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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 1/27/15)
COOKING: Rebel Without a Kitchen (Premiere) at 10pm
GSN: The Chase (Premiere) at 8pm
USA: Sirens (Premiere) at 10pm
A&E: Wild Transport Finale) at 10:30am
The ex-employee of a Fox-owned station in Austin, TX shot fatally shot himself in the chest outside News Corp.’s midtown Manhattan headquarters on Monday. The man, identified as Phillip Perea, had been handing out fliers criticizing his former employer. A suicide note was found in his pocket, said police. In a memo to employees, Fox Television Stations CEO Jack Abernathy said Perea “was employed at our Austin television station for ten months and has not been with the station or FTS since June 2014. We are deeply saddened by this tragedy.”
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The 50th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards is getting an extra half hour to celebrate its golden anniversary. The dick clark productions show is set to broadcast live from Arlington TX on Sunday, April 19 from 8p-11:30p, with performances honoring “seven superstars who have achieved significant milestones in ACM history.”
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The winner of season 11 of Fox’s American Idol has filed a complaint with the California Labor Commissioner, seeking to void his contract with 19 Entertainment. Phillip Phillips’ petition contends the deal is “oppressive,” and violates the state’s Talent Agencies Act. “I am very grateful for the opportunities provided to me through appearing on American Idol,” says the singer, whose post-Idol hits have included Home and Gone, Gone, Gone. “However, I have not felt that I have been free to conduct my career in a way that I am comfortable with.”
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Today’s Savannah Guthrie will conduct the pre-Super Bowl presidential chat live on Sunday, February 1, with an additional taped interview slated to air Monday, February 2 on her NBC morning show. Last year, Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly did the honors.
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Guests for NBC’s post-game Tonight Show special, airing live from the Orpheum Theater February 1 after The Blacklist and local news, include Get Hard co-stars Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart (doing lip sync battle with host Jimmy Fallon), and Ariana Grande performing with The Roots.
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Docu-series Cake Boss, starring baker Buddy Valastro and his family, returns to TLC for seasons seven and eight. Through a partnership with Discovery Networks International and TLC in the US, the show will be produced by original series producer Jon Sechrist, High Noon Entertainment and Valastro’s Cakehouse Media. Eps launch this summer on TLC internationally and Discovery Networks International’s lifestyle brands in over 220 countries and territories. TLC US premiere premiere date is TBA.
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Leave it to ID. Sex Sent Me to the Slammer, sharing stories of couples caught with their pants down, launches with back-to-back eps at 10p Friday, February 6 – just in time for Valentine’s Day. The series “is definitely not part of ID’s public affairs initiative,” said Henry Schleiff, Group President, Discovery Networks, but “there’s no better time to play these amorous accounts of adventurous lovers than as we approach the most romantic day of the year.”
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Competing with ID for eye-catching title of the day is FYI’s My City’s Just Not That Into Me, premiering Wednesday, March 4 at 10p. The series, a partnership with Curbed.com, matches house seekers priced out of their current cities with different parts of the country they might want to call home.
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The season three return of TV One’s R&B Divas LA brings two new faces: new artist Christina “Brave” Williams and Stacy Francis, seeing to transition from theater to R&B. Launch date: Wednesday, February 11 at 10p with an 11p encore.
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Tribune Media multicast broadcast net Antenna TV marks February 14 with a 14-hour marathon of Three’s Company, starting at 1p.
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Home chefs compete for a $50,000 prize on Food Network’s All-Star Academy, launching Sunday, March 1 at 9p. But it’s not just about the money – part of the reward is the other cooks in the kitchen. Having chefs like Bobby Flay, Alex Guarnaschelli and Curtis Stone as mentors is “the dream of a lifetime for a home cook,” said Bob Tuschman, GM and SVP Programming, Food Network.
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GSN is launching 40 new episodes of word association game show Chain Reaction in 2015, the first since 2007. Sony Pictures Television is producing.
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Colm Feroe landed the role of villain The Dollmaker in Fox drama Gotham. The DC Comics character also appeared on CW’s Arrow, played by Michael Eklund.
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David Tennant (Doctor Who) will play Marvel villain The Purple Man in Netflix’s upcoming A.K.A. Jessica Jones.
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Millie Brady (Price and Prejudice and Zombies) landed the lead in Lifetime drama pilot The Clan of the Cave Bear, based on Jean M. Auel’s novels.
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NBC’s The Miss Universe Pageant, moved to Sunday, averaged 2.0 among A18-49 to win the night in the demo, more than doubling its number versus last year. With 7.6 million total viewers, it was the competition’s most-watched stroll since 2006 and second to CBS (8.6 million) for the night.
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The season two premiere of Lifetime’s Bring It! delivered 1.8 million total viewers, according to Nielsen fast cables, an 80 percent leap from the series premiere. The docu-series averaged 919,000 among A18-49, a 64 percent jump, for the net’s best Friday night telecast in the demo in 11 years.
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TLC‘s Love, Lust or Run premiered Friday to 1.5 million P2+ viewers, handing the net its best Friday Prime W25-54 delivery in over a year.
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