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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 1/4/17)
ABC: Match Game (Premiere) at 10pm
CNBC: Blue Collar Millionaires (Premiere) at 10pm
DESTINATION AMERICA: Lost UFO Files (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY: Alaskan Bush People (Premiere) at 9pm
FXX: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Premiere) at 10pm
FXX: Man Seeking Woman (Premiere) at 10:30pm
ID: I, Witness (Premiere) at 9pm
LIFETIME: Little Women: Atlanta (Premiere) at 9pm
LIFETIME: Vivica’s Black Magic (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: Nova (Premiere) at 9pm
SCIENCE: Outrageous Acts of Science (Premiere) at 9pm
SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL: Crazy Monster (Premiere) at 8pm
TLC: My 600-Lb. Life (Premiere) at 8pm
TLC: Too Close To Home (Premiere) at 10pm
TV ONE: Unsung: SWV (Premiere) at 8pm
ID: Grace secrets (Finale) at 8pm
VELOCITY: Wheeler Dealers (Finale) at 9pm
Fox News star Megyn Kelly is on the move. The Kelly File host and sometime Donald Trump target inked a multi-year deal with NBC News calling for her to develop and anchor a new daytime program, a new Sunday evening newsmagazine and contribute to breaking news coverage. Kelly has “demonstrated tremendous skill and poise, and we’re lucky to have her,” said Andrew Lack, Chairman of the NBCUniversal News Group. In her parting words, Kelly said she had been “incredibly enriched for the experiences” at Fox News. While her contract was set to expire this summer, Kelly’s last day at the net will be Friday.
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President Obama will deliver his farewell address on Tuesday, January 10 from Chicago. “I’m just beginning to write my remarks,” he told Americans on Tuesday. “But I’m thinking about them as a chance to say thank you for this amazing journey, to celebrate the ways you’ve changed this country for the better these past eight years, and to offer some thoughts on where we all go from here….I hope you’ll join me one last time. Because for me, it’s always been about you.”
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Donald Trump may be having trouble corralling A-list talent to perform for his inauguration festivities, but he’s guaranteed some heavyweight guests. CNN reports Bill and Hillary Clinton will be on hand for the January 20 inauguration, joining former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush. Until Tuesday, Jimmy Carter was the only former president who had agreed to attend.
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Despite Will & Grace alum Leslie Jordan’s assertion during a radio interview that NBC ordered 10 episodes of a revival of the 1998-2006 comedy, series star Debra Messing tweeted Monday, “Sadly Leslie was wrong. Nothing beyond talks.”
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Gospel singer Kim Burrell, who had been slated to sing with Pharrell Williams on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Thursday, “will not be appearing,” tweeted DeGeneres on Tuesday. The curt announcement followed the circulation online of an anti-gay sermon by Burrell.
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Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson announced on Today that she has been hired as a “marquee columnist” by Time website Motto. Carlson, whose sexual harassment lawsuit against former FNC chief Roger Ailes helped lead to his exit, will write about women’s rights issues.
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BBC America is making the earth move. The premiere of Planet Earth II, originally slated for January 28, will now air Saturday, February 18 at 9p.
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In another change of date, new episodes of Drink Champs on Revolt launch on Revolt Thursday, January 12 at 11p. The premiere, featuring A Tribe Called Quest, was originally slated for January 4.
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Freeform’s weekend-long “Funday” event starts Saturday, January 21 at 7a with The Smurfs, and includes Disney classics like Hercules, Pocahontas, A Bug’s Life, Frozen and more.
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iHeartRadio French romance expert Simon Marcel Badlinter is hosting a relationship-based short-form series, In Bed With Simon, on FYI. The two-minute episodes, airing Tuesdays during the 10-11p hour, are part of a partnership for cross-promotional opportunities across iHeartRadio’s streaming music and live digital radio service. “FYI and Simon are each talking to millions of people about relationship issues every day, which makes this the perfect match,” said John Sykes, president of Entertainment Enterprises for iHeartMedia. “Pairing these two allows both FYI and iHeartRadio the opportunity to expand our audience reach, while supporting each other’s programming.”
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Combate Americas today announced four Mixed Martial Arts bouts, including a bantamweight main event between rising stars Steve Swanson (14-2) and Gustavo Lopez (6-2), for the league’s debut in Mexico on Thursday, January 19, airing live on Azteca America at 10p.
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Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence premieres on ID Sunday, January 15 at 9p. The six-part docu-series narrated by Martin Sheen will roll out in more than 130 countries on Discovery networks.
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NBC pre-show Golden Globes Arrivals Special airs Sunday, January 8 at 7p, hosted by Today’s Natalie Morales and Al Roker. Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon emcees the main event at 8p.
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TV nominees for the 67th Annual ACE Eddie Awards, for outstanding editing, include two episodes of Veep, Stranger Things and Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and three of Better Call Saul, among others. Ceremony takes place January 27 at the Beverly Hilton.
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United Airlines, Time Inc.’s People and the Entertainment Industry Foundation, Champagne Taittinger, Subaru, L’Oréal Paris, FIJI Water and DOVE Chocolate are onboard as corporate partners for the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Ceremony will besimulcast live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, January 29, 8p.
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Steve O’Donnell will receive the Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence at the 2017 Writers Guild Awards on February 19. O’Donnell was head writer on Late Night from 1983-1992, and has written for The Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Seinfeld and The Simpsons, among others.
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Fox comedy The Mick, airing after Sunday’s NFL doubleheader, earned a 2.8 rating among A18-49 and 8.6 million viewers. CBS’s new Ransom followed 60 Minutes averaging 7.05 million viewers and .9 in the demo.
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CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper & Kathy Griffin averaged 3.04 million viewers, up 20 percent versus last year and the most-watched cable news show of the night.
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Monday’s Rose Bowl on ESPN delivered over 16 million viewers, up 17 percent versus last year. USC beat Penn State in the 52-49 nail-biter.
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Season 21 of ABC’s The Bachelor delivered 6.6 million viewers and 2.1/6 among A18-49 on Monday, steady in the demo versus last year (2.2/7) and up 10 percent among A18-34. Opposite the Bachelor, NBC’s new iteration of Celebrity Apprentice, with host Arnold Schwarzenegger doing the terminating instead of Donald Trump, drew a 1.3 rating among A18-49 and 4.9 million viewers, down 46 percent from its season 7 launch two years ago. (The show was blacked out on NBC affiliates owned by Hearst stations on DirecTV in a retrans agreement standoff.)
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TV director Jeffrey Hayden died December 24 after battling cancer. He was 90. Among Hayden’s numerous credits were Leave it to Beaver, Lassie, Ironside and Magnum, P.I.
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