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FUSE: Saturday Morning Fever (Premiere) at 11pm
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Relativity TV is resurfacing under a new name. Veteran producer Tom Forman formally launched indie content studio Critical Content. Formed in October 2015, when an investor group led by Anchorage Capital Group purchased the TV assets of Relativity Media, the company will focus on unscripted and scripted content for broadcast, cable and digital platforms. Forman will serve as CEO and will partner with industry veteran Andrew Marcus, president/COO. Forman was previously CEO of Relativity TV and Marcus its President. The company is launching with no debt and $75 million of growth capital to fuel the expansion of its business. Critical Content has more than 50 projects in production for more than 30 networks including Limitless (CBS), Home Free (Fox), Catfish (MTV) and The Woodsmen (History).
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Two additional TV series are joining the lineup at this year’s PaleyFest LA. On Saturday, March 12 at 2p PT the cast and creators of AMC’s Better Call Saul will take the stage for their PaleyFest debut, and on Tuesday, March 15 at 7:30p PT, the stars and creative minds behind ABC’s Scandal will be on stage.
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The 2016 Radio Disney Music Awards will take place April 30 at the Microsoft Theater in LA and air as a two-hour telecast on Disney Channel on Sunday, May 1 at 7p in 159 countries, an increase of more than 250 percent from last year’s 44 countries. National sponsors for the RDMA telecast include Cheddar Goldfishcrackers, Band-Aid Brand Bandages and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Shapes. Jesse Ignjatovic and Evan Prager of Den of Thieves (MTV Video Music Awards, American Idol) will co-exec produce for the second consecutive year.
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Nickelodeon is teaming up with the NFL to give families an insider’s look at Super Bowl 50 with exclusive coverage of events leading up to the big game on February 7, from Super Bowl Opening Night to Kids’ Day and the NFL Experience. The net’s “Nickelodeon at Super Bowl Week” begins Monday, February 1, and airs across Nickelodeon, Nicktoons’ NickSports programming block, as well as appearing on the channels’ websites, social media and the Nick app. Content includes a music video from Flo Rida featuring iconic Nick characters in a Super Bowl remix of his hit single My House, daily reports from the NFL Experience by Brec Bassinger and Coy Stewart of Bella and the Bulldogs, and the premiere of Charlie Ebersol’s latest project, NFL Flag Championships.
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John Legend will receive the NAACP President’s Award at the 47th NAACP Image Awards telecast live on TV One from 9-11 p (PT tape-delayed) on February 5. The nine-time Grammy winner, Oscar and Golden Globe winner follows past honorees including Van Jones, President Bill Clinton, Soledad O’Brien, Ruby Dee, Muhammad Ali and, last year, Spike Lee.
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Priyanka Chopra, Brie Larson, Eva Longoria, Julianne Moore, Eddie Redmayne, Sarah Silverman and Jacob Tremblay are the latest onboard to present trophies at the 22nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The event will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS on Saturday, January 30 at 8p.
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ABC comedy The Goldbergs picked Dirty Dancing as its season 3 ‘80s movie homage episode. Is it a coincidence this year’s selection dovetails with ABC’s upcoming three-hour contemporary remake of the film? The network says there’s no relation, and the episode won’t feature any cast members from the remake or the original film.
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Bounce TV will air the fight between featherweight prospect Dennis Galarza and Bence Molnar on Sunday, January 31 at 9p.
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Ovation is launching a new weekly documentary block beginning Thursday, February 25 at 7p that will feature contemporary stars showing love for one of their favorite artists and tackling cultural issues. Featured hosts include Eddie Redmayne immersing viewers in the world of combat art, Idris Elba chronicling the story behind the creation of Mi Mandela, an album of South African music recorded by Elba in tribute to Mandela and to his own late father, Sir Ian McKellan making the case that L.S. Lowry is one of our greatest 20th century painters, and Russell Brand in a doc originally produced for BBC Three where he sets out to find out how other countries are tackling their problems of drug abuse.
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In other Ovation news, the net will premiere Millennials: Growing Up in the 21st Century, a six-part docu-series from filmmaker Rick Stevenson, on Thursday, May 5. The documentary provides an often emotionally raw look into the lives of a diverse group of 21 children as they transition from childhood, through adolescence and emerge as young adults. The series continues through June 9.
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Based on its strong showing out of the gate, Showtime already renewed Wall Street drama Billions for a second season. The opening ep of the Damian Lewis– and Paul Giamatti-starring series set a record for the network, claiming 6.5 million multiplatform viewers in its first week, topping the 2013 Ray Donovan debut by 7 percent.
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Delroy Lindo has been cast opposite Adrianne Palicki and Nick Blood in the ABC pilot for Marvel’s Most Wanted. The show originated as an Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff.
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Emmy winner Beau Bridges and NY Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. will guest on CBS medical drama Code Black on Wednesday, February 10. In the episode, Bridges will appear as Pete Delaney, Beckham’s high school football coach, and Beckham will play himself.
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The Portlandia season 6 premiere on IFC grew from last season’s premiere and again demonstrated strong time-shifted gains and one of the higher percentages of A18-49 and A25-54 viewers. In Nielsen’s Live+3 ratings, the episode delivered nearly 400,000 total viewers (up 87 percent from live/same day viewership), 266,000 A18-49 and 275,000 A25-54 representing 69 percent and 71 percent of total viewers, respectively.
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The week of January 18 marked the highest-rated week in HGTV history for primetime ratings among several key demos including A25-54, A18-49, and W18-49. The network also finished the week as the top cable network among W25-54 prime ratings.
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Sunday’s premiere episode of The X-Files went up by a full rating point, from 5.1 to 6.1, and 16.2 million viewers in A18-49 in time-adjusted Live+SD ratings, according to Nielsen.
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FX’s new comedy Baskets, starring Zach Galifianakis, scored as the most-watched basic cable primetime comedy series premiere since 2014 among A18-49 and Total Viewers, according to Nielsen data. On a Live+3 basis, the series premiere on Thursday, January 21 at 10p delivered 1.05 million A18-49 and 1.75 million Total Viewers, the most of any basic cable primetime comedy series premiere in 2015 and 2016-to-date.
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The January 21 telecasts of NBC’s The Blacklist and Shade of Blue delivered the night’s two biggest lifts in Live+3 ratings from Nielsen, with Blacklist for the first time rounding to a tie for the No. 1 rating of the night in L+3 A18-49 rating with a 78 percent increase in the demo over Live+SD.
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Winter Storm Jonas was a welcome visitor to The Weather Channel, which saw 37.3 million viewers tune in to follow coverage of the storm, placing the network at the top of the heap among basic cable nets (excluding regional sports nets) during its three-day coverage (Thurs-Sat). On Saturday, January 23, Weather Channel beat all the news networks averaging 256,000 A25-54 (6 percent higher thab CNN, 56 higher than HLN and 35 higher than FOXN).
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Hallmark Channel’s first-ever Winterfest programming event culminated Saturday night with the original movie premiere of Unleashing Mr. Darcy bowing to a 2.7 household rating and 3 million total viewers and becoming the second-highest HH-rated program of the day. In addition, the film elevated Hallmark Channel to be the most-watched and highest-rated network among HHs in its 9-11p time period.
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Food Network’s Worst Cooks in America posted a .9 rating among both A25-54 (870,000 impressions) and A25-34 (250,000 impressions), up 15 percent and 31 percent, respectively versus the same time last year.
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Abe Vigoda, the character actor who famously played Detective Phil Fish in the ‘70s series Barney Miller among other roles, died in his sleep yesterday, according to his family. He was 94.
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Ted Brown, a graphics producer for ESPN who also had a role with ABC sports programming including College Football Primetime and the National Championship Game, died Sunday from a heart attack while in Australia covering the Australian Open. Brown was 36.
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