FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 8/19/13)
FOOD: Bubba-Q (Premiere) at 10:30pm
REELZ: Delete (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC FAMILY: Switched At Birth (Finale) at 8pm
Usually Oprah Winfrey is the one coaxing people to open up, but lately she’s been the one offering surprising revelations. Making the press rounds to promote her film, Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Winfrey told People magazine that as she dealt with the disappointing launch of OWN, she had symptoms of a nervous breakdown. “After 25 years of being number one, I had become accustomed to success,” she admitted. “I didn’t expect failure… I thought, what have I gotten myself into?” On Bravo‘s Watch What Happens Live, Winfrey said to Andy Cohen, “All these years I’ve been telling people to hang in there, to hold onto their dreams… and I went, ‘Oh, now I get to walk that walk.’ ” She went on to say OWN is now “making money – and let me tell you, it’s so much more fun to make money than to lose it.”
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MTV has ordered 10 eps of Jerks With Cameras, featuring comedians on the street pranking people. The series, from Jersey Shore EP Sally Ann Salsano‘s 495 Productions, launches in 2014.
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Sony Pictures Television, producer of AMC hit Breaking Bad, has made a deal with Rasta Imposta to produce a costume based on the show’s lead, a hazmat-suited high school chemistry teacher in the meth business. Series is in its fifth and final season, Sundays at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Katie Couric was put on the defense after In Touch magazine quoted her saying of the Kardashian family, “I don’t understand – why are they so famous?” Reality star Kim Kardashian, who had received a baby gift from Couric after giving birth in June, posted to Twitter, “#IHateFakeMediaFriends MayIHumblySuggestYouNotSendGiftsThenTalkSht.” Forcing Couric to issue a statement: “I was responding to a reporter’s question, and explaining how I’m intrigued by the public’s fascination with her family. I didn’t mean to hurt her feelings.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
MTV.com has hooked up with Bedsider.org, an online birth control support network, for a series of webisodes that show what happened to four of the teens who were featured on MTV’s 16 and Pregnant. In the videos, the girls discuss the difficulties they face as young moms, and talk candidly about teen pregnancy and contraception. Eps are on http://on.mtv.com/16pKUcz.
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Trophies for the 28th annual Imagen Awards were handed out Friday night, honoring positive portrayals of Latinos and Latino culture. Monica Raymund (Chicago Fire) and Jon Huertas (Castle) won for lead actor and actress. Castle won for best primetime TV show.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Is Jennifer Lopez returning to the American Idol judging panel? Yes, JLo’s boyfriend Casper Smart told E! News. No comment, said Fox, which has confirmed Keith Urban will be back for a second season. Lopez was a judge in the singing competition’s tenth and eleventh seasons; show returns for lucky season thirteen in January 2014.
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Darren Star (Sex and the City) has signed with TV Land for Younger, based on the novel by Pamela Redmond Satran, about a housewife in her 40s who lies about her age to get a glamorous job in publishing.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Lauren Graham (Parenthood) is adapting her best-selling novel, Someday, Someday, Maybe for The CW as an hour-long drama. Ellen Degeneres will exec produce the project, from her A Very Good Production, about an actress trying to make it in the Big Apple before the three years she allowed herself to find success runs out.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fox came out the winner in a bidding war for a Tina Fey/Matt Hubbard/Robert Carlock sitcom about a women’s college that just started admitting men. Hubbard will write; he, Fey, Carlock and 3 Arts‘ David Miner will exec produce.
(Source: Cynopsis)
NBC beat competitors to nab drama The Mysteries of Laura, about a female homicide detective, based on the Spanish series Los Misterios De Laura.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CBS may be out of the NBC/Hillary/GOP fray, but the net is putting into development Madame Secretary, a drama about a fictional female Secretary of State. Barbara Hall (Joan of Arcadia) will write.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SNL alum Rachel Dratch has been cast as Brick’s middle school principal on The Middle. She’ll appear early in season five of the ABC sitcom, returning Wednesday, September 25 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
JoAnna Garcia (Reba) will make a splash as Once Upon a Time‘s Little Mermaid. Season three of the series returns Sunday, September 29 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Megan Park joins midseason NBC comedy Undateable, about two very different brothers who can’t attract women. Park replaces Aly Michalka (Hellcats), who left before taping the pilot.
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Fox psychological thriller The Following welcomes Valerie Cruz (Homeland) as tough NYPD detective Gina Mendez. Series returns for season two in January, 2014.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Lee Daniel’s The Butler – $25 million
We’re The Millers – $17.8 million
Elysium – $13.6 million
Kick-Ass 2 – $13.6 million
Planes – $13.1 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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