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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 11/5/14)
ABC: 48th Annual CMA Awards at 8pm
BBC AMERICA: The Game (Premiere) at 10pm
CNBC: The Car Chasers (Premiere) at 10pm
FOOD: Kitchen Inferno (Premiere) at 10pm
MTV: Snooki & JWoww (Premiere) at 10pm
OVATION: The Fashion Fund (Premiere) at 10pm
OXYGEN: Fix My Choir (Premiere) at 10pm
TV LAND: Hot In Cleveland (Premiere) at 10pm
TV LAND: The Exes (Premiere) at 10:30pm
BRAVO: Million Dollar Listing: Los Angeles (Finale) at 9pm
FOOD: Cutthroat Kitchen, Superstar Sabotage (Finale) at 9pm
ID: Surviving Evil (Finale) at 9pm
NAT. GEO.: Southern Justice (Finale) at 9pm
SUNDANCE TV: Dream School (Finale) at 10pm
CBS confirmed season seven of The Mentalist will be its last. The procedural launches its 13-ep final season Sunday, November 30 at 9:30p ET/9p PT (football doubleheader day). The drama moves to Wednesdays at 8p when The Good Wife returns, and has its two-hour series finale February 18.
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Cameron Diaz (The Other Woman) will host NBC’s Saturday Night Live for the fourth time, on November 22. Musical guests are producer Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars, who collaborated on “Uptown Funk,” set for a November 10 release. Diaz stars in Annie, in theaters December 19.
(Source: Cynopsis)
History’s Sons of Liberty premieres Sunday, January 25 at 9p. The three-night mini-series, produced by A+E Studios in association with Stephen David Entertainment, follows the radicals who sparked the American Revolution.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Pop star-turned-pastor/music exec Gerardo Mejia, aka “Rico Suave,” and his family are the focus of a comedic docu-series on VH1. Suave Says launches Wednesday, December 3 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Can’t wait for the January 4 premiere of Downton Abbey? PBS is offering Downton Abbey Rediscovered, featuring highlights from past seasons and sneak previews from season five. Tony Award winner/Downton fan Bernadette Peters hosts, on Sunday, November 30 at 9p (check local listings).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Mom stars Anna Faris and Allison Janney partner again to host the People’s Choice Awards, live from LA Wednesday, January 7 at 9p on CBS. Voting began yesterday for all 58 categories on www.PeoplesChoice.com.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Comedy special Erik Rivera: I’m No Expert premieres on NUVOtv Saturday, November 8 at 10p. One topic Rivera covers: the difficulty of telling people where you’re from when you’re Spanish in America.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TLC’s The Little Couple is back with new eps Tuesday, December 2 at 9p. The LMNO production focuses on family milestones and medical challenges.
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Cast members onboard season seven of NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice run the gamut from Geraldo Rivera, to Sharknado’s Ian Ziering, to Jonas brother Kevin, to Real Housewives, Olympians and Lorenzo Lamas (Falcon Crest). Two episodes feature past winner/guest advisor Joan Rivers, taped before the comedian’s death on September 4. They’ll air, said Donald Trump, because “I think she would have liked it that way.” Reality show returns Sunday, January 4 at 9p, then moves to Mondays at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CW’s Hart of Dixie launches 10-ep season four Friday, January 9 at 8p. Leading into the series, Masters of Illusion, hosted by Dean Cain (Lois and Clark), returns with four new episodes at 8p, followed by repeats of Whose Line Is It Anyway? at 8:30p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MTV’s Real World: Skeletons, with the surprise addition to the house of people from the past the reality show roommates hoped never to see again, premieres Tuesday, December 16 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season three of Banshee premieres on Cinemax Friday, January 9 at 10p. The action drama stars Antony Starr as an ex-con impersonating a town’s murdered sheriff.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Former The View co-host Sherri Shepherd will return to TV Land’s Soul Man in a major story arc for season four, reprising a character she’d played for one episode in the comedy’s freshman run.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Freshman Fox drama Gotham was up two tenths week-to-week on Monday, its 2.4/7 rating among A18-49 enough to match a four-week high.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Syndicated talker Live with Kelly & Michael was up 4 percent versus last week and up 12 percent from last year, to 2.9. Dr. Phil was down 3 percent week-to-week, to 3.1, but up 10 percent from last year.
(Source: Cynopsis)
One Starry Christmas, the first of Hallmark Channel’s “Countdown to Christmas” original premieres, averaged 3.1 million total viewers, and was Sunday’s number one program (outside of sports) in its time period in cable in HH (2.9), W18-49 (1.0), W25-54 (1.5) and total viewers (1.4), according to Nielsen.
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Weather Channel reports its Wake Up with Al early morning show outpaced CNBC over the past 9 weeks during the5:30a-7:00a M-F time period, outperforming CNBC by 335 percent. During the week of October 6, WUWA also outperformed CNN, and during the week of October 20, outpaced MSNBC, CNBC and CNN, said TWC. (Source: Star Media, MultiTrak)
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SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 11/2/14)
1) Taylor Swift – 1989 – 1,286,544
2) Various Artists – Now 52 – 103.039
3) Sam Hunt – Montevallo – 69,849
Other Debuts
4) Barry Manilow – My Dream Duets – 50,718
7) Chris Tomlin – Love Ran Red – 34,784
9) Black Veil Brides – Black Veil Brides – 29,924
14) Trip Lee – Rise – 22,931
18) Rancid – Honor Is All We Know – 15,024
22) Yusuf/Cat Stevens – Tell ‘Em I’m Gone – 13,519
23) Chris Webby – Chemically Imbalanced – 13,217
26) Jagged Edge – JE Heartbreak Too – 12,468
27) Grateful Dead – Dave’s Picks Volume 12 – 12,346
33) Stalley – Ohio – 10,229
34) Disclosure – Settle – 10,210
37) Various Artists – Now Disney 3 – 9,200
38) Dillon Francis – Money Sucks, Friends Rule – 9,056
41) Darious Rucker – Home For The Holidays – 8,887
42) Danity Kane – DK3 – 8,851
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