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Shonda Rhimes, Common and Norman Lear have joined forces as executive producers on America Divided, a documentary series ordered by EPIX. Created by Solly Granatstein, Lucian Read and Richard Rowley, each episode will focus on celebrities exploring inequality in the context of their own lives. To date, America Ferrera, Jesse William, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Poehler and Peter Sarsgaard are scheduled to appear. “Our aim is to expose the damage extreme inequality inflicts on all Americans, reveal its systemic causes, and celebrate real-world heroes fighting for solutions,” said the show’s creators.
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Spike TV renewed Lip Sync Battle for season three. “Lip Sync Battle is a multiplatform pop-culture phenomenon that has played an integral role in delivering a new and broader audience to Spike,” said Kevin Kay, net president, of Spike’s most-watched original series ever. The new season, taping later this year, will consist of 20 half-hour episodes.
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Rob Lowe‘s brother, Chad Lowe, is set to direct an upcoming episode of the elder Lowe’s FOX series, The Grinder. It’s not about nepotism – Chad, who stars on Pretty Little Liars, frequently directs his Freeform series as well as FOX‘s Bones.
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MTV has tapped Casey Patterson (Lip Sync Battle, A Very Murray Christmas, Taraji and Terrence’s White Hot Holidays) to exec produce the 2016 MTV Movie Awards. Ceremony airs Sunday, April 10 at 9p.
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In memory of late Eagles legend Glenn Frey, Cozi TV is airing episodes of Miami Vice featuring his acting or music. The episodes air Wednesday, January 20 to Friday, January 22 at 11p.
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Showtime is also honoring the late Frey by replaying History of the Eagles throughout the week. The documentary, featuring archival material, concert footage and never-before-seen home movies of the band, airs Thursday, January 21 at 7:55p and Saturday, January 23 at 6p.
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Whitney & Bobby: Addicted to Love premieres Saturday, January 23 at 9p on Reelz. The two-hour special delves into the late Whitney Houston’s public and private life with Bobby Brown, via insight from her publicist Kenneth Reynolds, bodyguard Alan Jacobs and bandmates Wayne Linsey and Kirk Whalum, Arista Records’ Gerry Griffith and friend Jermaine Jackson.
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Animal Planet’s Panda Republic premieres Tuesday, January 26 at 8p. Narrated by Jack Black, the two-hour special depicts the plight of giant pandas and draws attention to two Chinese panda centers dedicated to saving the species.
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The Victoria’s Secret Swim Special airs Wednesday, March 9 at 9p on CBS. Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas are slated to perform.
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AXS TV has acquired season 3 of Ex-Wives of Rock. The 13-episode season features Shannon Tweed as narrator and stars Bobbi Brown, ex-wife of Warrant frontman Jani Lane, Sharise Neill, Athena Lee and Susan “Blue” Ashley. The reality series premieres Wednesday, February 17 with back-to-back episodes at 9p and 9:30p.
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Spike TV’s Ink Master returns on Tuesday, March 1 at 10p. In addition to new contestants, Season 7 brings back eight of the series’ favorite artists from previous seasons to battle it out for the $100,000 grand prize.
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Spider-Man recruits a new team and the Avengers reunite to face-off against their greatest adversaries in new seasons on Disney XD. Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man Vs. The Sinister 6 returns for a fourth season with a one-hour premiere Sunday, February 21 at 9a. The third season of Marvel’s Avengers: Ultron Revolution bows Sunday, March 13 at 8:30a.
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Johnathon Schaech has been cast as Johan Hex on DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. Series debuts Thursday, January 21 at 8p on The CW.
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Martin Starr is reprising his role as Adam “Toast” Charles, an elite hacker, on an upcoming episode of Hawaii Five-0, reports TVLine. He first appeared on the CBS drama in Season 1.
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Disney/ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution has renewed LIVE with Kelly and Michael on the ABC Owned Stations through the 2019-2020 television season. In addition, the division has renewed Who Wants To Be A Millionaire on the ABC Owned Stations for 2016-2017 (with the exception of WLS-TV Chicago).
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Celebrity Name Game has been renewed for a third season on Tribune and Sinclair stations. The half-hour game show airs in more than 93 percent of the country, including the top 50 U.S. markets, and has been cleared in more than 70 percent of the U.S. through the 2016-2017 season.
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Debmar-Mercury has renewed the nationally syndicated The Wendy Williams Show through the 2019-20 television season on FOX Television Stations. Combined with renewals on stations belonging to Media General and Cox, the talk show has already been cleared in more than 50 percent of the U.S. entering NATPE.
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Based on Live +3 ratings, Freeform‘s Pretty Little Liars delivered its strongest season launch since January 2014 in A18-49 (2.0 million/1.6 rating), the series’ #4 telecast of all time in Men 18-49 and its #1 telecast ever in Men 25-54. It was also the show’s best season premiere since summer 2014 in Total Viewers (3.2 million), A18-34 and Viewers 12-34.
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Monday’s episode of Steve Harvey brought in the highest Metered Market HH rating in the talk show’s four-year history, notching a 2.6 and surpassing the previous high of 2.2, set during last season’s annual birthday episode (01/16/15)
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Billions had the best series debut performance ever for a Showtime original series with 2.99 million views to date. The drama was sampled early across platforms to the net’s subscribers, delivering 1.6 million views prior to its Sunday night debut. On Sunday, the drama delivered 1.4 million viewers on the network. The prior record holder was Ray Donovan with 2.91 million views, including linear premiere night and advance sampling on subscriber platforms in 2013.
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