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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 12/1/15)
A&E: Married at First Sight (Premiere) at 9pm
BRAVO: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Premiere) at 9pm
BRAVO: Girlfriends Guide to Divorce (Premiere) at 10pm
DESTINATION AMERICA: Full Throttle Saloon (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: Fixer Upper (Premiere) at 9pm
TRAVEL: Planet Primetime (Premiere) at 11pm
SHOWTIME: A Season with Notre Dame Football (Finale) at 10pm
VELOCITY: Bitchin’ Rides (Finale) at 9pm
Add original executive producer Nigel Lythgoe to the American Idol alums set to return during the Fox music competition’s 15th and final season. Variety reports Lythgoe, who was let go in 2013 and is awaiting word on the fate of his So You Think You Can Dance, will exec produce the series finale. Original judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson will also be among those dropping in.
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GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump isn’t backing down from his claim, made on the campaign trail, that he saw TV footage of “thousands and thousands” of people in Jersey City cheering on 9/11 when the World Trade Center fell. Instead, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday, Trump blamed lack of video evidence on “ancient technology,” promising, “They’re going to find something.”
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CBS tacked seven more episodes onto its Supergirl order, for a 20-episode season. The freshman drama is averaging 11.24 million viewers and 2.8/8 among A18-49, improving on the year-ago time period by 46 percent in viewers and 40 percent in the demo. The net had already upped its orders for new series Limitless, Life in Pieces and Code Black.
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Telemundo has become the first Spanish-language TV network to surpass 1 million subscribers on YouTube. Year-over-year, the channel added 613,000 subscribers and increased the number of views during that period by 262 percent.
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CNN sports reporter Rachel Nichols is heading back to ESPN, where she’ll serve as anchor and reporter. Nichols arrived at CNN in 2013; her low-rated show, Unguarded with Rachel Nichols, was canceled in October 2014.
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ABC Family’s Shadowhunters, based on the YA fantasy book series Mortal Instruments, arrives Tuesday, January 12 at 9p. Series is produced by Constantin Film and exec produced by Ed Decter and McG.
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The cast of ABC’s Nashville will be honored with the inaugural “International Impact Award” during the 2015 CMT Artistis of the Year special on Wednesday, December 2 at 8p. Country music drama airs Wednesdays at 10p.
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CBS unveiled its winter schedule. Undercover Boss is back for season seven on December 20, the first of three Sunday broadcasts before the reality show moves to Fridays at 8p; the 28th edition of Amazing Race slips into that slot starting February 12. Season six of Mike & Molly launches Wednesday, January 6 at 8:30p, following 2 Broke Girls in a new time period. Survivor returns for round 32 Wednesday, February 17 at 8p, two weeks before the series premiere of Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders at 10p. The Odd Couple starts its sophomore run Thursday, April 7 at 8:30p.
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Amazon Prime members got a head start on season two of Transparent last night, with an exclusive showing of the premiere. Full season drops Friday, December 11.
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Disney XD ordered season three of animated series Star Wars Rebels from Lucasfilm. Currently in production, landing is expected in 2016.
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ABC Family picked up The Fosters for a fourth season. Family drama returns with new season three eps on Monday, January 25 at 8p (at which point home will be Freeform). Over its summer season, The Fosters ranked as cable’s number one scripted series Mondays at 8p in total viewers (2.1 million) and across the A18-34 and A18-49 demos.
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Looks like comedian Patton Oswalt (The King of Queens) will play the son of an evil henchman on Kickstarter-funded reboot Mystery Science Theater 3000. “Even though we won’t start working on contracts until after the Kickstarter ends, it seems pretty safe to say that Patton will be on board with us, on camera and as a special guest writer,” said series creator Joel Hodgson.
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Up against NBC’s Sunday Night Football and CBS’s NFL overrun, ABC had Sunday’s top entertainment broadcasts among A18-49 with Once Upon a Time (hitting a series low 1.3/4), according to Nielsen fast nationals. Quantico clocked in with 1.2/4 to tie for second, but the freshman drama has had such big playback lifts, ABC is projecting a Live+7 rating of 2.5.
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The premiere of The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar on Disney Channel was the number one primetime cable TV telecast of 2015 with Kids 2-5 (1.4 million), and the top animated telecast across kid cable TV nets in total viewers (5.4 million) and A18-49 (1.8 million), according to Live+3 data.
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The season eight finale of TV One’s Unsung ranked as the #1 cable telecast on its premiere night, Wednesday, November 18 at 8p, among all key Black demos. Overall, the finale posted total audience delivery across the following key demos: W25-54 (.6/177,000), P18-49 (.41/249,000) and W18-49 (.47/145,000). Season nine launches on TV One in early 2016.
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NBC’s Meet the Press finished first in total viewers (3.44 million) and among A25-54 (963,000/.8) in the November sweep for the first time in four years, and the first time since Chuck Todd took over as host in September 2014. CBS’s Face the Nation was second in viewers (3.40 million) and ABC next in the demo (911,000) for the time period.
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