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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 12/16/16)
PBS: Lidia Celebrates America (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: Paranormal Lockdown (Premiere) at 10pm
ANIMAL PLANET: Tanked (Finale) at 10pm
DISCOVERY: Treasure Quest: Snake Island (Finale) at 10pm
FOX: The Exorcist (Finale) at 9pm
SYFY: Z Nation (Finale) at 9pm
WE TV: Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars (Finale) at 9pm
(SATURDAY 12/17/16)
GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY: Texas Flip N Move (Premiere) at 9pm
ANIMAL PLANET: Project Grizzly (Finale) at 10pm
CNN: The Wonder List with Bill Weir (Finale)
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Casey Affleck, Musical Guest: Chance The Rapper at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 12/18/16)
A&E: Hoarders (Premiere) at 8pm
DISCOVERY FAMILY: Once Upon A Time In Sherwood (Finale) at 8:30am
FOOD NETWORK: Holiday Baking Championship (Finale) at 9pm
FOOD NETWORK: Clash of The Grandmas (Finale) at 10pm
SHOWTIME: Shameless (Finale) at 9pm
TV One announced its third annual American Black Film Festival sponsorship and screenplay competition. Created to promote the production of creative, contemporary, engaging and relatable screenplays, the 2017 TV One Screenplay Competition, which opens Friday, December 16, will highlight three new writers who will vie for a $5,000 cash prize and a chance to have their screenplay produced into an original, made-for-TV movie, which will debut in 2018 on TV One and at the 22nd American Black Film Festival.
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Viceland, the Vice Media and A+E Networks network, is rolling out three new series and its first acquired show in early 2017 and has renewed its shows Noisey and F*ck, That’s Delicious for January bows. Among the trio of new shows is Viceland’s first forays into comedy with the semi-scripted Nirvanna The Band The Show, and its first acquisition, the UK mockumentary People Just Do Nothing. Both will premiere on February 2. Its other new programs are Viceland UK docuseries Hate Thy Neighbor, which bows January 9 and focuses on the global resurgence in right-wing/alt. right/national socialist beliefs, and Rise, a documentary series on global Indigenous resistance that will premiere at Sundance and then air on Viceland starting January 27. The second seasons of musical and culinary travelogue F*ck That’s Delicious and music-focused docuseries Noisey will premiere on January 5 and January 9, respectively.
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Crisis and hostage negotiator Eric Beaumont uses his insight into human behavior to resolve difficult kidnap and ransom cases on the series premiere of CBS’ Ransom, Sunday, January 1.
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OWN will return original Tyler Perry drama series The Have and the Have Nots for a new season on Tuesday, January 3 at 9p. Additionally, the network’s daytime series Home Made Simple’s new season debuts Saturday, January 14 at 9a.
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New Smithsonian Channel four-part series The Real Mad Men of Advertising, premiering Sunday, January 8 at 9p, provides an inside look into the men and women who re-invented the advertising industry from post-WWII America through the 1980s. Driven by memorable, classic ad campaigns, many of which are in the collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the series also features clips and interviews with the creators of AMC series Mad Men.
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Investigation Discovery, in association with Objective Media Group, challenges conventional wisdom about the trial of O.J. Simpson in new six-part docuseries Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence. Narrated by Martin Sheen, and featuring exclusive new interviews with the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, the series follows investigators, exposing the facts that were overlooked by authorities in the original investigation. Series premieres over three nights beginning Sunday, January 15 with back-to-back eps starting at 9p.
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CBS announced the 18 everyday people who will go on the run as fugitives trying to evade capture in Hunted, the network’s new high-stakes competition series that premieres at a special time following the NFL’s AFC Championship game on Sunday, January 22 at 10p. The nine teams comprise people from diverse backgrounds, including a former gang member-turned criminal defense attorney and his girlfriend, a pastor’s daughter, a former Miss South Carolina USA and her real estate agent fiancee and a pair of moms.
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Superior Donuts has a premiere date on CBS. The comedy starring Judd Hirsch and Jermaine Fowler debuts with a special preview on Thursday, February 2 at 8:30p before moving to its regular Monday, 9p time period on February 6. 2 Broke Girls will shift to 9:30p, following the season finale of The Odd Couple on January 30. Superior Donuts follows the relationship between the gruff owner (Hirsch) of a small donut shop, his enterprising new young employee (Fowler) and their loyal patrons, in a quickly gentrifying Chicago neighborhood.
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The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will broadcast a series shows celebrating its best moments of 2016 beginning Monday, December 19 through Thursday, December 23 at 11:35p on CBS. Tom Hanks, Bruce Springsteen, Robert De Niro, Will Smith, Amy Schumer and Chris Pratt headline the special compilation shows, which will also highlight Colbert’s most buzzed about monologs to open each broadcast. Each night will feature new, holiday-themed introductions and sign-offs from Stephen Colbert that are unique to each show.
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Z Living is providing its health-conscious audience the gift that keeps on giving over the Christmas holiday, kicking off its second programming marathon on December 23 at noon with more than 50 hours of extended health entertainment favorites. Content includes healthy cooking and fitness series such as Flip My Food with Chef Jeff and Recipe Rehab Christmas Day.
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Jason Derulo, Panic! at the Disco and Demi Lovato are joining the chorus of performers on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2017 from the Allstate Fan Fest in New Orleans, where New Orleans locals and tourists gather annually to usher in the annual Allstate Sugar Bowl. This marks the continued expansion of the annual New Year’s Eve tradition with coverage from New Orleans. Actress Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars) will host that live celebration, and Seacrest will lead the traditional countdown to midnight live from NY. Programming airs Saturday, December 31 beginning at 8p on ABC.
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CNN Films will premiere Now More Than Ever: The History of Chicago on Sunday, January 1 at 8p on CNN. The debut presentation of the film, about the rock supergroup who will mark its 50th anniversary in 2017, will be offered with limited commercial interruption.
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Actor and comedian Anthony Anderson hosts Animal Planet’s new weekly talk show Animal Nation With Anthony Anderson, which will debut in a special preview following Puppy Bowl on Sunday, February 5 at 5p. The series premiere in its regular Friday timeslot will begin February 10 at 10p. Series features viral animal video highlights and discussions about the most buzzed about pop culture phenomena with celeb, comedians and animal experts.
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National Geographic sets out to explore this evolving concept of gender through the lens of science, society and culture in the new two-hour documentary Gender Revolution: A Journey With Katie Couric, premiering Monday, February 6, at 9p.
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Starz announced the second installment of its thriller The Missing will premiere on Sunday, February 12 at 8p. The eight-ep limited series, written by Harry and Jack Williams (Rellik, Fleabag) will introduce a new case with new characters in a new location.
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Disney Channel picked up series Bizaardvark for a second season. Show centers on the everyday lives of best friends Paige (Olivia Rodrigo) and Frankie (Madison Hu), who express their offbeat individuality through music videos on their vlog channel, Bizaardvark. New season is slated for 2017.
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Lyndsy Fonseca (Nikita) and Elizabeth Cappuccino (Jessica Jones) have been cast in leading roles in Syfy horror drama pilot The Haunted. They will play two of the four siblings who reunite following their parents’ deaths and discover they must face the literal ghosts from their past in order to survive.
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USA Network is on track to end 2016 as the most watched ad-supported cable entertainment network for an 11th consecutive year – the longest streak at No. 1 for a cable or broadcast network in the history of Nielsen metered measurement. Driven by new and returning series including Colony, Queen of the South, Shooter, Mr. Robot, Suits and Chrisley Knows Best, plus WWE Monday Night Raw and WWE Smackdown Live, USA delivered an average of 1.68 million total viewers P2+ for the year.
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MOVIES
Collateral Beauty – Will Smith, Ed Norton, Kate Winslet, Michael Pena, Dame Helen Mirren, Naomie Harris, Keira Knightley, Jacob Latimore
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen Ji-Dan, Wen Jiang, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, Riz Ahmed
Fences (Limited Release) – Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen Henderson, Mykelti Williamson, Russel Hornsby, Jovan Adepo, Saniyya Sidney, Toussaint Abessolo
Solace (Limited Release) – Anthony Hopkins, Colin Farrell, Jeffrey dean Morgan, Abbie Cornish, Matt Gerald, Jose Pablo Castillo, Marley Shelton, Xander Berkeley
MEGA MILLIONS
Today’s Jackpot is $59 million
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POWERBALL
Saturday’s Jackpot is $119 million.
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