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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 3/2/12)
NBC: Who Do You Think You Are?: Reba McEntire (Premiere) at 8pm
(SATURDAY 3/3/12)
FOX: Q’Viva: The Chosen (Premiere) at 8pm
INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY: Deadly Sins (Premiere) at 8pm
DISCOVERY FIT & HEALTH: Bizarre ER (Premiere) at 10pm
BBC AMERICA: Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show (Premiere) at 11:30pm
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Lindsay Lohan, Musical Guest: Jack White at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 3/4/12)
TV GUIDE: Hollywood Girls Night (Premiere) at 9pm
LIFETIME: Army Wives (Premiere) at 9pm
LIFETIME: Coming Home (Premiere) at 10pm
ABC: GCB (aka Good Christian Bitches) (Premiere) at 10pm
A&E: Breakout Kings (Premiere) at 10pm
VH1: Stevie TV (Premiere) at 11pm
FOX: Napoleon Dynamite (Finale) at 8:30pm
Canadian hospital drama Saving Hope is joining NBC’s schedule this summer. NBC ordered 13 episodes of the drama starring Erica Durance and Michael Shanks. Production begins in Toronto on March 12. Saving Hope also launches this summer on Canadian broadcaster CTV as well as NBC. The drama is produced by Ilana C Frank Films with Entertainment One, in association with CTV and NBC. Entertainment One will deficit finance Saving Hope in addition to handling the international distribution across all media including television, DVD/Blu-ray, VOD and digital.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Beginning next Monday, morning show Fox & Friends on Fox News Channel (FNC) will expand earlier by an extra hour. Fox & Friends will now air live between 5a and 6a with the name Fox & Friends First. The show’s fourth hour will be anchored by rotating FNC personalities including Heather Childers, Dave Briggs, Ainsley Earhardt and Heather Nauert among others. This new hour of Fox & Friends First will replace the repeats presently airing in the time period.
(Source: Cynopsis)
New original adventure culinary competition series No Kitchen Required debuts on BBC America April 3 at 10p. The series follows three professional chefs as they are dropped in remote locales where they must work with the locals to hunt and fish as well as forage for ingredients to cook meals that will be judged by the communities. The three chefs are New York restaurateur Michael Psilakis, first ever Chopped Grand Champion chef Madison Cowan and elite personal chef and New Zealander Kayne Raymond. The threesome will be dropped in ten locations worldwide including Dominica, New Zealand, Belize, Fiji, Chiang Dao Thailand, Koh Lanta Thailand, Hawaii, New Mexico, Louisiana and Florida. No Kitchen Required is hosted by British personality Dr. Shini Somara who also joins the chefs on their adventures. The series is a Notional production for BBC America.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season two of Nothing Personal: Murder For Hire opens March 7 at 9p on Investigation Discovery. The series, hosted by actor and true-crime enthusiast Steve Schirripa (The Sopranos) relates twisted stories of betrayal. The second season has six episodes produced by Cineflix (NP2) Inc. in association with Investigation Discovery.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Tonight, BIO Channel will honor the life of the late Davy Jones of The Monkees fame in two one-hour specials: Biography: The Monkees at 8p with an encore at 10p and BIO Remembers: Davy Jones at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
On Sunday, Me-TV will air three classic episodes from The Brady Bunch and Love, American Style also featuring the late pop idol Davy Jones: The Brandy Bunch “Getting Davy Jones” at 1230p; Love, American Style “Love and The Elopement” at 1p; and Love, American Style “Love and The Model Apartment” at 130p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Star of The Princess Bride, Cary Elwes landed a role on ABC’s comedy pilot Prairie Dogs. Elwes will play Rams, the mysterious leader of the design department in the company where the main character works. Rams is also described as an eccentric German who wears turtlenecks and kilts.
(Source: Cynopsis)
David Arquette will next appear in the ABC comedy pilot The Smart One, about a sister named Jude (Portia de Rossi) who goes to work for her less brainy though more popular sister Candy (Malin Akerman). Arquette will play Candy’s husband.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Further casting news for ABC includes Elizabeth Perkins cast as Sarah Chalke’s mother in the comedy pilot How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life. The plot is about Polly (Chalke) a recently divorced single mom who moves back in with her eccentric parents, Elaine (Perkins) and Max.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CBS’ comedy pilot from Will & Grace creators, David Kohan and Max Mutchnick is close to finalizing a deal with David Krumholtz to play opposite Michael Urie in Partners. The comedy is about two architects Charlie (Krumholtz) who is straight and Louis (Urie) who is gay and whose friendship has lasted longer than their other romantic relationships. Charlie ends up proposing to his girlfriend (Sophia Bush) which makes Louis neurotic in his attempts at being supportive.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Stand-up comedian-turned-actor Dane Cook is joining NBC’s comedy pilot titled Next Caller Please. The single-camera series is about Cam Doherty (Cook), a brash alpha male DJ and his feminist co-host set in the office of a satellite radio station. Collette Wolfe has been cast as his co-host Stella and Joy Osmanski will play Winnie, Stella’s producer.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Former The Cosby Show mom Phylicia Rashad landed a role in NBC’s drama pilot Do No Harm, the contemporary take on the Dr. Jeckyll/Mr. Hyde story. Rashad will play Dr. Vanessa Young, the chief of surgery and boss of Jeffrey Kohl (Steven Pasquale), a brilliant neurosurgeon who struggles with his dangerous alter-ego. Universal Television is producing.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Matthew Perry may rejoin NBC with a lead role in the single-camera comedy pilot Go On. Perry will play a charming sportscaster who tries to move on after a personal tragedy through the help of mandatory therapy sessions. Scott Silveri (Friends) will write and serve as EP.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MOVIES
Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax – Danny DeVito, Zac Efron, Ed Helms, Taylor Swift, Rob Riggle
Project X – Miles Teller, Alexis Knapp, Thomas Mann, Jonathan Brown
Being Flynn (Limited Release) – Robert DeNiro, Julianne Moore, Paul Dano, Olivia Thirlby, Lili Taylor
Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (Limited Release) – Time Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, John C. Reilly
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CASTING CALL
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