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ABC: Dancing with the Stars (Finale) at 9pm
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Season one of NBC’s Constantine won’t go past its initial order of 13 episodes, but the series could still get picked up for season two. While ratings have been soft, the drama jumped week to week from .8/3 among A18-49 to 1.1 on Friday, and had an 81 percent Live+3 lift the previous week.
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HBO confirmed Rachel McAdams (The Notebook) will star opposite Colin Farrell (Winter’s Tale) and Vince Vaughn (Wedding Crashers) in season two of True Detective. Also onboard: Kelly Reilly (Black Box) and Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights). Production begins this fall in California.
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David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers) has joined martial arts drama Badlands (wt) as series director and an exec producer. AMC has ordered six one-hour eps, to premiere in late 2015 or early 2016.
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ABC, which gave midseason drama Members Only a straight-to-series-order in January, has canceled the project. A pilot for the ensemble show set at a country club was shot last spring.
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Fyi is thinking small: Tiny House Nation, about people living in mini dream homes, is back for season two Monday, December 22 at 9p. New docu-series Tiny House Hunting follows, at 10p. Both hail from Loud TV.
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Beverly Hills Pawn returns with back-to-back new eps Saturday, January 17 at 9p. Docu-series from Asylum Entertainment will feature items ranging from a piece of Israeli military history to a dress worn by Elizabeth Taylor to a prop inspired by This Is Spinal Tap.
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Count TLC among the nets raring to celebrate the season. Long Island Medium Theresa Caputo and her husband dress for a charity event as Mr. and Mrs. Claus on Sunday, December 7 at 8p, the night a winning viewer will be surprised with a live reading; Deck the Halls with Dr. Christmas shows celeb homes transformed for the holidays on December 12 at 9p, and new two-hour special The Secret Santa premieres Sunday, December 14 at 7p, tracking a man too good to be true – but who might be anyway.
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Season three of Fuse’s highest-rated series ever, Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce, premieres Wednesday, February 25 at 11p. “Big Freedia is that rare artist whose real life brings reality back to its roots,” said executive producer Fenton Bailey.
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Spiritual leader Rob Bell stars in a self-named special on OWN premiering Sunday, December 21 at 8p. Lead-in is a best-of edition of Super Soul Sunday: Soul-to-Soul at 7p.
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Homeland for the holidays: Showtime is running a Homeland marathon starting Saturday, November 29 at 3p, and catch-up eps of The Affair beginning Sunday, November 30 at 4p. Series return with new episodes Sunday, December 7.
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Bravo social experiment Friends to Lovers? debuts Monday, January 12 at 10p, with five sets of singles aiming to take their relationships to the next level. A preview special Monday, December 15 at 10:30p offers a peek at the daring daters. Series comes from World of Wonder.
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SundanceTV six-parter Babylon premieres Thursday, January 8 at 10p. Dramedy from Nightjack Ltd and Channel 4 is set in a London police force.
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Michael Stahl-David (Cloverfield) will star in TNT’s drug trade drama pilot from exec producers Jerry Bruckenheimer and Michael Bay. Elizabeth Perkins (Weeds) plays his mom.
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Stephen Weber (Wings) guests on an episode of Showtime’s House of Lies as a turnaround specialist. Season four of the comedy premieres Sunday, January 11 at 10p.
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Lenora Critchlow (A to Z) and Spencer Grammer (Ironside) have been cast as series regulars in NBC midseason comedy Mr. Robinson, starring Craig Robinson (The Office) as a middle school music teacher. Grammer’s half-sister Greer (Awkward) was recently named Miss Golden Globe 2015; Dad is Kelsey Grammer (Frasier).
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Hallmark Channel vets Lori Loughlin (When Calls the Heart) and Bailee Madison (A Taste of Romance) return to the net for Northpole 2, a partnership with Hallmark Cards for holiday season 2015 and the centerpiece of the net’s annual “Countdown to Christmas” campaign. Northpole averaged 4 million total viewers for its premiere on November 15.
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Opposite two old football rivals battling it out in a close match on NBC’s Sunday Night Football, the American Music Awards dipped from last year’s highs in total viewers (11.6 million from 12.9 million) and A18-49 ratings (3.8 from 4.6). Nevertheless, it was enough to hand ABC its biggest Sunday night since the Oscars on March 2.
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Football also beat AMC’s The Walking Dead in the young adult demo, after the zombie drama landed on top for three weeks in a row. In fast nationals, Sunday Night Football delivered a 7.1 rating, versus 7.0 for Dead.
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