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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 2/10/16)
CANAL ONCE: Artes (Premiere) at 6:30pm
TV ONE: The Next: 15 (Premiere) at 9pm
AHC: Blood Feuds (Finale) at 10pm
WE tv is celebrating Black History Month with a new educational section on its website and a series of 30-second public service announcements on the net and online featuring members of Congress sharing stories and perspectives on the importance of the month. The PSAs and micro-site will be available through the end of February.
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The nominees for the 2016 iHeartRadio Music Awards have been announced by iHeartMedia and Turner. Vying for Song of the Year are “Blank Space” by Taylor Swift, “Can’t Feel My Face” by The Weeknd, “Hello” by Adele, “Shut Up and Dance” by Walk The Moon and “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars. In addition, the first announced performances at the ceremony are Justin Bieber and Meghan Trainor. The special airs live Sunday, April 3 at 8p on TBS, TNT and truTV and will be simulcast on iHeartMedia stations nationwide, as well as on the iHeartRadio digital music platform.
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Lionel Richie will be saluted at the 58th annual Grammy Awards, with Luke Bryan, John Legend, Demi Lovato and Meghan Trainor performing some of the artist’s most memorable songs. Ceremony will be broadcast live LA Monday, February 15 at 8p on CBS.
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Patti LaBelle is joining The Voice as an adviser to Christina Aguilera. Season 10 of the NBC singing competition premieres Monday, February 29 at 8p.
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Monopoly Millionaires’ Club will end after this season’s run, reports Broadcasting & Cable. The Scientific Games’ weekly game show’s last weekend on the air will be April 30 -May 1.
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CBS has given a pilot order to comedy I’m Not Your Friend. Matt LeBlanc will star as a contractor who learns that raising his kids is more challenging than expected when his wife goes back to work.
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George Lopez stars in TV Land comedy Lopez, bowing Wednesday, March 30 at 10p. The series focuses on the actor as he struggles to find his place in the intersection of race, class and fame.
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L.A. Clippers Dance Squad offers a peek at what it takes to be a member of an elite dance team in pro sports, on and off the court. The docu-series premieres Tuesday, March 15 at 10p on E!.
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Golden Globe-winning Mozart In The Jungle has been renewed for a third season at Amazon. Season 3 begins production this summer. Season 2 of Amazon‘s Bosch debuts Friday, March 11.
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A&E premieres a new season of Wahlburgers on Wednesday, March 9 at 9p, with Donnie Loves Jenny bowing Wednesday, March 16 at 10p.
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Andy Mientus is reprising his role as Pied Piper in a season 2 episode of The Flash. The CW series airs Wednesdays at 8p.
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Rick Gonzalez (Rush) nabbed the male lead in Presence, the John Ridley drama pilot for ABC and ABC Studios. He’ll star opposite Stephanie Sigman.
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Jeremy Sisko (Wicked City) has joined The Jury. The ABC drama pilot follows a murder trial through the eyes of its jurors.
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Nico Evers-Swindell (Grimm) landed the lead in NBC’s untitled royal family comedy pilot. The project is being written by Charlie Grandy and executive produced and directed by Amy Poehler.
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Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen) boards AMC’s upcoming drama Preacher, for a six-episode arc as comic-book character Odin Quincannon. The series is an adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon‘s comic series.
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Anthony Anderson, Molly Ringwald, Ellen Pompeo, Gabourey Sidibe and Vanessa Williams lend their voices to Disney Junior‘s animated series Doc McStuffins. Season 4 debuts this summer.
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Hallmark Channel’s annual gridiron tradition, Kitten Bowl, scratched out a victory on Super Bowl Sunday. The special reached 4.4 million unduplicated viewers.
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Meanwhile, Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl XII dominated as the #1 non-sports telecast on all of cable among A25-54 and Women 18-49 on Sunday, February 7 from 3-5p in L+SD.
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Food Network’s Kids Baking Championship posted a .8 rating across A25-54 (710 million impressions) and a .6 rating among A25-34 (170 million impressions) Monday night, with both demos up 21 percent vs. year ago. Cake Wars’ Valentine’s Day-themed episode at 9p posted a .5 rating (500 million impressions) among A25-54, up 26 percent vs. year ago.
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Only one first-run syndicated strip, managed to score a new season high in the session ending January 31, despite a massive East Coast blizzard causing thousands of power outages. Crime Watch Daily (1.1 live plus same day national Nielsen rating, up 10 percent from the week before), which has been the number one new strip of the season for the past 20 weeks, set a new show record despite much lower than usual PUT levels. Rookies FABLife (0.8, unchanged) and Crazy Talk (0.6, unchanged) were next in line.
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Judge Judy (7.8, down 1 percent) was the top courtroom show by a wide margin and the number one strip in all syndication for the 31st time in the last 32 weeks. Year to year, the show grew 10 percent. Hot Bench (2.6, unchanged) remained at its series high for a second week.
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Monday night’s episode of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on The CW was its most watched to date (1.087 million), up 12 percent from last week’s episode. The show also matched last week’s series high in A18-49 (0.4/1).
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