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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 1/7/14)
ABC: Killer Women (Premiere) at 10pm
ABC FMAILY: Pretty Little Liars (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC FAMILY: Twisted (Premiere) at 9pm
BET: Being Mary Jane (Premiere) at 10pm
BRAVO: 100 Days of Summer (Premiere) at 10pm
CBS: Intelligence (Premiere) at 9pm
FX: Justified (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: Property Virgins (Premiere) at 9pm
HGTV: Beat The House (Premiere) at 11pm
HISTORY: Counting Cars (Premiere) at 9pm
HISTORY: American Restoration (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: Ice Cold Killers (Premiere) at 8pm
ID: Redrum (Premiere) at 9pm
NAT GEO.: The Legend of Mick Dodge (Premiere) at 10pm
OWN: The Haves And The Have Nots (Premiere) at 9pm
OXYGEN: Bad Girls All Star Battle (Premiere) at 8pm
TBS: Cougar Town (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: My 600-LB Life (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: Escaping The Prophet (Premiere) at 10pm
TNT: Boston’s Finest (Premiere) at 9pm
TNT: Marshal Law: Texas (Premiere ) at 10pm
VELOCITY: Graveyard Carz (Premiere) at 9pm
A&E: Storage Wars (Finale) at 9:30pm
Sasheer Zamata has been tapped as the first female African American performer on Saturday Night Live in five years, Deadline was first to report. A talent search followed complaints last fall about the cast’s lack of diversity – SNL even poked fun at itself in a November skit with Kerry Washington (Scandal) scrambling to play all the black female roles. Zamata makes her debut January 18.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Not so ideal? Director Michael Bay as pitchman. Bay was supposed to talk TV for Samsung at CES, but he didn’t do much talking. After he introduced the electronic giant’s 150-inch curved TV, Bay muttered a few words, then said, “I’m sorry… ” and left the stage, apparently having lost his place on the teleprompter.
(Source: Cynopsis)
FX is previewing the pilot of animated comedy Chozen, about a rapper on a quest for redemption, through the FXNOW app for Xbox One. Comedy debuts on FX Monday, January 13 at 10:30p.
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Jimmy Fallon, Julie Bowen, Robert Downey, Jr., Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Lawrence, Mila Kunis, Uma Thurman, Colin Farrell and Reese Witherspoon were the first round of presenters announced for NBC‘s telecast of the Golden Globes Awards on Sunday, January 12 at 8p. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will repeat as hosts.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Jonah Hill is set to host Saturday Night Live on January 25. It will be Hill’s third time on the NBC late-nighter; musical guest is Bastille.
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Oxygen has partnered with ELLE magazine for the second season of modeling competition, The Face. The pact includes in-show integrations and digital cross-promotions. “ELLE Magazine is a fashion authority,” said Jane Olson, SVP, Marketing and Brand Strategy, Oxygen Media. “Their print and digital properties reach a global audience of modern young women.” Season premieres Wednesday, March 5 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Sony Pictures Television talker The Queen Latifah Show got its official (and expected) second season renewal ahead of NATPE by the CBS Station Group. “We are proud to have the CBS stations as our partners,” said John Weiser, Sony TV’s president, U.S. distribution, “as we continue to build The Queen Latifah Show into a franchise brand.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Football scored all weekend. With a massive average 47.1 million viewers, Fox‘s San Francisco-Green Bay nail-biter was the highest-rated (25.8 HH rating) Wild Card Weekend game since 1988.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CBS‘s telecast of the AFC Wild Card Playoff game (San Diego versus Cincinnati) on Sunday afternoon was seen by an average 30.9 million P2+, the highest viewership in 19 years for an early Sunday AFC Wild Card game. NBC‘s Wild Card games on Saturday averaged a record 30.8 million viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Massive ratings for Fox‘s icy playoff game Sunday helped The Simpsons score a season high 5.2 A18-49 in early numbers. Over at ABC, Revenge was sweet, with the soapy drama up 20 percent, to 1.8 in the demo, for its new ep.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CBS This Morning boasted its best fourth-quarter delivery in viewers since 1994. Compared to fourth quarter last year, CBS gained 16 percent, to 3.04 million.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Bounce TV had its best month ever in December, tying for 9th among ad-supported cable for Total Day delivery of African American viewers 18+ (122,000). Launched in 2011, Bounce is in 89 percent of African-American television homes.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The season four premiere of Downton Abbey hit a series-high 10.2 million viewers Sunday night. The year-ago premiere of season three drew 7.9 million viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CNBC‘s New Year’s Day Shark Tank marathon, the ABC reality show’s off-network premiere, delivered the cable net its largest primetime audience A25-54 in six years. In peak hours, CNBC averaged nearly 700,000 total viewers and 300,000 in the news demo.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Programming executive Dennis Johnson died on December 23. He was 68. Johnson joined Showtime in 1984, where he rose to the position SVP of programming, leaving in 2002. He served as president of the National Association of Minorities in Cable, and after his retirement, mentored minority high schoolers in LA.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Actress Barbara Lawrence died of kidney failure on November 13. She was 83. Perhaps best known for playing Gertie in the 1955 film Oklahoma!, Lawrence also appeared on television series including Perry Mason and Bonanza.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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