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FOOD NETWORK: The Great Food Truck Race (Premiere) at 10pm
NETFLIX: Broken (Premiere)
NETFLIX: The Irishmen (Premiere)
Showtime announced new docu-series Gossip Starring Cindy Adams(wt), focused on the longtime New York Post gossip columnist. Imagine’s Brian Grazer and Ron Howard will exec produce, with Jenny Carchman (The Fourth Estate) producing and directing. Series is slated to premiere in 2021.
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CBS All Access canceled Strange Angel after two seasons. Series based on the biography Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons starred Jack Reynor.
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Retailers spent over $400 million on TV advertising in 2019 ahead of Black Friday , according to MediaRadar, a five percent increase versus the same period last year. Extra thanks goes to top ten spenders Amazon, Walmart, Target, Macy’s, Kay Jewelers, JCPenny, Best Buy, TJX Companies (TJ Max and Marshall’s), and Raymor & Flanagan. “Our deep dive discovered that spending for 2019’s Black Friday TV advertising has been highly concentrated,” said Todd Krizelman, CEO and CoFounder of MediaRadar. “Of the nearly 300 retail companies that ran ads on national TV in the first half of November, 77 percent of those dollars came from the top 20 spenders.”
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Ad-supported network Bon Appetit will come pre-installed on Samsung smart TVs , part of Conde Nast’s efforts to expand the food lifestyle brand. A Bon Appetit streaming service launched in February.
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Univision Chicago and The Chicago Reporter are teaming to create Latinext , a cross-newsroom, cross-platform, bilingual news team to address the information needs of the Latinx community in the Chicago region. The project is aimed at increasing civic, bilingual reporting power in the Midwest and spark collaborations among local media around issues that are important to the Latino community like housing, healthcare, education and immigration.
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BET+ ordered season two of First Wives Club . Series inspired by the 1996 revenge comedy was born at TV Land, then moved to Viacom sibs Paramount and BET before landing on the streamer.
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Big Bad Boo is planning a spinoff of preschool series, 16 Hudson . ABC with Kenny G. will focus on grumpy cat Kensington. “Kensington has been a runaway star from the start of 16 Hudson and now he finally gets his own stage,” said Big Bad Boo Co-Founder and series creator, Shabnam Rezaei.
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Four HGTV faves have premiere dates coming up . Season 8 of My Lottery Dream Home premieres Friday, December 13 at 9p; Property Brothers: Forever Home is back for season two on Wednesday, December 18 at 9p; Christina on the Coast launches its sophomore run on Thursday, January 2 at 9p; and season 4 of Home Town debuts Monday, January 20 at 9p.
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The New Pope, sequel to HBO’s The Young Pope, premieres Monday, January 13 at 9p . Series picks up where The Young Pope left off, with Jude Law’s character, Pope Pius XIII, in a coma; Sir John Brannox, played by John Malkovich, is placed on the papal throne.
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From ice cream cone cupcakes to 3D dinosaur cookies , mini-chefs put their culinary talents to the test in Food Network’s Kids Baking Championship, returning Monday, January 6 at 9p. Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman are back to test the skills of a dozen new bakers.
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TLC’s My Feet Are Killing Me was inspired by another show focused on shocking medical cases . “It was clear, following the debut of Dr. Pimple Popper, that our audience was craving even more powerful and heartwarming stories of medical transformation,” says Howard Lee, President and General Manager of TLC. “My Feet Are Killing Me is a welcome addition to TLC’s long history in the medical transformation space, and we are beyond excited for viewers to fall in love with Dr. Ebonie and Dr. Brad, who are tops in their field as well as exceedingly compassionate caregivers to their desperate patients. As with all series in TLC’s popular medical genre, we bring viewers along on emotional rollercoaster journeys through to their uplifting conclusions.” Series debuts Thursday, January 2 at 10p, after the return of Dr. Pimple Popper.
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More vehicular transformations are on the way when Twin Turbos returns to Discovery on Monday, December 9 at 10p, led by the father/son team of Doug and Brad DeBerti. In addition, new spin-off series Spoolin’ With the DeBertis debuts on the MotorTrend app on January 13.
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Project Runway winner Jhoan Sebastian Grey will star in Fashion Sewing with Jhoan Sebastian Grey. Diy fashion series drops Thursday, December 5 on streamer Bluprint, following Bravo’s season 18 premiere of Project Runway at 9:30p.
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The Wall premieres on Telemundo Wednesday, January 1 at 7p . Spanish-language version of the game show from executive producer/NBA star LeBron James will air Monday through Friday.
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Startling discoveries are the name of the murder game in new Oxygen series An Unexpected Killer, premiering Thursday, December 5 at 8p.
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Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars) will join Ryan Seacrest in Times Square for Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest, starting at 8p on ABC. Hale previously oversaw festivities for the event in New Orleans, a task being taken over this time around by actor/singer/director/composer Billy Porter. Ciara is back to take charge in LA.
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Basketball star/roaster Blake Griffin will host Comedy Central’s “31 Days of Holiday Survival,” starring in interstitial sketches. Themed stunt includes movies, season episodes and digital components.
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The Paley Center for Media’s latest selection for its Fall 2019 PaleyLive NY season is Apple’s Truth Be Told: Exclusive Screening. The program will take place at the Paley Center’s New York location on Thursday, December 12; limited drama series launches Friday, December 6.
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CMA Country Christmas airs Tuesday, December 3 at 9p on ABC . Trisha Yearwood hosts and performs, along with Dierks Bentley, Kristin Chenoweth, for KING & COUNTRY, Chris Janson, Tori Kelly, Lady Antebellum, Rascal Flatts, Runaway June, CeCe Winans, Brett Young and Chris Young.
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Ford Motor Company will serve as Presenting Sponsor of the annual Urban One Honors, taking place on December 5. The automaker will present a backstage pass segment hosted by celebrity influencer Tai Beauchamp as part of its participation. Telecast airs January 20 on TV One.
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Special December programming for WAPA Television , the Puerto Rican broadcast network that airs in the US on WAPA América, kicks off on December 1 with the 2019 edition of the musical production Tiempos de Aguinaldo, featuring performances artists including singer and actor Chucho Avellanet, one of the original performers at the program’s first airing in 1965.
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Clips show Nick Cannon’s Hit Viral Videos – Holiday 2019 will air Monday, December 16 at 8p on Fox. Special is part of the net’s Not So Silent Nights programming.
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Jennifer Lopez, Kristen Bell, Tracy Morgan, Karlie Kloss, Aaron Rodgers and Alex Rodriguez will star in episodes of Quibi series Thanks a Million, in which public figures gift $100,000 to someone who has had a positive impact on their life; that person is tasked with paying half the amount forward, and so on. Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions and B-17 Entertainment in association with Universal Alternative Television Studio are producing. Quibi launches April 6.
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With Disney+ averaging about a million downloads daily – racking up an estimated 15.5 million in less than two weeks after its launch, reported Apptopia – and Disney generating $5 million through in-app purchases, Disney stock hit a new high of $153.22 on Tuesday (closing at $151.64). But so far, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and HBO are unaffected by Disney+, said Apptopia: “We see download and user session trends uninterrupted from their trend lines.”
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In more Disney+ news, the streamer has resumed a “Continue Watching” feature that lets viewers pause a show on their connected TV and resume playback later, including on another device. Disney+ removed the feature shortly after launch to address glitches.
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Claire Foy won’t be entirely absent from season three of The Crown , where she was replaced by Olivia Colman as an older Queen Elizabeth. The Daily Mailobtained a photo of Foy on set, in a flashback scene…Mamie Gummer (True Detective) will recur as a guest star on Nat Geo’s The Right Stuff, reports The Wrap…Chris Sullivan (This Is Us) guests on the season finale of DreamWorks Where’s Waldo, on Universal Kids Saturday, December 7 at 10a.
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Hallmark Channel’s “Countdown to Christmas” franchise has made the net the highest-rated and most-watched cable network during Total Day and Primetime among Households, W25-54, and total viewers, excluding news and sports. Saturday’s Christmas at Graceland: Home for the Holidays averaged a 2.6 HH rating and 2.7 million total viewers, while Sunday’s Cherished Memories: A Gift to Remember 2 drew a 2.5 HH rating and 2.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen.
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In syndication, for the week ending November 17, Jeopardy saw a new season high 7.2 Live+SD national Nielsen, up 7% from the week before with its Tournament of Champions. Most other shows were hit by impeachment hearing preemptions and Thursday Night Football. Only one magazine was up in households from the previous week, Entertainment Tonight (2.8, up 4%), which matched its season high and tied Inside Edition (2.8, down 3%) for the category lead.
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The fall finale of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy marked the series’ most-watched telecast since its season premiere eight weeks earlier, with 8.8 million viewers, and its highest-rated episode among A18-49 in six weeks with 2.2/11.
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FETV (Family Entertainment Television) announced it was the fastest growing cable network in America , according to Nielsen Household Universe Estimates for December. FETV’s Universe Estimate grew by 23% from September to December, with gains largely attributable to FETV’s recent launch with Charter Spectrum. The net hit 170,844 P2+ imps in M-F 7p-12a Prime for the month in Live+3 viewing, boasting 155,510 among A50+.
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The season three finale of Telemundo’s Exatlon Estados averaged 764,000 viewers among A18-49, 360,000 A18-34, and 1.9 million in total viewers Sunday night.
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