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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 2/15/13)
HGTV: Spontaneous Construction (Premiere) at 9pm
(SATURDAY 2/16/13)
OWN: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Beyonce (Premiere) at 8pm
OWN: Blackboard Wars (Premiere) at 9pm
HBO: Beyonce: Life Is But A Dream (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Christoph Waltz, Musical Guest: Alabama Shakes at 11:30pm
(SUNDAY 2/17/13)
CBS: The Amazing Race (Premiere) at 8pm
NICK AT NITE: Wendell & Vinnie (Premiere) at 8pm
FOOD: Worst Cooks In America (Premiere) at 9pm
INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY: Catch My Killer (Premiere) at 9pm
PBS: MASTERPIECE: Downton Abbey (Finale) at 9pm
He Didn’t Survive This One: CBS Television Distribution cancels Jeff Probst’s short-lived talk show after one season. The popular Survivor host won’t return for a second season but it will finish out this one. The cancellation comes on the heels of Twentieth Television’s cancellation of Ricki Lake last week.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Here, She is: The Miss America Organization strikes a new three-year deal with ABC and will also bring the event back to Atlantic City. The network said this year’s telecast enlarged its audience for the third year in a row and became the most-watched broadcast of the pageant since 2004.
(Source: Cynopsis)
As part of the marketing for American Idol, the show launches a cross-country relay of the “Idol microphone” on March 1 from New York to Los Angeles, in partnership with sponsors Ford, Coca-Cola and AT&T. The 5,000-mile relay should last two weeks, with the microphone slated to arrive in Los Angeles on March 13 for the Top 10 live performance show that night at 8p on Fox.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC trades time periods for several shows starting with reality series Celebrity Wife Swap returning Tuesday February 26 at 8p, an hour earlier from last year’s time slot. It’ll serve as the lead-in for cooking competition show The Taste, which moves back an hour to 9p. In addition, the network moves comedy Happy Endings to Friday nights with a new slate of episodes starting March 29 at 8p. Happy Endings had previously aired on Tuesdays.
(Source: Cynopsis)
E! plans a special looking into the home lives of actor/rapper Romeo Miller and Jamaican/American singing star Sean Kingston. Called Fame in the Family, the show premieres February 17 at 10:30p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Good Morning Glory: On the morning show circuit, GMA ranked tops in the first full week of the February sweeps with 5.4 million total viewers and 2 million adults 25 to 54, besting NBC’s Today with 4.7 million total viewers and nearly 2 million adults 25 to 54, and CBS This Morning with 3.1 million total viewers and about 1.2 million adults 25 to 54, ABC said, quoting Nielsen figures. Meanwhile, CBS This Morning expanded its audience, adding 440,000 viewers compared to the same week last year, according to Nielsen.
(Source: Cynopsis)
In advance of the return of Psych to USA, the network will run a “social, real-time” party starting at midnight tonight and ending on Saturday at 6a. During that so-called “Slumber party” the cast will participate in second screen trivia and giveaways, while fans can have the chance to record and upload short videos touting the show that may run on air. The social media “event” precedes the launch of the seventh season of the series on February 27 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Here TV brings back sex and dating advice show Threesome for a second season, debuting February 22.
(Source: Cynopsis)
TV Land snags Larry David’s Emmy-nominated HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm for a syndicated run. The show begins its run on TV Land with marathons slated for February 16, 17 and 18. After that, the show runs in a regular 2a time slot starting February 19.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Emmy-nominated actor Jason Ritter from Parenthood is slated to star in the Fox pilot Friends and Family, adapted from the BBC series Gavin & Stacey, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MOVIES
A Good Day To Die Hard – Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Yuliya Snigir, Cole Hauser
Safe Haven – Josh Duhamel, Julianne Hough
Escape From Planet Earth (Animated) – Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Alba, rob Corddry, James Gandolfini, Sofia Vergara
Beautiful Creatures – Jack O’Connell, Jeremy Irons, Alice Englert, Emma Thompson, Viola Davis
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