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ABC: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Premiere) at 10pm
CBS: NCIS (Premiere) at 8pm
CBS: Bull (Premiere) at 9pm
CBS: NCIS: New Orleans (Premiere) at 10pm
FOX: Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Premiere) at 8pm
FOX: New Girl (Premiere) at 8:30pm
FOX: Scream Queens (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: This Is Us (Premiere) at 10pm
OXYGEN: Bad Girls: Social Disruption (Premiere) at 8pm
OXYGEN: Strut (Premiere) at 9pm
FOOD: Chopped (Finale) at 10pm
HISTORY: Milwaukee Blacksmith (Finale) a 10:30pm
SCIENCE: Through The Wormhole (Finale) at 10pm
TRAVEL: Andrew Zimmern’s Driven By Food (Finale) at 9pm
The Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon, criticized for being easy on guest Donald Trump last Thursday (tweeted Jeopardy whiz Ken Jennings, “In his defense, Jimmy Fallon just pulled in a 35 share among white supremacists 18-49”), responded to post-Emmys prodding from TMZ. “Have you seen my show?” the NBC late night host asked. “I’m never too hard on anyone.” We’ll see – tonight’s guest is Trump rival Hillary Clinton.
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With three wins on Sunday (for a total of 12 for the year), HBO’s Game of Thrones broke the record for the most number of Emmy Awards by a scripted series, with 38. (Frasier had 37.) FX’s The People v. O.J. Simpson took home 5 major awards Sunday, for a second-best total of 9 for the year.
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Only 4 awards went to Big Four nets on Sunday: Regina King, Best Supporting Actress in ABC’s American Crime; NBC’s The Voice for Reality Show Competition; Kate McKinnon for Supporting Actress in a Comedy for NBC’s Saturday Night Live, and Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special, to Fox’s Grease: Live.
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Maggie Smith won her third Emmy for Downton Abbey, and for the third time was a no-show. “We’re not mailing this to her,” said host Jimmy Kimmel. “Maggie, if you want this, it will be in the lost and found.”
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Veep’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus did show up, to pick up her record fifth consecutive Emmy and dedicate it to her father, businessman/poet William Louis-Dreyfus, who passed away Friday. “I’m so glad he liked Veep, because his opinion was the one that really mattered,” said Louis-Dreyfus. Responding to confused fans, actor Richard Dreyfuss later tweeted, “I’m actually not Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ father. But I really appreciate all the concerned tweets.”
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Apparently presidential nominee Donald Trump subscribes to the “no publicity is bad publicity” school of thought. Responding to the many negative mentions of him during Sunday’s Emmys telecast (“Thanks to Mark, we don’t have to watch reality shows anymore, because we’re living in one,” said host Jimmy Kimmel of The Apprentice producer Mark Burnett. “I’m going on the record: he’s responsible if Donald Trump gets elected, and if he builds that wall, the first person we’re throwing over it is Mark Burnett.”), the candidate said on Monday’s Fox & Friends, “I watched the Emmys last night and there were so many skits about Trump! I think it’s great.”
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CNBC’s Make Me a Millionaire Investor is back for season two on Thursday, October 6 at 10p. Premiere focuses on an emergency nurse who invented a CPR device, and a retired firefighter with a harness designed to make fighting fires safer.
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The Riveras, starring the five children of late Mexican-American music star Jenni Rivera, launches Sunday, October 16 at 10p on NBC Universo. The 10-episode reality show comes four years after the death of Rivera in a plane crash.
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Today’s episode of syndicated talker Steve Harvey features the first joint interview with basketball legend Magic Johnson, his wife Cookie and two of their children, EJ and Elisa. Among the topics is how the family overcame the challenge of Magic Johnson’s HIV diagnosis 25 years ago.
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Opposite Sunday Night Football, Sunday’s well-reviewed Emmys on ABC drew an all-time low average audience of 11.3 million viewers, down 5 percent versus last year’s telecast on Fox, which followed a Sunday NFL game. The show did win ABC its largest non-sports audience in the 3-hour time period since the Academy Awards in February. And Facebook reports over 9 million people had 14 million interactions on the service, with the top 3 trending moments the wins for Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany, Game of Thrones and The People v. O.J. Simpson’s Sterling K. Brown.
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Orphan Black was the top most engaged-with nominated show in social across the major platforms, with 650,000 engagements across Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram. OB was also the number 1 most shared program on Facebook and Twitter of all Emmy nominees; the night of the Emmys marked Orphan Black’s highest levels of engagement, conversation and sharing of the year to date.
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ID’s three-part JonBenet: An American Murder Mystery was the net’s most-watched series ever, averaging 2.6 million P2+ and 1.1 million P25-54. The series-high episode two, on Tuesday, September 13 was the number one ad-supported program for P2+ HH, P25-54 and W25-54, averaging more than 2.8 million P2+ and nearly 1.3 million P25-54.In total, the series reached more than 11 million unique P2+ across the three nights.
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The season 20 premiere of Comedy Central’s South Park premiered to a 2.2/8 Live+3 rating, up 22 percent from last year’s launch and 29 percent from its finale, for its highest rated episode since December 2013.
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