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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 2/3/14)
NBC: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit: 50 Years of Beautiful (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY: The Devil’s Ride (Premiere) at 10pm
E!: Beyond Candid with Giuliana (Premiere) at 10pm
HISTORY: Swamp People (Premiere) at 9pm
SHOWTIME: Inside Comedy (Premiere) at 11pm
BRAVO: Vanderpump Rules (Finale) at 9pm
Winners in the Writers Guild Awards TV categories, announced Saturday, included Breaking Bad (Drama Series), Veep (Comedy series), House of Cards (New Series), Days of Our Lives (Daytime Drama), The Colbert Report (Comedy/Variety) and Jeopardy (Quiz and Audience Participation). Honored for individual eps were The Simpsons, 30 Rock, Breaking Bad and 60 Minutes.
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Still dark on DirecTV thanks to a bitter carriage dispute, The Weather Channel announced Friday that “in spite of the absence of DirecTV’s 20 million subs,” in the four days leading into the storm that paralyzed parts of the southeast viewers engaged with TWC brands more than 250 million times, and the net’s mobile app had over 600 million page views Sunday-Wednesday. Coverage of the storm Tuesday led to a 30 percent gain among P2+ versus the prior four Tuesdays.
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The Tonight Show‘s move from Burbank means the elimination of 164 jobs when Jay Leno ends his run on February 6. California’s loss is the Big Apple’s gain – Jimmy Fallon will broadcast from NYC when he takes over as host on February 17. The NBC late night talker was based in New York from 1954 until it relocated to “beautiful downtown Burbank” with host Johnny Carson in 1972.
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Dish Network introduced new portable HDTV antennas that deliver Dish programming outside the home, either for a $7 fee added to a subscriber’s monthly plan, or pay-as-you-go. The two versions, smaller than Dish’s 2011 Tailgater effort, cost about $500.
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Leading up to yesterday’s game, Nielsen added up the money invested in Super Bowl ads between 2009 and 2013, and found the biggest spenders were: Anheuser-Busch ($149 million), Pepsico Inc. ($97 million), Coca-Cola Inc. ($63 million), Volkswagen ($57 million) and Fiat Spa. ($55 million).
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Sam Champion, who in early December decamped Good Morning America to join The Weather Channel, announced via Twitter the name of the new morning show he’ll anchor. “Now it can be told! AMHQ!” Champion tweeted Friday. Short for America’s Morning Headquarters, it will air weekdays from 7a-10a, starting in March.
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NBC ordered two more episodes of freshman drama Chicago PD. The Chicago Fire spin-off, averaging 6.8 million viewers and a 1.7 rating among A18-49, is now up to 15 eps.
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This week, CBS‘s Late Show with David Letterman will feature artists covering Beatles songs, in advance of the 50th anniversary of the Fab Four’s historic appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. First up: Broken Bells singing “And I Love Her”; coming up: Sting performing “Drive My Car.” Letterman airs at 11:35p.
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David Schwimmer will star in ABC comedy pilot Irreversible, based on Israel’s hit series Bilti Hafich. Also a producer on the Sony Pictures Television/Reshet TV project, Schwimmer will play half of a self-absorbed, eccentric couple. While the actor has guested on television since Friends ended in 2004, this would be his first regular role.
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Grace Gummer has joined the cast of CBS event series Extant. Gummer, daughter of Meryl Streep, recurred on HBO‘s The Newsroom.
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Up for the first time against an original Big Bang Theory ep on CBS, Fox’s American Idol dropped four tenths among A18-49 from 8-8:30p, to 2.9/9. From 8:30-9p, the singing competition was down two tenths, to 3.4/10. Big Bang took a hit, too, dipping six tenths from its last original episode, to 5.2/16, but was still easily the top program of the night.
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January was Bravo‘s most-watched month ever, with the net averaging 1.1 million total viewers in primetime. Helping fuel the ratings streak was season six of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, averaging over 2.5 million P18-49 and nearly 4.3 million total viewers. Oxygen Media averaged 409,000 total viewers, 141,000 F18-49 and 85,000 F18-34, all up double digits.
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As Jay Leno preps for is exit, NBC‘s The Tonight Show scored its best week since President Obama’s visit in October, 2012, with a 3.9 rating/9 share in metered market households. Leno successor Jimmy Fallon‘s Late Night drew a 2.2/7, its best since February 2010.
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ABC matched a season high on Friday, averaging 6.1 million and 1.7/6 among A18-49 to tie its top-rated Friday since November 2012. Shark Tank (2.1/7) ranked as the top program of the night in the demo for the fourth consecutive week.
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CBS‘s Blue Bloods had its most-watched episode Friday, 12.8 million viewers, since its 2010 debut.
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New A&E‘s docuseries Wahlbergers averaged a 1.68 rating among A18-49 on Wednesday, up eight percent from its premiere in the demo and up 23 percent in total viewers, to 4.02 million.
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CBS‘s telecast of The Grammy Awards drew 1.64 million viewers in live plus 3-day playback, bumping the total to 30.15 million.
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Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died yesterday, February 2nd, according to several sources. He was 46. Hoffman’s TV credits included Law & Order and the miniseries Liberty! The American Revolution. Recent films were The Master and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. He won the Best Actor Oscar in 2006 for Capote.
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Animation king Arthur Rankin Jr. died January 30. He was 89. Rankin and Jules Bass founded Videocraft International, which produced numerous holiday specials, including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) Frosty and Snowman (1969).
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Television executive Deborah Blackwell died on January 31 after a seven-year battle with a rare neuro-degenerative disorder. She was 63. From 2000-2007, Blackwell was General Manager of Disney-ABC Television’s SOAPnet.
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Composer John Cacavas died on January 28. He was 83. Cavacas scored numerous films and television shows including Kojak, Hawaii Five-O and Matlock.
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Ride Along – $12.3 million
Frozen – $9.3 million
That Awkward Moment – $9 million
The Nut Job – $7.6 million
Lone Survivor – $7.2 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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