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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 1/28/16)
CMT: Party Down South (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: You, Me and the Apocalypse (Premiere) at 8pm
SCIENCE: How It’s Made: Dream Cars (Premiere) at 9pm
SCIENCE: Machines: How They Work (Premiere) at 10pm
UP: Jo Frost: Nanny on Tour (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: My Diet Is Better Than Yours (Finale) at 9pm
“We can’t give in to terrorizations toward any of our employees,” read a statement from Fox News following Donald Trump’s announcement that he was dropping out of tonight’s GOP debate. The network said Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski threatened to cause trouble for Megyn Kelly if she wasn’t removed as moderator. Lewandowski “was warned not to level any more threats, but he continued to do so,” said FNC. Trump was still welcome at the debate, added the network, “but he can’t dictate the moderators or the questions.” Responded Trump via Twitter: “I refuse to call Megyn Kelly a bimbo, because that would not be politically correct. Instead I will only call her a lightweight reporter!” Last word goes to Kelly, who told Extra on Wednesday, “I will be surprised he if doesn’t show up.”
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TV nominees for the 27th Annual GLAAD Awards include Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Faking It, Grace and Frankie, Looking, Master of None, Modern Family, Orange Is the New Black, Please Like Me, Transparent and Vicious for comedy series, and Arrow, Black Sails, Empire, The Fosters, Grey’s Anatomy, How to Get Away With Murder, Nashville, Orphan Black, Sense8 and Shameless for drama. Winners will be announced at ceremonies April 2 at the Beverly Hilton and May 14 at NYC’s Waldorf-Astoria. Logo will televise the awards as a one-hour special.
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El Rey Network released the first of four one-shot comic books based on wrestling series Lucha Underground.The next three comics will be released biweekly and to help bridge story lines in between seasons and offer new information into the lives of Vampiro, Catrina, Mil Muertes, and notorious owner and promoter Dario Cueto, among others.
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Kato Kaelin is hosting a talk show with long-time friend Will Stumpe called Sports Haters, reports EW. Clarified Kaelin, who became a household name as a witness in the 1994-1995 murder trial of O.J. Simpson, “We don’t hate sports. We hate the stupid stuff that goes with it. Like back-to-back Viagra commercials.” The show will stream on FilmOn.com starting Saturday, January 30, with Saturday night airings on Dish Network’s FOTV.
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Leftfield Pictures is partnering with actress/producer La La Anthony and Timbaland (Empire) to develop a docuseries spotlighting the Face Time Agency, a casting agency for booking music video and hip hop fashion models. Anthony will exec produce the project, with Timbaland onboard as executive music producer. Executive producers for Leftfield are David George and Will Nothacker. Derek Gordon also executive produces.
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Viceland, the Vice culture and lifestyle cable channel launching February 29, offered a peek at upcoming programming (Gaycation, Weediquette, Balls Deep, among others). “It feels like most channels are just a collection of shows,” said Spike Jonze, the new net’s creative director. “We wanted Viceland to be different, to feel like everything on there has a reason to exist and a strong point of view. Our mission with the channel is not that different from what our mission is as a company: It’s us trying to understand the world we live in by producing pieces about things we’re curious about, or confused about, or that we think are funny.”
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Digital multicast channel Antenna TV remembers the late Abe Vigoda with a six-hour marathon of episodes of Barney Miller starting at 4p on Saturday, January 30. Vigoda, who memorably played Fish on the series, died January 26 at age 94.
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The series debut of TV One multigenerational comedy Here We Go Again launches Tuesday, February 9 at 8p, followed by the season two premiere of dramedy Born Again Virgin at 8:30p.
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Two-hour self-explanatory special Super Bowl’s Greatest Halftime Shows will air Friday, February 5 at 9p on CBS. In addition to highlights from past shows, there will be interviews with producers and performers.
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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and spin-off series Xena: Warrior Princess are being added to the Heroes & Icons TV Network lineup starting Monday, February 8. Hercules will air weeknights at 6p and Saturdays at 3p, followed by Xena at 7p weeknights and 4p on Saturdays.
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Turner Classic Movies kicks off its annual 31 Days of Oscar programming stunt on Monday, February 1 at 6a with Gigi (1938). This year’s theme: “31 Days (and 360 Degrees) of Oscar,” featuring films with each connected to the next by a performer with a role in both.
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Grammy duets for the 58th annual awards show will include James Bay and Tori Kelly, Andra Day and Ellie Goulding, and Sam Hunt with Carrie Underwood. (More to come, of course.) Show airs live on CBS Monday, February 15 at 8p.
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Amazon is running its first Super Bowl ad, reports AdWeek. The spot stars Alec Baldwin in his first Big Game commercial since 2009’s for Hulu, along with NFL superstar Dan Marino, and touts Amazon’s Alexa-powered connected speaker, Echo.
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Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love) will play Michael Jackson (yes, the King of Pop) in road trip movie Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon, for UK’s Sky Arts. Film chronicles a supposed journey taken after the 9/11 attacks that had Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando renting a car together to escape NYC. Stockard Channing plays Taylor and Brian Cox tackles Brando.
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Malina Weissman (Supergirl) will play Violet in Netflix series Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Filming is slated to begin in March.
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Dawn-Lyen Gardner (Heroes), Kofi Siriboe (Awkward) and Omar J. Dorsey (Ray Donovan) have joined the cast of the OWN drama Queen Sugar.
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Taylor Spreitler (Melissa & Joey) landed a series regular role on the untitled Kevin James comedy at CBS, from Hey Eddie Productions and CBS Television Studios, about a newly retired police officer.
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The CW’s The Flash rose 8 percent over last week among A18-49 on Tuesday at 8p to score 1.4/5, enough to tie a rerun of CBS hit NCIS in the demo.
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Week two of USA‘s Colony drew over 3.5 million P2+ combined viewers (2.7 million for the 10p telecast and 778,000 for a 1a encore), and grew in all key demos, with significant Live+3 lifts: up 9% 25-54 (1.3 million viewers, up 138% over LS), up 4% 18-49 (1.2 million viewers, up 137% over LS) and up 4% P2+ (up 116% over LS), making it the number two primetime entertainment program on ad supported cable for total viewers.
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Food Network’s Kids Baking Championship posted a .8 rating across A25-54 (770K impressions), up 37% versus year-ago, and scored a .6 rating among A25-34 (190K impressions), up 15% versus last year. Cake Wars posted a .6 rating (600K impressions) among A25-54, up 12% and a .5 rating (160K impressions) among A25-34, up 15%.
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Monday’s finale of Telemundo’s Bajo el Mismo Cielos averaged 1.21 million viewers among A18-49, and delivered 2.43 million total viewers at 9p. At 10p, La Querida del Centauro delivered 1.11 million A18-49 viewers, helping make Telemundo the number one Spanish-language broadcast net for the night in the demo.
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Bravo! Last Monday’s Vanderpump Rules hit a series high among all key demos with 1.7 million P18-49, 1.8 million P25-54 and 2.6 million total viewers, while the January 21 episode of Top Chef earned its highest-rated episode of the season to-date with 1.2 million P18-49, over 1.3 million P25-54 and 2.1 million total viewers.
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The top five syndicated talk shows held steady the week ending January 17. Dr. Phil topped the genre with a 3.2 Live+SD rating, Live With Kelly and Michael kept 3.1 and Ellen DeGeneres scored 2.7, followed by Steve Harvey and Maury, both holding onto 1.9.
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Crime Watch Daily was the highest-rated new strip with 1.0, holding a series high. Second place newcomer, canceled FABLife, kept its own series high of .9.
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The January 25 series premiere of VH1’s Stevie J & Joseline Go Hollywood grabbed a 1.8 rating among A18-49 and ranked as the number one cable show in its time period among W18-34 and W18-49. Combined with a midnight encore, the show drew a total of 3.6 million total viewers.
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BROADWAY
China Doll with Al Pacino is closing on Sunday January 31, 2016.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/china-doll/
King Charles III is closing on Sunday January 31, 2016.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/king-charles-iii-broadway/
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