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ON TELEVISION (THRUSDAY 12/18/14)
NBC: People Magazine Awards at 9pm
E! Untold with Maria Menounos (Finale) at 8pm
FOOD: Food Truck Face Off (Finale) at 8pm
FUSION: No, You Shut, Up! (Finale) at 10:30pm
LIFETIME: Project Runway Threads (Finale) at 10pm
REELZ: Cosby Under Fire (Finale) at 9pm
SYFY: The Almighty Johnsons (Finale) at 11pm
USA: White Collar (Finale) at 9pm
USA: Covert Affairs (Finale) at 10pm
WE TV: Tamar & Vince (Finale) at 10pm
Effective January 1, HBO won’t be releasing overnight ratings for its series. The move follows a similar decision by FX, which stopped releasing “live plus same day” ratings, earlier this year. “HBO subscribers have available to them an array of entry points to watch our programming HBO linear feeds, DVR, HBO On Demand and HBO GO and a single airing is no longer representative of an HBO show’s true audience size,” said HBO in a statement. “Today, it’s common for final gross-audience figures to grow anywhere from five to ten times viewership after an initial airing.” In the new year, HBO viewership figures will first be made available approximately two weeks after a program’s premiere, including Nielsen’s live-plus-seven and preliminary HBO On Demand and HBO GO data.
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Another day, another gig for Terry Crews. The Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire host is set to emcee the new FOX unscripted comedy World’s Funniest Fails. Series debuts Friday January 16 at 8p.
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FXX launches its new late-night animation block at midnight on Thursday, January 22 with all-new episodes of Lucas Bros. Moving Co. and Stone Quackers. Viewers will get a sneak peek at the two shows on Thursday, January 1 at 12a, immediately following a marathon of The Simpsons. After January 22, the programming block will air Thursdays at midnight.
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CMT‘s broadcast of the CMT Ultimate Kickoff Party Live from the College Football Playoff National Championship has added to its lineup of performers. Joining the mix are Jake Owen, Maddie & Tae and Thomas Rhett. The live special airs Friday, January 9 at 9p.
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ABC Family is saying thank you to Pretty Little Liars viewers by incorporating fan art into the on-air promo campaign for the upcoming winter season, beginning Tuesday January 6 at 8p. Fans can submit their best renderings of Alison, Aria, Emily, Hanna and Spencer to the “Pretty Little Liars” Tumblr page. The network will showcase five pieces of artwork each week.
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n a special episode of Prospectors, airing Sunday, December 21 at 9p, The Weather Channel partners with Make-A-Wish so that a young fan from Southern California can mine with prospectors Dwayne Hall and the Dorris Family. He is currently in remission after battling leukemia and is described by his mother as “a complete rock hound.”
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PBS rings in 2015 with Michael Feinstein New Year’s Eve at the Rainbow Room airing Wednesday, December 31 at 10p. Guests include Darren Criss (Glee), Leslie Odom, Jr. (Smash), Broadway actors Kelli O’Hara and Aaron Tveit, nightclubber Marilyn Maye, Tony Award-winning actress Christine Ebersole and America’s Got Talent finalist Julia Goodwin.
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NASA announced that the Curiosity rover found organics on Mars, which are the necessary building blocks of life, and Discovery Channel cameras were rolling every step of the way. The evidence will be presented on Red Planet Rover, premiering tonight at 10p.
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The flour flies when eight kid bakers go whisk-to-whisk in the new Food Network series Kids Baking Championship. The competitors vie for a grand prize of $10,000. The tournament is hosted and judged by Duff Goldman and Valerie Bertinelli. Series premieres Monday, February 2nd at 8p.
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Animal Planet‘s Rugged Justice premieres Sunday, January 18 at 8p. The new six-part series follows fish and wildlife police officers who risk their lives to protect the people and animals of Washington State.
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Discovery Channel’s Big Giant Swords premieres Tuesday, January 13 at 10p with Michael “Irish Mike” Craughwell attempting to make a living designing and building larger-than-life works of art. Joined by sidekick AmeriMike and a crew of artists and builders, Craughwell will attempt to bring to life the stuff of fairy tales and legends.
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There’s no escaping the law on Animal Planet. Rocky Mountain Bounty Hunters returns for a second season with 10 one-hour episodes on Sunday, January 11 at 9p. The series follows professional bounty-hunter teams Clint and Dayson in Colorado and Rob and “Animal” in Montana, as they track fugitives in the Rockies.
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Event planner extraordinaire David Tutera is back for an all-new season of WE tv’s David Tutera’s CELEBrations, premiering Friday, January 9 at 10p. In the season opener, he plans a star-studded 10th anniversary celebration for celebrity blogger Perez Hilton.
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Late night’s Comedy Bang! Bang!, returns on Friday, January 9 at 11p. The IFC talker has lined up Ty Burrell, Kid Cudi, Mark Duplass, Zach Galifianakis, Simon Helberg, and Maya Rudolph as some of the guests for its fourth season.
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Look for Charlie Sheen to turn up on The Goldbergs when the ABC comedy airs a tribute episode to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Sheen will pay homage to his character from the 1986 film, where he appeared as “Boy in the Police Station.”
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Dax Shepard is returning for his second cameo on NBC‘s About A Boy. He’ll appear on the Tuesday, January 13 episode, when his Parenthood character, Crosby, resurfaces for another of Will’s (David Walton) poker nights.
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Ana Gasteyer and Anthony Edwards have been nabbed to play Shoshanna’s (Zosia Mamet) parents on the upcoming season of HBO hit Girls. The series returns on Sunday, Jan. 11.
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Modern Family and Graham Norton were among the big winners of this year’s British Comedy Awards. The ABC sitcom won best international TV comedy show honors, while Norton garnered best comedy entertainment program and best comedy entertainment personality for his talker The Graham Norton Show, which airs on BBC America and BBC One in the U.K.
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The Casting Society of America has selected Patton Oswalt and Michael Urie to host the 30th Annual Artios Awards on Thursday, January 22. Oswalt will preside over the Los Angeles ceremony, while Urie hosts the New York City festivities. The Artios Awards honor the best in casting across film, television, theater and new media.
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Spike TV’s first tattoo reality-competition series, Ink Master, is getting in the holiday spirit with two themed specials: Merry Ink and New Year’s Ink. Each show brings back Ink Master alumni to compete and design holiday-inspired tattoos for a chance to win $10,000. Merry Ink airs Tuesday, December 23 at 10p. New Year’s Ink airs Tuesday, December 30 at 10p.
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Broadway Channel’s What’s Hot on Broadway Hot For The Holidays has been cleared in all of the Top 10 DMA’s. The special was developed as a preview of the weekly series What’s Hot on Broadway, which will feature the best of Broadway shows and Las Vegas stage productions and include interviews with Broadway stars, songwriters, choreographers and creative teams. The show is hosted by John O’Hurley.
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he two-hour finale of The Voice on Tuesday was enough to easily win the night for NBC in the key demographic. With an average 3.2 rating among adults 18-49 and 12.7 million viewers, the singing competition was on par with its May finale and up 9 percent with its overall audience.
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Spike TV‘s Ink Master was Tuesday’s top cable program. The show had an 0.8 rating among adults 18-49.
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