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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 1/22/19)
A&E: Many Sides of Jane (Premiere) at 10pm
COOKING CHANNEL: Food Truck Nation (Premiere) at 9pm
TBS: Conan (Premiere) at 11pm
TELEMUNDO: Jugar Con Fuego (Premiere) at 9pm
ABC: The Conners (Finale) at 8pm
Wendy Williams is taking an extended break from her syndicated talk show. In addition to recovering from a fractured shoulder, Williams requires hospital treatment owing to complications arising from Graves’ disease. Said distributor Debmar-Mercury, “We wholeheartedly support Wendy in this decision to take the time she needs and we will welcome her back with open arms the moment she is ready.” After a week of repeats, the show will produce original episodes with a variety of hosts.
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The Television Academy is eliminating DVD screeners from 2020 nominating and voting, a step aimed at helping the environment, reducing costs and aligning with members’ TV viewing habits. “Television has an ever-expanding role as the world’s most innovative and popular entertainment medium, and this decision embraces the evolution of viewing practices and preferences of the Academy’s 25,000 members and the industry at large,” said Television Academy Chairman Frank Scherma. The plan does not affect the 2019 Emmys.
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Pantone has developed a custom color, “Team Coco Orange,” to celebrate tonight’s debut of Conan O’Brien’s new 30-minute show format on TBS. “Good-natured and expansive, friendly and gregarious, Conan’s Team Coco Orange is an energizing and fearless orange tone with a touch of tang,” said Laurie Pressman, Vice President, Pantone Color Institute. “Conan’s Team Coco Orange is instantly engaging and conveys a playful sense of fun.” TBS is “painting the town orange,” with the new hue covering over 25,000 square feet in NYC’s West Village as well as a massive billboard in downtown LA.
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Fox News apologized Monday for a graphic that briefly appeared during Fox & Friends that was a photo of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg captioned 1933-2019. Co-host Steve Doocy apologized on air, saying, “We don’t want to make it seem anything other than a mistake.” A network spokesperson later explained it was a technical error emanating from the graphics team.
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The First’s season one will be its last on Hulu. The Beau Willimon drama, following the first human mission to Mars, stars Sean Penn.
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Netflix is bringing back true crime series Unsolved Mysteries (1987-2010), with the original’s creators, Terry Dunn Meurer and John Cosgrove, as well as Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) and his 21 Laps Entertainment. Twelve-parter will re-enact real-life cases.
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Saving Kenan, starring SNL’s Kenan Thompson, landed a pilot production commitment from NBC. Comedy comes from SNL creator Lorne Michaels and his Broadway Video, and Jackie Clarke (Superstore).
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History nonfiction competition Knight Flight launches Wednesday, January 23, at 10p. Series follows the full-contact Armored Combat League, also known as “Medieval MMA” or “Knight Fight Club.”
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Also coming up on History is Jesus: His Life. Eight-part event tells the story of Jesus Christ through different biblical figures, starting Monday, March 25, at 8p. Finale airs just before Easter.
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Jugar con Fuego makes its debut tonight at 9p on Telemundo. Ten-episode event series tells the story of Fabrizio, an attractive and charming man who disrupts, in a terrible and permanent way, lives in the prosperous Colombian coffee zone.
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Showtime Documentary Films acquired North American rights to four-part limited series Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men. First two episodes premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday, January 28, with the full series set to air on Showtime in the spring.
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Survivors describe the moment they began to suspect someone in their life had evil intentions in Deadly Secrets, premiering on ID on Thursday, January 24, at 9p.
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Pure Flix original series Malibu Dan the Family Man will air during the paid programming block on WGN America starting in February. Family show follows Dan Marshall (David A.R. White) as he juggles his home life with the demands as co-host of a pre-dawn talker.
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AXS TV’s The Day the Rock Star Died looks at the life and tragic death of rock pioneer Buddy Holly on Sunday, January 27, at 8p.
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Bounce has joined the Scripps Howard Foundation in its annual “If You Give a Child a Book…” literacy campaign, co-hosting a Scholastic Book Fair on National Reading Day, tomorrow, Wednesday, January 23, at Heritage Academy Elementary School in Atlanta. The initiative, now in its third year, has distributed more than 180,000 books to children.
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Facebook identified two fraudulent pages created by Russian news agency Sputnik. “Despite their misrepresentations of their identities, we found these Pages and accounts were linked to employees of Sputnik,” revealed Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Cybersecurity Policy, Facebook, in a blog post. Among other things, the Pages spread anti-NATO messages.
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In its quarterly earnings letter, Netflix said it accounts for about 10% of U.S. TV viewing time. The streamer also reported its movie, Bird Box, added another 35 million households in the first four weeks after its release, for a total of 80 million.
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Netflix’s price increase – $1/month for Basic Plan subscribers, $2/month for Standard and Premium Plans – isn’t going to chase too many subscribers away, but it could prompt them to downgrade. New research from Hub suggests 69% of streamers will keep their subscription as is, 16% will drop to a lower tier and 9% said they’d drop Netflix. Six percent said they consider upgrading to a higher tier. About half of subscribers said they were unhappy about the increase, while 15% were positive, expecting the increase to lead to better content and service.
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Craigslist revenue topped $1 billion for the first time in 2018, according to the AIM Group’s Classified Intelligence Report. Large markets accounted for most of the classified ad website’s revenue ($981 million), said AIM Group, followed by midsize markets ($44 million) and small markets ($10 million).
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Rick Gomez (The Crossing) and Ashley Thomas (24: Legacy and Salvation) landed lead roles in ABC’s NYPD sequel pilot.
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Discovery had four of the top five highest-delivering cable channels on Sunday night, January 13, among W25-54 (TLC #2, Food Network #3, ID #4, and HGTV #5). Discovery also captured six of the top 10 cable telecasts that night for W25-54 for the second week in a row, led by 90 Day Fiancé on TLC and Worst Cooks in America on Food Network.
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Returning for its first telecast in a month, ABC’s A Million Little Things moved from Wednesdays to its new post-Grey’s Anatomy Thursday at 9p slot up +53% among Total Viewers (to 5.2 million) and up +57% among A18-49 (1.1/5).
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The finale of Bravo’s Dirty John was the highest-rated episode of the series among all key demos, growing double digits versus the prior week’s episode (+15% P18-49 / +13% P25-54 / +10% P2+) in Live+3, with 1.3 million P18-49, 1.6 million P25-54 and 3.3 million Total Viewers.
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The series launch of Fox’s The Passage averaged a 1.9/8 Live+3 rating. The series’ 8.4 million multi-platform viewers mark a +62% lift from Live+SD. The show was Fox’s second-most-streamed drama debut ever on Hulu and Fox Now.
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CBS’s AFC championship game scored a winning 31.2 household rating in overnight metered market data, up 26% from 2018. The NFC game on Fox delivered a 27.1 overnight rating versus 27.3 last year.
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