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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 10/13/16)
ANIMAL PLANET: Monsters Inside Me: Extra Deadly (Premiere) at 9pm
CANAL ONCE: Mi Lugar (Premiere) at 3p,
CW: DC’S Legends of Tomorrow (Premiere) at 8pm
CW: Supernatural (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Evil Kin (Premiere) at 9pm
MTV: The Almost Impossible Game Show (Premiere) at 10pm
MTV: Acting Out (Premiere) at 10:30pm
USA: Falling Water (Premiere) at 10pm
WE TV: Growing Up Hip Hop (Premiere) at 9pm
WE TV: Money Power Respect (Premiere) at 10pm
BRAVO: Million Dollar Listing New York: Ryan Wedding (Finale) at 10pm
CMT: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making The Team (Finale) at 9pm
HGTV: Desert Flippers (Finale) at 9pm
Fox gave a full-season order to film-to-TV reboot Lethal Weapon, for 18 episodes. The action drama is averaging a 3.0 in the A18-49 demo in Live+7 ratings, and 11.5 million total viewers across platforms. Weapon joins NBC’s This Is Us and ABC’s Designated Survivor and Speechless as freshman class members upped to full seasons.
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Being Mary Jane star Gabrielle Union filed a breach of contract lawsuit against BET, claiming the net’s ordering of 10-episode fourth and fifth seasons to be shot back-to-back violates an agreement with the actress that there would be a break between seasons to allow her to take on movie roles, and deprives Union of compensation. Responded BET yesterday, “While we hold Gabrielle Union in the highest esteem, we feel strongly that we are contractually well within our rights and are committed to reaching a swift and positive resolution in this matter.”
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TNT is killing Murder in the First after three seasons. The September 4 finale of the crime drama drew a season high 1.6 million viewers in Live+SD.
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NBC’s Law & Order: SVU will air a topical episode on Wednesday, October 26 at 9p. “Unstoppable” stars Gary Cole as a politician whose political campaign is derailed by sordid accusations from women, though the episode was in the works before the leak of the 2005 Access Hollywood video in which Donald Trump boasts about groping women.
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Speaking of, Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson took to email Wednesday to solicit money for $140 million to pay for on-air ads to “shine a light on Crooked Hillary, her cronies and the lying liberal media.” And the frustrated media – the day before, CNN host Carol Costello shut down an interview with Pierson she said was “going nowhere” after Pierson tried to turn talk of Trump’s crude comments to Hillary Clinton and Syria.
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Comcast agreed to pay a $2.3 million penalty for charging customers for services and equipment they didn’t ask for, the result of an investigation the FCC started almost two years ago. Comcast attributed the issues to human error, not intentional wrongdoing, and said, “We agree those issues should be fixed and are pleased to put this behind us.”
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BBC America and Fathom Events are holding a one-night theatrical screening of six-part animated series Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks on Monday, November 14, 50 years after the original BBC broadcast, in advance of the premiere on BBCA on Saturday, November 19, at 8:25p. The film event will include bonus content and interviews with members of the original cast.
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Tandem Productions and Save Ferris Entertainment are collaborating with Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures on new drama series Brazza, set in the Congo and focused on a family’s blood feud. “I am so proud to be working on this African set drama and to introduce a global audience to a world and culture that resonates so vibrantly with me,” said Elba.
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Comedy Central’s Comedy Jam Special in August has ballooned into an eight-episode weekly series, to premiere in 2017. Shows will feature stand-up comedians sharing memorable moments of their lives that relate to hit songs, then performing the songs. “We have been working under the false impression that what comedians want most is to have television and digital platforms to further their comedy careers,” said Kent Alterman, president, Comedy Central. “It turns out they really just want to be rock stars.”
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Production has begun in New York and environs for season 4 of Power. Starz drama returns in summer 2017. Season 3 drew 7.1 million viewers across platforms, and ranked number 1 among weekend cable programs in African American viewers for the season.
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Showtime at the Apollo, a syndicated variety show that ran from 1987-2008, will be reborn as a two-hour Fox special airing Monday, December 5 with Steve Harvey as host. Harvey, who launched his career at the legendary Apollo theater, will also host a second special set to air in early 2017. Writer/producer Reginald Hudlin with exec produce and serve as showrunner, while the show’s original exec producer and director, Don Weiner, will man those roles for the special.
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Dominican Republic variety show Bien de Bien has started airing on Television Dominicana, Sundays at 9p. The popular entertainment program combines humor and games.
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Esquire’s Joyride, featuring hosts rapper T-Pain, pro racecar driver Brian Vickers, actress Mischa Barton (The O.C.) and actor Oliver Trevena (Car Collectors New York), takes off Tuesday, November 15 at 10p. Car-obsessed hosts put their opinions and driving skills to the test each week behind the wheels of aspirational cars.
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Six NFL Rams players and their families, making the move from St. Louis to the team’s new home in LA, are the focus of E!’s new Hollywood & Football. Docu-series kicks off Wednesday, November 30 at 9p.
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TV One original movie Jean of the Joneses makes its television debut Sunday, October 23 at 7p, following a film festival run that included SXSW. “I was so fortunate to work with TV One on my first feature film,” said writer-director Stella Meghie. “I couldn’t have had a more creatively supportive team.”
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Erykah Badu will return as host for the Soul Train Awards, airing on Centric and BET Sunday, November 27 at 8p. Drake leads the pack of nominees with 12 nods, followed by 8 for Beyonce. The 2nd Annual Lady of Soul Award will be presented to Brandy.
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Destination America’s Ghostober celebration not only features programming like the Paranormal Lockdown: The Black Monk House special event on Monday, October 31 at 9p, but a live stream from Philadelphia’s Penn Museum Archives, where paranormal activity has been reported, from Friday, October 14-Sunday October 16 from 7p-8a, and DA’s first-ever podcast, Why Is This Place So Haunted, available on iTunes starting Monday, October 17. “With tricks and treats on air every night of the week, we’ll amplify the on-air frights with podcasts, live streams of haunted locations, and additional content hosted on our new blog, TheHauntist.com,” said net GM Jane Latman.
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Green team: Presenters for the Environmental Media Association’s 26th EMA Awards include Amy Smart, Ian Somerhalder, Nikki Reed, Malin Akerman, Jamie Lynn Sigler, Lance Bass, Cary Elwes, Dawn Olivieri, Ed Begley Jr., Frances Fisher, Leona Lewis, Peter Fonda and Wendie Malick, among others. Ceremony takes place Saturday, October 22 at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank.
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Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones) has joined the cast of CBS All Access’s The Good Wife spin-off, as Diane’s goddaughter. Show debuts on CBS in February before moving to the streaming service.
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Darius McCrary (Family Matters) will recur on Fox music business drama Star, opposite Queen Latifah. Series is slated for a 2017 debut.
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Caitlin Gerard (American Crime) landed a role in TNT post-Civil War drama pilot Monsters of God, from Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment.
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Frank Whaley (Luke Cage) nabbed a recurring role on season 3 of Fox’s Empire, as a right-wing blogger who’s a threat to Angelo’s political rise. Empire airs Wednesdays at 9p.
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NBC freshman This Is Us lived up to its buzz for episode three, delivering a 2.8 rating among A18-49 on Wednesday, up from 2.6 in Live+SD the week before and building on lead-in The Voice (2.6). This week the show moved from 10p to 9p.
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ABC newcomer American Housewife opened on Tuesday to 6.5 million viewers and 1.9/7 among A18-49, building on its The Middle (1.8/7) lead-in in the demo, the first new comedy of the season to do so.
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CW’s The Flash ranked third in the 8p hour on Tuesday among A18-34 (.9/4) and first among M18-34 (1.1/6). And the net expects better news to come last week’s season premiere grew by 46 percent in total viewers (4.6 million) and A18-49 (1.9) and 45 percent in A18-34 (1.6) in Live+3 viewing versus Live+SD numbers.
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Fox’s Gotham jumped 88 percent from Live+SD to Live+7 delivery for the Monday, October 3 episode, reaching 6.0 million total viewers, and had an 80 percent boost among A18-49, to 1.8.6.
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Disney Channel original movie The Swap on October 7 was the number 1 cable telecast of 3Q16 among all major youth demos, including Kids 2-11 (1.6 million/4.0 rating), kids 6-11 (1.3 million/5.5 rating) and tweens 9-14 (1.2 million/5.0 rating). The movie’s lead-out, an episode of Bizaardvark, was the number 2 cable telecast of the quarter among tweens 9-14, based on Live+3 ratings.
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The season 9 premiere of Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles outperformed the prior season premiere among all key demos, delivering 612,000 P18-49 (up 7 percent versus the prior season premiere) and 1.3 million total viewers (up 2 percent), in Live+3. The Real Housewives of New Jersey ranked as the highest rated episode of the season to-date among P25-54, earning 1.6 million in the demo (up 6 percent) and 2.6 million total viewers (up 5 percent). Manzo’d With Children hit a second consecutive season high among all key demos, delivering 690,000 P18-49 (up 21 percent versus the prior week’s episode) and 1.3million total viewers (up 6 percent).
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Oxygen’s Bad Girls Club was the highest rated episode of the season in Live+3, delivering 592,000 P18-49 (up 5 percent versus the prior week) and 858,000 total viewers.
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The season 1 finale of Star China’s Sing! China had over 47 million play times within 24 hours; in TV ratings the show had a 16 percent market share. The singing competition was number 1 in ratings on Zhejiang Satellite TV for each of its 13 episodes.
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Actress Patricia Barry died October 11. She was 93. While Barry appeared on numerous TV shows and in films, she was perhaps best known for roles on daytime soap operas including Days of Our Lives, All My Children and Guiding Light.
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BROADWAY
Heisenberg with Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt is opening on Thursday October 13, 2016.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/heisenberg/
The Cherry Orchard with Joel Grey, Diane Lane and Harold Perrineau is opening on Sunday October 16, 2016.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/the-cherry-orchard/
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