FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 10/8/12)
ESTRELLA TV: A2D3 (Premiere) at 7pm
CW: 90210 (Premiere) at 8pm
CW: Gossip Girl (Premiere) at 9pm
ENCORE: Titanic: Blood And Steel (Premiere) at 8pm
NAT. GEO: To Catch A Smuggler (Premiere) at 9pm
TV ONE: Life After: BernNadette Stanis (Thelma from “Good Times”) (Premiere) at 9pm
TV ONE: Life After: Marla Gibbs (The Jeffersons) (Premiere) at 9:30pm
PBS: Independent Lens (Premiere) at 10pm
SUNDANCE: The Mortified Sessions (Premiere) at 10pm
OXYGEN: Girlfriend Confidential: LA (Finale) at 11pm
Beginning next month, TLC reunites with the Roloff family in an all-new weekly series, Little People Big World: Wedding Farm, airing on Tuesdays at 9p starting November 13. In six one-hour episodes, the series follows Matt and Amy as they operate a new wedding venue on their recently expanded Oregon farm. Little People Big World: Wedding Farm is produced for TLC by Gay Rosenthal Productions.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Oxygen Media, for its upcoming modeling competition series The Face slated to premiere in first quarter 2013, has forged a multi-media partnership with US beauty retailer ULTA Beauty. The Face, hosted by photographer Nigel Barker features supermodel coaches Naomi Campbell, Karolina Kurkova and Coco Rocha as they compete to find the newest face of ULTA Beauty. The winner of the series will receive, courtesy of ULTA Beauty a grand prize of becoming spokesperson and ambassador for the brand’s Fall and Holiday 2013 national ad campaigns among other exposure through the retailer. The Face is produced by Shine America.
(Source: Cynopsis)
An unscripted celebrity diving series was picked up by ABC. The reality competition series is based on the Netherlands format Celebrity Splash with Eyeworks USA (previously 3 Ball Productions) behind the production. The series watches as celebrities perform complicated dives from varying heights with the help of a professional diving instructor.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CBS handed script orders to a half-hour comedy based on the 2011 Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake film Bad Teacher, reports THR. The project is from Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, the screenwriters behind the Columbia Pictures feature. Hilary Winston will pen the script and also executive produce the single-camera comedy with Stupnitsky and Eisenberg for Sony Pictures Television and the film’s Mosaic Media Group.
(Source: Cynopsis)
BIG BIRD GOES ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE TO RESPOND TO POLITICAL DEBATE
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/update-big-bird/1419930
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Taken 2 – $50 million
Hotel Transylvania – $26.3 million
Pitch Perfect – $14.7 million
Looper – $12.2 million
Frankenweenie – $11.5 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
CASTING CALL
Electus and 5×5 Media are launching a seven-city US casting call for TNT’s upcoming competition series The Hero hosted and executive produced by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. The producers are looking for competitors who have the physical, mental and emotional strength to participate in a battle of brains, brawn and morality. TNT ordered eight episodes and will roll out The Hero in summer 2013. The Hero casting calls will take place in Los Angeles on October 13; Boston, Dallas and Chicago on October 20; New York and Nashville on October 27; and Minneapolis on November 3. Additional casting information can be found at: www.theherotnt.com.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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