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CNBC: American Greed (Premiere) at 10pm
DISCOVERY LIFE: Outrageous Births: Tales From the Crib (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY LIFE: 50 Ways to Kill Your Mother (Premiere) at 10pm
FOOD: Chopped Canada (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Breaking Point (Premiere) at 10pm
SPORTSMAN CHANNEL: Amazing America with Sarah Palin (Premiere) at 9pm
ABC picked up a comedy reality series inspired by a segment on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Half-hour hidden-camera prank show Repeat After Me, from DeGeneres’s A Very Good Production and Warner Horizon and hosted by Wendi McLendon-Covey (The Goldbergs), slips into the Tuesday-at-8:30p slot on February 17, after midseason comedy Fresh Off the Boat. One more and it’s a trend – Spike TV’s Lip Sync Battle, based on a Jimmy Fallon segment on NBC’s Tonight Show, arrives April 2.
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Dr. Evil is heading to HBO. SNL alum Mike Myers (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery) signed a two-year overall deal with the premium cable net that makes him exclusive to HBO in television. “Mike Myers is one of the great comedy minds of this or any other era,” said head of programming Michael Lombardo. “The opportunity to collaborate with a talent of his stature is tremendously exciting.”
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Revenge’s storyline may appear to be reaching a conclusion, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the show is coming to an end, offered Paul Lee at TCA. “I really love the show,” said the ABC Entertainment Group president. “They have some great storylines coming up this year. There are ways to reinvent it, too.”
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The ABC honcho also touched on the diversity in ABC’s freshman slate, which includes How to Get Away with Murder, black-ish and Cristela. “I really believed from the beginning that the demographic changes in America were just as important to our evolution as the technological changes,” said Lee. “That notion that we were there to reflect America was tremendously important to ABC.”
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Speaking of, at a TCA panel for Fresh Off the Boat, Eddie Huang said that despite a piece for Vulture in which he wrote that ABC tried turn his memoir into a “cornstarch sitcom,” he supports the comedy. “I care most about the conversation that’s going to happen because of this show,” Huang told reporters. “This show, to me, is historic. This show has a huge place, culturally, in America.”
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The Weather Channel meteorologist and storm tracker Jim Cantore is joining morning show AMHQ’s Sam Champion as co-host, beginning Monday, January 26 from 7a-10a. But he won’t just be staying dry behind a desk. “The minute severe weather threatens, he will be out in the elements providing his insights and expertise,” said Champion. Also joining AMHQ is meteorologist Jennifer Delgado. AMHQ is expanding to the weekends starting Saturday, January 31, with hosts Kait Parker and Reynolds Wolf.
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Game of Thrones will make its IMAX debut a week later than scheduled to allow for an expanded roll-out due to “extraordinary consumer response,” said the theater company Wednesday. The HBO drama will run in about 200 theaters, up from 150, for one week starting Thursday, January 29. Feature will include the final two episodes of season four plus a trailer for season five, launching April 12.
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Comedy Central renewed Broad City for a third season. The show was the number one cable show in its time slot among M18-34 during season one, boasts the net. “It has just been brought to my attention that Broad City is a female-centric show, but we’re going to do more anyway,” said Kent Alterman, president of content development and original programming. Season two launched yesterday, January 14 at 10:30p.
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New net springs to Life: Rebranded from Discovery Fit and Health starting today, Discovery Life Channel launches with the series premieres of title-tells-all Outrageous Births: Tales From the Crib tonight at 9p, and 50 Ways to Kill Your Mother, about a daredevil’s extreme adventures (skydiving, alligator wrestling) with his 70-year-old mom, at 10p.
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VH1’s going big for the 40th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, with “The SNL Rewind: 2015-1975” marathon, from Wednesday, January 28-Sunday, February 15. 433 hours of back-to-back eps end with the very first show, hosted by George Carlin on October 11, 1975, at 6:30p, leading into NBC’s three-hour SNL special.
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A special episode of ABC’s America’s Funniest Home Videos celebrates the show’s 25th anniversary. Black-ish stars Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross and Cristela’s Cristela Alonzo will be on hand to help host Tom Bergeron mark the occasion and pick the best clip from the series run.
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ABC’s Dancing With the Stars also has a big anniversary ahead. Monday, March 16 at 8p the ballroom competition returns for its 10th anniversary and 20th season.
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The Darren Starr Screening Room is opening for business at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. The space is intended for film and television critical studies education, as well as screenings, panels and lectures. State-of-the-art facility comes thanks to a donation from alum Starr (Sex and the City).
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Multi-platform video and music net Music Choice will debut The F Word on linear TV channel Music Choice Play Tuesday, January 20 at 9p (check local listings). The first season of the weekly, 30-minute program kicks off with rapper/songwriter Kendrick Lamar.
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Joining the cast of WGN America’s Salem, which just started production on season two for an April return: Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess), Stuart Townsend (Betrayal), Joe Doyle (Raw) and Oliver Bell (The Saint).
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U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. will receive the Chairman’s Award at the 46th Annual NAACP Image Awards, in recognition of special achievement and distinguished public service. Ceremony airs Friday, February 6 at 9p on TV One.
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The Directors Guild of America announced nominees in its TV categories on Wednesday, and Jodie Foster got nods for her work on comedy Orange Is the New Black and drama House of Cards, the first time a director has been nominated in both categories. For a full list of nominees, go here. Winners will be announced February 7 at a dinner hosted by Jane Lynch (Glee).
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The first round of presenters for the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards include Boyhood’s Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke and Lorelei Linklater, as well as Kevin Costne, SAG-AFTRA President Ken Howard, Rashida Jones, Michael Keaton, Matthew McConaughey, Matt McGorry, Edward Norton and Julia Roberts.
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NBC’s Parks and Recreation returned for its seventh and final season on Tuesday up 15 percent among A18-49 versus its season six Thursday premiere, with 1.5/5. That’s a ratings number matched by week two of ABC’s Marvel’s Agent Carter, down 21 percent in the demo.
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Hallmark Channel movie premiere A Novel Romance earned a 2.1 HH rating and 2.2 million viewers on Saturday, making the net the highest-rated in cable among HHs and total viewers in the 9p-11p time period.
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The season premiere and same-night encore of TBS’s Cougar Town on January 6 drew a combined audience of 2 million viewers in Live+3 delivery, with 1.2 million A18-49.With all replays and multiplatform viewing included, the first episode of Cougar Town‘s sixth and final season has reached 2.7 million viewers.
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The season premiere of HBO’s Girls delivered 680,000 viewers on Sunday, down 39 percent versus last year’s True Detective-led debut. The show drew 390,000 in the A18-49 demo, down 35 percent.
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Sunday’s season five premiere of Showtime’s Shameless delivered 1.77 million viewers, up 4 percent from its season four bow. The season four debut of the net’s House of Lies drew 723,000 viewers, down 14 percent from last year.
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