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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 11/18/15)
DIRECT TV: Undeniable with Joe Buck (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC UNIVERSO: Heros (Premiere) at 8pm
ID: True Nightmares (Finale) at 10pm
MTV: Are You The One? (Finale) at 10pm
PBS: Earth’s Natural Wonders (Finale) at 8pm
PBS: The Brain with David Eagleman (Finale) at 10pm
SYFY: Ghost Hunters (Finale) at 9pm
SYFY: Paranormal Witness (Finale) at 10pm
TV ONE: Unsung (Finale) at 9pm
VELOCTIY: Overhaunlin’ (Finale) at 9pm
Santa Claus is Comin’ to SNL: NBC’s Saturday Night Live is closing out the year with a bang. Ryan Gosling makes his first appearance as host on December 5, with musical guest Leon Bridges; Chris Hemsworth returns for a second hosting gig on December 12 with Chance The Rapper, and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler return to their old stomping grounds on December 19, with – wait for it – Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, performing for the first time on the late nighter since 2002.
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Pushing Daisies, the dramedy that ran from 2007 to 2009, has been resurrected courtesy of The CW – specifically the network’s digital home, CW Seed. The series is exclusively available on Roku devices right now, and will be accessible on all CW Seed platforms beginning December 1.
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Ready for A Spoonful of Sugar? The Wonderful World of Disney Presented by Target brings Mary Poppins to ABC on Saturday, December 12 at 8p. The holiday event marks the first network television broadcast of the Julie Andrews classic in 13 years.
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WE tv is developing Basketball Moms [wt], a one-hour, unscripted series about five Houston-area mothers whose sons play on rival youth basketball teams and dream of making it to the NBA. “Any show focused on parents, kids and a shared activity has the right ingredients for high drama. Add in the potential of an NBA career and the transformational impact of that on both player and family and you take things to a whole other level,” said Marc Juris, WE tv president.
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Mel B makes business her business in Celebrity Inc., premiering Monday, November 30 at 9p. The one-hour Pop special takes viewers inside the multi-billion dollar industry of celebrity endorsements.
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People’s Sexiest Man Alive 2015 debuts tonight, November 18 at 9p on Lifetime. Bellamy Young(Scandal) hosts the one-hour special.
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Kenny Rogers will receive the “Artist of a Lifetime” award (presented by Ram Trucks) during the sixth annual CMT Artists of the Year special, premiering Wednesday, December 2 at 8p.
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Here’s Johnny! A lot! In January 2016, Antenna TV is bringing Johnny Carson back to late night with a 60-minute classic Carson episode airing at 11p, rebroadcast at 2a, each weeknight. On weekends, the net will run 90-minute episodes at 10p with a rebroadcast at 1:30a. It marks the first time the episodes will run in a strip since Carson went off the air in 1992.
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Disney Channel is set to spread holiday cheer with its annual “Fa-La-La-Lidays.” The winter programming event kicks off with the television premiere of Frozen Fever on Sunday, November 29 at 6:30p and continues through December with holiday-themed episodes of BUNK’D, Girl Meets World, K.C. Undercover, Best Friends Whenever, Austin & Ally and Liv and Maddie, beginning Friday, December 4.
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Andrea Bocelli: Cinema debuts on “Great Performances,” Friday, November 27 at 9p on PBS. The superstar tenor lends his voice to a symphonic salute to the movies.
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A 9-season marathon of GRB Entertainment‘s Untold Stories of the ER is being featured on Discovery Life from Sunday, November 29 through Friday, December 4. The programming event leads up to the show’s Season 10 premiere.
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History premieres Christmas Through the Decades on Wednesday, November 25 at 10p. The limited series, which runs for four consecutive weeks, explores what the holiday season was like in America over the years.
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Music Choice will count down the top 100 songs of 2015 on MC 100, airing four consecutive nights beginning Tuesday, November 24 through Friday, November 27 at 8p. The special features a full catalog of this year’s biggest hits from artists like Taylor Swift, Fetty Wap, The Weeknd, Ed Sheeran, Beyonce, Selena Gomez, and Rihanna. America’s Next Top Model: British Invasion winner and host of Music Choice’s The Weekend Countdown, Sophie Sumner, will host this year’s show.
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Soprano alum Tony Sirico nabbed a guest spot on The Grinder. He’ll appear in a January episode of the Fox series.
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Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises) will appear as themselves on ABC‘s The Muppets on Tuesday, December 1.
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Sunday’s 60 Minutes, featuring Scott Pelley’s report from Paris on the terrorist attacks that killed over 100, was the nation’s most-watched non-sports program for the week. The broadcast drew 18.1 million viewers to finish at #2, behind only Sunday Night Football, according to Nielsen Live+SD ratings for November 15. America’s #1 news program also made Nielsen’s Top 10 broadcasts in the key demos, tying for fourth in A25-54 (4.7/11) and placing sixth in A18-49 (3.6/10).
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Food Network’s Holiday Baking Championship on Sunday posted a .8 rating (720,000 impressions) among A25-54 and a .7 rating (200,000 impressions) among A25-34, up 17 percent and 49 percent, respectively, versus year-ago.
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Wheel Of Fortune was once again the #1 game show with a 7.2 HH rating, growing 9 percent vs. the previous week. Season to date, it is also #1 with a 6.5 HH rating. Jeopardy! grew 6 percent week to week to a 6.6 HH rating, finishing as the #2 game show of the week.
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For the week of November 2, FABLife grew by double digits week-to-week in Households (up 14 percent) and total viewers ( up 10 percent), while holding even among W18-49 and Women 25-54.
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The first full week of November sweeps produced high ratings for entertainment magazines. Entertainment Tonight (new season high 3.4, up 6 percent from the week before) was number one for the seventh straight week. Access Hollywood (new season high 1.8, up 6 percent) tied TMZ (1.8, up 20 percent), which recovered after dropping to a season low. Extra (new season high 1.6, up 14 percent) grew 7 percent from last year. The Insider (new season high 1.3, up 8 percent) also set a season record.
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Judge Judy (new season high 7.8, up 8 percent) had its biggest ratings in nearly two years and topped all syndicated strips for the 20th week in a row. It was the number one court show for the 998th straight week, more than 19 years.
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Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court delivered its highest ratings for the season in Homes (1.42) for the week of November 2. The show also experienced growth in key demos, including in 0.79 in W18-49 (versus 0.77 the previous week) and 0.65 in A25-54 (versus 0.58 the previous week).
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