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FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 11/19/10)
TLC: Homemade Millionaire (Premiere) at 10pm
VH1: Kid Rock: Born Free (Premiere) at 10:30pm
VH1: Friday Night Alright: Kid Rock (Premiere) at 11pm

Oprah Winfrey airs her “My Favorite Things” show today at 4pm.

(SATURDAY 11/20/10)
A&E: Fix This Kitchen (Finale) at 10am
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Anne Hathaway, Musical Guest: Florence And The Machine

(SUNDAY 11/21/10)
ABC: American Music Awards at 8pm
E!: The E! True Hollywood Story: Adam Lambert
DISCOVERY CHANNEL: Brew Masters (Premiere) at 10pm
HISTORY: Top Gear (Premiere) at 10pm
WE TV: Jilted? (Premiere) at 10pm & 10:30pm
FOOD: The Next Iron Chef (Finale) at 9pm
BBC AMERICA: Luther (Finale) at 10pm

CBS is indeed canceling its drama series Medium. Earlier this week, series star Patricia Arquette said the show was finished and yesterday the series creator Glenn Gordon Caron also confirmed its demise. Medium is to date averaging 7.1 million viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The 2010 Alma Awards will not be broadcast on ABC this year, or on any other network. The Alma Awards honor positive portrayals of Latinos in the entertainment industry and has aired on ABC each fall for the last several years. Delia de la Vara, a producer of the awards show and the VP of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) said the Alma Awards will likely return in 2011 on a different network. “We’re working toward a 2011 fall broadcast of the show during Hispanic Heritage Month,” said de la Vara. “That’s the right time to showcase the stories about the contributions that Latinos are making in television, film, music and sports.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

VH1 opens a second season of Basketball Wives on December 12 at 9p, expanding the series to hour-long episodes. The new season with 10 episodes, travels to Miami to catch up with the basketball wives and girlfriends from season one along with four new women. Shed Media produces the series.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Angela Bassett landed a starring role on ABC’s new one-hour cop drama One Police Plaza that is currently in development from executive producer Mark Gordon (Criminal Minds, Grey’s Anatomy). If this project becomes a full-fledged series, Bassett will portray the first-ever female New York police commissioner. Gordon is executive producing along with his production partner Deb Spera.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Harry Shum Jr. will return as a regular cast member on FOX’s Glee for next season, cites EW.
(Source: Cynopsis)

MOVIES
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows (Part 1) – Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes
The Next Three Days – Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Brian Dennehy, Lennie James

NYC STREET FAIRS
They are done for the year.  They will be back next summer.

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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 11/18/10)
TLC: Pawn Queens (Premiere) at 10pm & 10:30pm

TNT canceled the cop series Dark Blue from Jerry Bruckheimer and Warner Horizon Television headlined by Dylan McDermott. Dark Blue ran for two seasons with the second season concluding in early September and averaged nearly 2.2 million viewers per episode. TNT is also slated the premiere date for season two of Men of a Certain Age on December 6.
(Source: Cynopsis)

MTV debuts a new docu-series showcasing amazing and shocking stories from around the world when The Vice Guide to Everything opens December 6 at 11p. The series follows Vice magazine founder Shane Smith and his intrepid reporters, Ryan Duffy and Thomas Morton as they travel the globe investigating bizarre and dangerous stories from ferreting out Al Qaeda in Yemen to testing bulletproof jackets in Bogota.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Pierce Brosnan may be making a TV comeback in a new project produced by Sony Pictures Television, cites THR. Brosnan, known for his former Remington Steel TV role and starring in four James Bond films will appear in and produce a new series about an international operative and problem solver for hire. Brosnan is not expected to be the lead character in the project. Sony TV is first shopping the series in the international marketplace. Executive producers include Jack Orman (ER), Beau St. Clair, Keri Selig as well as Brosnan.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Comedienne Kathy Griffin has said her series, Bravo’s My Life on the D List, may not be back for a seventh season, per EW. Griffin said she would be interested in doing “a hybrid show, like a half-scripted kind of thing or something based on what I built on My Life on the D List and what I experience, but not a full-on reality show.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

CASTING CALL
Doron Ofir Casting is looking for fun and outrageous families in the Los Angeles area to part of a family-themed pop culture trivia game show from the producers of Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?. Multi-generational families of all ethnicities are invited to apply. The show is looking for two families consisting of four members each with family members falling into at least four of the following five age ranges: 12-15, 16-30, 31-45, 46-64 and 65+. The winning family has a chance to win up to $50,000. Applicants should send an email to GenerationGapCasting@gmail.com and include the names of family members, ages, photos and a contact phone number.
(Source: Cynopsis)