Wednesday, February 5, 2014

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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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