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Euro 2016: ITV Scores Record Ratings With England V Russia, But Violence Mars Marseille Match

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England’s 1-1 draw versus Russia on Day Two of the Euro 2016 soccer championship gave ITV the biggest television audience for any program in the UK this year. The match at Marseille’s Vélodrome stadium peaked with 14.1M viewers and an average 12.9M. Overall coverage began at 7PM local and drew a 43 share across 3.5 hours. Ratings were also strong in host country, France, as well as in other major soccer territories Germany and Spain. But the play was marred by violent… Read

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UTA Signs Ai Weiwei As Artist Mobilizes Global Refugee Crisis Docu ‘The Human Flow’

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UTA has signed Beijing-born artist and social activist Ai Weiwei. Among the creative initiatives the agency will assist in is to help with the financing and distribution strategy of The Human Flow, the tentative title of a feature documentary about the global refugee crisis that Weiwei is shooting in France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and locations in Africa. This is the first time Weiwei has signed with a Hollywood agency and he will be repped by a… Read

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Dominic Purcell Reveals Details About His ‘Prison Break’ Accident & His Return To Work, Sheds Light On Plot Of Fox Reboot

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Prison Break star Dominic Purcell on Saturday night made his first public appearance since he was seriously hurt in an accident on the set of the new event-series installment of the Fox drama in Morocco on May 30. Deadline spoke with the Aussie actor at the party for the US launch of Bausele — the Australia's first luxury watch company — for which he’s the Global Ambassador. Purcell, who was joined tonight by his girlfriend, actress AnnaLynne McCord, suffered a broken… Read

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‘Once Upon A Time’ Creators Talk Back To Basics Approach For Season 6 — ATX Television Festival

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The creators of Once Upon A Time brought their new show Dead Of Summer to the ATX Television Fest, but the biggest news to come out of the panel – hints on what’s to come on next season on OUAT. “This season is going to be different than the past seasons,” Creator/EP Edward Kitsis told the crowd. “It’s not going to be ‘Hyde comes to town, we fight with him for 10 episodes, and then the winter finale he dies, we move on.’ We kind of changed around what we're doing this… Read

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‘Ugly Betty’ Cast Reunion Sparks Calls For Show Revival – ATX TV Festival

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America Ferrera had the crowd erupting in cheers when she joked during a show reunion at ATX about "Hulu picking [Ugly Betty] back up for a two-hour special." To the crowd’s disappointment, Ferrera admitted it was a gag, but she did end up urging the crowd to start a Twitter campaign to make that joke a reality. After struggling to figure out a hashtag, Ferrera, along with the rest of the cast assembled on the stage, urged fans to tweet Hulu with the hashtag… Read

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TV Execs & Producers Talk the Risks & Benefits Of Peak TV, Competing With HBO & Netflix– ATX Television Festival

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FX boss John Langraff coined the term Peak TV, referring to the extraordinary amount of original programing across traditional networks and streaming  platforms, including Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, that saturated the market with more than 400 scripted television shows last year. Not all are suffering with the abundance of scripted television. Writers benefit greatly from the growth the new landscape. “10- 15 years ago if you didn't staff in May to start work in June you… Read

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‘The Shield’ Writers Talk Where Vic Is Now & Look Back On the Series That “Broke Rules” – ATX TV Festival

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Eight years after the end of FX’s ground-breaking drama The Shield, the bulk of its key writers reunited at the ATX TV Festival in Austin Saturday. There was no talk of doing a revival, but creator Shawn Ryan indicated that he had ideas for a potential followup featuring The Shield‘s lead character Vic Mackey. "I have some ideas where Vic Mackey is, but I don't know where Vic Mackey is until someone puts me in a writers' room with a group of these people and some people… Read

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‘Westworld’ EPs Talk ‘Game Of Thrones’ Influences, Robots & Lack Of Diversity In Westerns – ATX Television Festival

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A lot is riding on the upcoming HBO drama Westworld. The sprawling sci-fi western inspired by the 1973 film comes from top auspices, writers/executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy and executive producer J.J. Abrams. It is set to premiere in the fall after a production shutdown in January to work on the final scripts and following the disappointing debut of another high-profile new HBO drama, Vinyl.  Westworld, which stars big names such as Anthony Hopkins, James… Read

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‘The West Wing’ Creator Aaron Sorkin On Leaving NBC Show That Almost Didn’t Happen, Larry David’s Advice & More – ATX Television Festival

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“No human being will ever again write 22 one hour episodes for four years. Beautifully written, complicated verbally, complicated personally, funny, about something [episodes]. That's 11 feature films a years. It is extraordinary and will never never happen again.” So said Bradley Whitford about The West Wing Creator and EP Aaron Sorkin today during an ATX panel looking back at the series 10 years after it ended. Both men were joined on stage by Director/EP Thomas… Read

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‘Nashville’: ABCS Chief On Finding New Home For Canceled Drama: “Economics Were Tight” – ATX Television Festival

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Nashville beat the odds, becoming a rare canceled broadcast series to find a second life on cable. A day after CMT announced that it has picked up a fifth season of the country music drama series, from Lionsgate and ABC Studios, ABCS EVP Patrick Moran talked about the deal during the Peak TV panel at the ATX Television Festival in Austin, TX. “There are a lot of people that spend a lot of time looking at the economics of these shows,” he said. “It's a giant puzzle that… Read

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‘The Voice’ Finalist Christina Grimmie Killed At Florida Concert, Police Identify Shooter – Update

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UPDATED 2:03 PM Orlando Police have identified Grimmie’s killer as 27 year old Kevin James Loibl, posting the information to the department’s official Twitter account. UPDATE 8:05 AM WITH POLICE CONFERENCE Orlando Police Chief John Mina told reporters this morning that the 27-year-old male suspected of killing Christina Grimmie was a Florida resident who traveled within the state to Orlando with the intent of murdering the former Voice contestant. Asked by a reporter… Read

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Tribune Stations Could Go Dark On Dish Sunday Amidst Carriage Dispute

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UPDATED 1:34 PM WITH DISH RESPONSE Tribune Broadcasting’s television stations are warning Dish subscribers that they may lose local news, traffic, weather, sports and entertainment programming provided by Tribune’s 42 television stations at 7 pm ET Sunday when the contract between Tribune Broadcasting and Dish expires. According to Tribune, the interruption could hit more than 50 million households in 33 markets across the United States, including such major markets as… Read

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