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NBC: Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting at 7pm
BRAVO: Top Chef (Premiere) at 10pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Flipping’ RV (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Bad Blood (Premiere) at 10pm
MTV: The Challenge: Battle of the Bloodlines (Premiere) at 10pm
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TRAVEL: Rev Runs Around the World (Premiere) at 10pm and 10:30pm
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CNBC: Jay Leno’s Garage (Finale) at 10pm
FOOD: Cutthroat Kitchen: Superstar Sabotage (Premiere) at 9pm
Bones stars Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz and exec producer Kathleen Reichs filed a lawsuit Monday claiming they are owed a percentage of the long-running Fox series’ profits, estimated at tens of millions of dollars. “When 20th TV finally did engage with Plaintiffs in the fifth and sixth seasons of the Series, it did so under the threat of cancelling the Series unless Plaintiffs accepted its non-negotiable license fee figure, and then concealed material information about the true value of that figure,” alleges the claim. Exec producer Barry Josephson made similar claims in a suit filed last week.
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Television journalist Linda Ellerbee announced her retirement, as of January 2016. “I’m a lucky woman,” said Ellerbee. “I saw the world, met many of the world’s most interesting people and was well paid to do so. Now I choose to go, and I go smiling.” Ellerbee is best known for anchoring late-night news program NBC News Overnight in the early 80s and children’s news series Nick News with Linda Ellerbee on Nickelodeon.
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Speaking of, Hello, I Must Be Going: 25 Years of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee, a retrospective series finale for the longest-running kids news show in TV history, airs Tuesday, December 15 at 8p on Nickelodeon. The hour-long special recalls some of the award-winning series’ most memorable episodes and discussions.
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Anthony Anderson (black-ish) signed a multi-year deal to continue as host for the 47th and 48th NAACP Image Awards. Next year’s telecast will air live on TV One on Friday, February 5 as a two-hour special.
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Fox is developing Rambo: New Blood, a father/son follow-up based on the Sylvester Stallone films. Stallone is exec producing the series, from Entertainment One and Millennium Films.
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Rapper/producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson (Power) and Will Packer (Uncle Buck) will exec produce My Friend 50, a project at Fox, with Jackson making appearances as himself. Series from Will Packer Productions, Jackson’s G-Unit Film & Television and Universal Television focuses on a woman who believes joining 50 Cent’s entourage will solve all her problems.
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Reality star/entrepreneur Bethenny Frankel (Real Housewives of New York City) has entered into an overall deal with Leftfield Entertainment to develop and produce original projects. Frankel also announced the launch of her own production company, B Real Productions. Food Porn, produced by Leftfield’s Loud TV, premieres Thursday, December 3 at 9p on Fyi; Closet Porn and Cocktail Porn are in the works.
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Fuse’s Saturday Morning Fever will debut Wednesday, January 27. Docu-comedy tells the story of the long-running Philadelphia dance show that helped launch the careers of former series regular Kelly Ripa as well as Madonna and Will Smith, who performed.
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Season three of Bravo docu-series Newlyweds: The First Year premieres Sunday, January 3 at 9p, moving to its regular Wednesday-at-10p timeslot on January 6. Four new couples are put to the test, tangling with the likes of in-laws, adultery and fertility.
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Fuse renewed three original series: Big Freedia, Queen of Bounce, Fluffy Breaks Even and Transcendent. Season four of Freedia was the series’ best-rated yet among A18-34, while freshmen Transcendent had the net’s best-ever series premiere in the demo and Fluffy had the best series premiere among A18-49, HHs and P2+.
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Season two of half-hour comedic drama Mozart in the Jungle, based on the memoir by Blair Tindall, lands on Amazon Prime Video Wednesday, December 30. New guest stars this season include Gretchen Mol, Dermot Mulroney and Esai Morales.
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Sinatra & the Jack Pack, exploring President John F. Kennedy’s friendship with Frank Sinatra, premieres Tuesday, December 8 at 10p on Reelz. Documentary was produced by Circle Films.
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More on the Chairman of the Board: Grammy winners Juanes and Trisha Yearwood and Grammy nominee Seth MacFarlane have been added to the list of performers for Sinatra 100 – An All-Star Grammy Concert, airing on CBS Sunday, December 6 at 9p. The special celebrates Sinatra’s music on the occasion(ish) of the iconic singer’s 100th birthday.
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The Saturday, January 2 season finale of Starz’ Ash vs Evil Dead will be preceded by catch-up mini-marathons starting at 9p on Monday, December 28-Wednesday, December 30.
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Add Luke Bryan, Wiz Khalifa, Charlie Puth and Demi Lovato to the entertainers performing live from Times Square on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest, Thursday, December 31 at 8p on ABC.
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Sherri Shepherd (The View) landed a major recurring role on Rosewood. Fall finale of the Fox drama airs tonight at 8p.
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Danny Pino (Cold Case) will star opposite Mary Elizabeth Winstead in CBS summer series BrainDead. Comic thriller is set in D.C., where aliens have come to earth to eat the brains of Hill staffers. Yum!
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Sterling Jerins (Conjuring) joins upcoming HBO comedy Divorce in a series regular role. Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Hayden Church star.
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