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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 2/12/14)
INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY: Web of Lies (Premiere) at 10pm
COOKING CHANNEL: Spice of Life with Bal Arneson (Finale) at 9pm
CBS made a last-minute programming switch, swapping reruns of Undercover Boss, Criminal Minds and CSI tonight for an encore of Sunday special The Beatles: The Night That Changed America – A Grammy Salute. Mike & Molly opens the night at 8p, followed by the Fab Four at 8:30p. The special’s debut on Sunday averaged 13.95 million viewers, opposite the Olympics on NBC and the season four winter premiere of ratings champ The Walking Dead on AMC. The show will still face the Games, but has a chance to snatch those zombie lovers.
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Turner Classic Movies will pay tribute to the late Shirley Temple Black with a marathon of movies starring “America’s Little Darling,” starting Sunday, March 9 at 4:30p. First up: 1937’s Heidi.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Hugh Jackman is returning as host for Broadway’s biggest night. The Wolverine star, who manned the mic from 2003-2005, will oversee the 68th Annual Tony Awards live from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 8 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Singer/actress Idina Menzel is set to perform Oscar-nominated “Let it Go,” from the hit movie Frozen, on the Academy Awards Show, airing on ABC Sunday, March 2 at 8p.
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Brett Eldredge, Justin Moore and Kip Moore are the nominees for The Academy of Country Music’s Artist of the Year Presented by Kohl’s. The winner will be announced on the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, airing live from Las Vegas Sunday, April 6 at 8p on CBS.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MTV ordered ten eps of cyber thriller Eye Candy, from Blumhouse Productions. Former Nickelodeon star Victoria Justice (Victorious) stars.
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With Ben McKenzie onboard to play a young Commissioner Gordon, Fox announced more Gotham pilot additions: Robin Lord Taylor plays the Penguin, Sean Pertwee (Event Horizon) serves as butler Alfred, Zabryna Guevara (Burn Notice) is Gotham police’s Captain Essen and Erin Richards (Being Human) joins as ER doctor Barbara Kean.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Michelle Fairley (Game of Thrones) has replaced Judy Davis in a recurring role on Fox event series 24: Live Another Day. Davis pulled out of the project last week for personal reasons. Show premieres Monday, May 5 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
JoAnna Garcia Swisher (Once Upon a Time) plays the wife of astronaut Gus Grissom in ABC‘s Astronaut Wives Club. Period drama premieres this summer.
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Nazanin Boniadi (Homeland) will recur on ABC’s Scandal, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The political drama returns Thursday, February 27 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Bravo‘s The Real Housewives of Atlanta had the most-watched episode in Housewives franchise history on Sunday, delivering 4.6 million total viewers and 2.6 million in the young adult demo, up 18 percent in both categories from the previous ep.
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Grammy glamour helped the top entertainment magazines shine the week ending February 2. Entertainment Tonight (4.1) was up 5 percent week-to-week and up 8 percent from last year. TMZ (2.2) got a 5 percent boost from last week and last year. Access Hollywood (2.0) was up 5 percent versus last year, and Extra‘s 1.9 was a lift of 19 percent from last year. The Insider (1.6), up 7 percent from last week, surged 14 percent year to year.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show had a best-ever 3.3 rating the week ending February 2 and almost 4.6 million viewers, for the most-watched week ever. Among talkers, Steve Harvey earned bragging rights, too: the show’s 2.2HH rating was a 38 percent increase over last year.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Legendary former child star Shirley Temple Black died February 10. She was 85. Temple Black began acting at age 3, becoming the country’s top box office star from 1935-38. After retiring from performing, she became a foreign diplomat, first as U.S. ambassador to Ghana and then to Czechoslovakia.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 2/9/14)
1) Various Artists – Now 49 – 98,063
2) Various Artists – Frozen – 88,443 (After 11 weeks – 951,510)
3) Bruno Mars – Unorthodox Jukebox – 81,300 (After 61 weeks – 2,049,776)
Other Debuts
4) Toni Braxton & Babyface – Love Marriage & Divorce – 67,063
5) Broken Bells – After The Disco – 44,234
6) Little Mix – Salute – 42,971
15) Within Temptation – Hydra – 15,145
25) Various Artists – Wow Gospel 2014 – 11,382
30) Eric Paslay – Eric Pasley – 10,655
31) For Today – Fight The Silence – 10,630
33) Behemoth – Satanist – 10,235
44) Ruben Studdard – Unconditional Love – 6,398
46) The Lego Movie Soundtrack – 6,139
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