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CELEBRITY NEWS: FEBRUARY 27, 2012
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Jenni Farley (Jersey Shore) – 26 years old
Kate Mara (“127 Hours”) – 29 years old
Josh Groban – 31 years old
Chelsea Clinton – 32 years old
Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas (TLC) – 41 years old
Adam Baldwin (“Full Metal Jacket”) – 50 years old
Debra Monk (Grey’s Anatomy) – 63 years old
Howard Hesseman (WKRP In Cincinnati) – 72 years old
Joanne Woodward – 82 years old

FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 2/27/12)
MNET: Hello Pop! (Premiere) at 7pm
GOLF: The Haney Projet (Premiere) at 9pm
GOLF: Feherty (Premiere) at 10pm
MILITARY: The Terror Matrix (Premiere) at 10pm
TV ONE: Unsung: Sheila E. (Premiere) at 10pm
E!: Fashion Police: The 2012 Academy Awards at 10pm
BRAVO: It’s A Brad, Brad World (Finale) at 10pm

New series Hair Divas: Hollywood will debut on WE tv June 7 at 9p. The original series highlights the work and life of celebrity hair stylist Kim Kimble who counts such celebrities as Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Kelly Rowland and Shakira as clients. WE tv ordered eight one-hour episodes from 3 Ball Productions/Eyeworks USA.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Mnet, the US television network for Asian Americans presents a new set, new segments and an interview with Wonder Girls on Hello Pop!, the weekday show for American K-pop fans to meet and interact premiering tonight at 7p. Mnet is available nationally to subscribers of Verizon FiOS and other cable providers such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox and Charter.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Spanish-language cable network, Galavision reported its finale of Los Heroes del Norte (Heroes of the North) delivered 277,000 total viewers; 213,000 among A18-49 and 103,000 with A18-49. Galavision will air an encore of the finale this Friday in primetime.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Comedian Lily Tomlin is joining Reba McEntire’s comedy pilot for ABC produced by ABC Studios. Tomlin will play McEntire’s mother in the project.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Former Brothers & Sisters cast member Dave Annable is staying put with ABC and was tapped for the drama thriller pilot 666 Park Avenue. Annable will play one half of a young couple that becomes managers of an historic apartment building in New York City that is filled with supernatural occurrences. Recently-announced Terry O’Quinn (Lost) is also involved as a co-star in the pilot.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Emilie de Ravin (Lost) landed a co-starring role on ABC’s soap drama pilot Americana. The drama is about famous fashion designer Robert Soulter (Anthony LaPaglia) whose family and fashion empire is turned on end by the arrival of a new young visionary. De Ravin will portray Francesca, Robert’s fashion savvy and powerful daughter. Currently, de Ravin has a recurring role on ABC’s Once Upon a Time playing Belle.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Also for ABC, a trio of actors was cast in Shonda Rhimes’ period pilot Gilded Lilys about the first luxury hotel in New York City set in 1895: Matt Long, Maury Sterling and Brigid Brannagh.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Sitcom veteran Doris Roberts (Everybody Loves Raymond) landed the role of Aunt Lee in ABC’s multi-camera comedy Counter Culture about three aging sisters who together run their West Texas family diner. Sony Pictures Television is producing.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The untitled cowboy drama for CBS has cast Dennis Quaid and Michael Chiklis. The actors will co-star in the 1960s-era drama based on the true story of Ralph Lamb, a rodeo cowboy-turned-longtime sheriff in Las Vegas. Quaid will play Lamb and Chiklis will play Johnny Savino, a Chicago mob fixer whose entrepreneurial vision for transforming Las Vegas collides with Sheriff Lamb’s law and order rule. Both Quaid and Chiklis will also serve as co-EPs on the project. This project represents the first time Quaid will star in a series for television.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Martin Lawrence makes a comeback to television via a CBS untitled multi-camera comedy pilot where he will star as a 46-year old widowed father of two, who decides to enter the police academy to become a cop. Michael Green and Sam Maydew are on board as writers and EPs. Lawrence previously starred in the 1990s comedy Martin.
(Source: Cynopsis)

FOX’s comedy pilot The Goodwin Games added Scott Foley (Felicity) to co-star opposite Becki Newton. The plot is about three siblings whose father wills them a fortune only if they agree to his terms. Foley will play Henry, one of the three siblings; Newton will play his sister. 20th Television is producing.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Bill Pullman (Independence Day) will play the President of the US again, this time in NBC’s single-camera White House comedy titled 1600 Penn, starring and produced by Josh Gad. Brittany Snow will also join the sitcom playing Becca, the overachieving and perfectionist eldest daughter of the President (Pullman) while Gad plays her gregarious and clumsy older brother Skip.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Shaun Cassidy’s Western drama pilot The Frontier has tagged Chaske Spencer to play Eli, a cook who is traveling west from Missouri with his mentally unstable aunt, Luisa. The drama is set in the 1840s.
(Source: Cynopsis)

THE 84TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS – WINNERS LIST
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Act Of Valor – $24.7 million
Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds – $16 million
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island – $13.5 million
Safe House – $11.4 million
The Vow – $10 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)

CELEBRITY NEWS: FEBRUARY 24, 2012
http://www.imdb.com/news/celebrity

Trace Cyrus – 23 years old
Billy Zane (“Titanic”) – 46 years old
Kristin Davis (Sex And The City) – 47 years old
Mark Moses (Desperate Housewives) – 54 years old
Debra Jo Rupp (That 70’s Show) – 61 years old
Edward James Olmos – 65 years old
Barry Bostwick (Spin City) – 67 years old
Dominic Chianese (The Sorpranos) – 81 years old Abe Vigoda (Barney Miller) – 91 years old

FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 2/24/12)
NBC: Who Do You Think You Are?: Blair Underwood (Premiere) at 8pm
DISCOVERY: Gold Rush (Finale) at 9pm

(SATURDAY 2/25/12)
DISCOVERY FIT & HEALTH: Untold Stories of the E.R. (Finale) at 10pm

(SUNDAY 2/26/12)
E!: Live From The Red Carpet: The 2012 Academy Awards at 6pm
ABC: Oscars Red Carpet Live at 7pm
ABC: The 84th Annual Academy Awards at 8:30pm
GALAVISION: Adictos (Premiere) at 10pm
INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY: Unusual Suspects (Premiere) at 10pm
GALAVISION: Tercer Milenio (Finale) at 7pm
GALAVISION: El Encanto Del Aguila (Finale) at 8pm

Sunday’s season two finale of MASTERPIECE CLASSIC’s Downton Abbey on PBS attracted an average audience of 5.4 million viewers, not factoring in replays, DVRs or online streaming. Downton Abbey’s finale delivered a 3.5 HH overnight rating based on Nielsen Fast National data which is the highest for a PBS program since the premiere of Ken Burn’s National Parks series in September 2009. Throughout its second season, Downton Abbey delivered an audience that was more than double the PBS primetime average and its average rating was 25% higher than the first season based on metered market averages. Downton Abbey is a co-production of Carnival/Masterpiece.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CBS extended its deal with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to keep the Kennedy Center Honors broadcast on CBS through 2018. The annual special has aired on CBS since its premiere in 1978.
(Source: Cynopsis)

During Wednesday’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC, news broke of National Geographic Channel’s plans to renew series Rocket City Rednecks for a second season. Production will begin in March and the network will roll out the season premiere later this year. Rocket City Rednecks is produced by Flight 33 for NGC.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CMT renewed two original unscripted series airing on Saturdays: Bayou Billionaires and My Big Redneck Vacation. Both have averaged close to one million total viewers since their January premieres and will air their first season finales on March 31 beginning at 9p. Bayou Billionaires and My Big Redneck Vacation return on CMT with their second seasons in June.
(Source: Cynopsis)

A trio of series received episode orders from HGTV, reports Variety. Thirteen episodes each were handed to My Yard Goes Disney which airs new episodes starting in June; Room Crashers hosted by Todd Davis is back for a third season this summer; and Selling New York will open an eighth season.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Academy Award-winner Mira Sorvino is in the final negotiations to join CBS’ drama pilot Trooper from Jerry Bruckheimer. Sorvino would headline the drama playing a common-sense mother-turned-New York state trooper. Warner Bros. Television is producing.
(Source: Cynopsis)

In further casting news from CBS, Brandon Routh joins comedy pilot Partners, the project from Will & Grace creators, Max Mutchnick and David Kohan and Greg Grunberg joins the cast of Greg Berlanti/Greg Malins’ untitled romantic comedy pilot.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC’s musical drama pilot Nashville added Jonathan Jackson to the cast playing Avery, an aspiring musician who is a bad boy.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Former Friday Night Lights cast member Aimee Teegarden will star in The CW’s drama pilot The Selection. Teegarden will play a poor young woman who is selected by lottery to participate in a competition to become the next queen of a war-ravaged nation on the brink of change. The pilot is based on the upcoming book series by Kiera Cass, an epic romance set 300 years in the future. Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain are on board to write and serve as EPs; Warner Bros. Television is producing.
(Source: Cynopsis)

TLC is exploring the world of tight wads by ordering the new series Extreme Cheapskates. Over eight half-hour episodes, the series will look at individuals who look for creative ways to cut costs. Casting is underway and the network will likely premiere the series this summer. Last December 28, TLC aired a one-hour special, Extreme Cheapskates which drew in 1.6 million viewers. Stephen David Entertainment is behind the series for TLC.
(Source: Cynopsis)

MOVIES
Act Of Valor – Roselyn Sanchez,  Emilio Rivera, Alex Veadov, Jason Cottle, Nestor Serrano
Gone – Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Carpenter, Wes Bentley, Sebastian Stan, Michael Pare
Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds – Tyler Perry, Thandie Newton, Gabrielle Union, Phylicia Rashad, Rebecca Romijn, Eddie Cibrian
Wanderlust – Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Justin Theroux, Alan Alda, Malin Akerman

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