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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 9/13/16)
AXS TV: The Big Interview with Dan Rather (Premiere) at 8pm
BOUNCE TV: Ed Gordon (Premiere) at 10pm
DISCOVERY: Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY: Taking Fire (Premiere) at 10pm
OWN: If Loving You Is Wrong (Premiere) at 9pm
PBS: The Contenders – 16 for ’16 (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: Better Late Than Never (Finale) at 10pm
CBS has made some adjustments to its fall premiere week schedule. Miniseries The Case Of: JonBenet Ramsey will be trimmed from six to four hours, airing Sunday, September 18 and Monday, September 19. NCIS: Los Angeles now starts on its new night, Sunday, on September 25, following an NFL double-header, replacing what was to be the third night of the JonBenet Ramsey event.
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American Ninja Warrior won a sixth season renewal from NBC, with encore presentations on Esquire Network, where it will enter season 9. Ahead of its finale last night, the summer series was averaging a 2.1 rating among A18-49 and 7.2 million, for its most-watched season in total viewers.
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The Directors Guild of America noted “a lack of real progress by employers in this industry, plain and simple,” in its study of women and minority TV directors during the 2015-16 season. Women directed 17 percent of all episodes, inching up from 16 percent, while ethnic minorities helmed 19 percent of episodes, up from 18 percent. “There’s a long road ahead for true change to be realized – because for that to happen, the pipeline will need to change at the point of entry,” said DGA president Paris Barclay.
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The week after Matt Lauer was criticized for being too easy on GOP candidate Donald Trump in an NBC town hall discussion, Trump had a suggestion for the upcoming debates. With calls increasing for more fact-checking, “I think we should have a debate with no moderator, just Hillary and I sitting there talking,” Trump told CNBC’s Squawk Box on Monday. Predicting future moderators will be tougher on him because of the Lauer backlash, Trump said, “I think the system is being rigged so it’s going to be a very unfair debate.” Good luck to NBC’s Lester Holt, first up on September 26.
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Toby Willis, patriarch of TLC reality show The Willis Family, was arrested and charged with child rape after the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation looked into an alleged encounter Willis had about 12 years ago. TLC said it hadn’t renewed the show, and no episodes have aired since April.
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In addition to Mikey Day, who been writing for the show, Saturday Night Live has added Alex Moffat and Melissa Villasenor as featured players. Season 42 bows October 1 on NBC.
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Thirty men and women with no military background will be put through intense physical and mental challenges by veterans of the Navy SEALs, Green Berets and Army Rangers in History’s The Selection: Special Operations Experiment. Eight episode unscripted series from exec producer Peter Berg (Lone Survivor) premieres Thursday, December 15 at 10p.
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TruTV’s Jon Glaser Loves Gear launches Wednesday, October 26 at 10p with back-to-back episodes. In the hybrid comedy, Glaser attempts to make a docu-series about gear. Janeane Garofalo (Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp) is among the season’s diverse slate of guest stars. A sneak peek will air Tuesday, October 25 at 11p after The Adam Ruins Everything Election Special.
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BBC America’s The Living and the Dead, about a couple hell-bent on bringing modern ideas to an ancient rural community, premieres Thursday, October 27 at 9p. The entire limited series will be available the following day to stream on the BBC America App and BBCAmerica.com.
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Deadly Doctors premieres on ID Saturday, September 24 at 9p. The new series explores physicians and nurses who use their power to harm rather than heal.
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Kapow! The original 1966-1968 Batman series will air in Spanish on NBCUniversal Spanish-language multicast net TeleXitos, starting Saturday, September 17 at 1p.
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Antenna TV, Tribune Broadcasting’s multicast entertainment net, is adding nine new programs in 2017. Becker, What’s Happening!! and My Two Dads debut in January, followed later in the year by Alice, Growing Pains, 227, The Hogan Family, Head of the Class and Murphy Brown. Adding more old faves sounds like a no brainer. “In the five years since Antenna TV has launched there has been a great response from viewers enjoying the classic programming, and from stations seeing an increase in revenue,” said Sean Compton, president strategic programming and acquisitions, Tribune Broadcasting.
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Tonight’s series premiere of Bounce TV’s Ed Gordon features an interview with the five Mothers of the Movement, African-American women whose children have been shot. The net’s first news magazine show will include investigative pieces, celebrity profiles, current event segments and human interest stories.
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Presidential candidate Donald Trump will make his third visit to The Tonight Show on Thursday, September 15. The last time Trump was Jimmy Fallon’s guest was in January. As previously announced, Hillary Clinton will appear on the show on Monday, September 19.
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El Rey Network founder and chairman Robert Rodriguez will talk with filmmakers Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Walking Dead) and Jon Favreau (Elf) for a two-hour special The Director’s Chair on Saturday, September 25 at 8p. Sample from Darabont: “I spent seven years walking into offices trying to convince people that yes, a zombie show could be successful.”
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Pivot honors International Day of the Girl of Tuesday, October 11 with the premiere of Driving with Selvi at 8:30p. The film depicts a girl in an abusive marriage who runs away and becomes India’s first female taxi driver.
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Nonprofit public broadcast and digital network KCETLink Media Group announced the U.S. television broadcast debut of Prisoners of War (original title: Hatufim), the Israeli series upon which Showtime drama Homeland is based. Prisoners premieres Monday, October 24 at 10p on Link TV.
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Jessica Lowe (Wrecked), Kurt Fuller (The Good Wife), Chris Parnell (Saturday Night Live) and Kerri Kenney (Love) will guest on truTV pilot Small Victories, focuses on a disbarred lawyer working as a barista.
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Wheel of Fortune heads into season 34 with “Teacher’s Week,” as educators spin the wheel and solve puzzles. Speaking of, the season will mark the first regular appearance of the “Crossword Puzzle Round,” which was tested at the end of last season.
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The season finale of ABC’s Celebrity Family Feud on Sunday was up 16 percent in total viewers versus its last original telecast (to 6.6 million) and rose 30 percent among A18-49 (to 1.3/4), in early numbers, for six-week highs.
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Opposite the premiere of NBC powerhouse Sunday Night Football (20.65 million viewers and 7.5/24 in the demo), the 2017 Miss America Competition dropped 13 percent in A18-49 versus 2015 for a demo low, but gained 1.3 million viewers (to 6.9 million) and 27 percent in A18-49 (to 1.4/5) from its first half-hour until Miss Arkansas was crowned in the final half-hour.
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Discovery miniseries Harley and the Davidsons averaged 2 million P25-54 viewers and 4.4 million P2+ viewers across three nights. From September 5-7, the show was the number 1 cable program across P/M25-54 (excluding sport) and M18-49 all three nights in Live+3.
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Neil Cavuto’s first week back at Fox Business Network’s Cavuto: Coast-to-Coast after open heart surgery delivered the show’s highest-rated week ever, with 170,000 P2+.
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