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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 11/22/16)
CNBC: Billion Dollar Buyer (Premiere) at 10pm
ESQUIRE: Team Ninja Warrior: College Madness (Premiere) at 8pm
HISTORY: The Curse of Oak Island: Digging Deeper (Premiere) at 8pm
TLC: Little People, Big World (Premiere) at 8pm
TLC: Kate Plus 8 (Premiere) at 10pm
ABC: Dancing With The Stars (Finale) at 9pm
LIFETIME: Dance Moms (Finale) at 9pm
The original David Lynch cult ABC series Twin Peaks will be available for binge-viewing on Showtime beginning December 26, ahead of the premiere of Lynch’s new follow-up series on Showtime in 2017. Every ep of the original series will be available to subscribers on the Showtime On Demand and Showtime Anytime streaming services.
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Stephen Colbert will return to host the 39th annual Kennedy Center Honors, to be broadcast Tuesday, December 27 at 9p on CBS. This will be Colbert’s third year hosting the special, which this year honors pianist Martha Argerich, the Eagles, Al Pacino, Mavis Staples and James Taylor.
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AT&T stood by its plan to let its wireless customers access its DirecTV Now streaming service without incurring data charges in a letter to the FCC. The company said the business model will make wireless broadband more competitive with cable, providing wireless customers with the kind of “mobile video experience they increasingly demand in the most consumer-friendly manner possible,” wrote Robert Quinn Jr., AT&T’s senior EV, external & legislative affairs.
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AT&T also reached a deal with Fox Networks Group to extend the Fox nets across AT&T DirecTV products, including its upcoming streaming service. CBS is the last big holdout for the $35/month service.
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NBCUniversal Talent Infusion Programs named comedy writers Mnelik Belilgne, Melanie Boysaw and Jeremy Hsu as well as drama writers Lorelei Ignas, Allyssa Lee, Rayna McClendon, Mellori Velasquez and Jeane Wong as its 2016-17 Writers on the Verge. Now in its 11th year, Writers on the Verge is an annual program for aspiring writers of diverse backgrounds who are “on the verge” of breaking out, but need a final polish of their writing and pitch presentation skills to equip them for a career in television. The program has produced successful television execs, among them staffers on The Blacklist, Superstore, American Crime, Suits, Shades of Blue and NBC midseason series The Blacklist Redemption and Midnight, Texas.
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Legendary and the Frank Herbert estate reached an agreement granting the production house film and TV motion picture rights to revered sci-fi novel Dune. The agreement calls for the development and production of possible film and television projects for a global audience. The projects would be produced by Thomas Tull, Mary Parent and Cale Boyter, with Brian Herbert, Byron Merritt and Kim Herbert serving as executive producers.
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The lioness doesn’t sleep tonight with the premiere of Savage Kingdom: Clash of Queens on Friday, November 25 at 9p on Nat Geo Wild. Determined lioness Matsumi has ascended the throne to become Queen of the Marsh Pride, but her power is threatened by another alpha female in the series.
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NBC Universo will premiere season 5 of celeb-reality series Larrymania on Sunday, November 27 at 9p. Starring regional Mexican singer Larry Hernandez, the new season will shed light on Kenia’s entrepreneurial side, and an adventure-gone-competitive when Hernandez takes a day off with his buddies.
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Food Network celebrates the first day of 2017 with Anne Burrell, Rachael Ray and a new roster of hapless cooks in the return of primetime series Worst Cooks in America on Sunday, January 1 at 9p.
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Sixteen celebrities will compete for their favorite charities on The New Celebrity Apprentice as it shifts to LA, where twice-elected California governor, businessman and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger reigns over the boardroom. The new season debuts Monday, January 2 at 8p on NBC.
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MTV and MTV Classic have a bounty of programming slated for the Thanksgiving holiday, including never-before-seen content from The Hills stars on Wednesday, November 23 at 9p, ’90s music video blocks Wednesday through Sunday, November 27, and Teen Mom OG stars dishing on the series in 100 Things about Teem Mom OG on Monday, November 28 starting at 6p.
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Sixty years ago, on November 22, 1956, at noon, CBS Sports broadcast its first Thanksgiving Day football game when the Detroit Lions hosted the Green Bay Packers. This year, The NFL marks its 57th broadcast of the Thanksgiving Day game on Thursday, November 24 at 12:30p as the Minnesota Vikings travel to Detroit to play the Lions in a pivotal NFC North matchup.
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Spanish-language movie channel Cinelatino is dishing up a Spanish-language movie marathon over Thanksgiving weekend. Thursday, November 24 through Sunday, November 27, viewers can cozy up with their loved ones and enjoy films including Rudo y Cursi, Casese Quien Pueda, Me Late Chocolate and No Se Aceptan Devoluciones.
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Maroon 5, led by frontman and coach Adam Levine, will perform their newly released single Don’t Wanna Know on the Monday, November 28 live telecast of NBC’s The Voice.
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getTV celebrates the season with its second annual event “The Most Wonderful Month of the Year.” The channel turns over its daily schedule during primetime November 27-December 25 to bring a mix of classic Christmas-themed variety specials, series eps and films, culminating in a weeklong 24-hour-a-day yuletide marathon kicking off at noon on Sunday, December 18 and running through Christmas day.
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Animal Planet chronicles two remarkable journeys via documentaries under the network’s Animal Planet Presents banner. Killer Whales: The Mega Hunt, premiering Sunday, December 4 at 7p, explores the never-before-documented hunt of 5,000 dolphins by their close-relatives off the coast of South Africa. I Bought A Rainforest, chronicling one man’s ambitious mission to rescue the Amazon rainforest, premieres Tuesday, December 6 at 9p.
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Cozi TV will be decking the halls and ringing in the season with two weeks of holiday-themed programming on the national multicast network beginning Monday, December 12. For the third consecutive year and running through Christmas Day, the network’s Holidozi marathon will feature holiday-themed episodes of iconic shows including Frasier, Hart to Hart, Murder, She Wrote, Starsky & Hutch and Little House on the Prairie.
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NBCUniversal made an additional $200 million investment in BuzzFeed to expand the strategic partnership between the two companies and fund the growth of BuzzFeed’s news and entertainment network. With this investment, NBCU and BuzzFeed will extend their advertising sales relationship, with BuzzFeed collaborating with NBCU on production and social distribution for NBCU’s Content Studio, which delivers platform-specific, shortform digital video content to advertisers. NBCU will also represent BuzzFeed’s inventory to advertisers, and the companies will work together to create new digital consumer experiences for NBCU premium content.
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Jennifer Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions hired its first dedicated unscripted executive – veteran reality exec Andrew Strauser. Strauser, who most recently oversaw talent development initiatives at TLC, joins as head of unscripted programming.
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