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COOKING: Haylie’s America (Premiere) at 10pm
DIY: Tiny House Big Living (Premiere) at 9pm
FX: Better Things (Premiere) at 10pm
LOGO: Finding Prince Charming (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Unraveled (Finale) at 9pm
Last night’s season three finale episode of Tyrant was its last, at least on FX. “It’s very difficult to find common ground with other people whose stories we do not know or understand,” said FX president and GM John Landgraf. “The creators of Tyrant have done their utmost over three seasons to tell American audiences a tiny fraction of the many gripping, human stories coursing through the Middle East today.” Fox 21 Television Studios president Bert Salke left room for hope, saying, “We feel the show is a gem and we’d love to find a way to keep it in production.”
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Apple launched its iPhone 7 event Wednesday with a little Carpool Karaoke from The Late Late Show’s James Corden, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Pharrell. In July, Apple announced the purchase of a spin-off of Carpool, which will stream on Apple Music.
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Tegna, the largest independent owner of CBS and NBC affiliates, announced Wednesday it’s spinning off car buying site Cars.com. Splitting the companies will position them “to take advantage of differentiated opportunities in the rapidly evolving broadcast and digital landscape,” said Tegna, which went under the name Gannett until spinning off its newspaper business last year. CEO Gracia Martore will retire when the move is completed, replaced at Tegna by Dave Lougee, now president of the station group, and at Cars.com by Alex Vetter.
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Louisiana Rising: A Benefit Concert for Flood Relief, presented live Monday night by Raycom Media, raised over $800,000 for American Red Cross Flood Relief. Harry Connick Jr. and Randy Jackson hosted the event from Baton Rouge. The show was carried by Raycom Media, Bounce TV, the ABC Owned and Operated Stations, Hearst Television, Sinclair Broadcasting Group, Cordillera Communications, Meredith, Graham Media Group and Cox Media Group. “We are grateful to our broadcast partners that helped us reach markets beyond the Raycom Media footprint,” said Pat LaPlatney, president and CEO of Raycom Media.
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Additions to the list of presenters for the 68th Emmy Awards include Laverne Cox, Tracee Ellis Ross, America Ferrara, Kit Harington, Matt LeBlanc, Joel McHale, Mandy Moore, Chris Rock, Keri Russell, Jeffrey Tambor, Kerry Washington, Damon Wayans and Constance Wu. Ceremony airs Sunday, September 18 at 8p.
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The terrifying experiences of survivors (parachute malfunction, tornado, sharks) who caught the event on their digital devices are recounted in Still Alive, debuting on Discovery Wednesday, September 14 at 10p.
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Merchandising competition Window Warriors premieres on GSN Tuesday, November 15 at 9p. Judging window designs will be Carson Kressley (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy), style influencer Tai Beauchamp and veteran merchandiser Douglas Little.
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Anthony Anderson is set to host upcoming comedy-variety series Animal Review (wt), headed for Animal Planet in 2017. What drew the busy black-ish star to the project? “Some of my favorite TV moments have been watching iconic TV hosts like Johnny Carson and David Letterman interact with their animal guests,” said Anderson. “They are some truly classic unscripted moments that have made TV history.”
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Motorcycle building competition Wrench Against the Machine premieres on Esquire Tuesday, November 15 at 9p. Teams will have 3 days and $3000 to transform stock cycles into works of art.
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Friendships are put to the test in Oxygen competition series Last Squad Standing, launching Tuesday, November 1 at 9p. Alesha Renee (Girl Code) hosts, overseeing three groups of friends as they vie for $100,000.
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The search for love won’t stop anytime soon on ABC. The network renewed Bachelor in Paradise, featuring Bachelor and Bachelorette also-rans, for a fourth season. During season three this summer, the dating competition grew its overall audience by 9 percent year-to-year, to 6.2 million and held steady among A18-49 (2.0/8), in its most-watched season so far.
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Cooking Channel has a taste for Beach Bites with Katie Lee. Renewed for season two, the show is tentatively headed for a premiere in 2Q17.
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Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations is back with back-to-back episodes on Tuesday, October 4 at 9p and 9:30p. Season four highlights foods that define a location (New York cheesecake, anyone?).
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AXS TV has a pair of premieres slated for next week. The Big Interview with Dan Rather returns for season four with rock icon Neil Young on Tuesday, September 13 at 8p, followed the next night by a tribute to Prince on The World’s Greatest Tribute Bands at 10p.
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The story of the flag raised by three NYC firefighters at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001 that later went missing is chronicled in America’s 9/11 Flag: Rise from the Ashes, premiering Sunday, September 11 at 10:30p on History. The recovery of the flag is the inaugural project under the “History Saves History” initiative, aimed at identifying and preserving history that is at risk of being lost or forgotten.
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If you missed the 9p premiere of RFD-TV’s Cowboy Country TV last night, an encore of the new series inspired by “Canadian Cowboy Country” magazine encores tonight at 1a and Sunday, September 11 at 8:30a, with new episodes rolling out through fall.
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Ken Burns film Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War, premiering on PBS Tuesday, September 20, will have Academy Award consideration screenings from Friday, September 9-Thursday, September 15 at Cinema Village in NYC and Laemmle Music Hall in LA. The movie focuses on the rescue of World War II refugees by Unitarian missionaries.
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Spike premieres Roots of Fight Presents: Ali: Birth of the Greatest on Friday, September 9 at 11:15p. Original doc, focused on the epic 1971 bout between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, is narrated by Ice T and follows live coverage of a rematch between middleweights Danny Jacobs and Sergio Mora.
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Pop gets in the Halloween spirit with month-long October genre programming, including over 250 hours of cult classic movies, mini-series and series. Headlining the event is six-part psychological thriller Wolf Creek, inspired by the horror film. The original movie airs Friday, October 14 at 8p, followed by the premiere of the series at 10p.
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Kevin Connolly (Entourage) will recur on upcoming Fox baseball drama Pitch. Series premieres Thursday, September 22.
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NBC cast Broadway pros Ephraim Sykes (“Hamilton”) and Shahadi Wright Joseph (“School of Rock”) in Hairspray Live!, airing Wednesday, December 7. Sykes will play Seawood Stubbs, a dancer who befriends Tracy Turnblad; Joseph, who was the youngest actor to play Nala in “The Lion King,” will portray Little Inez, Seaweed’s younger sister.
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The season 3 premiere of You’re the Worst did not live up to its name, instead becoming the comedy’s most-watched telecast on FXX. In Live+3 the show gained 8 percent among total viewers, jumping to 605,000 versus its season 2 opener.
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Court show Hot Bench rose to an eight-week high and the largest year-to-year increase in syndication the week ending August 28, up 21 percent from last year to 2.3 (despite being in repeats 4 of 5 days). Judge Judy ruled the syndie pack with 6.9, up 10 percent versus the week prior.
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Telemundo Deportes’ simulcast of the FIFA World Cup qualifier match between Mexico and El Salvador on Friday on Telemundo Network and NBC Universo delivered 1.6 million viewers A18-49, ranking as the number1 program in broadcast and cable TV for Friday night, regardless of language, according to Nielsen. The match also delivered 2.8 million total viewers and reached a cumulative audience of nearly 5 million viewers.
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BROADWAY
Fun Home is closing on Saturday September 10, 2016.
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