FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 11/14/14)
CBS: The Hollywood Film Awards at 8pm
FYI: Epic Meal Empire (Premiere) at 10pm
(SATURDAY 11/15/14)
BBC AMERICA: Atlantis (Premiere) at 9pm
STARZ: The Missing (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Woody Harrelson, Musical Guest: Kendrick Lamar at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 11/16/14)
HLN: Growing America: A Journey To Success (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: On The Case with Paula Zahn (Finale) at 10pm
CNN renewed three unscripted series: Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown (Zero Point Zero Productions) for season six, and Somebody’s Gotta Do It with Mike Rowe (Pilgrim Studios) and This Is Life with Lisa Ling (Part2 Pictures) for sophomore runs. Also coming up: High Profits, a series about “marijuana moguls.”
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A musical based on the Duck Dynasty clan is in the works. (Really.) The New York Times reports The Duck Commander Family Musical, with actors playing members of the Robertson clan featured on the A&E reality show, is being developed by Broadway producer Michael David (Jersey Boys), for a Las Vegas run. “The Robertsons are so unusual, their story so juicy, and theater shouldn’t be limited to telling stories about people you resemble or revere,” David told the Gray Lady. Said Willie Robertson, “We’ve enjoyed the process of making a musical alongside the team who is interested in telling the Robertson family story from an outside perspective.”
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck will return to her Fox &Friends seat bright and early this morning, a month after an abrupt exit to recover from surgery. “Full of #gratitude to be back,” the co-host tweeted yesterday.
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Perception won’t make it to season four on TNT. Star Eric McCormack tweeted Thursday, “A sad day: Daniel will lecture no more. Thank you #Perception fans, and our great crew, for 3 amazing seasons. Shoulda been more….”
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The first season of Netflix’s $100 million drama The Crown will premiere in 2016. The plan: Each season will chronicle the intrigues in a decade of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign. “The Crown is storytelling that lives somewhere between television and cinema from Britain’s foremost chroniclers of modern politics, class and society,” said Cindy Holland, Netflix’s VP of original content.
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TLC helps viewers preparing for onerous holiday travel to see the bright side: Their treks will likely be a lot more comfortable than the journeys on Extreme Cheapskates: Vacations. The one-hour special on Wednesday, November 19 at 9p looks at penny-pinchers whose travel tricks include cooking breakfast on a car engine, and cruising for quarters at a Jersey Shore arcade.
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Hallmark Channel is counting down to Christmas with two original holiday premieres this weekend: Northpole on Saturday, November 15 at 8p, and Angels and Ornaments Sunday, November 16 at 8p.
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MTV & Co. announced dates for their movie and music awards. For MTV: The MTV Movie Awards air live Sunday, April 12, while the net’s Video Music Awards premiere Sunday, August 30. The MTV2 Fandom Awards will be broadcast Sunday, July 12, the mtvU Woodie Awards launch live from SXSW March 20 and Logo TV Trailblazers premieres Sunday, June 28.
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Add Chris Brown, Enrique Iglesias and Magic! to the list of performers at the 15th Latin Grammy Awards, airing Thursday, November 20 at 8p on Univision. They join a lineup that will give 20 performances.
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Will Betty Who go Gaga on the New Now Next Awards? The rising star is set for her first TV performance on the Logo TV celebration, following in the footsteps of Lady Gaga’s debut in 2008. Show premieres Sunday, December 7 at 8p, encoring on MTV Friday, December 12 at 7p.
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Former Mythbusters Kari Byron and Tory Belleci return to Discovery to four-peat as hosts of Punkin Chunkin: Superchunk!, simulcast on Science Channel on Saturday, November 29 at 8p. The two-hour special brings some of the top Punkin Chunkin teams to New Hampshire, where they’ll hurl everything including the kitchen sink.
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Netflix will launch season two of The Fall in the U.S. on Tuesday, January 6. The crime drama began its sophomore run across the pond last night on BBC Two.
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Kathryn Hahn (We’re the Millers) has been cast as the female lead in the new pilot for Showtime comedy Happyish. Hahn had the same role in the original pilot, opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose shocking death in February put the project on hold. Steve Coogan (Philomena) stepped into the role Hoffman was to play. The pilot will be shot in New York next month.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Poppy Drayton (When Calls the Heart) will star in upcoming MTV drama Shannara, based on the fantasy book series by Terry Brooks. Sonar Entertainment is producing.
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Lizzie Brochere (American Horror Story: Asylum) joins FX thriller The Strain, prepping for season two.
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Dr. Phil puts Here Comes Honey Boo Boo’s “Mama June” Shannon in the hot seat, following allegations of the reality star’s affair with a convicted child molester that led to the show’s cancellation. Ep airs Monday, November 17. Shannon’s on a roll: on Thursday, she told Entertainment Tonight two of her daughters were fathered by a different sex offender.
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With new lead-in The Voice on Wednesday, NBC’s Law & Order: SVU and Chicago P.D. each jumped eight tenths of a point among A18-49, to 2.4/7 and 2.2/7, respectively. The dramas were part of a crossover stunt with Tuesday’s Chicago Fire.
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Fox News built on its ratings Tuesday night with part 2 of its The Man Who Killed Osama Bin Laden special on Wednesday night, rising to 3.37 million viewers from the prior night’s 2.697 million. Outside election and State of the Union coverage, it was the net’s most-watched 10p hour of the year.
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Science’s Landing on a Comet: Rosetta Mission on Wednesday delivered 763,000 total viewers P2+ and was the net’s most-watched telecast of the year in viewers and the second-most-watched telecast in network history in total viewer P2+.
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HGTV averaged a0.58 P25-54 rating from 8p-12a on Saturday, its highest-rated Saturday night since March 2014 and 29 percent higher than last year. House Hunters Renovation was the strongest performer of the night, garnering a .65 P25-54 rating.
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MOVIES
Dumb And Dumber To – Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Kathleen Turner, Laurie Holden, Rachel Melvin, Steve Tom, Rob Riggle, Don Lake
Beyond The Lights – Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nate Parker, Minnie Driver, Danny Glover, Colson Baker, Darryl Stephens, Elaine Tan, Isaac Keys
Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas (Limited Release) – Kirk Cameron, Darren Doane, Bridgette Ridenour
Rosewater (Limited Release) – Gael Garcia Bernal, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Golshifteh Dimitri Leonidas, Haluk Bilginer, Andrew Gower, Arian Moayed, Numan Acar,
Foxcatcher (Limited Release) – Steve Carrell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Vaness Redgrave, Sienna Miller, Anthony Michael Hall, Guy Boyd, Dave “Doc” Bennett
The Homesman (Limited Release) – Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, David Dencik, William Fichtner, Grace Gummer, John Lithgow, Tim Blake Nelson, Miranda Otto
NYC STREET FAIRS
Friday November 14, 2014
The Grand Central Fair – on 43rd St. from Lexington Ave. to 3rd Ave.
Saturday November 15, 2014
Bryant Park Block Party – 41st St. bet. 6th & 7th Ave.
Times Square Holiday Fair – on 45th St. from 6th to 7th Ave.
NYC CD & Record Collectors Expo – The Holiday Inn 440 West 57th St. bet. 9th & 10th Ave.
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