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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 2/27/13)
DIY: Rescue My Renovation (Premiere) at 9pm
INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY: Evil Twins (Premiere) at 9pm
INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY: Dark Minds (Premiere) at 10pm
RLTV: Who’s Cooking with Florence Henderson (Premiere) at 9pm
TNT: Boston’s Finest (Premiere) at 9pm
A&E: Duck Dynasty (Premiere) at 10pm
SYFY: Stranded (Premiere) at 10pm
USA: Psych (Premiere) at 10pm
TV ONE: Unsung: Eddie Kendricks (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: Guys with Kids (Finale) at 8:30pm
BRAVO: Top Chef: Seattle (Finale) at 10pm

Ratings evidence points to CBS winning the February sweeps among A18-49 for the first time since 1998 (when CBS broadcast the Winter Olympics). To date and with three days remaining in the period, CBS has more than 8 million total viewers compared with second place ABC, according to Nielsen Live + Same Day ratings through the week ending February 24. CBS’ advantage this sweep period includes having eight of the top 10 broadcasts for the month in both A18-49 and total viewers including the Super Bowl, the Grammy Awards and its regular series, The Big Bang Theory and NCIS.
(Source: Cynopsis)

What do two Olympic Gold medalists, a country music legend and a boxing champ have in common? They’re all competing in the next season of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars opening Monday, March 18 at 8p. DWTS’s celebrity lineup consists of:

1.  Disney Channel star Zendaya Coleman and Val Chmerkovski
2.  Actor/comedian Andy Dick and first-time pro dancer Sharna Burgess
3.  Olympic Gold medal-winning figure skater Dorothy Hamill and Tristan MacManus
4.  Stand-up comedian D.L. Hughley and Cheryl Burke
5.  Pro football player Jacoby Jones and Karina Smirnoff
6.  Country music star Wynonna Judd and last year’s pro dancing winner Tony Dovolani
7.  Boxing champ Victor Ortiz and newcomer Lindsay Arnold
8.  Former American Idol contestant Kelllie Pickler and Derek Hough
9.  Soap opera star Ingo Rademacher and Kym Johnson
10.  Olympic Gold medal-winning gymnast Alexandra Raisman and Mark Ballas
11.  Reality TV star Lisa Vanderpump and newcomer Gleb Savchenko.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC also announced Barbara Walters is returning to The View as of next Monday after several weeks of recovery following a bout with chicken pox and a concussion. Walters has been MIA from The View since January 22.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Season three of Food Network’s Chopped All-Stars is back starting Sunday, April 7 at 9p.  Ted Allen hosts the competition series where 16 culinary experts vie for a $50,000 prize for their favorite charity.  The winner will be revealed on Sunday, May 5 at 9p. Chopped All-Stars is produced by Notional Entertainment.
(Source: Cynopsis)

TBS is moving forward with a new late-night comedy series starring comedian Pete Holmes produced by Conan O’Brien’s company Conaco LLC.  The new Holmes series will launch this fall and air four nights a week (Monday-Thursday) at midnight following Conan.  Jeff Ross, David Kissinger, Nick Bernstein, Dave Rath and O’Brien all serve as EPs.  The series will be taped in front of a live studio audience and will feature Holmes’ unique comedy talent, sketches, short films, live comedy, field pieces and in-studio guest interviews all in 30 minutes.
(Source: Cynopsis)

British actor Tom Mison has been cast as Icabod Crane in FOX’s Sleepy Hollow thriller drama.  The project is being written and executive produced by Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Kathy Bates may take on Jessica Lange in the third installment of FX’s American Horror Story.  Bates is near a deal to join Lange in the anthology series playing a best friend-turned-enemy of Lange’s new character in the series.  Plot details are being kept under wrap though series co-creator Ryan Murphy has said this next edition will be more cheerful than the last Asylum edition.
(Source: Cynopsis)

BBC America revealed the cast for its new drama series The Musketeers slated to premiere in 2014.  Luke Pasqualino (Skins, The Borgias) will star as D’Artagnan along with Tom Burke (The Hour) as Athos, Santiago Cabrera (Merlin) as Aramis and Howard Charles (Royal Shakespeare Company) as Porthos.  Peter Capaldi, Tamla Kari, Maimie McCoy and Hugo Speer are also starring in the ten-episode contemporary take on the story created by Alexandre Dumas.  The Musketeers is a BBC Drama Production for BBC One, co-produced by BBC America and BBC Worldwide.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Cablevision Systems has filed an antitrust suit against Viacom in a Manhattan federal court citing what it calls the programmers’ illegal forcing of the cable operators to carry 14 “lesser-watched” channels.  Viacom contends Cablevision is attempting to renegotiate a two-month old contract through the courts.  Cablevision countered its customers do not want such networks as Palladia, MTV Hits and VH1 Classic in a package along with more popular networks like Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central.  Cablevision wants its December 2012 carriage deal voided, “a permanent injunction barring Viacom from conditioning carriage of any or all of its Core networks on Cablevision’s licensing any or all of Viacom’s ancillary networks,” as well as treble damages and legal fees.
(Source: Cynopsis)

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 2/24/13)
1) Mumford & Sons – Babel – 62,756 (After 22 weeks – 1,984,608)
2) Bruno Mars – Unorthodox Jukebox – 48,238 (After 11 weeks – 865,217)
3) Josh Groban – All That Echoes – 41,341 (After 3 weeks – 258,579)

Other Debuts
20) Buckcherry – Confessions – 17,868
29) Nick Cave – & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away – 15,338

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