FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 7/12/12)
CBS: Big Brother (Premiere) at 9pm
HGTV: Natural Born Sellers (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY: Property Wars (Premiere) at 10pm
SHOWTIME: The Real L Word (Premiere) at 10pm
SHOWTIME: Polyamory: Married & Datiing (Premiere) at 12am
TRAVEL: Top Spot (Premiere) at 10pm
FOX: The Choice (Finale) at 8:58pm
HISTORY: Swamp People (Finale) at 9pm
INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY: Blood Relatives (Finale) at 10pm
TBS: Men At Work (Finale) at 10:30pm
The second season of Extreme Chef debuts on Food Network August 16 at 10p. In the new five-episode season, seven professional chefs will be dropped in extreme locations such as the jungles of Thailand or the deserts of California where their culinary skills and their physical and mental skills will be challenged. Marsh Mokhtari, an experienced world traveler is the host of the series. Special guest judges include journalist and judge on Next Iron Chef, Simon Majumdar; Ben Sargent, host of Cooking Channel’s Hook, Line & Dinner; and Troy Johnson, host of Crave, food critic and journalist. Extreme Chef is produced by Smart Dog/Valencia Productions LLC.
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A new season is on tap for original series Falling Skies from DreamWorks Television and executive producer Steven Spielberg as TNT ordered a third season. Starring Noah Wyle, the series is presently averaging 5.9 million total viewers and airs on Sundays at 9p. TNT ordered 10 episodes of Falling Skies which will be back on the network next year.
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truTV approved a new weekly series starring basketball star and TNT NBA analyst Shaquille O’Neal. The project, Upload with Shaquille O’Neal (wt) will watch as O’Neal and his comic friends including Gary Owen, who hosts the series, Godfrey and a special guest, will search online for the funniest online videos to comment on. They will also create their own viral videos, pull pranks and parody current pop culture stories. truTV ordered 10 episodes from FishBowl Worldwide Media and Shaq Entertainment. FishBowl’s Vin Di Bona, Bruce Gersh and Susan Levison and Beth Greenwald and Shaq Entertainment’s Perry Rogers, Colin Smeeton and Mike Parris will all serve as EPs along with Mike Gibbons.
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CBS’ The Good Wife has added yet another high-profile actor for the fourth season this fall. Amanda Peet will be joining in a recurring role as a military lawyer who sues a contract worker for an attempted sexual assault. Peet’s character hires Alicia (Julianna Margulies) as her lawyer and the two become friends and confidantes.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Upcoming new FOX comedy, The Mindy Project has added two to the cast as series regulars: Amanda Seeton will play Shauna Dicanio who does billing in the front office of the medical practice where Mindy Kaling’s character works and Stephen Tobolowsky will play Dr. Marc Shulman, the head of the practice. In addition, Ike Barinholtz joins as a recurring character, Morgan Tookers, a new hire at the medical office, an ex-con male nurse with limited social skills and questionable hygiene.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Many of Viacom’s cable channels went dark on DirecTV Tuesday just before midnight ET as the two companies reached an impasse in their negotiations concerning a new carriage deal. Specifically, the channels that are now dark on DirecTV include Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, VH1, CMT, Logo, Spike, TV Land, MTV2, VH1 Classic, Palladia, Nick Jr., NickToons and TeenNick as well as their hi-def related networks. Counting the hi-def channels, DirecTV carries a total of 26 Viacom-owned channels. A Viacom rep on the company’s blog wrote that DirecTV “dropped the channels without giving Viacom advanced warning,” and further stated the last time the two entities were in contact was at 11a on Tuesday. DirecTV, which has around 20 million subscribers, related Viacom is asking for a carriage fee increase of more than 30% and blames the blackout on Viacom. Furthermore, to put pressure on DirecTV to resolve their carriage dispute, Viacom is also limiting free online access to many of its top shows. Full episodes of The Daily Show, SpongeBob SquarePants, Jersey Shore and The Colbert Report among others are now currently not available.
(Source: Cynopsis)
BROADWAY
Performances begin today for Bring It On: The Musical. Opening night is set for Wednesday August 1st and runs through Sunday October 7, 2012.
http://ppc.broadway.com/buzz/162747/game-on-performances-begin-for-bring-it-on-the-musical/
CASTING CALL
The new daily half-hour game show, Let’s Ask America hosted by Kevin Pereira and launching in seven Scripps television markets on September 17 is searching for an official canine mascot. The search runs through July 27 and people are invited to enter their dog at: www.letsaskamerica.tv. Please provide a description of your dog including gender, breed, date of birth and name, along with a photo and a 30- to 60-second video of the dog and a written paragraph explaining why your dog deserves to be the show’s mascot. The dog finalists will be judged by a panel consisting of show producers and one final dog winner will be selected and contacted on or before July 30. The winning dog will be featured on the show Let’s Ask America and will receive a trip to Los Angeles, a professional photo shoot and/or video session and more. Let’s Ask America is produced by Telepictures and paraMedia inc. and is distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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