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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 11/17/16)
BBC AMERICA: Undercover (Finale) at 10pm
BRAVO: Yours, Mine or Ours (Finale) at 10:30pm
WE TV: Money Power Respect (Finale) at 10pm
Univision will lay off close to 6 percent of its workforce, or 200-250 jobs, announced the company on Wednesday. “As part of a broader effort to streamline operations, we eliminated a number of positions in various areas of the Company,” said the Spanish-language net in a statement. “Over the next several months, we will be adding new positions to support strategic growth areas that will allow us to be better poised to serve our diverse audiences across platforms and meet the needs of our partners.” Univision has been acquiring digital assets, like The Onion, The Root and Gawker Media, to reach Millennials. News website Fusion, shifting to focus more on social justice issues, is expected to be most affected.
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Family and faith entertainment network Light TV, from Roma Downey, Mark Burnett and MGM, is slated to launch next month. Programming will include wholesome fare like Highway to Heaven and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. “This is the last unclaimed vertical,” said Downey. “As we have already seen from the success of The Bible series and our 20 million social followers this audience is looking for inspiring and uplifting programming that they can watch in a trusted and safe environment on any platform.” Plans for the channel, set to air in top markets on the subchannels of Fox stations, were announced last year.
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The CW set its midseason schedule. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow moves to a new night on Tuesday, January 24 at 9p, after The Flash; Supernatural returns from hiatus on Thursday, January 26 at a new time, 8p, followed by the debut of new drama Riverdale at 9p. The 100 returns Wednesday, February 1 at 9p, after Arrow; Reign is back for season 4 on Friday, February 10 at 9p. The Vampire Diaries ends its 8-season run on Friday, March 10; The Originals slips into the 8p slot the following week. The season finale of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is set for Tuesday, March 28, and iZombie is back for its third season on Tuesday, April 4 at 8p and 9p, before moving to its post-The Flash slot on April 11. The season ends for No Tomorrow on Tuesday, January 17 at 9p, followed the next week by the season finale of Frequency the net did not give a full season order to either show. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend ends its sophomore run on Friday, February 3 at 9p.
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Alex Wagner was named CBS News correspondent and co-host of CBS This Morning: Saturday, starting this weekend. Wagner had been a senior editor at The Atlantic, and was a guest correspondent on division-of-CBS Showtime series, The Circus: The Greatest Political Show on Earth.
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Writer/actor/comedian Patton Oswalt will host the 2017 Writers Guild Awards on February 19, his second time at the podium. “Writing is the goodest thing for movies when you watch the movies the writing is what makes the actors go I like writing,” said Oswalt of the honor.
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TV One signed a deal with Atlanta-based Swirl Films to produce original movies and scripted television series. “Very few production companies can consistently produce quality content at a price point that makes sense for the network and we look forward to marrying the Swirl team with storytellers who want to tell fascinating stories that resonate with our audience,” said TV One SVP of programming and production D’Angela Proctor. Among the projects Swirl produced for the network in 2016 were Here We Go Again, Definitely Divorcing and Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story.
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Sonar Entertainment entered into a first-look deal with Team Downey, the independent entertainment and production company founded by Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey.The agreement encompasses scripted and non-scripted content for television, including digital. First project under the deal is Singularity, a series created by Robert Downey Jr. and Anthony Michael Hall that will star Hall.
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TBS late nighter Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, currently averaging 3.3 million viewers per episode across platforms, landed a second season renewal. The show, currently airing Mondays at 10:30p, will move to Wednesday at 10:30p starting January 11. “I am only sorry that this renewal leaves me unavailable for a cabinet position in the new administration,” said Bee.
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TLC is counting on more Jinger, Jeremy, Jessa and Ben in 19 Kids and Counting reality spin-off Counting On. Eleven new episodes are slated to launch early 2017.
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Disney Junior ordered season 5 of Peabody Award-winning hit Doc McStuffins. Disney reports that the kids series, featuring a young girl who aspires to be a doctor, reaches 150 million viewers worldwide each quarter.
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E! greenlit a second season of Total Divas spin-off Total Bellas. The sophomore run of 8 episodes from Bunim-Murray Productions will premiere in 2017.
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Nickelodeon renewed Henry Danger, the number one show with Kids 2-11, for season 4 and Game Shakers, ranked number 2 in the pint-sized demo, for season 3. Both live-action hits come from writer-producer-child whisperer Dan Schneider.
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The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses, a 3-part follow-up to The Hollow Crown, launches Sunday, December 11 at 9p on PBS. Among the cast are Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Sturridge, Judi Dench, Hugh Bonneville and Michael Gambon.
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“They’re waking up, more and more every day.” AMC released a chilling trailer for season 2 of its sci-fi drama Humans and set the premiere for February. Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix) joins the cast as an Artificial Intelligence expert.
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Feature-length documentary Sacred, exploring religious rituals at birth, adolescence, marriage, aging and other key milestones of human life, premieres at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam this weekend, after a run at the DOC NYC festival in New York this week.Broadcast premiere on PBS is slated for 2017.
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NBC looks back at 9 decades of balloons and bands in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 90th Celebration on Wednesday, November 23 at 8p. The hour-long special will also include a sneak peek at this year’s event, Thanksgiving Day at 9a.
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MTV is premiering its new documentary, Transformation, tonight at 10p as part of the net’s Transgender Awareness Week campaign. The film follows six transgender and gender non-conforming youth in Los Angeles as they come to terms with who they are. MTV will also stream the doc for free live on MTV’s Facebook pagestarting at 10:15p.
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The Paley Center for Media is presenting the premiere of BET’s The New Edition Story on Wednesday, December 14 in Beverly Hills. Part of the PaleyLive programs, the event features a panel conversation with cast and producer.
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AXS TV’s “Merry Metal-Thon” on Sunday, December 18 starts at 2p with Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet, about the guitar virtuoso diagnosed with ALS. Headline event at 9:30p is a premiere presentation of Motorhead: Clean Your Clock, honoring the late Lemmy Kilmister, who passed away last year.
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New episodes of TLC’s first scripted series, Too Close to Home, launch Wednesday, January 4 at 10p. Heather Locklear returns to guest on the Tyler Perry drama.
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AMA nominee Justin Bieber isn’t letting a concert tour keep him from awards action. The pop star will perform during the 2016 American Music Awards from his tour in Zurich; it will be his sixth AMA performance. Show starts on Sunday, November 20 at 8p.
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Rumer Willis will recur on season 3 of Fox hit Empire, airing Wednesdays at 9p. The daughter of Bruce will play a brilliant but volatile singer/songwriter.
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William Russ (Girl Meets World), Keiko Agena (Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life) and Paolo Andino (The Last Ship) have been cast in recurring guest starring roles in season 2 of USA’s Colony, premiering Thursday, January 12 at 10p.
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Kristin Lehman (The Killing) will co-star on futuristic Netlix drama Altered Carbon, based on the 2002 sci-fi novel.
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Adam Beach (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee), Jim True-Frost (The Wire), Alicia Sixtos (East Los High), and Efrem Ramirez (Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life) landed series regular roles in TNT post-Civil War pilot Monsters of God.
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Tyler Hilton (One Tree Hill), Kurt Fuller (Better with You), Molly McCook (The Ranch), Christina Moore (90210) and Talia Tabin (The Grinder) are onboard CMT comedic soap pilot His Wives and Daughters.
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National Geographic climate doc Before the Flood has reached over 60 million people worldwide and surpassed one billion minutes viewed across linear, digital, streaming and social platforms. The show debuted on Sunday, October 30 in 171 countries.
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NBC drama This Is Us returned from its election preemption up 13 percent on Tuesday versus the last original, to 2.6/9, building on its The Voice (2.1/7) lead-in. ABC’s The Real O’Neals had the night’s biggest boost, up 38 percent to 1.1/4.
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Tuesday’s season 4 premiere of The Curse of Oak Island on History delivered 2.6 million total viewers, up 13 percent from the season 3 launch, and rose 7 percent among A18-49 (917,000).
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The premiere of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight delivered 3.7 million viewers and 750,000 among A-25-54, the biggest audience of the year in the 7p time slot and second best in the news demo. Carlson’s show replaces On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.
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Bravo! The season 9 premiere of the net’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta delivered 2.0 million P18-49, 2.1 million P25-54 and 3.4 million total viewers, making it the network’s highest rated telecast since last season’s RHOA finale. The season 5 debut of Vanderpump Rules delivered 1.4 million P18-49 (up 6 percent versus the prior season premiere), 1.5 million P25-54 (up 4 percent) and 2.3 million total viewers (up 13 percent). And the season 4 bow of Married to Medicine: Atlanta delivered its highest ratings since the season 2 finale, earning 1.2 million P18-49 (up 36 percent versus the prior season premiere), 1.2 million P25-54 (up 23 percent), and 2.1 million total viewers (up 29 percent).
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The ID/TLC simulcast of ID’s new People Magazine Investigates on November 7 reached nearly 4 million unique Live+3 viewers. On ID alone, the premiere averaged 1.13 million P2+ at 9p and 1.1 million P2+ at 10p in Live+3 delivery. The most recent episode on November 14 rose from the prior week’s 10p number by 28 percent.
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Animal Planet’s Tanked on Friday at 10p earned a season high among Adults 25-54 (.51) in Live+3, helping drive Animal Planet to rank among the Top 10 ad-supported cable networks at 10PM in the demo (#10). The episode, featuring Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside, was up double digits (19 percent) versus the series’ season to-date average among A25-54.
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BROADWAY
Alton Brown Live: Eat Your Science is opening on Tuesday November 22, 2016.
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