FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 9/19/16)
E!: Fashion Police: 2016 Emmy Awards Edition at 8pm
CBS: The Big Bang Theory (Premiere) at 8pm
CBS: Kevin Can Wait (Premiere) at 8:30pm
HGTV: Tiny Luxury (Premiere) at 11pm
DISNEY XD: Right Now Kapow (Premiere) at 9pm
NAT. GEO.: StarTalk (Premiere) at 11pm
NBC: The Voice (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: The Tonight Show (Premiere) at 11:35pm
NBC: Late Night (Premiere) at 12:30am
FOX: Gotham (Premiere) at 8pm
FOX: Lucifer (Premiere) at 9pm
ABC: Match Game (Finale) at 10pm
CBS: The Case Of: JonBenet Ramsey (Finale) at 9pm
ID: The Coroner: I Speak For The Dead (Finale) at 10pm
SCIENCE: Mega Shippers (Finale) at 10pm
TNT: Major Crimes (Finale) at 10pm
Netflix is being sued by Fox for poaching two employees. The streaming service has been conducting “a brazen campaign to unlawfully target, recruit and poach valuable Fox executives by illegally inducing them to break their employment contracts with Fox to work at Netflix,” reads a complaint filed in California Superior Court on Friday. Execs in question are Tara Flynn and Marcos Waltenberg, who had employment contracts with Twentieth Century Fox when they were hired away. Responded Netflix, “We do not believe Fox’s use of fixed term employment contracts in this manner are enforceable.We believe in employee mobility and will fight for the right to hire great colleagues no matter where they work.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Showtime canceled Roadies, the touring band comedy from Cameron Crowe, J.J. Abrams and Winnie Holzman. “Though we could tell a thousand more stories, this run ends with a complete ten-hour tale of music and love,” wrote Crowe in his blog. “Like a song that slips under your skin, or a lyric that keeps speaking to you, we hope the spell of Roadies lingers. It was life-changing experience for all of us.” Season one ended August 28.
(Source: Cynopsis)
A&E greenlit Little Funny (wt), following an 11-year-old comic. The docu-series, from This Is Just a Test, Telepictures and Ellen DeGeneres’ A Very Good Production will feature mentors like DeGeneres, Chris Rock, George Lopez and Wanda Sykes helping Saffron Herndon sharpen her stand-up skills.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Food Network’s Chuck & Danny’s Road Trip has started its journey. The six-part culinary series, which will film two chefs feasting their way across Canada in an RV, has started principal photography, in anticipation of a Spring 2017 launch.
(Source: Cynopsis)
NBC bought an untitled comedy from Suzanne Martin and Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner’s Hazy Mills, about a funeral director whose one-night stand leads to an instant family. Studio is Universal Television.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fox gave a script commitment plus penalty to Miracle Commission, focused on an NYPD chaplain and a skeptic who investigate alleged miracles. Drama comes from Jeff Eastin (White Collar); studio is 20th Century Fox Television.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC gave a put pilot commitment to Charlie Foxtrot, centered on a mild-mannered dentist at Fort Bragg who must take care of his slain brother’s teenage stepkids and fiancee. Comedy to be produced by ABC Studios comes from Kapital Entertainment.
(Source: Cynopsis)
A&E’s The Killing Season will launch with back-to-back episodes on Saturday, November 5 at 9p. Docu-series from Alex Gibney (Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief) follows an investigation of the unsolved murders of ten sex workers at the hand of the Long Island Serial Killer.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Host Alfonso Riberio checks out the secrets like that yellow color in French’s mustard and the surprising ingredient in Christie Cookie Co.’s brownies in the season premiere of Cooking Channel’s Unwrapped 2.0, premiering Sunday, October 9 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The name has changed, but the tradition hasn’t: Freeform’s (formerly ABC Family) “25 Days of Christmas” programming event starts December 1. On the way are Elf, The Santa Clause, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and lots more holiday faves.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Disney Channel’s “Monstober” is around the corner. The month-long celebration of Halloween begins Saturday, October 1. Lineup includes Halloween-themed episodes of Disney Channel series, the premiere of the Disney Channel original movie The Swap, special short-form content and the return of “Mal-oween,” with an encore performance of Descendants and the second season premiere of the animated shorts, Descendants: Wicked World, among other programming.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fusion is hosting a Green Party presidential forum tonight at 9p. Jorge Ramos and Alicia Menendez will moderate a forum with presidential candidate Jill Stein and VP candidate Amaju Baraka. Topics on the agenda include student debt, marijuana legalization and income inequality, among others.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Melanie Liburd (Game of Thrones) has been added to the cast of Netflix’s upcoming psychological thriller, Gypsy, reports Deadline. Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup star.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Mary Elizabeth Winstead (BrainDead) nabbed a lead role opposite Ewan McGregor and Carrie Coon in season three of FX anthology Fargo.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Rita Wilson (It’s Complicated) and Lyndsy Fonseca (How I Met Your Mother) will guest on baseball drama Pitch, launching Thursday, September 22 on Fox.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Ben Rappaport (Mr. Robot) landed a recurring role in TV Land’s Younger, launching season 3 on Wednesday, September 28.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Taylor Russell will play Judy Robinson (Falling Skies) in Netflix’s remake of 1960s series Lost in Space, slated to land in 2018.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Broadway star Ben Vereen will recur in Fox comedy Making History, making its debut in 2017.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Good Wife’s Sarah Steele has joined the cast of the GW spinoff on CBS All Access, reports Deadline. Christine Baranski and Cush Jumbo are already onboard the series, set to premiere on CBS in February, before its streaming debut.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC is streaming the series premiere of Speechless on Facebook. The comedy can be accessed on the show’s official FB page, @SpeechlessABC, using Facebook Live. Fans also get a shout-out from the cast. Series launches linearly Wednesday, September 21 at 8:30p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The debut of FX’s American Horror Story: Roanoke delivered 5.14 million viewers and 3.6 million viewers among A18-49 with a 2.8 rating, making it the top-rated show on cable Wednesday night.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The season premiere of CBS’s Thursday Night Football drew an average 15.7 million viewers across CBS, NFL Network, Twitter, NFL Digital and CBS Interactive, down 27 percent from last year’s opener but enough to dominate the night. In total, CBS and NFL Network’s coverage was watched all or in part by 48.1 million viewers (minimum one minute viewed). CBS sells and airs all national commercials for the games across every platform.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fox’s Son of Zorn delivered the highest-rated comedy debut in nearly a year among A18-49 and drew 6.7 million viewers, up 10 percent in 3-day Total Multi-Platform Audience versus Live+SD. Zorn also ranked as the top entertainment show on Sunday night, as well as the No. 2 entertainment program of the week, and ranked as the highest-rated broadcast series debut among Men 18-34 in over a year and a half since Last Man on Earth.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Hallmark Channel’s Chesapeake Shores has become the most-watched original series in the history of the network among W25-54, and averaged a 2.6 HH rating and 2.8 million total viewers on Sunday, September 11. The episode registered growth among W25-54 (10 percent), HH (13 percent) and Total Viewers (12 percent) versus the August 14 series premiere, in Live+3.
(Source: Cynopsis)
New E! docu-series Rob & Chyna premiered to 2.7 million total viewers, 1.9 million A18-49 and 1.4 million W18-49, ranking as one of the top 10 series launches in network history, delivering a median age of 31 and winning the night in cable among W18-34.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Gabe Rygaard, who appeared in History reality series Ax Men, was killed September 16 in a car crash. He was 45. Rygaard was the owner of Rygaard Logging, featured in the reality show.
(Source: Cynopsis)
2016 EMMY AWARDS – WINNERS LIST
http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Sully – $22 million
Blair Witch – $9.7 million
Bridget Jones’s Baby – $8.2 million
Snowden – $8 million
Don’t Breathe – $5.6 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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