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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 1/9/14)
AXS TV: Gotham City Live (Premiere) at 10pm
BIO: You Gotta Eat Here! (Premiere) at 10pm
HISTORY: Appalachian Outlaws (Premiere) at 10pm
IFC: The Spoils of Babylon (Premiere) at 10pm
SPORTSMAN: MeatEater (Premiere) at 8pm
A&E: Rodeo Girls (Finale) at 10pm
LIFETIME: Project Runway All Stars (Finale) at 9pm
TLC: Gypsy Sisters (Finale) at 9pm

Sasheer Zamata wasn’t the only talent discovered during Saturday Night Live‘s search for an African-American female cast member. LaKendra Tookes and Leslie Jones were impressive enough during auditions to be been hired as SNL writers and start Monday, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Zamata’s first on-air appearance on the late-night NBC sketch show is January 18.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Nancy Kerrigan will return to the Olympics as a figure skating analyst for NBC in Sochi. The former Olympian, who won a silver medal in 1994, seven weeks after being attacked with a baton, will also make appearances on other NBCUniversal shows. The Olympics begin Friday, February 6.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The Fashion Police feud may be cooling down. After an official NLRB election, E! said Wednesday it is ready to negotiate with the Writers Guild over the show’s striking writers, who want to be repped by Guild. “We continue to believe that the secret ballot election was vital to protecting the rights of all Fashion Police writers,” E! said in a statement to The Wrap.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The winter premiere of ABC Family‘s Pretty Little Liars was the most-tweeted premiere in U.S. TV history, with more than 1.3 million tweets by nearly 473,000 unique contributors.
(Source: Cynopsis)

E! is offering a double dose of reality with the season nine premiere of Keeping Up with the Kardashians and series debut of #RichKids on Sunday, January 19 at 9p and 10p, followed by new eps of both shows again on Monday, January 20.
(Source: Cynopsis)

A&E’s Bad Ink comes back for a sophomore season with the “aficionados of terrible tattoos” on a quest to fix the worst ink in Vegas. Sharp Entertainment production returns Monday, January 20 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The Real Housewives of New York City are back – and there’s a new diva in town. Model/entrepreneur Kristen Taekman will be introduced in a 30-minute sneak peek of season six on February 24 at 9p, with the series’ official start Tuesday, March 11 at 9p. Original cast member LuAnn De Lesseps was bumped down to recurring status.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Today‘s Matt Lauer will host a special celebrating the upcoming 71st Annual Golden Globes featuring interviews with stars including Brad Pitt, Bradley Cooper and Bryan Cranston. Special airs Friday, January 10 at 8p; the Globes are telecast live on NBC Sunday, January 12 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

NBC Owned Television Stations are pumping up coverage ahead of the Globes, too. 1st Look: Red Carpet Ready examines fashion trends early evening Saturday; 1st Look: Hollywood’s Biggest Party peeks at plans for the Globes after-bash after SNL. The centerpiece? 1st Look LIVE on the Red Carpet at 6p, leading to NBC’s pre-show coverage at 7p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Rainn Wilson (The Office) moves from Scranton to Portland for Backstrom, a crime drama he’s set to star in for Fox. Wilson will play a cantankerous detective on the show, based on a book series by Sweden’s Leif G.W. Persson. The show had originally been at CBS, but failed to make it to series.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Sons of Anarchy‘s Drea de Matteo has been upped to series regular, reports TVLine. The seventh and final season of the FX drama is set for a fall 2014 launch.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC‘s Killer Women debuted DOA Tuesday night, with 3.9 million total viewers and a .9 rating/2 share among A18-49. Lucky 7 was chopped from the timeslot this fall after premiering to 4.4 million viewers and a 1.3 rating.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CBS‘s NCIS scored 20.7 million viewers, its largest audience of the season. In its post-NCIS preview slot, Intelligence hung onto 16.6 million of those viewers at 9p, making it the season’s most-watched debut. The sci-fi action series moves to Mondays at 10p next week.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The season three 9p premiere and 11p repeat of VH1‘s Single Ladies on Monday delivered 3.5 million total viewers. In primetime, the net was number one in cable, excluding sports, among A18-49, W18-49 and W18-34.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Pretty Little Liars‘ Tuesday winter premiere on ABC Family at 8p was Tuesday’s number one telecast in W18-34 (900,000/2.7 rating), viewers 12-34 (2.1 million/2.3) and Females 12-34 (1.8 million/3.9). At 9p, Ravenswood was TV’s top telecast in Females 12-24 (951,000/2.1), and cable’s number one telecast in W18-34 (508,000/1.5).
(Source: Cynopsis)

The Haves and the Have Nots season two premiere on Tuesday delivered 2.8 million total viewers, becoming the most-watched season premiere in OWN history across all key demos. The sudsy drama posted double-digit growth in W25-54 (up 59 percent) and total viewers (up 57 percent) versus the season one premiere in May, and was the number two telecast in OWN history among W25-54, after Oprah’s Next Chapter with Bobbi Kristina in March 2011.
(Source: Cynopsis)

MTV‘s Teen Wolf returned for the second half of season three on Monday for its most-watched telecast ever, delivering 2.4 million total viewers. Its 2.3 rating among P12-34 matched the series high. Follow-up show Wolf Watch held over 60 percent of its lead-in, for a 1.4 P12-34 rating.
(Source: Cynopsis)

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS 2014
Here is the winners list.
http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/awards/nominees/

BROADWAY
Tupac Shakur Musical Holler If Ya Hear Me coming in Spring 2014.
http://ppc.broadway.com/buzz/173941/tupac-shakur-musical-to-holler-on-broadway-this-spring-dates-theater-set/