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Ratings: The Voice Dips in Demo Opposite NBA Finals, Draws Its Largest Finale Audience Ever
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NBC’s The Voice on Tuesday night wrapped Season 4 with a total audience of 15.3 million viewers — its most-watched coronation ceremony to date.
Facing off against the NBA Finals for a first time, however, its 4.3 demo rating was down 12 percent from the Season 3 finale and off a tenth from last May’s sophomore closer.
Related | Michael Slezak’s The Voice Finale Recap: They’re All Stars Tonight
Opening the Peacock’s night, America’s Got Talent (11.4 mil/2.9) dipped a tenth in the demo week-to-week.
Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance also felt the squeeze from roundball, falling 10 and 18 percent »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
Exclusive Photos: Will Defiance's (Very) White Wedding Go Off Without a Hitch?
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Syfy cordially invites you to attend the wedding of Christie McCawley and Alak Tarr, this Monday on Defiance (at 9/8c) — and in the meantime, TVLine offers an exclusive peek at the bride and groom’s big day.
Related | Syfy Renews Defiance for Season 2
Though Christie, a human, and Alak, a Castithan, are genuinely in love, their respective pops — mine baron Rafe and power-hungry Datak — probably won’t be sharing a cigar at any rehearsal dinner. The wedding episode, however, relates an interesting incident from the gents’ past, but one of several surprises that surface after Lawkeeper Nolan and his deputy »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
Eye on Emmy: Corey Stoll Votes Yea on House of Cards and the Movie-Like Netflix Experience
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While Kevin Spacey’s Frank Underwood played with people like puppets and served up savory speechifying, Corey Stoll emerged as the ace up House of Cards‘ sleeve. As Peter Russo, he played a congressman who was caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and thusly steered into a tumultuous arc, one with valleys as deep as the peaks high. Here, the actor — whose previous TV credits included NCIS, Law & Order: La and The Good Wife — hails the “embarrassment of riches” afforded him and the thrill of helping Netflix break new ground.
(Only thematic spoilers follow, for those who »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
Big Brother 15 House and New 'Twists' Revealed
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The upcoming edition of CBS’ Big Brother will place more Houseguests in “danger” while affording America the chance to imbue one with a super-secret “power” Also: another shiny new house!
In the first of the 15th edition’s two gameplay twists, instead of two Houseguests being nominated each week for eviction, three will face the (sadly proverbial) guillotine.
Related | CBS Summer Schedule: Under the Dome Drama, a Bigger Brother and Unforgettable Season 2
In the second twist, viewers will be able to vote for a weekly “Big Brother Mvp” — aka the Houseguest they feel is playing the best game. The Mvp »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
Fall TV Poll | Wednesday: Arrow Vs. Miles Matheson and Other DVR Dilemmas
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The Fall TV season will be here before you know it, and with it comes tough, new viewing choices. In fact, the time to get thinking about them is now.
Related | Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Been Cancelled?
Each day this week, TVLine will present the grid for that night’s fall line-up, including Big 5 fare and select cable listings. You then vote for what you plan to watch ”live” during each time slot.
(If you fancy yourself a DVRnista and are horribly, irrevocably hung up on my use of the word “live,” I invite you to »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
What to Watch Tonight: Franklin & Bash Is Back, Shatner Live in Cleveland, Futurama and More
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On TV this Wednesday: Franklin & Bash are Locklear and loaded, William Shatner helps Hot in Cleveland boldly go where 30 Rock has gone before, The Exes get buzzed and Futurama launches its final missions. Here are 10 programs to keep on your radar.
8 pm MasterChef (Fox) | After the contestants cook for the cast and crew of Glee, then stars Jane Lynch, Cory Monteith and Matthew Morrison help choose the winning team.
8:30 pm Baby Daddy (ABC Family) | Dr. Shaw determines Riley is the cause of Danny’s inability to focus on the ice and bans her from the next game.
Related | Cable »
- Kimberly Roots
The Voice Season 4 Finale Recap: They're All Stars Tonight [Updated]
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If I were back in Catholic grade school, I suspect Sister Mary Rita would’ve kept me after class and sentenced me to a half hour at the chalkboard this afternoon, writing: “It does not matter who wins Season 4 of The Voice. It does not matter who wins Season 4 of The Voice. It does not matter who wins Season 4 of The Voice.”
And Sister Rita, smart cookie that she was, would’ve had a point. After Monday night’s Live Finals, the Top 3 acts — Michelle Chamuel, Danielle Bradbery and The Swon Brothers — all managed to land two songs apiece in the iTunes Top 10 Singles chart. »
- Michael Slezak
The Voice: Season 4′s 25 Best Performances!
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Doesn’t it seem like just yesterday that The Voice kicked off Season 4 with the addition of Shakira and Usher, the absence of Xtina and Cee Lo and a new crop of contenders angling for Cassadee Pope’s place on the Iron Throne Swivel-Chair Throne?
And yet, here we are on finale night, waiting to hear whether the crown will rest on the head of Michelle Chamuel, Danielle Bradbery or The Swon Brothers.
Related | The Voice Season 4 ‘Live Finals’ Recap: Who Should (and Will) Win It All?
To make it this far in the competition, all three acts had to outlast a very, »
- Michael Slezak
Liv Tyler Cast in HBO Drama Pilot The Leftovers
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Liv Tyler has booked her first TV gig.
The Lord of the Rings actress has joined the cast of The Leftovers, an HBO drama pilot from Lost cocreator Damon Lindelof, our sister site Deadline reports.
Related | 2013 Cable TV Renewal Scorecard — Renewed or Cancelled TV Shows?
Based on Tom Perrotta’s book, the project is set after the Rapture and tells the story of those folks who didn’t quite make the cut.
Justin Theroux (Six Feet Under, Sex and the City) stars as police chief Kevin Garvey, a father of two who is trying to maintain some semblance of normalcy »
- Vlada Gelman
General Hospital Puts Tyler Christopher on Contract — A Bad Sign for The Lying Game?
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Tyler Christopher has been put on contract at ABC’s General Hospital, where earlier this year he returned to the role of soulful prince Nikolas Cassadine — and thus a darker cloud now looms over ABC Family’s on-the-bubble The Lying Game.
“It took us a few months to work out the details, but I signed last week,” Christopher told Soap Opera Digest of his new Gh status. “I love the show and I’m having a great time.”
Related | 2013 Cable TV Renewal Scorecard — Renewed or Cancelled TV Shows?
Alas, a steadier presence on the daytime drama would seem to allow »
- Megan Masters
TVLine Items: Doctor Who Star Books Death-ly Role, Ray Donovan Premiere Video and More
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Doctor Who dame Jenna-Louise Coleman has joined BBC One’s upcoming Pride and Prejudice-based project Death Comes To Pemberley.
Related | Doctor Who‘s 50th’s Anniversary Special: Why John Barrowman Won’t Appear
Based on the suspense novel by P.D. James, the serial — which is timed to P and P‘s 200th anniversary — centers on three of author Jane Austen’s iconic characters: Mr. Darcy (played by Matthew Rhys) Elizabeth Bennet (Anna Maxwell Martin) and George Wickham (Matthew Goode).
Coleman joins Pemberley as Elizabeth’s sister and George’s wife Lydia.
Ready for more of today’s TV dish? »
- Megan Masters
Ratings: Bachelorette and Mistresses Hit Lows
18 June 2013 8:56 AM, PDT
ABC’s The Bachelorette this Monday drew 5.4 million total viewers and a 1.6 rating, slipping 6 percent and two tenths (to a season-low demo).
Mistresses led out of that with 3.8 mil/1.2, down 10 percent and two tenths, tying its lowest rating to date.
Related | Mistresses Recap: Yikes! Someone Actually Said, ‘The Worst Is Over’
Over on NBC, The Voice did 12.3 mil and a 3.5, ticking up week-to-week but down in the demo from its previous two final sing-offs (13.2 mil/4.2 last December, 10.7 mil/3.8 in May 2012). (Read Slezak’s recap.)
Related | Fall TV Poll, Monday: Rick Castle Vs. James Spader and Other DVR Dilemmas
Fox’s »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
Steve Carell Admits His Office Finale Sin: 'I Lied'
18 June 2013 8:31 AM, PDT
Michael Scott’s involvement in The Office finale’s “best prank ever” was such a success because no one knew it was coming. And for that to happen, returning star Steve Carell says, he had to flat-out fib.
A lot.
“I lied,” Carell tells TVLine. “I lied for months to the press, to almost everyone, really. And I felt terribly for the cast and for [executive producer] Greg Daniels, because they all lied, too.”
The actor, who can next be heard in the animated film Despicable Me 2, »
- Kimberly Roots
Eye on Emmy: Southland's Michael Cudlitz on Cooper's Journey and That Killer (?) Ending
18 June 2013 8:00 AM, PDT
For five seasons, Southland cop John Cooper served the streets of Los Angeles — and his portrayer, Michael Cudlitz, served viewers with a riveting performance.
After watching the officer in blue struggle with his sexuality, prescription drug abuse for his ailing back and troublesome rookies, it’s truly a crime that Cudlitz has not yet been recognized with an Emmy nomination for Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. But perhaps that will change this year, as the TNT series wrapped its run with John Cooper’s biggest season yet.
Related | Emmys 2013: The Supporting Drama Actor Race in Review, Including Our 6 Dream Nominees
Tvline | Every year, »
- Vlada Gelman
Anger Management: Could Charlie Sheen's Clash With a Co-star Derail Its 90-Episode Run?
18 June 2013 7:49 AM, PDT
FX insisted at this past winter’s Television Critics Association press tour that nothing, save for major holidays and sporting events, would interrupt Anger Management‘s 90 episodes-over-two years sophomore run.
But then Charlie Sheen had a squabble with co-star Selma Blair.
Upon returning from a production hiatus and amid depressed ratings (cue Monday-night showcase on mothership Fox), Blair openly complained about Sheen’s work ethic (or lack thereof), TMZ reported. After Sheen got wind of the criticism, he allegedly fired the actress and refused to shoot if she showed up for work. »
- Rebecca Iannucci
Fall TV Poll | Tuesday: NCIS Vs. Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Other DVR Dilemmas
18 June 2013 6:46 AM, PDT
The Fall TV season will be here before you know it, and with it comes tough, new viewing choices. In fact, the time to get thinking about them is now.
Related | Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Been Cancelled?
Each day this week, TVLine will present the grid for that night’s fall line-up, including Big 5 fare and select cable listings. You then vote for what you plan to watch ”live” during each time slot.
(If you fancy yourself a DVRnista and are horribly, irrevocably hung up on my use of the word “live,” I invite you to »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
What to Watch Tuesday: Voice Champ Is Crowned, Liars Bird Flips, Sex Education and More
18 June 2013 4:00 AM, PDT
On TV this Tuesday: America picks which Voice it most wants to hear, a little birdie tells Pretty Little Liars something crucial, American Restoration bats a hundred and Awkward relives a bunch of uncomfortable moments. Here are 10 programs to keep on your radar.
8 pm So You Think You Can Dance (Fox) | The Top 20 dancers are revealed.
8 pm Sex: How It Works (NatGeo) | This special promises to teach “anything and everything you’ve ever wondered about sex” through “real-life stories and simulations.” How very bow-chicka-wow-wow of you, NatGeo.
8 pm Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family) | The latest move by “A” creates a ton of trouble for Emily, »
- Kimberly Roots
Mistresses Recap: Yikes! Someone Actually Said, 'The Worst Is Over'
17 June 2013 8:07 PM, PDT
Like the living-room toilet at the center of the house Joss was tasked with selling, Mistresses continues to be impractical, unneccessary, inappropriate and unrelentingly ridiculous — and I mean that in the most flattering way possible.
This week’s installment features sexually charged boss-employee banter, an unexpected (unwelcome?) pregnancy, and everything you ever needed to file a malpractice suit (but were afraid to confirm about your shrink).
So let’s boil down the action for our quartet of protagonists — while raising pertinent questions we’ll need to see answered in their futures:
Savi | We kick things off with Savi in a »
- Michael Slezak
Report: The Client List Renewal Held Up By Backstage Debate Over Baby-Daddy Drama
17 June 2013 7:36 PM, PDT
The Client List‘s renewal process seems to be at a pregnant pause.
Star Jennifer Love Hewitt, who is expecting a child with co-star and fiancé Brian Hallisay near the end of the year, reportedly wants her real-life baby daddy to play her fictional one on the Lifetime drama.
But here’s the rub of Sugarland: Both the network and the show’s higher-ups haven’t decided how to handle her character’s on-screen pregnancy in the upcoming third season.
Related | Scoop: Billy Campbell and Clea Duvall Join Lifetime’s Lizzy Borden Movie
Per Deadline, neither party is inclined to »
- Kimberly Roots
The Voice Season 4 'Live Finals' Recap: Who Should (and Will) Win It All? [Updated]
17 June 2013 7:26 PM, PDT
The battle lines have all been drawn and the fandoms have been essentially locked in for several weeks now on Season 4 of The Voice. So the question entering tonight’s Live Finals was this: Would (or could) any voters be swayed to switch allegiance?
The question exiting it, though, was quite different: Why did one of the three competing acts get a hefty advantage by scoring two out of the last three solo performance slots on the telecast? (Spoiler alert: It wasn’t The Swon Brothers or a member of Team Usher.)
Look, I know Danielle Bradbery is as easy »
- Michael Slezak
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