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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 2/13/14)
CMT: Tattoo Titans (Premiere) at 11pm
HISTORY: Appalachian Outlaws (Finale) at 10pm

NBC News Special Correspondent Tom Brokaw announced Tuesday that in August, he was diagnosed with cancer. The former anchor, with the net since 1966, revealed he suffers from multiple myeloma, a cancer affecting blood cells in the bone marrow. “With the exceptional support of my family, medical team and friends, I am very optimistic about the future,” he said in a statement. “I remain the luckiest guy I know.”
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Apple has plans to unveil a new Apple TV set-top box in April, sources tell Bloomberg, ready for retail by the holiday season. The company is reportedly in talks with Time Warner Cable and other partners to add video content.
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Randy Jackson‘s return to American Idol Tuesday, February 18 in his new role as mentor isn’t the only twist the Fox singing competition has in store. During “Rush Week,” not all 30 contestants get to perform – the judges will choose who is worthy of taking the stage on Tuesday and Wednesday. The first results show on Thursday will reveal the top 10 chosen by America, plus three judges’ saves. Fans will be able to SuperVote (up to 50 votes per contestant), and those with registered Facebook accounts can vote online.
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Seth Meyers‘ first guests on NBC‘s Late Night will be fellow Saturday Night Live alum Amy Poehler, Vice President Joe Biden and musical guest A Great Big World. Later in the week the host welcomes Kanye West, Brad Paisley, Kelly Ripa, Lena Dunham and John Mayer. Show debuts Monday, February 24 at 12:35a.
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E! News weighs on winter 2014 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Secrets of Fashion Week, airing Friday, February 14 at 8p. E! was an official sponsor of the event.
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Dick Van Dyke will guest on two episodes of upcoming Hallmark Channel series Signed, Sealed, Delivered, from creator and exec producer Martha Williamson (Touched by an Angel).
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Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha) will star in the pilot for How I Met Your Mother spinoff How I Met Your Dad, from 20th Century Fox Television. HIMYM airs on CBS Mondays at 8.
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The CW tapped John Wesley Shipp to guest on pilot The Flash. Shipp played the title role in 1990’s version.
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Oscar Nunez (The Office) will play a public defender on USA‘s upcoming comedy, Benched. The series, from ABC Signature and Mark Gordon Company, landed a 12-ep order last month.
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Donal Logue (Sons of Anarchy) has been cast as a rough-around-the-edges detective in Fox drama project Gotham. Ben MacKenzie stars as Detective Gordon.
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MTV college net mtvU announced nominees for the 2014 mtvU Woodie Awards. Arcade Fire got the most nods, with three. Artist of the Year noms went to Imagine Dragons, Lorde, Pharrell, Drake, Zedd and Disclosure. Voting opens today at Woodies.MTV.com; awards special airs Sunday, March 16 at 8p.
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NBC‘s Olympics coverage is pulling ahead. After keeping pace with numbers for the last Winter Games in Vancouver (despite the Sochi time difference handicap), Tuesday’s ratings hit 6.6/18, up 20 percent from the same night in 2010.
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ABC‘s Good Morning America beat NBC‘s Today on Tuesday, the first time a network morning show carrying the Games didn’t win a morning. According to Nielsen fast nationals, GMA delivered 6.42 million total viewers to Today’s 6.01 million. Not that Today isn’t getting an Olympic bump: the week of January 27, the show averaged 5.51 million total viewers.
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ABC Family‘s Switched at Birth set season highs on Monday at 8p in A18-49 (974,000/.8 rating), W18-49 (759,000/1.2) and W18-34 (516,000/1.5). The Fosters at 9p saw three-week highs in A18-34 (586,000/.9), W18-34 (525,000,1.6), W18-49 (731,000/1.10 and F12-34 (924,000/2.0).
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The premiere of Hallmark Channel original movie Chance at Romance earned a 1.5 HH rating on Saturday, attracting 2.7 million unduplicated viewers and helping Hallmark rank as the number four cable net on primetime Saturday among households. New series When Calls the Heart earned a 1.4 HH rating and reached more than 2 million viewers.
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Growing for the fourth  week, CMT‘s Party Down South drew over 1 million total viewers, posting .77 A18-49 and 1.0 among W25-34 in Live+3.
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The first season of DIY‘s Rev Run’s Renovation ranked as the third most-watched program on the net this year in P18-49 and W18-49, with DIY reporting 4.4 million viewers tuned in to watch the Run DMC star and his wife renovate their N.J. mansion.
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Groundbreaking comedian Sid Caesar died at 91. Caesar’s 1950s weekly live program, Your Show of Shows, and later Caesar’s Hour, showcased the performer’s improvisational genius; he later appeared in films and on Broadway, where he was nominated for a Tony for Little Me. Larry King announced the death on Twitter.
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