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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 1/5/16)
ABC: Beyond The Tank (Premiere) at 10pm
BET: Zoe Ever After (Premiere) at 10pm
DISCOVERY: Killing Fields (Premiere) at 10pm
DIY: Building Alaska (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Ice Cold Killers (Premiere) at 9pm
FOX: New Girl (Premiere) at 8pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Living Big Sky (Premiere) at 10pm
LIFETIME: Dance Moms (Premiere) at 9pm
LIFETIME: Pitch Slapped (Premiere) at 10pm
MTV & TEEN NICK: The Shannara Chronicles (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: Hollywood Game Night (Premiere) at 8pm
OWN: The Haves and the Have Nots (Premiere) at 9pm
PBS: Finding Your Roots (Premiere) at 8pm
TLC: The Little Couple (Premiere) at 9pm
TRU TV: 10 Things (Premiere) at 10:30pm
SHOWTIME: A Season with Notre Dame Football (Finale) at 10pm
Sam Champion, who left Good Morning America in 2013 to join The Weather Channel, will return to GMA the week of January 11 to sub for ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee during her maternity leave. “He has to take full credit for the dip in the jet stream,” said Zee in a phone call to GMA on Monday. Since the cancellation of Champion’s TWC morning show, AMHQ, he has transitioned to more prime time coverage.(Source: Cynopsis)
The allegation by two writers that Fox comedy New Girl was based on a script they wrote was soundly rejected by a U.S. District Court judge. “No reasonable jury could conclude that there are substantial similarities in the plot, sequence of events, characters, mood, pace, setting, theme or dialogue between Square One and New Girl,” wrote Judge Stephen V. Wilson, granting a summary judgment to Fox and others in a copyright lawsuit. Season five of New Girl premieres tonight.
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President Obama will appear on CNN town hall special Guns in America with Anderson Cooper on Thursday, January 7 at 8p. Topic is tightening restrictions on access to guns.
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The Meredith Vieira Show will wrap after production of season two, announced NBCUniversal. The syndicated talker started its sophomore run with a .8 household rating, down 50% from its debut. “I am so sorry to see our show come to an end after this season, but I am also incredibly proud of the work our staff has done and forever grateful to our supportive viewers,” said Vieira. The popular host won’t be idle – Vieira will be on hand for NBC’s coverage of the Summer Olympics.
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Fans of Pretty Little Liars can get dolled up for the series’ January 12 winter premiere, on ABC Family’s dime. The net (which officially will be christened Freeform the same day) is offering free blowouts at Drybar, recreating hairstyles based on PLL characters. Tax and tip covered, appointments necessary.
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The winner of Travel Channel’s fourth annual sweepstakes, The Trip: 2016, launched yesterday, will be whisked off for a $100,000 Caribbean adventure (deadline for entry: March 25). The net will air a one-hour special focusing on the tropical clime’s culture and cuisine on Tuesday, February 23 at 8p.
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Ellen DeGeneres will receive the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Humanitarian during the CBS broadcast of the show on Wednesday, January 6 at 9p. DeGeneres, also in contention for Favorite Talk Show Host, chose St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital as the beneficiary of the annual donation presented by Walgreens.
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More news to make DeGeneres do a happy dance: The Ellen DeGeneres Show landed an early renewal, a deal through summer 2020 with 10 NBC-owned stations. The syndie talker had already been picked up through the 2016-17 season.
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Even more Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show will move to 3p in May on WNBC New York, KNBC LA, WTVJ Miami and WVIT Hartford, CT, when the NBC owned TV stations launch 4p newscasts. The Steve Harvey Show will air at 2p.
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Netflix’s Love, from Judd Apatow, lands Friday, February 19. In the comedy, a “nice guy” (Paul Rust) and “wild child” (Gillian Jacobs) “navigate the exhilarations and humiliations of intimacy, commitment, love and other things they were hoping to avoid.”
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Victoria Justice (Victorious) and Ryan McCartan (Heathers the Musical) will star opposite Laverne Cox (Orange Is the New Black) in the Fox remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, slated to premiere in the fall.
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Lily Collins (The Blind Side) landed the female lead opposite Matt Bomer in Amazon drama pilot The Last Tycoon, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished novel.
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For the 2015 NFL regular season, The NFL on CBS averaged 19.1 million viewers, up 2% over last year’s 18.7 million viewers and the highest number of average viewers for the regular season for the AFC television package in 29 years.
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New Fox comedies Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life and Bordertown debuted Sunday to 1.2 and 1.1 among A18-49, respectively, opposite NBC powerhouse Sunday Night Football. The premiere of season two of ABC’s Galavant tied a season low .9 in the demo.
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The CNN Films premiere on Sunday of Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine was seen by over 1.15 million viewers at 9p, winning the time period among cable news nets with 455,000 viewers among A25-54.
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CBS’s The Talk edged past ABC daytime chatfest rival The View for its first fourth quarter win in viewers (2.6 million versus 2.57 million) and W25-54 (1.0/6 versus .9/6).
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Broadcaster Stanley Siegel died January 2 of complications from pneumonia. He was 79. The irreverent Siegel, who was host of RLTV’s Stanley on the Go, had also hosted shows including WABC’s The Stanley Siegel Show, cable talk show America Talks Back and KUSI-TV’s Stanley Tonight.
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