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CELEBRITY NEWS: SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
http://www.imdb.com/news/celebrity

Avicii (DJ) – 25 years old
Wiz Khalifa (Rapper) – 27 years old
Jonathan Taylor Thomas (Home Improvement) – 33 years old
Slim Thug (Rapper) – 34 years old
Pink (Singer)- 35 years old
Larenz Tate (Rescue Me) – 39 years old
David Arquette (“Scream” movies) – 43 years old
Brooke Burke (Dancing With The Stars) – 43 years old
Martin Freeman (“The Hobbit” movies) – 43 years old
Big Boy (Radio DJ) – 45 years old

FIRST LOOK
http://www.eonline.com/news

ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 9/8/14)
A&E: Love Prison (Premiere) at 10pm
FOOD: Rewrapped (Premiere) at 8pm
TV ONE: Celebrity Crime Files (Premiere) at 10pm
NBC: The Meredith Vieria Show (Season Premiere) at 2pm
NBC: The Steve Harvey Show (Premiere) at 3pm
NBC: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Premiere) at 4pm
FOX: The Dr. Oz Show (Premiere) at 4pm
ABC: Bachelor in Paradise (Finale) at 8pm

Employees at Warner Bros. have been warned of impending staff cuts. “It pains me to say this, [but] positions will be eliminated – at every level – across the studio,” said chairman and CEO Kevin Tsujihara in a memo Thursday. Time Warner’s Turner Broadcasting started offering buyouts for older workers in August, after Time Warner rejected an $80 billion bid from 21st Century Fox, and CEO Jeff Bewkes announced plans to increase efficiency and profits.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ox reality show Utopia got over 1 million online views ahead of its premiere last night, reports EW, with average views going from 13 to 23 minutes the first four days it was available. What kept ‘em coming back? Nudity (albeit blurred), fighting, sex and a medical evacuation. Series takes its regular berth Tuesdays and Fridays starting September 9 and 11 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CBS is moving Big Brother to make room for Thursday Night Football. The reality hit will air Tuesdays and Wednesdays instead of Wednesdays and Thursdays starting September 9 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The premiere of USA’s It Takes a Choir, bumped off the sked last November, finally makes its bow Friday, October 24 at 11p. Gareth Malone builds a community choir in eight episodes.
(Source: Cynopsis)

An alternate ending to the series finale of How I Met Your Mother swept the Internet before being blocked by 20th Century Fox TV on copyright grounds. The supposed new version has Ted ending up with very-much-alive Tracy, not Robin. An upcoming DVD with all nine seasons of the CBS comedy hits the shelves September 23.
(Source: Cynopsis)

AMC has ordered a pilot episode of a companion series for monster hit The Walking Dead, set in a different location with a new cast of characters. Dead’s Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd and David Alpert will exec produce the project from AMC Studios, scheduled for production in 2014. “We all take our stewardship of the original franchise incredibly seriously,” said AMC president Charlie Collier, and “are all proceeding with extreme care in order to ensure that we are offering fans something truly compelling, engaging and distinct.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

TV One expands its Wednesday lineup with docu-series Hollywood Divas, debuting October 8 at 10p. What’s in store for the ladies? Stars Golden Brooks (Girlfriends),Countess Vaughn (The Parkers),Lisa Wu (Real Housewives of Atlanta),Paula Jai Parker (Hustle and Flow) and Elise Neal (The Hughleys) “show us just how unkind Hollywood can be.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

SundanceTV’s Dream School is back in session Wednesday, October 1 at 9p. Season two of the series from exec producers Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Chuck D, Andrew Jameson and Jamie Oliver offers kids who’ve failed a school a second chance graduate, with the help of mentors like lawyer Gloria Allred, skater Johnny Weir and chef David Chang.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Season two of Sportsman’s Meet the McMillans launches Thursday, September 11 at 8:30p, following a week-long season one marathon starting Monday, September 8 at 7p. Series focuses on a couple running a guided hunt business. New challenge: a baby’s in the mix.
(Source: Cynopsis)

TV Land tacked on 12 more eps to its season four order of The Exes, for a total of 24, in advance of the comedy’s premiere Wednesday, November 5 at 10:30p. “Everything we’ve seen from the upcoming season is telling us it’s going to be the best one yet,” said TV Land president Larry W. Jones.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Austin Butler (Carrie Diaries) will recur on season three of Arrow, reports EW. CW series returns Wednesday, October 8 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Lev Gorn is bumped up to series regular for season three of FX’s The Americans. The USSR-born actor will also recur on CBS’s NCIS, returning Tuesday, September 23 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

With Madeline Carroll bowing out of ABC’s Scandal due to scheduling conflicts, Mary Mouser (Body of Proof) will play the First Daughter in season three, premiering Thursday, September 25 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The season premieres of 19 Kids & Counting and Little People, Big World drew record ratings Tuesday, making TLC the top ad-supported cable net of the night in all key women demos. 19 Kids was number one in all of television with W18-49 and W/P18-34, and the highest-rated episode ever for the series with 3.3 million P2+ viewers. Little People had its most-watched season premiere ever, averaging 2.1 million P2+ viewers, ranking number one in its time period in delivery among HH, P2+, P25-54, and all key women demos.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Showtime’s Ray Donovan and Masters of Sex had series highs in Live+3 viewers last week. Episode 8 of Donovan had 2.5 million Live+3 viewers at 9p; for the total night, Ray Donovan garnered over three million viewers for the first time this season. Masters of Sex delivered a series high of 750,000 viewers at 10p and a season high of 1.5 million Live+3 viewers.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Former political correspondent Bruce Morton died September 5 after battling cancer. He was 83. Morton won six Emmys for his work at CBS News, and became co-anchor of the CBS Morning News in 1975. He left the network after 29 years to join CNN in 1993, retiring from the news net in 2006.
(Source: Cynopsis)

G.R.L. band member Simone Battle was found dead in LA on September 5. She was 25. Battle was a finalist on The X Factor in 2011.
(Source: Cynopsis)

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Guardians of the Galaxy – $10.2 million
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – $6.5 million
If I Stay – $5.8 million
Let’s Be Cops – $5.4 million
The November Man – $4.2 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)

CELEBRITY NEWS: SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
http://www.imdb.com/news/celebrity

Katerina Graham (The Vampire Diaries) – 25 years old
Rose McGowan (Charmed) – 41 years old
Dweezil Zappa (“Pretty In Pink”) – 45 years old
Kristian Alfonso (Days Of Our Lives) – 51 years old
Michael Keaton (“Batman”) – 63 years old
Cathy Guisewite (creator of Comic Strip Character “Cathy”) – 64 years old
Mavis Leno (Philanthropist, wife of Jay Leno) – 68 years old
Raquel Welch – 74 years old
William Devane (“The Dark Knight Rises) – 75 years old
Carol Lawrence (Broadway Actress) – 82 years old
Bob Newhart (The Bob Newhart Show) – 85 years old

FIRST LOOK
http://www.eonline.com/news

ON TELEVISION (FRIDAY 9/5/14)
NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX:  Stand Up To Cancer at 8pm
ABC: 20/20 A Tribute To Joan Rivers (Premiere) at 10pm
AHC: The War To End All Wars (Premiere) at 10pm
ID: Young, Hot & Crooked (Premiere) at 10pm and 10:30pm
BRAVO: Jonah From Tonga (Finale) at 10pm

(SATURDAY 9/6/14)
DESTINATION AMERICA: Buying Alaska (Premiere) at 9pm
DIY: Brother Vs. Brother (Premiere) at 11am
MSNBC: Lockup, Fairfax, VA: Extended Stay (Premiere) at 10pm
OWN: Iyanla: Fix My Life (Premiere) at 9pm
OWN: Six Little McGhees (Premiere) at 10pm
STARZ: The Chair (Premiere) at 11pm
DIY: Daryl’s Restoration Over-Hall (Finale) at 10pm

(SUNDAY 9/7/14)
AL JAZEERA AMERICA: Edge of Eighteen (Premiere) at 9pm
DESTINATION AMERICA: Ghost Asylum (Premiere) at 10pm
GALAVISION: La Casa De La Risa (Premiere) at 7pm
GALAVISION: Humor Es Los Comediantes (Premiere) at 8pm
E!: Total Divas (Premiere) at 9pm
FOX: Utopia (Premiere) at 9pm
FYI: Pressure Cooker (Premiere) at 10pm
HGTV: My Flipping Family (Premiere) at 12pm
OWN: Super Soul Sunday (Premiere) at 11am
OWN: Help Desk (Premiere) at 12pm
OWN: The Specials (Premiere) at 2:30pm
OWN: Oprah’s Life Class: Steve Harvey (Premiere) at 9pm
TLC: Angels Among Us (Premiere) at 10pm
TRAVEL: Extreme Hotels (Premiere) at 8pm
UNIVISION: Va Por Ti (Premiere) at 8pm
UNIVISION: Sal Y Pimienta (Premiere) at 10pm
ABC: Wipeout (Finale) at 8pm
HBO: The Leftovers (Finale) at 10pm
HGTV: Flipping The Block (Finale) at 9pm
HISTORY 2: Ancient Impossible (Finale) at 10pm

Joan Rivers passed away September 4. The pioneering 81-year-old comedian and Fashion Police host had been hospitalized for eight days, after going into cardiac arrest during an August 28 medical procedure. “My mother’s greatest joy in life was to make people laugh,” said her daughter and Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? co-star, Melissa Rivers. “Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.” Scott Sternberg, Executive Producer with Joan and Melissa on the web series In Bed With Joan told Cynopsis, “I learned so much from Joan each and every week. She treated everyone like they were a king or queen and she never stopped giving it her all, no matter what. She is by far one of the greatest people I ever knew. She made all of us laugh and all of us love. I will miss her so much.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

The View has completed its refresh, with outspoken actress Rosie Perez and George W. Bush’s former communications chief Nicholle Wallace joining Rosie O’Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg on the daytime chatfest. Goldberg was the last woman standing after Barbara Walters retired in May and Jenny McCarthy and Sherri Shepherd exited over the summer. Season 18 launches Monday, September 15.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC announced contestants for the next incarnation of Dancing with the Stars, and it was the usual wildly diverse mashup of celebs – maybe more so? Competing for the mirror ball trophy: Ultimate Fighting Champ Randy Couture, comedian Tommy Chong, Fresh Prince of Bel Air’s Alfonso Ribeiro, Olympian Lolo Jones, Duck Dynasty’s Sadie Robertson, Lea Thompson (Back to the Future), Jonathan Bennett (Mean Girls), NASCAR’s Michael Waltrip, talk show host Tavis Smiley, designer Betsey Johnson, soap star Antonio Sabato Jr., Pretty Little Liars’ Janel Parrish and YouTube beauty guru Bethany Mota (whose 7 million subscribers won’t hurt). Season 19 premieres Monday, September 15 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Travel Channel gave the green light to five new series. Hello Goodbye (wt), from Ellen DeGeneres’ A Very Good Production and Telepictures, is set in airports; Loud TV’s Hotel Showdown features competing hotel owners; TV Planet (wt), produced by Zodiac Americas, explores the wildest television shows around the world, and previously announced pilots Metropolis and Only Happens In… are being developed into a series of specials.
(Source: Cynopsis)

NBC has put in development a comedy that would air live – including commercials. Hospitality comes from Chris Moynihan, Sean Hayes (Sean Saves the World) and Todd Milliner’s Hazy Mills Prods. and Universal TV.
(Source: Cynopsis)

MTV greenlit a “comedic half-hour docuseries” starring rapper Ja Rule. Produced by MTV and 51 Minds Entertainment, the show counts Queen Latifah among its exec producers. “Ja Rule is the modern day reality rap star version of Bill Cosby’s role from The Cosby Show,” said MTV programming president Susanne Daniels.
(Source: Cynopsis)

HBO acquired U.S. and Canadian TV rights to Mick Jagger-produced documentary, Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown, to bow on the premium cabler Monday, October 27 at 9p. The Rolling Stone front man boasts of “amazing never-before-seen photos and video from James Brown’s estate.” Jagger is also producing a drama for HBO with Martin Scorsese.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Singer Al Green, Tom Hanks, ballerina Patricia McBride, Sting and Lily Tomlin will be toasted at the 37th Annual Kennedy Center Honors. Event will be broadcast Tuesday, December 30 at 9p on CBS.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire) joins CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood to talk about his days as an NYC firefighter on Sunday, September 7 at 9a. The actor produced and stars in a new documentary, A Good Job: Stories of the FDNY.
(Source: Cynopsis)

E! peeks behind the runway for two E! From Fashion Week specials, premiering tonight and September 12 at 9p. The net promises insider scoop and hot party coverage.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Was music exec Chris Lighty the victim of foul play? The season three premiere of Celebrity Crime Files turns to friends including LL Cool J and Busta Rhymes for answers Monday, September 8 at 10p on TV One.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Dr. Phil is back for round thirteen on Tuesday, September 9. Kicking off the season is the case of Robyn Gardner’s disappearance in Aruba. In the hot seat: Gardner’s travel companion, Gary Giordano, facing the victim’s sister.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The Birthday Boys comes back for season two Friday, October 17 at 11:30p. The long list of guest stars on the sketch comedy from Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad) and Ben Stiller’s (Zoolander) Red Hour includes SNL alum Dana Carvey, Jack Black (Tenacious D), Ellie Klemper (The Office) and Sandra Bernhard (Roseanne).
(Source: Cynopsis)

Matt Nable (Riddick) will play villain Ra’s al Ghul in season three of CW’s Arrow. Comic book drama returns Wednesday, October 8 at 8p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Serinda Swan (Breakout Kings) will guest in a story arc on NBC’s Chicago Fire, returning Tuesday, September 23 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

MOVIES
The Identical – Blake Rayne, Erin Cottrell, Amanda Crew, Brian Geraghty, Ashley Judd, Joe Pantoliano
Frontera (Limited Release) – Ed Harris, Michael Pena, Eva Longoria, Amy Madigan, Aden Young

NYC STREET FAIRS
Friday September 5, 2014
Church of St. Agnes Carnival – on 43rd St. from Lexington Ave. to 3rd Ave.

Saturday September 6, 2014
6th Ave. Festival – from Houston to Waverly Place
Gramercy Park Neighborhood – on 3rd Ave. from 14th St. to 23rd St.

Sunday September 7, 2014
Midtown Block Party – on 45th St. from 6th to 7th Ave.
3rd Ave. Community Benefit Festival – on 3rd Ave. from 66th to 86th St.

MEGA MILLIONS
Today’s Jackpot is $33 million

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