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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 1/9/17)
E!: Fashion Police: 2017 Golden Globe Awards (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: Big Fan (Premiere) at 10pm
DIY: Maine Cabin Masters (Premiere) at 10pm
FOOD: Texas Cake House (Premiere) at 9pm
JUSTICE NETWORK: The Prosecutors (Premiere) at 2pm
JUSTICE NETWORK: LA Detective (Premiere) at 5pm
OVATION: The Artful Detective (Premiere) at 7pm
VICELAND: Hate Thy Neighbor (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: People Magazine Investigates (Finale) at 10pm
Among the highlights of the 74th Golden Globes Awards ceremony on NBC last night were a cold-open with host Jimmy Fallon in an A-list, dancing-on-cars-while-waiting-to-hit-the-red-carpet bit (thanks, La La Land), that included Fallon twirling with Justin Timberlake. Fallon found himself winging it in the first few live seconds, Teleprompter-less. “This is a great way to start the show,” said Fallon. “Already you have our Golden Globes moment!” Donald Trump jokes and a musical tribute to Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds followed, but the highlight of the evening was a powerful, poignant tribute to Meryl Streep from Viola Davis, who’d picked up a Best Supporting Actress award for Fences, and Streep’s acceptance of the Cecil B. DeMille Award with Trump call out, saying, “Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence invites violence,” advising, “As the departed Princes Leia once said, ‘Take your broken heart and turn it into art.’”
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The CW announced at TCA early renewals for Arrow (season 6), fourth seasons for The Flash and Jane the Virgin, and third seasons of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Supergirl. Freshmen No Tomorrow and Frequency didn’t make the cut, though final decisions on their fates have yet to be made. The Vampire Diaries, ending its run with season 8, will have “a fantastic series finale,” promised net president Mark Pedowitz.
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CBS upped its orders for three freshman comedies. The net tacked on two more installments to Kevin Can Wait, for a total of 24, and three each for Man With a Plan and The Great Indoors, for totals of 22 apiece. Kevin is averaging 10.16 million viewers and an A18-49 rating of 2.5, Indoors is logging 8.76 million viewers and 1.9 among A18-49, and Man is grabbing 7.35 million viewers and 1.6 in the demo.
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Fox is giving new comedy The Mick another prime slot. After premiering post-NFL with a 2.8 rating among A18-49, tying NBC’s This Is Us as the highest-rated new series premiere for the season in Live+SD Nielsens, The Mick will air on Sunday, January 15 at 9p, following The Simpsons’ first hour-long episode. Taraji P. Henson (Empire), Snoop Dogg, Common and RZA will guest voice in the Simpsons special ep.
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While it’s possible TBS late-nighter Conan could at some point go from airing weeknights to once a week, with episodes airing on digital platforms the rest of the week, said Turner president David Levy at CES, Conan O’Brien isn’t going anywhere. “Conan has a longstanding relationship with Turner Broadcasting,” noted Levy. “He’s a crucial part of what we do at TBS.” Last week, reports surfaced that Turner is considering a change in formant for Conan, but Levy said no decision has been made.
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Hearst is acquiring a majority interest in Litton Entertainment, producer of educational-and-informational and family entertainment shows. The transaction is expected to close by February 1. “Providing quality, family-friendly programming to viewers is an important tenet of Hearst Television and adding Litton’s assets and expertise to our company through this partnership will be a terrific complement to our business,” said Hearst Television president Jordan Wertlieb.
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Cher will star in and exec produce Lifetime original movie Flint, about the water contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan. Craig Zadan, Neil Meron and Katie Couric will also EP the project, awaiting a formal go-ahead but expected to begin production in the spring. Studio is Sony Television. Deadline was first to report the news.
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Director Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) and Complex Networks’ Rated Red are teaming for QB1: Beyond the Lights, a 10-part docu-series that follows three of the nation’s top high school quarterbacks throughout their senior year seasons. The series is available through Complex Networks’ Rated Red on go90 beginning February 15.
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Ricky Schroder (My Fighting Season) talked up his next documentary, an untitled series about the crisis in Syria, at TCA. “I find it rewarding to tell soldier and heroic stories,” said the former NYPD Blue star, adding that he tried to enlist in the army but failed the physical. Schroder’s Syria series will launch on Audience Network in May.
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Animals that survive freezing temperatures (yes, reindeer noses really do glow red) are the focus of NATURE’s Snowbound: Animals of Winter, airing Wednesday, January 11 at 8p on PBS.
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Happy 5th anniversary to CBS This Morning! The show launched January 9, 2012, becoming CBS’s most successful morning program in nearly 30 years, and plans to mark the occasion today.
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Special Puppy Bowl: Where Are They Now? tracks down past canine contenders in the Animal Planet competition, and shows highlights from the past, on Friday, January 20 at 9p. This year’s Puppy Bowl airs Sunday, February 5 at 3p.
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Estrella TV is launching its first morning newscast, Primera Edicion, starting today at 7:30a, followed by one-hour entertainment morning show Buenos Dias Familia at 8a. Both shows will air Monday-Friday. “There is a need in the community for news and information given the dynamic pace of political and social events,” said Lenard Liberman, CEO of Estrella parent LBI Media.
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Outdoor Channel and Sportsman Channel announced the finalists for the 17th Annual Outdoor Sportsman Awards Powered by RAM. Categories include Best Deer Hunting, Best Turkey, Best New Series, and more; ceremony takes place January 19 at the Venetian Theatre in Las Vegas.
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NBC’s decision to air President Obama’s farewell speech live tomorrow, January 10 at 9p prompted the net to push back freshman hit This Is Us to 10p and 9p in the Eastern and Central time zones, respectively, while airing it twice in the Pacific time zone. CBS will air a rerun of The Big Bang Theory in place of Bull, following the speech.
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CNN’s The End: Inside the Last Days of the Obama White House offers exclusive access to key White House figures after the 2016 election, promising “an extraordinarily candid and intimate portrayal” of the surely shell-shocked people working closest to the Obamas. Film premieres Wednesday, January 18 at 9p.
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Decades Network will look back at every presidential inauguration speech from 1961 to 2013 beginning Thursday, January 19 at 7a and continuing with rebroadcasts through Saturday at 10a. Inauguration Through the Decades will be hosted by Bill Kurtis, leading off with a half-hour Through the Decades special.
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The New Celebrity Apprentice host Arnold Schwarzenegger responded to the president-elect’s tweet about the NBC’s reality show’s soft premiere. “Wow the ratings are in and Arnold Schwarzenegger got ‘swamped’ (or destroyed) by comparison to the ratings machine, DJT,” tweeted Trump. Responded the Terminator, “I wish you the best of luck and I hope you’ll work for ALL of the American people as aggressively as you worked for your ratings.”
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Participants get in shape with the help of trainers, stylists and glam squads in E! 8-parter Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian. Transformations start Thursday, January 12 at 8p.
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Season 3 of AT&T Audience’s Kingdom premieres Wednesday, May 31 at 8p. Viewers will be able to watch the drama, focused on a Mixed Martial Arts legend played by Frank Grillo, on DirecTV, AT&T U-verse and new streaming service DirecTV Now. Talking at TCA about the corporate-ization of MMA since the show’s launch, creator/showrunner Byron Balasca noted the business might change, but the players don’t. “You’re never going to change the fact that fighters are fighters,” said Balasca. “It’s an extreme way to live and a difficult, violent world.”
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AT&T Audience also announced Undeniable Joe Buck will be back for season 3 on Wednesday, February 15 at 8p, with an episode featuring disgraced MLB superstar Pete Rose.
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Season 4 of Esquire’s Friday Night Tykes launches Tuesday, January 17 at 9p, followed on January 31 by the debut of season 2 of spin-off Friday Night Tykes: Steel Country at 10p.
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Sosie (son of Kevin) Bacon (Scream), Daniel Zovatto (Fear the Walking Dead), Grey’s Anatomy’s Jerrika Hinton and Raymond Lee (Mozart in the Jungle) landed roles in HBO’s untitled series centered on a multiracial family, starring Holly Hunter.
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Angel Bonnani (Shots Fired), Neil Jackson (Sleepy Hollow), Cara Theobold (Downton Abbey), Bruno Bechir (Narcos) and Ralph Ineson (The Witch) have joined the cast of AXN’s Absentia, starring Stana Katic (Castle) and Patrick Heusinger (Jack Reacher 2).
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Starting February 13: all 180 episodes of The Golden Girls, are headed to Hulu, it was announced at TCA on Saturday. It’s the first time the 1985-1992 comedy will be available to stream “all at once in one place,” said Hulu head of content Craig Erwich.
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Hulu grabbed Hard Sun, starring Jim Sturgess (Cloud Atlas) and Agyness Deyn (Sunset Song). Originally commissioned by BBC One, the crime drama will be a Hulu original in association with the BBC.
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Constantine, canceled after one season on NBC, will spring to life again on CW Seed as an animated show. Series star Matt Ryan, who guested as Constantine on CW’s Arrow, will voice the title character. Greg Berlanti will produce, with David S. Goyer, co-creator of the NBC incarnation.
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The season premiere of OWN’s The Haves and the Have Nots delivered 3 million total viewers and a 2.52 W25-54 rating.The episode was Tuesday night’s #1 cable telecast for women and the #1 show on all television for African-American viewers.
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The CMT premiere of country music drama Nashville, relocated from ABC, brought the net 1.2 million viewers on Thursday, its most-watched original launch since 2012. In the A18-49 demo the show hit .45, nearly three times CMT’s primetime average and averaged nearly two million viewers and a .77 among A18-49 across three airings, two on CMT and one on Viacom sib nick@nite.
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The debut of NBC’s Emerald City on Friday delivered 1.1/4 among A18-49 at 9p and 1.0/3 at 10p, up 22 percent from lead-in Grimm. ABC’s Last Man Standing jumped 25 percent from its last original, to 1.5/5.
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LMN’s “Deadly Resolutions Week” (12/25/16-1/1/17) earned the net its best weekly prime average in three years with A25-54 and W25-54, according to Nielsen. Compared to last year’s event, LMN saw increases in all key demos, including A 18-49 (up 11 percent), A25-54 (up 10 percent), W18-49 (up 9 percent) and W25-54 (8 percent).
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Outdoor Sportsman Group reports Outdoor Channel and Sportsman Channel rank among the top 3 networks in cable for ad attention and receptivity.
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ABC special Truth and Lies: The Menendez Brothers delivered a strong 1.6/6 rating among A18-49 on Thursday, the net’s best numbers in the time slot since last February. Great American Baking Show at 8p was up 11 percent from its last original on December 22, to 1.0/4 in the demo.
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Also going strong were CBS’s The Big Bang Theory (3.6/13, up 6 percent versus its last original), The Great Outdoors (1.9/7, up 19 percent), Mom (1.7/9, up 13 percent) and Life in Pieces (1.4/5, up 8 percent).
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Actress Francine York died January 6 after battling cancer. She was 80. In addition to film roles, York guested on TV shows including Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie and My Favorite Martian, among others.
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74TH ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBES – WINNERS LIST
http://www.eonline.com/news/819614/golden-globe-awards-2017-winners-the-complete-list
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Hidden Figures – $23 million
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – $22 million
Sing – $21 million
Underworld: Blood Wars – $13.7 million
La La Land – $10.1 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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