FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 7/26/13)
ABC: Would You Fall For That? (Premiere) at 9pm
WE TV: Marriage Boot Camp: Bridezillas (Premiere) at 9pm
(SATURDAY 7/27/13)
A&E: American Haunting (Premiere) at 8pm
FOX: Axe Cop (Premiere) at 11pm
FOX: High School (Premiere) at 11:30pm
HISTORY 2: Your Bleeped Up Brain (Premiere) at 10pm
(SUNDAY 7/28/13)
VH1: Behind The Music: Ludacris (Premiere) at 8pm
CBS: Unforgettable (Premiere) at 9pm
E!: Total Divas (Premiere) at 10pm
SPORTSMAN CHANNEL: Meet The McMillians (Premiere) at 8:30pm
OWN: Oprah’s Next Chapter: Hugh Jackman (Premiere) at 9pm
ABC: Wife swap (Finale) at 8pm
UNIVISION: Amores Verdaderos (Finale) at 8pm
They hadn’t come to terms by Thursday morning, but CBS and Time Warner Cable could agree on one thing: a four-day extension of their contract negotiation deadline that avoided 13 CBS-owned stations going dark. Time Warner is balking at the significantly higher retransmission consent fees CBS is demanding, while CBS maintains the hike is reasonable. The new deadline is Monday, July 29 at 5p. But the gloves were still off: On Wednesday night, CBS aired an ad aimed during Big Brother asking, “What’s worse than being evicted from the Big Brother house? How about Time Warner Cable evicting Big Brother from your house?”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Country artists and music will be celebrated on Wednesday, November 6 at the annual CMA Awards on ABC. Winners are determined by the over 7000 members of CMA.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Football’s Deion Sanders branches out into reality TV on OWN‘s new series, It’s Prime Time (working title). The focus is on kids, not sports, as Sanders balances life at home with his five children, his mother and her foster children and the charter school he started, Prime Prep Academy, for underserved kids. The series, produced by Edmonds Entertainment, Prime Time Media Ventures and Rogue Atlas Productions in association with Lionsgate, bows in 2014.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Lady Gaga has been announced as a performer at the MTV Video Music Awards. Show airs Sunday, August 25 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Anne Heche recently of NBC‘s Save Me – has signed a first-look deal with Universal TV that involves both producing and acting. “Anne has proven, time and again, to be both a wonderfully gifted actor and a hard-working producer with fantastic taste,” said Jennifer Salke, president of NBC Entertainment.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Heidi Klum plays politics in the season six premiere of NBC‘s Parks and Recreation. The Project Runway host is the mayor of a town in Denmark on the one-hour ep, airing Thursday, September 26 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Season three of FOX‘s New Girl brings the return of Merritt Wever, Schmidt’s (Max Greenfield) college girlfriend, Elizabeth. Wever, who has twice won Supporting Emmy noms for her role on Showtime‘s Nurse Jackie, will appear on New Girl’s Tuesday, September 17 premiere as well as at least one other episode.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Indira Varma (Rome) has been cast on season four of HBO‘s Game of Thrones. She’ll play the love interest of a new character, “The Red Viper.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Jason Sudekis announced on CBS’s Letterman Wednesday night that he won’t be returning to NBC’s Saturday Night Live.
(Source: Cynopsis)
NUVOtv enjoyed a record-busting night with its July 18 launch of Night of Premieres. The English-language cabler aimed at Latinos led off with Jennifer Lopez: Her Life. Her Journey at 8p, the most-watched original program in its history. A Step Away followed, to become the net’s second most-watched original program. The 10p hour’s reality show House of Joy was the highest-debuting series ever for NUVO-tv. The night brought the net 625,000 total viewers. “These ratings confirm for us what we knew: Modern Latinos are actively seeking culturally relevant entertainment in English,” Michael Schwimmer, CEO of NUVOtv tells Cynopsis. “It’s always gratifying when hard work pays off.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Talk is getting louder. CBS‘s daytime chatfest scored its best ratings ever the week of July 15, with its 2.62 million viewers beat the prior week by 3%.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MOVIES
The Wolverine – Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hal Yamanouchi, Brian Tee
The To-Do List (Limited Release) – Aubrey Plaza, Rachel Bilson, Connie Britton, Bill Hader, Alia Shawkat, Sara Steele, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Donald Glover, Andy Samberg, Clark Gregg
Blue Jasmine (Limited Release) – Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard, Woody Allen
NYC STREET FAIRS
Friday July 26, 2013
Rockefeller Center Farmers Market – on 50th St. bet. 5th & 6th Ave.
Grand Central Carnival – on 41st. from Lexington to 3rd Ave.
Saturday July 27, 2013
Festival Of The Americas – on 6th Ave. from 42nd to 56th St.
Manhattan Ave. Festival (Brooklyn) – from Bedford to Greenpoint
Sunday July 28, 2013
Madison Ave. Summer Fair – from 42nd to 57th St.
Columbus Ave. Fair – from 66th to 72nd St.
Broadway Summerfest (Queens) – from Steinway Street to 47th St.
MEGA MILLIONS
Today’s Jackpot is $19 million
Participating States: New York, New Jersey, California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Washington.
POWERBALL
Saturday’s Jackpot is $196 million.
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