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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 2/2/16)
CBS: Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials 2016 (Premiere) at 8pm
FX: The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: Rattled (Premiere) at 10pm
VELOCITY: Unique Rides (Premiere) at 9pm
HISTORY: The Curse of Oak Island (Finale) at 9pm
ID: Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda (Finale) at 10pm
SYFY: The Expanse (Finale) at 10pm
Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly has been added to the post-Super Bowl live broadcast of CBS’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Sunday, February 7. The target of Donald Trump tweets joins guests Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Will Ferrell and comedy duo Key & Peele.
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The Late Late Show with James Corden has a special post-Super Bowl show, too. Zac Efron, Anna Kendrick and Adam DeVine guest, with Elton John joining Corden for Carpool Karaoke and a tailgate party taking place outside the studio. Plus “surprises.” CBS broadcast airs at (approximately) 11:35p.
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Dick Wolf signed a new overall deal with NBCUniversal that extends his relationship with NBC through 2020 – but it won’t end there if NBC can help it. Robert Greenblatt made no secret of his appreciation for the iconic producer’s contribution. “Dick Wolf is a without a doubt one of the greatest producers in the history of dramatic television,” said the NBC Entertainment chairman. “The Law & Order legacy would have been enough to set him apart from all the rest, but the Chicago franchise now kicks him into the stratosphere.He has been a defining voice of NBC for over a generation, and he is most welcome at this company forever.” The net also renewed Law & Order: SVU, and picked up season two of Chicago P.D.
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A letter from Fox Networks chairman and CEO Peter Rice alerted staff that as part of a reorganization, some employees would be offered “generous benefit packages” if they voluntarily resigned, effective in May. Rice pointed out that while the company is basking in the success right now of Grease: Live, The X-Files, the NFC Championship and its partnership with National Geographic, “This is the right thing to do for our business because although technology is rapidly changing our world, the global hunger for our brands and content will continue unabated and making the right decisions now will provide our company with many exciting opportunities for continued growth and success.”
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The NFL is expanding Thursday Night Football in 2016 and 2017, continuing its partnership with CBS while adding NBC as a partner. Each net will broadcast five Thursday Night games, for total of ten, up from eight last year. Games will be simulcast on NFL Network. The NFL is also “in active discussions” with potential partners for OTT streaming rights.
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Bravo ordered season 14 of Top Chef. Makes sense, however you slice it: the cooking competition is averaging 1.8 million total viewers and 1.2 million among P25-54, up 5 percent and 6 percent versus last season, per Nielsen.
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ESPN is hoping to score with a morning show. SportsCenter: AM launches Monday, February 8 at 7a, the day after the Super Bowl. Hosts Jay Harris, Kevin Negandhi and Jaymee Sire will offer a (perkier?) take on sports tailored to early birds.
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Eric Church and Chris Stapleton lead the nominees for the 51st Academy of Country Music Awards with five nods each. Cam, Chris Young and Little Big Town landed four apiece. Show will be broadcast live (if you’re not on PT) from Vegas Sunday, April 3 at 8p on CBS.
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Tonight’s Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials not only counts down the best ads, but features a reunion of the stars of arguably the most iconic Big Game spot ever. Observes the Coca Cola kid to “Mean” Joe Greene 36 years later, “Somehow I look older than you now.” Juma Entertainment special airs on CBS at 8p.
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Bold-faced names expected at the 47th NAACP Awards include Will Smith, Viola Davis, Gabrielle Union, Gina Rodriguez, Kerry Washington, Ice Cube and Shonda Rhimes, among many others. Anthony Edwards hosts the show, airing Friday, February 5 at 9p on TV One.
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Characters from Sid and Marty Krofft’s 1969 cult fave H.R. Pufnstuf return to kids’ TV in the Kroffts’ latest pre-school series, Mutt & Stuff. Live-action series launches Monday, February 15 on Nickelodeon.
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Glynn Turman (The Wire) will guest star in new OWN original series Queen Sugar, as a patriarch and proud father running a failing farm. Drama is based on the novel by Natalie Baszile.
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Will Ferrell joins host Jerry Seinfeld for the season seven finale of Crackle’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Topics range from Ferrell’s SNL audition to cats to sewage on Wednesday, February 3 at 11:30p.
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Sunday’s Grease: Live on Fox delivered 12.18 million viewers and a 4.3/13 rating among A18-49, according to Nielsen fast nationals, the best numbers for the net since the September season premiere of Empire, and improving on the rating for NBC’s The Wiz Live! in December by 26 percent. Digitally speaking, there were 1,396,368 tweets mentioning the show, reports Amobee, with sentiment for the #GreaseLive hashtag 34 percent positive, 55 percent neutral and just 11 percent negative.
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The premiere of WGN’s Outsiders was the most-watched original series in network history. The 9p telecast rose 66 percent, to 1.75 million total viewers, and 85 percent among A25-54, to 818,000, over same day viewing. Including encores during its premiere week, Outsiders drew 5.5 million total viewers.
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Freeform’s Shadowhunters added over one million viewers in Live+3 ratings to hit 2.0 million, and rose from 572,000 to 1.2 million among A18-49.
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