FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 1/11/16)
CARTOON: Lego Nexo Knights (Premiere) at 5:30pm
E!: E! Fashion Police: Golden Globes (Premiere) at 8pm
FOOD NETWORK: Cake Wars (Premiere) at 9pm
FUSION: Real Future (Premiere) at 10pm
MYX TV: MyDiveo Live! (Premiere) at 10pm
CBS announced a spring schedule that includes special airings of CSI: Cyber on Wednesday at 10p on March 2 and March 9, ahead of the new premiere date for Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders in the time slot, March 16. Elementary moves from Thursdays to Sundays at 10p on March 20, and the series premiere of Rush Hour is set for Thursday, March 31 at 10p.
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Michael Strahan will host ABC celeb-filled summer game show $100,000 Pyramid. It’s familiar territory for the Pro Football Hall of Famer and co-host of daytime’s Live! With Kelly and Michael, who said, “Growing up, Pyramid was one of my favorite shows to watch with my family.” SMAC Entertainment produces in association with Sony Pictures Television.
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Doctor Who is getting a spin-off series. BBC America eight-parter Class, set in a school in contemporary London, will be exec produced by Doctor Who’s Steven Moffat and Brian Minchin, and written by author Patrick Ness (A Monster Calls). The net also announced thriller Prey, debuting Thursday, February 25 at 10p, and self-explanatory Valentine’s Day special Adele: Live in London.
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Tomorrow’s a big day for ABC Family, transitioning to Freeform with a daylong virtual event. Launch partnerships include a Social DNA Project with Twitter; alive stream of events via Periscope; a Vine booth; a BuzzFeed Facebook Live chat and a custom Pretty Little Liars Facebook icon; Instagram content and talent takeovers, and a PLL Snapchat filter. As for the new name, Freeform “speaks to the network’s ongoing priority to super-serve Becomers, fans on that epic adventure of becoming and adult.” And that means being super social.
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Beyonce will be featured in the Super Bowl halftime show, joining headliner Coldplay. The superstar singer, who has a vocal on the British band’s new album, starred in the halftime show three years ago. Big game is Sunday, February 7.
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Elton John will perform two songs on ABC special The Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland 60. Fans can participate in the performance with the interactive Disney Applause app, or go the virtual reality route with the Jaunt VR app. Anniversary special airs Sunday, February 21 at 8p.
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AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead kicks off its sophomore season Sunday, April 10 at 9p. The fifteen-episode run will be split in two parts, with the first seven airing in the spring, and the remainder held until later in 2016. Weekly aftershow Talking Dead follows at 10p. Season three of the net’s TURN: Washington’s Spies launches Monday, April 25 at 10p.
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Midseason premiere of AMC’s The Walking Dead is set for Sunday, February 14 at 9p, followed by Talking Dead. Comic Book Men returns at midnight. The next night brings the season two bow of Better Call Saul at 10p.
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ABC summer show Celebrity Family Feud will be back for a second season this summer, along with host Steve Harvey. Based on Live+7 data, Feud was the most-watched new summer show on network television in 2015, averaging 9.4 million viewers and a 2.4 rating among A18-49.
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Project Runway All Stars is back for season five Thursday, February 11 at 9p on Lifetime. With a twist: for the first time, judges Alyssa Milano, Isaac Mizrahi and Georgina Chapman will oversee an “anonymous” runway, unaware who created each garment.
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Season two of Food Network’s All-Star Academy returns Sunday, February 14 at 10p. Returning mentors Alex Guarnaschelli and Curtis Stone are joined by newcomers Robert Irvine and Andrew Zimmern.
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AMC six-part The Night Manager debuts Tuesday, April 19 at 10p. Event series is based on the John le Carre thriller.
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WGN America thriller Outsiders premieres Tuesday, January 26 at 9p, while Civil War-era set Underground, centered on the underground railroad, arrives Wednesday, March 9 at 10p.
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No time to waste on Five Day Flip, joining HGTV Thursday, February 4 at 11p. Budget-friendly transformations include quick but high-impact improvements.
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The joys and challenges of new parenthood are chronicled in TLC’s Rattled (ha!), premiering Tuesday, February 2 at 10p. Four diverse couples navigate newborns in the docu-series from Magilla Entertainment and Flower Films.
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Syfy’s The Magicians doesn’t premiere until Monday, January 25 at 9p, but the first episode is available now on Syfy.com and on demand. Series is based on Lev Grossman best-sellers about a New York university specializing in magic.
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Starz’ The Girlfriend Experience launches Sunday, April 10 at 8p. Limited series starring Riley Keough (Magic Mike) is based on the 2009 movie from Steven Soderbergh about young woman who juggles her job as a law firm intern with off-hours transactional relationships. Binging allowed for Starz subscribers.
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Premiere dates for Hulu originals include Monday, February 15 for 11/22/63, about a high school teacher who travels back in time to prevent the assassination of JFK, and Wednesday, March 30 for The Path, following a family at the center of a controversial cult.
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Laura Dern has joined the cast of the Twin Peaks revival on Showtime, reports TVLine. Dern joins her Blue Velvet (1986) co–star, Kyle MacLachlan.
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Anthony Starr (Banshee) landed a role on upcoming CBS drama American Gothic, opposite Justin Chatwin and Megan Ketch.
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Colombian actor Juan Pablo Raba has joined upcoming History drama Six, following a Navy SEAL team.
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Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice) will star in Hulu’s Shuteye. Series focuses on the world of storefront psychics.
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The debut of Jennifer Lopez drama Shades of Blue won its 10p time slot Thursday with 1.8/6 among A18-49, up two tenths from its lead-in, The Blacklist, and drew 8.6 million viewers, NBC’s first viewership win against ABC and CBS since 2007. CBS’s Angel From Hell, starring Jane Lynch, bowed to 1.6/5 in the demo.
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E!‘s Keeping Up with the Kardashians and The Royals hit season highs on Sunday, January 3 in Live+3. Kardashians at 9p delivered season highs across total viewers and all key demos, including 3.6 million P2+, 2.3 million P18-49 and 1.8 million W18-49. At 10p, Royals delivered 1.5 million P2+, a total viewer high its second season, and its most watched episode since the season premiere with 891,000 P18-49 and 649,000 W18-49.
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CNN’s town hall featuring President Obama, Guns in America, averaged 845,000 viewers among A25-54 on Thursday, almost four times the number in the news demo for the past four Thursdays.
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GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS – WINNERS LIST
http://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees
http://www.eonline.com/news/729468/golden-globes-2016-winners-the-complete-list
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Star Wars: The Force Awakens – $41.6 million
The Revenant – $38 million
Daddy’s Home – $15 million
The Forest – $13.1 million
Sisters – $7.2 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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