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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 1/16/14)
CMT: Party Down South (Premiere) at 10pm
DIY: Salvage Dogs (Premiere) at 11pm
HGTV: The Brian Boitano Project (Premiere) at 11pm
ID: Tabloid (Premiere) at 10pm
LIFETIME: Under The Gunn (Premiere) at 9pm
MTV: Jerks with Cameras (Premiere) at 10:30pm
TLC: Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: Trailer Park: Welcome to Myrtle Manor (Premiere) at 10pm
WE TV: SWV Reunited (Premiere) at 10pm

Parents will have the ability to program a channel for their children with My Nickelodeon Junior, on deck from Viacom. Mom and Dad will be able to customize the interactive channel, specifying their content preferences, reports the Wall Street Journal. The interactive channel will debut on Verizon‘s Fios service.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CBS renewed every show in its daytime schedule. Coming back are Let’s Make a Deal, The Price Is Right, The Young and the Restless (the number one daytime drama for 25 years received a pick-up through the 2017 season), The Bold and the Beautiful and The Talk, which recently delivered its best-ever fourth quarter in viewers and W25-54.
(Source: Cynopsis)

OWN‘s The Diamond Collar follows a former Mafia street enforcer whose career veered in a dramatically different direction: dog grooming (tip: “Always ask if your dog groomer uses cage drying, which can be very dangerous”). Docu-series debuts Friday, January 17 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The premiere date for Bravo‘s sudsy drama, Southern Charm, is Monday, March 3 at 10p – but fans eager to check out the series about the exclusive world of six Charleston, S.C. singles can catch a 30-minute preview special on Monday, February 3 at 11:30p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Also on tap at CW: Two reality series, Barber Battle and Penn & Teller: Fool Us. Hosted by Cedric the Entertainer, Barber has stylists competing for hairstyle honors; in Penn & Teller, magicians try to trick the master musicians for a chance to perform with them in Vegas.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Revolt documentary Wale: I Am follows rapper Wale on a journey to Africa to discover his roots, as he meets his family for the first time. Story premieres on the Millennial music net Monday, January 20 at 10p, followed by a live Ustream with the singer at 11p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CBS announced premiere dates for two warhorse reality competitions. Amazing Race returns for its 24th go-round on Sunday, February 23 at 8p, after racking up an average 10.03 million viewers in the fall. Survivor comes back for season 28 on Wednesday, February 26 at 8p. The fall edition of TV’s longest-running reality competition averaged 11.58 million viewers, and ranked as the number two reality show in broadcast among A18-49.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Also on the CBS calendar: Summer event series Under the Dome, returning for season two Monday, June 30 at 10p, and new Halle Berry series Extant, debuting Wednesday, July 2 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

HBO‘s holding on to Bill Maher. Days before the season 12 premiere of Real Time with Bill Maher, the premium cabler announced the show has been renewed for season 13. “His irreverent wit and fearless insights make him the perfect observer for these unpredictable times,” said HBO programming president Michael Lombardo of comedian/political commentator Maher, who returns with his show Friday, January 17 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Paul Rudd (This is 40) will appear in Adam Scott‘s (Parks and Recreation) fourth The Greatest Event in Television History special for Adult Swim, reports EW, reenacting a classic show’s title sequence. Show airs Thursday at midnight.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Former tween star Hilary Duff (Lizzie McGuire) has been cast in TV Land pilot Younger opposite Sutton Foster, reports Deadline.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Morgan Freeman will present the SAG 50th Life Achievement Award to Rita Moreno at the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 1971, Freeman and and Moreno starred in children’s educational series The Electric Company. Kudofest will be simulcast on TNT and TBS on Saturday, January 18 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Add these names to the star-studded list of SAG presenters: Matt Damon, Robert DeNiro, Chiwetel Ejifor, SAG-AFTRA President Ken Howard, Mindy Kaling, Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Marsden, Ewan McGregor, Lupita Nyong’o, Sarah Paulson, Julia Roberts, Elisabeth Rohm, Meryl Streep, and Emma Thompson.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Nominations for the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards were announced Wednesday, honoring work in film, television, commercials and theater. Presentation takes place Saturday, February 14 at Paramount Studios. For a list of nominees, check the guild web site.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC greenlit a pilot for American Crime, a drama examining race relations. ABC Studios project comes from John Ridley, who also wrote Golden Globe winner 12 Years a Slave.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CBS issued a pilot order for Taxi-22, a project the net bought in June with James Gandolfini attached as an exec producer. The Sopranos star died on June 19, but the project about a politically incorrect cab driver, adapted from a French-Canadian hit, is moving forward.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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