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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 8/8/13)
A&E: Panic 9-1-1 (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: The Winner Is (Finale) at 9pm
REELZ: Steven Seagal: Lawman (Finale) at 9pm
TRAVEL: Monumental Mysteries (Finale) at 9pm

Queen Latifah isn’t going to be shy about enlisting her superstar friends to guest on her new talk show. “The A-list celebrities, yeah you,” Latifah says in a video shoot for Hollywood Reporter. “I see you… and you’d better come on the show.” It’s doubtful she’ll have to twist any arms – Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith are among the talker’s producers. Syndicated The Queen Latifah Show bows Monday, September 16.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Speaking of Latifah, if Q scores are any indication, she has an edge in the daytime talk show war this fall, with high familiarity (90%) and negative (11%) scores, in the range of Ellen Degeneres (87/11) and Whoopi Goldberg (89/16). That might not bode well for Kris Jenner (54/63), whose talker, Kris, is testing now, or Bethenny Frankel (31/47) whose syndicated show, Bethenny, debuts September 9. But Wendy Williams of The Wendy Williams Show (46/32) proves polarizing can be profitable – her syndicated chatfest has a commitment from FOX through the 2016-17 season, thanks to strong ratings growth.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Spoiler alert: Downton Abbey exec producer Gareth Neame spilled a few secrets at the TCA about the U.K. drama’s fourth season on PBS. Action will pick up a few months after the death of Matthew Crawley (Matthew Stevens) in 1921. Matthew’s widow, Mary, will have a few new love interests, including Lord Gillingham (Tom Cullen). As for Mary’s less glamorous sister, Edith, “It’s really a very different season for Edith this year,” said Neame. He wasn’t concerned about cast defections like Stevens’ or Jessica Brown Findlay‘s (Sybil). “As far as we know, we’re all doing series five next year,” he said. “If other actors start leaving, it would be a worry, but it’s been fine so far.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

E! News has added Ali Fedotowsky and Jesse Giddings as on-air correspondents. Fedotowsky was season six’s Bachelorette on ABC, and has since worked for Fox 5 in San Diego and NBC‘s 1st Look. Giddings hosted MuchMusic flagship programming.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Rashida Jones, who’s leaving NBC’s Parks and Recreation during the sitcom’s season six, is developing a comedy with Parks writer Alexandra Rushfield called Stuck, about a mother and daughter. Jones and writing partner Will McCormack will exec produce for Warner Bros., with a put pilot commitment from Fox. As for Jones’s exit from Parks, “Everyone is happy,” said showrunner Mike Schur at the TCA. “There’s no controversy involved here.” A baby story for Jones and sometime on-screen love interest Rob Lowe, who’s also leaving, “aligned with what the two actors envisioned for themselves and their careers.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

CBS has ordered futuristic Steven Spielberg series Extant for summer 2014, to join Spielberg/Amblin Television‘s Under the Dome. “Our partnership with Amblin for Under the Dome showed that viewers respond to high-quality event programming in the summer,” said CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler. “We look forward to building on that with Extant.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan) has joined Sundance Channel‘s upcoming gritty drama The Red Road as a drug dealer.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Justin Kirk (Weeds) will star in FX pilot Tyrant. The drama is about an American family sucked into the turmoil of a Middle Eastern nation; Kirk will play a sexy, mysterious American diplomat.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CBS’s The Mentalist is losing Amanda Righetti (Grace Van Pelt) and Owain Yeoman (Wayne Rigsby) at the end of the upcoming sixth season, according to TVLine. “I can neither confirm nor deny,” hedged series creator Bruno Heller of the departures, “but this is the most dramatic and game changing season and anything can happen.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Tahmoh Penikett (Battlestar Galactica) will guest star on Supernatural as fallen angel Ezekiel. He appears on the CW drama’s premiere on Tuesday, October 8 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Captain Kangaroo‘s Cosmo Allegretti, who created and was the voice of puppet characters on the long-running (1955-1992) children’s television show, died on July 26 in Arizona. Alleretti had been working on the show as a set painter when he volunteered to make a replacement for a puppet, and went on to create Mister Moose, Dennis the Apprentice and more. He was 86.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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