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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 8/6/13)
A&E: Barter Kings (Premiere) at 10pm
GSN: The Chase (Premiere) at 9pm
HBO: Hard Knocks (Premiere) at 10pm
HISTORY: The Legend of Shelby The Swamp Man (Premiere) at 10pm
LIFETIME: Double Divas (Premiere) at 10pm
STYLE: Hot Listings Miami (Premiere) at 10pm
TELEMUNDO: Santa Diabla (Premiere) at 10pm
TLC: Who Do You Think You Are?: Chelsea Handler (Premiere) at 9pm
Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt offered to end the blackout and go back to the bargaining table with CBS if the net agreed to let TWC offer its stations on an a la carte basis. In a letter to CBS CEO Leslie Moonves, Britt suggested, “Rather than debating the point, we would allow customers to decide for themselves how much value they ascribe to CBS programming.” Britt also asked CBS to stop blocking all its broadband customers from access to CBS content. “Regardless of the issues between us, it is surely beyond the pale for you to subject these Internet customers to blocking of content that is made available for free to all others.” On Friday, Britt had issued a letter to the FCC making the same point. “Such blocking represents the antithesis of acting in the public interest,” Britt wrote, “and flies in the face of Congress’s goals in enacting the retransmission consent regime.” As for CBS, the net “received Mr. Britt’s ‘offer’ simultaneous with its release to the media, ” a spokeswoman said. “We are formulating our response.”
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ABC is doing everything it can to keep details of new drama Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. under wraps to the point that ABC’s Paul Lee joked at the TCA that a security guard approached him on the set to make sure he wasn’t covertly taping the action. “I’m like, really? I’m going to pirate this?” said Lee. But the need for secrecy is real, insisted exec producer Jeph Loeb. “We live in a 24/7 news cycle,” he said, recalling that a set photo snapped from the freeway went viral. “We’re trying to bring back the urgency of television. While we welcome you downloading, DVRing it, wouldn’t it be great to get together Tuesday nights… and watch it live?” Anyone who wants to can do just that starting Tuesday, September 24 at 8p.
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It’s hard to believe he has time on his hands, but Ryan Seacrest has signed on to NBC‘s Million Second Quiz as host and exec producer. Starting September 9th, the show’s action will take place over 12 days and nights and be broadcast live from Manhattan, where contestants will be tasked with playing the quiz show 24/7, or face elimination. Seacrest also hosts a daily radio show, serves as host on Fox’s American Idol and is a producer on E! series including the Kardashian franchise.
(Source: Cynopsis)
So You Think You Can Dance exec producer and judge Nigel Lythgoe takes his tangoing very seriously, but offers a tip of the tap shoe to those Dancing With the Stars amateurs. “DWTS brought dance very firmly into the public arena,” Lythgoe tells Cynopsis. “It took celebrities that people knew and had a feeling for and put them in a fish-out-of-water situation and showed the public how hard and how tough it is to actually do this. It brought an elegance and a reality to it.” SYTYCD airs on FOX, Tuesdays at 8p.
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Has troubled star Lindsay Lohan turned a corner? OWN released teasers from Oprah Winfrey‘s interview with the actress for Oprah’s Next Chapter that show Lohan looking anxious, but O assured CBS News that she was “honest, authentic and ready” for the grilling. Interview airs Sunday, August 18 at 9p; an eight-part documentary about the actress’s life after rehab (she checked out at the end of July) debuts on OWN next year.
(Source: Cynopsis)
What is it with sharks lately? On the heels of Syfy TV movie Sharknado selling out at midnight showings in movie theaters last weekend comes Shark Week on Discovery breaking net viewership records (4.8 million total viewers P2+ for Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives), and a $50 million lawsuit alleging Sony Television pressured Shark Tank stars Daymond John and Robert Herjavec to back out of an agreement to speak at a real-life “Shark Tour” event in Florida in November. But long-time shark advocate January Jones (Mad Men) is sticking with the real thing, taping a third PSA for Oceana saying great whites are in danger of extinction and urging, “please help before it’s too late.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
For the MTV crowd, 2010 is retro. The net is running a marathon of the 2006-2010 reality show The Hills, dubbed RetroMTV Brunch, starting Monday, August 5 at 9a and concluding with an “alternate ending” to the series on Friday, August 9 at 11:30a. Stars from MTV’s Awkward and Girl Code will offer commentary as LC, Audrina and the gang go Hollywood.
(Source: Cynopsis)
As it readies its new 24-hour sports network, FOX Sports 1, FOX has hired Michelle Kwan to cover the Winter Games in Sochi. Former skating champion Kwan told the AP she’ll be doing “inside” stories on other sports as well, including curling and hockey. Channel debuts Saturday, August 17.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Who dominated social chatter last week? According to Nielsen’s SocialGuide, VH1 reality show Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta scored 736,045 tweets, besting MTV‘s airing of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, with 551,862. Dating voyeurs ate up third-place Catfish on MTV (415,985) and ABC‘s eight-place (poor Des!) Bachelorette (187,180), while Discovery (Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives, fifth place with 325,408 and Air Jaws, tenth place with 152,796) took a bite out of the Twitterverse with Shark Week. Teens and tweens prove their power with MTV’s Teen Wolf (number four with 344,940) and ABC Family‘s Pretty Little Liars (coming in sixth with 282,283), while BBC America‘s announcement about the new Dr. Who landed in seventh place with 252,623 and VH1 scored 167,105 for Hit the Floor to place ninth.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The British Academy of British Film and Television Arts Los Angeles is honoring director Kathryn Bigelow and actor Ben Kingsley at the 2013 BAFTA Awards. Show will air on BBC America on Sunday, November 10 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CMT is celebrating country star Luke Bryan‘s upcoming fourth album in a big way. Ahead of Crash My Party‘s Tuesday, August 13 release, the net is launching Luke Bryan CMT Weekend on Saturday, August 10 at 6a. CMT promises a special performance, a chance to win tickets to a concert, and “graphics of Luke signature moves.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
MTV has picked up four reality shows. Slated for primetime are Untitled Virgins Project, about the relationship pressures of four young adults, and House of Food, a cooking competition. Another cooking comp, Snackdown, is headed for the daytime audience, along with The Ex and the Why, a show that gives former couples the opportunity to make amends. Series will debut in 2014.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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