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CBS: After Midnight (Premiere) at 12:37am
DISCOVERY: Moonshiners: Master Distiller (Premiere) at 9pm
HULU: Death and Other Details (Premiere)
MHZ CHOICE: The Shift (Premiere)
NAT GEO: Life Below Zero: Next Generation (Premiere) at 9pm
PARAMOUNT+: June (Premiere)
FX: Fargo (Finale) at 10pm
NBC: Found (Finale) at 10pm
Anthony Anderson hosted the 75th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards last night, kicking off the show with a tribute to “Good Times,” “Facts of Life” and “Miami Vice.” The first standing ovation came early on, for presenter Christina Applegate, who won over the audience with jokes about multiple sclerosis, which she suffers from, and her “body not by Ozempic.” Carol Burnett also got the crowd to its feet, presenting the best actress in a comedy award to a tearful Quinta Brunson (“Abbott Elementary”), the first Black actress to receive the honor since Isabel Sanford (“The Jeffersons”) in 1981. For a full list of winners, go here.
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The Critics Choice Awards were handed out Sunday night, in a ceremony presided over by Chelsea Handler (“Thank you for laughing at that – my writers wrote it,” she said at one point, taking a poke at Golden Globes host Jo Koy). Biggest TV winners of the night included “Succession,” which won for top drama, actor (Kieran Culkin) and actress (Sarah Snook); “The Bear,” with trophies for best comedy, actor (Jeremy Allen White), actress (Ayo Edebiri), and supporting actor (Ebon Moss-Bachrach); and “Beef,” for best limited series, actor (Steven Yuen), actress (Ali Wong) and supporting actress (Maria Bello).
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The Kansas City Chiefs’ defeat of the Miami Dolphins on Saturday was a record breaker for Peacock. The game delivered 23 million total viewers, according to Nielsen (that includes viewership on the local NBC affiliates in Miami and Kansas City and on the NFL+ mobile app, where the game was also shown), and was the “most-streamed live event in US history.” The matchup saw the most internet usage ever in the US on a single date, accounting for 30% of internet traffic during the game. Of note: Ratings for the streamed game was up 6% over last year’s AFC Wild Card Game shown on NBC. Peacock also had a winner with scripted series “Ted,” which debuted as the platform’s most-watched original title ever in its first three days.
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DirecTV and Tegna reached a deal that brought Tegna’s 64 owned stations back to DirecTV on Saturday – and gave viewers NFL playoff games. The blackout began November 30. DirecTV said it would “continue to work with station owners and networks to align the price customers pay with the value they receive.”
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Greg Daniels is returning to “The Office.” Daniels, who adapted UK’s “The Office” for the US, is convening a writers room to tackle a reboot of the NBC hit. The new iteration would feature a new cast and office, but be “live within the same world” as the 2005-13 version of the sitcom, reports Deadline.
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Reelz has ordered 90 more episodes of “On Patrol: Live,” produced by Half Moon Pictures, extending the run of the docuseries for a third season, with new episodes through January 2025. In 2023, the show helped make REELZ the most-watched cable entertainment network in the A25-54 year-old demo on Fridays and Saturdays from 9p to midnight.
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Added to the cast of Netflix’s “Monster: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” are Javier Bardem and Chloe Sevigny, as the couple murdered by their sons in 1989.
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A US District Court judge rejected to the NFL’s request to toss an antitrust lawsuit over the Sunday Ticket package, and set a trial date of February 22. The lawsuit was filed back in 2015, when DirecTV had the package, and certified as class action in 2022. “The NFL-DirecTV Agreement prevents telecasts from appearing on more than one channel, reducing the number of games being shown locally as free, over-the-air broadcasts and leaving DirecTV as the only option to view many games,” said Judge Gutierrez, adding, “Defendants place great weight on the fact that the member clubs are not part of the NFL-DirecTV Agreement. But this fact is misleading. It does not follow that, because the member clubs are not parties to the NFL-DirecTV Agreement, DirecTV and the member clubs are not connected in the overall conspiracy.”
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The United Basketball League, a professional basketball organizationgeared toward domestic teams and player development, is launching an independent league that enables elevated minor league organizations to compete at a higher level. The UBL addresses a gap in the basketball world, so former players at varying levels can continue playing competitively.
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TNA Wrestling (formerly IMPACT Wrestling) has partnered with entertainment platform Star Times to bring exclusive TNA content to more than 30 countries throughout Africa.
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Rugby League Commercial and IMG struck an exclusive partnership with Voono to launch a free-to-play fantasy Super League game. Voono enables fans to embody the role of a Super League coach, combining fantasy gameplay and featuring officially licensed player cards linked to real-world Super League performances. Every club and player within the Super League will be featured.
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Season nine of Telemundo’s “El Señor de los Cielos” (The Lord of the Skies) launches Tuesday, February 13 at 10p. Fans will witness Aurelio Casillas “unleashing the beast within him and reminding everyone of the ruthlessness that made him the infamous Lord of the Skies,” said the net.
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A new trailer for Peacock’s “The Traitor” reveals the upcoming return of Kate Chastain (“Below Deck”), as well as a special guest appearance by Dr. Will Kirby, aka Dr. Will (“Big Brother”), on the reality show’s second season, streaming now.
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ID’s “Death by Fame” returns Monday, January 22 at 9p. The true crime series explores more shocking stories behind the rise, fall and murder of promising Hollywood stars.
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The final five season two episodes of NBC’s “Quantum Leap” kick off Tuesday, January 30 at 10p, moving from the sci-fi drama’s previous Wednesday perch. A two-hour season finale airs February 20.
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The second season of “Love on the Spectrum US” premieres Friday, January 19 on Netflix. The docuseries follows people on the autism spectrum as they navigate relationships.
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“Oppenheimer” starts streaming Friday, February 16 on Peacock. Other Christopher Nolan-directed films, including “Batman Begins,” “The Dark Knight,” “The Dark Knight Rises Dunkirk,” “Inception” and “Memento,” begin streaming February 1.
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How will TCM celebrate of its 30th anniversary? Heading into the 15th annual TCM Classic Film Festival in April, the network will honor film historian Jeanine Basinger with the Robert Osborne Award and pay tribute to actor Billy Dee Williams and makeup artist Lois Burwell. Additionally, “The Plot Thickens,” TCM’s podcast about movies and the people who make them, will debut later in the year. Said Mike De Luca and Pamela Abdy, Co-Chairs & CEOs, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, “With the 30th year of TCM upon us, we both look back at all that’s been built over the last several decades and look ahead at what is undoubtedly one of the most exciting times in TCM’s history. TCM’s collaboration with Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Paul Thomas Anderson has infused an even greater love of cinema into our programming and inspired us to expand what TCM offers across a wide array of mediums for fans of classic movies to dive even deeper into the films and stories they cherish.”
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“Giannis: The Marvelous Journey” premieres Monday, February 19 on Prime Video. The feature-length documentary that chronicles the odyssey of NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo from an impoverished childhood in Greece as the son of Nigerian immigrants to the top of the basketball world.
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The premiere of HBO’s “True Detective: Night Country” drew 2 million viewers across linear and Max. It’s the fourth installment of the anthology series; season three premiered in January 2019.
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Since the launch of the second installment ID’s “Natalia Speaks” on January 1, “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace” has been viewed by over 10 million viewers across linear and streaming, ranking as the #1 series on Max in its premiere week and among the most successful returning series in Max platform history. “Natalia Speaks” was ID’s highest-rated series since “The Curious Case” premiered in May 2023 and drove the network to rank as the #1 non-sports cable network among W25-54.
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Food Network’s “Worst Cooks in America” returned with ratings growth, posting 0.84 P18+ / 1.12 W18+ Live+3 ratings, up from the prior season (+11% and +7%, respectively) helping the network deliver its highest Sunday Prime rating among P18+ since July and ranking as the #3 cable network among W18+.
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ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown” had its most-watched regular season since 2019, up 8% year-over-year and the second best viewership in almost a decade.
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Actress Joyce Randolph died January 13 at age 99. Randolph was the last remaining survivor of the main cast of TV classic “The Honemooners.”
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Actor and singer Bill Hayes died January 12. He was 98. In addition to his long-running role on soap opera “Days of Our Lives,” Hayes had a #1 hit on the Billboard chart in 1955 with “The Ballad of Davy Crockett.”
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