FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 11/10/16)
SCIENCE CHANNEL: World’s Biggest Shipbuilders (Premiere) at 10pm
A&E: 60 Days In (Finale) at 9pm
A&E: Behind Bars: Rookie Year (Finale) at 10:30pm
CMT: I Love Kellie Pickler (Finale) at 10pm
FOOD NETWORK: Chopped: Beat Bobby Flay (Finale) at 9pm
FX: Better Things (Premiere) at 10pm
The Simpsons was first to predict a Donald Trump presidency – 16 years ago, as Deadline points out. In a 2000 episode of the Fox animated comedy, set in the future, Lisa is elected president after a disastrous term by the former Apprentice boss. See the clip here.
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Life at Freeform is over for Dead of Summer. The 1980s-set horror series centered on camp counselors will not be back for season 2.
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Viacom’s Bob Bakish, stepping into an acting CEO role next week, pushed the company’s “global outlook” on an earnings call Wednesday. “It’s not about whether you have to spend dramatically more money necessarily,” Bakish said. “Our international experience shows you can deliver significant audiences on genres other than high-dollar scripted programming.” Bakish pointed to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, which is “significantly stronger internationally” with host Trevor Noah than it was with Jon Stewart.
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ABC isn’t upping its 13-episode order for freshman Conviction, but the legal drama is still on the slate. While Conviction just hit an A18-49 rating low of .6, its most recent Live+7 lift was 62 percent, to 1.3. The network, which still has an option to order a second season, had given full season orders to newcomers Speechless, American Housewife and Designated Survivor.
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Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson, whose sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox News chief Roger Ailes led eventually to his resignation, will appear on ABC’s 20/20 on Friday, November 18. It’s Carlson’s first TV interview since the scandal.
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Ovation TV will air its 10th annual Battle of the Nutcrackers starting Monday, December 12 at 7a. Viewers can vote for their favorite version of the classic ballet on the net’s Facebook page. Winner is repeated on Monday, December 21 at 7p.
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The Chew is serving up Thanksgiving episodes the week of November 14. Taye Diggs (Empire), Ali Wentworth (Nightcap), Andrew Rannells (Falsettos), Billy Eichner (Billy on the Street) and Ziggy Marley are among the guests game for food-centric fun.
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FXX celebrates The Simpsons with “Joyeux D’oh!-el,” featuring holiday-themed episodes starting Monday, December 19 at 8p with eight back-to-back episodes, continuing throughout the week and ending with eight back-to-back episodes from 4p-8p on Sunday, December 25.
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Rosie O’Donnell is onboard Showtime comedy pilot SMILF. The comedian and former talk show host will play the mother of a single twentysomething.
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Alison Wright (The Americans) was tapped for a series regular role on new Ryan Murphy anthology series Feud on FX. First season focuses on the rivalry between Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange) and Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon).
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Colm Feore (House of Cards) has joined the cast of new CBC drama series 21 Thunder, set in the fiercely competitive world of an under-21 soccer academy.
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Leonard Roberts (American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson) will recur on season five of TNT’s Major Crimes. Roberts will play the head of the Criminal Intelligence Division of the LAPD.
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And the winner of Election Night among broadcast nets was – NBC, with an audience of 11.97 million, according to Nielsen’s preliminary primetime ratings. ABC had an average 9.68 million viewers, CBS 8.8 million, Fox 4.28 million, Univision 3.89 million and Telemundo 2.16 million.
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Cable news had a big Election Night. Between 7p and 3a, Fox News drew 12.2 million viewers (4.8 million among A25-54), CNN scored 11.2 million viewers (5.7 million in the news demo) and MSNBC had 5.3 million viewers (2.1 million A25-54). During primetime, CNN had the most-watched Election Night in cable news history with 13.26 million viewers, followed by FNC (12.1 million) and MSNBC (5.9 million).
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According to second-by-second analysis of cable news nets on election night by Samba TV, the Fox News share of audience grew the most as Donald Trump’s surprise victory became apparent, from a 14.1 percent share of audience at 8p to 21.23 percent at 2a. CNN went from 29.8 percent to 26.0 percent and MSNBC inched up from 8.1 percent at the top of the primetime hour to 9.8 percent at 2a.
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Grit and Escape posted their most-watched months in October. In primetime for the month, Grit was up 41 percent in households, 76 percent among P18-49 and 69 percent in P25-54. Escape had year-over-year gains of 68 percent in households, 125 percent in P18-49 and 94 percent in P25-54 in primetime.
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LAFF’s Roseanne marathon on Sunday, October 30 posted delivery gains of 111 percent in households, 215 percent in P18-49, 160 percent in P25-54 and 161 percent in P2+ compared to the previous four weeks.
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BROADWAY
Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 with Josh Groban is opening on Monday November 14, 2016.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/natasha-pierre-and-the-great-comet-1812/
Kristin Chenoweth: My Love Letter To Broadway is closing on Sunday November 13, 2016
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/kristin-chenoweth-my-love-letter-broadway/
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