 50 percent in P25-54 in August, while Escape was up 58 percent in HHs, 28 percent in P18-49 and 50 percent in P25-54.
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WE tv’s Million Dollar Matchmaker has seen four consecutive weeks of growth in Live+3 total viewers, growing from 512,000 P2+ viewers on August 15 to 678,000 on August 26. The show had an August reach of 6.7 million total viewers and 2.2 million W25-54 in August sales prime (6p-1a).
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Episode three of Hallmark Channel’s Chesapeake Shores was up 11 percent in HHs, 10 percent among W25-54 and 16 percent in P2+ in Live+3 versus the prior week. The drama was also up double digits in the categories versus its August 19 premiere.
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CNN Films’ Holy Hell was tops in its timeslot in the news demo on Thursday, with 384,000 viewers A25-54 versus 370,000 for Fox News and 357,000 for MSNBC. In total viewers the scoreboard read FNC: 2 million, MSNBC 1.6 million and CNN 1.03 million.
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Character actor Jon Polito died September 2 of cancer complications. He was 65. Among his numerous film and television credits, Polito was an original cast member on Homicide: Life on the Street.
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