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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 1/20/17)
HBO: Real Time With Bill Maher (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: Wives with Knives (Finale) at 10pm
(SATURDAY 1/21/17)
LIFETIME: Beaches (Premiere) at 8pm
LIFETIME: Beaches: The After Party (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Aziz Ansari, Musical Guest: Big Sean at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 1/22/17)
CBS: Hunted (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: Mercy Street (Premiere) at 8pm
PBS: Secrets of the Six Wives (Premiere) at 10pm
RFD-TV: Cooking Outdoors with Johnny Nix (Premiere) at 4pm
ID: On The Case with Paul Zahn (Finale) at 9pm
WEATHER: That’s Amazing (Premiere) at 9pm
Veteran actor Miguel Ferrer, who worked on NCIS: Los Angeles until his death, passed away yesterday of cancer. He was 61. Ferrer was a series regular on the CBS drama, playing NCIS Assistant Director Owen Granger. Ferrer also will be seen in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks revival on Showtime, which is set to premiere May 21, reprising his role as FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield.
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Broadcast TV is making its Sundance premiere this year with ABC’s decision to premiere web series turned network comedy Downward Dog at the Robert Redford-founded fest on Saturday, January 22. It’s the first network comedy to screen at Sundance.
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Susannah Grant will receive the WGA West’s 2017 Paul Selvin Award for her Emmy-nominated Confirmation script. The award, named for the guild’s late general counsel, recognizes a work that “best embodies the spirit of constitutional rights and civil liberties that are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere,” according to the Guild.
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Casey Affleck, Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Lucas Hedges, Taraji P. Henson, Brie Larson, Janelle Monae, Viggo Mortensen and Octavia Spencer joined the presenters circle for the 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, slated to air live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, January 29 at 8p.
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Several new updates to the Trumpet Awards, airing on Bounce on Sunday, January 29 at 9p, were announced. They include Martin Luther King III being presented with the Impact Trumpet Award and a gospel tribute featuring Shirley Caesar, Erica Campbell, Jekalyn Carr, Le’Andria Johnson, Travis Greene and Derek Minor.
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Endemol Shine North America signed a development deal with multimedia personality and author Angie Martinez. As part of the agreement, Endemol Shine North America will develop unscripted and scripted content with Martinez for both traditional and digital platforms. Martinez is a prolific voice in media with more than 20 years of on-air hosting experience across a variety of platforms.
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ABC drama pilot aficionado Michael Offer will helm yet another high-profile pilot for the network and ABC Studios – the untitled crime drama from Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry that stars Reba McEntire. The first ABC drama pilot ordered by ABC this season centers on Ruby Adair (McEntire), the sheriff of colorful small town Oxblood, KY, who finds her red state outlook challenged when a young FBI agent of Middle Eastern descent is sent to help her solve a horrific crime. Offer recently directed two Shondaland/ABC drama pilots that went to series: How To Get Away With Murder, and upcoming tentatively titled Still Star-Crossed.
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MTV is going for ridiculous again, beginning Friday, January 20 at 8p when it brings back Ridiculousness for a ninth season. New season will feature two-hour taking “Ridiculousness Fridays” blocks every week with back-to-back episodes.
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A&E Network is reopening Emmy-nominated true crime series Cold Case Files, beginning Monday, February 27 at 9p. The genre-defining series originally premiered on A&E in 1998 and ran for nearly 10 years spanning 125 episodes. The reboot will explore new cases that have gone cold for years and chronicle the journeys of the detectives who reopened them. It’s helmed by Emmy- and Peabody-winning studio Blumhouse Television (The Jinx) and indie production studio, Ample.
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John Legend will make a special appearance during The NHL100 Gala, hosted by Jon Hamm, on January 27 at Microsoft Theatre. Additionally, in a gesture honoring his late father Alan Thicke, musician Robin Thicke will give remarks and introduce John Ondrasik (Five for Fighting), who will perform and pay tribute to the late members of the 100 greatest players. The event will be broadcast live at 6:30p PT on NBCSN, Sportsnet and TVAS.
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CBS is brightening its Grammy spotlight. The net will air the half-hour Grammy Red Carpet Live, hosted by Nancy O’Dell and Kevin Frazier (Entertainment Tonight), prior to its Grammy Awards broadcast, Sunday, February 12 at 7:30.
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TNT will debut Players Only, a new NBA Monday night franchise featuring five consecutive weeks of doubleheader action through the unique lens of the professional basketball player, beginning Monday, February 27 at 7p. All commentators – including Derek Fisher, Grant Hill and Chris Webber – will be former professional basketball players, including those in more traditional play-by-play, studio host and reporter positions.
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“We Stand with Women,” a day of programming, airs on Fuse Saturday, January 21 from 10a-9:30p. Included are episodes of Moesha (Brandy), Sister Sister (Tia and Tamara Mowry), Catwoman (Halle Berry) and Machete (Michelle Rodriguez) as well as pop up facts about women’s issues, great moments inwomen’s history, and fun facts about some of Fuse’s favorite women in the stunt.
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Discovery Channel cast Golden Globe and two-time Emmy winner Jane Lynch (Glee, Hollywood Game Night) as former US Attorney General Janet Reno in its upcoming scripted series Manifesto, set to air this year. Production on the series begins in Atlanta on January 30.
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Dean Norris (Breaking Bad) has been cast as a regular on Claws, TNT’s dark- comedy drama starring Niecy Nash that recently got a series pickup with a 10-episode order. Norris will play a Dixie Mafia crime boss who is deeply Catholic and actively bisexual.
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Stephen Rea (The Honourable Woman, V for Vendetta, The Crying Game), Richard Schiff (The Affair, Ballers, The West Wing) and Sarah Bolger (Agent Carter, Into the Badlands) have joined the Starz original series Counterpart as recurring guest stars.
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Barry Watson (Samantha Who?, 7th Heaven) will star and Raquel Welch will have a recurring role in comedy Date My Dad, set to premiere in June on UP. Also cast in the 10-ep series are Zenia Marie Marshall (Summer of Dreams), Lilah Fitzgerald (Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce) and Audrey Smallman (Family for Christmas). Watson stars as Ricky Cooper, a single dad raising three daughters.
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In anticipation of the upcoming season premiere of Scandal, ABC is launching six-part digital series Scandal: Gladiator Wanted. Produced by Shondaland and ABC Studios, the series features Huck (Guillermo Diaz), Quinn (Katie Lowes) and Marcus (Cornelius Smith Jr.) on a tangled quest to find an intern for Olivia Pope & Associates. Series regular Darby Stanchfield makes her directorial debut with the series, which is written by Juan Carlos Fernandez and also stars George Newbern. The season premiere of Scandal is Thursday, January 26 at 9p.
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Discovery’s new survival series The Wheel scored a 1.13 A25-54 rating and averaged 2.01 million Total Viewers P2+ on Friday, January 13 in Live +3. It ranked No. 1 in its cable time period among A25-54 and M25-54. Among A25-54, The Wheel was the best Friday series premiere on all of cable since the premiere of Discovery’s own Treasure Quest: Snake Island in July 2015.
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Talent agent Monty Silver died yeterday of bladder cancer in East Hampton, NY. He was 83. Silver started the Monty Silver Agency in NY in the ‘50s and kept working until only a few years ago. During the 1990s, he took on partners Robbie Kass and Donna Massetti to open an LA office and launch SMS Talent. Among those Silver worked with are Jon Voight, Fyvush Finkel, Roy Scheider, Frank Langella, Peter Boyle, Louis Gossett Jr., Kelsey Grammer and Laurence Fishburne.
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MOVIES
The Founder – Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Lynch, Laura Dern, Linda Cardellini, B.J. Novak, Patrick Wilson, Justin Brooke
Split – James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Betty Buckley, Haley Lu Richardson, Jessica Sula, Izzie Coffey, Brad Henke, Sebastian Arcelus
xXx: The Return of Xander Cage – Vin Diesel, Donnie Yen Ji-Dan, Deepika Padukone, Toni Collette, Ruby Rose, Nina Dobrev, Tony Jaa, Kris Wu
The Resurrection of Gavin Stone – Brett Dalton, Anjelah Johnson- Reyes, Neil Flynn, Shawn Michaels, D.B. Sweeney
Trespass Against Us (Limited Release) – Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Rory Kinnear, Sean Harris, Lyndsey Marshal, Barry Keoghan, Killian Scott, Gerard Kearns
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