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CELEBRITY NEWS: NOVEMBER 16, 2016
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Noah Gray-Cabey (My Wife And Kids) – 21 years old
Pete Davidson (Saturday Night Live) – 23 years old
Siva Kaneswaran (The Wanted) – 28 years old
Amare Stoudemire (NBA Player) – 34 years old
Trevor Penick (MTV’s Making The Band; O-Town) – 37 years old
Maggie Gyllenhaal (“White House Down”) – 39 years old
Brooke Elliott (Drop Dead Diva) – 42 years old
Missi Pyle (“Gone Girl”) – 44 years old
Brandi Glanville (Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) – 44 years old
Martha Plimpton (The Real O’Neal’s) – 46 years old
Lisa Bonet (The Cosby Show) – 49 years old
Sheree Zampino-Fletcher (VH1’s Hollywood Exes; ex-wife of Will Smith) – 49 years old
Dean McDermott (Tori & Dean) – 50 years old
Diana Krall (Jazz Singer) – 52 years old
Dwight Gooden (former Baseball Player) – 52 years old
Marg Helgenberger (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) – 58 years old

FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 11/16/16)
TV ONE: Unsung Hollywood: Bill Bellamy (Premiere) at 8pm
A&E: Duck Dynasty (Premiere) at 9pm
A&E: Going Si-ral (Premiere) at 9:30pm
A&E: Wahlburgers (Premiere) at 10pm
BBC AMERICA: Undercover (Premiere) at 8pm
E!: Total Divas (Premiere) at 8pm
POP: Nightcap (Premiere) at 8pm
SMITHSONIAN: Polar Bear Town (Premiere) at 8pm
WORLD: Black America Since MLK: And I Still Rise (Premiere) at 8pm
AXS TV: The World’s Greatest Tribute Bands (Finale) at 10pm
E!: Catching Kelce (Finale) at 9pm
FX: American Horror Story (Finale) at 10pm
FXX: You’re The Worst (Finale) at 10pm

IFC parent AMC Networks Inc. acquired a minority ownership stake in Funny Or Die. The deal enables the two comedy brands to expand their collaboration across television, digital and social platforms. IFC president Jennifer Caserta will be joining the Funny Or Die board. IFC and Funny Or Die have a long history of successful collaborations, most recently on the forthcoming IFC series Brockmire, starring Hank Azaria, which began as a Funny Or Die short. Possible collaborations include Funny Or Die-branded programming blocks on IFC and additional original content development for television and digital platforms along with ad sales opportunities, according to the companies. Following the investment, Funny Or Die will continue to operate independently, allowing it to invest in its growth by also working with other distributors, networks and studios.
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Jimmy Kimmel Live again will join forces with Bono and RED for a special ep of the ABC late-night talker, on November 22, to raise funds and awareness in the fight against AIDS. Julia Roberts, Channing Tatum, Kristen Bell, The Killers, DJ Khaled, Neil Patrick Harris and Halsey are onboard to participate in the November 22 edition of the show. World AIDS Day is December 1.
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NATPE announced the recipients of the 14th annual Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award. They are: Susanne Daniels, global head of original content for YouTube; Randy Falco, president/CEO of Univision Communications Inc.; Eva Longoria, actress, director, producer and activist; Josh Sapan, president/CEO of AMC Networks; and Dana Walden and Gary Newman, chairmen/CEOs of Fox Television Group. They will be honored at a reception on Wednesday, January 18, at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach.
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Jim Kouf and David Greenwalt, co-creators, exec producers and showrunners on NBC’s Grimm, teamed with the show’s  which is in its sixth and final season – executive producers Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner of Hazy Mills for another drama project at NBC and Universal TV. Treasure is mystery adventure involving a group of grad students in DC who accidentally uncover a 40-year-old secret that leads them on a wild ride through real history.
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A series about the late Latin music star Selena is in development from Endemol Shine North America and Major TV. The companies optioned the television rights to Chris Perez‘s book To Selena With Love, which details the music superstar through the eyes of her husband. The book will be adapted both for English- and Spanish-speaking audiences as a potential TV series, with miniseries and TV movie also possibilities.
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Viceland is bolstering its programming slate with Payday, which recently premiered on the network, and two others to follow in December: Big Night Out and Bong Appetit. In addition, Viceland is returning two of its most popular shows – Kings of the Road and Weediquette  for new seasons. “I am just tickled pink to announce Viceland’s new series and also very happy with how our distributors across the board like DirecTV are embracing Viceland not only on traditional platforms but OTT as well,” said Vice Media founder/CEO Shane Smith. “DirecTV recently broadened distribution by launching Viceland on Select, Entertainment and Choice packages via their satellite platform and will launch Viceland on their entry level package on DirecTV Now when the OTT service launches later this year. Viceland continues to grow in audience and reach with our core cohorts being millennials. We are having a lot of fun with Viceland and see this as only the beginning of our evolution as a brand. Vive la difference!”
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Payday, which airs Fridays at 9p, follows four 20-somethings over the course of a single pay-period to see how they live, spend, struggle, and thrive. Bong Appetit, debuting December 15 at 11:30p, explores the making and consumption of high-end cannabis-infused foods with different chefs and party guests each episode.
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E! kicks off 2017 with a vengeance when the net premieres Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian on Thursday, January 12th at 8p. In each of the eight, one-hour episodes, participants will get the opportunity to reinvent themselves from the inside out with the help of Khloe and top fitness and nutrition experts. A 30-minute preview special will air Wednesday, November 23 at 9p.
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FX has set Tuesday, January 10 at 10p as the premiere date for its new drama series Taboo, starring Tom Hardy and created by Steven Knight with Hardy and his father Chips Hardy. Set in 1814, Taboo follows a man who has been to the ends of the earth and comes back irrevocably changed. Believed to be long dead, he returns home to London from Africa to inherit what is left of his father’s shipping empire and rebuild a life for himself.
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Sci-fi drama Colony will return for its second season on Thursday, January 12 at 10p on USA Network. Season 2 picks up with alien intelligence still in control of a near-future LA.
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USA released a trailer for season 2 of its sci-fi drama Humans and set the premiere for February. The series – which also airs on Channel 4 in the UK – is set in a parallel present and focuses on what happens when the lines between humans and machines are blurred.
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History will mark the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor with a weekend of programming commemorating the infamous day, December 7, 1941, that propelled the US to declare war on Japan and launched the country into WWII.  Among original specials airing over the weekend of December 3-4 is documentary Pearl Harbor: The Truth, which premieres Sunday, December 4 at 10p, and Pearl Harbor: 75 Years Later, premiering Saturday, December 3 at 9p. History will also air a new original short form series, Pearl Harbor: The Last Word, in primetime throughout the weekend.
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Songstress Chaka Khan will perform at VH1 Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night, airing Monday, December 5 after a five-year hiatus. She joins the previously announced Mariah Carey, Patti LaBelle and Teyana Taylor.
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CBS will air Religion, Art & Cultural Heritage on Sunday, December 4 (check local listings). The interfaith special looks at the importance of art and cultural in understanding faith, identity and history.
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Nominations were announced yesterday for the People’s Choice Awards 2017, set to air on Wednesday, January 18 at 9p on CBS. Nominees include Ellen DeGeneres and Kevin Hart. Mark Burnett returns as executive producer.
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TV veteran Jon Kelley will host Funny You Should Ask, the new syndicated game show from Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios. The show is slated to launch this fall and will feature a panel of professional stand-up comics who interact with contestants for cash and prizes.
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AMC and BBC Worldwide are casting up their co-production series McMafia. James Norton (Happy Valley, War & Peace) stars as lead character, Alex Godman, an English-raised son of Russian exiles with mafia history. Additionally, David Strathairn (The Bourne Ultimatum, Good Night, and Good Luck), Juliet Rylance (The Knick, American Gothic), Aleksey Serebryakov (The Method, Leviathan), Maria Shukshina and Faye Marsay (Game of Thrones) round out the cast.
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Felicia “Snoop” Pearson (The Wire) has joined the cast of VH1 reality series Love & Hip Hop New York, whose seventh season begins November 21 at 8p. An avid member of the LGBT community, Pearson will balance moving back to NY, the actor grind, a sex-toy line and an extremely jealous girlfriend.
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Saturday Night Live‘s November 12 edition scored season highs in both A18-49 and Total viewers and the show’s highest A18-49 rating since 2013, with host Jimmy Fallon and musical guest Justin Timberlake, according to Live + Same Day ratings from Nielsen. This weekend’s show featured host Dave Chappelle and musical guest A Tribe Called Quest, and averaged a 3.15/15 share in A18-49 and 8.691 Total viewers.
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And in syndication, Extra, seeing a 77 percent surge from the prior week with its Donald Trump exclusive, scored its highest rating in eight months and beat Access Hollywood for first time since November 2014. Judge Judy topped court shows for a milestone 1,050th straight week or 20-plus years, and Hot Bench for the first time became the third-highest rated daytime strip and hit new season best ratings after Judge Judy and husband Judge Jerry Sheindlin dropped in.
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Hallmark Channel’s stalwart “Countdown to Christmas” campaign continues to score impressive ratings with its most recent original holiday movie premieres, Every Christmas Has a Story (Saturday, November 12) and Christmas Cookies (Sunday, November 13) catapulting the network to No. 1 this past weekend in Total Day among Household and W25-54 ratings for the second consecutive weekend. During the 16 days since the launch of “Countdown to Christmas,” Hallmark Channel is the most-watched cable network among W25-54.
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Hallmark Movies & Mysteries’ annual holiday programming event the “Most Wonderful Movies of Christmas” also rang in ratings success with the new, original movie premiere Finding Father Christmas (Sunday, November 13) becoming the most-watched and highest-rated telecast in network history among Households, W18-49, W25-54, A18-49, A25-54 and Total Viewers.
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Food Network ranked sixth among cable Sunday night, up 19 percent year-over-year. Holiday Baking Championship led the way at 9p, posting a .9 rating among A25-54 (780K IMP) and ranking seventh in the timeslot, up 33 percent vs. last week and up 13 percent over last year. The series premiere of Clash of the Grandmas at 10p delivered a solid .6 rating among A25-54 and ranked eighth in the timeslot, up 8 percent year-over-year.
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Based on National Live + Same Day program ratings, during the week of November 7, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live shot up over the prior week by double digits in Total Viewers (12 percent) and A18-49 (15 percent) to score season highs. ABC’s Kimmel topped CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert among A18-49 for the third week in a row.
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Carly Steel, who has worked as a special correspondent on Entertainment Tonight since joining in 2013, has been named a correspondent for the syndicated series. Steel previously served as a special correspondent for ET’s sister show, The Insider, and was a correspondent for TV Guide Network’s newsmagazine Hollywood 411.
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CELEBRITY NEWS: NOVEMBER 15, 2016
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Shailene Woodley (“The Descendants) – 25 years old
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. (aka B.O.B) (Rapper) – 28 years old
Lily Aldridge (Model) – 31 years old
Yaya DaCosta Alafia (Lee Daniels’ “The Butler”) – 34 years old
Ace Young (American Idol, 5^th Season contestant) – 36 years old
Chad Kroeger (Nickelback) – 42 years old
Sydney Tamiia Poitier (Private Practice) – 43 years old
Johnny Lee Miller (Elementary) – 44 years old
Jay Harrington (Hot In Cleveland) – 45 years old
E-40 (Rapper) – 48 years old
Rachel True (Half & Half) – 50 years old
Kevin Eubanks (The Tonight Show Bandleader) – 59 years old
Beverly D’Angelo (“Vacation” movies) – 65 years old
Sam Waterston (Law & Order) – 76 years old
Petula Clark (Pop Singer) – 84 years old
Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show) – 87 years old

FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 11/15/16)
ABC: David Blaine: Beyond Magic (Premiere) at 10pm
DIRECT TV: Religion of Sports (Premiere) at 8pm
DISCOVERY: Moonshiners (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY: Homicide Hunters: The Kenda Files (Premiere) at 10pm
ESQUIRE: Wrench Against The Machine (Premiere) at 9pm
ESQUIRE: Joyride (Premiere) at 10pm
GSN: Window Warriors (Premiere) at 9pm
HISTORY: The Curse of Oak Island: Drilling Down (Premiere) at 8pm
HISTORY: The Curse of Oak Island (Premiere) at 9pm
HISTORY: Hunting Hitler (Premiere) at 10pm
LIFETIME: 30 Something Grandma (Premiere) at 10pm
MTV: Teen Wolf (Premiere) at 9pm
MTV: Sweet/Vicious (Premiere) at 10pm
MYX TV: The Doll Life (Premiere) at 8pm
NAT. GEO.: Continent 7: Antartica (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: Black America Since MLK: And Sill I Rise (Premiere) at 8pm
SCIENCE: What On Earth? (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: Outdaughtered (Premiere) at 9pm
TNT: Good Behavior (Premiere) at 9pm
TRU TV: Billy On The Street (Premiere) at 10:30pm
TV ONE: Ricky Smiley For Real (Premiere) at 8pm
USA: Shooter (Premiere) at 10pm
SYFY: Channel Zero: Candle Cove (Finale) at 9pm
TLC: Counting On (Finale) at 8pm

Veteran Washington journalist Gwen Ifill died November 14 of cancer. She was 61. Ifill, who moderated vice presidential debates in 2004 and 2008, as well as a Democratic debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders this year, was moderator and managing editor of PBS’s Washington Week and longtime host of  PBS NewsHour. Paula Kerger, president and CEO of PBS, credited Ifill with being “a fundamental reason public media is considered a trusted window on the world.” Among the tweets that poured forth yesterday was this from NBC’s Chuck Todd: “I’m sorry I can’t thank Gwen one more time for always being there for advice and encouragement. She was one of a kind.”
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CBS added six episodes to comedies The Great Indoors and Man With a Plan, which join Bull, Kevin Can Wait and MacGyver as the net’s freshman with full season orders. CBS also added 3 episodes to its order for sophomore medical drama Code Black. Indoors is averaging 8.67 million viewers and 1.9/7 among A18-49, while Plan is grabbing 6.96 million viewers and 1.5/5 in the demo.
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HBO renewed Sunday series Westworld, Divorce and Insecure for 10-episode second seasons. Westworld is averaging a gross audience of 11.7 million viewers, Divorce is attracting 4.4 million and Insecure 3.2 million.
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NBC, for one, is being proactive on the live sports front. The network enlisted actors in shows like Superstore, The Blacklist and Law & Order: SVU, among others, to appear in promos for its Thursday Night Football, which kicks off this week. NBC Sports CMO Jenny Storms told Variety driving viewership is “a huge company priority.”
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HBO nabbed the most nominations for the 22nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards with 22, followed by ABC and Netflix with 14 and FX with 12. The most nominated series was FX’s The People v. O.J. Simpson with 6, followed by HBO’s Game of Thrones, AMC’s The Night Manager and Netflix’s The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt with 5 each. Awards show will be broadcast live on A&E on Sunday, December 11 at 8p. For details, go here.
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On Sunday, Fox’s The Simpsons addressed the fact that back in 2000, an episode predicted that Donald Trump would be president. In this week’s show opener Bart was seen writing on a blackboard, “Being right sucks.”
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Hallmark Channel and Six Flags Entertainment are partnering over the holiday season to promote Hallmark’s “Countdown to Christmas” event throughout Six Flags theme parks and online channels, with original promotional content, signage and video. Six Flags’ annual “Holiday in the Park” will be promoted by Hallmark, including a segment on lifestyle show Home & Family. The companies also teamed up for a new VR roller coaster, “Santa’s Wild Sleigh Ride,” with riders using Samsung Gear VR powered by Oculus to transform the traditional coaster experience into an immersive sleigh ride.
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History gave the green light to Frontiersmen, from Appian Way Productions and Stephen David Entertainment, spanning the years from the post-Revolutionary War colonies through the California Gold Rush. Appian’s Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson will exec produce with Stephen David.
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Two new divisions are being launched at A. Smith & Co. Productions: documentary and factual arm A. Smith & Co. Dox, the result of the merger between A. Smith & Co. and sister company BASE Productions, and A. Smith & Co. Entertainment. Toby Gorman joins from FremantleMedia North America to lead Entertainment as president, while Frank Sinton will head Dox. Arthur Smith continues as CEO of both divisions.
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AT&T Audience Network ordered Fear(less) with Tim Ferris. Exec produced by Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Productions and slated to premiere in 2017, the show will feature conversations with the self-help guru.
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NBC game show The Wall launches Tuesday, January 3 at 8p. Produced by NBA star LeBron James, the show has host and exec producer Chris Hardwick overseeing teammates playing for millions. NBC is setting the new entry up for success: previews air Monday, December 19 after the America’s Got Talent: Holiday Spectacular, and Monday, January 2 following the launch of The New Celebrity Apprentice.
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A new season of documentary showcase Independent Lens premieres Monday, December 26 with real-life cross-cultural romantic comedy Meet the Patels, at 10p on PBS (check local listings). Among other films coming up are Newton, focused on the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary; TOWER, about the 1966 mass shooting at the University of Texas, and Accidental Courtesy, profiling an African American who fights racism by befriending members of the KKK.
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Schitt’s Creek is back for season 3 on Pop Wednesday, January 11 at 8p. Creator and star Eugene Levy calls the season “our strongest yet – our funniest and most emotionally satisfying 13 shows to date.”
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Period drama Frontier will premiere on Netflix Friday, January 20. The series set in the 1700s fur trade in Canada launched November 6 on Discovery Canada, after already winning a season 2 order.
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Discovery’s “Mega Week” runs Sunday, December 4-Saturday, December 10, kicking off with a special 2-hour episode of Alaska: The Last Frontier, with singer-songwriter Jewel. A 2-hour episode of Street Outlaws airs the next day, “Motor Monday.”
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ABC will air Taking the Stage, a two-hour program of music, dance and the spoken word celebrating the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History, on Thursday, January 12 at 9p. Among the many celebrities on hand for the event, filmed in September, were Dave Chappelle, Quincy Jones, Tom Hanks, Mary J. Blige and Stevie Wonder.
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Reelz is partnering with Time Inc. for three celeb-focuses specials. Alan Thicke-hosted Entertainment Weekly Presents: ‘80s Stars – Where Are They Now? premieres Wednesday, November 30 at 9p; TIME Presents: Milestones 2016 – A Tribute to the Stars We’ve Lost debuts Wednesday, December 21 at 9p, and TIME Presents: Celebrities on Trial arrives Monday, February 6 at 9p.
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Nickelodeon’s first-ever original animated holiday movie, Albert, about a tiny Douglas fir tree who learns the true meaning of Christmas, premieres Friday, December 9 at 7p. Voice cast includes Bobby Moynihan, Sasheer Zamata, Judah Friedlander and Rob Riggle.
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Bounce TV is airing Roots, the 1977 miniseries chronicling the story of an African slave, across five nights, November 16-November 20 starting at 9p. The eight-part series will also air Friday, November 25 starting at 11a. History’s 2016 retelling of the story aired earlier this year.
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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s holiday special, Rock the Troops, premieres Tuesday, December 13 at 9p on Spike. The tribute to the armed forces, taped at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii, features Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Nick Jonas and Tenacious D, among others.
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The first part of the season finale of another Dwayne Johnson show, Clash of the Corps, will stream on his Facebook page Tuesday, November 15 at 8p. The full episode airs on Fuse the next night at 11p. The series also premiered on Johnson’s Facebook page, reaching over 7 million people.
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Broadway shows that will be featured on the 90th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade include “Cats,” “Holiday Inn,” “The New Irving Berlin Musical,” “Paramour” and “Waitress.” NBC viewers will also get a sneak preview of Hairspray Live!, premiering on the network Wednesday, December 7 at 8p.
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Viewers who recognize the names Ben Flajnik, Byron Velvick and Clare Crawley might want to tune into Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’s “Bachelor Fan Favorites Week” starting Monday, November 28. One of the game show’s most popular theme weeks reunites The Bachelor host Chris Harrison with memorable contestants from the dating reality show.
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Chris Meloni (Underground) will star in Syfy pilot Happy!, based on the graphic novel. Meloni will play a detective-turned-hired killer.
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Fox posted a 15 percent jump in Live+35 Day multi-platform data for the month of September versus last year, and streaming of the network’s current season entertainment programs on Hulu rose 38 percent compared to September 2015. New drama Lethal Weapon ranks as the net’s biggest new Fall premiere in two years, delivering 13.7 million viewers.
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On Univision, Friday’s match generated the best rating for a World Cup qualifier in over 3 ½ years, averaging 4.6 million P2+ and 2.5 million among A18-49 during the match window.
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