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DISCOVERY: Moonshiners (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: Chicago Med (Premiere) at 9pm
BRAVO: Below Deck (Finale) at 9pm
FX: The Bastard Executioner (Finale) at 10pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Living Alaska (Finale) at 9pm
ABC announced midseason premiere dates. Season two of Galavant launches Sunday, January 3 at 8p; The Bachelor is back for season 20 Monday, January 4; Marvel’s Agent Carter starts its sophomore run Monday, January 5 at 9p; American Crime debuts season two Wednesday, January 6 at 10p and My Diet Is Better Than Yours and Beyond the Tank take over Thursday when the TGIT dramas start their winter breaks (Shondaland shows return with new eps February 11).
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NBC News announced yesterday that Charlie Sheen (Two and a Half Men) will make a “revealing personal announcement” on Today this morning.
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Top moment of Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate on CBS, ranked by TiVo Research audience data: Bernie Sanders, saying he wouldn’t raise the effective tax rate as high as a certain former president did, because “I’m not that much of a socialist compared to Eisenhower.”
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Hallmark Channel is going all out to promote its “Countdown to Christmas” programming. An installation at NYC’s Herald Square on Wednesday, November 18 and Thursday, November 19, sponsored by Cheerios, will feature over 500 illuminated Christmas trees, and the net’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day float will feature a performance by Mariah Carey. The marketing effort also includes sponsorship of Carey’s Beacon Theater holiday show, Grand Central “Station Domination” with branded signage, an integrated skit on Jimmy Kimmel Live, partnership with Six Flags and a “Joy to the World” sweepstakes. But back to the trees. “Staging the Christmas tree maze in Herald Square…provides consumers with a fun and unique way to interact with our brand and get in the spirit of the season,” said Susanne McAvoy, EVP, marketing, creative and communication, Crown Media Family Networks.
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Some viewers of The Walking Dead had more than the usual scare Sunday, when a crawl ran during the hit zombie drama warning that subscribers of National Cable TV Cooperative systems could lose AMC and WE tv programming if a new carriage agreement isn’t reached. The current deal ends December 31. The NCTC negotiates agreements for about 700 independent cable systems.
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Netflix acquired Canadian action drama Frontier, starring Jason Momoa (Game of Thrones). Season one premieres exclusively on the streaming service outside of Canada in 2016.
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Among the performers added to A+E Networks’ simulcast of Shining a Light: A Concert for Progress on Race in America are LL Cool J, Nick Jonas, Alicia Keys, Nicki Minaj and Smokey Robinson. Concert will be simulcast on A&E, History, Lifetime, H2, LMN, FYI and iHeartRadio stations globally Friday, November 20 at 8p.
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Nickelodeon’s The HALO (Helping And Leading Others) Effect profiles young activists making positive changes in their communities. The pro-social-themed monthly docu-series from Nick Cannon’s NCredible Entertainment and Morgan Spurlock’s Warrior Poets arrives in January 2016.
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When Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul returns for its sophomore season on AMC, prepare for surprises. “Jimmy McGill…goes to places we’d never, ever expected,” teases Peter Gould, exec producer and showrunner. “As for Mike Ehrmantraut, he’s pulled deeper into a world he was sure he’d left forever.” Fun begins Monday, February 15 at 10p.
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Season four of HGTV’s Flip or Flop premieres Thursday, December 3 at 9p with a fixer upper that is, laments flipper Christina El Moussa, “hands down, our worst buy yet.” The real estate show’s last go-round attracted over 13.5 million viewers.
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Lily James and Matt Barber will be back as Lady Rose and Atticus Aldridge for the series finale of Downton Abbey, airing Sunday, March 6 on PBS. Season starts January 3.
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British actor Rob Heaps will star opposite Inbar Lavi in Bravo comedy pilot My So Called Wife. Heaps appear in upcoming BBC drama Life in Squares.
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Bailey Chase (Longmire) will recur on Showtime’s upcoming Twin Peaks sequel and NBC’s Grimm.
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Saturday’s Democratic debate on CBS drew 8.6 million viewers, double what the net normally attracts on the night and stronger than the 5.5 million the net averaged for a primary debate four years ago, but a steep drop from 15.2 million for the first Dem event on CNN. The most recent GOP face-off delivered 13.5 million viewers for Fox Business Network.
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Sunday’s Giants/Patriots game scored the best NFL ratings for CBS this season, averaging an 18.3 HH rating, according to Nielsen metered-market data. Among A18-49, the nail-biter averaged 8.5.
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Dominated by reports on the Paris terrorist attacks on Friday, Fox News drew 4.4 million viewers in primetime, CNN had 3.2 million and MSNBC 1.24 million. In the A25-54 demo, CNN delivered 1.3 million viewers, Fox News 1.2 million and MSNBC 353,000.
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Velocity had its second-best week of 2014 in Primetime delivery and ratings across target demos with a weeklong stunt featuring all new episodes from top franchises. Highlights in Live+3 include Chasing Classic Cars on November 2, with P2+delivery gains of 86 percent versus the prior 6-week Mondays and a 163 percent lift versus Monday Prime in November 2014.
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On Tuesday, November 10, new TV One docu-series Ricky Smiley for Real was the number one telecast in its 8p time period among Black P25-54. Wednesday’s Unsung was number one on cable at 8p among all key black demos, growing versus season seven 23 percent among P25-54, 35 percent among W25-54 and 35 percent among HH.
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