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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 11/21/11)
HGTV: Design Wars (Premiere) at 8pm
TRAVEL: The Layover (Premiere) at 9pm
ABC: You Deserve It (Premiere) at 9:01pm
SYFY: Scare Tactics (Finale) at 10pm

Following ABCs announcement of its midseason premiere dates, the network revealed it is trimming the episode order for the Courteney Cox sitcom Cougar Town. The comedy’s order will decrease from 22 half-hour eps to 15 this season. No specific premiere date for Cougar Town was released. Two other shows that do not yet have premiere dates are Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23 and the Shonda Rhimes political drama Scandal starring Kerry Washington.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC additionally ordered three more episodes of sophomore drama Body of Proof helmed by Dana Delany, reports THR. The added eps take Body of Proof to a full season order with 20 total eps.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Fans of the former FOX comedy Arrested Development will have a chance to see new episodes available exclusively through Netflix beginning the first half of 2013. Twentieth Century Fox Television and Imagine Television will produce the undisclosed number of new episodes. The complete cast has not been announced yet and no contracts have been finalized. It is also unclear if the much talked-about Arrest Development movie is still in the works.
(Source: Cynopsis)

A double season order is set for Dexter as Showtime renewed the drama series for seasons seven and eight with 12 episodes each. Production on Dexter’s seventh season will begin in Los Angeles next year starring Michael C. Hall. To date in its current sixth season, Dexter is averaging 5.12 million weekly viewers via all platforms including On Demand replays and DVR.
(Source: Cynopsis)

If two reality specials on TLC depicting nerds using a speed-dating service do well, the network will order Geek Love from Authentic Entertainment to a full series. The two half-hour specials show geeks who love pop culture events such as Comic-Con participate in Sci-Fi Speed Dating, a dating service founded by Ryan Giltch. The show premieres December 18 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Rural West Virginia is the setting for a new weekly docu-series coming to MTV called Buck Wild. MTV ordered 12 episodes of the series about a group of friends recently finished with high school and follows their lives in small-town America. Buck Wild is from Zoo Productions and Parallel Entertainment.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Oprah Winfrey’s new original series Oprah’s Next Chapter will debut on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network with a two-hour episode on January 1 at 9p. The weekly series will settle into its regular time period starting January 8 at 9p. The series follows Winfrey as she conducts in-depth interviews with people all over the world including visiting Haiti with Sean Penn, touring Skywalker Ranch with George Lucas and participating in a slumber party at Paula Deen’s estate in Georgia. The series premiere takes Winfrey to Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire where she has an intimate conversation with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CBS tapped Elisabeth Shue as a series regular on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Shue will play a new member of the CSI team who just completed an anger management course and is surrounded by rumors that D.B. Russell (Ted Danson) fired her when she worked for him in Seattle. Shue’s character will be introduced in the scheduled February 15 episode. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation airs Wednesdays at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Courtney Ford, who recently appeared on HBO’s True Blood landed a multi-episode run on NBC’s Parenthood. Ford will play Lily, a 30-something cellist who rents time in Crosby and Adam’s recording studio and becomes a potential love interest for Crosby. She will first appear in Parenthood episodes in January following the drama’s holiday break.
(Source: Cynopsis)

2011 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS – WINNERS LIST
http://abc.go.com/shows/american-music-awards/winners/ThemeGallery/889890

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 – $139.5 million
Happy Feet 2 – $22 million
Immortals – $12.3 million
Jack And Jill – $12 million
Puss In Boots – $10.7 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)

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