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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 1/20/15)
ESQUIRE: Friday Night Tykes (Premiere) at 9pm
ESQUIRE: The Short Game (Premiere) at 10pm
FX: Justified (Premiere) at 10pm
HBO: Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (Premiere) at 10pm
AHC: Secrets of the Arsenal (Finale) at 9pm
COOKING: Pizza Masters (Finale) at 9pm
COOKING: Taco Trip (Finale) at 9:30pm
Eva Longoria’s ready for primetime again. Comedy Telenovela, from the Desperate Housewives alum’s Universal Television-based UnbeliEVAble, scored a straight-to-series 13-episode order from NBC, with Longoria set to star.
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A year after announcing a Bill Cosby project at NBC, NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt faced reporters at TCA wondering what took so long to scuttle the sitcom as the comedian’s sex scandal widened. “While over the years, we’d heard some of those accusations and we knew there were a couple of settlements and what not…it didn’t seem to be the sort of thing that was critical mass,” said Greenblatt. “When we realized that there seemed to be so much more of it.… when that many people come out and have similar complaints and it becomes such a tainted situation, there was no way that we could move forward with it.” As for whether NBC would work with Cosby again, Greenblatt said it’s “safe to say” the comedian’s days at the net are over.
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CBS and the NFL reached an agreement for Thursday Night Football for the 2015 season, with an additional year at the NFL’s option. CBS will broadcast the first eight games, simulcast on NFL Network. NFL Network will exclusively televise eight games in the run-up to the playoffs. The mix of games will include 14 on Thursday nights and two late-season games on Saturday. “The NFL continues to be the best premium content in the business,” said Les Moonves, CEO of CBS Corp., “and we look forward to another year of our expanded partnership in 2015/16, a season that will culminate with Super Bowl 50 on CBS.”
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Fox announced early renewals for freshman dramas Empire and Gotham at TCA on Saturday, as well as season three for Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Empire is tied with ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder as the top new broadcast series premiere among A18-49, Gotham is the number one broadcast drama among M18-49 and M18-34 and Brooklyn is up 17 percent year over year, with a 2.7 average rating among A18-49.
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Eight-episode season five of FX’s Louie launches Thursday, April 9 at 10:30p, following the series debut of The Comedians, starring Billy Crystal as a comedy legend paired with an up-and-comer on a late night comedy sketch show.
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Season three of Hollywood Hillbillies inherits Reelz’s Saturday-at-9p slot starting April 11, followed by Polka Kings at 9:30p. June 6 brings docu-series Branson Taxi, about a family-run cab company in Missouri.
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Turner Movie Classics celebrates Debbie Reynolds with a five-film tribute on Thursday, January 22, starting with Singin’ In the Rain at 8p. Reynolds receives the Life Achievement Award at the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards the following Sunday, in a ceremony simulcast live on TNT and TBS starting at 8p.
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It Happened Here, a documentary about sexual assaults on campus, premieres on Pivot Wednesday, January 21 at 9p. The net teamed with the White House’s “It’s On Us” campaign to explore the impact rape can have on victims, their families and the university community.
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Season two of The Meredith Vieira Show has been sold in 80 percent of the country by NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution. Station groups picking up the talker for a sophomore run include Hearst, Sinclair, Hubbard, Scripps, Gray, Dispatch, Graham Media, LIN, Bonten, Media General and Schurz, joining previously announced NBC Owned Television Stations.
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Gary Sinise (CSI: NY) will star in CBS’s Criminal Minds planted spinoff, as an FBI vet in charge of handling cases involving Americans abroad. The potential series is produced by ABC Studios in association with CBS Television Studios and The Mark Gordon Company.
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The week ending January 11, CBS’s The Talk drew more total viewers (2.95 million, up 9 percent from the week prior) than ABC’s The View (2.88 million) for the first time with first-run episodes, and tied among W25-54 (1.0) and W18-49 (.7).
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The Saturday premiere of Lifetime biopic Whitney averaged 4.5 million total viewers and 2.1 million among A18-49, according to Nielsen fast cable ratings. The one-hour special that followed, Bobby Brown: Remembering, delivered 4.1 million total viewers and 1.8 million A18-49, and Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances at 11p drew 3.2 million total viewers and 1.3 million A18-49.
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Actor/writer George Dickerson died January 10 after a long illness. He was 81. Dickerson’s television work included a regular role on Hill Street Blues, as well as guest star stints on shows such as Three’s Company, L.A. Law and Little House on the Prairie.
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Canadian entertainer/author Don Harron died January 17 of cancer. He was 90. Harron appeared on Hee Haw, as well as shows including Mission Impossible and Dr. Kildare.
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Reality TV star/fitness model Greg Plitt died January 17 in Burbank. He was 37. Plitt, the star of Bravo’s Work Out, was hit by a Metrolink train; he and a small camera crew had been shooting video.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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