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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 12/11/15)
PBS: Lidia Celebrates America (Premiere) at 9pm
CBS: The Amazing Race (Finale) at 8pm
PIVOT: Please Like Me (Finale) at 10pm
(SATURDAY 12/12/15)
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Chris Hemsworth, Musical Guest: Chance The Rapper at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 12/13/15)
BRAVO: Then And Now with Andy Cohen (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: Great Houses with Julian Fellowes (Premiere) at 8pm
TLC: Married By Mom And Dad (Premiere) at 9:30pm
ABC: Blood And Oil (Finale) at 9pm
GAC: Log Cabin Living (Finale) at 9:30pm
HBO: Getting On (Finale) at 10pm
HGTV: Hawaii Life (Finale) at 8pm and 8:30pm
NAT. GEO.: Breakthrough (Finale) at 9pm
UNIVISION: La Banda (Finale) at 8pm
ABC Family will officially be renamed Freeform on Tuesday, January 12, the same day as the season premiere of the net’s hit series Pretty Little Liars at 8p, and premiere of new original series Shadowhunters at 9p. “The Freeform brand represents the passion, fun, energy and new ideas that infuse young adulthood,” said ABC Family president Tom Ascheim. “We’ve been evolving naturally for a while now, so it’s time that our name reflects the true essence of our brand.” The midseason premiere of The Fosters and series premiere of Recovery Road will air Monday, January 25; returning series Young & Hungry and Baby Daddy will premiere February 3.
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Dulce Sloan took top honors at the 12th annual StandUp NBC comedy showcase, which gives her a talent holding deal with NBCUniversal. The showcase capped a talent search to find emerging comics that spanned Atlanta, Dallas, NY and Seattle.
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TNT added two new original dramas to its 2016 slate: Good Behavior, starring Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey) and Juan Diego Botto (1492: Conquest of Paradise) in an adaptation of the Letty Dobesh novels by Wayward Pines author Blake Crouch; and Animal Kingdom, starring Emmy and Tony winner Ellen Barkin (Sea of Love) as the matriarch of a Southern California family whose excessive lifestyle is fueled by their criminal activities. The network ordered 10 eps of both series; production begins in early 2016.
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Melissa Joan Hart (Melissa & Joey), Paula Hart’s Hartbreak Films and 44 Blue Productions are developing family docuseries Sweet Harts. The series follows the Harts as they open a dessert shop in Westport, CT, focusing on Melissa Joan Hart and her ex-showbiz siblings.
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TLC will launch three-part special Jill & Jessa: Counting On with a 90-minute premiere Sunday, December 13, at 8p. The camera follows the next chapter of Jill (Duggar) Dillard and Jessa (Duggar) Seewald and their own families. The subsequent specials will air on December 20 and 27, both at 9p.
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E! is giving the royal treatment to its first original scripted drama. Following the new episode of The Royals on December 27 at 10p, the network for the first time will air post-show The Royal Hangover, featuring series stars Alexandra Park (Princess Eleanor) and Jake Maskall (King Cyrus), along with director James Lafferty to discuss the second season and tease what’s to come. The post-show has been successful on E!’s digital platforms.
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Shawn Mendes will perform at the People’s Choice Awards, where he’s nominated as 2016 Favorite Breakout Music Artist. The event airs on CBS live from the Microsoft Theatre in LA on Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 9p. Mendes is the first announced performer for the show, which will be hosted by Jane Lynch.
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The fifth season of CMT series Party Down South, originally scheduled to premiere Thursday, January 7, will now premiere Thursday, January 28 at 9p.
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TLC will premiere new series Skin Tight on Wednesday, January 6 at 10p, following 12 Americans who’ve undergone massive weight loss and are ready to undergo skin-removal surgery. The debut follows the season four premiere of My 600-Lb Life at 9p, which features drastically overweight men and women who opt to undergo gastric bypass surgery. Both series are produced by Megalomedia.
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Those Who Can’t, truTV’s first scripted series, will premiere Thursday, February 11 at 10:30p. Set in Denver, the comedy series follows three frustrated high school teachers who at times seem as dysfunctional as their students.
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HBO will air a third and final season of drama The Leftovers, the network said yesterday. The series was created by Damon Lindelof (Lost) and Tom Perrotta, and is produced by White Rabbit in association with Warner Bros. Television.
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The new season of Finding Bigfoot returns Sunday, January 3, at 9p with a two-hour premiere on Animal Planet as the curious crypto-zoological team sets foot in new locations with modern technologies to progress the search.
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Investigation Discovery will debut the sophomore season of original series Vanity Fair Confidential on Monday, January 4, at 9p. Created by Emmy-winning True Entertainment in partnership with Conde Nast Entertainment, new stories will include a first-hand account from Beverly Johnson and others about Bill Cosby, Robert Sam Anson’s look into the murder of Tupac Shakur, and Clara Bingham’s expose on accusations of sexual misconduct at the United States Air Force Academy.
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Animal Planet renewed Pit Bulls & Parolees for season eight, with 10 new episodes arriving in 2016. In the meantime, the series’ 100th episode airs Saturday, January 2 at 10p, followed by an after-show hosted by Fox Sports TV personality and pit bull advocate Jay Glazer.
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Choices made in the first 72 hours of any survival situation are the most critical, and Discovery series Dual Survival, returning January 13 at 9p, features a new group of survivalists ready to tackle tough terrains and demonstrate how to make it out alive – hopefully within the first 72 hours.
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Michael Symon hits the road again on Friday, January 15 at 9p to sample the best of American classic vittles in the new season of Food Network’s Burgers, Brew & ‘Que. Symon’s journey this time around takes him to locales including Austin, TX, New Orleans and Brooklyn.
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The 30th anniversary season of American Masters arrives on PBS beginning Friday, January 29 at 9p. Featured artists this season include Mike Nichols, B.B. King, Carole King, Fats Domino, Loretta Lynn, Janis Joplin and The Highwaymen.
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Yesterday, the same day as the season three finale, Comedy Central picked up a fourth season of Nathan Fielder-starring Nathan For You. Third season ratings were up nearly 20 percent among M18-24 and full-ep streams on the Comedy Central app were up 92 percent, according to the network.
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The season four premiere of WE tv’s Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars delivered 1.3 million viewers in Live+3, an increase of 68 percent over Live+SD, 759,000 in A25-54 (up 82 percent) and 591,000 W25-54 (up 78 percent). Versus last season, the episode was up 44 percent in total viewers, 39 percent in A25-54 and 44 percent in W25-54.
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Telemundo’s Monday-Friday primetime ratings in 2015 were the highest in its history among total viewers (1.67 million, up 9 percent versus 2014) and A18-49 (828,000, up 9 percent versus last year), according to Nielsen data. This year, the network gained total viewers (144,000), A18-49 (71,000) and A18-34 (40,000) versus the prior year.
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CBS’ The Talk delivered its second-largest average weekly audience of the season, while matching season highs in W25-54 and W18-49, according to Nielsen Live+SD ratings for the week ending December 6. The show averaged 2.71 million viewers, up 10 percent from last week.
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MOVIES
In The Heart of the Sea – Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw, Michelle Fairley, Tom Holland, Paul Anderson
The Big Short (Limited Release) – Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, Marisa Tomei, Hamish Linklater, Rafe Spall, Jeremy Strong
Bleeding Heart (Limited Release) – Jessica Biel, Zosia Mamet, Kate Burton, Edi Gathegi, Joe Anderson
Don Verdean (Limited Release) – Sam Rockwell, Jemaine Clement, Amy Ryan, Danny McBride, Leslie Bibb, Will Forte, Stephen Park, Sky Elobar
The Girl In The Book (Limited Release) – Emily VanCamp, Michael Nyqvist, David Call, Michael Cristofer, Talia Balsam, Ana Mulvoy-Ten, Ali Ahn, Jordan Lage
MEGA MILLIONS
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