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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 8/13/12)
FOX: Hotel Hell (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: Stars Earn Stripes (Premiere) at 8pm
NBC: Grimm (Premiere) at 10pm
A&E: Intervention (Premiere) at 9pm & 10pm
TV ONE: Unsung: Arrested Development (Premiere) at 9pm
DIY: Blog Cabin (Premiere) at 9:30pm
BRAVO: Gallery Girls (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: United States of America (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: Big Tiny (Premiere) at 10pm
TNT: Major Crimes (Premiere) at 10pm
UNIVISION: Amor Bravio (Premiere) at 10pm
HISTORY: Counting Cars (Premiere) at 10:30pm
SUNDANCE: Get To Work (Premiere) at 10:30pm
BBC AMERICA: Top Gear (Finale) at 9pm
TNT: The Closer (Series Finale) at 9pm
STYLE: Chicagolicious (Mid-Season Finale) at 9pm
MTV: Teen Wolf (Finale) at 10pm
FOX is giving viewers in ten cities an exclusive chance to see advance screenings of its new Tuesday night sitcoms, Ben and Kate and The Mindy Project. The New Fox Tuesday Screenings and Live Q&A Event will take place on August 26 at 8p ET/5p PT and directly following the in-theater screenings, the casts of New Girl, Raising Hope, Ben and Kate and The Mindy Project will participate in a live, interactive nationwide Q&A. The two-episode advance screenings will happen in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, Boston, Washington, DC, Atlanta and Houston. Following the preview, series stars Martha Plimpton and Garret Dillahunt (Raising Hope), Dakota Johnson and Nat Faxon (Ben and Kate), Max Greenfield, Jake Johnson and Lamorne Morris (New Girl) and Mindy Kaling and Chris Messina (The Mindy Project) will participate in the nationwide interactive live Q&A from The Broad Stage at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center. Entertainment Weekly’s Annie Barrett will moderate the live Q&A from Los Angeles. Fans watching the live Q&A at the ten screening events will have the opportunity to submit questions via Facebook and Twitter. For more information about how to RSVP for the New Fox Tuesday Screenings and Live Q&A Event and Twitter handles for the Live Q&A portion, visit the Cynopsis Media website at www.cynopsis.com and look for the press release from FOX.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TLC’s double premiere episodes of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo last Wednesday at 10p and 1030p delivered a 1.7 rating with W18-34 and a 1.6 with W18-49. Two all-new episodes of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo return to TLC’s schedule next Wednesday at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Two daytime drama casting news: Ronn Moss is departing the CBS soap The Bold and the Beautiful where he has played fashion magnate Ridge Forrester since the show began in 1987. Moss will shoot his final scenes this Tuesday and his last episode will air sometime in September. On NBC’s Days of Our Lives, former General Hospital star Greg Vaughan is joining beginning November 13 in the role of Eric Brady, the estranged brother of Sami (Alison Sweeney) and the son of Roman Brady and Marlena Evans (Deidre Hall). The character of Eric has not been part of Days of Our Lives since 2000.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Also on ABC’s comedy Last Man Standing, new show runner, Tim Doyle is recasting several roles, reports EW. Playing the part of Kristin, Mike Baxter’s (Tim Allen) eldest daughter is Amanda Fuller, replacing Alexandra Krosney. Most recently, Fuller appeared on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy last season as Dr. Morgan Peterson. Newcomer Flynn Morrison will play 5-year old version of Boyd, a role that was played last year by toddler twins Luke and Evan Kruntchev. For Boyd’s dad, Ryan, Doyle is looking for an actor to play the recurring role. Last year, the role was played by Nick Jonas.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fresh off the Summer Olympics, Michael Phelps the most decorated Olympian ever with 22 medals will next star in the fifth season of Golf Channel’s The Haney Project. Production on The Haney Project begins next month and will chronicle Phelps’ progress with his golf game with help from Tiger Woods’ former swing coach, Hank Haney. The series will also introduce viewers to Phelps’ mother, Debbie and his coach, Bob Bowman along with cameos of his famous friends. Subway, which has had a long-term partnership with Phelps will become one of the charter sponsors of The Haney Project’s fifth season.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Production on the fourth season of TV Land’s sitcom Hot in Cleveland begins its taping in front of a live studio audience on August 31 and the new season is set to premiere November 28 at 10p. New for this season, Heather Locklear and Jay Harrington will appear in multiple episodes and Regis Philbin returns for the season premiere. In addition, Georgia Engel (The Mary Tyler Moore Show) and Michael McMillian (True Blood) will reprise their roles, Engel as Mamie and McMillian as Owen. Hot in Cleveland is executive produced by Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner of Hazy Mills Productions and is helmed by Suzanne Martin as EP/show runner and writer. Lynda Obst is also an EP and Larry W. Jones and Keith Cox are EPs for TV Land. Hot in Cleveland is currently available worldwide in more than 165 countries.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Albert Freeman Jr. died last Thursday at the age of 78. Mr. Freeman’s career spanned film, stage and television and was best known playing Elijah Muhammad, the Nation of Islam leader and Malcolm X’s mentor in Spike Lee’s 1992 biopic Malcolm X. Other film roles included Once Upon a Time . . . When We Were Colored (1995) starring opposite Phylicia Rashad and Down in the Delta (1998) directed by Maya Angelou and starring Alfre Woodard. In television, Mr. Freeman played Malcolm X in the miniseries Roots: The Next Generations which earned him an Emmy nomination in 1979. He was also nominated for an Emmy for his role in the 1970 telepic My Sweet Charlie playing opposite Patty Duke. Mr. Freeman also won a best actor Daytime Emmy for his work as Capt. Ed Hall on the ABC soap One Life to Live and he starred in the ABC sitcom Hot L Baltimore in 1975 and recurred on Homicide: Life on the Street as Deputy Commissioner James Harris. In addition to several other earlier TV and film roles, Mr. Freeman taught acting for many years at Howard University and served as chairman and artistic director of its theater arts department for the last six years.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
The Bourne Legacy – $40.3 million
The Campaign – $27.4 million
The Dark Knight Rises – $19.5 million
Hope Springs – $15.6 million
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days – $8.2 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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