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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 10/26/16)
FOX: 2016 World Series Game 2 at 8pm
NAT. GEO.: Human Inferno (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: Secrets of the Dead (Premiere) at 10pm
SCIENCE: Outrageous Acts of Science (Premiere) at 9pm
SUNDANCE: Rectify (Premiere) at 10pm
TRAVEL: Everest Air (Premiere) at 10pm
TRU TV: Jon Glaser Loves Gear (Premiere) at 10pm
VICELAND: Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia (Premiere) at 10pm
ESQUIRE: Car Matchmaker (Finale) at 9pm
ID: Betrayed (Finale) at 9pm
SYFY: Ghost Hunters (Finale) at 9pm
SYFY: Paranormal Witness (Finale) at 10pm
VELOCITY: Fantomworks (Finale) at 9pm
VELOCITY: Garage Squad (Finale) at 10pm and 10:30pm
The Walking Dead’s Season 7 premiere scored some of its best ratings to date: The season opener was seen by 17 million viewers in Live+SD, up 16 percent from last year’s debut (14.6 million) and on par with the Season 5 premiere (17.3 million). In A18-49, the episode averaged an 8.4 rating (10.7 million viewers), up 14 percent from last year (7.3 million). Aftershow The Talking Dead scored its largest audience ever, 7.6 million viewers (up 34 percent from last fall’s premiere) and a 3.7 rating with A18-49.
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We knew Alec-as-Donald wouldn’t desert us yet. NBC is airing The 2016 SNL Election Special on Monday, November 7 at 10p. The one-hour special will feature highlights of the presidential campaign, with clips of recent SNL political sketches.
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ABC’s Notorious has had its 13-episode order trimmed to 10. The series will remain on the air and the network plans to air all 10 produced episodes, but the drama’s soft ratings start does not bode well for the freshman.
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Political journalist Soledad O’Brien and National Association of Broadcasters President and CEO Gordon Smith will be featured in a keynote session on the intersection of media and politics on Wednesday, November 9 at NAB Show New York. The duo will participate in a post-Election Day conversation on politics and the media.
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There’s a new judge headed to Hot Bench. Judge Michael Corriero is joining Judge Patricia DiMango and Judge Tanya Acker beginning Tuesday, November 1. “I am thrilled to introduce Judge Michael Corriero to the Hot Bench audience,” said the show’s creator, Judge Judy Sheindlin. “We first met as young lawyers. Judge Corriero brings a new dimension to Hot Bench and I’m convinced that the audience will immediately embrace the wisdom of his judgment finetuned during his 28-year judicial career.”
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As part of its educational campaign, Tu Momento 2016 (Your Moment 2016), HITN-TV is offering viewers a chance to experience the 2017 presidential inauguration in person. The net will send one contestant and their guest on a 2-day trip to Washington, D.C. Participants are challenged with presenting an analysis of how each state will vote on election night.
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FYI ordered a fifth season of Married at First Sight. Production on the docuseries, which follows singles who legally marry a stranger the moment they meet, has already begun in Chicago and is slated to air in 2017.
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Bravo goes behind the scenes at a five-star mountain retreat in Timber Creek Lodge, premiering Monday, December 5 at 10p. Series centers on the on-and-off duty shenanigans of the resort staff working around the clock to provide the ultimate vacation experience.
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History’s militant combat drama Six debuts Wednesday, January 18 at 10p. The eight-episode first season follows members of Navy SEAL Team Six, whose covert mission to eliminate a Taliban leader in Afghanistan goes awry when they uncover a U.S. citizen working with terrorists.
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Fifteen years after Chandra Levy’s disappearance, former congressman Gary Condit is set to discuss the incident with Dr. Phil. Episode airs on Thursday, October 27 (check local listings).
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Add Lady Gaga to the list of performers at the 2016 American Music Awards. Gaga joins previously announced show opener Bruno Mars and “The American Music Award of Merit” honoree and performer Sting. Show broadcasts live on Sunday, November 20 at 8p on ABC.
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Jennifer Nettles returns to host CMA Country Christmas from the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. Holiday special airs Tuesday, November 8 at 8p on ABC.
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Lexus and TV One join forces for a special presentation of Lexus Verses and Flow, debuting Wednesday, October 26 at 11p. Dondre T. Whitfield (Queen Sugar) hosts the music and spoken word event that blends music performances by chart-topping artists with spoken word presentations from slam poetry artists.
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Lincoln Center at the Movies brings Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to PBS this fall as part of the PBS Arts Fall Festival. Special airs Friday, November 4 at 9p (check local listings).
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The People’s Network Showcase: Horror Edition airs Sunday, October 30 at 8p on El Rey Network. Hosted by John Carpenter, the new series of specials features short films from independent filmmakers.
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With global attention on cyber warfare intensifying in recent weeks, Showtime has moved up the premiere date of Zero Days to Saturday, November 5 at 9p. The documentary thriller tells the story of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility.
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Lauren Ambrose landed the female lead in TNT pilot Monsters of God. She’ll play Cynthia Lancaster, wife to Garret Dillahunt’s Col. “Terrible” Bill Lancaster, in the period drama set in post-Civil War Texas.
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Christian Coulson (Love is Strange) nabbed a recurring role on Nashville as Damien George, a sought-after British film director. Series returns with a special two-hour premiere on Thursday, January 5 at 9p on CMT.
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Michael Nathanson (The Knick) was cast as a series regular in The Punisher. He’ll play Sam Stein, a Homeland Security agent, somewhat disillusioned with his job, in the Netflix series.
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AfterBuzz TV will serve as the official live-stream provider of The 4th Annual Reality TV Awards on Wednesday, November 2. Melissa Peterman (Baby Daddy) hosts the event with Janice Dickinson (America’s Next Top Model) receiving this year’s 2016 Reality TV Hall of Fame award.
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Amazon debuts Season 2 of Thunderbirds Are Go on Friday, November 4. A reinvention of the classic Thunderbirds, the original kids series features a famous family of heroes.
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Jason Derulo, Hailee Steinfeld, Zedd, Alessia Cara and Daya are set to appear at the 2016 Nickelodeon HALO Awards, a concert special honoring four young community leaders who are changing the world by “Helping and Leading Others” (HALO). Led by host, creator and EP Nick Cannon, the one-hour musical event features a performance by JoJo Siwa, along with Jake Miller and Jacob Whitesides, and stars of The Thundermans and School of Rock. Simulcast is Sunday, November 27 at 7p on Nickelodeon, TeenNick and Nicktoons.
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CMT’s annual Artists of the Year event fueled growth across the board with L+3 ratings climbing 21 percent from last year’s telecast among A18-49. The show attracted nearly 2 million total viewers on premiere night and nearly 4 million total viewers throughout six telecasts throughout the weekend on CMT.
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With a third appearance by President Barack Obama on Monday, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live ranked as the #1 late-night talk show in Households (2.7/7) in the 56 Metered Markets. Kimmel also ranked tops in A18-49 (0.7/4) in the 25 LPM Markets.
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Food Network’s Halloween Baking Championship on Monday delivered a rating of .7 among A25-54 (625,000 impressions), up 81 percent versus year-ago, ranking #7 among cable in the 9p timeslot.The season 2 premiere of Cooking Channel’s Food: Fact or Fiction? saw a gain of 80 percent versus the season one opener, up 123 percent versus year-ago.
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Extra hit a 21-week high (1.4 Live+SD, up 8 percent from the week before), making it the only magazine to hit a new season best mark in the session ending October 16. Fueled by extensive coverage of the fallout from Donald Trump’s 2005 hot mic video, it also notched the largest weekly increase in the magazine category.
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Judge Judy (6.7, steady) easily won talk shows, topping syndication overall for the 11th consecutive session. Hot Bench (2.3, up 5 percent) was the second highest court show by a substantial margin over third place People’s Court (1.6, unchanged).
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Family Feud (new season high 6.6, up 5 percent) continued to dominate the game shows, climbing 8 percent from last year. Next in line were Wheel of Fortune (5.9, down 2 percent), which fell 5 percent from last year and Jeopardy (5.7, unchanged), which lost 8 percent year-to-year.
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