FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 4/18/11)
GSN: The Newlywed Game (Premiere) at 6:30pm
OXYGEN: Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too (Premiere) at 10pm
SYFY: Urban Legends (Premiere) at 10pm
LIFETIME: Royal Wedding Of A Lifetime (Premiere) at 11pm
CBS ordered the new reality series, Same Name where celebrities trade places with ordinary people who happen to share the same name. The one-hour series will launch this summer and each episode follows the celebrity and the same name person as they switch lives for one week, meeting and interacting with each other’s families, friends and co-workers and living in each other’s houses. The pilot episode follows personality David Hasselhoff as he goes to Lake Jackson, TX to meet and trade places with 27-year old high voltage power technician/landscaper who also bears the name David Hasselhoff. Same Name is produced by Cris Abrego Productions, LLC.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Adventure-dating reality series Love in the Wild debuts on NBC June 1 at 10p. Produced by Endemol USA, the reality series takes ten single men and ten single women searching for love to the jungle in Costa Rica where they pair up on various quests. Darren McMullen hosts the new series.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Judds two-hour series premiere on OWN last Sunday at 9p attracted more than 1.7 million total viewers. Subsequent new episodes air at 10p on Sundays.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is set to star in another comedy series as HBO approved her latest project Veep to series. Louis-Dreyfus will play former Senator Selina Meyer who becomes Vice President and realizes her image of the job is not what she thought. Armando Iannucci wrote the script and also directs and executive produces Veep while Chris Godsick and Frank Rich will also serve as executive producers. Set in Washington, D.C., Veep also co-stars Anna Chlumsky and Tony Hale.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Rio – $40 million
Scream 4 – $19.3 million
Hop – $11.2 million
Soul Surfer – $7.4 million
Hanna – $7.3 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
CASTING CALL
Ava Parnass (ListenToMePlease) in association with www.kids-make-movies.com is casting for real kids in New York City to be part of a television pilot series. The show is looking for ten 7-9 year old kids, five boys and five girls who are outgoing, talkative and happy to dance and sing on camera. The kids also need to sit still and talk on camera about social emotional skills, play, school, friends and other topics. Parents interested in having their kids be part of this show should send an email to: mushmuzak@me.com along with a photo and the age of the child. The tentative filming date is May 22 from 3:30p until about 7:30p at Bravo GreenScreen Studio. The selected kids will need to learn two songs and one line.
(Source: Cynopsis)
An Emmy Award-winning television production company and a major cable network are looking for people originally from Great Britain who currently live and work in Los Angeles or New York. The ideal Brits are attractive in their 20s, 30s or 40s with big personalities and strong opinions who excel professionally and work in dynamic, exciting fields such as fashion, real estate, art, entertainment, design, hospitality and more. Send an email to BritsInAmericaTVshow@gmail.com and include a brief bio with your name, age and occupation. Describe your life and why you would be great on this show. Also, attach recent photos and your contact numbers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
BROADWAY
Spiderman goes on hiatus until Thursday May 12, 2011.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/149930-Back-to-the-Web-Spider-Man-Plays-Final-Performance-April-17-Prior-to-Hiatus
Samuel L. Jackson is coming to Broadway for “The Moutaintop” in September 2011.
http://ppc.broadway.com/buzz/156025/the-mountaintop-starring-samuel-l-jackson-sets-broadway-dates-halle-berry-no-longer-attached/
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