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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 12/16/11)
HBO: The Life & Times Of Tim (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: Brides Of Beverly Hills (Finale) at 10pm

(SATURDAY 12/17/11)
SCIENCE: Oddities (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Jimmy Fallon, Musical Guest: Michael Buble at 11:30pm

(SUNDAY 12/18/11)
3NET: Madagascar: The Lost Makay (Premiere) at 8pm
3NET: Hillbilly Blood: A Hardscrabble Life (Premiere) at 10pm
CBS: Survivor (Finale) at 8pm
FOX: Allen Gregory (Finale) at 8:30pm
FOOD: The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs (Finale) at 9pm
SHOWTIME: Dexter (Finale) at 9pm
SHOWTIME: Homeland (Finale) at 10pm
HISTORY: Real Deal (Finale) at 9:30pm
HISTORY: IRT Deadliest Roads (Finale) at 10pm

ABC cancelled Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, ending the show with its ninth season finale on January 13 which also is the show’s 200th episode. At its conclusion, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition visits tornado-torn Joplin, MO where Ty Pennington and his crew build seven homes in seven days. Viewers will still see more of the show as ABC has four special episodes planned after the series ends. Pennington will also remain with ABC as he joined the network’s upcoming new health and lifestyle daytime series, The Revolution. Beginning January 20, ABC will put Shark Tank in the Friday at 8p slot.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Making it official, NBC is tapping Howard Stern to become a new judge on its summer reality competition series America’s Got Talent. Stern is replacing Piers Morgan who left to concentrate on his CNN program. Production on America’s Got Talent will also move to New York City where Stern presently hosts his SiriusXM radio show.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The interview series, Person to Person, created by Edward R. Murrow is being resurrected by CBS and is premiering February 8 at 8p. New CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose and CBS News Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent/60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan will co-host the weekly series airing on Wednesdays at 8p. For years, CBS has apparently wanted to revive Person to Person, the series where interviews of public figures are conducted in their homes. Rose and Logan will interview musicians, actors, directors, politicians and newsmakers and allow the guests to reveal friends and family and items of personal and professional worth. Murrow launched the series in 1953 and interviewed such notables as John and Jacqueline Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and more.
(Source: Cynopsis)

British comedian/actor Russell Brand signed a deal with FX to host a late night series. FX ordered six half-hour episodes of the yet-to-be-titled unscripted series slated to premiere next spring. The show will offer Brand’s version of current events, politics and pop culture shot in front of a live audience and featuring interaction with the studio audience. FX Productions is producing the show in association with Branded Films and Dakota Films.
(Source: Cynopsis)

In mid-January, G4 bows another new Marvel anime series when Blade debuts January 13 at 11p. G4 has scheduled a dozen half-hour weekly episodes featuring the voice of Harold Perrineau as Eric Brooks, the supernatural Daywalker known as Blade. Produced by Madhouse for Marvel Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, the series is distributed by Sony Pictures Television.
(Source: Cynopsis)

On February 29 (Leap Day), USA Network brings back the winter season of Psych at 10p. USA Network will air the final seven episodes of Psych’s sixth season from Universal Cable Productions in association with Tagline Pictures.
(Source: Cynopsis)

TV Land’s comedy series, Hot in Cleveland was picked up by CBS Television Distribution in an exclusive broadcast domestic distribution rights deal. With its cast comprised of Betty White, Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick, Hot in Cleveland is currently airing its third season on TV Land Wednesdays at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Oscar winner Jane Fonda will make her first major television debut in Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming HBO series about the cable news business. The untitled one-hour drama already has Jeff Daniels in place playing the anchor at a fictional cable news network. Fonda will portray Leona Lansing, the CEO of the cable news network’s parent company who is described as a titan and her corporate business often conflicts with the reporting at the news outlet she owns.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CMT handed a pair of half-hour reality shows to Melissa Rycroft (The Bachelorette) and Jennie Garth (Beverly Hills, 90210). Rycroft will star in a show along with her husband Tye Strickland using the working title, Melissa and Tye: A New Reality. The show will follow Rycroft when she moves to L.A. to pursue her Hollywood career while managing a long-distance relationship with her husband. Garth’s show is called I Love Jennie and will follow her and her family of three kids and husband as they move away from L.A. to a seven-acre farm in Central California. Both shows were given eight episodes and will premiere in April. Rycroft’s show is produced by Ryan Seacrest Productions with Ryan Seacrest and CMT’s Jayson Dinsmore and Eliot Goldberg as executive producers. Garth’s show is from Electus, 5×5 and Facinelli Films and will be executive produced by Electus’ Ben Silverman and Jimmy Fox; 5×5 EPs Rick Ringbakk and Craig Armstrong; and Facinelli Films’ Peter Facinelli (Garth’s husband), Garth and Rob de Franco as executive producers. Dinsmore and Goldberg will also oversee for CMT.
(Source: Cynopsis)

New series The Client List on Lifetime cast Rebecca Field (October Road) to play Lacey, the best friend of Jennifer Love Hewitt’s character, Riley, reports THR.
(Source: Cynopsis)

MOVIES
Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked – Jason Lee
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows – Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris
Carnage (Limited Release) – Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly

MEGA MILLIONS
Today’s Jackpot is $135 million

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