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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 2/4/14)
FOOD: Chopped (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: Scoring The Deal (Premiere) at 11pm and 11:30pm
ABC FAMILY: Ravenswood (Finale) at 9pm
DISCOVERY: Moonshiners (Finale) at 9pm
NBC: The Biggest Loser (Finale) at 9pm
Facebook turns 10 years old today (although it wasn’t available to the public until 2006). Mark Zuckerberg started it in his dorm room at Harvard as “The Facebook”.
Bruno Mars made history as the youngest artist to ever serve as the sole NFL Super Bowl Halftime headliner.
What blowout? Fox‘s Sunday Super Bowl telecast scored 111.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen estimates, to beat the record held by CBS’s 2012 game (111.34 million). Halftime performer Bruno Mars did even better, topping Madonna’s 2012 record 114 million halftime viewers with 115.3 million.
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As HLN EVP and GM Albie Hecht continues to remake CNN’s sister channel, he’s doing it without Showbiz Tonight. The entertainment news show, canceled after nine years, will air for the last time on Thursday, February 6. Host A.J. Hammer will remain at the net; the rest of the staff is laid off.
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Mara Schiavocampo will join ABC News, where she got her start in journalism in 2004, as a New-York-based correspondent. Schiavocampo had been an anchor at Early Today on NBC and First Look on MSNBC.
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The 16th Costume Designer Guild Awards take place Saturday, February 22 at the Beverly Hilton, sponsored by Lacoste. Joshua Malina (The West Wing) will host.
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The Super Bowl spot from Jerry Seinfeld‘s Crackle series, Comedians Getting in Cars with Coffee, delivered on the comedian’s promise of a Seinfeld reunion (Jason Alexander and Wayne Knight were in the halftime show clip) – sort of. Seinfeld said on WFAN radio Thursday that the assembly wasn’t for a Super Bowl commercial or an episode of his Crackle show, but added, “It is not not those things either.” Full ep can be seen here.
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The Seinfeld clip was number one on TiVo Research‘s top Super Bowl ads list, ranked by commercial retention relative to overall viewership. Among traditional ads, Budweiser’s “Puppy Love” came first, followed by GoDaddy‘s “Bodybuilder” and Doritos‘s “Cowboy Kid.” Budweiser’s puppy also topped Hulu Adzone’s list and USA Today’s annual ad meter rankings.
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Russell Wilson, QB of Super Bowl champs Seattle Seahawks, visits CBS‘s Late Show with David Letterman tonight. It’s the tenth consecutive year the winning quarterback has made a pit stop at the CBS talker after the game.
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A technical glitch forced some Time Warner Cable subscribers in the LA area to miss about an hour of the Super Bowl, including the halftime show. The problem with the feed for KTTV was resolved in time for viewers to catch a TWC ad with P. Diddy touting, “TV anywhere, anyplace, anytime.”
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A bride-to-be gets advice from an unexpected source on the season 11 premiere of TLC‘s Say Yes to the Dress. As an injured army medic debates which gown to choose for her big day, Seth Meyers pops by to weigh in Friday, February 21 at 9p; Meyers makes his debut as host of NBC‘s Late Night three days later.
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TVOne airs HelloBeautiful Interludes Live! with Toni Braxton & Babyface, on Saturday, February 8 at 10p. The special is a collaboration with Interactive One that started when the net aired the online community’s HelloBeautiful Interludes Live! with John Legend in September 2013.
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Basketball Wives returns for season three on VH1 with three new cast members and “a surprising revelation” on Monday, February 17 at 8p.
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Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap) will star in the NCIS backdoor spinoff set in New Orleans. Two-ep arc will premiere this spring; NCIS airs Tuesdays at 8p.
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Jack Wagner (General Hospital) landed a two-ep arc on Hallmark‘s When Calls the Heart playing a Mountie forensic investigator starting Saturday, March 22 at 9p.
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PBS‘s Downton Abbey was the number 2 rated program opposite the Super Bowl at 9p, with a 4.9 overnight rating and 6.8 million viewers, up from 6.6 million last year. It’s the third consecutive year the period drama placed second after the ratings juggernaut.
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New Girl‘s post-Super Bowl ep, with an assist from guest star Prince, delivered 25.8 million viewers and an 11.1 rating among A18-49, up 23 percent in viewers and 42 percent in the demo versus last year’s Elementary on CBS. Brooklyn Nine-Nine scored 14.8 million viewers and a 6.7 rating.
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The Saturday premiere of Lifetime‘s The Gabby Douglas Story drew 3.8 million viewers, according to Nielsen, and was the most-tweeted program of the night (excluding sports). The documentary that followed, Beyond the Headlines: The Gabby Douglas Story, averaged 3.0 million viewers.
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