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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 8/28/11)
ABC: Suburgatory (Premiere) at 8:30pm
ABC: Happy Endings (Premiere) at 9:30pm
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: Rocket City Rednecks (Premiere) at 9pm & 9:30pm
DISCOVERY: Mythbusters (Premiere) at 9pm
BBC AMERICA: Luther (Premiere) at 10pm
MTV: The Real World (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: Extreme Couponing (Premiere) at 10pm & 10:30pm
TV ONE: Life After (Premiere) at 10pm

Kelsey Grammer’s upcoming scripted drama series Boss has not yet premiered though the network, Starz Entertainment has granted a 10-episode second season with production commencing early next year. Boss, with eight episodes is set to open on Starz October 21 at 10p and stars Grammer headlining his first drama series playing Chicago Mayor Tom Kane. The inaugural episode is also directed by Gus Van Sant who makes his television directorial debut. Boss is produced by Lionsgate Television and created by Farhad Safinia.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Younger male-skewing network, G4 is partnering with the US Navy on a new docu-series, Bomb Patrol: Afghanistan launching October 25 at 10p. The 10-episode series will allow viewers to be embedded with Navy soldiers in Afghanistan working as part of the US Navy’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team, the world’s elite combat force for countering Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), WMD and other weapons. The series will use more than 15 cameras mounted on helmets and on the bodies of the soldiers to capture the eight-man team’s five-month tour. Bomb Patrol: Afghanistan is produced by Big Fish Entertainment.
(Source: Cynopsis)

New one-hour series, My Extreme Animal Phobia explores bizarre phobias people have related to animals when it premieres on Animal Planet October 21 at 10p. Dr. Robin Zasio, a psychologist who runs the Anxiety Treatment Center of Sacramento helps patients suffering from extreme phobias triggered by their fears of certain animals or insects. My Extreme Animal Phobia is produced by RelativityREAL for Animal Planet.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Lifetime granted Dance Moms a second season with 13 new episodes showcasing dance instructor Abby Lee Miller, her top-flight students and their mothers at Miller’s dance company in Pittsburgh. During the last four weeks, the docu-series has averaged 1.6 million total viewers and 708,000 among W18-49. The first season finale of Dance Moms airs October 5 at 10p. Collins Avenue produces the series.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Beginning mid-October, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network debuts Super Soul Sunday, a three-hour block on Sunday mornings featuring fresh episodes of Oprah’s Soul Series, a collection of in-depth, intimate interviews conducted by Oprah with fascinating authors, thinkers and spiritual leaders, as well as feature-length documentaries, short-form content from Soul Pancake among other offerings. The theme of Super Soul Sunday is happiness and personal fulfillment, wellness, spirituality and conscious living. The programming block premieres October 16 at 8a.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Cooking Channel serves up a second season of its comedy-themed cooking show Nadia G’s Bitchin’ Kitchen starting November 2 at 10p. Nadia offers up her version of rock n’ roll cooking techniques for both the beginner and experienced at-home cooks.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Come January, the new online network from Prospect Park that will air episodes of All My Children and One Life to Live will be called The Online Network or TOLN. The network will also house first-run entertainment and lifestyle programs and Prospect Park said in the future TOLN will add reality, scripted comedy and drama fare to its lineup.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Season two of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire opened Sunday at 9p with 2.9 million total viewers, down -8% from 3.2 million viewers compared to last season’s average. Encore airings at 10p and 11p delivered 971,000 and 623,000 viewers, respectively.
(Souce: Cynopsis)

New daytime lifestyle program The Chew on ABCDaytime opened Monday with 2.5 million total viewers which did better than All My Children’s (the show it replaced) 2010-2011 season averages with total viewers (2.5 million vs. 2.4 million) and among W18-49 (590,000 vs. 568,000).
(Source: Cynopsis)

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 9/25/11)
1) Tony Bennett – Duets II – 178,870
2) Lady Antebellum – Own The Night – 124,730 (After 2 weeks – 472,403)
3) Adele – 21 – 116,859 – (After 31 weeks – 3,655,303)

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CASTING CALL
Social video platform, Spreecast is looking for bloggers, on-air personalities, journalists, writers or otherwise opinionated people who want to voice their views and engage with an audience. Spreecast is part YouTube, part Skype with some Twitter and through broadcast, it brings people together in real time. Spreecast is looking for hosts who have a working computer, webcam and a decent internet connection to be able to engage and interact with people online. For more information, please send an email to: hosts1@spreecast.com.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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