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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 10/18/16)
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Cabin Rescue (Premiere) at 8pm
HGTV: House Hunters Family (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: American Experience (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY: Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove (Finale) at 9pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Living Big Sky (Finale) at 10pm
ID: Swamp Murders (Finale) at 10pm
The partnership between CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Showtime has been named: Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night Democracy’s Series Finale: Who’s Going To Clean Up This Shi*t? The election special airs on Tuesday, November 8 at 11p on Showtime. Program will feature Colbert reacting in real-time to the election results as the state by state returns come in. “It’ll be all the political comedy you love from my CBS show, with all the swearing and nudity you love from Showtime,” said Colbert.
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More performers were added to The 50th Annual CMA Awards, including Kelsea Ballerini, Garth Brooks with Trisha Yearwood, Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Tim McGraw and Kacey Musgraves. Hosted by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, the show broadcasts live from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on Wednesday, November 2 at 8p on ABC.
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Andrew Haigh (45 Years) boarded See-Saw Films’ limited, six-part series The North Water, which is being developed with the BBC. Haigh will adapt and is attached to direct the mystery/survival drama which tells the story of Patrick Sumner, a disgraced former Army surgeon who signs up as a ship’s doctor on a whaling expedition to the Arctic. Project is based on the 2016 book by Ian McGuire.
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As expected, Billy Bush was booted from his Today show co-host job for his role in a lewd conversation about women with Donald Trump in a 2005 Access Hollywood tape. “Billy Bush will be leaving the Today show’s 9am hour, effective today. While he was a new member of the Today team, he was a valued colleague and longtime member of the broader NBC family. We wish him success as he goes forward,” said exec producer Noah Oppenheim. Offered Bush in a statement, “I am deeply grateful for the conversations I’ve had with my daughters, and for all of the support from family, friends and colleagues. I look forward to what lies ahead.”
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The CW is developing a drama series adaptation of cyber-thriller Hacktivist from Alyssa Milano, Covert Affairs creators/EPs Matt Corman and Chris Ord, BOOM! Studios and CBS TV Studios. The project, based and Milano’s 2014 graphic novel, tells the story of Nate Graft and Ed Hiccox, two 20-something best friends and co-founders of the most important social networking company in the world, who are recruited to work secretly for the CIA to bring about global social change.
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AMC announced that The Walking Dead was renewed for an eighth season via an on-screen message at the beginning of two-hour retrospective special, The Walking Dead: The Journey So Far on Sunday. “Eeny, meeny, miny, more,” said Charlie Collier, President of AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios. “What a joy to partner with Robert Kirkman, Scott M. Gimple and some of the hardest-working people in television to bring The Walking Dead to the fans. And, most important, thanks to those fans for breathing life into this remarkable series right along with us.”
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TBS ordered a straight-to-series pick-up of a new series from Tracy Morgan (30 Rock). The net ordered 10 episodes of this single-camera comedy, which looks to capture the rawness of Morgan’s stand up persona while also commenting on race relations, the Gen X/Millennial gap and the American penal system.
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Tia Torres and New Orleans’ Villalobos Rescue Center return to Animal Planet on Saturday, November 12 for a new season of Pit Bulls & Parolees. Series centers on Torres, her staffers and 50 parolees, who work together at the largest pit bull rescue center in the U.S. to give each dog a new lease on life.
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Freeform announced premiere dates for two series. The Fosters is back for a fourth season on Tuesday, January 31 at 8p. The fifth and final season of Switched at Birth bows Tuesday, January 31 at 9p and will include the topical issue of campus race relations, culminating with an episode told from the perspective of several African-American characters, and the show’s milestone 100th episode.
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Discovery’s Edge of Alaska returns for a new season on Sunday, October 23 at 10p. Series focuses on one of America’s last frontier towns, McCarthy, Alaska; population 42.
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Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s bows Saturday, November 19 at 9 p on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. This season, the family deals with tragedy when they learn of the senseless murder of Miss Robbie’s grandson, Andre.
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Season two of National Geographic documentary Years of Living Dangerously bows Sunday, October 30 at 8p. Series reveals accounts of the effects of climate change from across the planet and features Hollywood’s biggest influencers. Correspondents are set to include Jack Black, Gisele Bundchen, Ty Burrell, Don Cheadle, America Ferrera, Thomas Friedman, Joshua Jackson, David Letterman, Aasif Mandvi, Nikki Reed, executive producer Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ian Somerhalder, Cecily Strong, Sigourney Weaver and Bradley Whitford.
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Electus partnered with The CW to debut Terry Crews Saves Christmas, a week-long, holiday-themed special, debuting Tuesday, December 20 at 8p. In each episode, Crews will visit a hopeless holiday enthusiast and put them through a crash-course in how to do Christmas right.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson guests on the Halloween episode of Cartoon Network’s Regular Show. He plays himself in the sci-fi themed episode airing Thursday, October 27 at 8p.
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Cleo Anthony (Divergent) nabbed a male lead opposite DeWanda Wise in She’s Gotta Have It, the Netflix series based on Spike Lee’s 1986 film. He’ll play Greer Childs, a former model turned successful photographer who longs for an artist’s life.
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Marika Dominczyk (Brothers & Sisters) landed a guest role on the current season of ABC‘s Grey’s Anatomy. She’ll portray Eliza Minnick, but all details about the character are being kept under wraps.
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Sesame Street debuts its 47th season on HBO in January 2017 with a reimagined Elmo’s World segment and a kindness curriculum relevant to today’s preschoolers. Celebrities slated to appear include Sia, Jason Derulo, James Corden, Tori Kelly, Anthony Mackie and country music band Little Big Town.
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Kabillion Girls Rule, the on-demand network created exclusively for young girls, is airing the original 52 episodes of Hasbro animated series, My Little Pony. The Kabillion network has also secured on-demand rights to the first 26 episodes of action series, Transformers Animated, which begins airing later this month.
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The premiere of Ben & Lauren: Happily Ever After? ranked as Freeform’s number two reality series launch in Total Viewers (599,000), A18-49 and Women 18-49. In Live + 3 Day ratings vs. Live + Same Day ratings, the series posted the biggest lift of any Freeform reality series debut across all key categories, specifically Total Viewers (up 49 percent and A18-49 (up 67 percent).
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