FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 12/17/15)
WPIX: iHeart Radio Z-100 Jingle Ball (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: Kelly Clarkson’s Cautionary Christmas Music Tale (Premiere) at 9pm
ABC: Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People (Premiere) at 10pm
HLN: Dr. Drew (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Surviving Evil (Finale) at 10pm
SCIENCE: How It’s Made (Finale) at 9pm
WE TV: Selling It In The ATL (Finale) at 10pm
NBC News anchor Lester Holt will moderate the NBC News/YouTube Democratic presidential candidate debate on Sunday, January 17 in Charleston, SC. “Other NBC News political reporters and journalists” will be on hand as well, said the network.
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NBC pulled the plug on live variety show Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris after one season. “I’m proud of what we did – live! – and still believe in variety. Stay tuned,” tweeted Harris Tuesday night.
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E! News co-anchor Terrence Jenkins is leaving the entertainment newsmag to focus on acting and producing fulltime. Jenkins produced and starred in his first feature film, The Perfect Match, coming out in 2016. “It’s important I grow and I wanted to leave on my own terms and when I was ready,” said Jenkins, who joined E! in 2012.
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LL Cool J will be back to host the Grammy Awards, airing Monday, February 15 at 8p on CBS. It will be his fifth time manning the emcee mic.
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DreamWorks’ Steven Spielberg, Participant Media, Reliance Group and eOne have teamed to form Amblin Partners, a film, TV and digital content creation company that will develop and produce films using the Amblin, DreamWorks and Participant labels. Amblin Television will be part of the venture. Universal Pictures will handle marketing and distribution. Spielberg’s pact with Disney, struck in 2009, expires in August.
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Vin Diesel’s One Race is partnering with Universal Television on a multi-year, first-look production deal with One Race Television. Shana C. Waterman has been hired as head of TV. “I have dreamt about expanding the One Race brand into television and now we’ve found the perfect creative partners,” said Diesel. Waterman had been SVP, event series at Fox Broadcasting Co.
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E! makeover show Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian promises to help “the brokenhearted get the ultimate payback” with inside-and-out transformations, led by the popular K sister as well as elite trainers, stylists and glam squads. Six-parter comes from Rogue Atlas Productions in association with Lionsgate Television, KhloMoney Productions and (natch) Ryan Seacrest Productions.
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NBC’s third annual American Ninja Warrior: USA Vs. the World competition is slated for Sunday, January 31 at 8p. Leading the U.S. team is American Ninja Warrior champ Isaac Caldiero.
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Today’s Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Willie Geist and Tamron Hall will host NBC’s Golden Globes pre-show special on Sunday, January 10 at 7p. Ricky Gervais mans the main event from 8-11p.
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AXS TV acquired UK scripted mockumentary series Hoff the Record, starring David Hasselhoff playing a fictionalized version of himself trying to revive his career across the pond. Six-parter, which debuted in June, lands Stateside this spring. “Hoff the Record is what happens when an American superstar meets cheeky British comedy,” said Matt Forde, EVP content production, sales and distribution, BBC Worldwide North America.
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ASPiRE made some acquisitions of its own, picking up family drama Soul Food, premiering on the net Friday, January 1 with a three-day marathon, and all five seasons of crime drama Mod Squad, debuting Monday, January 4 from 2p-8p. Soul Food debuted on Showtime in 2000; Mod Squad ran on ABC from 1968-1973.
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Syfy’s annual New Year’s Eve The Twilight Zone marathon begins Wednesday, December 30 at 7p and runs until Sunday, January 3 at 12p. The only interruption of the 87-hour Rod Serling event: a telecast of WWE SmackDown on Thursday, December 31 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Up reality series Bringing Up Bates returns for season three Thursday, January 7 at 9p. Ahead of the debut, a marathon of the show airs from 9a-3a on New Year’s Eve.
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Oxygen’s Bad Girls Club: Twisted Sisters premieres Tuesday, March 15 at 8p, with four sets of battling sisters moving into the mansion. How did they find these tempestuous teams? Casting special reveals all Tuesday, March 8 at 8p.
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Oprah: Where Are They Now? returns to OWN Saturday, January 23 at 10p with a season that includes sit-downs with Dick Van Dyke, Chaz Bono, Sugar Ray Leonard and Naomi Judd, among others.
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TNT renewed The Librarians and Murder in the First for season threes and Major Crimes for a fifth run. The Librarians airs Sundays at 8p and Crimes is on Mondays at 9p, while Murder wrapped its sophomore season last summer. Canceled by the net: Legends after two seasons, and freshmen Public Morals and Agent X.
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Travel Channel greenlit a season three for Booze Traveler. No surprise there – ratings for the show’s sophomore season, airing Tuesdays at 10p, has grown 55 percent among A25-54 versus season one’s premiere average.
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Mark O’Brien (Halt & Catch Fire) and Enzo Cilenti (The Martian) are onboard Amazon Studios drama pilot The Last Tycoon, based on the final, unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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So far this TV season, broadcast nets have averaged a 3 percent decline in total day viewership. Football-fueled CBS and NBC are flat versus year ago, Fox dipped 2 percent and ABC is down 12 percent, according to MoffettNathanson Research data. While cable has slipped 6 percent, bucking the trend are AMC Networks, up 2 percent and Scripps Networks Interactive and Time Warner cable groups, which are flat.
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Whether you were Team Trump or Camp Cruz, there’s no debating the big winner of Tuesday’s GOP contest: CNN. While the event didn’t hit the ratings-buster highs Fox News did for the first debate (25 million) or CNN for the second (24 million), this time around drew a third-best 18 million out of six, the second-most-watched program in CNN’s history. Most tweeted moment of the night: 19,5000 tweets were sent following that exchange between Donald Trump and Jeb Bush.
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Season six of VH1’s Love & Hip Hop: New York debuted to 4.6 million viewers Monday, with 2.0 among A18-49 to rank as the number one non-sports cable program of the day in the demo.
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BROADWAY
Fiddler on the Roof opens on Broadway on Sunday December 20, 2015.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/fiddler-roof-broadway/
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