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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 8/4/11)
TV ONE: The Ultimate Merger (Premiere) at 9pm
MTV: Jersey Shore (Premiere) at 10pm
Before its fall season rolls out, The CW added more episodes to four returning series. The network ordered two episodes each for Gossip Girl and 90210 and one episode each for Supernatural and Nikita. The CW is ordering more eps now to avoid airing so many reruns during midseason. This new order takes the season order for Gossip Girl and 90201 to 24 eps each and Supernatural and Nikita to 23 eps each.
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A second season is on tap for NY INK, the latest series in TLC’s Ink franchise. NY INK debuts its second season with ten one-hour episodes this
December and the series will continue to follow “tattoo king” Ami James and his staff based at his shop in SoHo. NY INK is produced by Original
Media for TLC.
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BET said 1.2 million total viewers watched the premiere of new dance competition series, Born to Dance: Laurieann Gibson Tuesday night at 10p. The eight-week series is produced by BET Networks.
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Yesterday at the TV Critics’ Association press tour, CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler revealed details about Ashton Kutcher’s new role on sitcom Two and a Half Men. Tassler said Kutcher will play Walden Schmidt, an internet billionaire with a broken heart. She also said the season nine premiere of Two and a Half Men would air over two weeks kicking off September 19 at 9p. Tassler further said the opening episode of the revamped sitcom is “smart, funny, irreverent, and as risque as the show has always been. People who are fans of the show will be really happy, and we feel that show has an opportunity now to recruit a new audience.”
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Ted Danson is in for the 12th season of CBS’ procedural CSI and Marg Helgenberger, who has been on the show since it began in 2000, is leaving at the end of the 12th season. As previously reported, Danson is joining the series as investigator D.B. Russell. Helgenberger announced last February that the 11th season of CSI would be her last, though she has opted to continue her role on the show and will appear in the
upcoming 12th season.
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Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden) is teaming with Hulu on an original long-form series, A Day in the Life. The series sports six 22-min. episodes, shot in documentary-style following 24 hours in the life of a famous person. Episode one features Richard Branson and it will stream exclusively at free Hulu and the subscription service Hulu Plus starting August 17. The other new episodes will be added weekly. The series is produced through Spurlock’s production company Warrior Poets.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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