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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 10/29/12)
VH1: Behind The Music: Toni Braxton (Premiere) at 10pm
SUNDANCE: All On The Line with Joe Zee (Finale) at 10pm
NBC will roll out new game show Take It All, hosted by Howie Mandel as a strip throughout the holiday week of December 10-14 at 9p each night. The show will end on December 17 with back-to-back episodes at 9p and 10p. NBC will air The Voice as a one-hour version instead of its normal two hours at 8p on December 10 and December 17. Take It All watches as a contestant selects and opens a prize worth thousands of dollars and the next player must decide to steal a prize already revealed or go for an unopened prize, hoping what’s inside is worth more. Take It All is produced by Universal Television and Alevy Productions with Mandel, Scott St. John and Mike Marks serving as executive producers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
As two of G4’s long-running series, Attack of the Show! and X-Play come to a close with production ceasing at the end of this year, the network will showcase both series by airing their most memorable moments, important revelations, hosts and more. Attack of the Show! and X-Play will sport a rotating lineup of guest co-hosts including John Barrowman, Michael Ian Black, Josh Myers, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel and Horatio Sanz joining AOTS hosts Candace Bailey and Sara Underwood and X-Play hosts Morgan Webb and Blair Herter as part of the farewell shows. Both shows will air original episodes until the end of 2012. Attack of the Show! debuted on March 28, 2005 while X-Play began on April 28, 2003 on G4’s previous incarnation, TechTV.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC gave script orders to a drama titled City Hall, from Newsroom’s Gideon Yago who will write and serve as EP with ABC Studios producing. The drama centers on a city mayor and her staff who are all in their 20s and 30s who take on the political establishment while juggling their personal and social lives. Bob Sertner is on board as EP.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Production on the final and final season of HBO’s Treme begins November 5 and the premium network confirmed this last run will have just five episodes. The third season of Treme has 10 episodes and previously co-creators David Simon and Eric Overmyer were given the approval by HBO to wrap up Treme’s story with a shortened final season.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Star of Apollo 13, Kathleen Quinlan was cast in NBC’s drama series Chicago Fire playing Lt. Matthew Casey’s (Jesse Spencer) mother. Quinlan will appear in multiple episodes.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Former West Wing star Bradley Whitford is joining ABC’s comedy pilot Trophy Wife, reports TVLine. Whitford will star opposite Malin Akerman who plays a reformed party girl (Akerman) that finds herself in an instant family situation when she falls in love with a man (Whitford) who has three manipulative kids and two judgmental ex-wives. Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins wrote the script and are the EPs along with The Office writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TNT has cast two actresses in leading roles for different projects. Rebecca Romjin (X2, Ugly Betty) will play one half of the private investigator team in King and Maxwell, the pilot from NCIS: LA EP Shane Brennan. Romjin will play Michelle Maxwell, a former secret services agent who investigates politically sensitive cases with her partner, Sean King (Jon Tenney). King and Maxwell is produced for TNT by CBS Television Studios and Shane Brennan Productions; Brennan is EP with Karen Spiegel and Grant Anderson as producers. Mira Sorvino will star in a procedural drama Trooper from executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Trooper, which previously received a pilot order from CBS but was not approved to go further, is about a recently divorced female state trooper who is also mother to three kids. Aron Eli Coleite is writing the project which is produced at Warner Horizon Television.
(Source: Cynopsis)
On Friday, Cablevision reached a deal with Tribune Co. that returns the programming on Tribune’s stations to subscribers in the Tri-State area. The Tribune stations have been off of Cablevision since August with some subscribers unable to watch the World Series games. “We are pleased to have reached agreement with Tribune to return its stations to Cablevision, particularly its FOX affiliate in Connecticut, the only source of FOX programming for about 50,000 of our customers,” Cablevision said in a statement. “We sincerely appreciate the patience of our customers as we worked to reach an agreement that is consistent with our focus on minimizing the impact of rising programming costs on cable rates.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Charter Communications and Verizon Communication’s FiOS TV service have agreed to carry Time Warner Cable’s regional sports networks in Southern California. The decision was reached just in time for the beginning of the NBA season. The networks include Time Warner Cable Sports Net and the Spanish-language Time Warner Cable Desportes.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Comedy writer Alan Kirschenbaum has died at the age of 51. Mr. Kirschenbaum’s numerous television credits include the co-creation of CBS’ sitcom Yes, Dear and writing for comedies My Name is Earl and Raising Hope. Mr. Kirschenbaum was recently involved in the creation of new comedy Friend Me that will possibly be inserted in CBS’ midseason schedule. Past TV credits for Mr. Kirschenbaum include Coach, The Gregory Hines Show and Stark Raving Mad.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Argo – $12.4 million
Hotel Transylvania – $9.5 million
Cloud Atlas – $9.4 million
Paranormal Activity 4 – $8.7 million
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D – $8 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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