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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 11/1/16)
FOX: 2016 World Series Game 6 at 8pm
AZTECA AMERICA: Rabia (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY FAMILY CHANNEL: Post My Party (Premiere) at 10pm
DISCOVERY LIFE: Project Dad (Premiere) at 7pm
DIY: Holmes: Buy It Right (Premiere) at 10pm and 10:30pm
OXYGEN: Last Squad Standing (Premiere) at 9pm
FOOD: Star Plates (Finale) at 11pm
FX: Atlanta (Finale) at 10pm
PBS: The Contenders 26 for ’16 (Premiere) at 8pm
USA: Chrisley Knows Best (Finale) at 10:30pm
On NBC’s The Voice, you really can vote early and vote often. Monday, November 7 – the night before the presidential election – the singing competition will air its first real-time voting and real-time results playoff show. All of the top 20 artists will perform for a spot in the top 12; during the telecast, viewers can cast up to 10 votes per artist per team via The Voice Official App.
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Fox added 9 episodes to its sophomore order for Lucifer, for a full season of 22. On its fourth outing, the drama delivered 7.2 million total viewers and 1.9 among A18-49 in Live+7 Nielsens. “Lucifer continues to deliver, with great blasts of dark humor and ambitious storytelling,” said Fox entertainment president David Madden. “The show has turned out to be a true wicked pleasure, the perfect companion to Gotham.”
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In announcing yesterday that it had accepted the resignation of Donna Brazile on October 14, CNN said it was “completely uncomfortable” with Brazile’s interactions with the Hillary Clinton campaign while she was a contributor at the news net. It has been alleged that the interim head of the Democratic National Committee leaked debate questions to Clinton, but don’t point the finger at CNN. “CNN never gave Brazile access to any questions, prep material, attendee list, background information of meetings in advance of a town hall or debate,” said the network.
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Viacom International Media Networks CEO Bob Bakish will become acting president and CEO when Viacom’s interim CEO Tom Dooley exits November 15. Bakish was also named CEO of new business unit Viacom Global Entertainment Group, made up of the company’s International Media Networks division and Music and Entertainment Group. The Kids and Family Group has been renamed the Nickelodeon Group, and Viacom will “exploit the broad array of growth opportunities in all facets of the kids segment,” said the company, “including recreation and hospitality.”
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Goldman Sachs is “freaking out” trying to persuade Apple to make a rival bid for Time Warner, a source told the NY Post. Apple CEO Tim Cook may have stoked the flames at an earning call last week, when he said, “I would confirm television has intense interest with me and many other people here, in terms of owning and creating content.” AT&T has agreed to buy Time Warner for $85 billion.
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With their options up after the end of the third season, which concludes tonight, El Rey Network released the stars of From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series. An official renewal decision is expected in 2017.
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Production has started in New York City on The Good Fight, the new version of CBS’s The Good Wife. The drama will launch in February with a special broadcast on CBS, then move exclusively to SVOD and live streaming service CBS All Access.
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CNBC’s Billion Dollar Buyer is back for season 2 on Tuesday, November 22 at 10p. Hospitality mogul/billionaire Tilman Fertitta is back to share his expertise, and give contestants the chance to land a major purchase order.
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Seeso has 4 new series in the hopper, set to premiere in aQ17: Two sketch comedies arriving January 12, Wham, Bam, Thank You Ma’am, from female comedy troupe Skit Box, and a six-parter from Australia’s Fancy Boy; a “comedy advice show” inspired by the podcast My Brother, My Brother and Me on February 23, and Shrink, about a recent med school grad who sees patients gathered from Craig’s List in his parents’ garage.
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HGTV’s Brothers Take New Orleans, starring Property Brothers Jonathan and Drew Scott, launches the first of four episodes Wednesday, November 23 at 9p. Special guests, including Scott Bakula (NCIS), Today’s Hoda Kotb and Ben and Erin Napier (HGTV’s upcoming Home Town), determine the winner of each week’s challenge.
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TLC’s Kate Plus 8 returns with a tenth anniversary special on Tuesday, November 22 at 10p. New season begins with a look over past years with never-before-seen footage and new interviews.
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A special episode of CBS’s The Odd Couple will pay tribute to late TV legend Garry Marshall on Monday, November 7 at 9:30p. Actors from many of Marshall’s past shows will be featured, including Ron Howard, Marion Ross, Anson Williams and Don Most (Happy Days), Penny Marshall (Marshall’s sister) and Cindy Williams from Laverne & Shirley, and Pam Dawber (Mork & Mindy). Marshall passed away on July 19.
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A character from season 2 of FX anthology series American Horror Story will return for season 6. Exec producer Ryan Murphy broke the news via Twitter: “Sarah Paulson’s ‘Asylum’ ultimate survivor Lana Winters returns this season on AHS: Roanoke. Happy Halloween.”
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On Saturday, November 12, exactly 40 years after it first aired, Antenna TV will run an episode of Johnny Carson’s late nighter that features performances by Frank Sinatra at 10p and 1:30a. Olivia Newton John and Don Rickles also appear.
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Chef Robert Irvine joins Guy Fieri in the tournament premiere of Guy’s Grocery Games: Impossible on Sunday, December 4 at 8p. Contestants compete for the chance to go head-to-head with Irvine (plus win money!) in the final round.
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The lineup of specials on Azteca America this month includes Movimiento Alterado on Saturday, November 5, focused on how a generation of drug dealers expressed their life through music.
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Betty White will return as a guest star on Fox’s Bones for season 12, its last, slated to premiere in January. White will reprise the role of Dr. Beth Mayer.
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Jane Seymour (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman) has been cast in soapy CMT comedic series pilot His Wives & Daughters, centered on the wives and daughters of a womanizing country music legend.
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Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense) landed a role in Amazon sci-fi pilot The Book of Strange New Things, reports Deadline. Richard Madden (Game of Thrones) stars.
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Eddie Jemison (iZombie) will guest on season 2 of NBC’s Chicago Med in a multi-episode arc as the Chief of Emergency Medicine.
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Halston Sage (Crisis) and Penny Johnson Jerald (Castle) will be series regulars on Fox’s untitled comedy/drama created by and starring Seth MacFarlane, set in space 300 years in the future.
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Jack Kesy (The Strain) was promoted to series regular on TNT’s Claws pilot, a dramedy set in a nail salon.
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People and Entertainment Weekly is partnering with the CMA Awards to host a live pre-show ahead of the 50th Annual Country Music Awards. Streaming for People & EW Red Carpet Live begins Wednesday, November 2 at 5:30p. Awards show airs 8-11p on ABC.
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Racecar drivers Danica Patrick, Jimmie Johnson, Kasey Kahne and Chase Elliott return as guest voices in Blaze and the Monster Machines, “The Hundred Mile Race,” premiering Friday, November 4 at 11:30a on Nickelodeon. Preschool series airs weekdays.
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Game 5 of the World Series on Sunday scored 23.6 million viewers for Fox, the most for a Game 5 since 1997 and topping NBC’s Sunday Night Football (18.0 million).
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Travel Channel’s Expedition Unknown: Hunt for the Yeti generated ratings that were up 30 percent from its year-ago timeslot levels and 44 percent above the network’s previous timeslot average of the last 13 weeks, and has attracted over 18 million total viewers in 2016 to date.
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Freeform’s Ben & Lauren: Happily Ever After? rose by double digits week-to-week for series highs across the board including with total viewers (727,000), A18-49 and W18-49, ranking as the #1 cable series in the hour in W18-34.
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Fox boasts year-on-year growth in Live+30 Day multi-platform data for broadcast Premiere Week, delivering a gain of 3 percent versus last year, while streaming of the network’s programs on Hulu rose 20 percent compared to last season’s Premiere Week.
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