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MUNDO FOX: Quien Mato a Patricia Soler? (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC News anchor Brian Williams is taking time off from his newscast for “the next several days” in the wake of his claim, since retracted, that he was on a helicopter in Iraq hit by enemy fire, and canceled a Thursday appearance on CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman. In a note to staff, Williams explained it has “become painfully apparent to me that I am presently too much a part of the news, due to my actions,” adding, “upon my return, I will continue my career-long effort to be worthy of the trust of those who place their trust in us.” But can Williams recover from the scrutiny? “The controversy speaks more to the bigger issue of the entertainment-ization of all news,” says network TV veteran Jim McKairnes, Verizon Chair at Temple University’s School of Media and Communication, “but trust means everything in those chairs.” Weekend anchor Lester Holt will fill in during Williams’ absence.
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Rosie O’Donnell is leaving The View this week, six months after joining the ABC morning show. As she deals with the breakup of her marriage, O’Donnell – whose first, year-long tenure on the talker ended in 2007 – is putting “family and health first,” said her publicist. As for ABC, the net “has been wonderfully understanding and supportive of her decision to leave.” ABC promised O’Donnell will “return to The View often with her unique point of view and updates on her work and her family.” Just last week, co-executive producer Brian Balthazar left after six months on the job to join HGTV; co-host Rosie Perez, rumored to be exiting while she was on hiatus to rehearse for a Broadway play, remains on the show.
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Unforgettable, canceled for the second time in October by CBS, will be picked up for a 13-ep season four by A&E, reports Deadline. Stars Poppy Montgomery and Dylan Walsh are expected to return to the Sony Pictures Television drama.
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New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick makes his first talk show appearance since his team’s Super Bowl victory with a Wednesday, February 11 visit to CBS’s Late Show With David Letterman. It will be Belichick’s second sit-down with Dave – the first was in 2004, after the Patriots won Super Bowl XXXVIII.
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ABC’s black-ish was the big winner at the 46th Annual Image Awards Friday, sweeping comedy categories with top honors for outstanding series, as well as stars Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Laurence Fishburne and Yara Shahadi. How to Get Away with Murder and its star, Viola Davis, won for drama, along with Scandal’s Joe Morton and Khandi Alexander and Criminal Minds’ Shemar Moore.
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Winners of the 67th Annual Directors Guild Awards, handed out Saturday in LA, include Lesli Linka Glatter for Showtime’s Homeland, Jill Soloway for Amazon’s Transparent, Lisa Cholodenko for HBO’s Olive Kitteridge, Glenn Weiss for CBS’s telecast of the Tony Awards, Dave Diomedi for NBC’s Tonight Show and Anthony B. Sacco for Starz reality show The Chair. For a complete list, go here.
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ABC picked up a reboot of Comedy Central’s 2000-2002 BattleBots. Series from Whalerock Industries and original creators Ed Roski and Greg Munson pitting homemade robots against each other will air as a six-ep summer series.
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The Artful Detective returns to Ovation TV for season eight Saturday, February 21 at 7p. Set in 1890s Toronto, series stars Yannick Bisson as a detective solving gruesome murder cases.
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Auto restoration show Overhaulin’ wraps up its season with a flourish on Tuesday, February 10 at 9p. Richard Rawlings from Wheeler Dealers and Aaron Kaufman from Discovery’s Fast N’ Loud are on hand to help bring a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air back to life in front of a live audience at the SEMA Show.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season four of TLC’s My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding returns Thursday, February 26 at 9p with a custom wedding gown so large it requires an “audacious form” of transportation to get the bride to the venue. Bonus: Grandma threatens to sabotage a Sweet 16 party.
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Lifetime limited series The Lizzie Borden Chronicles premieres Sunday, April 5 at 10p. Christina Ricci reprises her role as the murder suspect in the sequel to the last year’s Lizzie Borden Took an Ax (4.4 million total viewers), from Sony Pictures Television.
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SNL alum Molly Shannon, Thomas Haden Church (Wings) and Talia Balsam (Mad Men) will co-star opposite Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City) in HBO comedy pilot Divorce, about a middle-aged woman dithering over the idea of ending her marriage.
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Colin Hanks (Fargo) landed a lead role in CBS pilot Life in Pieces. Comedy from 20th Century Television and Kapital Entertainment tells the story of the life of one family through the different prisms of each member.
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Paul Scheer (The League) will recur on Fresh Off the Boat, as a host at the steakhouse. New ABC comedy airs Tuesdays at 8p.
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Megalyn Echikunwoke (Mind Games) landed a recurring guest star role on Fox’s The Following as a beautiful drug user. Two-hour season three premiere airs Monday, March 2.
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Lindsay Price (Lipstick Jungle), Chris Klein (Oz) and Jared Gertner (The Book of Mormon) hop aboard NBC comedy pilot How We Live, about a blogger and his wife who move to the suburbs.
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent’s Courtney B. Vance stars as defense attorney Johnnie (“if it doesn’t fit you must acquit”) Cochran in FX miniseries American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson.
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Luke Mitchell (The Tomorrow People) has joined the cast of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ABC superhero drama returns with new season two eps Tuesday, March 3 at 9p.
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The Blacklist, moved from Monday to Thursday where it competes with ABC hit Scandal at 9p, delivered a 2.4/7 rating among A18-49, just one tenth below its fall finale. With 9.9 million total viewers, it was the net’s most-watched Thursday drama since ER’s 2009 series finale. Scandal drew a 3.2/10 among A18-49, but was second to Blacklist in total viewers.
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The news for NBC wasn’t so rosy at 10p, where Allegiance debuted to 1.1/4 among A18-49. New Fox drama Backstrom fell 29 percent its third week, to 1.0/3.
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Fox’s Glee hit a series low .5/2 rating Friday, according to early Nielsens, down 29 percent versus the week prior. Lead-in World’s Funniest Fails was down 27 percent, to .8/3.
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Writer and producer Robert Blees died January 31. He was 96. Blees’ numerous television credits include Bonanza, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Cannon.
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Veteran television executive Joe Voci died February 7 after a long battle with brain cancer. He was 51. As Vice President, Comedy Programming at CBS, Voci oversaw hits including Murphy Brown and Designing Women, before leaving to set up his own production company, JVTV.
(Source: Cynopsis)
46TH ANNUAL NAACP IMAGE AWARDS – WINNERS LIST
http://www.naacpimageawards.net/nominees/
57TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS
http://www.grammy.com/nominees
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water – $56 million
American Sniper – $24.2 million
Jupiter Ascending – $19 million
Seventh Son – $7.1 million
Paddington – $5.4 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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