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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 2/6/13)
FUSE: Fuse News (Premiere) at 8pm
TV One: Unsung: EPMD (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: Toddlers & Tiaras (Finale) at 9pm
TLC: Cheer Perfection (Finale) at 10pm
PBS: Life on Fire (Finale) at 10pm

Oxygen Media hosted its Upfront presentation last night in New York, the first network to unveil its plans for the coming season.  The network, still sporting its “Live Out Loud” branding and boasting it is the youngest skewing women’s network, announced it will expand its schedule of original planning from two to three nights each week. Oxygen Media President Jason Klarman admitted at the party that they’d love to increase their original offerings to five nights a week. “But for now we’re just putting one foot in front of the other,” he said.
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The upfront also served as a party for the competition series “The Face” and its partnership with ULTA Beauty and starring supermodels Naomi Campbell, Karolina Kurkova, Coco Rocha and photographer Nigel Barker. It’s this show, said Klarman, that’s most emblematic of Oxygen. “The contestants are authentic and larger than life, just like Naomi. These are women who are going for it, which reflects our audience perfectly.”
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Oxygen’s returning series to its lineup includes tattoo competition series Best Ink with new host Pete Wentz; I’m Having Their Baby, the network’s  top-rated show of 2012; along with new competition series The Face and its partnership with ULTA Beauty and starring supermodels Naomi Campbell, Karolina Kurkova, Coco Rocha and photographer Nigel Barker.
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A cadre of notable celebrities will lend their voices to IFC’s upcoming original animated series, Out There premiering February 22 at 1030p with two back-to-back episodes.  The guests include Selma Blair, Jemaine Clement, Nick Offerman, Ellen Page, Stephen Root, Jason Schwartzman, Sarah Silverman and Christian Slater.  The series is created by Ryan Quincy, the two-time Emmy Award winning animation director and producer of South Park.  20th Century Fox Television produces Out There for IFC.
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ABC ordered an untitled half-hour comedy project co-created by comedian/actor John Leguizamo.  The comedy is based on Leguizamo’s life as a husband and father who is now living in the Upper West Side even though he hails from the Bronx.  David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Jeff Golenberg are serving as EPs with ABC Studios and Mandeville producing.
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A remake of the 1960s drama Ironside has surfaced at NBC.  The drama centers on acerbic police detective Robert T. Ironside who ends up in a wheelchair after being shot.  Blair Underwood is set to star in the reboot.  The one-hour drama is from Michael Caleo who will write and be an EP along with David Semel, Teri Weinberg, John Davis and Jon Fox.  Universal Television, David Entertainment and Yellow Brick Road are all producing.  The original Ironside starred Raymond Burr and ran on NBC from 1967-75.
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WE tv, specializing in presenting real stories about real women with diverse voices is developing a docu-series involving songwriter Bruno Mars’ sisters, Jaime Kailani, Tiara, Tahiti and Presley who make up the pop band, The Lylas.  Asylum Entertainment is producing the unscripted series for WE tv which will trace the sisters’ journey from Hawaii to Los Angeles where they live and work together on their debut album.
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It’s official… James Caan has been cast in ABC’s Untitled Cullen Brothers comedy pilot from writers Mark and Robb Cullen.  The single-camera project is about Terry Gannon, a recently divorced, single mother who moves back in with her estranged father, a beer-drinking former baseball player.  Caan will play the father.  20th Century Fox TV is producing.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CBS’ new summer series Under the Dome added Aisha Hinds (True Blood) to its cast where she will play Carolyn Hill, an entertainment attorney from L.A. trapped in Chester’s Mill while driving through town with her partner and their daughter on the way to deliver the teen to a camp for troubled youth.  Under the Dome is based on the book by Stephen King.
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Aimee Garcia was elevated to a regular cast member on Showtime’s Dexter during the upcoming season eight.  Garcia plays graduate student Jamie who is Dexter’s (Michael C. Hall) nanny for Harrison.
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Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl IX, the network’s cute and fuzzy alternative to the Super Bowl drew its largest audience ever with more than 12.4 million unique total viewers over its 12-hour marathon.  During the Super Bowl blackout in New Orleans, Puppy Bowl IX’s viewership grew to 1.1 million total viewers from 851p-9p.  This represents a +54% increase compared to the delivery in the prior Puppy Bowl IX segment.  The premiere telecast from 3-5p delivered more than 2.6 million total viewers, a +64% growth over last year as well as 1.2 million among A18-49, a +94% increase over the prior year.
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On Monday, TNT’s new medical drama Monday Mornings from creator David E. Kelley launched with 1.34 million total viewers at 10p, based on Nielsen Fast Nationals.  The drama decreased 40% from its Dallas lead-in and averaged just 386,000 among A18-49 and 472,000 with A25-54.
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SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 2/3/13)
1) Justin Bieber – Believe Acoustic – 211,051
2) Andrea Bocelli – Passione – 93,830
3) Tegan & Sara – Heartthrob – 49,205

Other Debuts
4) Charlie Wilson – Love, Charlie – 44,175
12) Local Natives – Hummingbird – 26,015
15) Colton Dixon – A Messenger – 22,111
20) Hatebreed – Divinity of Purpose – 17,437
27) Harper/Mussel White – Get Up! – 15,394
38) Grateful Dead – Dave’s Picks Volume 5 – 11,461

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