FIRST LOOK/ ON TV/ WEEKEND BOX OFFICE

FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 4/23/12)
OXYGEN: Bad Girls Club Las Vegas (Finale) at 10pm

Oprah’s Lifeclass: The Tour (with Deepak Chopra).  It will air live at 8pm on OWN.

Former Friends cast member, Matthew Perry returns to NBC as the network approved the first pilot-to-series pickup for the 2012-2013 season. Perry will star in the single-camera workplace comedy Go On. NBC ordered 13 episodes of the series about a sportscaster (Perry) who tries to move on from a loss and finds surprising comfort from the members of his group therapy sessions. Go On is produced by Universal Television and also stars Laura Benanti, Julie White, Allison Miller, Khary, Payton and Suzy Nakamura.
(Source: Cynopsis)

HBO canceled the half-hour animated series The Life and Times of Tim which ran for three seasons and aired its last original episode on February 17. The series was produced by Media Rights Capital and starred voice actors Steve Dildarian, who also created the show, along with MJ Otto, Matt Johnson and Peter Giles.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Mariska Hargitay inked a new deal with Universal Television to continue on the NBC cop drama Law & Order: SVU from producer Dick Wolf, per THR. Nothing official though has come from NBC to indicate if Law & Order: SVU will be picked up for a 14th season.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Cinemax okayed a pilot starring previous CSI star William Petersen playing a hit man titled Hurt People. The plot revolves around Petersen’s character who is a crime family leader as he seeks his estranged daughter. The young woman is seeking revenge for the death of her mother who was killed by the mob. Petersen also serves as EP on this project produced by GK-TV.
(Source: Cynopsis)

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Think Like A Man – $33 million
The Lucky One – $22.8 million
The Hunger Games – $14.5 million
Chimpanzee – $10.2 million
The Three Stooges – $9.2 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)

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