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A&E: Nightwatch (Premiere) at 10pm
BBC AMERICA: Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares (Premiere) at at 9pm
BBC AMERICA: Million Dollar Critic (Premiere) at 10pm
CNN: Morgan Spurlock Inside Man (Premiere) at 9pm
FOX: Backstrom (Premiere) at 9pm
ABC: The Taste (Finale) at 8pm
NBC: Bad Judge (Finale) at 9pm
NBC: A to Z (Finale) at 9:30pm
Nine networks, one Upfront: For the first time, Turner Broadcasting will bundle Adult Swim, Boomerang, Cartoon Network, CNN, HLN, TBS, TNT, truTV and Turner Sports for one big Upfront event, Wednesday, May 13 at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. Why the mass gathering? “We have a unique position in today’s marketplace in that we offer advertisers opportunities across all screens and genres of programming news, sports, entertainment and kids,” says Turner Broadcasting sales president Donna Speciale. As for the annual hot-ticket Adult Swim bash (Outkast performed last year) “the most anticipated party of the week” will serve as a nightcap after the morning event.
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VH1 reality series LeAnn & Eddie, chronicling the marriage of singer LeAnn Rimes and actor Eddie Cibrian, has been canceled after its eight-ep first season. The show debuted in July, with the couple saying they hoped it would help dispel misconceptions about their relationship.
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Fox ordered four pilots, dramas Frankenstein, Rosewood and Luther from 20th Century Fox Television, and comedy 48 Hours ‘Til Monday from Universal Television. Luther, a remake of the British series starring Idris Elba, counts Elba as an exec producer, along with original series creator Neil Cross.
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NBC picked up two comedy pilots: People Are Talking, produced by Universal Television and Will Packer Productions, about a white and a black couple, and Sony Television’s Take It From Us from Friends alum Greg Malins.
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NBC is taking a second helping of Food Fighters. During its 2014 run, the summer cooking competition delivered the biggest regularly scheduled first-to-second-week gain (1.0 to 1.3, up 30 percent) in the A18-49 demo for any new series in over two years.
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Jay Leno made it clear he’s a fan of new late night host Larry Wilmore, whose show launched on Comedy Central Monday night. Calling The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore “terrific,” the former Tonight Show host welcomed Wilmore’s “different perspective.”
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On Wednesday, February 4 at 8:30p, General Hospital’s Kelly Monaco guests on ABC Family’s Baby Daddy as (an exaggerated version of) herself. Then Friday, February 13 on Monaco’s ABC soap, Baby Daddy’s Derek Theler and Melissa Peterman return the favor in a special Valentine’s Day ep.
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PBS’s Independent Lens has two documentaries set for Black History Month. Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People premieres Monday, February 16 at 10p and American Denial, examining racial injustice, bows Monday, February 23 at 10p (check local listings).
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Francis Ford Coppola opens up on Monday, March 2 at 8p in an interview with El Rey founder Robert Rodriguez on El Rey Network Presents: The Director’s Chair. (Sample snippet: “The things they fire you for when you are young are the same things that they give you lifetime achievement awards for when you are old.”) Coppola’s The Conversation will follow.
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Miami Vice debuts on Cozi TV Sunday, March 1, the month of the crime drama’s 30th anniversary, with a marathon from 1p-5p. The show then takes its regular weekday slot at 11p, with Saturday airings at 8p and 9p.
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The premiere of TLC makeover show Style by Jury was pushed back a week, to Friday, February 20 at 9:30p. First fashion victim: a frumpy working mom who has to put on a full-body suit to figure out where her waist is.
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Kerry Condon (The Walking Dead) and Toby Leonard Moore (John Wick) join Paul Giamatti (John Adams) and Damian Lewis in Showtime drama pilot Billions.
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In addition to Rob Lowe (Parks and Recreation), Sky 1 drama Apocalypse Slough landed Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) and Jenna Fischer (The Office), along with British actors Mathew Baynton (The Wrong Mans), Paterson Joseph (Babylon), Pauline Quirke (Birds of a Feather) and Joel Fry (Plebs) playing people waiting for a comet to destroy Earth. NBC will air the show in the U.S.
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Ian McShane (Deadwood) guests in a season-long arc of season three of Showtime’s Ray Donovan, starting production next week in LA.
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Nickelodeon launches season 22 of the Power Rangers franchise, Power Rangers Dino Charge, on Saturday, February 7 at 12p. Encore eps air Sundays at 8a on Nickelodeon and Saturdays at 7p on Nicktoons.
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Live-action comedy Gamer’s Guide to Pretty Much Everything got the green light from Disney XD. Series starring Cameron Boyce (Jessie) begins production in LA for a summer 2015 premiere.
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Add Common and John Legend to the roster of performers for the 57th Annual Grammy Awards. The Grammy winners will perform “Glory” from the film Selma. Also onboard: Miranda Lambert, Usher and two of this year’s leading nominees, Sam Smith and Pharrell Williams, tied at six nods each. LL Cool J returns for his fourth consecutive stint as host. Show airs Sunday, February 8 at 8p on CBS.
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There are new names for the upcoming Screen Actors Guild Awards, too. Added as presenters are Adrien Brody, Laverne Cox, Bryan Cranston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Eric Dane, Viola Davis, Felicity Jones, Lenny Kravitz, Eddie Redmayne, Tony Revolori and J.K. Simmons. Ceremony will be simulcast on TNT and TBS Sunday, January 25 at 8p.
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Spike Lee will receive the NAACP President’s Award at the 46th Annual NAACP Image Awards, airing live Friday, February 6 at 9p on TV One.
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Nominees for the GLAAD Media Awards, recognizing fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the LGBT community, include ten nominees each in the Outstanding Drama and Comedy Series categories – but the only movie or mini-series to get a nod is HBO’s The Normal Heart. For a list of nominees, go here.
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Tuesday’s State of the Union Address on the Big 4 nets averaged 19.6 million viewers in fast nationals, down 7 percent from last year for another low, but up one tenth among A18-49, to 4.9. Early numbers for cable news also showed a dip in viewers, with Fox News down to 3.47 million from 4.7 million, but CNN improving with 2.56 million viewers. On Twitter, a U.S. audience of 9.7 million, up 11 percent year over year, saw one or more of the 2.6 million (up 24 percent) tweets about the speech, according to Nielsen.
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Monday’s launch of The Nightly Show on Comedy Central drew 963,000 viewers, 577,000 among A18-49 and 465,000 among A25-54. The Colbert Report was pulling 1.17 million in the timeslot, but fill-in @midnight had been averaging 565,000.
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NBC’s Parks and Recreation averaged 3.9 million viewers and 1.4 among A18-49 across back-to-back eps on Tuesday, the comedy’s biggest audience since January 2013.
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The premiere of Disney Channel spy series K.C. Undercover delivered 3.5 million total viewers. In youth demos the show delivers 1.7 million viewers/4.5 rating in Kids 2-11; 1.4 million/6.1 among Kids 6-11 and 1.4 million/5.9 among Tweens 9-14.
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CASTING CALL
ABC’s hit series Extreme Weight Loss is back for season 6 and seeking celebrities who want to use their influence to nominate & support a friend, relative or even a fan along their weight loss journey. If you are a public figure and want to pay it forward, contact Casting Director, Lindsay at lindsayluttrell@gmail.com
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