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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 1/13/11)
ANIMAL PLANET: Swarm Chasers (Premiere) at 7pm & 8pm
TLC: Police Women Of Cincinnati (Premiere) at 9pm
A&E: Beyond Scared Straight (Premiere) at 10pm

Making it official, CBS Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television agreed on a deal to renew The Big Bang Theory for three more years, extending the comedy through the 2013-2014 season. Presently in its fourth season, the sitcom is averaging 13.89 million viewers comparing its new Thursday at 8p time period to a year ago as well as delivering a 4.7/14 rating/share among A18-49. The series is produced by Chuck Lorre Productions, Inc. in association with Warner Bros. Television.
(Source: Cynopsis)

BET set rating records on Tuesday with the one-hour cable premiere of The Game at 10p, thereby becoming the #1 ad-supported sitcom telecast in cable television history with 7.7 million total viewers. That makes show’s premiere episode the #2 telecast in BET’s history among total viewers. New scripted series Let’s Stay Together followed at 11p on Tuesday and attracted 4.4 million total viewers and posted a 3.0 coverage rating. Let’s Stay Together ranks among the top 5 ad-supported sitcom premieres in cable TV history.
(Source: Cynopsis)

MTV pulled in an average of 3.6 million total viewers for the season bow of Teen Mom 2 on Tuesday at 10p. The season debut also posted a 3.4 rating among P12-34, a +55% bump over the Teen Mom series premiere rating of 2.2 with P12-34 on December 8, 2009.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Bravo’s fourth season conclusion of The Millionaire Matchmaker on Tuesday at 9p brought in 2.2 million total viewers along with 1.4 million A18-49 viewers. The fourth season generated the highest ratings for the series among all key demos and averaged 1.5 million total viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Three actors are exiting the frosh series Law & Order: Los Angeles on NBC. Skeet Ulrich, Regina Hall and Megan Boone are all leaving the series which was picked up for a full season last October.
(Source: Cynopsis)

David Nelson, 74, son of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson and one of the co-stars of the television series, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, died Tuesday at his home in Century City, CA. At the age of 16, Mr. Nelson joined his parents and his younger teen idol brother, Rick, on the radio show Here Come the Nelsons which morphed into the well-known classic television series that was shot inside the family’s real home in Hollywood Hills. During the TV series’ five-year run, Mr. Nelson directed and produced several episodes of the series. Following the TV series Mr. Nelson became a successful director and producer, though he did act in several movies between 1957 and 1965 including Peyton Place, The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker and The Big Circus, among others. He also appeared in many other TV series such as Up in Smoke and The Love Boat and focused his directorial work on family TV series including O.K. Crackerby, Childish Things, Easy to be Free and Goodnight Beantown. Mr. Nelson’s famous parents and brother all preceded him in death: Ozzie Nelson in 1975; Rick Nelson died in a plane crash on December 31, 1985; and his mother Harriet in 1994. Mr. Nelson is survived by his wife, Yvonne of 36 years; sons John, Eric, James and Danny; and one daughter Teri.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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