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NBC: Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas (Premiere) at 8pm
CBS: Survivor (Finale) at 8pm and 9pm
GSN: Hellevator (Finale) at 8pm
VELOCITY: Dallas Car Sharks (Finale) at 10pm
The live televised musical is getting a religious twist courtesy of Fox. The network will air two-hour The Passion livefrom New Orleans on Palm Sunday, March 20 at 8p, hosted by Tyler Perry. New Orleans native Perry will narrate the story of the final hours of the life of Jesus Christ, set in modern times and augmented by a cast of entertainers performing popular songs arranged by Adam Anders (Glee).
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Z Living, a health and lifestyle network, inked a development deal with 3 Ball Entertainment (Bar Rescue, Extreme Weight Loss). The partnership launches with development of three series: The Big Fat Truth, Finding Fido and Homegrown Wedding.
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One year after the terrorist attack at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that left 11 dead, Smithsonian Channel will air Paris Terror Attack: Charlie Hebdo on Monday, January 4, at 8p. Special follows, hour by hour, the event and includes testimony from the police and military commanders leading the operation to capture the suspects combined with chilling eyewitness video.
(Source: Cynopsis)
BET Networks will present the ninth annual BET Honors special, hosted for the first time by Arsenio Hall, on February 23. The event this year honors five distinguished African Americans: Empire creator Lee Daniels; Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments and chairman of the Board of Directors for Dreamworks Animation; Eric H. Holder Jr., the first African American US Attorney General; and Grammy-winning singer Patti Labelle; and L.A. Reid, chairman/CEO of Epic Records.
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Luke Bryan and Dierks Bentley are set to co-host the 51st Academy of Country Music Awards, broadcast live from Vegas on Sunday, April 3 at 8p on CBS. This will be Bryan’s fourth consecutive turn hosting the awards and Bentley’s first.
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The second season of Spike TV’s Lip Sync Battle kicks off Thursday, January 7 at 10p with a one-hour ep featuring Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan-Tatum.
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No matter what the occasion, Giada De Laurentiis shows viewers how to be host with the most in new series Giada Entertains, premiering Sunday, January 3, 11a on Food Network. The six-ep series features themes from cocktail parties and game day food to celebrations for the whole family.
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A fledgling street racing team is in the spotlight in new Discovery Channel series Street Outlaws: New Orleans, which premieres Monday, February 22, at 9p. The spinoff to Street Outlaws, part of Discovery’s Motor Mondays, is produced by Pilgrim Studios; Craig Piligian and Sam Korkis are exec producers. For Discovery, Craig Coffman is exec producer.
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American Heroes Channel digs deep into epic family vendettas and more in Blood Feuds, premiering Wednesday, January 6 at 10p. Among the six iconic rivalries brought to life via dramatic recreations and interviews are Bill the Butcher vs. John Morrisey, Hatfields vs. McCoys and Soapy Smith vs. Frank Reid.
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The soon to be renamed Freeform network (now ABC Family) will bow Recovery Road, featuring stories of people trying to overcome addiction, on Monday, January 25 at 9p. The premiere ep, titled “Blackout,” was written by Bert V. Royal and Karen DiConcetto and directed by Lawrence Trilling.
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Alessia Cara, DNCE, Nick Jonas, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, OMI, Pentatonix and Nathan Sykes are confirmed as the final performers on ABC’s telecast of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2016. The full evening will include more than 38 performances and five-and-a-half hours of music.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Adele Live in New York City struck all the right chords for NBC on Monday night, scoring a 10-year high note for the network. The British singer’s performance special drew a 3.0/10 rating, with 11.2 million viewers tuning in to the 10p concert, exec produced by Lorne Michaels. It was the network’s most-watched concert special since 2003, when 16.56 million tuned in for the Cher Farewell Tour.
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The week ending December 6, Extra (1.6) was up 23 percent from the week before to match its season high and rank as the biggest gainer among the top syndicated entertainment mags. Entertainment Tonight (3.1) had a 15 percent boost, The Insider grew 9 percent (to 1.2) and Access Hollywood (1.8) and TMZ (1.7) were up 6 percent each.
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Among the newbies, Crime Watch Daily (.9, up 13 percent) was number one for the 12th week in a row, while FABLife and Crazy Talk were steady with .8 and .6, respectively.
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Hallmark Channel is decking the halls. Since the launch of this year’s Countdown to Christmas, the network is the top-rated and most-watched net among households in weekend primetime and total day. On Saturday, December 12, the premiere of original movie On the Twelfth Day of Christmas averaged a 3.1 household rating and 3.5 million total viewers, while the winter premiere of Family for Christmas on Sunday drew a 2.8 household rating and 3.4 million total viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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