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ANIMAL PLANET: Wild West Alaska (Premiere) at 9pm
ANIMAL PLANET: Alaska: Battle on the Bay (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: Rehab Addict (Premiere) at 9pm
DIY: Back Flip (Premiere) at 9pm
FX: Archer (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: Unraveled (Premiere) at 9pm
IFC: Portlandia (Premiere) at 10pm
SPORTSMAN: MeatEater (Premiere) at 8pm
SUNDANCE TV: Babylon (Premiere) at 10pm
TRAVEL: Expedition Unknown (Premiere) at 9pm
WE TV: Love Thy Sister (Premiere) at 10pm
John Travolta (Welcome Back Kotter) returns to the small screen with a starring role in Ryan Murphy anthology miniseries American Crime Story: The People V. O.J. Simpson. Travolta plays defense Robert Shapiro, joining Cuba Gooding as Simpson, David Schwimmer as Robert Kardashian and Sarah Paulson as Marcia Clark. Production for FX begins this spring in LA.
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Will Annie accept McQuaid’s marriage proposal? Fans of Covert Affairs may never find out – USA canceled the spy drama, which drew 1.6 million viewers for its season five finale in December. On deck at USA for 2015: Dig, Mr. Robot and Complications.
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The NBC Owned Television Stations will celebrate the Golden Globes with special coverage airing on the 11 NBC owned stations and many NBC affiliates, leading up to The 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards airing Sunday, January 11 at 8p on NBC. 1st Look: Hollywood’s Biggest Party follows SNL the night before the ceremony; the day of, half-hour Talk Stoop Award Season Kickoff airs 5:30p, followed by one-hour 1st Look LIVE on the Red Carpet, featuring chats with celebs making their way into the Beverly Hilton.
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The Paley Center for Media will honor ABC’s Scandal, CBS’s The Good Wife, and CW’s Arrow and The Flash at the 32nd annual Paleyfest, returning to the Dolby Theatre March 6-13.
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Rapper/actor LL Cool J is set to host Lip Sync Battle, launching on Spike TV Thursday, April 2. And the Grammy winner’s taking his new responsibility – overseeing celebs pretending to sing – seriously. “Like the rest of the world, I’m a big fan of these battles,” said LL Cool J, “but this show is going to take it to a whole new level.”
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VH1’s next movie project is The Breaks (wt), a narrative history of the hip hop business written, directed and exec produced by Seith Mann (The Wire) and based on The Big Payback, by journalist Dan Charnas. Principal photography starts in the spring for a fall premiere.
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Showtime nabbed Sony Pictures TV’s The Studio, a drama project from Peter Tolan (Rescue Me), George Clooney and Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher) about two men running a movie studio in the 90s.
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The new season of VH1 Storytellers launches with Ed Sheeran (“Thinking Out Loud”) and a new live format Saturday, January 24 at 7p. VH1 Storytellers Live: Ed Sheeran, from Dublin, will also air live across the UK on MTV Music at 12a GMT and live stream on VH1.com and the VH1 app.
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On the eve of Sunday’s Golden Globes, in which The Theory of Everything’s Eddie Redmayne is nominated for playing Stephen Hawking and Benedict Cumberbatch is nominated for The Imitation Game, Discovery Channel unearthed 2004 TV-movie Hawking, starring Cumberbatch, and slated it for Saturday at 10p. The move commemorates Hawking’s 73rd birthday today.
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Little Charmers, a new animated show for preschoolers, launches Monday, January 12 at 12p on Nickelodeon and 8p on Nick Jr. The half-hour weekday series from Nelvana Enterprises and Spin Master Entertainment rolls out on Treehouse in Canada on Saturdays at 6:30p starting January 31, and Nickelodeon channels internationally in spring 2015.
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Soul singer Gladys Knight will guest star on TV Land’s Hot in Cleveland, now in its sixth and final season, as a psychic named Miss Shonda, reports TheWrap. Comedy airs Wednesdays at 10p.
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Mark Margolis will guest as DC Comics’ Felix Faust on Constantine on January 23. Series returns to NBC Friday, January 16 at 8p.
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Ivana Baquero (Pan’s Labyrinth) landed a starring role in MTV’s Shannara, a drama based on the fantasy book series by Terry Brooks.
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Guest stars on Glee’s final season now include Gina Gershon (Showgirls) as Blaine’s mother, and Jennifer Coolidge (2 Broke Girls) and Ken Jeong (The Hangover) as Brittany’s parents. Fox series returns tomorrow, January 9 at 8p; last hurrah is March 20.
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The debut of Marvel’s Agent Carter gave ABC its best A18-49 regular programming rating (1.9/6) in the 8p-10p Tuesday time slot since November 2013, according to preliminary Nielsens. At 9p, its permanent berth, the drama delivered a 1.8 rating.
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CBS had its largest Tuesday of the season in viewers (19.5 million), A25-54 (4.1/11) and A18-49 (2.8/9). NCIS posted its largest audience since February of last year and its best deliveries in both A25-54 and A18-49 since September 23.
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The season two premiere of OWN’s The Haves and the Have Nots delivered 3.2 million viewers for the most-watched season premiere in net history, and a 2.3 rating among W25-54, building 7 percent from its first half hour to its second.
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TLC ended 2014 as the top Female cable net on Tuesday nights among W25-54/18-49, as well as a top five cable net on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday nights with W25-54, and on Thursday nights with W18-49/18-34. For the year, TLC aired 30 shows averaging 1.0 million or more viewers P2+, and at least two series that averaged 3.0 million P2+ viewers or more.
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Bravo’s Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce hit a series high on December 30, with 1.4 million total viewers and 824,000 among P18-49, according to Nielsen Live+3 data. Episode five increased 29 percent over the prior ep in the demo, and 26 percent in total viewers.
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Season five of Lifetime’s Dance Moms opened to 1.8 million viewers and .8 among A18-49 on Tuesday, both down 25 percent from the season four premiere, but up 29 percent in viewers and 9 percent in the demo versus the reality show’s July mid-season return.
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2015 PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS – WINNERS LIST
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