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FOX: Taraji And Terrence’s White Hot Holidays (Premiere) at 9pm
FOOD: Celebrity Food Fight (Premiere) at 10pm
OXYGEN: Finding My Father (Premiere) at 9pm
OXYGEN: Rich in Faith (Premiere) at 10pm
BRAVO: Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles (Finale) at 9pm
COMEDY CENTRAL: South Park (Finale) at 10pm
FXX: The League (Finale) at 10pm
FXX: You’re The Worst (Finale) at 10:45pm
NBC renewed The Blacklist for season four. The crime drama, returning from winter break on Thursday, January 7, joins freshman Blindspot and Dick Wolf’s Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. on the net’s renewal list.
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Fox Business Network will host the sixth Republican presidential candidate debate, on Thursday, January 14 in North Charleston, SC. FBN drew its biggest ratings ever with its first GOP debate back in November.
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Walt Disney Co. upped its ownership of Vice Media to about 10 percent, in a deal that values the company at (gulp) $4 billion, according to the Financial Times. Vice is prepping a cable net under the umbrella of Disney co-owned A+E Networks, as well as a newscast for HBO.
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MSG Network will telecast The Main Event: A Century of Sinatra on Saturday, December 12 at 9p. Special covering the singer’s 1974 concert at Madison Square Garden (Robert Redford, Carol Channing and Walter Cronkite were in the sold-out crowd) airs on what would have been the Chairman of the Board’s 100th birthday.
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OWN’s Tyler Perry series The Haves and the Have Nots and Love Thy Neighbor return Tuesday, January 5 at 9p and Friday, January 8 at 9p. The season finale of The Haves and the Have Nots in September delivered 3.7 million viewers, while Love Thy Neighbor ranked among Friday night’s top 3 original cable series for African-American women.
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Pitbull and Wisin will perform on the live season finale of Univision’s La Banda on Sunday, December 13 at 8p. The new band that emerges from the music competition will be managed by judge Ricky Martin.
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A pop culture phenomenon gets the doc treatment in Showtime’s Daft Punk Unchained, premiering Thursday, December 10 at 9p. Kanye West, Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers are among those interviewed about the electronic music duo.
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President Obama’s Sunday night speech on terrorism drew 46 million viewers. (In January, 32 million Americans watched the President’s State of the Union address.) Among cable news nets, Fox News accounted for 3.32 million viewers, followed by CNN with 1.72 million and 861,000 for MSNBC.
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The season four premiere of HGTV’s Flip or Flop on Thursday was the number one cable program in its timeslot among upscale W25-54 and attracted more than 2.9 million total viewers.
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Winning the week of November 30-December 6, NBC stakes claim to 10 of 11 weeks so far this season among A18-49, delivering its most-watched season in nine years.
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Hallmark Channel’s Just in Time for Christmas on Saturday earned a 3.1 HH rating and 3.5 million total viewers, while on Sunday Karen Kingsbury’s The Bridge averaged a 2.8 HH rating and 3.2 million total viewers. Those numbers made Hallmark the most-watched and highest-rated cable network among households for the entire weekend.
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NBC’s special preview of Eva Longoria comedy Telenovela on Monday delivered 1.4/4 and .9/3 for back-to-back, post-The Voice episodes. Last week in the timeslot, previews of Superstore rang up 2.0/6 and 1.6/5.
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VH1 special VH1 Big in 2015 With Entertainment Weekly was the number one non-sports cable program in its 9p time period among W18-34 and W18-49, drawing 2.3 million total viewers.
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TLC two-hour special Bible Bowl returns Monday, December 28 at 8p with biblical enthusiasts competing for millions of dollars in scholarships.
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Nominees for the 47th Annual NAACP Image Awards were announced Tuesday. Comedy series nods went to black-ish, House of Lies, Key & Peele, Orange Is the New Black and Survivor’s Remorse. Up for best drama: Being Mary Jane, Empire, How to Get Away with Murder, Power and Scandal. Trophies will be handed out Friday, February 5 on TV One at 9p. For more, go here.
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One of these shows is not like the others: The Producers Guild of America named Better Call Saul, Game of Thrones, Homeland, House of Cards and Mad Man as nominees for its top drama award, while comedy nods went to Inside Amy Schumer, Modern Family, Silicon Valley, Transparent and Veep. (Modern Family is the only broadcast show to make the cut in the categories.) Ceremony takes place January 24.
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Tricked-out trucks (and stunts and pranks) are the focus of Discovery’s Diesel Brothers, joining the net’s Motor Mondays lineup on January 4 at 10p.
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Multi-generational comedy Here We Go Again debuts on TV One Tuesday, December 15 at 9:30p. LeToya Luckett (Single Ladies), Wendy Raquel Robinson (The Game) and Kyndall Ferguson star.
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What would Marcia say? Eve Plumb (The Brady Bunch) landed the role of shop teacher Mrs. Murdock in Fox’s Grease: Live, airing Sunday, January 31. Alice Ghostley played the role in the 1978 film.
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Abigail Breslin (Scream Queens) has been cast as Baby in ABC event Dirty Dancing, produced by Lionsgate TV.
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Mariah Carey’s Merriest Christmas premieres on Hallmark Channel Saturday, December 19 at 10p. Highlights include a duet with Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, a reading of “The Night Before Christmas” by Kelsey Grammer and Billy Gardell (Mike & Molly) ho-ho-ho-ing as Santa Claus. One-hour special follows the premiere of A Christmas Melody, directed by and starring the singer.
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FremantleMedia North America’s digital multicast network, BUZZR, will count down the 12 days leading to Christmas with holiday programming featuring game show regular Betty White. Starting Monday, December 14, BUZZR will air game show episodes featuring the beloved Golden Girl at 8p, ending with 24-hour marathon “A Betty White Christmas” on Friday, December 25.
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