FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 9/18/13)
CBS: Survivor (Premiere) at 8pm
COMEDY: Key & Peele (Premiere) at 10pm
OWN: For Better or Worse (Premiere) at 9pm
CBS: Big Brother (Finale) at 9:30pm
NBC: America’s Got Talent (Finale) at 9pm
Mad Men‘s seventh and final season will be cut in half, with the first seven eps airing in spring 2014, and the last seven launching a year later. “This approach has worked well for us,” explained AMC president Charlie Collier, “most recently for us with Breaking Bad, which attracted nearly double the number of viewers to its second half premiere than had watched any previous episode.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
Hard-charging Hollywood manager Marki Costello, granddaughter of comedian Lou, is the subject of an E! reality show about her life called The Drama Queen. The Collins Avenue Productions project premieres Sunday, November 10 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Lisa Oz show launched this week, hosted by the best-selling author and relationship expert on wellness net Veria Living. Guests include celeb pals like Sherri Shepherd and Suze Orman, as well as, of course, as Oz’s husband of 27 years, Dr. Mehmet Oz. The show airs on Mondays at 8pm.
(Source: Cynopsis)
HGTV launches feel-good reality show Cousins Undercover next month, with “Kitchen Cousins,” home renovators John Colaneri and Anthony Carrino back on the net to surprise a deserving homeowner with a home redo. On the premiere, Cousins partners with The Ellen Degeneres Show to happily ambush a popular teacher who lives in a major fixer-upper. Series debuts Sunday, October 6 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Internet sensation Grumpy Cat has well over a million likes on Facebook and over 100,000 followers on Twitter – and now the crabby-looking kitty has an ad deal. Grumpy (real name: Tardar Sauce) is the “spokescat” for Friskies, Nestle Purina announced. Neither Purina nor Grumpy shared terms of the deal.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Tr3s has acquired telenovelas Pasion Morena and Bellezas Indomables from Azteca for the Viacom net’s fall lineup. Shows are premiering in the U.S. for the first time.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MTV has picked up season four of Ridiculousness and a sixth and final season of Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factor, both produced by Dickhouse. Ridiculousness’ season three is averaging 1.6 P12-34 and 2 million total viewers; Fantasy Factor is averaging 1.7 P12-34 and 1.7 million total viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Rosie O’Donnell is joining ABC Family‘s The Fosters for three eps when season one of the series resumes in January. After O’Donnell, a foster and adoptive mother, tweeted that she loved the show, “We knew we had to reach out and try to snap her up,” said exec producers Peter Paige and Bradley Bredeweg.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 9/15/13)
1) Keith Urban – Fuse – 98,037
2) Weeknd – Kissland – 95,492
3) 2 Chainz – B.O.A.T.S. 2# MeTime – 63,475
Other Debuts
5) Janelle Monae – Electric Lady – 47,147
6) Artic Monkeys – AM – 42,253
7) Sheryl Crow – Feels Like Home – 36,427
11) Earth, Wind & Fire – Now, Then & Forever – 27,079
16) Kaskade – Atmosphere – 18,518
19 Rise Against – Long Forgotten Songs – 16,666
20) Gloria Estefan – Standards – 15,923
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