FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 2/13/13)
CBS: Survivor: Caramoan (Premiere) at 8pm
TLC: Hoarding: Buried Alive (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: My Strange Addiction (Premiere) at 10pm
TNT: Southland (Premiere) at 10pm
TV ONE: Unsung: Lou Rawls (Premiere) at 10pm
TV LAND: Hot In Cleveland (Finale) at 9pm
TV LAND: Happily Divorced (Finale) at 10pm
VELOCITY: Wheeler Dealers (Finale) at 9pm
Comcast has bought out GEs remaining stock in NBCUniversal for $16.7 billion. The buy-in, originally planned for next year, was accelerated, giving Comcast 100% control of its US Entertainment holdings.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Core Fusion: The name for the upcoming ABC and Univision joint news and lifestyle network for US Hispanics has been announced: Fusion, set to launch the second half of this year. Ben Sherwood, president of ABC News said, “Our goal is for this audience to come to Fusion to be informed, entertained and empowered.” At launch, five large cable distributors have already signed on to carry the network including Cablevision, Charter, Cox, AT&T U-verse and Google Fiber. Based in Miami, programming will encompass the economy, entertainment, music, food, immigration issues, pop culture, education, politics, health and wellness and more.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Atlanta’s social scene is the setting of Bravo Media’s next new docu-series, Married to Medicine, premiering Sunday, March 24 at 9p. The series follows the lives of six of Atlanta’s socially elite women who are involved in the world of medicine as doctors or wives of doctors as they juggle busy careers and charitable events. Married to Medicine is produced by FremantleMedia North America and developed by Purveyors of Pop.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season three of I Love Jenni, an original Hispanic celebrity reality series premieres Sunday, April 14 at 9p on mun2. The series spotlights Latin music superstar Jenni Rivera; footage was shot a month prior to her untimely death last December. I Love Jenni is from Jenni Rivera Productions and is also an original mun2 production. The series airs with English language subtitles.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Multimedia company Al Roker Entertainment Inc. (ARE) inked a development deal with Dina Manzo, the star of HGTV’s Dina’s Party and a former cast member of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New Jersey. Plans are in the works for a docu-series that will depict Dina’s next chapter of her life.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 2/10/13)
1) Josh Groban – All That Echoes – 145,041
2) Tim McGraw – Two Lanes of Freedom – 106,604
3) Various Artists – Now 45 – 86,642
Other Debuts
7) Red – Release The Panic – 41,497
9) Coheed & Cambria – Afterman: Decension – 40,616
15) Joe Budden – No Love Lost – 29,846
34) Jim James – Regions of Light & Sound of God – 16,694
40 ) Avant – Face The Music – 13,992
54) Mumford & Sons – Roads To Red Cross – 9,874
POWERBALL
Today’s Jackpot is $50 million.
Powerball is played in 41 states.
CASTING CALL
FOX’s The X Factor will be launching its nationwide search for talent beginning March 6 in Los Angeles followed by Charleston, SC on March 19; New Orleans on April 14; Long Island, NY on April 25; and Denver on May 14. More information about the auditions can be found at: www.thexfactorusa.com/.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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