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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 2/12/14)
INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY: Web of Lies (Premiere) at 10pm
COOKING CHANNEL: Spice of Life with Bal Arneson (Finale) at 9pm

CBS made a last-minute programming switch, swapping reruns of Undercover Boss, Criminal Minds and CSI tonight for an encore of Sunday special The Beatles: The Night That Changed America – A Grammy Salute. Mike & Molly opens the night at 8p, followed by the Fab Four at 8:30p. The special’s debut on Sunday averaged 13.95 million viewers, opposite the Olympics on NBC and the season four winter premiere of ratings champ The Walking Dead on AMC. The show will still face the Games, but has a chance to snatch those zombie lovers.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Turner Classic Movies will pay tribute to the late Shirley Temple Black with a marathon of movies starring “America’s Little Darling,” starting Sunday, March 9 at 4:30p. First up: 1937’s Heidi.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Hugh Jackman is returning as host for Broadway’s biggest night. The Wolverine star, who manned the mic from 2003-2005, will oversee the 68th Annual Tony Awards live from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 8 at 8p.
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Singer/actress Idina Menzel is set to perform Oscar-nominated “Let it Go,” from the hit movie Frozen, on the Academy Awards Show, airing on ABC Sunday, March 2 at 8p.
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Brett Eldredge, Justin Moore and Kip Moore are the nominees for The Academy of Country Music’s Artist of the Year Presented by Kohl’s. The winner will be announced on the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, airing live from Las Vegas Sunday, April 6 at 8p on CBS.
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MTV ordered ten eps of cyber thriller Eye Candy, from Blumhouse Productions. Former Nickelodeon star Victoria Justice (Victorious) stars.
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With Ben McKenzie onboard to play a young Commissioner Gordon, Fox announced more Gotham pilot additions: Robin Lord Taylor plays the Penguin, Sean Pertwee (Event Horizon) serves as butler Alfred, Zabryna Guevara (Burn Notice) is Gotham police’s Captain Essen and Erin Richards (Being Human) joins as ER doctor Barbara Kean.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Michelle Fairley (Game of Thrones) has replaced Judy Davis in a recurring role on Fox event series 24: Live Another Day. Davis pulled out of the project last week for personal reasons. Show premieres Monday, May 5 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

JoAnna Garcia Swisher (Once Upon a Time) plays the wife of astronaut Gus Grissom in ABC‘s Astronaut Wives Club. Period drama premieres this summer.
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Nazanin Boniadi (Homeland) will recur on ABC’s Scandal, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The political drama returns Thursday, February 27 at 10p.
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Bravo‘s The Real Housewives of Atlanta had the most-watched episode in Housewives franchise history on Sunday, delivering 4.6 million total viewers and 2.6 million in the young adult demo, up 18 percent in both categories from the previous ep.
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Grammy glamour helped the top entertainment magazines shine the week ending February 2. Entertainment Tonight (4.1) was up 5 percent week-to-week and up 8 percent from last year. TMZ (2.2) got a 5 percent boost from last week and last year. Access Hollywood (2.0) was up 5 percent versus last year, and Extra‘s 1.9 was a lift of 19 percent from last year. The Insider (1.6), up 7 percent from last week, surged 14 percent year to year.
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show had a best-ever 3.3 rating the week ending February 2 and almost 4.6 million viewers, for the most-watched week ever. Among talkers, Steve Harvey earned bragging rights, too: the show’s 2.2HH rating was a 38 percent increase over last year.
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Legendary former child star Shirley Temple Black died February 10. She was 85. Temple Black began acting at age 3, becoming the country’s top box office star from 1935-38. After retiring from performing, she became a foreign diplomat, first as U.S. ambassador to Ghana and then to Czechoslovakia.
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SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 2/9/14)
1) Various Artists – Now 49 –  98,063
2) Various Artists – Frozen – 88,443 (After 11 weeks – 951,510)
3) Bruno Mars – Unorthodox Jukebox – 81,300 (After 61 weeks – 2,049,776)

Other Debuts
4) Toni Braxton & Babyface – Love Marriage & Divorce – 67,063
5) Broken Bells  – After The Disco – 44,234
6) Little Mix – Salute – 42,971
15) Within Temptation – Hydra – 15,145
25) Various Artists – Wow Gospel 2014 – 11,382
30) Eric Paslay – Eric Pasley – 10,655
31) For Today – Fight The Silence – 10,630
33) Behemoth – Satanist – 10,235
44) Ruben Studdard – Unconditional Love – 6,398
46) The Lego Movie Soundtrack – 6,139 

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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 2/5/14)
FOOD: Buy This Restaurant (Premiere) at 9pm
PBS: Super Skyscrapers (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: Hoarding: Buried Alive (Premiere) at 9pm
TRAVEL: Backroad Gold (Premiere) at 9:30pm
TRAVEL: Auction On Wheels (Premiere) at 10pm
BRAVO: Top Chef (Finale) at 10pm
SHOWTIME: Inside The NFL (Finale) at 9pm

NBC is aiming to make TV Everywhere easy for Olympics fans. The net announced it’s giving viewers a 30-minute free pass to watch Winter Games video before they’re asked to verify that they’re subscribers. Users will need to download an app (NBCOlympics.com or NBC’s LiveExtra app) for access to over 1000 hours of live-streamed coverage; a video with Ryan Seacrest offers instructions for using the apps.
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MTV announced its new Thursday night lineup: Ridiculousness, the night’s number one original cable series last week (1.2 rating among P12-34) remains at 10p, followed by Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory (averaging 1.0 P12-34) at 10:30p and Jerks with Cameras (.8 average) at 11p.
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FOX Sports‘ live stream of the Super Bowl on Sunday was watched by an average 528,000 viewers per minute, the most-viewed live stream for a single sports event in the U.S., 4 percent over the 2013 game and 52 percent over 2012.
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60 Minutes Sports reports on the other “Miracle on Ice” in 1980: while the U.S. hockey team made headlines for defeating the Soviets, the story of ordinary Lake Placid townspeople (milkman, policeman, postmaster) securing the games for their town is recounted on Showtime tonight, February 5, at 10p.
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The first of a series of CBS News Live Experiences events, 50 Years: The Beatles, takes place at the Ed Sullivan Theater in NYC on Sunday, February 9, exactly 50 years after the Fab Four made music history on The Ed Sullivan Show. The event includes a panel discussion with artists who worked with the Beatles or were influenced by them, as well as a presentation of The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles, airing that night on CBS at 8p.
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Emmy-winning House of Cards, premiering its second season Friday, February 14, has been renewed for season three on Netflix.
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The Exes was picked up by TV Land for a fourth season. Season three of the comedy, wrapping up Wednesday, February 26 at 10p, has averaged 1.3 million total viewers, up 69 percent versus the net’s primetime average.
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Nat Geo‘s Diggers returns for season two with a mission: find the time tube containing Steve Jobs’s mouse. Buried in 1983, the capsule was supposed to be unearthed in 2000, but couldn’t be located. Metal detectorists KG and Ringy are on the case Tuesday, February 25 at 10p.
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Sophomore season of Nicktoons animated series Wild Grinders premieres tonight, February 5, at 8:30p. The show, created and exec produced by pro skateboarder Rob Dyrdek in partnership with Home Plate Entertainment and SuperJacket Productions, is inspired by Dyrdek’s experiences.
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Pharrell Williams will perform his Oscar-nominated song, “Happy,” at the Academy Awards Show on Sunday, March 2 on ABC. Williams wrote the song for Despicable Me 2.
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Hyundai and Coca-Cola dropped their sponsorships of the Academy Awards, reports Adweek, but sources tell the mag that General Motors and Pepsi stepped right in. Last year Hyundai spent over $12 million on the broadcast; Coca-Cola plunked down $8.5 million.
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Fox has put in development an animated comedy exec produced by Zooey Deschanel (New Girl) and Sophia Rossi, reports Deadline. The 20th Century Fox Television project is “a workplace comedy set in a modern fairy tale world.”
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TBS gave a green light to a comedy competition with Marlon Wayans. The Workaholic/Marlon and Eyeworks production features Wayans and his family and friends hunting for talented comedians.
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Reality TV stars Ice T and Coco (Ice Loves Coco) signed a development deal with Ryan Seacrest Productions, the rapper revealed on his podcast, saying, “It’s more of a talk show setting.”
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Ryan Phillipe (Damages) is set to star in ABC drama Secrets & Lies, about a man searching for the killer of a young boy he’s suspected of murdering. The show has a 10-ep order.
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Louis Gossett Jr. and Cuba Gooding Jr. have been cast in mini-series The Book of Negroes, based on the novel by Lawrence Hill, airing in the U.S. on BET.
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New Girl‘s Max Greenfield guests on The Mindy Project as a player who causes trouble between Mindy and Danny. Mindy returns to Fox Tuesday, April 1.
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Mather Zickel (House of Lies) will star opposite Kate Walsh in NBC pilot Bad Judge, from producers Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Anne Heche.
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Linda Cardellini (Mad Men) has been added to the cast of Netflix drama Damages, starring Kyle Chandler and Ben Mendelsohn, about a family’s unraveling secrets.
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Zoe McLellan joins the pilot for the NCIS spinoff set in New Orleans, airing as an NCIS two-parter this spring. NCIS is itself a spinoff JAG, where McLellan played Jennifer Coates from 2001-2005.
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Another Super Bowl counterprogramming stunt, Hallmark‘s Kitten Bowl, drew 3.2 million unduplicated viewers from 12-3p. With its three encores, the show reached 6.1 million viewers P2+, garnering over 50,000 tweets on Sunday.
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Family Feud hit a record 6.1 HH rating the week ending January 26, its highest number since the advent of People Meters in 1988. Feud host Steve Harvey also saw his talk show match its series high (2.0), up 25 percent versus last year.
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Harvey wasn’t the only syndicated talker to boast a solid week. Dr. Phil was the top talk show with 3.4 HH rating, up 6 percent versus the prior week, followed by Live with Kelly and Michael (3.2) and The Ellen DeGeneres Show (3.1), both up 7 percent. Wendy Williams hit a new series high of 1.7.
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Producer Michael Filerman died January 25 following a battle with cancer. He was 77. After a successful run at Lorimar Productions, where he worked on hits such as Dallas, Knots Landing, Falcon Crest and Sisters, Filerman went on to a robust Broadway career, earning eight Tony nominations and two wins.
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Actor Richard Bull died February 3. He was 89. Bull appeared on numerous TV shows, including Starz drama Boss, but was best known as Nels Oleson on Little House on the Prairie. “Goodbye Richard working with you was such a joy,” tweeted former castmate Melissa Gilbert on Tuesday.
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Madeline Santarelli, co-star of Reelzchannel reality show The Capones, died February 2 of cancer. “Madeline Santarelliwas a beloved Capone family friend and will be greatly missed,” said the net in a statement.
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SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 2/2/14)
1) Various Artists – Frozen – 93,669 (After 10 weeks – 863,067)
2) Grammy Nominees – 2014 Grammy Nominees – 87,171 (After 2 weeks – 146,732)
3) Lorde – Pure Heroine – 68,038 (After 18 weeks – 901,835)

Other Debuts
4) Of Mice & Men – Restoring Force – 50,713
6) Casting Crowns – Thrive – 43,071
13) Andy Mineo – Never Land (EP) – 25,931
29) Grateful Dead – Dave’s Picks Volume 9 – 12,395
31) Jamie Grace – Ready To Fly – 11,778

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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 1/29/14)
BBCA: Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond (Premiere) at 10pm
DIY: Rescue Renovation (Premiere) at 11pm
MTV: Unplugged: Miley Cyrus (Premiere) at 9pm
TRAVEL: Toy Hunter (Premiere) at 9pm
TV ONE: Unsung: Too Short (Premiere) at 10pm
ASPIRE: The Root 100 (Finale) at 8pm
FX: American Horror Story: Coven (Finale) at 10pm
TLC: My Strange Addiction (Finale) at 10pm

ESPN analyst and former Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow is crossing over to ABC News‘ Good Morning America just in time for the Super Bowl. Tebow will co-host the morning show with the GMA team on Friday, January 31.
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The 66^th Prime Time Emmys will air on NBC on August 25 – a Monday night, rather than the usual awards-friendly Sunday berth. While the Emmys have taken place in September on CBS, ABC and Fox, NBC slotted them a month early during the net’s 2006 and 2010 rotations, so as not to conflict with Sunday Night Football. But this is the first time the show has been scheduled on a Monday since 1976.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Academy Award-winning actor, producer, director and 2014 Image Award nominee, Forest Whitaker is set to receive the NAACP Chairman’s Award during the 45th NAACP Image Awards. The ceremony will be broadcast live on Saturday, February 22 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

NBC ordered pilot Two to Go, an ensemble comedy from Jason Bateman, David Janollari and Jim Garavente centering on long-time best friends Kurt and Laura, whose friends are determined to prove they belong together.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC renewed Bet on Your Baby. Eight-episodes of the game show have been ordered for the new season.
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MGM‘s Paternity Court will be back for a second season, having secured renewals in 80% of the country. CBS‘ WLNY New York has reupped the show, as have stations from Hearst, Sinclair and Tribune Groups.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Fuse greenlit Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce for a sophomore season. The docu-series in currently in production for a June, 2014 premiere.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Syfy ordered 26 new episodes of Haven. The first 13 episodes of Season 5 are set to premiere this fall, with the remaining 13 eps scheduled to air in 2015.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Tip “T.I.” Harris Jr. and Mekhi Phifer are joining the third season of  Showtime comedy House of Lies, beginning Sunday, February 2 at 10p. The duo will be featured in a season-long arc as childhood friends-turned-moguls, who hire Marty (Don Cheadle) to help expand their business empire.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Casey Wilson will star in fiance David Caspe‘s new NBC pilot Marry Me as Annie, half of a newly engaged couple who quickly realize coupledom is harder than it looks.
(Source: Cynopsis)

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 1/26/14)
1) Various Artists – Frozen – 93,172 (After 9 weeks – 769,398)
2) Grammy Nominees – 2014 Grammy Nominees – 59,314
3) Beyonce – Beyonce – 48,003 (After 7 weeks – 1,620,165)

Other Debuts
4) A Great Big World – Is There Anybody Out There? – 47,617
7) Young The Giant – Mind Over Matter – 33,523
23) Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues – 10,595
26) Aer – Aer – 10,150

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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 1/22/14)
A&E: Wahlburgers (Premiere) at 10:30pm
COMEDY: Workaholics (Premiere) at 10pm
COMEDY: Broad City (Premiere) at 10:30pm
OVATION: The Fashion Fund (Premiere) at 10pm
PIVOT: Dark Rye (Premiere) at 9:30pm
TRAVEL: Human Safari (Premiere) at 11pm

Fox freshman comedy Enlisted is swapping time slots with Raising Hope. Starting Friday, January 24, Enlisted will take the 9p spot with stronger lead-in Bones, followed by Hope at 9:30p. Enlisted‘s ratings have been soft (.6/2 on Friday), but Fox chairman Kevin Reilly said at TCA that he planned to honor its 13-ep order.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Days of Our Lives star Alison Sweeney announced on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Tuesday that she is leaving the NBC soap after 21 years. Sweeney, who moonlights as host of The Biggest Loser, has been on Days since she was 16.
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Opera star Renee Fleming will sing the National Anthem before Fox‘s Super Bowl kickoff on Sunday, February 2. Last year Alicia Keys did the honors.
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A new round of performers were announced for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards: Gary Clark, Jr. and Hunter Hayes have been added to roster, along with a finale featuring Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Dave Grohl and Lindsey Buckingham. Show airs Sunday, January 26 at 8p.
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Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond) will host the WGA Awards West Coast ceremony on Saturday, February 1. The show will be webcast live at latimes.com at 6p.
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LIVE with Kelly and Michael is partnering with Children’s Motrin brand for the return of “LIVE’s Search for Unstoppable Moms.” Now through February 7, viewers can nominate mothers “who go above and beyond the call of duty”; four finalists will be honored on the show March 10, with the viewer favorite taking home a $100,000 prize. Last year, the first time the contest ran, the morning talk show received over 20,000 submissions.
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Jesse L. Martin (Law & Order) is joining the cast of the pilot for Arrow spinoff The Flash. Martin will play a blue-collar cop in the Warner Bros. TV project.
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Tate Donovan (Damages) takes a seat on the presidential cabinet in 24: Live Another Day, playing White House Chief of Staff. Fox event series premieres Monday, May 5 at 8p.
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The early numbers for Sunday’s championship football games bode will for the Super Bowl. CBS‘s Denver versus New England AFC matchup averaged 51.3 million viewers, the highest the net has earned for an AFC championship since 1982. FOX did even better with the NFC final, scoring an average 55.9 million viewers for San Francisco versus Atlanta, up 33 percent from last year.
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Lifetime movie Flowers in the Attic drew 6.1 million total viewers on Saturday in fast nationals. Among A25-54 (2.6 million viewers) and W25-54 (2.0 million), it was ad-supported cable’s number one original movie since October 2012’s Steel Magnolias.
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Bachelor Juan Pablo Galavis’s comments last week saying gay people shouldn’t be allowed on the show, and his subsequent apologies, had no impact on ratings. The ABC dating show on Monday drew the same 2.3 A18-49 rating it did last week.
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Comedy writer/producer Ben Starr died on January 19. He was 92. Starr co-created Silver Spoons, was a writer and producer on Diff’rent Strokes and helped develop Facts of Life. He also wrote for such series as All in the Family, The Brady Bunch and Mork & Mindy.
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SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 1/19/14)
1) Bruce Springsteen – High Hopes – 99,489
2) Various Artists – Frozen Soundtrack – 87,447 (After 8 weeks – 676,226)
3) Kidz Bop Kids – Kidz Bop 25 – 65,281

Other Debuts
5) Jennifer Nettles – That Girl – 54,091
6) Switchfoot – Fading West – 39,017
11) Rosanne Cash – river & the Thread – 18,566
14) Jon Pardi – Write You A Song – 17,050
22) Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – Give The People What They Want – 13,714
23) Elevation Worship – Only King Forever – 13,602
33) Cody Johnson – Cowboy Like Me – 8,144

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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 1/15/14)
ABC: Suburgatory (Premiere) at 8:30pm
ABC FAMILY: Melissa & Joey (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC FAMILY: Baby Daddy (Premiere) at 8:30pm
A&E: Duck Dynasty (Premiere) at 10pm
A&E: Crazy Hearts: Nashville (Premiere) at 11pm
FOX: American Idol (Premiere) at 8pm
MTV2: Charlamagne and Friends (Premiere) at 11:30pm
SHOWTIME: Jim Rome on Showtime (Premiere) at 10pm
TBS: Men at Work (Premiere) at 10pm

Season six will be the last for Justified, confirmed FX CEO Jon Landgraf at TCA on Tuesday, but the call was made by exec producers Graham Yost and Timothy Olyphant, not the net. “I would have liked to have more Justified, it’s one of my favorite shows,” said Landgraf. The cowboy drama, which just launched season five, airs Tuesdays at 10p.
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Bravo set premiere dates for Southern Charm (Monday, March 3 at 10p) about six Charlotte, S.C. singles, and Online Dating Rituals of the American Male (Sunday, March 9 at 10p) offering a look at how men search for a romantic partner.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Tattoo competition series Ink Master returns to Spike TV for season four on Tuesday, February 25 at 10p. Grand prize: $100,000 and a feature in Inked.
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Travel Channel‘s Ghost Adventures is on the move. Season nine of the paranormal investigative series will air Saturdays, starting with its February 15 premiere at 9p.
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The first round of presenters for the 20th Annual SAG Awards include Ben Affleck, Sasha Alexander, Don Cheadle, Jennifer Garner, Clark Gregg, Tom Hanks, Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey, Kerry Washington, Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey. The show will be simulcast on TNT and TBS on Saturday, January 18 at 8p.
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Opening the SAG Awards red carpet with the 14th Champagne Tattinger toast will be Elisabeth Rohm (American Hustle), with Clovis Tattinger, the brand’s export manager.
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More performers have been tapped for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. John Legend, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Kacey Musgraves, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban will be onstage, as well as Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of The Beatles. Ceremony airs Sunday, January 26 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

FX ordered a comedy pilot starring Zach Galifianakas. The Hangover star will also co-write, with Louis C.K., who has a deal with FX Prods.
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Fox greenlit Batman series Gotham, from Warner Bros. Television. Fox Entertainment chairman Kevin Reilly described the show as “an operatic soap.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Raycom Media and Bellum Entertainment are partnering to produce two new strip series. Fix It & Finish It will star Antonio Sabato (General Hospital); Flip My Food features cook and author Chef Jeff Anderson.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in the Middle) has a multi-ep guest turn on upcoming comedy Playing House. The USA series premieres this spring.
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Michael Cera (Arrested Development) and John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone) have been cast in FX comedy pilot How and Why. Hawkes will play a TV host, with Cera as his boss.
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HBO‘s True Detective premiered Sunday night to 2.3 million total viewers, with an encore airing tacking on a million more. It was the biggest HBO premiere since Boardwalk Empire drew 4.8 million in 2010. At 10p, the season three premiere of Girls hit a series high of 1.1 million viewers, a 28 percent bump from its season two bow.
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The Thursday premiere of IFC miniseries spoof The Spoils of Babylon delivered 911,000 total viewers and 477,000 among A18-49. Counting the three repeats of each of the two eps that aired, the star-studded (Will Ferrell! Tobey Maguire! Jessica Alba!) Funny or Die comedy delivered 2.3 million viewers in Live + 3.
(Source: Cynopsis)

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 1/12/14)
1) Various Artists – Frozen – 85,812 (After 7 weeks – 588,779)
2) Beyonce – Beyonce – 78,881 (After 5 weeks – 1,510,763)
3) Kid Ink – My Own Lane – 50,379

Other Debuts
24) John Newman – Tribute – 9,740

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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 1/8/14)
CBS: The 40th Annual People’s Choice Awards at 9pm
COOKING: Spice of Life with Bal Arneson (Premiere) at 9pm
GSN: Mind of a Man (Premiere) at 8pm
ID: Web of Lies (Premiere) at 10pm
MTV: The Real World: Ex-Plosion (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: Chicago PD (Premiere) at 10pm
OWN: Love Thy Neighbor (Premiere) at 9pm
PBS: Chasing Shackleton (Premiere) at 10pm
REELZ: Beverly Hills Pawn (Premiere) at 9pm
REELZ: Hollywood Treasure (Premiere) at 10pm
TRAVEL: Mega RV Countdown (Premiere) at 10pm
USA: Psych (Premiere) at 9pm

TiVo announced a new study that found the top binge-watched programs between August-October 13 for its users were Breaking Bad, Castle, NCIS, Law & Order and The Walking Dead. While users binged on Bad and Dead to catch up before the show finales, binging was popular for procedurals, the report surmised, because they “have minimal story arcs… thereby making them easy to follow even if they are viewed out of sequence.”
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Time Warner Cable is offering its customers the chance to “party like an A-lister” at NYC’s Time Warner Cable Studios. Events leading up to the Super Bowl feature stars from partner networks (a “Tailgate Experience” with chefs from Food Network‘s Chopped and Showtime sports talent; ASPiRE‘s Ultimate 70s Soul Party with Magic Johnson; FOX Sports 1‘s Super Bash with Erin Andrews and Michael Strahan; a Revolt concert with Drake and net founder Sean “Diddy” Combs). TWC subscribers have a chance to win tickets by following and retweeting @TWC through January 17.
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Super Bowl fans will take a break from action on the field to do a little shopping, if H&M has its way. The retailer plans a 30-second spot during the February 2 Fox broadcast that will allow viewers with certain Samsung smart TV’s to purchase items from David Beckham’s Bodywear line, ad tech company Delivery Agent told AdAge. A small pop-up menu will appear while the ad runs, offering the chance to buy items featured.
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Jennifer Hudson has been chosen as the recipient of the People’s Choice Award for “Favorite Humanitarian.” The honor recognizes her work with the Julian D. King Gift Foundation to bring stability to children of all backgrounds. Walgreens, official retail sponsor of the ceremony, will present the award on the telecast, and donate $100,000 to the cause. Show airs on CBS tonight at 9p.
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Add Katy Perry and Lorde to the list of performers at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. They join Robin Thicke, who will perform with Chicago, and Pharrell Williams and Stevie Wonder teaming with Daft Punk for the show airing on CBS Sunday, January 26 at 8p.
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MTV plays matchmaker on Are You the One?. In the Lighthearted Entertainment reality series, a dating algorithm finds 10 single men and women their “perfect matches,” then transports everyone to Hawaii – without revealing who belongs together. If love isn’t enough to get couples to pair up properly, there’s money: should all pre-determined partners match up, everyone walks away with a cash reward. Series, airing globally, premieres in the U.S. Tuesday, January 21 at 11p.
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Stan Lee will make an appearance on ABC‘s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Hollywood Reporter confirmed. Lee has made cameos in numerous Marvel projects, including films Iron Man and The Avengers. S.H.I.E.L.D. airs Tuesdays at 8p.
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Bravo had its best night ever in all key demos on Sunday. Red-hot Real Housewives of Atlanta earned a franchise high 4.5 million total viewers, and 2.1 rating/6 share in A18-49, topping everything in the demo except Fox’s post-football lineup. Blood, Sweat & Heels followed, scoring 2.5 million viewers and 1.1/3 in A18-49, making it the net’s highest rated premiere ever, and number one in the 9p hour among P18-49.
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DIY‘s Rev Run’s Renovation premiere Saturday drew 442,000 total viewers, boosting the time period’s P25-54 rating 62 percent over a year ago, and 31 percent over the prior 13 weeks.
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Actress/producer Carmen Zapata died from complications of heart failure on January 5. She was 86. In addition to films, Zapata appeared in TV series including Room 222, Kojak and Fantasy Island, and co-founded the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts.
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Actress Monica Spear was killed in a highway robbery in Venezuela on January 7. She was 29. Spear appeared in telenovelas including Pasion Prohibida and Mi Prima Ciela. “Monica was not only a great professional,” said Telemundo in a statement, “but also an excellent person.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Actor Larry D. Mann died on January 6. He was 91. Mann appeared on TV series including Bewitched and Hill Street Blues, and voiced the character of Yukon Cornelius in 1964’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Chinese television pioneer Run Run Shaw died January 7 at age 106. Shaw co-founded Shaw Brothers Studio and later launched Television Broadcast (TVB).
(Source: Cynopsis)

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 1/5/14)
1) Frozen Movie Soundtrack – 165,221 (After 6 weeks – 502,967)
2) Beyonce – Beyonce – 130,490 (After 4 weeks – 1,431,882)
3) Eminem – Marshall Mathers LP2 – 54,722 (After 9 weeks – 1,781,485)

POWERBALL
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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 1/1/14)
NBC: The 125th Tournament of Roses Parade (Premiere) at 11am
BIO: All For Nothing? (Premiere) at 10pm
DISCOVERY: Lone Target (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: Vacation House For Free (Premiere) at 5pm
LIFETIME: Dance Moms (Premiere) at 9pm
LIFETIME: Kim of Queens (Premiere) at 10pm
OXYGEN: Tattoos After Dark (Premiere) at 11pm
TLC: My Strange Addiction (Premiere) at 9pm

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 12/29/13)
1) Beyonce – Beyonce – 310,270 (After 3 weeks – 1,301,392)
2) One Direction – Midnight Memories – 142,373 (After 5 weeks – 1,096,021)
3) Eminem – Marshall Mathers LP2 – 122,092 (After 8 weeks – 1,726,763)

Other Debuts
42) Lumineers – Lumineers – 14,940

POWERBALL
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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 12/25/13)
ABC: Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade at 10am
ABC: NBA Basketball at 2pm
CW: The Lost Magic Garden Christmas Special (Premiere) at 6pm
TRAVEL: White Magic (Premiere) at 9pm
ESQUIRE: How I Rock Iy (Finale) at 10pm
ESQUIRE: Alternate Route (Finale) at 10:30pm
E!: Burning Love (Finale) at 10:30pm
HISTORY: Bible Secrets Revealed (Finale) at 10pm

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 12/22/13)
1) Beyonce – Beyonce – 373,803 (After 2 weeks – 991,122)
2) Garth Brooks – Blame It All On My Roots – 199,168 (After 4 weeks – 680,547
3) One Direction – Midnight Memories – 166,066 (953,648)

Other Debuts
21) B.O.B. – Underground Luxury – 35,047
38) We The Kings – Somewhere Somehow – 17,748

MEGA MILLIONS
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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 12/18/13)
CBS: A Home For The Holidays with Celine Dion (Premiere) at 8pm
CW: iHeart Radio Jingle Ball 2013 from Madison Square Garden (Premiere) at 8pm
ID: Diabolical (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: Michael Buble’s 3rd Annual Christmas Special (Premiere) at 9pm
SYFY: Haunted Highway (Finale) at 9pm
TNT: Mob City (Finale) at 9pm
ABC: Barbara Walters Presents The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2013 (Premiere) at 9:30pm

NBC has officially given the go-ahead for 12-hour miniseries A.D., the follow-up to Mark Burnett and Roma Downey‘s mega-hit History mini-series, The Bible. “We are firmly in the ‘event’ business,” said Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment, “and nothing has more event potential than A.D.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Season four mentors Shakira and Usher are returning for The Voice‘s next edition, once again filling the chairs of Christina Aguilera and CeeLo Green. Adam Levine and Blake Shelton are staying put. Season six launches with a two-night premiere Monday, February 24 and Tuesday, February 25 at 8p.
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Epix will premiere comedy special Jenny McCarthy’s Dirty Sexy Funny on Valentine’s Day, February 14, at 11p, with stand-up performances by comics, and vignettes from the View host. Past Epix stand-up specials have featured Louis C. K., Tom Papa and Sherri Shepherd.
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Some of the most outrageous music moments (Hi, Miley!) are relived in E! special Sounding Off: The 2013 Year in Music. Host Terrence Jenkins and panelists including DJ Pauly D and singer Christina Milian share their views on Friday, December 27 at 10p.
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Annie Mumolo (Middle Age Rage) has been cast in a recurring role on NBC midseason comedy About A Boy. David Walton and Minnie Driver star.
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Linda Cardellini (Mad Men) landed the recurring role of Abby, Jess’s sister, on Fox‘s New Girl. Season three of the comedy returns Tuesday, January 7 at 9p.
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Ashley Williams (Christmas in the City) won the role of Jim Gaffigan‘s wife in the comedian’s CBS pilot, reports Deadline. Mira Sorvino had originally been attached to the part.
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NBC‘s The Voice held a commanding lead Monday night with a 3.3/9 rating in A18-49, but was down nine-tenths from its year-ago performance finale episode. On CBS, 2 Broke Girls dropped four tenths to 2.3/7 in the demo to tie its series low, but Mike & Molly saw a two-tenths pop, to 2.2/6.
(Source: Cynopsis)

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 12/15/13)
1) Beyonce – Beyonce – 617,319
2) Garth Brooks – Blame It All On My Roots – 171,508 (After 3 weeks – 481,379)
3) Kelly Clarkson – Wrapped In Red – 136,016 (After 7 weeks – 577,769)

Other Debuts
4) R. Kelly – Black Panties – 133,426
7) Childish Gambino – Because The Internet – 96,080
24) Zac Brown Band – The Grohl Sessions Vol. 1 – 26,707
26) Young Neil – Live At The Cellar Door – 23,003
30) Music of Nashville – Soundtrack (S2, Vol. 1) – 17,621

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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 12/11/13)
NBC: Kelly Clarkson’s Cautionary Christmas Music Tale (Premiere) at 10pm
A&E: Rodeo Girls (Premiere) at 11pm
FUSE: Insane Clown Posse theater (Premiere) at 11:30pm
GAC: Highway cowboys (Premiere) at 8:30pm
PALLADIA:  The Live Room (Premiere) at 8pm
TV LAND: The Exes (Premiere) at 10:30pm

Bette Midler will play Mae West in a project in development at HBO, reports Deadline. It seems bound for TV – not only is Midler attached, but William Friedkin is on board to direct and exec produce, and Harvey Fierstein to write.
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During A&E‘s Duck Dynasty Christmas Special tonight, the net will kick off its collaboration with Twitter Amplify with content across social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram rolling out quote cards and memes in real time, and a “Retweet to Win” sweeps. Holiday ep airs tonight, December 11 at 10p.
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TLC docuseries Escaping the Prophet follows the efforts of social activist and former FLDS member Flora Jessop as she works to free families from the secretive polygamist group. The Screaming Flea production launches its six-episode run Tuesday, January 7 at 10p.
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E!‘s Giuliana Rancic sits down with NeNe Leakes (Real Housewives of Atlanta) to talk about the reality star’s troubled childhood, remarriage to her ex-husband and rise to TV stardom on E! Entertainment Special: NeNe Leakes, airing Monday, December 16 at 10p.
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Kathy Griffin will set a Guinness World Record for “Most Stand-Up Specials By a Comedian” with her 20th televised special, Kathy Griffin: Record Breaker. Show airs on Bravo Wednesday, December 18 at 8p.
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Epix announced the premiere date for documentary Who the F*** is Arthur Fogel?, about the man who helped revolutionize the music industry. Maybe you haven’t heard of him  but “He’s a touring genius,” according to Madonna, one of the music stars in the program, premiering Wednesday, January 29 at 8p.
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Turner Classic Movies honors Eleanor Parker with a 14-hour marathon of seven of the late actress’s films, including Of Human Bondage and The Woman in White, beginning at 6a on Tuesday, December 17. Parker, who played the baroness in 1965’s Sound of Music, died December 9 at 91.
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OneRepublic has been set to perform at the 40th annual People’s Choice Awards. Live show airs on CBS Wednesday, January 8 at 9p.
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Comedy Central renewed Tosh.0 for seasons seven, eight and nine. The viral video show, now in its fifth season and set to premiere its sixth on Tuesday, February 18, is the top entertainment series on TV among M18-24 on Tuesday nights, averaging 3.0 million viewers and a 2.2 rating in A18-49 season-to-date.
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My 600-lb Life returns to TLC to document the journeys of morbidly obese people as they change their lives through gastric bypass surgery. Season two of the eight-part series from Megalomedia premieres Tuesday, January 7 at 9p.
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NBC greenlit four-hour miniseries Rosemary’s Baby. The Lionsgate project, based on the 1967 horror novel by Ira Levin, was put in development in July.
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Cult fave Happy Endings, canceled by ABC in June after three seasons, will air in reruns on VH1. A marathon of all 57 episodes of the Sony Pictures Television production starts New Year’s Eve at 8p, and will be available on VH1’s TV Everywhere app. The comedy takes its place in the Wednesday lineup starting January 8, from 7p-9p.
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Law & Order: SVU‘s Dann Florek (Donald Cragen) is leaving the show. “Friday was the last day 4 Cragen/Florek,” tweeted Florek on December 9. “But he’ll live on in syndication land 4 evah!” Florek had been with the procedural since its 1999 launch.
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Megan Mulally will guest on freshman comedy Sean Saves the World, starring Mulally’s Will & Grace “poodle” and partner in crime, Sean Hayes, reports TVLine. The actress will play the sister of Hayes’ character. NBC series airs Thursdays at 9p.
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Comedian Kevin Pollak (Million Dollar Money Drop) will join freshman comedy Mom in January as Anna Faris‘ father, per the Hollywood Reporter. Mom airs on CBS Mondays at 9:30p.
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Judith Light (Who’s The Boss?) will guest on Fox comedy Raising Hope. Light will play Virginia’s (Martha Plimpton) boss in an ep debuting in early 2014, says the Hollywood Reporter. Hope airs Fridays at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Patrick Heusinger (Revolution) landed the lead in NBC pilot Tin Man, reports Deadline. Heusinger will play a fugitive robot on the crime thriller.
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UP original movie Marry Me for Christmas, starring Malinda Williams (Soul Food) and Brad James (For Better or Worse) premieres Saturday, December 14 at 7p, with encores at 9p and 11p. The Swirl Films flick airs the next day on ASPiRE at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 12/8/13)
1) Garth Brooks – Blame It All On My Roots – 146,267 (After 2 weeks – 309,871)
2) One Direction – Midnight Memories – 117,068 (After 2 weeks – 664,358)
3) Kelly Clarkson – Wrapped In Red – 111,964 (After 6 weeks – 441,860)

Other Debuts
4) Britney Spears – Britney Jean – 106,865
13) Jake Owen – Days of Gold – 39,428
15) Original TV Soundtrack  featuring Carrie Underwood – Sound of Music – 37,601
23) Jenni Rivera – 1969-Siempre En Vivo – 24,070
26) Sevyn Streeter – Call Me Crazy – 17,098

POWERBALL
Today’s Jackpot is $122 million.

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