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FOOD: Restaurant: Impossible (Premiere) at 10pm
TRAVEL: Vegas Stripped (Premiere) at 10pm & 10:30pm
Syfy is renewing its reality competition series Face Off for a third season, giving the new season a 10-episode order. Production on the third season begins this spring for a summer 2012 premiere. Casting for trained and self-taught special effects makeup artists is presently underway and the current second run of Face Off airs on Wednesdays at 10p.
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Bounce TV made two separate, multi-year licensing deals with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution and Paramount Home Media Distribution to acquire African-American targeted movies. Titles acquired from Warner Bros. include Bird, Shaft, Greased Lightning, The Mack, Let’s Do It Again and Rosewood. Titles from Paramount include Critical Condition, Mahogany, Lady Sings the Blues, Best Defense, Vampire in Brooklyn and Heart Condition. Select new titles will air in Bounce TV’s Brown Sugar Saturday Night, the network’s new weekly movie primetime franchise that showcases urban cinema with a 1970s skew.
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ABC Family has ordered the drama pilot Bunheads from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino to series. Sutton Foster stars as a Las Vegas showgirl who suddenly gets married and moves to the small town where her husband lives. The new wife works at a dance school operated by her new mother-in-law.
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New single-camera comedy pilot, NBC’s Friday Night Dinner cast Tony Shalhoub (Monk) and Allison Janney (West Wing) to play the parents, Gene and Barbara, per THR. The plot, adapted from a UK format by Greg Daniels centers on a quirky family that has dinner together every Friday night. Universal Television is producing with Howard Klein, Ken Kwapis and Daniels serving as EPs.
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SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 2/5/12)
1) Adele – 21 – 121,940 (After 50 weeks – 6,385,230)
2) Lana Del Rey – Born To Die – 76,634
3) Leonard Cohen – Old Idea – 41,031
Other Debuts
8 ) Fred Hammond – God, Love & Romance – 25,674
20) The Fresh Beat Band – Music From The Hit TV Show – 17,332
27) Metallica – Beyond Magnetic – 13,696
35) Soja – Strength To Survive – 11,838
47) Drive – Soundtrack – 9,079
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