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FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 1/15/14)
ABC: Suburgatory (Premiere) at 8:30pm
ABC FAMILY: Melissa & Joey (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC FAMILY: Baby Daddy (Premiere) at 8:30pm
A&E: Duck Dynasty (Premiere) at 10pm
A&E: Crazy Hearts: Nashville (Premiere) at 11pm
FOX: American Idol (Premiere) at 8pm
MTV2: Charlamagne and Friends (Premiere) at 11:30pm
SHOWTIME: Jim Rome on Showtime (Premiere) at 10pm
TBS: Men at Work (Premiere) at 10pm

Season six will be the last for Justified, confirmed FX CEO Jon Landgraf at TCA on Tuesday, but the call was made by exec producers Graham Yost and Timothy Olyphant, not the net. “I would have liked to have more Justified, it’s one of my favorite shows,” said Landgraf. The cowboy drama, which just launched season five, airs Tuesdays at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Bravo set premiere dates for Southern Charm (Monday, March 3 at 10p) about six Charlotte, S.C. singles, and Online Dating Rituals of the American Male (Sunday, March 9 at 10p) offering a look at how men search for a romantic partner.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Tattoo competition series Ink Master returns to Spike TV for season four on Tuesday, February 25 at 10p. Grand prize: $100,000 and a feature in Inked.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Travel Channel‘s Ghost Adventures is on the move. Season nine of the paranormal investigative series will air Saturdays, starting with its February 15 premiere at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The first round of presenters for the 20th Annual SAG Awards include Ben Affleck, Sasha Alexander, Don Cheadle, Jennifer Garner, Clark Gregg, Tom Hanks, Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey, Kerry Washington, Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey. The show will be simulcast on TNT and TBS on Saturday, January 18 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Opening the SAG Awards red carpet with the 14th Champagne Tattinger toast will be Elisabeth Rohm (American Hustle), with Clovis Tattinger, the brand’s export manager.
(Source: Cynopsis)

More performers have been tapped for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. John Legend, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Kacey Musgraves, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban will be onstage, as well as Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of The Beatles. Ceremony airs Sunday, January 26 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

FX ordered a comedy pilot starring Zach Galifianakas. The Hangover star will also co-write, with Louis C.K., who has a deal with FX Prods.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Fox greenlit Batman series Gotham, from Warner Bros. Television. Fox Entertainment chairman Kevin Reilly described the show as “an operatic soap.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Raycom Media and Bellum Entertainment are partnering to produce two new strip series. Fix It & Finish It will star Antonio Sabato (General Hospital); Flip My Food features cook and author Chef Jeff Anderson.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in the Middle) has a multi-ep guest turn on upcoming comedy Playing House. The USA series premieres this spring.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Michael Cera (Arrested Development) and John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone) have been cast in FX comedy pilot How and Why. Hawkes will play a TV host, with Cera as his boss.
(Source: Cynopsis)

HBO‘s True Detective premiered Sunday night to 2.3 million total viewers, with an encore airing tacking on a million more. It was the biggest HBO premiere since Boardwalk Empire drew 4.8 million in 2010. At 10p, the season three premiere of Girls hit a series high of 1.1 million viewers, a 28 percent bump from its season two bow.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The Thursday premiere of IFC miniseries spoof The Spoils of Babylon delivered 911,000 total viewers and 477,000 among A18-49. Counting the three repeats of each of the two eps that aired, the star-studded (Will Ferrell! Tobey Maguire! Jessica Alba!) Funny or Die comedy delivered 2.3 million viewers in Live + 3.
(Source: Cynopsis)

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 1/12/14)
1) Various Artists – Frozen – 85,812 (After 7 weeks – 588,779)
2) Beyonce – Beyonce – 78,881 (After 5 weeks – 1,510,763)
3) Kid Ink – My Own Lane – 50,379

Other Debuts
24) John Newman – Tribute – 9,740

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