FIRST LOOK
www.eonline.com
ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 10/14/11)
PBS: PBS Arts Fall Festival (Premiere) at 9pm
HISTORY: Hairy Bikers (Premiere) at 10pm
(SATURDAY 10/15/11)
DIY: Marriage Under Construction (Premiere) at 8pm
OWN: Welcome To Sweetie Pie’s (Premiere) at 9pm
OWN: Don’t Tell The Bride (Premiere) at 10pm
ANIMAL PLANET: Puppies Vs. Babies at 1opm
BIO: My Ghost Story (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Anna Faris, Musical Guest: Drake at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 10/16/11)
OWN: Super Soul Sunday (Premiere) at 8am
OWN: Visionaries: Inside The Creative Mind (Premiere) at 8pm
OWN: Ask Oprah’s All Stars (Premiere) at 9pm
OWN: Our America With Lisa Ling (Premiere) at 10pm
AMC: The Walking Dead (Premiere) at 9pm
AMC: Talking Dead (Premiere) at 11:59pm
DIY: Brothers On Call (Premiere) at 9pm
DIY: Million Dollar Contractor (Premiere) at 10pm
VH1: Why Am I Still Single? (Premiere) at 9pm
STYLE: Jerseylicious (Finale) at 8pm
Full season orders were given to ABC frosh drama Revenge and new comedy Suburgatory after both did well Wednesday night. To date, Revenge has averaged a 2.8/7 and 8.5 million viewers while Suburgatory has averaged a 3.2/9 and 9.2 million viewers. ABC additionally gave sophomore comedy Happy Endings an order for six more scripts. Revenge is from ABC Studios; Suburgatory is produced by Warner Bros. Television; and Happy Endings is from Sony Pictures Television, Fan Fare Productions and ABC Studios.
(Source: Cynopsis)
New game show, Million Dollar Mind Game premieres on ABC October 23 at 4p. The show sports teams made up of six people who all know each other (co-workers, friends, teammates, etc.) and are challenged by a series of logic-based questions. The more questions the team answers correctly, the more money they will earn towards a grand prize which is potentially $1 million. British TV presenter Vernon Kay is the show’s host.
(Source: Cynopsis)
A four-year licensing deal was forged between CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Television Group with Netflix. The agreement allows US Netflix subscribers to instantly watch previous seasons of scripted shows from The CW from its present schedule through the 2014-2015 season. The four-year output deal gives Netflix the rights to stream more than 700 hours of previous-season episodes of The CW dramas as well as future programs. The rights deal extends for four years after each series, current or future, ends its broadcast run on The CW. The network’s content can also be accessed through traditional syndication windows, electronic sell-through services and on a partial-season basis through authenticated cable providers. Programs from The CW available to Netflix members include the eight dramas on the network’s 2011 schedule: frosh series Ringer, Hart of Dixie and The Secret Circle as well as returning shows The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl, 90210, Supernatural, Nikita and the midseason series One Tree Hill. Starting October 15, previous seasons of The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill and Nikita will be available for instant watching while previous seasons of Supernatural and 90210 will be available in January 2012. Episodes of all scripted series airing on The CW currently will be available to Netflix members in Fall 2012. All future episodes of the scripted series on The CW through the 2014-2015 season will be available via streaming from Netflix through an upcoming window.
(Source: Cynopsis)
New talk show Steve Harvey was sold by NBCUniversal Domestic TV Distribution to the NBC Owned Television Stations for a Fall 2012 launch. Steve Harvey is a one-hour talk show starring TV personality/comedian/radio show host and author Steve Harvey and is produced by Endemol USA. The 10 NBC O&Os airing Steve Harvey include WNBC/New York, KNBC/Los Angeles, WMAQ/Chicago, WCAU/Philadelphia, KNTV/San Francisco, KXAS/Dallas-Fort Worth, WRC/Washington, D.C., WTVJ/Miami, KNSD/San Diego and WVIT/Hartford.
(Source: Cynopsis)
After a bidding war, NBC was the victor on Ryan Murphy’s new comedy at 20th Century Fox Television. NBC gave the untitled project a put pilot commitment with a high penalty and details on the plot are kept secret for now. Murphy will serve as EP and will write along with Glee co-EP Allison Adler and Glee EP Dante Di Loreto.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Ellen DeGeneres also has a project in the works at ABC, a comedy titled Weitz & Wong. ABC gave it a script order and the plot centers on a mixed race Jewish-Chinese couple and their two kids who try to create their own identity amidst very different extended families. DeGeneres is producing through her A Very Good Productions company at Warner Bros. Television. Alex Herschlag, the former writer on Ellen will write this new comedy.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MOVIES
Footloose – Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Andie MacDowell, Dennis Quaid, Miles Teller
The Thing – Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
The Big Year – Owen Wilson, Jack Black, Steve Martin, Rashida Jones, Brian Dennehy
Fireflies In The Garden (Limited Release) – Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Carrie-Anne Moss
Saturday October 15, 2011
19th Annual Upper Broadway Fall Festival – 110th to 116th St.
Greenwich Ave. Festival – from 6th to 7th Ave.
Soho Autumn Fair – on Broadway from Houston to Canal St.
Sunday October 16, 2011
Main Street Islip Fall Festival – from Route 111 to Smith Ave.
Lexington Ave. Fall Fair – from 42nd to 57th St.
Today’s Jackpot is $30 million
Participating States: New York, New Jersey, California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Washington.
POWERBALL
Saturday’s Jackpot is $105 million.
Powerball is played in 41 states.
CASTING CALL
Doron Ofir Casting is looking for the nation’s top professional matchmakers to star in a new television series project. The matchmakers should be experts in all fields of love, relationships and dating. Interested matchmakers who think their abilities are top-notch and are ready to share their love and dating wisdom on television should send an email to: castingmatchmaker@gmail.com. People can also nominate someone they know who is a professional matchmaker.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Keely's Korner 
Leave a comment