DAVID WIEGAND
On TV Get out your spangles and cowboy hats as CMT hosts the “CMT Music Awards” at 8 p.m. The show will be hosted by Charles Esten. Jimmy Kimmel will again take to ABC with “Jimmy Kimmel Live” at 11:30 p.m. after the third game between the Cavs and the Dubs at 6 p.m. from Cleveland. Lifetime expands its “Little Women” franchise with “Little Women Atlanta,” airing at 10:02 p.m. TV NEWS
AMC’s premium streaming service, Shudder, concentrating on thrillers, horror and suspense, is jumping into original content with its first programming schedule, beginning on Thursday, June 8, with the horror docuseries “Primal Screen” from Rodney Ascher (“Room 237”).
Also in development are a number of other projects, including “Riprore,” a murder mystery with a supernatural twist, set in the middle of L.A. gang territory. Sam Sheridan is developing the show, with Patty
Jenkins attached — not just to the show: She and Sheridan are married. Jenkins just shattered a big glass ceiling in Hollywood by
becoming the first woman to direct a film that made more than $100 million in its opening weekend. The film is “Wonder Woman.”
Also on the runway: “Deadwax,” from Graham Reznick, about the search for a record that drives whoever has it crazy.; “The Blondes,” based on the novel by Emily Schulz, about a woman trying to find the father of her unborn child in a world where blonde women can turn into monsters at any moment; and an untitled Arkasha
Stevenson project about a serial killer loosely based on Ted Bundy and his girlfriend.
Shudder is a subscription service that streams on the Web, iOS, Android, Chromecast, Apple TV and Roku. For information, go to www.shudder.com.
Comedy Central has hired Roy Wood Jr. to be the host of “This Is Not
Happening,” the comedy storytelling show created by Ari Shaffir, Sam
Saifer and Eric Adams, and previously hosted by Shaffir. The fourth season, premiering in the fall, will include guests Sandra Bernhard, Louie Anderson, Tommy Chong, Al Madrigal,
Howie Mandel and others. Seems like old times: Leah Remini, who guested on “Kevin Can Wait” in its first season, proved such a ratings bonanza for the CBS show that she will join the Kevin James comedy as a regular cast member in its second season. The two shared the lens in the sitcom “King of Queens.” “Kevin Can Wait” ended its first season as broadcast television’s top-rated comedy. David Wiegand is an assistant managing editor and the TV critic of The San Francisco Chronicle. Follow him on Facebook. Email: dwiegand@ sfchronicle.com Twitter: @WaitWhat_TV