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A&E: Duck Dynasty (Premiere) at 9pm
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PBS: Natural Born Hustlers (Premiere) at 8pm
SYFY: Face Off (Premiere) at 9pm
TV LAND: Younger (Premiere) at 10pm
VH1: Mob Wives (Premiere) at 8pm
FX: American Horror Story: Hotel (Finale) at 10pm
Ted Danson (CSI: Cyber), who shot to fame on NBC’s Cheers (1982-1993), and Kristen Bell (House of Lies) have been cast in NBC comedy Good Place, about a woman trying to turn over a new leaf. The network ordered 13 episodes of the Michael Schur (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) series, produced by Universal Television, 3 Arts Entertainment and Fremulon. Danson will not return to CSI: Cyber, CBS Entertainment president Glenn Geller shared at TCA, while Bell would be able to continue on Lies should that show return to Showtime for season six.
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Eva Longoria will make a guest appearance on season four of Lifetime’s Devious Maids, where she is an exec producer. The series was created by Marc Cherry, who also created Longoria’s Desperate Housewives character, Gabby. James Denton, another Desperate alum, will recur as the head of a movie studio.
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FX’s American Horror Story: Hotel, ABC’s black-ish, Fox’s Empire and Scream Queens, and Starz’s Power are the first honorees announced for the 33rd Annual PaleyFest Los Angeles, returning to the Dolby Theatre March 11-20.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the theme for the 2016 Oscars broadcast: “We all dream in gold” (promo is here). Chris Rock hosts the big night Sunday, February 28.
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Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos will moderate a conversation with Normal Lear and Quincy Jones during the NATPE market in Miami. The men hit the stage Wednesday, January 20 at 2p at the Eden Roc resort.
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WGN America announced a panel event, “The Making of WGN America’s Underground,” during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Underground exec producer John Legend, as well the espionage thriller’s cast and creative team, will be on hand Saturday, January 23 at 7p in Park City, Utah. Show debuts Wednesday, March 9 at 10p.
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A comedy from Live! With Kelly and Michael’s Kelly Ripa and husband Mark Consuelos’s (Alpha House) Milojo Productions and Andrew Leeds is in development at ABC, reports Deadline. Show centers on a couple irritated by their three daughters’ romantic partners.
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Courteney Cox (Cougar Town) headlines a comedy project for Fox from Robert Padnick (The Office) and ABC Studios. Cox is also attached as an exec producer.
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Miniseries American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story, from Stephen David Entertainment and Playboy’s Alta Loma Entertainment, is scheduled to start production this year. Producers will have access to Hefner archives – as well as 60+ years of magazines.
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Season ten of Syfy’s Face Off debuts tonight “with exciting new contestants from all over the world who do some of the best SFX make-up we’ve ever seen on this show,” says Heather Olander, SVP, Alternative Programming. Guest judges like Gale Ann Hurd (The Walking Dead), Jason Blum, Lance Henriksen, and more will “throw some exciting curveballs into the mix.”
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CBS has a deep bench for its live, four-hour Super Bowl pre-game show. Action starts at 2p on Sunday, February 7, with host James Brown, analysts Boomer Esiason, Bill Cowher, Tony Gonzalez and Bart Scott, as well as Ian Eagle, Greg Gumbel, Trent Green and Amy Trask, NFL Insider Jason La Canfora and reporters Tracy Wolfson, Evan Washburn and Allie LaForce, and Contributor Jim Rome.
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Far from Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA, but part of CBS’s pre-game package, CBS This Morning’s Gayle King will interview President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama live from the White House.
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Four-week limited series War & Peace premieres Monday, January 18 at 9p on A&E, History and Lifetime. Cast includes Lily James (Downton Abbey), Jim Broadbent (Iris), Paul Dano (Love and Mercy) and James Norton (Happy Valley).
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Bounce TV is expanding into hour-long drama with Saints & Sinners, centered on the pursuit of power at a large southern church. Vanessa Bell Calloway (Shameless), Clifton Powell (Ray) and Gloria Reuben (ER) are among the stars. Launch date: Sunday (of course!), March 6 at 9p.
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NBC boasts it is leading the season in the A18-49 demo by 17 percent, the biggest margin for a network at this point in the season in 14 years. CBS has viewer bragging rights, winning the week ending January 10 by the largest margin of any network this season (+3.89 million). And ABC notes it delivered five of the top ten non-sports programs in A18-49 for the week, hitting a four-week high in young adults.
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Thursday’s season two premiere of Lip Sync Battle, featuring Channing Tatum and his wife, Jenna Dewan Tatum, was the number one ranked show among A18-49 (3.45), A18-34 (3.43), W18-34 (4.6) and W18-49 (4.34) in all of television in the timeslot, delivering a network record 4.7 million viewers in Live+3.
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Sunday’s special El Chapo-themed Aqui y Ahora on Univision averaged 3.0 million total viewers, as well as 1.4 million A18-49 and 580,000 A18-34, outperforming 60 Minutes in the demos.
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Food Network’s Worst Cooks in America posted a 1.0 rating across A25-54 (940,000 IMP), up 29% versus year-ago and ranking #4 in Sunday’s 9p timeslot; among A25-34 the season’s second episode posted a .9 rating (270,000 IMP), up 43% and ranking #6 in the timeslot.
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The January 9 premiere of Hallmark Channel’s Love’s Complicated, the latest entry in the net’s “Winterfest” programming event, averaged a 2.0 HH rating and 2.2 million total viewers, the number one rated movie of the week.
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Actor David Margulies died January 11 after a long illness. He was 78. In addition to film roles, Margulies was known to The Sopranos fans as lawyer Neil Mink, and will appear in ABC’s upcoming Madoff.
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