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FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 12/17/12)
NBC: 1600 Penn (Sneak Preview) at 9:30pm
VH1: Tiny Tonight! 2012: Year In Review (with Tameka “Tiny” Harris) (Premiere) at 10pm
CW: Gossip Girl (Series Finale) at 8pm
DISCOVERY: American Chopper (Series Finale) at 9pm
VH1: T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle (Finale) at 9pm
VH1: Marrying The Game (Finale) at 9:30pm
NBC: Take It All (Finale) at 10pm

Oxygen revealed the premiere date of its new competition show The Face will be February 12 at 9p.  Produced by Shine America, the seven-episode series is hosted by world-famous photographer and personality Nigel Barker and features Naomi Campbell, Karolina Kurkova and Coco Rocha as supermodel coaches.  The competition will find the newest face of ULTA Beauty.  Oxygen will also air the one-hour kick-off special, THE FACE: The Fight to Make the Final 12 on February 5 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Kicking off on New Year’s is TLC’s new four-part series Totally T-Boz, highlighting the life and journey of Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins as she moves to Los Angles with family in friends to reinvent her music career.  The series will air on Tuesdays at 8p beginning January 1.  Totally T-Boz is produced by John Doe Media for TLC.
(Source: Cynopsis)

On Thursdays beginning February 14 at 630p, AMC will air repeat episodes of The Walking Dead in black and white.  The 90-minute premiere and the one-hour subsequent black/white episodes will be the lead-ins to the second season premiere of the docu-series Comic Book Men at 9p, the premiere of Freakshow at 930p and the taxidermy competition series bow of Immortalized at 10p. The premiere to the new episodes will be February 10 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Last Wednesday’s 12-12-12 concert at Madison Square Garden to aid the victims of Hurricane Sandy sported multiple viewing outlets worldwide including online properties, radio stations, television networks, satellite services and cable operators.  The concert, presented by Chase, was seen in the US on 38 television channels.  Across the 15 national networks measured by Nielsen, the concert tallied 36.4 million total viewers and 25.8 million households, reaching almost 1 in 4 households.  The average Live + same day viewership on the 15 measured networks was 5.192 million over the 5+ hour event.  An additional Live + same day 698,000 viewers tuned in across the six local networks that carried the event in the New York DMA.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Late last week, FOX’s The X Factor judge L.A. Reid revealed he will not return to the show next year.  Reid said he has “a company to run that I’ve kind of neglected and it saddens me a little bit, but only a little bit.”  Reid is Chairman/CEO of Epic Records.  Reid will finish up season two which airs its season finales this week, part 1 Wednesday and part two on Thursday.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC handed a script commitment to a sitcom based on the home life of Justin Bieber.  The single-camera comedy was first bandied about in the 2011 development cycle as a multi-camera project.  The untitled project is described as a family show inspired by Bieber’s unconventional upbringing as he was raised by his mother and grandparents.  The project is from ABC Studios and Bieber and his manager, Scooter Braun will serve as executive producers.  Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi are on board to write the script.
(Source: Cynopsis)

A 1980s single-camera comedy titled How the F am I Normal from Adam F. Goldberg (Breaking In) was ordered to pilot by ABC.  The project is described as a dysfunctional Wonder Years set in the 1980s and is inspired by Goldberg’s own childhood.  Goldberg will pen the script and be an EP in addition to Happy Madison’s Doug Robinson and Breaking In’s Seth Gordon who will also direct.  This same project was also set up at FOX in August 2011 when the network renewed Breaking In for a shortened second season but ended up at ABC with a pilot production commitment in September.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Beth Grant was promoted to series regular on FOX’s The Mindy Project.  She will go from guest star to series regular in her role as Beverly, a callous and unmotivated woman with a potential good heart buried somewhere deep.
(Source: Cynopsis)

VH1 DIVAS 2012
If you missed the show last night, you can see the full show here.  Adam Lambert was so good as the host.
http://www.vh1.com/shows/events/divas/_2012/ 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – $84.8 million
Rise of the Guardians – $7.4 millon
Lincoln – $7.2 million
Skyfall – $7 million
Life of Pi – $5.4 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)

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