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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 9/12/16)
FOX: The Dr. Oz Show (Season 8 Premiere) at 1pm
FOX: Harry (with Harry Connick Jr.) (Premiere) at 4pm
ABC: Dancing With The Stars (Premiere) at 8pm
DISCOVERY: Sacred Steel Bikes (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: JonBenet: An American Murder Mystery (Premiere) at 10pm
SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL: Sacred Sites (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: The $100,000 Pyramid (Finale) at 10pm
FOX: So You Think You Can Dance (Finale) at 8pm
NBC: American Ninja Warrior (Finale) at 8pm
In an Emmys first, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who submitted their names jointly for consideration, won the Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Award for co-hosting Saturday Night Live. On night one of the two-part Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday, a surprise victory went to Peter Scolari (Girls) for Best Comedy Series Guest Actor. Scolari had replaced Peter MacNicol (Veep) in the category after nominations were announced, when MacNicol was disqualified for appearing in more than 50 percent of his show’s episodes. More awards will be handed out during the Primetime Emmys telecast Sunday, September 18 on ABC. For a complete list of Creative Arts winners, go here.
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Saturday Night Live writer Mikey Day follows the path of Tina Fey and others by transitioning to an on-camera role on the sketch comedy next season. Day got a test run of sorts this summer as a recurring player on NBC’s Maya & Marty, also from Lorne Michaels. There’s still room on the SNL roster, given the exits of Taran Killam, Jay Paharoah and Jon Rudnitsky.
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Fox placed an order for seasons 17 and 18 of cooking competition Hell’s Kitchen. Grab your torque blanche – auditions start today in LA.
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Geraldo Rivera wrote a message last week apologizing for defending Roger Ailes after the then-Fox News chairman was sued by former correspondent Gretchen Carson for sexual harassment. “It became apparent that Gretchen was not alone in alleging abhorrent behavior,” said Rivera in a Facebook post. “Now I am filled with regret for stubbornly discounting their various allegations.” Carlson settled for $20 million, and the company issued a public apology to her. As for Rivera, the journalist said that after an early manuscript of his memoir had been “enthusiastically received,” HarperCollins chose not to publish it “as a direct result” of his support for Ailes.
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Greta Van Susteren, who recently exercised a clause in her contract allowing her to leave the net if Ailes did, joined Rivera in expressing regret for not believing sexual harassment claims leveled against her former Fox News boss. “We all regret it,” said Van Susteren, explaining that while the accusations were “inconsistent with what was my experience,” the situation was “hidden from all of us.”
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The winner of a real-life dance contest will appear on NBC December 7 event Hairspray Live!. Contestants will perform September 15 at the Hippodrome Theater in Baltimore, where Hairspray is set, in front of judges including Maddie Baillio, who plays Tracy Turnblad.
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The season premiere episode of Nat Geo late-nighter Star Talk with Neil deGrasse, featuring Whoopi Goldberg, touches on space exploration, Star Trek and medical marijuana on Monday, September 19 at 11p.
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OWN’s If Loving You Is Wrong is back with new episodes Tuesday, September 13 at p. The most recent season of the Tyler Perry drama was Tuesday’s number one original series on all of TV among African-American women and African-American total viewers, and averaged 2.25 million total viewers.
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Ed Gordon, Bounce TV’s first news magazine show, focuses on Black Lives Matters movements starting tomorrow, September 13 at 10p. Series will feature interviews, investigative pieces, celebrity profiles and feature stories.
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Cooking Channel newcomer UpRooted launches Saturday, October 1 at 9a. Docu-series follows a chef and foodie who moves with her family to rural France. Tuesday, October 4 brings the season premiere of Cooking’s MasterChef Canada at 8p, while Unwrapped 2.0 is back Sunday, October 9 at 9p with host Alfonso Ribeiro exploring the secrets behind snacks and sweets.
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RFD-TV’s FarmHer launched Friday, September 9 at 9:30p. The series, telling stories of women in agriculture that range from a goat farmer in Tampa to an alpaca rancher in Colorado, is aimed at raising the profile of female-fronted farms.
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FX is giving up Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll after two seasons, sources tell Variety. The last episode of the Denis Leary comedy, on September 1, drew 450,000 viewers.
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ABC summer series Mistresses will not make it to season five. The drama ended season four on September 6 with 2.57 million viewers, down from 4.4 million for its freshman launch.
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Black-ish creator Kenya Barris is being accused of using a script he co-wrote with Bryan Barber (Idlewild) for VH1 years ago as the basis for his ABC hit. “Plaintiff is informed and believes that at some point between the end of 2006 and September 2014, Defendant Barris using Plaintiff’s idea for the Original Untitled Script wrote, developed and shopped the pilot episode for Black-ish without Plaintiff’s knowledge or authorization,” says a complaint filed in LA on Friday. Barber is seeking over $1 million.
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Richard Madden (Game of Thrones) will star in Amazon drama pilot Strange New Things, based on the book by Michael Faber. Madden will play a priest sent into space to start a new colony.
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Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy) and ballet star Misty Copeland will guest on episodes of PBS Kids animated preschool show Peg + Cat. Oh will reprise a role she voiced in March, as the president of the U.S.
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Anthony Edwards has a guest role on season 18 of Law & Order: SVU, reports EW. Edwards will find at least one familiar face on set: SVU star Mariska Hargitay played a love interest for Edwards’ character during season four of ER. Series returns Wednesday, September 21 at 9p.
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Discovery’s Harley and the Davidsons logged the biggest premiere telecast ratings for a single-network mini-series on cable since History’s The Bible three years ago. In Live+SD numbers the show delivered 3.4 million viewers on Monday, 3.4 million on Tuesday and 3.34 million on Wednesday.
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Lifetime’s Little Women: LA on Wednesday drew 1.6 million total viewers, the most in the series’ five seasons. The episode also delivered season bests A25-54 (806,000) and W25-54 (639,000) in Live+SD.
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Estrella TV grew 20 percent among A18-34 in prime time during summer 2016 versus the same period last year, and grew 31 percent among M18-34, as it focused on less traditional Spanish-language programming. “We pride ourselves in creating original Spanish language content in the U.S. that is relevant, entertaining and that caters to Hispanics living in this country, not a foreign territory,” stated Lenard Liberman, CEO, LBI Media, Inc., the parent company of Estrella TV.
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Hallmark Channel’s Chesapeake Shores on Sunday, September 4 saw increases of 7 percent among W25-54 and 4 percent in Total Viewers, the fourth straight week of boosts in Live+3. Versus the series’ August 14 debut, numbers were up 14 percent in HH, 24 percent in W25-54 and 18 percent in Total Viewer delivery. The drama averaged a 2.6 HH rating and 2.9 million viewers.
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Sully – $35.5 million
When The Bough Breaks – $15 million
Don’t Breathe – $8.2 million
Suicide Squad – $5.7 million
The Wild Life – $3.4 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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