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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 11/11/14)
A&E: Storage Wars (Premiere) at 9pm
A&E: Dogs of War (Premiere) at 10pm
DIY: A Hero’s Welcome (Premiere) at 11pm
GSN: The Chase (Premiere) at 8pm
ID: A Crime To Remember (Premiere) at 10pm
Showtime picked up The Affair for a sophomore run, and Homeland for season five. While The Affair debuted to just 507,000 Same Day viewers, the relationship drama has grown every week since its premiere and is averaging 3.9 million weekly viewers across platforms Sundays at 10p. Homeland is averaging 6 million weekly viewers at 9p.
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President Obama isn’t wavering on the issue of net neutrality. In a statement explaining why he is urging the FCC to implement “the strongest possible rules” to protect an open Internet, the President said “it is essential to the American economy, and increasingly our very way of life…We cannot allow Internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.”
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TruthCo. gave props to CW freshman Jane the Virgin with its November “Show to Know” kudos. Based on a Venezuelan telenovela, Jane treats Latinos “not as monolithic, struggling ‘others,’ but as relatable, well-rounded, and diverse,” said the culture decoder, adding the series “succeeds by balancing the genre’s requisite absurdity with the emotionally realistic reactions of its characters.”
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NYCers won’t be seeing an irreverent ad for Bravo’s upcoming series Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, with star Lisa Edelstein holding up her ring finger and the line, “Go Find Yourself,” on city buses or subways. The MTA banned the poster because of its “implied inappropriate creative,” according to the NY Post. That didn’t stop Bravo – ads have already popped up in other spots, like Big Apple phone kiosks. (LA also rejected the ad.) Girlfriends’ Guide premieres Tuesday, December 2 at 10p.
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MTV2 announced new season pickups for Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘N Out and Guy Code, to air in 2015, and greenlit two new series, MTV2’s Joking Off and Number 2 News (wt). The net is also developing a talk show pilot, Uncommon Sense with Charlamagne. “We’re cultivating new playgrounds to discover rising talent,” said Chris McCarthy, GM of MTV2, mtvU and Logo.
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SundanceTV gave the green light to Hap and Leonard, based on the Joe Lansdale noir book series about an unlikely pair of best friends in 1980s East Texas. Six one-hour episodes produced by Sundance Studios begin shooting in 2015 for an early 2016 premiere.
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Starz ordered a series follow-up to classic horror film franchise The Evil Dead, with original director Sam Raimi, producing partner Rob Tapert and star Bruce Campbell as chainsaw-handed monster hunter Ash onboard Ash Vs. Evil Dead. Starz first worked with Raimi and Tapert on Spartacus. “Bruce, Rob and I are thrilled to have the opportunity to tell the next chapter in Ash’s lame, but heroic saga,” said Raimi.
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Animal Planet hosts a two-week holiday celebration Monday, December 15-Sunday, December28. “Best Fest” will feature marathons of fan faves and premieres of holiday-themed eps, starting with Mud Lovin’ Rednecks as they create a “Muddy South Pole” on December 15 at 9p.
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Unsung heroes are celebrated in American Heroes Channel miniseries The American Revolution, premiering Monday, December 9 at 9p and 10p. Two-night event combines interviews, recreations and high-end animation to shine a light on forgotten players in the conflict.
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ABC Family is giving fans a chance to get in the spirit of the season early, making holiday eps of Switched at Birth and The Fosters available ahead of their broadcast premieres. Starting Monday, December 1, viewers can access the shows on the net’s authenticated WATCH ABC Family service and VOD platforms. Official bows: Monday, December 8 at 8p and 9p.
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The Weather Channel is offering three days of “Survive the Feast,” 2p-4a marathons Thanksgiving weekend. Included: back-to-back eps of So You Think You’d Survive (“give thanks for not finding yourself in any of these situations”), Fat Guys in the Woods and Highway Through Hell, Thursday, November 27 through Saturday, November 29.
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Esquire is also serving up Thanksgiving marathons, with back-to-back eps of food-and-drink themed Knife Fight, Best Bars in America, Illegal Eater and Restaurant Revolution Thursday and Friday.
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A national veterans campaign, Got Your 6, is aiming to shift perceptions about vets and their families. Included in the campaign: Operation: Got Your 6, an animated short featuring First Lady Michelle Obama and the Penguins of Madagascar, from the upcoming film, used in History‘s Take a Veteran to School curriculum to help school-age children understand and dispel myths about veterans.
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Paget Brewster (Criminal Minds) and Keith David (Enlisted) join season six of NBC transplant Community, launching on Yahoo in early 2015.
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Roseanne Barr (Roseanne) will guest on ABC’s Cristela, reports EW, for an early January ep. Cristela airs Fridays at 8:30p.
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For the second time in three weeks, AMC’s The Walking Dead trampled NBC’s Sunday Night Football in the young adult demo. Score: Zombies 8.82 million viewers, gridiron 8.4 million at 9p. In total viewers football came out on top, 17.3 million to 13.5 million, per early numbers.
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With an assist from football overrun and a Futurama crossover, The Simpsons was up a whopping 45 percent versus the Sunday prior among A18-49, to 2.9/8, enough to top ABC’s Once Upon a Time, second in the demo in Big Four entertainment shows with 2.5.
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Sweet Revenge: The ABC Sunday drama saw an uptick from lead-in Resurrection for the first time, matching a season high 1.3/4. Resurrection hit a series low 1.2/3.
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Discovery’s Gold Rush was number one in all of television in M25-54 (2.8) and delivered a season best in P25-54 (1.9) on Friday, and was the number one cable program among total viewers, P/M25-54 and P18-49.
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The season five finale of ITV’s Downton Abbey delivered 8.3 million viewers, according to overnight ratings, its lowest ender ever; season four’s conclusion drew 9.8 million. Drama launches Stateside January 4 on PBS.
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