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CELEBRITY NEWS: OCTOBER 29, 2012
http://www.imdb.com/news/celebrity

Gabrielle Union (“Bring It On”) – 40 years old
Tracee Ellis Ross (Girlfriends) – 40 years old
Winona Ryder (“Girl Interrupted”) – 41 years old
Joely Fisher (‘Til Death) – 45 years old
Finola Hughes (General Hospital) – 53 years old
Dan Castellaneta (voice of Homer Simpson, The Simpsons) – 55 years old
Kate Jackson (Charlie’s Angels) – 64 years old
Richard Dreyfuss (“Jaws”)  – 65 years old

FIRST LOOK
http://www.eonline.com/news

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)

CELEBRITY NEWS: OCTOBER 26, 2012
http://www.imdb.com/news/celebrity

Jon Heder (“Napoleon Dynamite”) – 35 years old
Seth MacFarlane (“Ted”) – 39 years old
Keith Urban (Country Singer) – 45 years old
Cary Elwes (“The Princess Bride”) – 50 years old
Dylan McDermott (The Practice) – 51 years old
Rita Wilson (“Sleepless In Seattle”) – 56 years old
James Pickens Jr. (Grey’s Anatomy) – 58 years old
Lauren Tewes (The Love Boat) – 59 years old
Bootsy Collins – 61 years old
Hillary Clinton – 65 years old
Pat Sajak (Wheel Of Fortune) – 65 years old
Jaclyn Smith (Charlie’s Angels) – 67 years old
Bob Hoskins (“Who Framed Roger Rabbit”) – 70 years old
Shelley Morrison (Will & Grace) – 76 years old

FIRST LOOK
http://www.eonline.com/news

ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 10/26/12)
HGTV: The White Room Challenge (Premiere) at 1pm
FOX: Kitchen Nightmares (Premiere) at 8pm
MNET: Angry Little Asian Girl (Premiere) at 8pm
DISCOVERY: Gold Rush: Do Or Die (Premiere) at 9pm
DISCOVERY: Jungle Gold (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: Say Yes To The Dress: Bridesmaids (Premiere) at 9pm
FOOD: Health Inspectors (Premiere) at 10:30pn

(SATURDAY 10/27/12)
FOOD: Giads At Home (Premiere) at 11:30am
BIO: The Hauntiing Of… (Premiere) at 10pm
BBC AMERICA: The Graham Norton Show (Premiere) at 11pm

(SUNDAY 10/28/12)
MTV2: The Dub Magazine Project (Premiere) at 1pm
E!: Ice Loves Coco (Premiere) at 10:30pm
FOOD: Halloween Wars (Finale) at 9pm
OWN: Oprah’s Lifeclass: Oprah & Joel Osteen (Premiere) at 9pm
TRAVEL: Making Monsters (Finale) at 9pm
E!: Married To Jonas (Finale) at 10pm

President Barack Obama will be on MTV at 5pm today to answer questions LIVE!!
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1696073/ask-obama-live-friday.jhtml

NBC ordered five extra scripts of the new rookie drama Chicago Fire from executive producer Dick Wolf. The drama, about the men and women of the Chicago Fire Department starring Taylor Kinney and Jesse Spencer, in its most recent airing gained a +20% increase among A18-49 by delivering a 1.8/5.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The annual holiday-themed programming event, 25 Days of Christmas is ready to jingle on ABC Family starting December 1 through the 25th. Viewers can watch original movies, holiday specials and returning favorites. New to this year, is the world premiere of the original holiday musical, The Mistle-Tones starring Tia Mowry and Tori Spelling on December 8 at 8p. Holiday movies include Fred Claus starring Vince Vaughn airing on December 4 at 10p and the basic cable premiere broadcasts of Disney’s A Christmas Carol December 6 at 8p and Despicable Me on December 8 at 8p among other movie titles. Holiday classics such as Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town and Frosty’s Winter Wonderful among many others are also included in the line-up.
(Source: Cynopsis)

More extreme savings ensues on TLC when the network brings back a fourth season of Extreme Couponing beginning November 13 with two back-to-back episodes at 10p and 1030p. The series featuring passionate coupon-a-holics is produced by Sharp Entertainment.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Yesterday, Spike TV picked up a new reality series where teams will attempt to prove the existence of Big Foot. The series, 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty will reward the first team to secure proof of the legendary Sasquatch $10 million in cash underwritten by Lloyd’s of London. If the award is actually granted, it will become the largest cash prize in TV history. Spike ordered 10 one-hour episodes produced by Charlie Corwin’s Original Media with Corwin, Michael Riley and Jon Kroll serving as EPs.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Eva Longoria inked a first-look development agreement with Universal Television that includes a non-writing, executive producer portion with her production company, UnbeliEVAble Entertainment. The plan, according to Longoria is to “find and develop unique scripted and non-scripted shows that excite television audiences.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Joss Whedon’s pilot for ABC titled S.H.I.E.D. cast Ming-Na to play Agent Melinda May, an ace flier and weapons expert.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Former Cheers stars, Rhea Perlman and Kirstie Alley are reuniting on TV Land’s pilot Giant Baby. Perlman plays Thelma, Maddie’s (Alley) long-suffering assistant and best friend who encourages her to form a relationship with the son she gave up for adoption. Giant Baby is written and executive produced by Marco Pennette; Alley also serves as an EP along with Jason Weinberg.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Bill Daly’s pilot Continuing Fred for ABC Family has cast the lead characters, Dan Castellaneta (The Simpsons) as Harry, the father to Mimi Gianopolous’ Winifred “Fred” Harris while Mo Gaffney (Absolutely Fabulous) will play Loretta, Fred’s well-meaning but nosy mom. The multi-camera comedy was approved to pilot in September and follows slacker-turned-elementary school teacher Fred and her crazy family. In addition, Mark J. Sullivan will play Fred’s brother Ben; Angelique Cabral will play Ben’s wife, Jennifer; and Asif Ali will play Max, a childhood friend of Ben and Fred’s who is potential love interest for Fred.
(Source: Cynopsis)

MOVIES
Fun Size – Johnny Knoxville, Victoria Justice, Chelsea Handler, Thomas Mann, Riki Lindhome, Jane Levy
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D – Adelaide Clemons, Kit Harington, Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Deborah Kara Unger
Cloud Atlas – Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Susan Sarandon, Ben Whishaw
Chasing Mavericks – John Weston, Gerard Butler, Elisabeth Shue, Abigail Spencer, Taylor Handley

NYC STREET FAIRS
Friday October 26, 2012
Grand Central Fair – on East 45th St. bet. Madison Ave. and Vanderbilt Ave.

Saturday Ocober 27, 2012
Lexington Ave. Fall Festival – from 42nd to 57th St.
Chelsea Triangle French Market  – 14th St and 9th Ave.
Sidewalk Flee Market (Brooklyn) – Flatbush Ave. bet. Flatlands Ave. and Ave. P
Dekalb Sidewalk Artisan Market (Brooklyn) – Dekalb Ave. bet. Fort Greene Pl. and South Elliott Pl.
Fall Harvest Fair (Staten Island) – Church of Hugenot Park

Sunday October 28, 2012
Son’s of Italy Fair – on Liberty St. from Broadway to Church St.
Dekalb Sidewalk Artisan Market (Brooklyn) – Dekalb Ave. bet. Fort Greene Pl. and South Elliott Pl.
Court Street Fair (Brooklyn) – Joralemon St. to Atlantic Ave.
36th Ave. Astoria Festival (Queens) – from 29th to 35th St.

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