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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 3/10/14)
DISCOVERY: Heirs to the Dare (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC: Believe (Premiere) at 10pm
ABC: The Bachelor (Finale) at 8pm
BRAVO: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Finale) at 9pm
Fox gave a big vote of confidence to four shows, with early renewals for Brooklyn Nine-Nine for a second season, The Mindy Project and The Following for third seasons and New Girl for a fourth. “These shows are some of the best and acclaimed series on television, with influential, culture-driving stars,” said Fox Broadcasting’s chairman of entertainment Kevin Reilly and COO Joe Earley. Sleepy Hollow, Glee and Bones have already gotten pickups.
(Source: Cynopsis)
NBCUniversal announced Friday that for the first time, all its entertainment nets will give Upfront presentations during the traditional Upfront week, including a May 15 presentation of NBCUni Cable Entertainment Group’s entire family of networks (including Bravo, E!, Esquire, Oxygen, Sprout, Syfy and USA). “Showcasing our entire portfolio to our advertising partners all at once is in response to marketplace demand and a natural next step in the evolution of the NBCUniversal portfolio coming together as one,” said Linda Yaccarino, president, advertising sales. “In a world of fragmentation, aggregation and scale means everything for our clients.”
(Source: Cynopsis)
CNBC is yanking The Kudlow Report at the end of March. Net vet Larry Kudlow, host of the show since 2009, will remain at CNBC as a senior contributor.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Louis C.K. is set to host NBC‘s Saturday Night Live on March 29; the writer/comedian first hosted the comedy sketch show in November 2012. Season five of FX‘s Louie launches in May.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Grieving spouses find love again in The Color of Rain, the true story of two families coming together after loss. Based on the NY Times bestseller, the movie has its Hallmark Movie Channel original world premiere Saturday, May 31 at 9p. Lacey Chabert (Party of Five) and Warren Christie (Happy Town) star.
(Source: Cynopsis)
At last, someone to blame! BBC World News three-part documentary The Men Who Made Us Fat, premiering Friday, April 4 at 9:10p, points the finger at a corn syrup cover-up, supersizing and misleading marketing for a worldwide obesity problem.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Stalked: Someone’s Watching comes to TLC on Saturday, March 15 at 10p with a woman who thought she’d left her abusive ex behind 15 years ago, until he launched a vicious torrent of cyber attacks. The docu-series about stalkers and their victims premiered on Investigation Discovery in 2011.
(Source: Cynopsis)
COZI TV is mad for Magnum, P.I. this month, with four-hour marathons of the Oahu-set Tom Selleck series every Thursday from 8p-12a. Viewers can vote on their favorite ep in a bracket game at www.cozitv.com, with the winner revealed during a marathon Sunday, April 6 from 7p-12a. Magnum also airs weekdays at 2p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Debi Mazar (Entourage) and her food purist Italian husband, Gabriele Corcos, are headed back with another season of Cooking Channel‘s Extra Virgin. “Lucy and Ricky in the kitchen” demonstrate how to cook Tuscan on a budget on Wednesday, April 2 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives) will star opposite Timothy Hutton in ABC drama pilot American Crime, written and exec produced by 12 Years a Slave‘s John Ridley.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Katie Holmes (Dawson’s Creek) is onboard ABC‘s Richard LaGravenese Dangerous Liaisons-esque drama pilot as a woman running a philanthropic foundation.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Actor/country musician John Corbett (Sex and the City) will star with Denis Leary in FX‘s Leary-penned pilot Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, about a rocker trying to make a comeback.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Bebe Neuwirth (Frasier) joins Tea Leoni and Tim Daly in CBS political drama pilot Madam Secretary.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Amy Sedaris (Strangers with Candy) has joined Fox pilot Dead Boss, starring Jane Krakowski (30 Rock) as a woman trying to prove she didn’t kill her boss.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Rebecca Romijn (King & Maxwell) will play a love interest for Rob Lowe‘s character in NBC comedy pilot The Pro, The Hollywood Reporter was first to reveal.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Chris Conroy (Sorority Row) has been cast in soapy ABC country club drama The Club, from CBS Television Studios.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Melissa Roxburgh (The Vampire Diaries) won the female lead in CW spinoff Supernatural: Bloodlines, airing as an episode of Supernatural on Tuesday, April 29 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Joanna Going (House of Cards) landed a series regular role in DirecTV family drama Navy St. Production begins in May for a fall launch.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Actress Sheila MacRae died March 6 at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in New Jersey. She was 93. Best known for playing Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners segments in The Jackie Gleason Show from 1966-70, MacRae also had numerous stage credits.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Producer Ted Bergmann died March 2. He was 93. Bergmann brought the Grammy Awards to television in 1962, was president of DuMont Television and produced shows including The Arthur Godfrey Show and Three’s Company.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Diplomatic and foreign correspondent Bill McLaughlin died of cardiac arrest on March 7. He was 76. McLaughlin spent most of his career at CBS News, where his assignments took him to Europe, the Middle East and Vietnam.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Longtime NBC press rep Hank Rieger died March 5 of natural causes. He was 95. In addition to working on shows including Bonanza, Star Trek and Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Rieger served two terms as the first elected president of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
300: Rise of an Empire – $45.1 million
Mr. Peabody & Sherman – $32.5 million
Non-Stop – $15.4 million
The LEGO Movie – $11 million
Son of God – $10 million
(Source; Box Office Mojo)
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