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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 7/29/13)
SUNDANCE: The Writers Room (Premiere) at 10pm
UNIVISION: La Tempestad (Premiere) at 9pm
VH1: Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta (Finale) at 8pm
COOKING: The Freshman Class (Finale) at 10:30pm
DISCOVERY: Fast N’ Loud (Finale) at 9pm
Lifetime’s Witches of East End has a premiere date: Sunday, October 6 at 10p. Julia Ormond plays mom to wild child Jenna Dewan Tatum and librarian Rachel Boston, who have untapped magical powers; produced by Fox 21. Rob Sharenow, Lifetime’s executive vice president programming, confessed to Cynopsis at the TCA, “This show surprised me, frankly; I wasn’t expecting to love it as much as I do. The complexity of character and the take on the whole ‘witch world’ was fresh and exciting. There’s an ominous darkness to it, but it has fun with itself.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Sharknado bites again. The Syfy TV-movie about sharks falling from the sky in LA will get midnight showings in over 200 movie theaters on Friday, August 2.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ABC Family will have two of its stars stirring up the Twitterverse tonight. At 8p, guest star Matt Kane will chat with fans during Switched at Birth. In the next hour, series star Sherri Saum connects with fans of The Fosters.
(Source: Cynopsis)
NickMom‘s first original sitcom, Instant Mom, comes from producer/star Tia Mowry-Hardrict, who starred on Sister Sister (1995-1999) – and the net is counting on nostalgia to help bring in viewers. “First-generation Nickelodeon viewers are now moms and will soon be treated to NickMom’s first original comedy with someone they grew up watching and loving,” said Bronwen O’Keefe, senior vp at NickMom, a primetime block that airs on the Nick Jr. channel. Series also stars Michael Boatman (Spin City) and Sheryl Lee Ralph (Moesha).
(Source: Cynopsis)
Starz has ordered a second season of series Black Sails, from exec producer Michael Bay, before the first season even started. “Based on the strong fan response to the preview screening at last week’s Comic-Con, we felt an early order for a second season would allow the writers, cast and crew enough time and space to continue crafting unique and epic storytelling,” explained Starz CEO Chris Albrecht.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Disney XD is bringing back Lab Rats for season three. The sci-fi adventure series is the net’s number one rated in total viewers (835,000) as well as in target kid and tween categories.
(Source: Cynopsis)
NickMom is picking up docu-com Take Me To Your Mother for a second season. Series follows new mom Andrea Rosen as she solicits advice from other mothers because she doesn’t “want to raise a jerk.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Car Chasers, about a team of car flippers, has been picked up by CNBC. Second season premieres Tuesday, October 29 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Ke$ha – My Crazy Beautiful Life will return for a second season on MTV.
(Source: Cynopsis)
ESPN‘s 30 for 30 isn’t the only documentary that will capitalize on Winter Olympics fever by recounting the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan figure skating scandal. NBC announced its own doc, to air during the 2014 Olympics, that will feature an interview with Kerrigan, who was whacked on the knee before the 1994 Lillehammer Games as part of a plot involving rival Harding. ESPN’s Tonya and Nancy is set to air in November.
(Source: Cynopsis)
NickMom announced four shows it has in development (all working titles). Lounge is a talk/variety series exec-produced by Whoopi Golberg about everyday mothers who “are given an opportunity to be pampered, celebrated and have their dreams come true.” Docu-com Country Mom, City Mom follows Tanya McQueen, who splits her time between Texas and Los Angeles. On Undercover Cupid, children of single parents pick dates for them. Fourth series is another docu-com, this one following a comedian/father of five daughters.
(Source: Cynopsis)
AMC has greenlit two scripted dramas, Halt & Catch Fire and Turn. “The simultaneous greenlights are the first in network history and underscore AMC’s growth and commitment to original scripted programming,” said Joel Stillerman, evp of original programming, production and digital content. Halt & Catch Fire is set in the early 80s and dramatizes the boom in personal computing. Turn is about a farmer in 1778 who turns spy to aid the fight for American independence.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MTV pres of programming Susanne Daniels announced Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie as scribes for the pilot for Scream, going into production in the fall. Daniels said the net also ordered two sitcom pilots: Faking It, about two friends desperate to be popular in high school, and Happyland, about behind-the-scenes goings on at a theme park.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Michael J. Fox‘s wife, Tracy Pollan, will guest star on NBC’s The Michael J. Fox show. “She was great and it was really funny,” Fox reported at the TCA. Pollan and Fox met when she played his love interest on season four of Family Ties (1982-1989). Show debuts Thursday, September 26 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Freddie Prinze Jr. will guest on the season nine opener of FOX‘s Bones. He’ll play an old associate of Booth’s (David Boreanaz, co-star of Prinze’s wife, Sarah Michelle Gellar, in the 1997-2003 series Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Premiere is Monday, September 16 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Once Upon a Time has found its Tinkerbell. The ABC drama has enlisted Rose McIver (The Lovely Bones) to play the fairy dust sprinkler in a multiple episode arc. Season three premieres Sunday, September 29 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SNL alum Molly Shannon has been cast in a story arc on HBO‘s upcoming Getting On, as well as a recurring role on the fourth season of FOX‘s Raising Hope, premiering Friday, November 8 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Philip Seymour Hoffman will star in a new dark comedy from Showtime, Trending Down. The actor will also exec produce, with writer Shalom Auslander, Emily Ziff and Ken Kwapis, through his Cooper Town Prods.
(Source: Cynopsis)
What will happen to Criminal Justice, the HBO miniseries that was to have starred the late James Gandolfini? “Jim’s passing took the wind out of our sails quite a bit,” programming president Michael Lombardo told reporters at the TCA. “It’s taken some time to be able to have that conversation.” While the net is considering casting options, said Lombardo, it would not air the pilot starring Gandolfino.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Maggie Gyllenhall will be joined on Sundance Channel mini-series The Honourable Woman by Stephen Rea (The Shadow Line), Janet McTeer (Damages), Andrew Buchan (Broadchurch) and Eve Best (Nurse Jackie), among many others the thriller has a cast of almost 100. Broadcast is set for 2014.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Antonio Mora has signed on to news channel Al Jazeera America as host of weeknight current affairs show Consider This. In his eight years at ABC, Mora was a senior correspondent and regular substitute host for GMA, served as substitute host for the weekend edition of World News Tonight and reported for Nightline and 20/20. He most recently anchored Miami’s CBS4 News. Al Jazeera America launches Tuesday, August 20.
(Source: Cynopsis)
David “Kidd” Kraddick, the radio host also seen on nationally syndicated TV’s Dish Nation, died suddenly on Saturday. He was at a golf tournament in the New Orleans area to raise money for his Kidd’s Kids Charity. “Kidd devoted his life to making people smile every morning, and for 21 years his foundation has been dedicated to bringing joy to thousands of chronically and terminally ill children,” said a statement from YEA Networks. “He died doing what he loved, and his final day was spent selflessly focused on those special children that meant to world to him.” Kraddick was 53.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
The Wolverine – $55 million
The Conjuring – $22.1 million
Despicable Me 2 – $16 million
Turbo – $13.3 million
Grown Ups 2 – $11.5 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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