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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 11/23/16)
ABC: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving at 8pm
TV ONE: Unsung: Kurupt (Premiere) at 8pm
DISCOVERY: Legend of Croc Gold (Premiere) at 10pm
FOOD NETWORK: Cooks vs. Cons (Premiere) at 9pm
HGTV: Brothers Take New Orleans (Premiere) at 9pm
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Extreme RV’s (Premiere) at 9pm and 10pm
LIFETIME: Little Weddings (Premiere) at 9pm
IFC: Stan Against Evil (Finale) at 10:30pm
TLC: Toddlers & Tiaras: Game On (Finale) at 8pm
TLC: Toddlers & Tiaras (Finale) at 9pm
Carpool Karaoke king James Corden (The Late Late Show) will be steering the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, after presiding over a 2016 Tony Awards that had its largest audience in 15 years. Corden follows a five year Grammy hosting run by LL Cool J, and Jack Sussman, EVP, specials, music and live events, was quick to give to give Cool J his due. “LL was a dynamic host who guided our broadcast to great success with charisma, gravitas and poignancy when the moment called for it,” said Sussman. The 2017 edition airs live on CBS Sunday, February 12 at 8p.
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CBS will not be adding to its original 13-episode order of Pure Genius, though the medical drama remains on the schedule. The show, averaging .9 among A18-49 Thursdays at 10p, is the only CBS frosh not to get an add-on order.
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The cast of Friends might not have liked The Rembrandts’ “I’ll Be There for You” as much as you did. “No one was a really big fan of that theme song,” said Jennifer Aniston during an interview on BBC One’s The One Show. As for the opening sequence, “Dancing in a pond, or like, a fountain, felt a little odd,” said Aniston. “But we did it.”
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Thin Ice landed a pilot order from Fox. The comedy, written by Liz Meriwether (New Girl), Ed Macdonald and Mark Grimmer, focuses on a woman surrounded by a group of brilliant misfits in Antarctica. Meriwether is exec producing with New Girl’s Katherine Pope; studio is 20th Century Fox Television.
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ABC is developing a comedy from Breckin Meyer (Men at Work), Jamie Tarses and Scott Stuber and ABC Studios, about a newly single dad living in the guest house of his ex-wife’s new love.
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Lifetime’s The Rap Game launches season three on Friday, January 13 at 10p. This go-round will feature a special appearance by social activist Bernice King, daughter of Coretta and Martin Luther King Jr.
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Animal Planet’s Ocean Warriors, from executive producers Robert Redford and Paul Allen, launches Sunday, December 4 at 9p and 10p, continuing on December 11 and 18. Six-parter follows activists and scientists as they track down outlaw mercenaries threatening marine life.
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Season 2 of ID’s Barbara Walters Presents debuts Tuesday, December 6 at 9p. Mixing interviews past and present, Walters delves into the lives of Michael Jackson, Leona Helmsley and Gary Hart.
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IFC’s first (slightly off) seasonal event, Joe’s Pub Presents: A Holiday Special will tape in front of a live NYC audience on Wednesday, November 30 and air on the network Wednesday, December 21 at 10p. Comedy and music special will star Tony Hale (Veep) and feature Bridget Everett (Inside Amy Schumer), Jo Firestone (Broad City), Jen Kirkman (Drunk History), Nick Thune (Comedy Bang! Bang!) and more.
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The CW will air the first-ever televised Hollywood Walk of Fame Honors ceremony, tonight at 8p. Joe Mantegna (Criminal Minds) hosts.
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ABC freshman drama Designated Survivor centers on a low-level cabinet member who is appointed President after an attack on the Capitol. Tonight’s special edition of 20/20 explores what would happen in a real-life scenario in which a catastrophic event threatened to potential line of succession (secret bunkers! underground cities!). “The Real Designated Survivor” airs tonight at 10p.
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RFD-TV is serving a Thanksgiving marathon that starts with FarmHer from 9a-12p, followed by The Andy Williams Christmas Special.
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Viceland is showing late night hosts Desus & Mero the light on Black Friday, with an all-day marathon of the free-form, unscripted comedic commentary on November 25. The binge opportunity follows a half-hour “best of” episode Thanksgiving night at 11p.
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Animal Planet is asking viewers to tune in to drive donations to a rescue center featured on Pit Bills & Parolees. In “You Watch. We Give.”, the donation of up to $50,000 will be determined by the number of viewers who watch the show on Saturday, November 26 at 9p.
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Shannen Doherty, one of the Heathers in Heathers, will play a character in a TV Land reboot pilot of the 1988 black comedy. “Jealous much?” Doherty posted on Instagram.
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Penelope Ann Miller (The Birth of a Nation) will star in Lifetime movie Prison Break: The Joyce Mitchell Story, reports Deadline, focused on the woman seduced by two convicted murderers who helped them break out of jail. Mountainair Films is producing.
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SNL alum Molly Shannon wlll guest on CBS comedy Life in Pieces, reports Variety. The episode, in which Shannon plays a private chef hired to cook Jen (Zoe Lister-Jones) and Greg (Colin Hanks) a romantic dinner, is slated to air in February.
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Nia Long (Uncle Buck) will recur on Fox hip-hop hit Empire, as a cold-blooded woman who runs a club in Las Vegas.
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Parker Posey (Cafe Society) has boarded Netflix reboot Lost in Space, slated for 2018, as Dr. Smith.
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James Remar (Dexter) will recur on Fox drama Gotham as Jim’s (Ben McKenzie) uncle.
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NBCUniversal, Verizon and Macy’s are teaming for a 360 livestream of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Verizon’s YouTube page, featuring a special curated program hosted by Marlon Wayans and Olivia Culpo. Five 360 cameras along the parade route will show viewers the livestream from different angles, along with graphic pop-ups featuring facts about the parade. The livestream will be synced with the start of the parade on November 24 at 9a on NBC and live on Verizon’s YouTube page.
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Syndicated talkers Live with Kelly and Ellen DeGeneres both hit season highs to tie for second place behind talk leader Dr Phil; new entry Harry hit its best weekly averages yet in Washington DC, Cleveland, Providence, Tulsa, Knoxville, Dayton and Cincinnati, where it beat year-ago time slot occupant Wendy Williams by 48 percent.
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Unimas delivered its highest-rated week in the 2016-17 season, with increases of 37 percent among total viewers (623,000), 43 percent among A18-49 (311,000) and 64 percent among A18-34 (141,000) during broadcast prime the week of November 14.
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It’s happy holidays at Hallmark Channel, with new movie premieres ranking the network the highest-rated for the weekend of November 19 among HHs, W25-54, W18-49 and total viewers. My Christmas Dream earned a 3.9 HH rating and 4.5 million total viewers, while A December Bride averaged a 3.6 HH rating and 4.3 million total viewers. Over on sister net Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, Operation Christmas averaged a 1.7 HH ratings and 1.5 million total viewers, the net’s most-watched telecast ever among W18-49, W25-54, A18-49 and A25-54.
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Up’s Gilmore Girls marathon reached 3.1 million total viewers its first three days, lowered the network’s median age to 40 (down 7 years for the quarter to date) and gave Up its best weekend ever in W18-34 and W18-49 delivery. Shows run until Friday at 3a.
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Telemundo biopic Hasta Que Te Conici averaged 2.7 million total viewers and 1.3 million among A18-49 during its run, ranking as the highest-rated weekend scripted series ever on Spanish-language television among total viewers and adults. On finale night, Hasta Que Te Conoci delivered 2.87 million total viewers and 1.35 million A18-49.
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Emmy-winning visual effects specialist Ron Thornton died November 21 after a brief illness. He was 59. Among Thornton’s numerous credits were Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise, Babylon 5, Superfire and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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