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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 1/22/14)
A&E: Wahlburgers (Premiere) at 10:30pm
COMEDY: Workaholics (Premiere) at 10pm
COMEDY: Broad City (Premiere) at 10:30pm
OVATION: The Fashion Fund (Premiere) at 10pm
PIVOT: Dark Rye (Premiere) at 9:30pm
TRAVEL: Human Safari (Premiere) at 11pm
Fox freshman comedy Enlisted is swapping time slots with Raising Hope. Starting Friday, January 24, Enlisted will take the 9p spot with stronger lead-in Bones, followed by Hope at 9:30p. Enlisted‘s ratings have been soft (.6/2 on Friday), but Fox chairman Kevin Reilly said at TCA that he planned to honor its 13-ep order.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Days of Our Lives star Alison Sweeney announced on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Tuesday that she is leaving the NBC soap after 21 years. Sweeney, who moonlights as host of The Biggest Loser, has been on Days since she was 16.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Opera star Renee Fleming will sing the National Anthem before Fox‘s Super Bowl kickoff on Sunday, February 2. Last year Alicia Keys did the honors.
(Source: Cynopsis)
A new round of performers were announced for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards: Gary Clark, Jr. and Hunter Hayes have been added to roster, along with a finale featuring Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Dave Grohl and Lindsey Buckingham. Show airs Sunday, January 26 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond) will host the WGA Awards West Coast ceremony on Saturday, February 1. The show will be webcast live at latimes.com at 6p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
LIVE with Kelly and Michael is partnering with Children’s Motrin brand for the return of “LIVE’s Search for Unstoppable Moms.” Now through February 7, viewers can nominate mothers “who go above and beyond the call of duty”; four finalists will be honored on the show March 10, with the viewer favorite taking home a $100,000 prize. Last year, the first time the contest ran, the morning talk show received over 20,000 submissions.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Jesse L. Martin (Law & Order) is joining the cast of the pilot for Arrow spinoff The Flash. Martin will play a blue-collar cop in the Warner Bros. TV project.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Tate Donovan (Damages) takes a seat on the presidential cabinet in 24: Live Another Day, playing White House Chief of Staff. Fox event series premieres Monday, May 5 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The early numbers for Sunday’s championship football games bode will for the Super Bowl. CBS‘s Denver versus New England AFC matchup averaged 51.3 million viewers, the highest the net has earned for an AFC championship since 1982. FOX did even better with the NFC final, scoring an average 55.9 million viewers for San Francisco versus Atlanta, up 33 percent from last year.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Lifetime movie Flowers in the Attic drew 6.1 million total viewers on Saturday in fast nationals. Among A25-54 (2.6 million viewers) and W25-54 (2.0 million), it was ad-supported cable’s number one original movie since October 2012’s Steel Magnolias.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Bachelor Juan Pablo Galavis’s comments last week saying gay people shouldn’t be allowed on the show, and his subsequent apologies, had no impact on ratings. The ABC dating show on Monday drew the same 2.3 A18-49 rating it did last week.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Comedy writer/producer Ben Starr died on January 19. He was 92. Starr co-created Silver Spoons, was a writer and producer on Diff’rent Strokes and helped develop Facts of Life. He also wrote for such series as All in the Family, The Brady Bunch and Mork & Mindy.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 1/19/14)
1) Bruce Springsteen – High Hopes – 99,489
2) Various Artists – Frozen Soundtrack – 87,447 (After 8 weeks – 676,226)
3) Kidz Bop Kids – Kidz Bop 25 – 65,281
Other Debuts
5) Jennifer Nettles – That Girl – 54,091
6) Switchfoot – Fading West – 39,017
11) Rosanne Cash – river & the Thread – 18,566
14) Jon Pardi – Write You A Song – 17,050
22) Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – Give The People What They Want – 13,714
23) Elevation Worship – Only King Forever – 13,602
33) Cody Johnson – Cowboy Like Me – 8,144
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