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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 12/4/13)
NBC: Christmas in Rockefeller Center (Premiere) at 7pm
DIY: Buying And Selling (Premiere) at 9pm
ESQUIRE: On The Table With Eric Ripert (Premiere) at 8pm
FUSE: Warped Roadies (Premiere) at 11pm
HBO: State of Play (Premiere) at 9pm
OXYGEN: Best Ink (Premiere) at 10pm
SYFY: Killer Contact (Premiere) at 10pm
TNT: Mob City (Premiere) at 9pm
TRAVEL: Sturgis Raw (Premiere) at 9pm
TV LAND: Kirstie (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: Hoarding: Buried Alive (Finale) at 10pm
NBC is counting on its hit freshman drama, The Blacklist, to keep going strong – the net issued a full season two pickup the morning after the show’s fall finale on Monday. “The success of The Blacklist demonstrates that inspired storytelling is alive and well in broadcast television,” said NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt. Blacklist, NBC’s most-watched new drama in 19 years, returns with new episodes January 13 at 10p.
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FX Productions signed an overall deal with Louis CK and his company Pig Newton to develop and produce new series for FX. “Working with Louis C.K. has been one of the most rewarding and enjoyable experiences of my career,” said FX Networks and FX Productions CEO John Landgraf. The comedian’s comedy Louie, launching its fourth season in May 2014, landed FX its first Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy nom this year.
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Ryan Murphy, co-creator of Glee, revealed via Twitter that there could be quite a few familiar faces on the show’s upcoming 100th installment. “ALL the Glee Originals received invites today to be in our 100th episode!” Murphy tweeted on Tuesday. The milestone ep of the music series airs Tuesday, March 18 at 8p.
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Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, aka 1990s MTV VJ Kennedy, will co-host a show on Fox Business Network, where she was hired last year as a correspondent on talk show Stossel. The Independents will run Monday-Wednesday and on Fridays at 9p, starting December 9. FBN has been making waves lately, recently luring Maria Bartiromo from her long-time perch at CNBC.
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TV shows nominated for the Producers Guild of America awards include Breaking Bad (AMC), Downton Abbey (ITV/PBS), Game of Thrones (HBO), Homeland (Showtime) and House of Cards (Netflix) for drama, and 30 Rock (NBC), Arrested Development (Netflix; pending eligibility), The Big Bang Theory (CBS), Modern Family (ABC) and VEEP (HBO) for comedy. Awards will be handed out for these categories, as well as competition television, entertainment & talk, non-fiction (A&E‘s Duck Dynasty got a nod), sports, children’s and digital, in January.
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Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers of Shondaland will be honored with The Directors Guild of America’s 2014 Diversity Award at the DGA Awards on Saturday, January 25. The award, for people making a difference by hiring women and minorities, has only been given out four times in the past.
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To fill its The Voice void Monday nights, NBC is slotting two-hour American Ninja Warrior special, “U.S vs. Japan,” on January 13 at 8p, followed by two-hour editions of Hollywood Game Night on January 20 and 27. A one-hour Game Night on February 3 will get a two-hour Sports Illustrated “swimsuit edition special” chaser.
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Netflix is debuting its first original series for kids, DreamWorks Animation‘s Turbo FAST, on Tuesday, December 24. Five episodes will be available for streaming, with more premiering over 2014.
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Showtime is bringing back Inside Comedy for a third season. Jimmy Fallon, Bette Midler and Dick Van Dyke are among those who will be featured in the docu-series from Steve Carell‘s Carousel Productions, premiering Sunday, February 2 at 11p.
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Season 29 of MTV‘s Real World, dubbed Real World Ex-Plosion, debuts with seven single strangers. In a few weeks, they get more than they’d bargained for when the group is joined by the exes of several roommates, a first for the show. Debut episode airs Wednesday, January 15 at 10p.
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Victor Gerber has signed on to play Ichabod Crane’s father on Fox‘s Sleepy Hollow, reports TVLine. The Alias star will appear in at least one episode of the freshman supernatural drama, airing Mondays at 9p.
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Constance Zimmer (Newsroom) nabbed a recurring role on NBC‘s midseason comedy Growing Up Fisher, says the Hollywood Reporter.
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British actor Vinnie Jones (Escape Plan) and Luis Guzman (How to Make It in America) will recur on ABC‘s midseason drama, Mind Games, reports Deadline.
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The fall finale of The Blacklist earned the freshman NBC drama its highest ratings since its premiere: 3.5/10 in A18-49, and 12.3 million total viewers. Lead-in The Voice scored 3.5/9 and 12.4 million in fast nationals.
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An original ep of freshman Fox drama Almost Human fell 11 percent week to week, to 1.7 in A18-49, per early numbers. The sci-fi cop show was beaten at 8p by a 1.9 rating for ABC’s airing of A Charlie Brown Christmas, first telecast in 1965.
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ESPN‘s Monday Night Football scored a 10.6 overnight household rating for its New Orleans Saints/Seattle Seahawks matchup, up from last week’s 9.1.
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With nearly 4.6 million viewers tuned in to BET and Centric, Sunday’s telecast of the Soul Train Awards 2013 ranked as one of the calendar year’s top 5 cable awards shows among total viewers, reports BET. The show was the number one Soul Train Awards show in BET history among households and total viewers, up 20 percent in A18-49 on BET and up 68 percent on Centric in A25-54.
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Contractor and HGTV host Bill Beckwith died on December 3 after a car hit his motorcycle. He was 38. Beckwith founded BB Design Build in 2001, and went on to serve as a host on Curb Appeal. “The HGTV family is deeply saddened by Bill’s tragic death,” said a network statement, “and we mourn his loss along with his many family and friends who will miss his creativity, adventurous spirit and general love of life.”
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Actor Christopher Evan Welch died on December 2 after a brief illness. He is believed to have been 48. In addition to film and theater credits, Welch appeared on numerous television shows, including Rubicon, The Good Wife and Law & Order.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 12/1/13)
1) One Direction – Midnight Memories – 546,230
2) Eminem – Marshall Mathers LP2 – 199,183 (After 4 weeks – 1,322,905)
3) Garth Brooks – Blame It On My Roots – 163,604
Other Debuts
17) Various Artists – Frozen Soundtrack – 43,758
18) Danielle Bradberry – Danielle Bradberry – 41,369
26) Various Artists – Songs For The Philippines – 28,336
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