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ON TELEVISON (WEDNESDAY 1/14/15)
ABC FAMILY: Melissa & Joey (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC FAMILY: Baby Daddy (Premiere) at 8:30pm
BET: It’s a Mann’s World (Premiere) at 9pm
BET: The Game (Premiere) at 10pm
COMEDY CENTRAL: Broad City (Premiere) at 10:30pm
FXX: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Premiere) at 10pm
FXX: Man Seeking Woman (Premiere) at 10:30pm
ID: My Dirty Little Secret (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Web of Lies (Premiere) at 10pm
MTV2: Guy Code (Premiere) at 11:30pm
POP: Rock This Boat: New Kids on the Block (Premiere) at 8pm
POP: The Story Behind (Premiere) at 9pm
TV ONE: Unsung: Rick James (Premiere) at 8pm
Ann Curry is leaving NBC News to become founder of a media startup. Curry had been “anchor-at-large” at Today after her messy exit from the morning show in 2012, making occasional appearances on NBC News shows while under contract with the net. Now, “I want to expand my drive to give voice to the voiceless to emerging platforms and produce both scripted and non-scripted content, in addition to continuing to report on-air about stories that matter,” said Curry. But even though she’s leaving NBC the cord isn’t entirely cut – NBCUniversal is an investor in the new project. “We’re proud to support Ann in her new venture, and we look forward to more of her exceptional storytelling,” said NBCUniversal News Group chairman Pat Fili-Krushel on Tuesday.
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Derek Hough is bowing out of Dancing With the Stars’ upcoming 20th season to join Radio City Music Hall’s “New York Spring Spectacular” for its seven-week run in March, opposite Nashville’s Laura Benanti. Hough will return the ABC competition for season 21.
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Sonar Entertainment is developing Stephen King novel Mr. Mercedes as a limited series for television. David Kelley (Boston Legal) will write and Jack Bender (Lost) will direct; both will serve as exec producers, with Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey of Temple Hill Entertainment and Sonar’s Gene Stein.
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ABC Family picked up a third season of The Fosters. During its recent holiday episode, the drama delivered 1.93 total viewers and 614,000 among A18-34; launch of new season two eps is Monday, January 19 at 8p. The net also picked up a new series Job or No Job, an unscripted following one young adult per episode on his/her journey to landing a first job.
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Fox ordered a fourth season of MasterChef Junior, replacing departing judge Joe Bastianich with pastry chef and founder of NYC’s Momofuku Milk Bar Christina Tosi. “MasterChef has been one of my favorite shows since it began, and like so many others, I fell in love with MasterChef Junior,” said Tosi. Season three is airing Tuesdays at 8p.
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Showtime documentary Kobe Bryant’s Muse premieres Saturday, February 21 at 9p, and limited series Twin Peaks, a reboot of the 1990-91 drama, is set for a 2016 premiere. David Nevins, president of Showtime Networks, said at TCA that Peaks creators David Lynch and Mark Frost have been “very specific about promising closure.” His role in the creative process, Nevins admitted, amounts to “writing checks and leaving them alone.”
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Actor/comedian Al Madrigal addresses his half Mexican/half white identity in one-house docu-comedy Half Life Me, airing Thursday, January 22 at 10p on Fusion. Included: a therapy session with “godfather of all Mexicans” Jorge Ramos and a mosh pit with Latino punk band members.
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Lifetime is airing one-hour Bobby Brown: Remembering Whitney on Saturday, January 17 at 10p, following Whitney Houston biopic Whitney. Special from Peacock Productions will feature an “exclusive, no-holds-barred” interview with Houston’s ex-husband.
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Hallmark Channel’s Home & Family is planning another reunion. Dynasty alums Pamela Sue Martin, John James, Al Corley and Gordon Thomson gather Monday, January 26 to reminisce. The show also had get-togethers for Knots Landing, The Love Boat and Happy Days.
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Oxygen’s Preachers of Detroit gets a proper introduction. Leading up the show’s premiere on Friday, February 20 at 8p is Preachers of Detroit: Meet the Preachers, with new cast members among those enlisted to produce a song of support for their troubled town on (February 13 at 8p). The Motor City is also the setting for February 6 special Preachers of L.A.: Deitrick Goes Home.
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VH1 kicks off the weekend of February’s big game with a concert salute to the armed forces at Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, AZ. On Friday, January 30 at 9p, Nick Lachey (98 Degrees) hosts The VH1 + Papa John’s Super Bowl Blitz: A Concert for the Troops, featuring Fall Out Boy and Charli XCX.
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El Rey is running a Django marathon featuring three spaghetti westerns on Saturday, January 31. Django starts it off at 2p, followed by Django Kill…If You Live, Shoot! at 4p and Keoma, hosted by the film’s director, Enzo G. Castellari, at 6:30p.
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Stage 31 at CBS TV City is being dedicated to The Bold and the Beautiful exec producer and head writer Bradley P. Bell today, in honor of the soap opera’s 7000th episode.
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The first group of performers announced for the 57th Annual Grammy Awards include Madonna, country rocker Eric Church, Ariana Grande and Ed Sheeran. The music spectacle, produced by AEG Ehrlich Ventures, airs Sunday, February 8 at 8p on CBS.
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The finalists for the 51st Annual Cinema Audio Society Awards were announced Tuesday. American Horror Story: Freak Show, Fargo, Houdini, The Normal Heart and Sherlock compete in the TV Movie or Miniseries category honoring outstanding achievement in sound mixing, while Modern Family, Nurse Jackie, Parks and Recreation, Veep and the Simpsons/Family Guy crossover ep compete in the half-hour TV series. One-hour shows up for an award are Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, Homeland, True Detective and The Walkind Dead. Ceremony takes place Saturday, February 14 in LA.
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With the date for the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards just 11 days away, the 2016 celebration’s been set for Sunday, January 31, once again simulcast on TNT and TBS.
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Season four of Nat Geo’s Brain Games takes it to the street for hidden camera social experiments offering takeaways about how the brain works. In fact, the net says watching might make you richer, help you sleep better, help you remember better – and “might even make you smarter.” Launches Monday, January 19 at 9p with back-to-back episodes.
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Showtime’s Penny Dreadful launches season two Sunday, April 26 at 10p. Patti Lupone (Evita) guests as “a mysterious character of great importance” on the psychological thriller.
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In a special celeb ep of GSN’s The Chase on Tuesday, February 3, Carson Kressley (How to Look Good Naked),Cameron Mathison (All My Children) and Tatyana Ali(The Fresh Prince of Bel Air) compete on behalf of the their favorite charities. Game show returns for season four Tuesday, January 27 at 8p.
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Season six of Community, transplanted from NBC, launches on Yahoo Tuesday, March 17. Any changes as the comedy hits the streaming platform? “The corset loosens a little bit,” creator Dan Harmon told reporters at TCA. “It’s a little freer.”
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Eric McCormack has an upcoming guest spot on former Will & Grace co-star Debra Messing’s NBC series The Mysteries of Laura. McCormack will play the former fiance of Messing’s character on the freshman cop drama, airing Wednesdays at 8p.
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Adriana Barraza (Babel) has signed on for USA pilot Queen of the South, based on Telemundo hit telenoval La Reina del Sur.
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Ohio State wasn’t the only big winner in the first College Football Playoff National Championship. Monday’s game delivered 33.4 million viewers and an 18.2 rating to ESPN, the highest-rated cable program of all time, according to Nielsen.
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While Ohio State battled Oregon, reality shows The Bachelor on ABC and NBC’s The Apprentice faced off from 8p-10p. And the winner was? It was a tie in the A18-49 demo with 1.7/5, down 23 percent from the week prior for Bachelor and down15 percent for Apprentice, according to Nielsen fast nationals.
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The first original in four weeks for ABC’s Castle was the top series at 10p, tying a season low among A18-49 but beating NBC’s The Voice-less State of Affairs by 75 percent (1.4/4 versus .8/2).
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The January 5 season three premiere of TV One’s Fatal Attraction was up 200 percent versus the season two premiere and was the most watched TV One telecast in primetime, reaching 756,000 total viewers on premiere night.
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SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 1/11/15)
1) Taylor Swift – 1989 – 110,977 (After 11 weeks – 3,943,604)
2) Soundtrack – Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 – 35,239 (After 24 weeks – 1,002,957)
3) Ed Sheeran – X – 34,432 – 884,004
Other Debuts
4) Rae Sremmurd – Sremmlife (Ex) – 34,403
25) Joshua Radin – Onward & Sideways – 7,985
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