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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 1/8/26)
ABC: 9-1-1 (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: 9-1-1: Nashville (Premiere) at 9pm
ABC: Grey’s Anatomy (Premiere) at 10pm
BRAVO: The Valley: Persian Style (Premiere) at 9pm
BRITBOX: The Game (Premiere)
HBO MAX: The Pitt (Premiere)
NBC: Law & Order (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: The Hunting Party (Premiere) at 10pm
NETFLIX: His & Hers (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Love Is Blind: Germany (Premiere)
PARAMOUNT+: Girl Taken (Premiere)
PEACOCK: The Traitors (Premiere)
UP: Heartland (Premiere) at 8pm
FOX Entertainment announced the launch of FOX Creator Studios (FCS), a digital-first division designed to partner with creators to develop the next generation of global entertainment formats, IP and talent. The new studio debuts with a focus on food content and an inaugural roster that includes Gordon Ramsay, Rosanna Pansino, Jolly, Sorted Food, Food Theorists, and Little Remy Food.
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Entertainment studio Cineverse has acquired media services providerGiant Worldwide – a deal that marks a “pivotal moment” for Cineverse’s Matchpoint platform, said Tony Huidor, President of Technology & Chief Product Officer at Cineverse. “We are immediately adding a significant base of prestigious Hollywood studio relationships by combining Giant Worldwide’s long-standing client relationships with Matchpoint’s advanced AI-native infrastructure,” noted Huidor. “The result is something the industry has never seen: a platform aided by artificial intelligence that can ingest, normalize, enrich, and deliver large studio film libraries across hundreds of endpoints with minimal manual intervention.”
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Nominees were announced for the 32nd Annual Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA (previously called the Screen Actors Guild Awards). To see who made the cut, go here. The ceremony will air Sunday, March 1 on Netflix.
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It was also a big day for the Directors Guild of America, which revealed the TV, documentary and commercial nominees for the 78th Annual DGA Awards. The full list is available here. Awards will be handed out Saturday, February 7 at the Beverly Hilton.
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TV One unveiled an extended trailer from “Fatal Attraction: I’d Kill to Be You,” an expansion of the “Fatal Attraction” franchise. The true crime series premieres Friday, January 26 at 10p. The following month brings autobiographical docuseries “Uncensored,” back after a two year hiatus on Monday, February 19 at 10p.
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“Phoebe & Jay,” a children’s series that aims to boost literary skills, premieres Monday, February 2 on PBS Kids. Each episode features two 11-minute stories with an accompanying interstitial.
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“The Lowdown” has been renewed for a second season by FX. Production on the western-noir drama starring Ethan Hawke will begin in Tulsa this spring.
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Also renewed is HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher,” for two additional seasons. Season 24 premieres Friday, January 22 at 10p.
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AMC’s Silicon Valley-set drama “Audacity” launches Sunday, April 12 at 9p. It’s the first series creation for Jonathan Glatzer (“Succession,” “Better Call Saul”).
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Returning to Netflix: Virgin River” is back for season seven on Thursday, March 12. Anthology series “Beef” returns for season two on Thursday, April 2, and season five of romantic drama “Sweet Magnolias” debuts Thursday, June 11.
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Family drama series “It’s Not Like That,” starring Scott Foley (“Scandal”) premieres with its first two episodes on Sunday, January 25 on Wonder Project’s subscription on Prime Video.
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Wall Streeter Danny Moses is set to host “The Danny Moses Show,”launching Friday, January 23 on Scripps News. “Whether you’re invested in the markets or just a consumer trying to make sense of the financial world, I want to help decipher complex topics and provide clear and practical explanations that both inform and entertain,” said Moses.
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Fox’s 2025-26 NFL regular season averaged 19.6 million viewers, up +6% over last year’s full season average and the network’s best regular season since 2015 (20,706,000 viewers).
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Football was a winner for ESPN, too – the net’s “Monday Night Football” scored its second-most-watched regular season in the company’s 20-year history of airing the franchise, with an average 15.8 million viewers, up +9% vs. 2024.
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ABC Hockey Saturday delivered ESPN’s second most-viewed regular season game of the new rights deal. Saturday’s Penguins-Red Wings game averaged 1.6 million viewers, up +89% vs. last year’s NHL on ABC average, and up +51% vs. last year’s first ABC Hockey Saturday game. Through 13 games, NHL on ESPN is averaging 618,000 viewers, up +33% YoY.
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This year’s simulcast of the “Critics Choice Awards” on E! and USA Network averaged 726,000 P2+ viewers, up 125% from its airing on E! alone in 2025.
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CBS’ “60 Minutes” delivered 9 million total viewers and 1.7 million in the A25-54 demo, according to Nielsen Big Data + Panel ratings for Sunday, January 4. Fifteen weeks into the season, the newsmagazine is pacing up +11% in viewers and +7% in the demo compared to last year.
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Tony Dokoupil’s Monday debut as anchor of “CBS Evening News” averaged 4.5 million Live+SD viewers, according to Nielsen, down 22% from the same period last year. “ABC World News Tonight” drew 8.1 million viewers on Monday, while “NBC Nightly News” averaged 7.2 million.
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The season 18 premiere of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” on MTV was up +17% among P18-49 (0.674) versus season 17 –the highest premiere in the demo ever – and ranked as the number one cable telecast of the night among P18-34 and P18-49.
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Andy Friendly, the first producer of “Entertainment Tonight,” died January 4. He was 74. Friendly was VP of Primetime Programs and CNBC, and later President of Programming and Production at King World Productions. “Andy was a brilliant producer and an exceptional leader who helped define CNBC during a pivotal period of growth and creativity,” said his former boss, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav. “He had an extraordinary ability to spot talent, nurture ideas, and bring out the very best in the people around him. But beyond his professional accomplishments, Andy was a special person and a dear and loyal friend. He led with generosity, humor and heart, and he cared very deeply about people.”
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2026 ACTORS AWARDS NOMINATIONS (FORMERLY KNOWS AS SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS) – COMPLETE LIST
https://www.eonline.com/news/1427009/actor-awards-2026-nominations-full-list
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