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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 10/24/11)
MTVU: Quiet Campus (Premiere) at 12pm
A&E: Hoarders (Premiere) at 9pm
A&E: Monster In-Laws (Premiere) at 10pm & 10:30pm
INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY: Disappeared (Premiere) at 10pm
Season four of MTV’s Jersey Shore ended its stint in Italy last Thursday night at 10p with an average rating of 6.96 among P12-34 and 5.4 million viewers in the demo. Jersey Shore: The Reunion followed the finale at 11p and delivered a 4.8 P12-34 rating. The fifth season of Jersey Shore, featuring the cast back at home base in Seaside Heights, NJ will premiere January 2012.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Robert C. Pierpoint, 86, a former CBS News correspondent died Saturday in California. During his 40-year career that ended with his retirement in 1990, Mr. Pierpoint covered six US presidents, the Korean War, the Kennedy assassination and the Iranian hostage crisis. Mr. Pierpoint also had the distinction of lending his radio voice for the highly-viewed final episode of M*A*S*H in 1983. Following his coverage of the Korean War, Mr. Pierpoint was appointed a White House correspondent during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, a position he held through the Jimmy Carter administration. Mr. Pierpoint is survived by his wife, Patricia, and four children including the actor, Eric Pierpoint.
(Source: Cynopsis)
On NBC’s established comedy The Office, character Nellie Bertram returns to Dunder Miflin when Catherine Tate rejoins the cast. Tate will reprise her role in the latter half of the current season after she’s hired by friend and Chairman Jo Bennett (Kathy Bates).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Marvel’s comic book character The Punisher may come to FOX as the network is developing a series, giving the project a pilot commitment with penalty. The procedural drama would focus on NYC detective Frank Castle, who seeks justice as a merciless vigilante named The Punisher. Ed Bernero (Third Watch, Criminal Minds) is behind the project and he’s also developing a sci-fi western, The Eye for ABC. The Punisher has previously been adapted into two different feature films and each achieved lackluster results at the box office.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Courteney Cox and David Arquette are on a roll selling the untitled Rob Sheridan project to ABC. The single-camera comedy project is about a former overweight girl who becomes skinny and must juggle working with her ex in a diner that serves people who love to eat. Cox and Arquette will serve as executive producers along with Sheridan; ABC Studios is producing. Cox and Arquette recently sold another single-camera comedy, Ten Years to NBC under a penalty commitment agreement and the duo also has a game show pilot, Identity Crisis in the works at CBS.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Iron Man’s Jon Favreau sold a single-camera project titled Tweaked to CBS with the plot centering on the lives and dating activity among single parents in Santa Monica. CBS Television Studios is producing and Favreau will write and be the EP.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Frosh drama A Gifted Man on CBS tapped ER alum Eriq La Salle for a multi-episode arc playing Evan “E-Mo” Morris, a highly experienced neuropsychiatrist and medical detective who Dr. Michael Holt (Patrick Wilson) seeks out for professional and personal reasons.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Former CBS The Talk co-host Leah Remini has another sitcom on the horizon as she inked a talent deal with ABC to star in and produce a comedy series for next season. For nine seasons, Remini starred opposite Kevin James in CBS’ The King of Queens.
(Source: Cynopsis)
HBO is working with Tom Hanks again, this time on a half-hour comedy about college athletes titled Players, reports THR. Hanks is developing Players with Gary Goetzman, his longtime producing partner and Playtone co-founder and both will serve as EPs on the project. Hanks and Goetzman in the past have had three successful miniseries at HBO: Band of Brothers, John Adams and The Pacific as well as the drama series, Big Love.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Also at Lifetime, the network hired several more actors for the sixth season of Army Wives, according to TVLine. Last week, news broke Susan Lucci was added to the sixth season cast for at least two eps, reuniting with her former All My Children cast mate Kim Delaney. Kelli Williams was also added for at least seven eps playing Jackie Clarke, the ambitious spouse of a general. Over the weekend, Kellie Martin (ER), Robert John Burke (Rescue Me) and Ryan Michelle Bathe (Boston Legal) will also be joining in recurring roles. Martin will play Nicole, a member of the military police; Bathe is the head of the Youth Center; and Burke will portray an uber-competitive general in at least seven eps who is also Jackie Clarke’s (Kelli Williams) husband. The sixth season of Army Wives will return to Lifetime’s schedule next spring.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Paranormal Activity 3 – $54 million
Real Steel – $11.3 million
Footloose – $10.9 million
The Three Musketeers – $8.8 million
The Ides Of March – $4.9 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
CASTING CALL
Barbara Barna Casting is searching for moms and their mothers in the NY tri-state plus Philadelphia area who have a sense of humor about their relationship to appear in a fun, new game show for a major cable network. Moms should have at least one or two children between 5 and 14 years old and have at least one other close female relative living nearby. All will need to be available for one day of taping in mid-November. To participate, please send recent photos, names/ages of you, your mom and your kids and include a fun description of your home life and
contact info to: barbarabarnacasting@gmail.com.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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