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Good morning. It’s Thursday December 8, 2016 and this is your first early morning briefing.
Tonight’s Premieres:
A&E: Gangland Undercover at 10p
Canal 22 Mexico: Reflejos. Cronicas de la cuidad at 9:30p
History: Alone at 9p, The Selection: Special Operations Experiment at 10p
ID: Pandora’s Box: Unleashing Evil at 10p
Tonight’s Finales:
ABC: Notorious at 10p
truTV: Those Who Can’t at 10:30p
The CW is ending the reign of Reign after its upcoming fourth season, which debuts February 10. The story of a young Mary Queen of Scots, from CBS TV Studios, has just begun filming the season 4 finale, which now will be a series closer.
Lester Holt didn’t end up anchoring NBC Nightly News live from Hawaii last night as planned, on the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. Holt explained via a Facebook post that “an illness in the family prevents me from being there.” The broadcast still contained Holt’s taped interview with former Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw.
More legal discord for CNN. The network is facing a class action suit from a former employee and others, based on the network’s own books. DeWayne Walker, a producer at CNN who filed a $50 million suit earlier this year claiming racial discrimination and retaliation, filed another suit this week against CNN, Time Warner & Turner. “As a result of the current discrimination lawsuit… we have uncovered stories involving abuse of power, nepotism, revenge, retaliation and discrimination,” Walker’s attorney Daniel Meachum said in a statement today.
Presenters for the 22nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards include Amy Adams, Ty Burrell, Lily Collins, Common, Kaley Cuoco, Bryce Dallas Howard, Kevin Hart, Nicole Kidman, Leslie Mann, James Marsden, Michelle Monaghan, Jeremy Renner, Bella Thorne, Justin Timberlake and Damon Wayans. Winners will be revealed live on A&E on Sunday, December 11 at 8p, following the Critics’ Choice Red Carpet Live special on the network.
For the first time since Ink Master debuted, the Spike show has a female winner. Ryan Ashley was named champ of season 8, earning among other things a cash prize of $100,000 and some serious bragging rights.
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truTV is going all-in on comedy. On the heels of its brand refresh announcement last week, the network ordered additional seasons of original programs Adam Ruins Everything and The Carbonaro Effect, gave additional episode orders for freshman series Greatest Ever and You Can Do Better. truTV has also picked up first seasons of new series Talk Show the Game Show, starring comedian Guy Branum, and Chris Webber’s Full Court Pranks. Additionally, the network is developing new projects including those via a deal with Austin Martinez Comedy and truTV’s first animated scripted project Greenhouse (wt).
Working Title Television set up three broadcast drama series projects, the company’s first development deals since Andrew Stearn joined as president.
In development are an adaptation of James Renner tome The Man From Primrose Lane at Fox, with director/producer Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes) attached; Bermuda triangle-themed series Triangle at NBC; and dance drama series DTLA at ABC, written by Amy Talkington (Valley Girl co-writer).
History ordered a fourth season of survival series Alone in advance of the season 3 premiere. The third season launches Thursday, December 8 at 9p, placing 10 survivalists alone in the cold, isolated region of Patagonia, Argentina with one mission: to stay alive. Alone is produced by Leftfield Pictures. David George, Shawn Witt, Zachary Green and Ryan Pender serve as executive producers for Leftfield Pictures; Zachary Behr and Russ McCarroll serve as executive producers for History.
The eighth season of Undercover Boss kicks off with two new back-to-back episodes Wednesday, December 21 at 8p on CBS before moving to its regular 8p Wednesday time slot on December 28. The new season features Build-A-Bear Workshop president/CEO Sharon Price John, and Greg Scott, CEO of fashion retailer New York & Company.
This January, Discovery Family is engineering outrageous playrooms and making party planning a piece of cake with the launch of new series The Dengineers and Post My Party on Tuesday, January 3 at 7p and 7:30p. In the 11-ep series, a team travels the UK to create kid-friendly worlds with magical atmospheres, from a football-inspired rec room to a massive music amp shaped playhouse. Post My Party features event expert and DIY maven Lynzie Kent as she helps up-and-coming hosts bring their dream parties to life.
TV One is ringing in the new year with the 10th season of its longest-running series, Unsung, premiering Wednesday, January 4 at 8p. The upcoming season will feature Fat Joe, Jon B., Lenny Williams, Case, Dave Hollister, After 7, and the legendary James Brown.
On Thursday, January 5 at 10p WE tv invites viewers to join paranormal ghost hunting team the O.P.O (Official Paranormal Operations) as they investigate some of the most haunted places in LA in new docuseries Ghosts in the Hood. The O.P.O. investigates the unknown, solving cases ranging from a spirit-plagued Pinata shop to a bar whose unexplained hauntings has guests and workers refusing to enter.
Animal Planet’s Treehouse Masters returns Friday, January 6 at 10p as “tree whisperer” Pete Nelson leads his team of craftsmen to build even bigger and better nature headquarters and homes high in the treetops. In a special international premiere ep, he journeys to Sweden and Norway.
FYI’s original series Tiny House Nation returns big with new episodes on Saturday, January 7 at 9p, followed by the season 2 premiere of Unplugged Nation at 10p. Both series showcase alternative living trends that have gained popularity across the country from extreme downsizing and living tiny to people who are looking to simplify their lives and move from urban cities to off-the-grid settings. Among guests on the new Tiny House season are NFL Hall-of-Famer Deion Sanders and his wife, TV host Tracey Edmonds.
Home renovation series This Old House will be restoring an abandoned home in Detroit for the show’s 37th season, through the city’s ‘Rehabbed & Ready’ program. This is the second time the series, which airs nationally on PBS, will tackle a renovation project in Michigan. The building, initially filled with discarded belongings and refuse, was gutted by a team of Detroit-based contractors to install all new plumbing, wiring and mechanicals, a new kitchen, two bathrooms, and landscaping all within a four-month period. The house will go on the market in early 2017.
Discovery is putting a new spin on the survivalist genre with The Wheel, a new adventure series from Pilgrim Media Group in which six participants must survive in six distinctly grueling landscapes across South America. With every turn of the wheel, each survivalist is dropped into a new isolated location and exposed to the deadly terrains including freezing tundra, rugged mountains and treacherous rainforest. Participants don’t know when or why the wheel will turn. Series premieres Friday, January 13 at 10p.
CBS will air the 25th anniversary special of the Deer Valley Celebrity Skifest on Sunday, December 11 at 5p, adjacent to NFL Football. The Skifest has raised more than $6 million dollars to date for the Waterkeeper Alliance foundation. The special will include celebrity appearances from Larry David, JB Smoove, Robert F Kennedy Jr., Pierce Brosnan, Dierks Bentley, Matthew Morrison and more.
Dolly Parton and additional artists will perform live on Great American Country for the Smoky Mountains Rise Telethon, Tuesday, December 13 at 8p. The event will raise funds to benefit those whose homes are uninhabitable or were completely destroyed in the recent Smoky Mountain wildfires.
USA Network is setting its holiday table with WWE Holiday Week, beginning Monday, December 12. In addition to regularly scheduled live WWE events, USA will feature movies starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and the 14th annual WWE’S Tribute to the Troops special on Wednesday, December 14 at 8p.
Fox will air the premiere episode of The Mick from 8-8:30p ET and 5-5:30p PT, immediately after the NFL double header on January 1. The episode then will encore later that night in the Pacific time zone at 8p and the Mountain time zone at 7p, before making its time period premiere with a new episode on Tuesday, January 3 at 8:30p.
HGTV will usher in 2017 with commercial-free coverage of the 128th Rose Parade on Monday, January 2, at 11a. Network personality Egypt Sherrod (Flipping Virgins) and Emmy-winning entertainment journalist Nancy O’Dell will provide real-time commentary throughout the parade, themed “Echoes of Success” – a celebration of the people, institutions and organizations that help in the success of others. DIY Network’s Josh Temple (House Crashers) will also be in the middle of the street-side action to report live along Pasadena’s Colorado Boulevard with exclusive interviews from spectators and float riders.
A dolphin-loving woman, a businesswoman who runs her parents’ multimillion-dollar flooring empire and a no-nonsense Southern belle are among the 30 bachelorettes who will compete to make bachelor Nick Viall their future husband when the 21st edition of ABC romance reality series The Bachelor premieres, Monday, January 3 at 8p on ABC. The network released the complete list of bachelorettes yesterday.
HBO will premiere doc Becoming Warren Buffet on January 30 at 10p. The feature-length treatment on the 86-year-old billionaire investor and philanthropist contains unprecedented access to Buffett’s day-to-day personal life.
Mido Hamada (Emerald City) joins as a series regular and Kenneth Choi (American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson) in a recurring role on Counterpart, Starz’s upcoming straight-to-series spy thriller.
Sinclair Broadcast Group is launching TBD, a multiscreen TV network to bring premium Internet-first content to TV homes across the US. Launching in early 2017, TBD will feature content curated from the digital world and delivered via a new Sinclair multicast channel. Content partnerships include Canvas Movie Studios, Jukin, Legendary Digital Networks (Nerdist and Geek & Sundry), Whistle Sports, Kinonation and Zoomin’. Sinclair will be retaining The QYOU, the curator of online video culture for television, to program the network and to provide creative support.
CNN has lined up a host of brand partners to mark the 10th annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute, which honors everyday people who are making extraordinary contributions to help improve the lives of others. Co-hosted by Anderson Cooper and Kelly Ripa, the ceremony airs live on Sunday, December 11 at 8p from the American Museum of Natural History in NY. First-time partner Astellas Pharma joins returning brands Geico, Humana and Subaru.
Start Your Engines, a new study of active auto shoppers conducted in November by Research Now, finds that TV carries the most influence of all media throughout their decision process. The report shows that millennials are twice as likely to become aware of their local car dealership via TV than the next-leading means, online search (56 percent to 26 percent), while 25- to 54-year-olds are 74 percent more likely (53 percent TV vs. 30 percent search). When it comes to deciding to take a test drive, 40 percent of millennials and A25-54 cite TV as their primary motivator.
CBS All Access, CBS’ digital subscription VOD and live-streaming service, will premiere its first original drama series The Good Fight on Sunday, February 19 at 8p. The Good Fight picks up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of The Good Wife on CBS. In the new series, an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart’s savings. Forced out of Lockhart & Lee, they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago’s pre-eminent law firms.
Turner and Snapchat expanded their partnership to include portfolio-wide content, distribution and a new advertising deal. The expanded deal includes original, exclusive shows and a new Bleacher Report Discover Channel in the US.
Comic-Con HQ, the premium digital network from Lionsgate and Comic-Con International, will premiere the second season of Con Man today (December 8).
Arts and entertainment network Canal 22 Mexico will debut Maru Toledo y las Mujeres del Maiz, a new series featuring chef and food researcher Maru Toledo on Sunday, December 11 at 7p. For the series, Toledo will travel to different communities in the state of Jalisco to interview traditional cooks and recount cultural and religious anecdotes related to the recipes that are still used by the women who represent some of the last remaining generations of the traditional cuisine. of
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Telemundo’s first-ever Super Series spinoff, El Chema, ranked as the No. 1 Spanish-language program in primetime, delivering 2,435,000 total viewers and 1,434,000 A18-49 on its premiere night Tuesday, outperforming Univision at 10p by 22 percent and 63 percent, respectively, according to Nielsen.
Judge Judy swept to a winning November verdict, with a 7.2 sweep average to make it the highest-rated show in syndication overall for the ninth time in the past 11 major surveys. Judy scored a new season high 7.5 in the week ending November 27.
Dr. Phil (3.6) beat the closest talk shows in the sweep by 44 percent, his widest margin of victory ever, and continued to dominate the category for the 15th consecutive major ratings period. Live with Kelly (2.5) and Ellen DeGeneres (2.5) finished in a dead heat for second place.
True-crime series Crime Watch Daily (1.0), which grew 11 percent from last November, the biggest annual increase of any daytime talk or legal show; and newcomer Harry (1.2), which outperformed the best sweep stats of last November’s rookie crop by 33 percent.
Top 10 M-F Syndicated Strip Series for the November 16 sweep 10/27/16-11/23/16 ranked in order by HH Rtg
Judge Judy (CTD) 7.2AA
ESPN NFL Regular Season (ESPN) 7.1AA
Family Feud (2/T) 6.7AA
Wheel of Fortune (CTD) 6.2AA
Jeopardy (CTD) 5.9AA
The Big Bang Theory (WB) 5.4AA
Dr. Phil (CTD) 3.6AA
Entertainment Tonight (CTD) 3.3AA
Inside Edition (CTD) 2.9AA
Modern Family (2/T) 2.8AA
Hot Bench (CBS) 2.5AA
Source: Nielsen Media Research
Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 time period averages.
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD
CBS: 7.4/13
NCIS 8.9/15, Bull 7.2/12, NCIS: New Orleans 5.9/11
NBC: 6.1/11
The Voice 6.3/11, This Is Us 6.9/12, Chicago Fire 5.0/9
ABC: 2.4/4
The Middle 3.8/6, American Housewife 3.1/5, Fresh Off the Boat 2.4/4, The Real O’Neals 2.0/3, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D 1.5/3
CW: 1.2/2
The Flash 1.9/3, No Tomorrow .5/1
UNIVISION: 1.1/2
Despartar Contigo 0.9/1, Tres Veces Ana 1.2/2, Secretos Tres Veces Ana 1.1/2
TELE: 1.1/2
Silvana Sin Lana .9/2, La Dona 1.0/2, El Chema 1.3/2
FOX: 1.0/2
Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1.4/2, New Girl 1.1/2, Scream Queens .7/1
Monday A19-49: NBC 2.1/8, CBS 1.5/5, ABC 1.0/4, FOX .7/3, CW .7/3UNI .6/2, TELE .6/2,
President-elect Donald Trump selected former WWE executive Linda McMahon to lead the Small Business Administration. McMahon unsuccessfully twice ran for a republican Senate seat in Connecticut, in 2010 and 2012.
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan appointed David P. Scheffenacker Jr. and Shelly L. Gardeniers to the 11-member Maryland Public Broadcasting Commission, the governance board for Maryland Public Television. In their new roles, Scheffenacker and Gardeniers will work with fellow commissioners to oversee the statewide public broadcaster.
This Day in History: 1993 – President Bill Clinton signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT – THURSDAY DECEMBER 8, 2016
ABC: The Story that Time Forgot, Shrek the Halls, Great American Baking Show, Notorious
CBS: The Big Bang Theory, The Great Indoors, Mom, Life In Pieces, Pure Genius
CW: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Supernatural
FOX: Taraji’s White Hot Holidays, Pitch
NBC: Football Night in Kansas City, NFL Football
PBS: This Old House Hour, Christmas at Belmont, Antiques Roadshow
Telemundo: Silvana Sin Lana, La Dona, El Chema
Univision: Despertar Contigo, Vino el Amor, El Color de la Pasion
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