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CELEBRITY NEWS: DECEMBER 23, 2011
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Holly Madison (The Girls Next Door) – 33 years old
Estella Warren (“Planet Of The Apes”) – 33 years old
Eddie Vedder – 47 years old
Susan Lucci – 65 years old
Harry Shearer (The Simpsons) – 68 years old

FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 12/23/11)
INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY: Facing Evil Wth Candice DeLong (Finale) at 9pm

(SUNDAY 12/25/11)
UNVISION: El Gran Show De Los Peques (Premiere) at 8pm

Louisiana’s Bayou is the setting of Discovery Channel’s new reality series Ragin’ Cajuns premiering January 17 at 10p. Venice, Louisiana once was a thriving shrimping community and following the devastation by both Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the oil spill in 2010, the area is struggling to survive. The Bayou boys featured in this series continue though to work hard and play even harder. Ragin’ Cajuns is produced for Discovery Channel by Gurney Productions.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Fans of Animal Planet’s Whale Wars learned yesterday the series will return for a fifth season next June via Facebook. The upcoming season will again follow Captain Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s campaign against whaling in Antarctica. The number of episodes for the fifth season was not yet revealed. During its last season, Whale Wars averaged 1.06 million total viewers and ranks in the top three best-performing series in 2011 for Animal Planet among total viewers, A25-54, M25-54 and W25-54. The Lizard Trading Company produces Whale Wars.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Original series Ax Men is back on HISTORY with a fifth season starting January 8 at 9p. The series documents the history of the logging industry and details how technology has transformed those working in logging today even though the battle with nature remains constant. Original Productions is behind the series produced for HISTORY.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Next spring, Sundance Channel will premiere a second series of short films titled Beginnings from director Chiara Clemente. The films feature six creative Parisians exploring their early inspirations. Last year, the network aired seven episodes of Beginnings about creative New Yorkers. Beginnings is produced by Tanya Selvaratnam for Di San Luca Films.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Nat Geo WILD’s recent Second Annual Big Cat Week airing from December 12 through December 18 delivered the network’s highest rated week since its launch. Primetime programming featuring big cats throughout the week pulled in 5.9 million total viewers, 1.4 million more than in 2010.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Wednesday’s frosh season finale of FX‘s American Horror Story marked the series’ most-watched episode by tallying 3.22 million total viewers. The concluding episode also drew in 2.19 million among A18-49 and 1.9 million with A25-54.
(Source: Cynopsis)

MOVIES
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol – Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, Josh Holloway
The Adventures Of Tintin – Jaime  Bell, Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Steven Berkoff, Stellan Skarsgard
We Bought A Zoo – Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Patrick Fugit, Colin Ford
The Darkest Hour (Limited Release) – Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor, Joel Kinnaman
Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close (Limited Release) – Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, Max Von Sydow, Viola Davis

CELEBRITY NEWS: DECEMBER 22, 2011
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Ali Lohan – 18 years old
Jordin Sparks – 22 years old
Mia Tyler – 33 years old
Vanessa Paradis – 39 years old
Ralph Fiennes – 49 years old
BernNadette Stanis (Good Times) – 58 years old
Robin Gibb – 62 years old
Diane Sawyer – 66 years old
Hector Elizondo (”Pretty Woman”) – 75 years old

FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 12/22/11)
FOX: The X Factor (Season Finale: Part 2) at 8pm
OWN: Don’t Tell The Bride (Finale) at 9pm
DISCOVERY CHANNEL: Weed Wars (Finale) at 10pm
FX: The League (Finale) at 10pm & 10:30pm
LIFETIME: Project Accessory (Finale) at 10pm

On Christmas night, Univision Network debuts a follow up series to its successful summer reality show, Pequenos Gigantes (Little Giants) when new series, El Gran Show de los Peques opens at 8p. In the new series, young stars are back in the two-hour weekly show singing, dancing and participating in interviews, parodies, acting and more.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Beginning January 15, FOX welcomes new animation series Napoleon Dynamite as part of the network’s Animation Domination lineup on Sunday nights in the 830p time slot. As of this date, FOX’s Animation Domination schedule includes The Cleveland Show at 730p; The Simpsons at 8p; Napoleon Dynamite at 830p; Family Guy at 9p; and American Dad at 930p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Early in the New Year, A&E Network brings back new seasons of Hoarders and Intervention with back-to-back premieres on January 2 at 9p and 10p respectively. The fifth season of Hoarders, produced by Screaming Flea Productions, captures more dramatic moments and emotional transformations. Intervention opens its twelfth season profiling people whose dependency on drugs and alcohol leads them to other compulsive behaviors. Intervention is from GRB Entertainment.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Our Canadian neighbors can now see the critically-acclaimed drama The Wire created by David Simon as it returns to HBO Canada, a multiplex channel of Astral’s The Movie Network (Eastern Canada) and Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central (Western Canada). Beginning with the first season, The Wire is presently airing Thursdays at 8p on HBO Canada as well as via HBO Canada OnDemand and through the On Demand Online services offered by participating television providers. Season two will be available on demand and online starting in January while seasons three to five will each in subsequent months.
(Source: Cynopsis)