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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 9/17/12)
SYNDICATION PREMIERES: Trisha Goddard; Are We There Yet; Let’s Ask America; Rachael Ray; The Steve Wilkos Show; Justice For All with judge Cristina Perez; Jeopardy!; Wheel of Fortune
FOX: Bones (Premiere) at 8pm
FOX: The Mob Doctor (Premiere) at 9pm
ENCORE: Shogun (Premiere) at 8pm
DIY: House Crashers (Premiere) at 9pm
LOGO: Be Good Johnny Weir (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: Revolution (Premiere) at 10pm
TNT: perception (Finale) at 10pm
INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY: Stolen Voices, Buried Secrets (Finale) at 10pm
Making it official, FOX has completed its judges panel for American Idol, when the show debuts its 12th season next January. Previously named judge Mariah Carey and returning judge Randy Jackson will be joined by two new judges: singer, songwriter, rapper and fashionista, Nicki Minaj and four-time Grammy Award winner and country superstar Keith Urban. Minaj and Urban along with Carey, Jackson and host Ryan Seacrest participated in the auditions that kicked off this past weekend in New York City. Other upcoming audition cities include Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte, San Antonio, Baton Rouge and Oklahoma City. American Idol is produced b 19 Entertainment, a division of Core Media Group and FremantleMedia North America, Inc.
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A third season of Food Network’s competition series Sweet Genius debuts October 18 at 10p. Each episode watches as four American pastry chefs battle through three rounds of challenges judge by world-famous cake decorator, Chef Ron Ben-Israel. The final winner takes on the title of Sweet Genius as well as a $10,000 cash prize.
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The 23rd installment of MTV’s The Challenge: Battle of the Seasons bows this Wednesday at 10p with a 90-minute episode. The new season features 28 past housemates from the Real World seasons Austin, Brooklyn, both Las Vegas seasons (combined into one team), Cancun, New Orleans, San Diego and St. Thomas who’ll battle it out for the crown and the largest prize in the series’ history at $350,000. TJ Lavin hosts the series and the new season takes place in Bodrum, Turkey. The Challenge: Battle of the Seasons was created for MTV by Bunim/Murray Productions.
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This week, a new online comedy series, Suit Up premieres exclusively on Yahoo!. The scripted comedy series is about a crisis expert (Marc Evan Jackson) as he manages a college athletic department steeped in scandal. The eight episodes are available live now via Yahoo! Screen http://screen.yahoo.com/suit-up/. Fox Digital Studio (FDS) produced the series in association with DIRECTV.
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Production is commencing today on E!’s fourth series in the Kardashian franchise, Kourtney and Kim Take Miami, per EW. The series will debut in January.
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Trisha Rae Stahl is joining the cast of FOX’s Glee in the recurring role as mother to Marley Rose (Melissa Benoist). Stahl’s character was introduced on the show’s fourth season premiere last week.
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NBC’s Smash tapped Broadcast star of Rent Jesse L. Martin for six-episode run during season two. Martin will play Scott Welker, an artistic director at a theater company and a potential love interest to Debra Messing’s character Julia.
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Jonathan Banks booked a multi-episode run on CBS’ new period drama Vegas, per TVLine. Banks will play Angelo, a Chicago gangster leader who travels to Vegas and Michael Chiklis’ Savino wants him to expand there.
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A&E Network’s upcoming series Bates Motel has cast Freddie Highmore as the young Norman and Max Thieriot as his older brother. The series is from Carlton Cuse and Kerry Ehrin and will focus on the backstory of Norman Bates that made him into a serial killer. Vera Farmiga was previously cast as Norman’s mother, Norma.
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Resident Evil: Retribution – $21.1 million
Finding Nemo (3D) – $17.5 million
The Possession – $5.8 million
Lawless – $4.2 million
ParaNorman – $3 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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