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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 1/27/14)
DISCOVERY: Billy Bob’s Gags to Riches (Premiere) at 10pm
NUVO TV: Stand Up & Deliver: Cabo San Lucas (Premiere) at 10pm
REELZ: The Capones (Premiere) at 10pm
TRAVEL: Dangerous Grounds (Premiere) at 9pm
TRAVEL: Border Rico (Premiere) at 10pm
VELOCITY: AmeriCarna (Premiere) at 8pm
HGTV: Beat the House (Finale) at 11pm
The State of the Union Address by President Barack Obama is tonight at 9pm.
Sunday night’s 56th Annual Grammy Awards was the biggest social television event of the 2013-14 season, topping the Nielsen Twitter TV Weekly Top Ten list. Twitter reports 15.2 million tweets during the Eastern/Central time zone broadcast alone.
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Viewer voting on American Idol is getting a tweak. FremantleMedia, 19 Entertainment/CORE Media Group and Fox have announced partnerships with Google and Facebook that will give fans new interactive on-air and online experiences. Google is powering an online voting platform that allows fans to cast votes for their favorite Idol finalists directly from Google Search; Facebook will support visual, on-air voting progress updates based on real-time East Coast voting data during select live shows, giving at-home viewers a look at how finalists are faring.
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CBS revealed the 11 all-star teams returning for another sprint around the globe and the chance to win $1 million on the new season of The Amazing Race, premiering Sunday, February 23 at 8p. The returnees include fan favorites The Globetrotters, The Cowboys, Dave and Connor, and Brendon and Rachel. Season 25 will also include a dramatic twist: one team won’t make it to the starting line.
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The premiere of FX‘s new series Saint George has been set for Thursday, March 6 at 9p. The half-hour ensemble comedy follows the chaotic life of George Lopez, who portrays a recently divorced working class Mexican-American turned successful entrepreneur.
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MSNBC is launching a new daytime schedule on Monday, February 24. News Nation with Tamron Hall will move to 11a, and Andrea Mitchell Reports slides to 12p. The network’s two new voices, Ronan Farrow and Joy Reid, air at 1p and 2p.
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Bobby Flay faces off against skilled chefs from across the county in the new Food Network show, Beat Bobby Flay. The eight-ep competition series premieres Thursday, March 6 at 10p. Beat Bobby Flay aired as a special last year.
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TV Land greenlit single-camera sitcom Jennifer Falls, starring Jaime Pressly (My Name is Earl). The show will premiere this summer.
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Fusion will air special coverage of the State of the Union Address tonight, Tuesday, January 28. No, You Shut Up! host Paul F. Tompkins and a panel of puppet pundits will provide live commentary on President Obama‘s address to the nation. The special edition, Shut Up, America!, will air at 9p and be live-streamed on Fusion.net. Fusion will also provide actual reporting and analysis of the President’s speech, with Jorge Ramos anchoring a special edition of America at 8p.
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ASPiRE has begun production on the second season of weekly talk series, Exhale. Hosted by five dynamic African-American women – Angela Burt-Murray, Erin Jackson, Issa Rae, Rene Syler and Malinda Williams – the show’s new season brings more candid discussion on a variety of topics. Sophomore season premieres in May 2014.
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Early returns on CBS’ broadcast of The 56th Annual Grammy Awards are on par with last year’s ratings. The January 26 telecast averaged a 10.1 rating among adults 18-49 and 28.5 million viewers. The 2013 Grammys averaged a 10.1 rating among adults 18-49 and 28.4 million viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
In other Grammy news, E!‘s Live from the Red Carpet: The 2014 Grammy Awards, hosted by Ryan Seacrest and Giuliana Rancic, scored the network its second highest-rated Live from the Red Carpet Grammys telecast in its history among Households (2.35 coverage rating), behind only 2012’s high dating back to 1995. It was the third-most watched Live from the Red Carpet Grammys coverage in total viewers (3.1 Million), Adults 18-49 (1.5M), Women 18-49 (1.1M) and Women 18-34 (591,000).
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The January 5 premiere of Downton Abbey had an average audience of 15.5 million viewers, making the episode the highest-rated drama premiere in PBS history. (Nielsen Live+7 data, 9.7 household rating.) This marks a 52 percent growth in audience compared to the 10.2 million average audience first reported in the Nielsen Fast National data.
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On January 23, Rehab Addict posted a series high rating of 0.75 among P25-54 on HGTV, and was the #1 cable program in its time period among upscale P25-54 and W25-54.
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