FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 12/21/11)
FOX: The X Factor (Season Finale: Part 1) at 8pm
STYLE: Too Fat For 15 (Finale) at 8pm
BRAVO: Work Of Art: The Next Grreat Artist (Finale) at 9pm
TLC: This Is Justin Bieber (Premiere) at 9pm
FX: American Horror Story (Finale) at 10pm
HBO handed good news to frosh comedy Enlightened starring Laura Dern, renewing the series for a second season. Three other HBO comedies were cancelled including Hung, How to Make It in America and Bored to Death. The three comedies were axed apparently to make room on Sunday nights for new programming HBO will launch in 2012. Hung has averaged 3.9 million viewers while How to Make It in America and Bored to Death each averaged 2.3 million viewers taking multiple linear telecasts, DVR and On Demand into consideration. The newly renewed Enlightened has the smallest average audience of 1.5 million viewers though has received much critical acclaim.
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Marking the first time in 46 years, the Super Bowl will officially be available through live streaming. The NFL will live stream the Super Bowl’s NBC telecast in addition to this current season’s Pro Bowl and NBC’s broadcasts of Wild Card playoff games through the NFL’s and NBC’s websites via Verizon’s NFL Mobile app. NBC will televise Super Bowl XLVI on February 5.
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Upcoming new series Q’VIVA! THE CHOSEN documenting the transcontinental journey to find the best Latin American artists will make its Spanish-language US premiere January 28 at 7p on Univision. The series from Simon Fuller’s XIX Entertainment, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony and Jamie King in partnership with BlackBerry will also air on top networks throughout the Americas. Univision will air the one-hour Q’VIVA! THE CHOSEN over 12 weeks each Saturday at 7p. Other networks airing the series include Televisa in Mexico and Caracol in Colombia. The series will debut internationally throughout Central and South America and additional networks as well as a major English-language US broadcaster will be announced soon.
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A new version of Bloopers from dick clark productions (dcp) will debut in syndication fall 2012. The show has already been picked up by Tribune stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Washington DC, Houston, Seattle, Miami, Sacramento, Portland, Indianapolis, San Diego, Hartford, Harrisburg, Grand Rapids and New Orleans. Trifecta Entertainment & Media is distributing the series and will also head ad sales. Bloopers will have 120 original half-hour episodes over the next three years and is intended to run as two back-to-back episodes in a one-hour block on weekends.
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SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 12/18/11)
1) Michael Buble – Christmas – 447,673 (After 8 weeks – 1,964382)
2) Adele – 21 – 276,689 (After 43 weeks – 5,280,677)
3) Justin Bieber – Under The Mistletoe – 170,645 (After 7 weeks – 1,003,158)
Other Debuts
12) Anthony Hamilton – Back To Love – 62,792
26) Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa – Mac & Damon Go To High School – 38,456
29) Metallica – Beyond Magnetic – 36,047
POWERBALL
Today’s Jackpot is $104 million.
Powerball is played in 41 states.
CASTING CALL
Doron Ofir Casting and 495 Productions, behind MTV’s Jersey Shore, are looking for passionate, self-identified pop culture fanatics obsessed with comics, graphic novels, sci-fi, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies and television. The project is an experimental documentary series titled Fandom Rising that will take a deep look at the lives and relationships of people who love fantasy, fiction, comics, gaming, science and more. The digital casting application can be found at: www.fandomcasting.com.
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ABC’s upcoming new daytime series The Revolution is looking for people interested in appearing on the show with the following issues: money disputes with your partner; getting out of debt; dressing to look thinner; and how to perform household repairs without spending a fortune on a professional. The appearances would involve interactive talk with the hosts as well as “makeovers.” Submissions will be passed on to the show and those selected will receive interviews. Those interested can send an email to: barbarastein@earthlink.net.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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