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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 12/12/14)
TNT: Wake Up Call (Premiere) at 9pm
WE: Kendra On Top: The Untold Story Part 2 (Premiere) at 9pm
(SATURDAY 12/13/14)
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Martin Freeman, Musical Guest: Charlie XCX at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 12/14/14)
AHC: Secrets of the Bible (Premiere) at 10pm
CBS: Undercover Boss (Premiere) at 8pm
SCIENCE: Biblical Conspiracies (Premiere) at 9pm
FOOD: Holiday Baking Championship (Finale) at 9pm
HBO: The Newsroom (Finale) at 9pm
HBO: Getting On (Finale) at 10:30pm
Nominees for the 2015 Golden Globe Awards were announced Thursday morning. Among the TV nods: for best drama series, it’s Showtime’s The Affair, HBO’s Game of Thrones, CBS’s The Good Wife and Netflix’s House of Cards. Competing for best comedy series are HBO’s Girls and Silicon Valley, CW’s Jane the Virgin, Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black and Amazon’s Transparent. Ceremony airs Sunday, January 11 on NBC. For a full list, go here.
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Of note: Showtime’s nine Globes nods were the most in its history, and the net’s The Affair was the only freshman series to earn nods for lead actor, actress and drama series. HBO won the most network noms, with 15, while FX’s Fargo scored the most series mentions with five. First-timers CW, Cinemax and Amazon got seats at the table with nominations for Jane the Virgin, The Knick and Transparent. Conspicuous by their absence: Awards magnets Modern Family and Big Bang Theory.
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David Letterman may be clearing out of The Late Show on May 20, but Stephen Colbert won’t be slipping into the long-time host’s seat while it’s still warm. Although Colbert’s signing off on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report December 18, he won’t start his CBS late night job until August or September, according to the LA Times.
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Colbert’s last days on Comedy Central will include visits from Seth Rogen, rapper Kendrick Lamar and military veteran Phil Clay. But the last night of his nine-year run Colbert has reserved for his “colleague and lifelong friend” Grimmy, the Grim Reaper.
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Les Moonves won’t be job-hunting anytime soon. CBS Corporation extended the president and CEO’s contract – set to conclude in 2017 – through June 2019, at which point Moonves will become an executive advisor to the company he joined in 1995, with an option to establish a production company under CBS’s auspices.
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ABC Family picked up docu-series My Transparent Life, about a teenager who learns his parents are getting a divorce and his dad is becoming woman, direct to series from Ryan Seacrest Productions. The dive into unscripted tracks with the net’s sensibility. “While Ben’s family situation is unusual, the themes and coming-of-age issues are universal, and we think our viewers will find a real connection to them,” said net president Tom Ascheim.
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Limited series Betty White’s Smartest Animals in America premieres on White’s 93rd birthday, Saturday, January 17, at 8p, on Great American Country. Said animal lover White, who communes with the likes of dolphins, elephants and badgers in the special, “Any excuse to be around animal, I’ll take it!”
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FYI has two reality show premieres set for Tuesday, January 13. Spin-off Married at First Sight: The First Year launches at 9p, following the two out of six couples still wed to the strangers they said “I do” to, and Mikie Saves the Date, focused on event planner Mikie Russo. Married is produced for FYI by Kinetic Content; Mike hails from High Noon Entertainment.
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Hallmark Channel debuts holiday movies Best Christmas Party Ever on Saturday, December 13 at 8p, and The Christmas Parade on Sunday, December 14 at 8p, part of the net’s “Countdown to Christmas.”
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VH1’s Sorority Sisters, following the lives of women from four different Greek groups, launches Monday, December 15 at 9p. Series is produced by Juma Entertainment and Eastern TV.
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CMT starts off the New Year with a 10-hour Cops Reloaded marathon, beginning at 11a on Thursday, January 1. No need to feel shy if you’re nursing a hangover – the event will be hosted by the cast of Party Down South 2. That night, there’s an 11p sneak peek at the premiere of My Big Redneck Family, making its official return Saturday, January 17 at 10p.
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OWN documentary Michael Sam airs Saturday, December 27 at 9p. The special following the first openly gay football player drafted into the NFL originated as a series, but the game plan changed to allow Sam to focus on football.
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TLC has five Kate Plus Eight specials on tap for early 2015, starting Tuesday, January 13 at 9p, with the brood collecting crabs, playing pilgrim, holding a yard sale and (uh oh) undergoing a home renovation.
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Four real estate-related series are headed home to HGTV. Love It or List It, Too is back Friday, January 2 at 9p, followed by Love It or List It on Monday, January 5 at 9p. Fixer-Upper returns Tuesday, January 6 at 9p, and the Property Brothers are raring to renovate starting Wednesday, January 7 at 9p.
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DIY’s Rev Run’s Renovation is back for season two Saturday, January 3 at 10p. Shouldn’t the rapper’s New Jersey mansion makeover be completed by now? Not if the fam wants a super sleek bowling alley, rockin’ pool house and secret theater room….
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Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry? returns to ID for season five on Saturday, December 20 at 8p. The first-person accounts of flirtations turned fatal “has become a quintessential series in ID’s programming lineup,” said Henry Shleiff, group president of ID, AHC, DA, Discovery Fit & Health and Discovery Family Channel.
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Broadchurch is back on BBC America for season two on Wednesday, February 4 at 10p. Check out the trailer here.
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TV One’s Fatal Attraction has been renewed for a third season. True crime docu-series from Jupiter Entertainment returns January 5.
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Camille de Pazzis (The Following) joins season three of Netflix’s Hemlock Grove, as an old soul masquerading in a young body.
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Blair Underwood (L.A. Law) will recur on ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as a man from Melinda May’s past. S.H.I.E.L.D. returns Tuesday, March 3 for the rest of season two.
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Zara Zoe (Skin Deep) won the lead role in TNT drama pilot Lumen, about a family transported to an alternate world.
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“Jessie’s Girl” singer Rick Springfield, whose acting credits include General Hospital, has joined season two of HBO’s True Detective.
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Court show Hot Bench, the number one new first-run syndicated strip of the season with a 1.5HH rating and 2 million viewers, has been renewed for a second season and upgraded in five of the top ten markets for the remainder of the season, announced CTD and Queen Bee Productions.
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ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos was Sunday’s number one public affairs program in both total viewers and A25-54, winning in total viewers for the first time this season, with week-to-week boosts of 19 percent in viewers and 31 percent in the news demo.
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Up reports Marry Us for Christmas was its strongest original movie premiere this year among W18-49, ranking in the top ten among all ad-supported cable nets in African-American key demos. The movie’s 7p premiere on December 7, combined with its 9p encore, reached 1.6 million viewers.
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Syndicated Steve Harvey had its best November sweeps yet, averaging a 1.9HH rating, up 6 percent versus season two’s November 2013 performance, and up 46 percent from 2012.
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While NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America jockey for the top morning show spot (with GMA taking the viewer and A25-54 crowns this season), CBS This Morning boasts it was the only show the week of December 5 to post a gain in total viewers (to the tune of 160,000, up 5 percent) versus the same week last year.
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The premiere of TV One’s Second Chance Christmas on December 6 posted a .27 rating among P25-54 (158,000) and .51HH rating (287,000), and was the number one movie telecast on cable for the night in the Black A25-54 and F25-54 demos, according to Nielsen.
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MOVIES
Exodus: Gods And Kings – Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, John Turturro, Aaron Paul, Ben Kingsley, Sigourney Weaver Golshifteh, Farahani, Maria Valverde
Top Five – Chris Rock, Rosario Dawson, Kevin Hart, Gabrielle Union, Tracy Morgan, Cedric The Entertainer, J.B. Smoove, Sherri Shepherd
Inherent Vice (Limited Release) – Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston, Reese Witherspoon, Benicio Del Toro, Martin Short, Jena Malone
Free The Nipple (Limited Release) Lina Esco, Lola Kirke, Zach Grenier, Casey LaBow, Monique Coleman, Griffin Newman, Jen Ponton, John Keating
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (Limited Release) – Gena Rowlands, Cheyenne Jackson, Julian Sands, Jacki Weaver, Rita Moreno, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Anthony Zerbe, Simon Miller
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