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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 11/11/16)
BRAVO: Married To Medicine Houston (Premiere) at 9pm
DISNEY CHANNEL: Mech X4 (Premiere) at 8:30pm
HISTORY: The Warfighters (Premiere) at 8pm
VICELAND: Payday (Premiere) at 9pm
HBO: Real Time with Bill Maher (Finale) at 10pm
(SATURDAY 11/12/16)
A&E: The Killing Season (Premiere) at 9pm
ANIMAL PLANET: Pit Bulls and Parolees (Premiere) at 9pm
ANIMAL PLANET: Project Grizzly (Premiere) at 10pm
GAC: Texas Flip N Move (Premiere) at 8pm
HGTV: House Hunters Renovation (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: True Nightmares (Finale) at 10pm
OWN: Iyanla, Fix My Life (Finale) at 9pm
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Dave Chappelle, Musical Guest: A Tribe Called Quest at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 11/13/16)
COOKING CHANNEL: Unique Sweets (Premiere) at 10pm
CMT: Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge (Premiere) at 10pm
FOOD NETWORK: Clash of the Grandmas (Premiere) at 10pm
OXYGEN: Snapped (Premiere) at 9pm
TNT: Good Behavior (Premiere) at 9pm and 10pm
GAC: Flea Market Flip (Finale) at 8pm
SHOWTIME: Masters of Sex (Finale) at 10pm
Former cast member Kristen Wiig returns to NBC’s Saturday Night Live on November 19 for her second time as host. She’ll be joined by The xx, in their musical guest debut.
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The Breakthrough Prize will mark its fifth anniversary celebrating top achievements in the fields of physics, life sciences and mathematics, with a ceremony on Sunday, December 4, at the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley hosted by Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman and featuring a performance by Alicia Keys. National Geographic Channel will broadcast the event live.
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The Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS will feature performances by Grammy-winning musicians Sting and Miranda Lambert. The special, which will be broadcast Thursday, November 24 from 9a-noon, will be anchored by Entertainment Tonight host Kevin Frazier and The Insider’s Keltie Knight.
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NBC gave a script commitment with penalty to a series based on the 2012 surf movie Blue Crush. Lizzy Weiss, who co-wrote the movie with John Stockwell, will pen the series adaptation and executive produce. The movie’s producer, Imagine’s Brian Grazer, also will executive produce with the company’s Francie Calfo. Universal TV is the studio, co-producing with Imagine Television.
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USA Network is jumping on the true crime drama bandwagon with the serial Unsolved. The network gave a pilot order to the scripted series that chronicles the police investigations into the murders of music artists Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur. The pilot is directed and exec-produced by Anthony Hemingway, Emmy winner for his directing work on FX’s The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.
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Entertainment One is partnering with Stolen Sky Productions and LBI Entertainment to co-develop and co-produce a travel series with musician Dave Matthews. An international cultural exploration show through music, the series builds on Matthews’ knowledge for the subject matter following his involvement in a US government cultural mission to Cuba that included the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and the National Endowment of the Arts. In each hour-long ep, Matthews will land in a new location and embark on his own mission to explore areas of the world where are there are large cultural divides and misconceptions.
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NBC is no longer moving ahead with Endemol Shine Studio project Patient Zero. From The Imitation Game writer Graham Moore and World War Z director Marc Forster and co-developed by Sky, the drama received a 10-ep, straight-to-series order in May 2015. Sky, which was to serve as the series’ UK network, has also dropped it.
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Discovery en Espanol will premiere to the US Hispanic market El Mejor Amigo del Hombre (Dogs: The Untold Story), a five-episode series that will reveal how the amazing canine species became human’s closest ally and best friend, beginning Sunday, November 13 at 7p.
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Every fall, tourists from around the world descend on “The Polar Bear Capital of the World,” Churchill, Manitoba. This community of about 800 people in Northern Canada is home to the annual migration of more than 1,000 polar bears that pass through as they wait for the Bay ice to return. New Smithsonian Channel docu-series Polar Bear Town, premiering Wednesday, November 16 at 8p, documents a season in Churchill.
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Bravo Media’s first original scripted series, Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, returns for season three on Wednesday, January 11 at 10p. The show follows Abby McCarthy (Lisa Edelstein) and her tightknit circle of friends, as they pick up the pieces and explore a newfound sense of freedom.
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Season 2 of Syfy’s The Magician launches Wednesday, January 25 at 9p. Viewers can play catch-up on the drama’s first run with a marathon Saturday, November 12 from 9:30a-11p. The Expanse debuts with a double episode on Wednesday, February 8 at 10p.
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Three celebrity chefs determined to give back to the community are profiled in Unichef: Uniting Through Food, based on the best-selling book by Hilary Gumbel and airing on TLC and Discovery Family on Tuesday, November 17.
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Reelz is lining up Veterans Day programming to honor the holiday. Documentary The Real M.A.S.H airs Friday, November 11 at 9p, tracing the original stories and people that inspired the fictional TV series and movie about the Korean War. Reagan: From Movie Star to President airs Saturday, November 12 at 9p; and American Valor: A Salute to Our Heroes airs Sunday, November 13 at 11a, with stories that remind us of who we are as Americans and featuring Kiefer Sutherland, Gary Sinise, Joe Mantegna, Leslie Odom Jr. and more.
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CMA’s entertainer of the year, Garth Brooks, will join ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live for two consecutive nights, November 15 and 16.
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RFD-TV kicks off new four-part series A Tribute to Merle Haggard tonight at 8p. The series showcases never before seen episodes of Country’s Family Reunion, and include special appearances with Haggard’s three sons alongside friends, singers, and songwriters who come together to pay tribute to the country music legend. Guest include Ben Haggard, John Conlee and Vince Gill. Episodes will air on subsequent Fridays through December 2.
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UP added an additional US premiere movie to its previously announced “We Get Christmas” lineup. In Falling For Christmas, a champion figure skater becomes injured and is sent to a rehabilitation center in the snowy mountains where she meets and falls for a ruggedly handsome local man who shows her there is more to life than competition. The romantic comedy premieres Saturday, November 26 at 7p and stars Leah Renee (Satisfaction), Niall Matter (Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce), Michael Tiegen (TRON: Legacy), Gracyn Shinyei (When Calls the Heart), Lochlyn Munro (White Chicks) and Lisa Whelchel (The Facts of Life).
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Nat Geo Wild will air a Wild New Zealand three-fer on Sunday, November 27 at 8p, 9p and 10p, as part of Destination Wild. The special eps will take viewers on a journey that includes majestic mountainscapes, exotic rivers and dramatic volcano plateaus.
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PBS will whet viewers’ appetites for the holidays with two marathons of The Great British Baking Show spinoff The Great British Baking Show: Masterclass. Special episodes will air Saturday, November 19 from noon to 6p and Saturday, December 17 from noon to 6p, showcasing Thanksgiving and holiday-inspired recipes from the show’s celebrity chefs Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.
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In other PBS news, local stations will debut Lidia Celebrates America: Holiday for Heroes, an uplifting new special co-produced WGBH, on Friday, December 16 at 10p. Acclaimed chef Lidia Bastianich pays homage to the men and women of our military and the life-saving sacrifices they make daily for our freedom.
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CNN will debut Enlighten Us: The Rise and Fall of James Arthur Ray on Thursday, December 1 at 9p and 11p with limited interruption. The movie, which world-debuted at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival in April, probes motivational speaker Ray’s meteoric rise, jail time and return to the $11 billion self-help industry following his conviction for negligent homicide in the 2009 deaths of three people at one of his events.
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CBS wlll air the I Love Lucy Christmas Special, a new one-hour special featuring two back-to-back colorized classic episodes of the series, on Friday, December 2 at 8p. Episodes included are “The Christmas Episode,” first broadcast on CBS in 1956, and the newly colorized “Lucy Gets in Pictures.”
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Maroon 5 will be joined by Kendrick Lamar to perform their single “Don’t Wanna Know” together for the first time on national television during the 2016 American Music Awards, Sunday, November 20 at 8p on ABC.
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Coming off the premiere of docuseries Rob & Chyna, E! will present Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna’s journey as they start their new family with the Rob & Chyna Baby Special, premiering December 18 at 8p.
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Three days before the Super Bowl, ESPN Films will premiere the 30 for 30 documentary This Was the XFL, on February 2 at 9p on ESPN. Directed by Charlie Ebersol, the special chronicles the short-lived, ill-fated pro football league.
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Starz is bolstering the ranks for Season 3 of Outlander, now filming in Scotland. Hannah James and Tanya Reynolds will play the Dunsany sisters, Geneva and Isobel, respectively.
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The second season of animated series Sonic Boom will premiere on Boomerang Saturday, November 12 at 6p, following the antics of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, and Sticks as they take on bizarre cases of mistaken identity, androids from an outlandish land and more.
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TV icon Barbara Eden (I Dream of Jeannie) revisits her genie roots and gets animated in a brand-new episode of Nickelodeon’s preschool series Shimmer and Shine. In “The Crystal Queen,” premiering Friday, November 18, at 11a, Eden plays Empress Caliana, a quirky genie empress and mentor to Samira, the genie princess.
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On November 23, PBS Kids will premiere a night of ocean adventures, including the brand new Wild Kratts movie Creatures of the Deep! The movie will be followed by the premiere of the network’s newest series, Splash and Bubbles.
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Cartoon Network launched MagiMobile, an immersive app that expands the storytelling universe of its original series Mighty Magiswords, which premiered in September. The app is available now for free on iOS, Google Play and Amazon.
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Hillary Clinton’s concession speech Wednesday delivered record ratings to the cable news networks. Fox News Channel scored the largest crowd in its history for the 11a-noon time slot, with 7.9 million viewers tuning in to the network to watch. CNN and MSNBC hit their biggest numbers of the day covering Clinton’s morning speech. Another 5.4 million viewers watched her remarks on CNN, while 2.2 million tuned in to MSNBC.
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UP attracted almost 5.5 million total viewers on Saturday and Sunday to its family-focused “We Get Christmas” holiday content, a significant increase, according to the network.
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MOVIES
Almost Christmas – Danny Glover, Gabrielle Union, Mo’Nique, Kimberly Elise, Romany Malco, JB Smoove, Jessie T. Usher, John Michael Higgins
Arrival – Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark O’Brien, Tzi Ma, Abigail Pniowsky, Julia Scarlett Dan
Shut In – Naomi Watts, Oliver Platt, Charlie Heaton, Jacob Tremblay, Clementine Poidatz, Alex Braunstein, David Cubitt, Crystal Balint
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Limited Release) – Joe Alwyn, Kristin Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, Makenzie Leigh, Vin Diesel, Steve Martin, Brian “Astro” Bradley
NYC STREET FAIRS
Friday November 11, 2016
Veterans Day Festival – on Broadway from Liberty St. to Battery Place 10am – 6pm
Veterans Day Parade – on 5th Ave. from 26th St. – 52nd St. 11:30am – 3:30pm
The Change Food Fest – Times Center 242 West 41st St. & 8th Ave. http://www.changefood.org/projects/change-food-festival/
Veterans Day Ceremony – Intrepid sea, Air and Space Museum – Pier 86 on 46th St. and 12th Ave. http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/Plan-Your-Visit/Public-Events-Calendar
Veterans Day Parade Block – on 53rd St. from Madison Ave. to 6th Ave. 10am – 6pm
Saturday November 12, 2016
Union Square Autumn Fair – on Broadway from 17th – 23rd St.
Renegade Art Fair – Metropolitan Pavilion 125 West 18th St. bet. 6th & 7th Ave. 11pm – 6pm http://www.renegadecraft.com/fairs/newyork-2016-holiday
Designers and Books Fair – Fashion Institute of Technology, 27th St. & 7th Ave. 10:30am – 7pm http://www.designersandbooks.com
The Change Food Fest – Times Center 242 West 41st St. & 8th Ave. http://www.changefood.org/projects/change-food-festival/
Book Riot – Metropolitan West 639 West 46th St. bet. 11th and 12th Ave. 8:30am – 5pm http://bookriotlive.com/attend/#location
10th Annual Children’s Book Fair (Brooklyn) – Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway 12pm – 4pm https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/tenth_annual
_childrens_book_fair_november_2016/
Kew Gardens Holiday Market (Queens) – Austin’s Ale House 82-70 Austin St. 11am – 4pm https://www.facebook.com/events/1059396774179983/
Diwali Festival (Queens) – Flushing Town Hall 137-35 Northern Blvd. at the corner of Linden Place 1pm http://www.flushingtownhall.org/event/
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Sunday November 13, 2016
Renegade Art Fair – Metropolitan Pavilion 125 West 18th St. bet. 6th & 7th Ave. 11pm – 6pm http://www.renegadecraft.com/fairs/newyork-2016-holiday
The Change Food Fest – Times Center 242 West 41st St. & 8th Ave. http://www.changefood.org/projects/change-food-festival/
Book Riot – Metropolitan West 639 West 46th St. bet. 11th and 12th Ave. 8:30am – 5pm http://bookriotlive.com/attend/#location
Central Park Community Holiday Block Party – on 60th St from 5th to Madison Ave.
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