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CELEBRITY NEWS: FEBRUARY 11. 2013
http://www.imdb.com/news/celebrity

Taylor Lautner (“Twilight” movies) – 21 years old
Kelly Rowland (Destiny’s Child) – 32 years old
Brandy Norwood – 34 years old
Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park) – 36 years old
D’Angelo (R&B Singer) – 39 years old
Damian Lewis (Homeland) – 42 years old
Jennifer Aniston (Friends) – 44 years old
Sheryl Crow – 51 years old
Burt Reynolds – 77 years old
Tina Louise (Gilligan’s Island) – 79 years old

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

ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 2/11/13)
BET: BET Honors 2013 at 9pm
E!: Fashion Police: 2013 Grammy Awards at 9pm
TRAVEL: Bizarre Foods America with Andrew Zimmern (Premiere) at 9pm
BBC AMERICA: Bang Goes The Theory (Premiere) at 10:20pm
SHOWTIME: Inside Comedy (Premiere) at 11pm
TLC: Cake Boss: Next Great Baker (Finale) at 9pm

Not too much of a surprise here as NBC canceled new drama Do No Harm after airing two episodes, on the heels of its being the worst-rated scripted debut ever on a Big Four broadcaster with a 0.9 rating among A18-49 and 3.1 million total viewers. The second episode fared even worse, with a 0.7 rating and 2.2 million total viewers.  Encores of Law & Order: SVU will air in the Thursday 10p time slot that Do No Harm occupied this week and next, with a permanent schedule replacement to be announced soon. Starring Steven Pasquale, Do No Harm premiered January 31.
(Source: Cynopsis)

NBC execs will surely be Up All Night now that Christina Applegate announced her departure from the show late last week. Up All Night is currently on hiatus in its second season, in order to revamp its format from single-camera to multi-camera, including new sets to accommodate a live studio audience. “It’s been a great experience, but the show has taken a different creative direction and I decided it was best for me to move on to other endeavors, ” Applegate said in a statement. “Working with Lorne Michaels has been a dream come true and I am grateful he brought me into his TV family.” Production on five new episodes is slated to resume this month and the sitcom is scheduled to return to NBC’s lineup in late spring. Up All Night had posted an average 1.3 rating with A18-49 on Thursdays at 830p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

With Tyler Perry producing two scripted shows on OWN, it seems to be a whole new world for the network, which is known for its real-life, timely interviews with the likes of Lance Armstrong. So how does one explain the swing between such different focuses? OWN President Sheri Salata (who serves along with Prez Erik Logan) has the answer. “It’s not all that different from the Oprah show,” says Salata. “It’s a wide lane; through the lens of Oprah’s intention, you can just about do anything. The network showed its beating heart last year, and now we want some funnies. That’s where Tyler comes in.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Production has begun on a third season of TNT’s legal drama Franklin & Bash starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer.  This new third season also welcomes Heather Locklear to the cast.  The 10-episode third season will premiere this summer and is produced by Four Sycamore Productions, Left Coast Productions and FanFare Productions in association with Sony Pictures Television. Jamie Tarses, Jason Ensler, Kevin Falls, Matthew McGuinness and Bill Chais serve as EPs.
(Source: Cynopsis)

im Raver, last seen on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy landed the female lead role on CBS’ potential NCIS: LA spinoff called NCIS: Red.  Raver will play Special Agent Paris, the leader of the Red team, who is athletic, smart and witty with a background in forensic science.  Raver joins recently announced co-lead John Corbett with the cast also including Scott Grimes, Edwin Hodge and Gillian Alexy.  In addition NCIS: LA’s Miguel Ferrer will reprise his role as NCIS assistant director Owen Granger.  NCIS: Red will air as a back-door pilot this spring as an episode of NCIS: LA.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Breaking Bad’s Jonathan Banks will next star in NBC’s drama pilot Bloodline.  Banks will play Leo Killpreist, the patriarch of an ancient line of killers and mercenaries.  Universal Television is producing the drama with David Granziano as script writer and EP along with Peter Berg and Sarah Aubrey.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Christina Ricci is giving television another try, this time starring in the NBC comedy pilot Girlfriend in a Coma.  The comedy project hails from Liz Brixius (Nurse Jackie) and Dick Wolf (Law & Order: SVU) and is about Karen (Ricci), who after 20 years, wakes up from a coma to find out she has a 17-year old daughter from a pregnancy she was unaware of.  Universal Television and Wolf Films are producing the single-camera comedy.  Brixius is writing the script and will serve as EP in addition to Wolf, Danielle Gelber and Peter Jankowski.  Ricci has recently guest starred on CBS’ The Good Wife and last year starred in the period drama Pan Am on ABC.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Academy Award winner Chris Cooper is set to star in Discovery Channel’s first-ever scripted miniseries Klondike (wt).  Cooper will play Father Judge and the miniseries is based on Charlotte Gray’s novel Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike.  The miniseries is a co-production between Discovery, Entertainment One Television (eOne) and Nomadic Pictures in association with Scott Free Television.  Paul Scheuring is the primary writer and will be an EP alongside Ridley Scott and David W. Zucker. Other EPs include John Morayniss and Michael Rosenberg for eOne; Mike Frislev and Chad Oakes as co-producers for Nomadic.  Production begins next month on location in Alberta, Canada.  The series will also receive production assistance from the Government of Alberta, Alberta Film Development Program.  International distribution will be handled by eOne Television.
(Source: Cynopsis)

GRAMMY AWARDS
Here is the complete Winners List and the short one of the top categories.
http://www.grammy.com/nominees

http://www.mtv.com/news/grammys/winners.jhtml

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Identity Thief – $36.6 million
Warm Bodies – $11.5 million
Side Effects – $10 million
Silver Linings Playbook – $6.9 million
Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters – $5.8 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)

CELEBRITY NEWS: FEBRUARY 8, 2013
http://www.imdb.com/news/celebrity

Seth Green (“Austin Powers” movies) – 39 years old
Alonzo Mourning (NBA Player) – 43 years old
Vince Neil (Motley Crue) – 52 years old
John Grisham (Novelist) – 58 years old
Mary Steenburgen (“The Proposal”) – 60 years old
Robert Klein – 71 years old
Nick Nolte (“48 Hours”) – 72 years old
Ted Koppel (ABC’s Nightline) – 73 years old
John Williams (American Soundtrack Composer) – 81 years old

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

ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 2/8/13)
CBS: The Job (Premiere) at 8pm
FOX: Touch (Premiere) at 8pm
NAT. GEO WILD: Alpha Dogs (Premiere) at 9pm & 9:30pm
EPIX: The Envelope Please (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: Something Borrowed, Something News (Premiere) at 10pm
VH1: The Jenny McCarthy Show (Premiere) at 10:30pm
PBS: Shakespeare Uncovered (Finale) at 10pm

(SATURDAY 2/9/13)
ANIMAL PLANET: Too Cute! (Premiere) at 8pm
CBS: The Grammy’s Will Go On : A Death In The Family at 8pm
SCIENCE: Oddities (Premiere) at 9pm
SCIENCE: Odd Folks Home (Premiere) at 9:30pm
NBC: Saturday Night Live – Host: Justin Bieber, Musical Guest: Justin Bieber at 11:30pm

(SUNDAY 2/10/13)
E!: Live From The Red Carpet: 2013 Gramm Awards at 6pm
CBS: The 55th Annual Grammy Awards at 8pm
BBC AMERICA: 2013 BAFTA Film Awards at 8pm
COZI TV: Being Mandela (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: Gypsy Sisters (Premiere) at 9pm
OWN: Oprah’s Lifeclass: Dr. Gary Chapman (Premiere) at 9pm
BRAVO: Shahs of Sunset (Finale) at 9pm

NBC revealed The Office will end its nine-season run with an hour-long episode on Thursday, May 16 at 9p.  This will also mark the show’s 200th episode.  No other plot details were announced.
(Source: Cynopsis)

NBC also gave frosh series Chicago Fire another additional episode to the drama’s inaugural run.  This latest increase takes Chicago Fire’s first season total to 24 eps. Chicago Fire airs Wednesdays at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Good news coming from ABC as Robin Roberts is set to return as co-anchor to Good Morning America on Wednesday, February 20, exactly five months to the day since she had a bone marrow transplant to treat myelodysplastic syndrome or MDS, a rare blood disorder.  Roberts will share her personal journey on a special edition of 20/20 on Friday, February 22 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

New reality series Stranded debuts on Syfy Wednesday, February 27 at 9p from Jason Blum, producer of the Paranormal Activity movie franchise who also serves as EP on this series.  Josh Gates, host and co-EP of Syfy’s series Destination Truth is also EP.  Each of the six one-hour episodes follows participants who are left at a haunted location for a week and must record the entire experience themselves.  The footage is supplemented by security cameras at each location.  Stranded is also executive produced by Brad Kuhlman and Casey Brumels for Ping Pong Productions and is co-executive produced by Gerard Bocaccio of Blumhouse TV.
(Source: Cynopsis)

A trailer park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is the setting for TLC’s latest reality series, Welcome to Myrtle Manor premiering Sunday, March 3 at 10p.  The one-hour, ten-episode series showcases the crazy antics of the eccentrics who live in the tight-knit Myrtle Manor trailer park community.  The series is produced by The Weinstein Company and Jupiter Entertainment for TLC.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Jacki Weaver, last seen in the hit film Silver Linings Playbook landed the lead role in CBS’ comedy pilot The McCarthys.  The half-hour project is from Brian Gallivan and Will Gluck and centers on a sports-crazed Irish-Catholic family in Boston.  Weaver will play Marjorie the loving though exhausted matriarch opposite Jack McGee who plays her husband.
(Source: Cynopsis)

FX’s anthology series American Horror Story from Ryan Murphy has retained Frances Conroy and Taissa Farmiga for the upcoming third season.  Farmiga played the tortured teen Violet in season one while Conroy played the ghostly maid Moira in the first season and in the second run an angel of death.  Farmiga will get a new character for season three which Ryan has already stated will take place in the modern day but also will be “more historical in nature.”  No details of Conroy’s character were revealed.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Logo is taking the anti-Valentine’s tack with a prime time block on the 14th called “Logo’s Bloody Valentine’s Thursday,” says Marc Leonard, Logo TV’s Senior Vice President of Multiplatform Programming. The reason? “Romantic movies have not done fantastically well for us,” says Leonard. “Our audience likes fun and entertainment.” Hence their decision to run Idle Hands and then a three-hour presentation of Interview with a Vampire, which earned a .16 rating on the fledgling network the last time it ran. “It’s one of the five highest-rated movies of all time for us,” Leonard says.
(Source: Cynopsis)

MOVIES
Identity Thief – Melissa McCarthy, Jason Bateman, John Cho, Clark Duke, Amanda Peete
Side Effects – Channing Tatum, Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones
A Glimpse Inside The Mind of Charles Swan III (Limited Release) – Charlie Sheen, Jason Schwartzman, Aubrey Plaza, Bill Murray, Patricia Arquette

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