FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 7/9/12)
ABC: Good Afternoon America (Premiere) at 2pm
TRAVEL: Bizarre Foods America (Premiere) at 8pm
TV ONE: Unsung: Confunkshun (Premiere) at 9pm
DIY: Yard Crashers (Premiere) at 9pm
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: Border Wars (Premiere) at 9pm
MTV TR3S: MTV Musica Y Mas: Quiero Mi Boda (Premiere) at 9pm
TNT: The Closer (Premiere) at 9pm
TNT: Perception (Premiere) at 10pm
E!: Opening Act (Premiere) at 10pm
INVESTAGATION DISCOVERY: Stolen Voices, Buried Secrets (Premiere) at 10pm
MILITARY: Infamous Assassinations (Premiere) at 10pm & 10:30pm
OXYGEN: The Bad Girls Club (Premiere) at 10pm
Effective beginning today, Savannah Guthrie becomes the new Co-Anchor of NBC News’ Today. Savannah joins the anchor team consisting of Matt Lauer, Al Roker and Natalie Morales. News of Savannah’s promotion was announced last week by NBC News President Steve Capus.
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Two dating reality series are making scheduling tweaks this month: ABC has moved the season finale of The Bachelorette to July 22 and CBS decided to move the series premiere of its new dating series 3 back a week to July 29. 3 will debut with a 90-minute episode beginning at 9p.
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Looking ahead, Oxygen Media launches the new six-episode series Girlfriend Confidential: LA on September 3 at 11p. The series highlights former America’s Next Top Model winner, Eva Marcille and her best friends as they help each other with love travails and celebrity life amidst Hollywood’s competitive entertainment industry. Girlfriend Confidential: LA is produced by Ish Entertainment.
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Just about two weeks after premiering drama series The Newsroom from Aaron Sorkin and starring Jeff Daniels, HBO has renewed the original series for a second season. HBO additionally gave True Blood a sixth season and revealed it is bringing back the series Eastbound & Down starring Danny McBride for a new season containing eight all-new episodes.
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TNT has renewed two of its drama series for 2013. New series Dallas will return for a second season with 15 episodes and Rizzoli & Isles will have a fourth season also with 15 episodes. Both series are produced by Warner Horizon Television.
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Unscripted competition series, Total Blackout was picked up by Syfy for a second season. The network ordered 16 half-hour episodes hosted by Jaleel White. Total Blackout is produced by FremantleMedia North America and created by Henrik Nielsen.
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Beginning later this month, TLC is offering a second night devoted to wedding-themed content when Four Weddings is back for a fourth season starting July 19 at 9p. TLC already brands Fridays as BrideDay and is now expanding wedding programming to Thursdays with two new Four Weddings episodes airing back-to-back at 9p and 10p. Four Weddings is produced for TLC by ITV Productions.
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Beginning today, Style Media acquired the rights to air the 1990s comedy Sister, Sister starring real-life sisters, Tia and Tamera Mowry. Style will air the sitcom weekday mornings throughout the summer starting today at 7a with back-to-back episodes starting with the first season. Style also airs the docu-series Tia & Tamera featuring the sisters on Mondays at 8p.
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G4 acquired the series Lost that ran on ABC from producer J.J. Abrams. G4 will air the complete series in four episode installments every Monday beginning July 16 at 8p.
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Wearing her executive producer hat, Jennifer Lopez is developing an untitled one-hour drama project with ABC Family. The project will be produced under Lopez’ Nuyorican Productions and the plot is about a lesbian couple with several children who opt to bring a teenager into their home. Lopez will be an EP along with Simon Fields, Greg Gugliotta in addition to co-creators/writers Peter Paige and Brad Bredeweg.
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ABC’s Once Upon a Time has added two to its cast of fairy tale characters for the second season this fall. Jamie Chung (The Hangover Part II) landed the recurring role as the Chinese warrior Mulan while Sarah Bolger (The Tudors) was cast in the recurring role of Sleeping Beauty (aka Princess Aurora).
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For the second season of NBC’s Smash, Broadway actress Krysta Rodriguez has joined the cast as a series regular playing Ana, Karen’s (Katharine McPhee) “fun and spunky new roommate.” Smash will be back on NBC during midseason.
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Also for NBC, comedy Up All Night starring Christina Applegate has added Luka Jones as a series regular playing Scott, Reagan’s (Applegate) younger brother. Scott is a laid back contractor who, though great at his job, does not have much business sense which is a sharp contrast to his sister, the ultimate planner. Up All Night debuts its new season on September 20.
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Veteran actress Christine Lahti (Chicago Hope) will next appear on CBS’ Hawaii Five-O playing Doris McGarrett, mother to Steve McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin). This is a recurring role for Lahti.
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The CW’s Gossip Girl is adding Lost alum Andrea Gabriel in a recurring role as a businesswoman from Dubai, reports THR. Gossip Girl premieres its final season on The CW October 8 at 9p.
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Surrounded by his wife and children, Oscar winner Ernest Borgnine past away late Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Borgnine won the best-actor Oscar in the 1955 film “Marty”. Other later films Borgnine starred include “Ice Station Zebra,” “The Adventurers,” “Willard,” “The Poseidon Adventure,” “The Greatest” (as Muhammad Ali’s manager), “Convoy,” “Ravagers,” “Escape from New York,” “Moving Target” and “Mistress.” Making his way to TV comedy from 1962 to 1966, Borgnine starred as the commander of a World War II PT boat in “McHale’s Navy”. He also starred in other TV series such as Airwolf and The Single Guy while also making several other TV appearances. Ernest Borgnine was 95.
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The death of beloved actor Andy Griffith last Tuesday at the age of 86 was felt by many. Mr. Griffith, who played Sheriff Andy Taylor on the endearing television series The Andy Griffith Show which ran from 1960-1968 on CBS, was lauded by North Carolina’s Governor Beverly Perdue who said, “North Carolina has lost its favorite son.” President Barack Obama said he was sad to learn of Mr. Griffith’s death and said in a statement, “A performer of extraordinary talent, Andy was beloved by generations of fans and revered by entertainers who followed in his footstep.” Ron Howard, who played Mr. Griffith’s son Opie on the comedy series, set in the fictional town of Mayberry, NC (which was believed to be based on Mr. Griffith’s own hometown of Mount Airy, NC) said via EW’s website, “He was fantastic. There was a fantastic equilibrium between his love of laughter and jokes and funny stories and songs and all that, and then he could turn on a dime and be the utmost professional.” In addition to making an impact with television audiences, Mr. Griffith is also remembered for his riveting performance in Elia Kazan’s film A Face in the Crowd (1957) playing opposite Patricia Neal. He later played a small-town sheriff in an episode of the television series The Danny Thomas Show which led to The Andy Griffith Show. Don Knotts, who had previously appeared with Mr. Griffith in the stage and screen versions of No Time for Sergeants and had seen The Danny Thomas Show episode, suggested to Mr. Griffith that his sheriff character would need a deputy side-kick. Mr. Knotts joined the cast as the lovable but bungling Deputy Barney Fife, the role which won Mr. Knotts five Emmy Awards. The Griffith-Knotts friendship continued strong until Mr. Knotts’ death in February 2006. In 1968, The Andy Griffith Show was No. 1 in the ratings and that same year, Mr. Griffith decided to depart from the show. A spin-off show, Mayberry R.F.D. continued without him featuring new and returning supporting characters before it ended in 1971. In 1986, Mr. Griffith reprised his Andy Taylor role for a reunion TV movie, Return to Mayberry. Mr. Griffith returned to series television in a second popular role as criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock in the show Matlock which first aired from 1986 until 1992 on NBC and then until May 1995 on ABC. On Broadway, Mr. Griffith was nominated for two Tony awards, first in 1956 for his role in No Time for Sergeants and again in 1960 for the musical Destry Rides Again. Also a recording artist, Mr. Griffith won a Grammy award in 1996 for his gospel album, I Love To Tell The Story. Mr. Griffith is survived by his third wife, Cindi Knight Griffith whom he married in 1983 and two children from his first marriage.
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Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will honor the late Andy Griffith with a night of his movies on July 18 beginning with A Face in the Crowd (1957) at 8p, followed by No Time for Sergeants (1958) at 1015p, then Hearts of the West (1975) at 1230a and Onionhead (1958) at 215a.
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Veteran television producer, show creator and London native, Norman Felton died June 25 in Santa Barbara at the age of 99. Mr. Felton was the co-creator of the classic TV series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and was the executive producer of the television version of Dr. Kildare. While Mr. Felton served as president/CEO of MGM Television-based Arena Productions, he and Sam Rolfe created the spy drama The Man From U.N.C.L.E. starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum which ran on NBC from 1964 to 1968. He also executive produced the short-lived spin-off series The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. starring Stefanie Powers. Mr. Felton executive produced all 190 episodes of NBC’s Dr. Kildare which starred Richard Chamberlain and aired from 1960 to 1966. Mr. Felton was involved as producer on several other series including a legal drama, Hawkins in 1973 starring Jimmy Stewart as well as Studio One in Hollywood, Pursuit, The Eleventh Hour, The Lieutenant, Strange Report and Executive Suite. In 1997, Mr. Felton was the recipient of an Honorary Lifetime Membership Award from the Producers Guild of America. Mr. Felton is survived by his children Julie and John; two grandchildren; and one great-grandson as well as his companion, Denise Aubuchon. The family requests donations sent to Doctors Without Borders or the American Civil Liberties Union.
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
The Amazing Spider-Man – $65 million
Ted – $32.6 million
Brave – $20.2 million
Savages – $16.2 million
Magic Mike – $15.6 million
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CASTING CALL
Telemundo Media has launched its first national casting call for the talent competition show, Yo Me Llamo which will air on Telemundo this third quarter. Casting calls have already happened in Miami and continue this Thursday and Friday in San Juan, Puerto Rico; on July 15 and 16 in New York; on July 20 and 21 in Las Vegas; and on July 22 and 23 in Los Angeles. Interested participants must bring a valid driver’s license or another photo ID and be prepared to sing a song by a famous artist. Additionally, interested contestants who cannot attend the local auditions can participate online by completing the application form at http://www.yomellamocasting.com and uploading a video that is one to three minutes in length of them singing a song from a famous artist.
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A major network and the producers behind The Biggest Loser and The Revolution are casting for a new docu-series which will help women find the man of their dreams. The show is looking for smart, beautiful, successful women who are searching for their soul mates. To be considered, please send photos and a brief bio that is 250 words or less about you along with your email/phone contact info to: FINDINGMYLOVE2012@gmail.com. Applicants must be 21+ years old and legal US residents.
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A major TV network is seeking modern, single males to participate in a new docu-series from the producers of The Biggest Loser. If you are smart, handsome, successful and single, you could be selected as a guide for the new series. Participants must live in the Southern California area. Send photos, a personal bio of 250 words or less as well as email/phone contact info to: MODERNSINGLEMALES@gmail.com. Applicants must be 21+ years old and legal US residents.
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