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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 1/12/16)
NBC, ABC, CBS: Presidential State of The Union 2016 at 9pm
AXS TV: The Big Interview with Dan Rather (Premiere) at 8pm
FREEFORM: Pretty Little Liars (Premiere) at 8pm
FREEFORM: Shadowhunters (Premiere) at 9pm
ION: Saving Hope (Premiere) at 11pm
POP: Easiest Game Show Ever (Premiere) at 11pm
SCIENCE CHANNEL: 2016 in Tech: What’s Ahead (Premiere) at 8pm and 9pm
TELEMUNDO: La Querida del Centauro (Premiere) at 10pm
UNIMAS: Ruta 35 (Premiere) at 9pm
A&E: Born This Way (Finale) at 10pm
COOKING: MasterChef Canada (Finale) at 9pm
E!: Christina Milian Turned Up (Finale) at 10pm
NAT. GEO.: Life Below Zero (Finale) at 9pm
NAT. GEO.: Badlands, Texas (Finale) at 10pm
REELZ: The Kennedy Files (Finale) at 9pm
SCIENCE: Secret Space Escapes (Finale) at 10pm
TV ONE: Rickey Smiley For Real (Finale) at 8pm
TRAVEL: Booze Traveler (Finale) at 10pm
Pop is teaming up with exec producer John Legend‘s Get Lifted Film Co. and Sharp Entertainment for a second season of Sing It On. Docu-series following new teams as they compete to win the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella debuts in the second half of 2016.
(Source: Cynopsis)
When Scandal returns on Thursday, February 11 at 9p on ABC, the show will jump six months into the future. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Tony Goldwyn explained that showrunner Shonda Rhimes is finding inspiration from the current election cycle. Spoiler alert: Mellie Grant (Bellamy Young) will be running for president amid a group of “surprising” new faces.
(Source: Cynopsis)
President Obama‘s final State of the Union address will be broadcast live tonight at 9p. On Friday, January 15, YouTube stars Destin Sandlin, Ingrid Nilsen and Adande Thorne will travel to Washington to interview the Commander in Chief in the East room of the White House, asking from fans. Questions can be submitted by using the hashtag #YouTubeAsksObama on social media. Interview streams live at 2:15p on White House YouTube channel.
(Source: Cynopsis)
At the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena on Monday, Amazon announced that Bosch will be back for Season 2 on Friday, March 4. Catastrophe‘s six-episode sophomore season bows Friday, April 8. The first season of Mad Dogs is slated for release on Friday, January 22, while The New Yorker Presents debuts three episodes on Friday, February 16, followed by two weekly, thereafter.
(Source: Cynopsis)
HBO ordered Barry, a half-hour pilot starring, co-written and directed by Saturday Night Live alum Bill Hader. The comedy focuses onan ex-Marine (Hader) who works as a low-rent hitman in the Midwest. The project is part of Hader’s development deal with the network.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Netflix ordered a 13-episode reboot of Norman Lear sitcom One Day at a Time, and Lear is onboard to exec produce. The reboot of the 1975-1984 classic will be centered on a Cuban-American family.
(Source: Cynopsis)
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, getTV is airing an episode of The Merv Griffin Show on Monday, January 18 at 10p, featuring Martin Luther King, Jr. King appeared on the talk show to discuss the Civil Rights Movement, as well as his views on riots, race relations and the Vietnam War. The rarely-seen extended sit-down originally aired June 6, 1967.
(Source: Cynopsis)
UniMas Network‘s Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman: El Varon de la Droga premieres fall 2016. The unauthorized drama is based on the life of the world’s most powerful drug dealer, who was captured for the third time Friday, January 8 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, nearly six months after his escape from a maximum-security prison in Mexico.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Thirteen’s American Masters launches its 30th anniversary season with Mike Nichols: American Masters on Friday, January 29 at 9 p on PBS. The legendary director discusses his life and 50-year career as a performer and director. Plus, new interviews with Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman and many others are conducted by producer Julian Schlossberg.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Jim Beaver is reprising his role as father figure to the Winchesters on Supernatural in an upcoming Season 11 episode, reports TVLine. Series returns Wednesday, January 20 at 9p on The CW.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CBS’ Supergirl has cast two DC Comics characters. Laura Vandervoort, remembered as Kara/Supergirl on Smallville, will play Indigo; while Jeff Branson (The Young and the Restless) will portray Master Jailer. Both roles are recurring.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Merrin Dungey (Alias), Larry Sullivan (CSI) and David Monahan (The Dark Knight Rises) have joined the cast of HBO limited series Big Little Lies.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The season premieres of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Man Seeking Woman hit Live+3 series rating highs on FXX. Philadelphia garnered its most-watched episode on the net ever in Total Viewers (1.34 million), while Seeking posted a series high in both Total Viewers (518,000) and A18-49 (365,000).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Discovery’s first true-crime series Killing Fields had a strong debut, opening with a .81 P25-54 rating and 1.70 million Total Viewers P2+. It was the net’s most-watched Tuesday series debut since Alaskan Bush People.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Thursday, January 7, episode of HGTV’s Flip or Flop averaged a .99 rating among viewers P25-54, making it the highest rated premiere telecast of the series ever.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Theresa Caputo brought the spirit in the season 6B premiere of Long Island Medium. The celebrity episode was the highest-rated season premiere in four seasons with HH, all key Adults and Women demos (P/W25-54/18-49/18-34) and was the most-watched with P2+ viewers. The premiere nearly doubled its first half season premiere with W18-34.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC’s 2015 New Year’s Eve coverage reached 59.212 million unique Viewers 2+ during primetime and late-night, up 16 percent year over year unduplicated viewers that watched 6 minutes or more of the programming. In addition, the show’s young adult reach surged 19 percent year to year to 23.002 million A18-49. Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest – Part 1 delivered an average audience of 22.0 million Total Viewers and a 7.1 rating, 27 share among A18-49 (9.0 million). The show’s audience peaked at 12:01a with an average of 35.279 million Total Viewers, up 7 percent from the same minute last year.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Beau St. Clair, who launched Irish DreamTime with Pierce Brosnan and was his longtime producing partner, died January 9 at her Malibu home after a 10-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 63.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Michael Galeota, who starred in Disney Channel’s The Jersey, died January 11 in his Glendale, CA, home. His death is said to be due to “natural causes,” however an autopsy is pending. He was 31.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Trial lawyer and entertainment counsel Michael Howard Diamond, who worked closely with producer Brandon Tartikoff, died in his Hancock park home on January 9 following a battle with cancer. He was 73.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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