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Looking to capitalize on its Olympics audience, NBC squeezed this show into its Friday lineup during the last week of the Games:
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America's Got Talent
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Blacklist
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Chicago Accountants
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The Voice
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If you guessed that the Peacock positioned The Voice to be it's Olympics lead-out, you're right. You're even more right if you know this unusual fact about new judge Alicia Keys:
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She is not wearing makeup on the show
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She once competed on the UK version of the show
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She used to date former judge Cee Lo Green
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She originally wrote the show's theme music
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And speaking of Rio, holy heck broke out on the set when this TV news figure suggested that partially-disgraced King-of-the-Bros Ryan Lochte lied:
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Charlie Rose
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Matt Lauer
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Al Roker
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Barbara Walters
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Fans in the band's native land at _________ flocked to the concert venue or their televisions to enjoy the farewell concert for The Tragically Hip, whose lead singer is dying from brain cancer:
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Australia
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Canada
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England
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Germany
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Rats. RIP to one Donna Wold, who was the real-life inspiration for this comic book figure:
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Little Orphan Annie
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The Peanut's Little Red-Haired Girl
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Veronica from the Archie comics
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April from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Props to this former Disney channel star, who came out as bisexual with a post of her kissing her girlfriend:
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Zendaya
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Bridgit Mendler
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Selena Gomez
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Bella Thorne
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The BBC thumbed through their rolodexes and contact lists and talked to lots and lots of critics, who collectively declared this to be the greatest movie of the 21st century so far:
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Lincoln
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Jurassic World
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Mulholland Drive
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The Dark Knight
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When it's not the BBC, we tend to get all of our entertainment news from Forbes, naturally. The journalism entity crunched the numbers and said that this dude is currently Hollywood's highest paid actor:
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The Rock
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Brad Pitt
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Tom Cruise
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Jason Statham
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Meanwhile, among the ladies, she is the highest-earner. Perhaps you have heard of her:
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Julia Roberts
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Jennifer Lawrence
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Angelina Jolie
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Scarlett Johansson
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If you think veteran actor Steven Hill looked good for a 94 year old, you're right - until he died this week. You'll most likely remember Hill as a mainstay from:
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NCIS
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Law and Order
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The Office
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Everybody Loves Raymond
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