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FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 12/13/11)
NBC: William And Kate: Inside The Royal Marriage (Premiere) at 8pm
DISCOVERY: Dirty Jobs (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY: Swamp Loggers (Premiere) at 10pm
INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY: Cops & Coyotes (Premiere) at 10pm
OWN: Facing Trauma (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: The Biggest Loser (Finale) at 9pm
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: Knights Of Mayhem (Finale) at 9pm

CBS’ Sunday political talk show Face the Nation led by anchor Bob Schieffer is expanding to a full hour format, matching the length of its main broadcast competitors including NBC’s Meet the Press with David Gregory and ABC’s This Week with Christiane Amanpour. CBS has not said this change will be permanent though likely the longer length will carry through the political conventions next summer.
(Source: Cynopsis)

It’s not 2012 yet though the Upfront is in the news. USA Network said it plans on moving its upfront presentation to the same week in May when the broadcast networks serve up theirs. USA Network will host its upfront on the evening of May 17 at Alice Tully Hall’s Starr Theater at Lincoln Center.
(Source: Cynopsis)

A new look is in store for the second season of Jersey Couture when it premieres on Oxygen February 7 at 10p with back-to-back half-hour episodes. The series follows the Scalis family owners of a glamour shop in South New Jersey. Jersey Couture is produced by Half Yard Productions.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The Style Network reality series Ruby will not continue for a fifth season, reports EW. The network said it has “no plans” to order a fifth season though indicated production on a new season might not be ruled out for the future.
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Saturday’s Your Voice, Your Vote – Republican Presidential Debate in Iowa broadcast by ABC News delivered the most-watched debate to date of the 2012 campaign season. The debate from 9p to 11p attracted 7.58 million total viewers and 2.10 million with A25-54.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Actress Eva Longoria (ABC’s Desperate Housewives) sold a one-hour legal drama titled Vega v. Vega to The CW. Produced by Warner Bros. Television, the drama is about a young, brilliant lawyer who is forced to go into practice with her mother, a pioneering female attorney and with whom she has a love/hate relationship. Yahlin Chang will write and be an executive producer along with Longoria, George W. Perkins and Sunta Izzicupo. Elizabeth Bradley is also on board as a co-executive producer.
(Source: Cynopsis)

TV personality Lisa Rinna is officially returning to her original role with NBC’s Days of Our Lives. Rinna will reprise her role as Billie Reed on the soap as a contract player and her first episode appearance is set for March 8. Rinna last appeared on Days in 2005.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The second reality series set in Alaska being shopped by producer Mark Burnett and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has apparently been turned down by both TLC’s owner Discovery Communications and A&E Networks, cites THR. The proposed new series would focus on Todd Palin and his championship snowmobile racing career. The reality series Sarah Palin’s Alaska launched on TLC in November 2010 with 5 million viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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