FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 1/12/15)
BRAVO: Friends to Lovers? (Premiere) at 10pm
E!: Fashion Police (Premiere) at 9pm
MTV: Eye Candy (Premiere) at 10pm
TELEMUNDO: Senora Acero (Finale) at 10pm
TNT: Major Crimes (Finale) at 9pm
UNI MAS: Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal (Finale) at 9pm
The CW got a running start for 2015-16, issuing early renewals for all eight of its scripted fall series. Arrow, The Flash, Jane the Virgin, Reign, Supernatural, The 100, The Vampire Diaries and The Originals “have helped define what the CW is today,” said CW president Mark Pedowitz. “By picking up these shows now, our executive producers can start planning next season’s storylines, and rolling these shows out throughout next season guarantees the CW will have more proven original series for our fall, midseason and summer 2016 line-ups.” No commitment was made for Hart of Dixie, which started in December, but the net’s got it covered. “If it ends, it’s a great finale,” said Pedowitz. “If it doesn’t, it’s a great season finale.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Mad Men heads into the home stretch when the series returns with its final seven episodes starting Sunday, April 5 at 10p. “Mad Men is the show that put AMC on the map. Period. It is impossible to overstate the impact it has had on AMC, and I would argue, this era of television,” said Charlie Collier, AMC President. As for Jon Hamm? “I’m thrilled it’s ending. So happy not to see any of these people again,” said the actor at TCA, adding, “#Sarcasm.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs) and Ian McKellen (Lord of the Rings) will star in Starz’s adaptation of classic Ronald Harwood play, The Dresser. The co-production with BBC begins production in London later this year.
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Guess no one called Walter White. “We want this show to stand on its own,” said Peter Gould, exec producer of AMC’s upcoming Breaking Bad spinoff, Better Call Saul!, at TCA. “Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will not appear in season one.” Added Jonathan Banks, who plays Mike Ehrmantraut, “Their ghosts are there. But this is a different show. And it is really good.” Saul, filmed in Albuquerque, premieres Sunday, February 8.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The SAG-AFTRA National Code of Fair Practice for Network Television Broadcasting was ratified by union members, with a resounding 96.5 percent of the vote. “I congratulate our members on ratifying this excellent agreement,” said SAG-AFTRA president Ken Howard. “Our members will benefit from increased wages and overtime rates, expanded residuals and stronger protections.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
WE tv is aiming to boost social media activity and viewer engagement with the launch of GIF Sync.Integrated into the WE tv app, GIF Sync serves real-time shareable GIFs, memes and a dedicated feed of show-related tweets during linear airings of WE tv originals. The digital extension “harnesses the power of social media activity and engagement to drive conversations around our buzz-worthy unscripted shows,” said Marc Juris, WE tv president. “Viewers are a driving force behind what makes a show pop culture relevant, and as they become increasingly more social we want to be there to capture those conversations and offer them unique experiences that complement our programming.”
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Larry Wilmore will step into The Colbert Report’s 11:30p Comedy Central time slot on Monday, January 19, with a look at key events of the day, followed by a panel discussion. “We’ll have a nice balance of the scripted element and the non-scripted,” said Wilmore at TCA. “I’m not interested in doing a show where I give my opinion and people react to my opinion. Our show is more about the discovery of things.” The talker is now called The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore; original name The Minority Report was ditched thanks to Fox’s pickup of a pilot by that name.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Lifetime’s upcoming Un-Real centers on a TV dating competition in which contestants and circumstances are manipulated to amp up the drama. Sound familiar? But co-creators Sarah Gertrude Shapiro and Marti Noxon brushed off the suggestion at TCA their series is a spoof of The Bachelor – even though Shapiro once worked on the ABC reality show. “It was just a day job I had at 23,” said Shapiro. “I knew how to put up the wallpaper, but it’s totally fictional.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Katy Perry will be joined by her “first special guest,” Lenny Kravitz, onstage during the Super Bowl halftime show. The Prism singer called Kravitz “the coolest” in an interview with Today Show’s Willie Geist. Musical performance, and the football game, airs February 1.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Logo TV announced the launch of a new documentary division, dedicated to shining a light on LGBT pioneers. Content includes Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine, making its TV bow in 2015 after a February premiere in theaters. The net will also premiere a reality series, Behind the Movies, this spring, offering never-before-told tales about classics of the silver screen.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Pop announced four projects in development, ahead of its rebrand from TVGN on January 14. Projects include (working titles): Losing It, based on the Yahoo web series about celebs losing their virginity, from Warrior Poets and John Stamos Productions; Elvis Duran Project, a docu-series about the Z100 radio personality, produced by Left/Right; reality competition Celebrity Inc., exec produced by Robert Friedman of Bungalow Media + Entertainment and Colby Gaines of Back Roads Entertainment, and Worst Ever, a roundup of celebs recounting their most embarrassing scenarios, produced by Thank You, Brain!.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The creative team for History’s Roots project, a remake of the hit 1977 miniseries, includes Mark Wolper, son of original Roots exec producer David L. Wolper, and Marc Toberoff and Allen Hughes as exec producers. Hughes will direct, and Mark Rosenthal and Larry Konner are writing.
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Onboard the “explosive” sixth and final season of FX’s Justified is Jonathan Tucker (Kingdom), set to play a hired gun in the final five eps. Premiere is Tuesday, January 20 (not January 10, as listed here Friday) at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
A&E is doubling down on original series premieres Monday, March 9. Season three of Bates Motel launches at 9p, followed at 10p by the series debut of The Returned, from Bates’ Carlton Cuse and Raelle Tucker (True Blood).
(Source: Cynopsis)
BET’s first mini-series, The Book of Negroes, premieres Monday, February 16 at 8p. Six-part historical drama based on the book by Laurence Hill stars Aunjanue Ellis (The Help), Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire), Louis Gossett Jr. (Boardwalk Empire) and Lyriq Bent (Rookie Blue).
(Source: Cynopsis)
CW sked notes: the net’s comic book-inspired iZombie makes its debut Tuesday, March 17 at 9p, and Supernatural returns on a new night, Wednesday, March 18 at 9p. Cedric the Entertainer-hosted Cedric’s Barber Battle bows Friday, April 10 at 8p, followed by Whose Line Is it Anyway? and new drama The Messengers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Lifetime’s unscripted series Born in the Wild, about couples who decide to give birth in nature, debuts Tuesday, March 3 at 10p. Matador is producing.
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Fact-based drama Gangland Undercover, offering a look at organized crime through the eyes of an undercover investigator, launches Tuesday, February 24 at 10p. Six-ep series, produced for History by Cineflix Productions in association with Shaw Media and in association with Stephen Kemp, is based on the book Vagos, Mongols and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America’s Deadliest Biker Gangs, by Charles Falco.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Another History report: Two car fanatics go on “the ultimate road trip” to save forgotten classic autos in the net’s Lost in Transmission. Series from Adjacent Productions premieres in spring 2015.
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Sugar Ray’s Mark McGrath hosts AXS TV’s second Grammy Prediction Special, Tuesday, February 3 at 10p. Industry experts dissect the top races, and debate the results of a viewer poll on who will take home trophies.
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Up offers the exclusive TV premiere of Life of a King, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. in the true story of Eugene Brown and his one-man mission to help inner-city kids, on Sunday, January 18 at 7p. An encore airs Monday, January 19 at 9p, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
(Source: Cynopsis)
What happens after a ballsy series of “fat girl” videos turns a once-slender dancer who gained over 200 pounds into a YouTube star? TLC’s My Big Fat Fabulous Life follows Whitney Thore as she fights the effects of body shame and promotes self-love, not to mention dealing with meddlesome parents as she throws herself into the dating scene. Series from Pilgrim Studios premieres Tuesday, January 13 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Broke A$$ Game Show, a new spin (to put it mildly) on the genre, premieres Thursday, February 5 at 11p, announced MTV at TCA. Also on tap: season four of Catfish launches Wednesday, February 25 at 10p, Finding Carter returns Tuesday, March 31 at 10 and America’s Best Dance Crew rises from cancellation this summer to return with six new episodes and new judges.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Rapper Snoop Dogg will play himself on Fox drama Empire, in an episode airing in late February or early March.
(Source: Cynopsis)
In a holiday week with soft syndication ratings, Live with Kelly & Michael was the top talker the week of December 22, up 6 percent versus the week prior, to 3.3 for a new season high. Second place Dr. Phil was down 23 percent, to 2.4 for a rerun week.
(Source: Cynopsis)
HGTV’s Tuesday night (8p-12a) delivered a 0.68 among P25-54, up 48 percent over Tuesdays in January 2014 and 62 percent over the prior 13 weeks. The season two premiere of HGTV’s Fixer Upper grew 113 percent versus year-ago levels and 137 percent from the prior 13 weeks.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Actor/comedian Tayor Negron died Saturday, January 10 after a long battle with cancer. He was 57. In addition to numerous guest appearances on shows like Seinfeld and ER, Negron had roles on Hope & Gloria and The Hughleys. “Taylor Negron was a very smart, funny caring individual with a unique comic voice. #RESPECT,” tweeted Ben Stiller.
(Source: Cynopsis)
72ND ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS – WINNERS LIST
http://www.goldenglobes.com/2015_72nd_Golden_Globes_Nominees
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Taken 3 – $40.4 million
Selma – $11.2 million
Into The Woods – $9.8 million
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – $9.4 million
Unbroken – $8.4 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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