FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 11/4/16)
AMAZON: Thunderbirds Are Go (Premiere)
DISOVERY: Treasure Quest: Snake Island (Premiere) at 10pm
NETFLIX: The Crown (Premiere)
TLC: A Haunting: Back From The Dead (Premiere) at 8pm
VICELAND: Abandoned (Finale) at 9pm
(SATURDAY 11/5/16)
ANIMAL PLANET: Pit Bulls & Parolees (Premiere) at 8pm
OXYGEN: Killision Course (Premiere) at 8pm
RFD-TV: Machinery Pete (Premiere) at 1:30pm
RFD-TV: That Nashville Music (Premiere) at 8:30pm
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Benedict Cumberbatch, Musical Guest: Solange at 11:30pm
ANIMAL PLANET: Life at Vet U (Finale) at 10pm
ID: Deadly Doctors (Finale) at 8pm
(SUNDAY 11/6/16)
BRAVO: The Real Housewives of Atlanta (Premiere) at 8pm
BRAVO: Married To Medicine (Premiere) at 9pm
FOOD: Holiday Baking Championship (Premiere) at 9pm
PXTV: Extreme Life (Premiere) at 7:30pm
FOOD: Worst Bakers in America (Finale) at 10pm
Fox announced an all reality, all food Thursday for 2017, with Hell’s Kitchen moving to 8p on January 12, followed by the series launch of My Kitchen Rules. Rosewood moves from Thursdays to Fridays at 8p starting January 6, replacing MasterChef Junior.
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Tucker Carlson is taking over the 7p timeslot formerly occupied by Greta Van Susteren on Fox News Channel. Brit Hume, who has filled in for Van Susteren since she left the network earlier this year, tweeted the news. Carlson makes his debut Monday, November 14.
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Rumors that Donald Trump will attempt to start a media organization if he loses on Election Day gathered steam with a report from Fox News that an up-and-coming conservative media network is in development and looking for employees. A casting notice says the network is looking for hosts, reporters and right-leaning, well-spoken panelists. Trump’s camp insists he is not angling for a TV venture.
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Another group of performers have been added to the 2016 American Music Awards. Both John Legend and Shawn Mendes will take solo turns on stage, while Ariana Grande will join Nicki Minaj to perform their hit, Side To Side. Fan-voted award show airs live from LA on Sunday, November 20 at 8p on ABC.
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Meryl Streep will be honored with the 2017 Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, January 8. Hosted by Jimmy Fallon, the gala airs live on NBC at 8p.
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CMT bought If I Leave Here Tomorrow: A Film About Lynyrd Skynyrd (wt) from director Stephen Kijak (We Are X, Stones in Exile) and producer Passion Pictures (Searching For Sugar Man). Set to bow in 2017, the project explores the music and back story of the American band.
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ABC ordered pilot Lakeside VA. The comedy, which hails from Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory) and Todd Spiewak’s That’s Wonderful Productions and Warner Bros. TV, focuses on a team of underfunded VA hospital employees and the new hotshot female chief of surgery who turns them into an A team.
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E! Entertainment greenlit a second season of Famously Single. This time around, Karina Smirnoff (Dancing With the Stars), Chad Johnson (The Bachelorette), Malika Haqq (Dash Dolls), Ronnie Ortiz-Magro (Jersey Shore), British model David Mcintosh, Tiffany Pollard (I Love New York), Calum Best (Famously Single) and Dorothy Wang (#RichKids of Beverly Hills) enter relationship-rehab. Premieres on E! in 2017.
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The View co-hosts Joy Behar, Jedediah Bila, Candace Cameron Bure, Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin are teaming up for The View Live Election Special, airing Tuesday, November 8 at 9p on Lifetime. Special correspondent SuChin Pak will provide live reports from the ground in Times Square, while ABC News’ Juju Chang shares up-to-the-minute election results. The 2½ hour broadcast includes former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, Kathy Najimy, Vivica A. Fox, Mario Cantone, D.L.Hughley, comedian/Donald Trump impersonator Anthony Atamanuik, and more.
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MTV is planning live 360-coverage of Election Night 2016 that includes TV, digital and social screens designed to engage Millennial voters. Beginning at 3p and into primetime, MTV, MTV2, mtvU and MTV Live will feature MTV News live break-ins every hour from the network’s studio and the candidates’ headquarters. The networks will also go live as soon as the President-Elect is named.
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CBS News will deliver a full day and night of up-to-the-minute original reporting on television, CBSN, CBS News’ 24/7 live streaming news service, and all CBS News platforms on Tuesday, November 8. CBS News will provide seven hours of multi-platform, division-wide coverage of Campaign 2016: Election Night starting at 7p on CBS and live streamed on CBSN. Coverage kicks off on CBSN at 6a and CBS This Morning at 7a. Scott Pelley, Norah O’Donnell, John Dickerson, Gayle King, Charlie Rose, Elaine Quijano and Bob Schieffer will lead CBS News’ comprehensive coverage and analysis with a team of news journalists reporting from across the U.S. and around the world.
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Viceland is going live on election night with late night hosts Desus & Mero at 11p. After just three weeks on the air, the free-form, unscripted half-hour of comedic commentary is expanding to a live hour to cover presidential election results from VICE’s Brooklyn headquarters.
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Two months and counting until Olivia Pope and Associates head back to ABC. The midseason premiere of Scandal is set for Thursday, January 19. The net’s TGIT lineup will return with all-new episodes of Grey’s Anatomy at 8p, Scandal at 9p, and How to Get Away with Murder at 10p.
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Lifetime debuts Vivica’s Black Magic on Wednesday, January 4 at 10p. Series centers on Vivica A. Fox as she launches her newest business venture, Black Magic, an exotic male revue and ultimate ladies’ night experience featuring her magic men.
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Suits returns for the back half of its sixth season on USA Network on Wednesday, January 25 at 10p. The series is the #1 scripted cable program of 2016 in its timeslot in all key demos.
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The sophomore season of Married by Mom and Dad, the series where singles throw their parents into the dating pool to find them a spouse, debuts Sunday, November 27 at 10p on TLC.
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Smithsonian Channel recounts major news events with rare footage in The Lost Tapes. The first installment, The Lost Tapes: Pearl Harbor, which coincides with the 75th anniversary of the attacks that brought the U.S. into World War II, premieres Sunday, December 4 at 9p.
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Fixer Upper, starring home renovation power couple Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines, returns for a fourth season on Tuesday, November 29 at 9p on HGTV. New episodes feature the duo completing projects in Waco, while parenting their four kids, running a 40-acre farm, and managing their family businesses.
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REELZ airs documentary Karen Carpenter: Goodbye to Love on Saturday, November 5 at 9p.
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AXS TV‘s live concert series The World’s Greatest Tribute Bands seventh season finale pays tribute to Jimi Hendrix in an hour-long concert by “Kiss the Sky: The Jimi Hendrix RE-Experience” on Wednesday, November 16 at 10p.
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Singer-songwriter Paul Simon, who recently released his 13th solo album at age 75, sits down for an interview with Lee Cowan on CBS Sunday Morning on November 6 at 9a.
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NBC celebrates the lighting of the world’s most famous Christmas tree on Christmas in Rockefeller Center, Wednesday, November 30 at 8p. Today anchors Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker and Hoda Kotb host the broadcast, which features performances by Tony Bennett, Neil Diamond, Josh Groban, Tori Kelly, Sarah McLachlan, Dolly Parton, Jordan Smith, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, the Radio City Rockettes and more.
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Jeff Probst nabbed a guest spot on CBS comedy Life in Pieces. The Survivor host will play himself in an episode about a family member who wants to appear on the reality show.
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Wyatt Russell landed the lead role of Sean “Dud” Dudley in AMC’s recently greenlit drama Lodge 49. Series is slated to air in 2018.
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Joey Bragg (Liz and Maddie) will recur on Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later. He’ll play Seth, a fast-talking Camp Firewood counselor.
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Three new cast members have been added to VH1’s Daytime Divas. Kristen Johnston (The Exes) will play Anna, the formerly frumpy assistant to Maxine (Vanessa Williams). Patti LaBelle portrays Gloria, the sharp-tongued prying mother of William (Norm Lewis), while Rob Estes (90210) rounds out the additions as Vance Gordon, a sitcom actor.
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Amazon’s recently released Goliath has set a record as the top-binged first season of a U.S.-produced Amazon Original Series ever over its first 10 days, the streamer announced on Thursday.
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Game 7 of the 2016 World Series garnered huge numbers for FOX and was TV’s top telecast since the Super Bowl. According Nielsen, Wednesday night’s game was the most-watched baseball game of any kind since Game 7 of the 1991 World Series and ranks as the most-watched baseball telecast in FOX Sports’ history.
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With its broadcast of The 50th Annual CMA Awards, ABC was the dominant entertainment network on Wednesday in total viewers (12.6 million) and A18-49 (2.9/8). The awards show stood as the #1 non-sports program of the night with viewers and young adults, retaining 93 percent of its year-ago total viewer count (12.6 million vs. 13.6 million).
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National Geographic’s distribution of Before the Flood reached more than 30 million unique viewers worldwide across linear, digital, steaming and social platforms, making it the most-watched documentary in the world since 2000 and the most watched National Geographic film ever released.
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MOVIES
Trolls – Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Russell Brand, Zooey Deschanel, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, James Corden
Doctor Strange – Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, Mads Mikkelsen, Tilda Swinton, Michael Stuhlbarg, Benjamin Bratt
Hacksaw Ridge – Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Hugo weaving, Rachel Griffiths, Vince Vaughn, Richard Roxburgh
Loving (Limited Release) – Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Marton Csokas, Nick Kroll, Terri Abney, Alano Miller, Jon Bass, Michael Shannon
NYC STREET FAIRS
Friday November 4, 2016
New York City Marathon Health and Wellness Expo – Jacob Javits Center, 34th St. and 12th Ave. http://www.tcsnycmarathon.org/race-week/expo
Saturday November 5, 2016
New York City Marathon Health and Wellness Expo – Jacob Javits Center, 34th St. and 12th Ave. http://www.tcsnycmarathon.org/race-week/expo
SneakerCon – Jacob Javits Center, 34th St. and 12th Ave. http://sneakercon.com/
A.D.A’s Madison Ave. Fair – on Madison Ave. from 42nd – 57th St.
Food Porn Fest (Brooklyn) – 395 Johnson Ave. 11am – 7pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foodporn-fest-tickets-28375058564?aff=es2
Ridgewood Market (Queens) – Gottscheer Hall: 657 Fairview Ave. http://www.ridgewoodmarket.com/
Sunday November 6, 2016
SneakerCon – Jacob Javits Center, 34th St. and 12th Ave. http://sneakercon.com/
6th Ave. Autumn Fair – on 6th Ave. from 34th – 42nd St.
Food Porn Fest (Brooklyn) – 395 Johnson Ave. 11am – 7pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foodporn-fest-tickets-28375058564?aff=es2
5th Annual Swig N’ Swine (Brooklyn) – Union Pool, 484 Union Ave. 12pm – 5pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/5th-annual-swig-n-swine-brooklyn-tickets-28370116783?aff=es2
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