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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 10/24/13)
FOOD: Restaurant Divided (Premiere) at 10pm
LIFETIME: Project Runway All Stars (Premiere) at 9pm
MTV: Scrubbing In (Premiere) at 10pm

ABC is giving Super Fun Night and Back in the Game a little more time to grow. The net ordered two more scripts each for the rookie Wednesday sitcoms. Game scored a 2.3 rating in A18-49 last week; Fun drew a 2.6 rating in the demo.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Ryan Seacrest will keep ringing in the New Year for ABC. The American Idol host/entrepreneur started as co-host of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Clark in 2005; last year, after Clark’s passing Seacrest became the sole host, drawing 22.6 million viewers. “It’s very difficult to take over a franchise created by an icon and grow it,” said Allen Shapiro, CEO of Dick Clark Productions, announcing the multi-year pact. “Ryan has done just that.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Chuck Lorre will be presented with the Norman Lear Life Achievement Award in Television at the Producers Guild of America Awards on Sunday, January 19. Tom Hanks, Lorne Michaels and J.J. Abrams are among past recipients of the honor.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Two-time Olympian Johnny Weir announced on NBC‘s Today that he is retiring from competitive skating, but will make the trip to the 2014 Winter Games as an expert analyst for NBC. Gold medalist Tara Lipinski and silver medalist, for ice dancing, Tanith Belbin will also be on hand at Sochi.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The X Factor fans will be able to vote for their favorite singers through music and TV app Shazam starting Wednesday, November 6. Online voting for the Fox competition show will include the ability to SuperVote, or cast up to 50 votes at the same time. Online voting will be sponsored by Honda across all digital platforms.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Duck Dynasty is going mobile. The A&E hit reality show and has spawned an iOS game from RED Games, Duck Dynasty: Battle of the Beards, that involves duck calls, squirrel hunts and donut-tossing. The more challenges a player completes, the longer their avatar beard grows. The app is available at the iTunes App Store; show airs Wednesdays at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Bravo is making room for another series in its hit Million Dollar Listing franchise. This time the high-end real estate is in South Florida, where World of Wonder Productions will explore swank homes and a surging market for Million Dollar Listing Miami. MDL Los Angeles debuted in 2006.
(Source: Cynopsis)

TMZ Live has been renewed by Fox Television Stations through the 2016-2017 season. The gossip news show, an extension of the TMZ web site, “breaks out of the traditional syndication model – which is clearly in need of an overhaul,” said Fox TV Stations SVP of programming Frank Cicha.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Child actor Pierce Gagnon (Looper) will play the son of Halle Berry‘s character in upcoming CBS summer series Extant. The Amblin Television/CBS TV Studios production is about an astronaut trying to reconnect with her family.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Kathryn Prescott (Skins) will star in MTV pilot Finding Carter, per the Hollywood Reporter. Prescott joins Anna Jacoby-Heron (Vegas), Zac Pullam and Nolan Sotillo (Prom) in the coming-of-age drama.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Francia Raisa (The Secret Life of the American Teenager) scored a role in Lifetime pilot Unreal, according the Hollywood Reporter. The show from Wieden + Kennedy Entertainment dramatizes life behind the scenes at a reality show.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Tricia O’Kelley (The New Adventures of Old Christine) will guest star on ABC Family‘s Melissa & Joey, for an ep airing in 2014.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Rob Lowe has a project at ABC based on his own life, reports Deadline. West Wing co-exec producer Kevin Falls will write, with Falls and Lowe exec-producing for Sony Pictures Television.
(Source: Cynopsis)

BROADWAY
The Snow Geese starring Mary-Louise Parker, Victoria Clark & Danny Burstein, opens on Broadway.
http://ppc.broadway.com/buzz/172558/the-snow-geese-starring-mary-louise-parker-victoria-clark-danny-burstein-opens-on-broadway/

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