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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 5/24/12)
ABC: Duets (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: Rookie Blue (Premiere) at 10pm
FOX: So You Think You Can Dance (Premiere) at 8pm
TLC: On The Fly (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: Tattoo School (Premiere) at 10pm
TBS: Men At Work (Premiere) at 10pm & 10:30pm
NBC: Awake (Finale) at 10pm
The 46th Annual Country Music Association (CMA) Awards will air live on ABC November 1 at 8p. The telecast will air from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.
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In early June, Discovery Fit & Health presents a week-long programming event called Psych Week beginning June 3 to June 8. Hosted by Carrie Fisher, Psych Week will offer mental health programming that highlights various afflictions and addictions each night at 8p with specials and documentaries along with the new mystery series Broken Minds premiering with back-to-back episodes on June 6 at 9p. Broken Minds is hosted by Dr. Reef Karim and explores patients who live in an alternative reality and the doctors who are trying to help them. A full list of Psych Week programming can be found at http://press.discovery.com/us/dfh/.
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HISTORY’s series Cajun Pawn Stars is back with a new season starting June 6 at 9p. The series, a spinoff of the network’s series Pawn Stars, is set at the Silver Dollar Pawn & Jewelry Center in Alexandria, Louisiana owned and run by Jimmie DeRamus and his family. Leftfield Pictures produces the series for HISTORY.
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A third season of Flying Wild Alaska premieres on Discovery Channel June 8 at 10p. The series follows the Tweto family who provide the only lifeline to isolated communities of Northern Alaska through their regional airline, Era Alaska.
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Beginning in August, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network is partnering with The Huffington Post Media Group. OWN will have a special section on The Huffington Post’s website featuring content created by writers and producers from OWN and Oprah.com specifically for The Huffington Post.
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Monday’s 16th season debut of VH1 Storytellers on VH1 at 11p averaged a 0.5 rating with A18-49 and delivered 723,000 total viewers.
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Film, TV and stage actress Janet Carroll died Tuesday in New York at the age of 71. Ms. Carroll was best-known playing Tom Cruise’s mother on vacation in the 1983 film Risky Business. Her acting career spanned three decades and included two recurring roles in two popular sitcoms, playing the owner of the store where shoe salesman Al Bundy (Ed O’Neill) worked in FOX’s Married … With Children and as the wife of anchorman Jim Dial (Charles Kimbrough) on CBS’ Murphy Brown. Ms. Carroll also had regular roles on the television series The Bronx Zoo, The Bonnie Hunt Show as well as stints on Brothers & Sisters, Designing Women, Matlock, Third Rock from the Sun, Law & Order: SVU and Scrubs. A sampling of her films included The Killing Time (1987), Memories of Me (1988), Family Business (1989) among others in addition to the upcoming film College Debts. Ms. Carroll made her Broadway debut in 2005 in the original musical Little Women and also appeared elsewhere on stage in Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Couple of White Chicks and Electra. She also appeared in eight major musicals every summer for five years at the Starlight Theatre in Kansas City, where she began her stage career following high school. Ms. Carroll’s survivors include her son George and daughter-in-law Lauren. A memorial service for Ms. Carroll is this Saturday at 3p at Advent Lutheran Church in New York.
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Gillian Zinser will not be reprising her series regular role as Ivy on The CW’s 90210 when the series returns for a fifth season. The CW will likely bring back Zinser as a guest star though there is no indication for how many episodes.
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CASTING CALL
A new docu-series pilot produced by World of Wonder is seeking powerful women. Specifically, the production is looking for a group of powerful, business-minded girlfriends or co-workers located in New York, Los Angeles or Chicago. Type-A women who take care of business at home and at work are needed for this TV project. The women can be married, divorced, dating or single. To apply, send an email to WEINGRADCASTING@GMAIL.COM and include your name, age, occupation, plus a description of your group of girlfriends, your romantic relationship and your household and how it works and what makes you successful. Include photos and your direct contact information (phone, email).
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