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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 2/5/13)
NBC: Betty White’s 2nd Annual 90th Birthday Special at 8pm
NBC: Smash (Premiere) at 9pm
SCIENCE: Strip The City (Premiere) at 9pm
BIO: Monstresses (Premiere) at 10pm
COMEDY: Tosh.o (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: Pioneers of Television (Finale) at 8pm
CW: Emily Owens, M.D. (Finale) at 9pm
DESTINATION AMERICA: Ghost Town Gold (Finale) at 10pm
Following the ratings smash that was Sunday night’s Super Bowl XLVII on CBS Sunday night, freshman drama Elementary delivered 20.8 million total viewers and posted a 7.8 rating among A18-49 viewers as well as an 8.3 rating with A25-54. This is a definite downturn in post-Super Bowl programming ratings: last year’s NBC broadcast of The Voice, for example, pulled in 37.6 million total viewers. The low numbers could be due, in part, to the 34-minute mid-game blackout that pushed the start of Elementary into the 11p hour. However, CBS also reports that The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson Super Bowl Special delivered the program’s second-largest audience ever, with a 1.7 among A18-49 and 4.43 million total viewers.
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Going head-to-head against the Super Bowl, PBS and WGBH announced Downton Abbey, Season 3 on MASTERPIECE CLASSIC was #2 behind the Super Bowl with a 4.4 HH rating, based on Nielsen overnights data and 6.6 million total viewers per Nielsen Fast National data. So far this third season, Downton Abbey has averaged +72% above the first five episodes of season 2. Downton Abbey is a Carnival/MASTERPIECE co-production.
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ABC revealed the final two celebrity contestants joining the cast of its upcoming diving competition series Splash. NBA star and author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and extreme skier Rory Bushfield now link up with previously-announced cast members Louie Anderson, Drake Bell, Chuy Bravo, Nicole Eggert, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Ndamukong Suh, Katherine Webb and Kendra Wilkinson. The ten celebrities will train and complete in various diving exercises in front of a live audience. Splash is from Eyeworks USA and debuts on ABC March 19 at 8p.
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A new six-part series on Discovery Channel explores the world of marijuana growers and dealers when Weed Country opens February 20 at 10p. The series travels to the border area of Northern California and Oregon known as the Emerald Triangle where marijuana flourishes and the business is cutthroat. Weed Country is produced by All3Media America.
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Last Friday TV One’s original series Unsung was honored with its third consecutive Outstanding News/Information (Series or Special) at the 44th annual NAACP Image Awards Ceremony in Los Angeles. The NAACP Image Awards aired on NBC on Friday and the two-hour awards show will re-air on TV One this Saturday at 8p. Unsung is narrated by Gary Anthony Williams and is executive produced by Arthur Smith, Kent Weed and Frank Sinton of A. Smith & Co. Production for TV One. Mark Rowland is also Co-EP.
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Due to viewer success from season one HGTV has bumped up the second season schedule of Flea Market Flip to debut sooner than expected on March 15 at 9p. During its first season more than 12.8 million total viewers watched as two teams of flea market finders battled against each other for $5,000. Good Morning America’s co-host and author Lara Spencer hosts Flea Market Flip.
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Fans of MTV’s Teen Mom 2 won’t have to wait much longer as a two-hour reunion special featuring Dr. Drew Pinsky airs on February 11 at 9p, sandwiched between the season three finale that aired on Monday and the season four debut on February 18 at 10p.
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Daytime talk show The Ricki Lake Show from Twentieth Television will not be renewed for the 2013-14 season. Original episodes will continue to air until the end of the season. Twentieth Television’s EVP/Programming and Development Stephen Brown released this statement yesterday: “While we are proud of the topics the program tackled including childhood obesity, life-after the military, divorce, and addiction, we were simply not able to break through the crowded talk show marketplace.” Host Ricki Lake added, “I will continue to be an active and passionate voice for subjects that are close to my heart through a variety of platforms — and a return to my documentary filmmaking work with Abby Epstein.”
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Wendy Williams Hunter and her manager Kevin Hunter have formed Wendy Williams Productions (WWP), specializing in non-fiction programming and additionally tapped veteran producer Lisa Knapp as SVP/Development. WWP will focus on the development and production of reality, game and talk shows for the cable and broadcast markets. Williams will be an EP on the projects and may appear on-camera in some. Williams is also the current host and EP of daily talker The Wendy Williams Show produced and distributed by Debmar-Mercury. In her new role, Knapp will head all development and production for WWP as well as strategic vision for the company. She will be based at the Los Angeles offices of Debmar-Mercury which will also be a partner in the new company. Previously, Knapp managed development at 44 Blue Productions from 2008-10, overseeing reality projects for such networks as VH1, Bravo, truTV and Spike. Furthermore, Jill Ramsey will become VP of WWP where she will supervise the daily operations of the company.
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