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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 1/23/14)
DISCOVERY: The Fighters (Premiere) at 9pm
FOX: Rake (Premiere) at 9pm
SHOWTIME: Gigolos (Premiere) at 11pm
TBS: King of The Nerds (Premiere) at 10pm

Viacom launched a new ad sales unit yesterday offering integrated marketing and creative content solutions. Viacom Velocity Integrated Marketing will plan and execute campaigns for Viacom’s networks and their extensions and social media; its Creative Content Solutions branch will produce custom content with MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, CMT, Logo, Spike TV and TV Land for TV, digital platforms and cross-network campaigns.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Fox Business Network signed CNBC‘s Maria Bartiromo as its Global Markets Editor. Bartiromo will anchor a weekly program for Fox News as well as doing daily duty on FBN.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Betty’s back! After two seasons on NBC, prank show Betty White’s Off Their Rockers debuts on Lifetime on Friday, February 28 at 9p, with the 92-year-old host also exec producing.
(Source: Cynopsis)

MTV is going retro. Leading up to one-hour special Retromania: Hip Hop on Saturday, February 1 at 2:30p, the net will feature Retromania: Hip Hop Week. Segments start airing Monday, January 27 as interstitials, with hip hop artists revisiting some of the best culture moments from the late 1990s (American Pie, anyone?) through the mid-2000s. “There is an incredibly strong sense of nostalgia for the late 90s and early 2000s that we see play out with our audience in social media every day,” Dave Sirulnick, exec producer and EVP for MTV tells Cynopsis.
(Source: Cynopsis)

American Idol winner Phillip Phillips and The Band Perry will perform on Fox‘s Super Bowl pregame show on Sunday, February 2. The acts will be on hand for the NFL Tailgate Party; Bruno Mars is the halftime entertainment.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CMT marks the 35th anniversary of The Dukes of Hazzard with an eight-hour marathon on Sunday, January 26, starting at 2p. Show airs on the net weekdays at noon and 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Wipeout earned a season seven at ABC. The reality competition’s next go-round will feature a season-long Tournament of Champions  and a chance to win a date with co-host Jill Wagner.
(Source: Cynopsis)

NBC renewed Days of Our Lives through September 2015. That means the soap, boasting its best total viewer delivery in four years, will make it to its 50th anniversary in November 2015.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Rashida Jones rejoins former Office mate Steve Carell to star in the TBS pilot for Tribeca, a comedy exec produced by Carell and his wife, Nancy.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Fuse goes Grammy on January 26, with special 2014 Grammy Takeover. Beginning at 4p, the music net will air music videos from Grammy winners, along with snapshots from this year’s red carpet parade. Jack Osbourne hosts Fuse Red Carpet: Live @Grammys, streamed on Fuse.tv.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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