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G4: Jump City: Seattle (Premiere) at 8pm
OWN: What Would You Do? OWN Edition (Premiere) at 8pm
OWN: Breaking Down The Bars (Premiere) at 9pm
OWN: Our America With Lisa Ling (Premiere) at 10pm
TRUTV: Hard Core Pawn (Premiere) at 10pm
BBC AMERICA: Ramsay’s Best Restaurant (Finale) at 9pm
Controversial reality series Sister Wives will premiere a second season on TLC starting March 13, reports EW. The series highlights the polygamy lifestyle of Kody Brown and his four wives and their combined 17 children. The first season of the series prompted an investigation of the family in Utah on felony bigamy charges.
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Sunday’s preliminary numbers for the Grammy Awards on CBS reflect the largest audience in ten years, according to Nielsen. The three-hour special event averaged 27.6 million total viewers and also averaged a 10.3 rating among A18-49. Both figures represent a +4% increase over the 2010 awards ceremony.
(Source: Cynopsis)
FOX’s Glee is the center of an agreement between Fox Television Stations and Twentieth Television over the broadcast syndication rights to the series. Glee has cleared on the Fox Television Stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Houston, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Orlando and Baltimore. This new syndication deal with Fox Television Stations follows the previously announced cable syndication agreement with Oxygen and the additional program The Glee Project premiering this June on Oxygen. Glee is produced by Ryan Murphy Television in association with 20th Century Fox Television.
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Roseanne Barr is making a comeback to television in a new untitled docu-series for Lifetime Television. The series, with 16 half-hours will follow Barr as she operates her 40-acre macadamia nut and livestock farm in Hawaii. Premiering on Lifetime this year, the series is produced by 3 Ball Productions/Eyeworks USA and Full Moon & High Tide Productions. Barr will serve as executive producer along with JD Roth, Todd A. Nelson, Brant Pinvidic and Steven Greener; Jake Pentland will also produce.
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Discovery Communications CEO David Zaslav said the company will invest a further $50 million in OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network to create new programming. Discovery Communications has already invested $189 million in the network which launched on January 1. Zaslav says he is “very encouraged” about OWN and surmises the network will break even on an operating profit level this year. Zaslav also indicated Planet Green is up for a re-brand saying he thinks “something else more meaningful” could happen with the network.
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Jesse L. Martin (Law & Order) landed the first role on drama pilot Hallelujah for ABC from Marc Cherry. The plot is set in the town of Hallelujah, Tennessee which is being ripped apart by forces of good and evil. The town is saved when a mysterious stranger comes to town ushering in justice, peace and a restored faith of its residents.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MEGA MILLIONS
Today’s Jackpot is $40 million.
Participating States: New York, New Jersey, California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Washington.
CASTING CALL
New Screen Entertainment, producers of the original Extreme Makeover series, are casting for a pilot and are seeking people in the Southern California area who have had their life ruined by plastic surgery procedures. One out of four people are unhappy with their plastic surgery results and the “surgeon of last resort” on the show will try to correct damage done by previous plastic surgery. Those interested should send an email to: newscreenmedia@aol.com and include a description of their experience and include clear front and side photos of the affected areas and list any corrective surgeries.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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