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TELEMUNDO: En Otra Piel (Premiere) at 9pm
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ID: Ice Cold Killers (Finale) at 8pm
The White House Correspondents’ Association announced that Joel McHale will host the group’s centennial dinner on May 3. “This is very cool & the website to apply to host it worked perfectly,” tweeted the Community star Friday morning.
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As Olympics vet Bob Costas continued to battle an eye infection aggravated by TV studio lights, Meredith Vieira stepped in for him on Friday and Saturday nights, becoming the first woman ever to solo anchor NBC‘s primetime coverage of the Games – an unexpected boon to Vieira’s syndicated talk show, launching in the fall. Costas plans to be back in action tonight.
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Pretty Little Liars spinoff Ravenswood will not be coming back to ABC Family for a second season. The teen drama premiered in October to 2.1 million total viewers, but its finale on February 4 averaged 1.4 million viewers, a steep drop from lead-in PPL’s 2.2 million.
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NBCUniversal and GE have partnered for a multiplatform, integrated Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon campaign that includes in-show integrations and a GE-sponsored Tonight Show app. The custom “Fallonventions” integrations begin Wednesday, February 19, with two additional segments later in the season. “This type of first-mover, innovative content is exactly what GE is looking to develop with our media partners,” said Linda Boff, Executive Director, Global Brand Marketing, GE.
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Mel Brooks will appear on TBS talker Conan as part of a tribute Sid Caesar tonight, February 18 at 11p. Comedy legend Caesar died February 12 at age 91.
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Showtime released a trailer for upcoming psychosexual thriller Penny Dreadful that’s not for the squeamish. The eight-ep series starring Josh Hartnett (Black Hawk Down) and Timothy Dalton (License to Kill), currently in production in Ireland, debuts on the net Sunday, May 11, after its world premiere in March at the South By Southwest film festival.
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CBS announced mid-season tweaks to its Thursday lineup. Post-Olympics, The Crazy Ones and Two and a Half Men swap timeslots, with Men leading the 9p hour followed by Crazy Ones effective February 27. New comedy Bad Teacher premieres April 24 at 9:30p, after The Crazy Ones completes its 22-ep order. Drama Unforgettable returns Friday, April 4, at the end of Undercover Boss‘s season.
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As The Lego Movie burns up the box office, Fox announced that The Simpsons special Lego episode, the show’s 550th, will air Sunday, May 4 at 8p. In “Brick Like Me,” Homer wakes up to find everyone in Springfield is made of Legos.
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Conan O’Brien will head to Dallas for a week of his TBS late night shows during the NCAA Final Four championship from March 31-April 3. Last year, Conan spent the week in NCAA host city Atlanta.
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Netflix unlocks season two of prison drama Orange Is the New Black on Friday, June 6. All 13 eps will be available for streaming.
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Season five of TLC‘s Long Island Medium opens with a live Twitter event and viewing party on Sunday, March 9 at 9p. The net’s “Tweet to Win – Live” offers viewers another chance to win a reading with in-demand psychic Theresa Caputo by tweeting with the hashtag #LongIslandMedium between 8p-11p; Caputo will select winners and announce them on the air.
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LGBT-focused Logo TV renewed RuPaul’s Drag Race for a seventh season, the week before the show’s season six premiere on Monday, February 24 at 9p.
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Reality star/entrepreneur Bethenny Frankel‘s syndicated talk show, Bethenny, has been canceled, reports Deadline. While the show had a respectable .7 in the W25-54 demo, it delivered just 1.15 million viewers, 106th among syndicated programming. The Telepictures production will run to the end of this season.
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Alec Baldwin (30 Rock) will guest on NBC‘s Law & Order: SVU. The episode, airing this spring, will be directed by series star Mariska Hargitay. New eps of the series start Wednesday, February 26 at 9p.
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Oscar winner Octavia Spencer (The Help) will star in Fox‘s Red Band Society as a tough-talking nurse. The ABC Studios/Amblin Television project has a “series prototype” order from the no-more-pilot-season-for-us net.
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With How I Met Your Mother‘s series finale set for March 31, Alyson Hannigan has been cast opposite Tom Papa in CBS pilot More Time with Family. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are exec producers, with writers/exec producers Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith, for the 20th Century Fox Television project.
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Season five of Downton Abbey will include Richard E. Grant (Girls) as Simon Bricker, a guest of the Granthams, Anna Chancellor (The Hour), guesting as Lady Anstruther and Rade Sherbedgia (24) as a Russian refugee. Season four finale of the upper crust soap airs in the U.S. Sunday, February 23 on PBS.
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Gerald McRaney (Simon & Simon) has been cast in TNT pilot Agent X, starring Sharon Stone. He continues his recurring role on Netflix‘s House of Cards.
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Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos) will star in ABC comedy pilot Saint Francis. The ABC Studios and Tagline production focuses on a gruff Long Island cop dealing with the pregnancy of his unmarried sister.
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British actor Jason Isaacs (Awake) will star in USA‘s Dig, says the Hollywood Reporter. The Universal Cable Productions event series about an FBI agent investigating the murder of an archeologist is slated for a late 2014 premiere.
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Michael Robinson, fullback for the Seattle Seahawks, will appear in an episode of The Young and the Restless. CBS soap airs at 12:30p.
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Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook), nominated this year for American Hustle, will present at this year’s trophyfest, airing Sunday, March 2 on ABC. Three-time winner Daniel Day Lewis (Lincoln, There Will Be Blood, My Left Foot) will also present. GMA anchors Robin Roberts and Lara Spencer and People editor Jess Cagle return to host the 7p pre-show, Red Carpet Live, along with actor/model Tyson Beckford.
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Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylist Guild awards honoring television were bestowed Saturday night upon The Voice, Breaking Bad, Vikings, Boardwalk Empire, The Walking Dead and Behind the Candelabra.
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Saturday morning’s USA versus Russia men’s hockey game handed NBC Sports 4.1 million viewers, according to Nielsen, the most ever for a hockey game on the net. The last half hour of the eight-round-shootout nail-biter delivered a net-best 6.4 million viewers. The match was live-streamed by close to 600,000 unique users, delivering 14.7 million minutes of consumption.
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Actor Ralph Waite died on February 13. He was 85. Waite was a respected stage actor when he took the role of John Walton in folksy drama The Waltons in 1972, launching him to television fame. In 2013 Waite appeared in NCIS, where he had a recurring role, Bones and Days of Our Lives.
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Actor/singer Bob L. Harris died February 14. He was 91. Harris appeared on numerous shows including The Perry Como Show and The Garry Moore Show, and had a role in the TV movie Riders of the Purple Sage with his son, actor Ed Harris.
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