TMZ reports that former Atlantan and current "SNL" vet Kenan Thompson had a baby with his wife Christina Evangeline over the weekend and named her Georgia in honor of his home state. Awww...
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Credit: Rodney Ho
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Part-time Atlantan Steve Harvey won Daytime Emmys for outstanding game show host for "Family Feud" (shot in Atlanta) and outstanding information talks how for syndication with "Steve Harvey." The show wasn't televised and he didn't show up for the live-stream only telecast to pick up his Emmys.
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Credit: Rodney Ho
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Former Atlantan Chandler Massey won for best younger actor again in the Daytime Emmys. But they accidentally showed a clip of his replacement on "Days of Our LIves" Guy Wilson. Oops.
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AMC recently renewed its freshman show "Turn" but the chances of "Halt & Catch Fire" returning for a second season look grim, based on the ratings. The show, shot in Atlanta but set in Dallas circa 1983, hasn't been able to pull in 1 million viewers since its opening week and its 18-49 numbers are grim.
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Credit: Rodney Ho
Atlanta-based TNT executives should be happy with the ratings of "The Last Ship" last night, which opened at a promising 5.3 million viewers with a good swath of younger people checking it out, too. With the repeat later that night, it drew more than 7.3 million total viewers and DVR usage will boost those numbers as well.
It was the biggest opening for any basic cable drama this year.
Now TNT will have to see if it can hold those numbers in coming weeks. If so, TNT has itself a real hit on its hands.
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Georgia's own "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" opened season four with 1.73 million viewers, its worst to date. Season 1 opened at 2.25 million. Season two peaked at 2.86 million and last season drew 2.07 million viewers. In other words, interest in this family is waning.
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"Seinfeld" debuted nearly 25 years ago so Atlanta's TBS will be airing what it considers the 25 best episodes next week.
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About 18.2 million Americans tuned into last night's World Cup match between the U.S. and Portugal, the most ever for a soccer match.
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Georgia Tech has teamed up with CNN to study the use of drones for journalistic purposes. Staffed by senior members of CNN's newsgathering team and researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, they will share the project's findings with the FAA.
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