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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 12/17/14)
NBC: Michael Buble’s Christmas In New York (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: The Sing-Off (Premiere) at 9pm
CBS: Survivor (Finale) at 8pm
FOX: Hell’s Kitchen (Finale) at 8pm
HGTV: Property Brothers at Home (Finale) at 9pm
ID: Love The Way You Lie (Finale) at 10pm
SYFY: Ascension (Finale) at 9pm
The locale of AMC‘s The Walking Dead spinoff has finally been revealed. Turns out the zombies are headed for Hollywood, though it has yet to be confirmed if the new series will actually be filmed there. The pilot will be shot in early 2015. Walking Dead is currently filmed in Atlanta.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TLC announced half of the celebrity contributors for the upcoming season of Who Do You Think You Are? Julie Chen, Angie Harmon, Sean Hayes and Bill Paxton will each discover their family history when the new season debuts Tuesday, February 24 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Esquire Network will premiere the entire original series The Short Game On Demand beginning Monday, December 22, a full-month before its network premiere on Tuesday, January 20 at 10p. All ten episodes of the series will be viewable on the network’s mobile app, Esquire TV NOW and online at esquiretv.com/NOW, and through multiple MVPD partners, including Comcast, Charter, Time Warner, DirectTV, Verizon and Cablevision. It marks the first time Esquire has premiered an entire series On Demand prior to its network premiere.
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Bounce TV has acquired its first off-net series: Roc and The Parent ‘Hood from Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution; A Different World from Carsey-Werner and The Hughleys from Twentieth Television. The four shows will constitute the new lineup leading into prime time, Monday through Friday, beginning Monday, January 5 at 5p.
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TiVo Research’s Second Annual Millennial Video Entertainment Survey has found that millennials watch more music and less live sports than other generations. Stats show that 43 percent of millennial viewing is of linear TV programs. The difference is in the delivery: millennials prefer streaming sources to MVPDs.
(Source: Cynopsis)
From bewildering births to bizarre medical anomalies, Discovery Life Channel (formerly Discovery Fit And Health) has unveiled a full slate of programing reflecting its new identity, beginning Thursday, January 15 with Outrageous Births: Tales from The Crib at 9p and 50 Ways to Kill Your Mother at 10p. NY ER debuts Friday, January 16 at 10p and 10:30p. Body Bizarre premieres Saturday, January 17 at 9p, while Hoarding: Behind Closed Doors bows on Sunday, January 18 at 10p. The Mistress debuts Wednesday, January 21 at 10p and 10:30p. World’s Worst Mom kicks off on Thursday, January 22 at 9p and 9:30p.
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A&E Network premieres the new nonfiction series Nightwatch from executive producer Dick Wolf, his Wolf Reality, and 44 Blue Productions. The hour-long series follows elite teams of emergency responders as they risk their lives to work the busy, unnerving overnight shift in New Orleans, Louisiana.The show premieres Thursday, January 22 at 10.
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Ellen’s Design Challenge, HGTV’s new furniture competition series conceptualized by Ellen DeGeneres, premiere Monday, January 26 at 9p.The six-episode series features six competitors tackling challenges to sketch, design and build extraordinary furniture. The last competitor standing receives a $100,000 cash prize courtesy of Wayfair.com and gets to see her work featured in HGTV Magazine.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Music Choice celebrates the top Latin songs of 2014 with the multi-platform video and music special MC 100 Latino. Videos from artists including Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, Romeo Santos, Prince Royce, J Balvin, and Larry Hernandez will be available on Music Choice On Demand starting Monday, December 22 and will run through Sunday, January 4, 2015.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Spike TV has picked up a sixth season of original tattoo-competition series Ink Master. A new season of 13 episodes is slated for summer 2015.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season three of History’s drama series Vikings returns on Thursday, February 19 at 10p. The new 10-episode season begins with Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) as King.
(Source: Cynopsis)
JAG alum David James Elliott has landed a guest spot on the CBS hit Scorpion. He’ll appear in an early 2015 episode, playing Bruce Jones, an ex Secret Service agent who turns to Team Scorpion to help recover a buried memory, when he becomes the only hope of catching terrorists planning to break into a top-secret U.S. nuclear missile silo.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Peyton List (The Tomorrow People) has been tapped to guest star on CW‘s The Flash. She’ll play villain Leonard Snart’s little sister, Lisa.
(Source: Cynopsis)
FXX is launching its holiday programming with a series of Christmas-themed mini-marathons of The Simpsons beginning Monday, December 22 at 8p. The festivities continue with a special 24-hour presentation of the feature film A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas beginning Wednesday, December 24 at 8p. The network will ring in the New Year with a Simpsons binge, featuring the premiere and finale episodes from 25 seasons in chronological order, beginning Wednesday, December 31 at 7p with The Simpsons Movie. An encore of the movie airs Thursday, January 1 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
During the week of December 8, 2014, ABC delivered 7 of the Top 20 non-sports TV programs in Adults 18-49: Modern Family No. 4, “black-ish No. 9, The Middle and The Goldbergs tied at No. 12, while The Great Christmas Light Fight, S.H.I.E.L.D. and Once Upon a Time tied at No. 19.
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Judge Judy (7.0) was the top-rated court show for the 950th straight week, a streak that began more than 18 years ago.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Steve Harvey (1.9, up 6%) rocketed 25% among W25-54; while Dr Oz (1.5, up 7%) improved 15% from last year, the most year-to-year growth of any talk show.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 12/14/14)
1) J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive – 353,538
2) Taylor Swift – 1989 – 277,607 (After 7 weeks – 3,003,615)
3) Pentatonix – That’s Christmas To Me – 206,560 (After 8 weeks – 821,678)
Other Debuts
4) Carrie Underwood – Greatest Hits: Decade #1 – 93,714
6) K. Michelle – Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart? – 84,117
27) Smashing Pumpkins – Monuments To An Elegy – 22,430
33) Angels & Airwaves – Dream Walker – 19,088
39) Johnny Gill – Game Changer – 15,439
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