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CELEBRITY NEWS: SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
http://www.imdb.com/news/celebrity

Phillip Phillips (American Idol 11^th Season Winner) – 26 years old
Terius “The Dream” Nash (Music Producer) – 39 years old
Moon Bloodgood (Falling Skies/ “Terminator Salvation”) – 41 years old
Michelle Visage (TV Host & Radio Personality) – 48 years old
Kristen Johnston (3^rd Rock From The Sun) – 49 years old
Deborah Roberts (ABC Journalist, married to Al Roker) – 56 years old
Debbi Morgan (All My Children) – 60 years old
Gary Cole (Veep/ “Office Space”) – 60 years old
George RR Martin (Author of Game of Thrones) – 68 years old
Candy Spelling (wife of Aaron Spelling) – 71 years old
Sophia Loren (“Two Women”) – 82 years old

FIRST LOOK
http://www.eonline.com/news

ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 9/20/16)
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.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

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.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

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.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

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.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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CELEBRITY NEWS: SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
http://www.imdb.com/news/celebrity

Columbus Short (Scandal) – 34 years old
Tegan Quin (Tegan And Sarah) – 36 years old
Noemie Lenoir (Model) – 37 years oldAlison Sweeney (Days of Our Lives/ The Biggest Loser) – 40 years old
Carter Oosterhouse (Trading Spaces) – 40 years old
Jimmy Fallon (The Tonight Show) – 42 years old
Sanaa Lathan (“The Best Man Holiday”) – 45 years old
Victor Williams (The Affair/ The King of Queens) – 46 years old
Michael Symon (Chef, The Chew) – 47 years old
Trisha Yearwood (Country Singer) – 52 years old
Kim Richards (Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) – 52 years old
Cheri Oteri (formerly of Saturday Night Live) – 54 years old
Mario Batali (Chef, The Chew) – 56 years old
Lita Ford (lead guitarist for The Runaways) – 58 years old
Nile Rodgers (Chic) – 64 years old
Joan Lunden (former host of Good Morning America) – 66 years old
Leslie “Twiggy” Lawson (Model) – 67 years old
Jeremy Irons (“Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice”) – 68 years old
Bill Medley (The Righteous Brothers) – 76 years old
Paul Williams (Music Composer) – 76 years old
Adam West (Batman TV Show) – 88 years old
Rosemary Harris (“Spider-Man” movies) – 89 years old
James Lipton (Inside The Actors Studio) – 90 years old

FIRST LOOK
http://www.eonline.com/news

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)