FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 10/13/11)
A&E: Bordertown: Laredo (Premiere) at 10pm
DISCOVERY FIT & HEALTH: Secretly Pregnant (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: Selling LA (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: Selling New York (Premiere) at 10:30pm
HISTORY: Harvest (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: Independent Lens (Premiere) at 10pm
TRUTV: Top 20 Most Shocking – Practical Jokers Gone Wild 6 (Premiere) at 10pm
DISCOVERY: Dirty Money (Premiere) at 10:30pm
MTV: Good Vibes: The Beach Party Begins (Premiere) at 12am
Just a short time after its second season premiere, HBO gave Boardwalk Empire a third season renewal. Boardwalk Empire is from Terence Winter (The Sopranos) and director Martin Scorsese and is set during the 1920s Prohibition era in Atlantic City. The series sports an average gross audience of 10.7 million viewers for HBO.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Starting Monday, MTV is tweaking its schedule with all-new episodes of Ridiculousness at 10p followed by Cuff’d in a new time slot at 1030p with scripted horror comedy series Death Valley capping the night in a new time period at 11p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Renee Zellweger is partnering with Lifetime on the development of a period drama series titled Cinnamon Girl. Set in the turbulent late 1960s/early 1970s Los Angeles, Cinnamon Girl is a coming-of-age drama centering on four girls, Cassie, Lola, Penny and Lou. Zellweger created the project along with Anthony Tambakis (Warrior) and the plot will delve into the characters’ lives during the era’s political, artistic, social and sexual revolution. Zellweger, Tambakis and Gavin O’Connor will serve as executive producers while Zellweger and Tambakis will co-write the story with Tambakis writing the script. O’Connor will direct and Danny Bramson is also on board as producer and music supervisor. This is the second time Zellweger has teamed with Lifetime with the first project being the 2008 original movie Living Proof with Zellweger serving as executive producer.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Lifetime is also working on a second possible period drama series about William Wilkerson, the founder of The Hollywood Reporter. Johnny Depp’s company, Infinitum Nihil and GK-TV, the television division of Graham King’s GK Films are on board to produce the project which is in the early phase of development. Depp would be on board as a producer through his company along with GK-TV’s Craig Cegielski. Rob Cooper will write the script.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Former High School Musical star Ashley Tisdale will headline a new multi-camera comedy in development at ABC titled Under Construction. The project would star Tisdale as a young woman whose independence is curtailed when she has to move back home while her father renovates her recently purchased “money pit” in addition to her life. David Holden is writing and will serve as co-executive producer along with Tisdale and Jessica Rhoades and Relativity’s Tom Forman. Warren Littlefield will also be involved as executive producer. ABC Studios is producing.
(Source: Cynopsis)
BROADWAY
The Mountaintop with Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett officially opens on Broadway tonight.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/155463-Samuel-L-Jackson-Is-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-in-The-Mountaintop-Opening-on-Broadway-Oct-13
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