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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 1/7/20)
ABC: Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time (Premiere) at 8pm
A&E: The First 48: Shocking Interrogations (Premiere) at 9pm
BRAVO: Vanderpump Rules (Premiere) at 9pm
CBS: FBI: Most Wanted (Premiere) at 10pm
COOKING CHANNEL: Burgers, Brew and ‘Que (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY: Guardians of the Glades (Premiere) at 10pm
FOX: Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell And Back (Premiere) at 9pm
MTV: Siesta Key (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: Ellen’s Game of Games (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (Premiere) at 10pm
OWN: The Haves and the Have Nots (Premiere) at 9pm
POP: Schitt’s Creek (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: My Big Fat Fabulous Life (Premiere) at 8pm
TLC: Hot & Heavy (Premiere) at 10pm
On Monday, the Directors Guild announced the nominees in some TV categories for the DGA Awards – but not for comedy, drama, or variety/talk/news/sports-specials, as had been scheduled. The organization cited “a re-vote related to a newly implemented electronic submissions process” as the cause of the delay for the affected categories, which will now be announced Friday. Last week, the DGA revealed Transparent’s Jill Soloway had been accidentally left off the ballot and offered members a chance to recast their vote via email. In the TV movie & limited series category, directors for three different episodes of Fosse/Verdon won nods (Thomas Kail, Minkie Spiro and Jessica Yu), along with Ava DuVernay for When They See Us, Vince Gilligan for El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie and Johan Renck for Chernobyl.
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Fresh off her Golden Globes win for Hulu’s The Act comes word that Patricia Arquette will star in Apple’s upcoming thriller Severance, opposite Adam Scott. The project reunites Arquette with director and executive producer Ben Stiller, who directed Arquette in Escape From Dannemora, and played her husband in the 1996 film Flirting With Disaster.
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Dish and Mission Broadcasting pointed fingers at each other for stations in 18 Mission markets being dropped by Dish just ahead of the NFL playoff last weekend. “Dish gave us no warning when it removed our stations. We offered an extension, and Dish refused,” said Dennis Thatcher, president of Mission. Countered Andy LeCuyer, Dish SVP of Programming, “Dish offered to extend the contract during ongoing negotiations, ensuring consumers would not be harmed in this process, but Mission refused.” Mission owns affiliates in Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Vermont.
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YouTube said Monday it is rolling out changes globally to better protect kids and their privacy. “YouTube now treats personal information from anyone watching children’s content on the platform as coming from a child, regardless of the age of the user,” the company said in a blog post. “This means that on videos made for kids, we limit data collection and use. We no longer serve personalized ads on this content or support features such as comments, live chat, notification bell, stories, save to playlist, and others.” YouTube added it is committed to helping creators navigate the new landscape, and recommended parents use YouTube Kids if they plan to allow children under 13 to watch independently.
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Former NFL-er Victor Cruz has joined new E! morning news show Pop of the Morning, co-hosting with Lilliana Vasquez and Scott Tweedie.
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MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle has been named senior business correspondent at NBC News. “Stephanie will continue to anchor on MSNBC as well as report for Today, Nightly, NBC News Now and digital,” said Janelle Rodriguez, SVP of editorial at NBC News, in a memo to staff. A new producer for Ruhle will be added to the team in the coming weeks.
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“Judge Judy” Sheindlin endorsed Michael Bloomberg for president during her appearance on The View on Monday, and in a campaign ad that praises the candidate’s “steady leadership.” On the morning show, the court TV star said, “Mike Bloomberg is the only one of the candidates who has experience governing and managing, and is successful.”
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The Friday and Saturday after Lifetime’s Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning aired, RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline experienced a 40% increase in calls, said Erinn Robinson, RAINN Press Secretary. “We are so thankful for our partnership with RAINN as part of our Stop Violence Against Women Initiative and to see the jump in calls during the airings of Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning,” said Brie Miranda Bryant, SVP, Unscripted Programing, Lifetime. “It’s amazing to know the documentary has encouraged important and necessary conversations to happen and we are extremely proud of our survivors for their courage, who by standing up for themselves, stand for so much more.”
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CMT and iHeartMedia renewed their partnership in a deal that also calls for iHeartMedia and Premiere Networks to support CMT’s Next Women of Country artists with a new syndicated programming element airing weekly. Under the agreement, Premiere Networks and CMT will continue their exclusive distribution and production partnership for two syndicated radio programs, and extend Cody Alan’s hosting duties for CMT’s weekly flagship series, CMT Hot 20 Countdown.
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Freeform’s The Thing About Harry will premiere Saturday, February 15 at 8p. The original film tells the story of high school enemies forced to share a car ride to their Missouri hometown for a friend’s engagement party on Valentine’s Day.
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Josie Totah (Champions) landed the lead in Peacock’s upcoming Saved by the Bell reboot, as Lexi, “the most popular girl at Bayside High.” Original cast members Elizabeth Berkley and Mario Lopez are already onboard for the streaming series, slated for an April launch.
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A funny thing happened in M18-34 ratings for 2019 – Comedy Central wrapped the year as the #1 full day entertainment cable network in the demo (.24 rating), driven by strong-performing originals, including South Park, cable’s #1 primetime comedy for the 7th year in a row. Among P18-49, the brand increased year-over-year ratings for the first time since 2013 (.18 rating in 2018 to a .19 rating in 2019).
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USA was 2019’s #1 cable network among P18-49 and P25-54, and the #1 net in prime for the 14th consecutive year.
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David Schwarz has been named SVP, Entertainment and Alison Blue has been named VP, Lifestyle, at Superjuice, established in 2016 as a division of global talent agency APA. Previously, Schwarz spent 20 years at Viacom including overseeing the bi-coastal Communications team for Paramount Network/ Spike TV from 2006-2018, while Blue oversaw media relations for the Arthur M. Blank Family of Businesses.
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