Archive for January, 2016

NICKY HILTON IS PREGNANT, EXPECTING HER FIRST BABY WITH HUSBAND JAMES ROTHSCHILD

January 13, 2016

NICKY HILTON IS PREGNANT, EXPECTING HER FIRST BABY WITH HUSBAND JAMES ROTHSCHILD
http://www.eonline.com/news/730794/nicky-hilton-is-pregnant-expecting-her-first-baby-with-husband-james-rothschild

SHAQUILLE O’NEAL’S SON SHAREEF HAS AN INSANE 16TH BIRTHDAY PARTY

January 13, 2016

SHAQUILLE O’NEAL’S SON SHAREEF HAS AN INSANE 16TH BIRTHDAY PARTY
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CELEBRITY NEWS: JANUARY 13, 2016

January 13, 2016

CELEBRITY NEWS: JANUARY 13, 2016
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Liam Hemsworth (“The Hunger Games” movies) – 26 years old
Beau Mirchoff (MTV’s Awkward) – 27 years old
Nika Kljun (Choreographer) – 28 years old
Orlando Bloom (“Pirates of the Caribbean” movies) – 39 years old
Michael Pena (“American Hustle”) – 40 years old
Nicole Eggert (Baywatch) – 44 years old
Christopher Boykin (MTV’s Rob & Big) – 44 years old
Shonda Rhimes (Creator of Grey’s Anatomy & Scandal) – 46 years old
Traci Bingham (Baywatch) – 48 years old
Patrick Dempsey (Grey’s Anatomy) – 50 years old
Penelope Ann Miller (“The Artist”) – 52 years old
Trace Adkins (Country Singer) – 54 years old
Julia Louis Dreyfus (Veep) – 55 years old
Janet Hubert (The Fresh Prince of Bel Air) – 60 years old
Richard Moll (Night Court) – 73 years old
Rip Taylor (Comedian) – 81 years old

FIRST LOOK/ ON TV/ POWERBALL

January 13, 2016

FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 1/13/16) 
A&E: Duck Dynasty (Premiere) at 9pm
FOX: Second Chance (Premiere) at 9pm
PBS: Natural Born Hustlers (Premiere) at 8pm
SYFY: Face Off (Premiere) at 9pm
TV LAND: Younger (Premiere) at 10pm
VH1: Mob Wives (Premiere) at 8pm
FX: American Horror Story: Hotel (Finale) at 10pm

Ted Danson (CSI: Cyber), who shot to fame on NBC’s Cheers (1982-1993), and Kristen Bell (House of Lies) have been cast in NBC comedy Good Place, about a woman trying to turn over a new leaf. The network ordered 13 episodes of the Michael Schur (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) series, produced by Universal Television, 3 Arts Entertainment and Fremulon. Danson will not return to CSI: Cyber, CBS Entertainment president Glenn Geller shared at TCA, while Bell would be able to continue on Lies should that show return to Showtime for season six.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Eva Longoria will make a guest appearance on season four of  Lifetime’s Devious Maids, where she is an exec producer. The series was created by Marc Cherry, who also created Longoria’s Desperate Housewives character, Gabby. James Denton, another Desperate alum, will recur as the head of a movie studio.
(Source: Cynopsis)

FX’s American Horror Story: Hotel, ABC’s black-ish, Fox’s Empire and Scream Queens, and Starz’s Power are the first honorees announced for the 33rd Annual PaleyFest Los Angeles, returning to the Dolby Theatre March 11-20.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the theme for the 2016 Oscars broadcast: “We all dream in gold” (promo is here). Chris Rock hosts the big night Sunday, February 28.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos will moderate a conversation with Normal Lear and Quincy Jones during the NATPE market in Miami. The men hit the stage Wednesday, January 20 at 2p at the Eden Roc resort.
(Source: Cynopsis)

WGN America announced a panel event, “The Making of WGN America’s Underground,” during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Underground exec producer John Legend, as well the espionage thriller’s cast and creative team, will be on hand Saturday, January 23 at 7p in Park City, Utah. Show debuts Wednesday, March 9 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

A comedy from Live! With Kelly and Michael’s Kelly Ripa and husband Mark Consuelos’s (Alpha House) Milojo Productions and Andrew Leeds is in development at ABC, reports Deadline. Show centers on a couple irritated by their three daughters’ romantic partners.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Courteney Cox (Cougar Town) headlines a comedy project for Fox from Robert Padnick (The Office) and ABC Studios. Cox is also attached as an exec producer.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Miniseries American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story, from Stephen David Entertainment and Playboy’s Alta Loma Entertainment, is scheduled to start production this year. Producers will have access to Hefner archives – as well as 60+ years of magazines.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Season ten of Syfy’s Face Off debuts tonight “with exciting new contestants from all over the world who do some of the best SFX make-up we’ve ever seen on this show,” says Heather Olander, SVP, Alternative Programming. Guest judges like Gale Ann Hurd (The Walking Dead), Jason Blum, Lance Henriksen, and more will “throw some exciting curveballs into the mix.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

CBS has a deep bench for its live, four-hour Super Bowl pre-game show. Action starts at 2p on Sunday, February 7, with host James Brown, analysts Boomer Esiason, Bill Cowher, Tony Gonzalez and Bart Scott, as well as Ian Eagle, Greg Gumbel, Trent Green and Amy Trask, NFL Insider Jason La Canfora and reporters Tracy Wolfson, Evan Washburn and Allie LaForce, and Contributor Jim Rome.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Far from Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA, but part of CBS’s pre-game package, CBS This Morning’s Gayle King will interview President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama live from the White House.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Four-week limited series War & Peace premieres Monday, January 18 at 9p on A&E, History and Lifetime. Cast includes Lily James (Downton Abbey), Jim Broadbent (Iris), Paul Dano (Love and Mercy) and James Norton (Happy Valley).
(Source: Cynopsis)

Bounce TV is expanding into hour-long drama with Saints & Sinners, centered on the pursuit of power at a large southern church. Vanessa Bell Calloway (Shameless), Clifton Powell (Ray) and Gloria Reuben (ER) are among the stars. Launch date: Sunday (of course!), March 6 at 9p.
(Source: Cynopsis)

NBC boasts it is leading the season in the A18-49 demo by 17 percent, the biggest margin for a network at this point in the season in 14 years. CBS has viewer bragging rights, winning the week ending January 10 by the largest margin of any network this season (+3.89 million). And ABC notes it delivered five of the top ten non-sports programs in A18-49 for the week, hitting a four-week high in young adults.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Thursday’s season two premiere of Lip Sync Battle, featuring Channing Tatum and his wife, Jenna Dewan Tatum, was the number one ranked show among A18-49 (3.45), A18-34 (3.43), W18-34 (4.6) and W18-49 (4.34) in all of television in the timeslot, delivering a network record 4.7 million viewers in Live+3.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Sunday’s special El Chapo-themed Aqui y Ahora on Univision averaged 3.0 million total viewers, as well as 1.4 million A18-49 and 580,000 A18-34, outperforming 60 Minutes in the demos.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Food Network’s Worst Cooks in America posted a 1.0 rating across A25-54 (940,000 IMP), up 29% versus year-ago and ranking #4 in Sunday’s 9p timeslot; among A25-34 the season’s second episode posted a .9 rating (270,000 IMP), up  43% and ranking #6 in the timeslot.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The January 9 premiere of Hallmark Channel’s Love’s Complicated, the latest entry in the net’s “Winterfest” programming event, averaged a 2.0 HH rating and 2.2 million total viewers, the number one rated movie of the week.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Actor David Margulies died January 11 after a long illness. He was 78. In addition to film roles, Margulies was known to The Sopranos fans as lawyer Neil Mink, and will appear in ABC’s upcoming Madoff.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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CRAIG STRICKLAND’S FUNERAL WAS HELD TODAY

January 12, 2016

CRAIG STRICKLAND’S FUNERAL WAS HELD TODAY
http://www.eonline.com/news/730655/craig-strickland-s-funeral-family-and-friends-say-goodbye-to-country-singer-in-emotional-service

ANTONIO CROMARTIE (NEW YORK JETS) IS EXPECTING HIS 11TH & 12 KIDS AFTER HAVING A VASECTOMY

January 12, 2016

ANTONIO CROMARTIE (NEW YORK JETS) IS EXPECTING HIS 11TH & 12 KIDS AFTER HAVING A VASECTOMY
http://www.tmz.com/2016/01/12/antonio-cromartie-impregnates-wife-after-vasectomy/

NATALIE COLE’S FUNERAL WAS HELD TODAY

January 12, 2016

NATALIE COLE’S FUNERAL WAS HELD TODAY
http://www.tmz.com/2016/01/12/natalie-cole-stars-funeral/

TALLYWACKERS, AN ALL-MALE VERSION OF HOOTERS, OPENS IN DALLAS, TEXAS

January 12, 2016

TALLYWACKERS, AN ALL-MALE VERSION OF HOOTERS, OPENS IN DALLAS, TEXAS
http://www.people.com/article/tallywackers-all-male-hooters-dallas

FIRST LOOK/ ON TV/ MEGA MILLIONS

January 12, 2016

FIRST LOOK
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ON TELEVISION (TUESDAY 1/12/16)
NBC, ABC, CBS: Presidential State of The Union 2016 at 9pm
AXS TV: The Big Interview with Dan Rather (Premiere) at 8pm
FREEFORM: Pretty Little Liars (Premiere) at 8pm
FREEFORM: Shadowhunters (Premiere) at 9pm
ION: Saving Hope (Premiere) at 11pm
POP: Easiest Game Show Ever (Premiere) at 11pm
SCIENCE CHANNEL: 2016 in Tech: What’s Ahead (Premiere) at 8pm and 9pm
TELEMUNDO: La Querida del Centauro (Premiere) at 10pm
UNIMAS: Ruta 35 (Premiere) at 9pm
A&E: Born This Way (Finale) at 10pm
COOKING: MasterChef Canada (Finale) at 9pm
E!: Christina Milian Turned Up (Finale) at 10pm
NAT. GEO.: Life Below Zero (Finale) at 9pm
NAT. GEO.: Badlands, Texas (Finale) at 10pm
REELZ: The Kennedy Files (Finale) at 9pm
SCIENCE: Secret Space Escapes (Finale) at 10pm
TV ONE: Rickey Smiley For Real (Finale) at 8pm
TRAVEL: Booze Traveler (Finale) at 10pm

Pop is teaming up with exec producer John Legend‘s Get Lifted Film Co. and Sharp Entertainment for a second season of Sing It On. Docu-series following new teams as they compete to win the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella debuts in the second half of 2016.
(Source: Cynopsis)

When Scandal returns on Thursday, February 11 at 9p on ABC, the show will jump six months into the future. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Tony Goldwyn explained that showrunner Shonda Rhimes is finding inspiration from the current election cycle. Spoiler alert: Mellie Grant (Bellamy Young) will be running for president amid a group of “surprising” new faces.
(Source: Cynopsis)

President Obama‘s final State of the Union address will be broadcast live tonight at 9p. On Friday, January 15, YouTube stars Destin Sandlin, Ingrid Nilsen and Adande Thorne will travel to Washington to interview the Commander in Chief in the East room of the White House, asking from fans. Questions can be submitted by using the hashtag #YouTubeAsksObama on social media. Interview streams live at 2:15p on White House YouTube channel.
(Source: Cynopsis)

At the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena on Monday, Amazon announced that Bosch will be back for Season 2 on Friday, March 4. Catastrophe‘s six-episode sophomore season bows Friday, April 8. The first season of Mad Dogs is slated for release on Friday, January 22, while The New Yorker Presents debuts three episodes on Friday, February 16, followed by two weekly, thereafter.
(Source: Cynopsis)

HBO ordered Barry, a half-hour pilot starring, co-written and directed by Saturday Night Live alum Bill Hader. The comedy focuses onan ex-Marine (Hader) who works as a low-rent hitman in the Midwest. The project is part of Hader’s development deal with the network.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Netflix ordered a 13-episode reboot of Norman Lear sitcom One Day at a Time, and Lear is onboard to exec produce. The reboot of the 1975-1984 classic will be centered on a Cuban-American family.
(Source: Cynopsis)

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, getTV is airing an episode of The Merv Griffin Show on Monday, January 18 at 10p, featuring Martin Luther King, Jr. King appeared on the talk show to discuss the Civil Rights Movement, as well as his views on riots, race relations and the Vietnam War. The rarely-seen extended sit-down originally aired June 6, 1967.
(Source: Cynopsis)

UniMas Network‘s Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman: El Varon de la Droga premieres fall 2016. The unauthorized drama is based on the life of the world’s most powerful drug dealer, who was captured for the third time Friday, January 8 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, nearly six months after his escape from a maximum-security prison in Mexico.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Thirteen’s American Masters launches its 30th anniversary season with Mike Nichols: American Masters on Friday, January 29 at 9 p on PBS. The legendary director discusses his life and 50-year career as a performer and director. Plus, new interviews with Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman and many others are conducted by producer Julian Schlossberg.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Jim Beaver is reprising his role as father figure to the Winchesters on Supernatural in an upcoming Season 11 episode, reports TVLine. Series returns Wednesday, January 20 at 9p on The CW.
(Source: Cynopsis)

CBS’ Supergirl has cast two DC Comics characters. Laura Vandervoort, remembered as Kara/Supergirl on Smallville, will play Indigo; while Jeff Branson (The Young and the Restless) will portray Master Jailer. Both roles are recurring.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Merrin Dungey (Alias), Larry Sullivan (CSI) and David Monahan (The Dark Knight Rises) have joined the cast of HBO limited series Big Little Lies.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The season premieres of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Man Seeking Woman hit Live+3 series rating highs on FXX. Philadelphia garnered its most-watched episode on the net ever in Total Viewers (1.34 million), while Seeking posted a series high in both Total Viewers (518,000) and A18-49 (365,000).
(Source: Cynopsis)

Discovery’s first true-crime series Killing Fields had a strong debut, opening with a .81 P25-54 rating and 1.70 million Total Viewers P2+. It was the net’s most-watched Tuesday series debut since Alaskan Bush People.
(Source: Cynopsis)

The Thursday, January 7, episode of HGTV’s Flip or Flop averaged a .99 rating among viewers P25-54, making it the highest rated premiere telecast of the series ever.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Theresa Caputo brought the spirit in the season 6B premiere of Long Island Medium. The celebrity episode was the highest-rated season premiere in four seasons with HH, all key Adults and Women demos (P/W25-54/18-49/18-34) and was the most-watched with P2+ viewers. The premiere nearly doubled its first half season premiere with W18-34.
(Source: Cynopsis)

ABC’s 2015 New Year’s Eve coverage reached 59.212 million unique Viewers 2+ during primetime and late-night, up 16 percent year over year unduplicated viewers that watched 6 minutes or more of the programming. In addition, the show’s young adult reach surged 19 percent year to year to 23.002 million A18-49. Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest – Part 1 delivered an average audience of 22.0 million Total Viewers and a 7.1 rating, 27 share among A18-49 (9.0 million). The show’s audience peaked at 12:01a with an average of 35.279 million Total Viewers, up 7 percent from the same minute last year.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Beau St. Clair, who launched Irish DreamTime with Pierce Brosnan and was his longtime producing partner, died January 9 at her Malibu home after a 10-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 63.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Michael Galeota, who starred in Disney Channel’s The Jersey, died January 11 in his Glendale, CA, home. His death is said to be due to “natural causes,” however an autopsy is pending.  He was 31.
(Source: Cynopsis)

Trial lawyer and entertainment counsel Michael Howard Diamond, who worked closely with producer Brandon Tartikoff, died in his Hancock park home on January 9 following a battle with cancer. He was 73.
(Source: Cynopsis)

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DAVID BOWIE HAS DIED

January 12, 2016

DAVID BOWIE HAS DIED
http://www.eonline.com/news/730079/david-bowie-dead-at-age-69-after-battle-with-cancer