FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 1/5/17)
ABC: Truth And Lies: The Menendez Brothers (Premiere) at 9pm
CMT: Nashville (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Ice Cold Killers (Premiere) at 9pm
IFC: Portlandia (Premiere) at 10pm
RFD-TV: Steve Lantvit Horsemanship (Premiere) at 8pm
TLC: My 600-LB Life: Supersized (Premiere) at 8pm
TRAVEL: Mysteries At The Museum (Premiere) at 9pm
UP TV: Bringing Up Bates (Premiere) at 9pm
VICELAND: That’s Delicious (Premiere) at 10pm
WE TV: L.A. Hair (Premiere) at 9pm
WE TV: Ghosts In The Hood (Premiere) at 10pm
A+E Networks is launching an agency to offer advertising partners custom solutions driven by creative and an agnostic distribution model. Lance Still will head up the new unit, called The Bridge, as managing director, in addition to her current role of SVP, branded content for A+E Networks. The new venture will use A+E Nets’ in-house resources for storytelling, analytics and distribution, and will also work through strategic partnerships with content creators such as Hearst Digital Media, Vice Media and Propagate to provide tailored campaigns. A+E has made several strategic investments to support the launch of The Bridge including their proprietary data tool, A+E Precision; and 45th and Dean, the branded content studio that launched in May.
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CNN apologized yesterday for a same-day segment on its show New Day during which a commentator called Wikileaks founder Julian Assange a “pedophile who lives in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.” The recant followed a Wikileaks tweet in which the company threatened to sue CNN for defamation over the segment.
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All is peaceful in Nashville after Connie Britton put to rest any doubt over whether she may be in for the long-term on the series now housed at CMT. During her appearance yesterday on The Ellen Show, Britton told host Ellen DeGeneres she was onboard for the fifth season, noting, “I’m in. I’m in for the duration.”
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Animated comedy series Archer will officially make its move from FX to FXX beginning with season 8 this spring. Archer, which just snagged the Emmy for outstanding animated program, has already been renewed for two additional seasons.
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon welcomes back Michelle Obama on January 11 for her final talk show appearance as sitting First Lady of the United States. The visit will mark her third appearance as a guest.
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Viceland is tossing its hat into the scripted series arena. The network has ordered six episodes of comedy What Would Diplo Do? (working title), starring, written and exec-produced by James Van Der Beek, and exec-produced by musician/DJ Diplo alongside his longtime manager Kevin Kusatsu and Brandon Dermer. Van Der Beek will also serve as showrunner and Dermer will direct the series, slated to premiere in late 2017.
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History will premiere The 44th President: In His Own Words, President Barack Obama’s first-hand account of his time in office on Sunday, January 15 at 9p. Special also includes interviews with members of President Obama’s staff, Congress and the press.
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Season 2 of Handcrafted America and the premiere season of State Plate begin airing on January 6 at 9p on INSP.
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New photographs containing revelations about a series of shortcomings that contributed to the RMS Titanic’s tragic sinking will be unveiled in new one-hour Smithsonian Channel documentary Titanic: The New Evidence, premiering Saturday, January 21 at 8p.
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Hallmark Movies & Mysteries has a pair of new movies tee’d up for the start of the year: Garage Sale Mystery: Art of Murder premieres Sunday, January 8 9p, and Framed for Murder: A Fixer Upper Mystery premieres Sunday, January 15 at 9p.
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Melissa Rauch (The Big Bang Theory) brings her comedic voice to an episode of Nickelodeon’s Blaze and the Monster Machines on Friday, January 6 at 11:30a. Rauch voices the Light Thief, a kooky kangaroo bandit who steals all the lights and leaves the entire town of Axel City in the dark.
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Disney XD is rolling out the midseason of Star Wars Rebels, which will feature a guest voice by Forest Whitaker, who stars as Rebel freedom fighter Saw Gerrera in the feature film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Whitaker provides the voice of the character as he makes his XD debut this Saturday, January 7.
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CBS-owned stations will be part of Hulu’s upcoming streaming service, Hulu announced at CES. The news means the service should have all big four broadcast nets at launch.
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Discovery Channel was cable’s top non-sports network for Men in 2016 for the second year in a row. The network owned cable’s No. 1 unscripted series across five nights of the week among M25-54 and cable’s No. 1 non-sports network in M25-54 and M18-49 on Monday, Tuesday and Friday. Additionally, freshman series Diesel Brothers and Street Outlaws: New Orleans finished 2016 as the top two new unscripted series on cable across M25-54/18-49/18-34.
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Science Channel had its highest rated year ever in 2016 during Primetime among M25-54, P18-49 and Total Viewers P2+. During Total Day, 2016 was the highest rated year among Persons, Men and Women 25-54, P18-49 and Total Viewers P2+ in L+3. What on Earth? was the net’s top series for the year, setting records as the most watched original series of all time among total viewers with an average of 744,000 viewers.
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Worst Cooks in America premiered Sunday night with a .8 rating among P25-54 and ranked #5 for the 9p timeslot, up 33 percent from previous season, with digital video seeing a nearly 90 percent increase in related video plays compared to last year’s debut. For the night, Food posted a .7 among P25-54 and ranked #7 across all ad-supported cable, up 3 percent versus year-ago.
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The Weather Channel was among the top seven cable networks that showed year-over-year growth during Q4 of 2016. Due in part to 21 percent year-over-year growth of signature morning show AMHQ and the steady growth in live programming, momentum continued in December as The Weather Channel gained 17 percent growth of audience engagement.
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Univision’s UniMas ranked as the No. 2 Spanish-language network among Total Viewers 2+ on Sunday. For all of last week, UniMas posted week-to-week audience gains among Total Viewers 2+ (up 8 percent to 621,000), A18-49 (up 3 percent to 299,000) and A18-34 (up 3 percent to 119,000) during broadcast prime.
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BROADWAY
The Present with Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh is opening on Sunday January 8, 2017.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/present/
The Color Purple is closing on Sunday January 8, 2017.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/the-color-purple-broadway/
Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Janet McTeer and Liev Schreiber is closing on Sunday January 8, 2017.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/les-liaisons-dangereuses/
The Encounter is closing on Sunday January 8, 2017.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/encounter/
Falsettos with Christian Borle and Andrew Rannells is closing on Sunday January 8, 2017.
http://ppc.broadway.com/shows/falsettos/
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