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A&E: The First 48: Teens On The Edge (Premiere) at 8pm
LIFETIME: Dance Moms (Premiere) at 9pm
USA: The Radkes (Premiere) at 11pm
FOX: MasterChef (Finale) at 8pm
TBS: The Last O.G. (Finale) at 10:30pm
TLC: Little People, Big World (Finale) at 9pm
VICELAND: Bong Appetit (Finale) at 9pm
Jeopardy! On Monday’s episode of Jeopardy!, professional sports bettor James Holzhauer’s incredible run ended with his 33rd game and total winnings of $2,462,216, just $58,484 shy of Ken Jennings’ record haul. But Holzhauer left having set records of his own, including an average $77,000 in winnings per game and the most money won in one episode. Emma Boettcher, a University of Chicago librarian, brought Holzauer’s streak to an end. “I lost to a really top-level competitor,” Holzhauer told the NY Times. “She played a perfect game. And that was what it took to beat me.”
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Vice News is ramping up its digital news division ahead of the 2020 election, part of Vice Media CEO Nancy Dubuc’s plan to focus on five core business areas: news, TV, digital, studio production and agency Virtue. In a memo to staff, editor-in-chief Ryan McCarthy said Vice News hired seven people, and is looking for two more. The company laid off about 10% of its workforce earlier this year.
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Original Suits star Patrick J. Adams will return for at least one episode of the USA drama’s ninth and final season, an assignment he’ll juggle along with playing John Glenn in Nat Geo’s upcoming The Right Stuff. Adams left Suits at the conclusion of season seven, when he and Meghan Markle’s character got married.
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Nickelodeon is bringing UK hit game show The Crystal Maze to the U.S. in a version co-produced by Bunim/Murray Productions (The Real World) and RDF Television (Wife Swap), under the Banijay Group. A forerunner to the escape room craze, The Crystal Maze challenges a family team to navigate an elaborate labyrinth of four giant and immersive themed zones.
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The CW is adding to its summer slate with Two Sentence Horror Stories, launching Thursday, August 8 at 8p. Anthology series was inspired by viral fan fiction. Previously announced sci-fi action series Pandora premieres Tuesday, July 9 at 8p, while action thriller Bulletproof launches Sunday, July 28 at 8p. Remaining summer premiere dates include Wednesday, August 7 for comedy game show Hypnotize Me; Tuesday, August 13 for investigative documentary series Mysteries Decoded; and Monday, August 19 for season two of CW Seed musical comedy I Ship It. Extreme sports docu-series Red Bull Peaking debuts Friday, Septemjber 13. The net also set series finale dates for Jane the Virgin (Wednesday, July 31) and iZombie (Thursday, August 1).
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NBCUniversal streaming service bluprint has three shows launching in June: He Sewed She Sewed (Thursday, June 6) following sewing stars and fashion influencers Mimi G and Norris “Dope Man Sew” Danta Ford; DIY Spa Day (Monday, June 24) with beauty guru Shiva Rose; and season two of Re: Fashion (Wednesday, June 26 on the Bluprint app, and July 5 sitewide).
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Amazon’s Carnival Row premieres August 30. Eight-part fantasy drama stars Orlando Bloom (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Cara Delavingne (Suicide Squad).
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Among the announcements at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday: AppleTV will be compatible with Xbox One and Playstation Dualshock controllers, so they can be used with Apple’s upcoming gaming service; users in a family will each be able to have their own profile on AppleTV for recommendations; iTunes is being replaced after 18 years by three separate apps, Apple Music, Apple TV and Apple Podcasts; iPhones, iPads and the iPod touch will have an optional dark mode in iOS 13; a new login platform, Sign in with Apple, will allow users to log in to outside apps with FaceID; and the Mac Pro desktop is returning to its traditional tower shape.
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In honor of Black Music Month, REVOLT will be unveiling new series as well as new episodes of shows, concert specials, documentaries, curated music video shows, and other specials on television, as well as new episodes of the net’s original digital-exclusive shows. Tomorrow, June 5 at 10p, brings a special presentation of She Got Next, spotlighting female artists.
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Tracy Morgan (The Last O.G.) will host ABC’s The 2019 ESPYS Presented by Capital One on Wednesday, July 10 at 8p. “I am very excited to be hosting The ESPYS,” said Morgan. “I hope my Uncle Sidney Poitier is there with my biological father Tony Dorsett and my second cousin Herschel Walker. And Bo Jackson I want my two dollars back!”
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Toby Keith and Cole Swindell have been added to the performance lineup for the CMT Music Awards. Live telecast airs Wednesday, June 5 at 8p.
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Showtime will air new documentary 100%: Julian Edelman on Friday, June 28 at 9p. Film looks at Edelman’s underdog journey from major injury and NFL suspension to Super Bowl MVP.
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TV One will air original movies every Sunday night in July with the theme, “Love, Lies Murder.” The first in the series of stories that explore the dark side of love is Sins of the Father, debuting Sunday, July 7 at 8p.
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Movie The Legend of 5 Mile Cave makes its TV premiere on INSP on Sunday, June 9 at 8p.
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Sex and the City alum Kim Cattrall, who is starring in Fox drama Filthy Rich, also landed a role in UKTV’s three-episode comedy, The Cockfields….Melanie Field (Heathers) has been set as a series regular in TNT’s The Alienist sequel, The Angel of Darkness.
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Discovery’s ratings highlights for the month of May include year-over-year growth for Discovery Channel across five nights of the week among A25-54 viewers; HGTV again claimed the #1 spot for upscale W25-54 on Weekends and ranked at #3 in Prime for upscale W25-54; Food Network ranked #8 in Prime and #4 in Total Day for the month among W25-54; TLC had its best May performance among A/W25-54 in 16 years and ranked #1 on Sunday nights; ID again captured the #1 spot in Total Day and ranked #10 in Prime for W25-54; OWN’s The Haves & The Have Nots and If Loving You Is Wrong were the top 2 original scripted series on ad-supported cable among W25-54; Animal Planet posted Prime ratings gains in May, up 6% among W25-54 and up 5% among P2+ over last year; In Prime, Travel Channel had its highest-rated May ever among A25-54 and W25-54; Science Channel had its highest-rated May ever among A25-54 in both Prime and Total Day; and Cooking Channel had its highest-rated May ever, with A25-54 ratings up 18% over last year.
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HGTV’s Property Brothers: Forever Home delivered the highest-rated series premiere for the network since March 2017, garnering a .84 Live+3 rating among P25-54 on Wednesday, May 29, in the 9-10p timeslot. The P25-54 rating was a 56% increase in that period over the prior six weeks.
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The two-hour finale of Univision’s Pequeños Gigantes on Sunday reached 4.3 million Total Viewers 2+ who tuned in for all or part of the program, and averaged 1.9 million Total Viewers 2+, 673,000 A18-49 and 266,000 A18-34 on Sunday night.
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Cinelatino boasts its U.S. television premiere of Mexican blockbuster No Manches Frida on Sunday, May 26, pushed the network to the number one spot among all Spanish-language entertainment cable networks for that date. Among P2+, the film drew 302,000 total viewers during the 9p and 11p airings.
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