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Mar 03 2016
TV News: HBO Latino® Premieres Its Exciting New Original Series El Hipnotizador On April 1
El Hipnotizador is HBO Latin America’s first bilingual production with an international cast and tells the story of Arenas (Leonardo Sbaraglia), a hypnotist and mysterious, isolated man with an enigmatic past who suffers from perpetual insomnia. He uses a special hypnosis technique, to solve other people’s problems by putting them into a trance in order to reveal their inner, darkest secrets. Living in a hotel surrounded by painful memories and condemned to a life of sleepless nights by his rival Darek (Chico Diaz), he will need to confront Darek and deal with his past if he ever wants to sleep again.
Mar 02 2016
TV News: Hotel ‘Fixer’ Anthony Melchiorri Returns In Travel Channel’s Hotel Impossible Monday, Apr 18
Hotel expert Anthony Melchiorri returns to upgrade Monday nights with an all-new seventh season of Travel Channel’s hit series “Hotel Impossible,” premiering on Monday, April 18 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. As one of the network’s top-rated series for 2015, this new season, comprised of 13 one-hour episodes, is filled with big surprises, moving moments, outrageous characters and unforgettable confrontations. Armed with over 20 years of experience in the hospitality business, a no-nonsense approach and a team of skilled designers, Melchiorri is on a mission to revive and repair every property he visits. Some hotels will follow his advice and be saved, others won’t!
Mar 01 2016
TV News: Fox Orders Eight One-Hour Episodes of Unscripted Competition Series Superhuman
The unscripted competition series that tests the abilities of ordinary people to use their extraordinary skills. The episodes were picked up following a two-hour special which aired Jan. 4, 2016. Kal Penn will return as host for the all-new episodes.
Feb 24 2016
TV News: YUKON MEN Returns to Discovery Channel March 18
Clinging to the banks of the Yukon River is a town on the brink of civilization: Tanana, Alaska. YUKON MEN, which premieres on Discovery Friday, March 18th at 10PM ET/PT follows the residents of this isolated village as they carve their existence from the frozen tundra.
Feb 19 2016
Woody Allen’s As-Yet Untitled Feature Film Acquired by Amazon Studios
Woody Allen’s latest as yet untitled feature film has been acquired for all North American rights, including theatrical and streaming, by Amazon Studios. The film, shot last summer on location in New York and Los Angeles, is a romantic comedy staged in the 1930s and stars Jeannie Berlin, Steve Carell, Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively, Parker Posey, Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll, and Ken Stott.
Feb 18 2016
Celebrity Name Game is Looking for Contestants in Las Vegas, NV
Celebrity Name Game is having an open casting call in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, March 5 from 12-2:00 pm at the Green Valley Ranch Resort Spa & Casino.
Feb 12 2016
TV News: Syfy Greenlights Original Sci-Fi Thriller PROTOTYPE to Pilot
PROTOTYPE, written by Tony Basgallop centers on three unlikely cohorts who inadvertently stumble upon an invention that challenges the very nature of quantum physics – a discovery which in turn puts their lives in grave danger.
Feb 11 2016
TV News: The CW Sets Upcoming Premiere Dates and Returns
The CW announced its midseason schedule today, including the midseason premieres of the limited series CONTAINMENT, the return of REIGN, the summer debut of the final season of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, plus the season finale dates for critical favorites IZOMBIE and CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND.
Feb 11 2016
News: Amazon Orders Original Kids Series Thunderbirds Are Go
Amazon orders four seasons of the new series, which is a reinvention of the 50-year-old classic Thunderbirds series; Rosamund Pike to star as Lady Penelope. Thunderbirds Are Go catapults the five brave Tracy brothers back onto television screens, where they’ll pilot their vehicles from the depths of the oceans to the highest reaches of space, performing impossible rescues across the globe.
Feb 10 2016
TV News: Starz ASH vs EVIL DEAD Cast Expands For Second Season Adding Lee Majors and Ted Raimi
In a press release: KICK-ASH CAST OF STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES “ASH VS EVIL DEAD” EXPANDS FOR SECOND SEASON LEE MAJORS AND TED RAIMI TO PLAY ASH’S FATHER AND CHILDHOOD BEST FRIEND Original Filmmakers Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell Serve as Executive Producers on the Series Beverly Hills, Calif., February 10, 2016 …
Feb 05 2016
TV News: Catherine Hardwicke Signs On to Direct First Two Episodes of New USA Network Thriller “Eyewitness”
USA Network has tapped Catherine Hardwicke (“Twilight,” “Miss You Already”) to direct the first two episodes of the new drama series EYEWITNESS. From Universal Cable Productions (UCP), the US adaptation of the successful Norwegian crime thriller (original title “Øyevitne”) explores a grisly crime from the point of view of the eyewitness. Scott Peters (“V,” “THE 4400”) joins Adi Hasak (Creator, “Shades of Blue”) and Jarl Emsell Larsen as Executive Producer. Peters will also direct multiple episodes of the 10-episode series. The drama will be adapted for American television by Hasak.
Feb 04 2016
TV News: Syfy Greenlights Futuristic Thriller INCORPORATED to Series
Syfy announced it has greenlit to series INCORPORATED, a futuristic thriller from Matt Damon, Ben Affleck & Jennifer Todd’s Pearl Street Films, CBS Television Studios and Universal Cable Productions. The 13-episode first season of the new drama series is expected to premiere on Syfy in Fall 2016. Set in a near future where corporations have unlimited power, INCORPORATED centers around Ben Larson (Sean Teale, “Reign”), a young executive who conceals his true identity to infiltrate a very dangerous corporate world to save the woman he loves. But he’ll soon learn that he’s not the only one whose secrets may have deadly consequences.
Feb 04 2016
TV News: Lifetime New Original Movie THE REAL MVP: The Wanda Pratt Story Set to Premiere May 7
Lifetime continues its partnership with Academy Award nominated, Golden Globe, Grammy, SAG and Emmy Award winner Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere and their Flavor Unit team to bring the inspiring true story of Wanda Pratt, a single mom who struggled and sacrificed to raise her two sons Tony and Kevin Durant, in the Lifetime Original Movie The Real MVP: The Wanda Pratt Story (working title). Named 2014’s NBA Most Valuable Player, Kevin captured the hearts of the nation with a speech dedicated to Wanda for all she has done to get him there. Executive produced by Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere and Wanda Pratt, production on the two-hour film is currently underway in Vancouver. Set to premiere in celebration of Mother’s Day this year, The Real MVP: The Wanda Pratt Story is produced by A+E Studios.
Feb 02 2016
New Smithsonian Channel™ Docu-Series, Alaska Aircrash Investigations, Goes BTS with the NTSB on March 13
The new Smithsonian Channel series, ALASKA AIRCRASH INVESTIGATIONS, goes behind-the-scenes with unprecedented access to the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) Alaska “Go Team.” For the first time, The NTSB has allowed a television crew to follow its Alaska unit as it investigates the more than 125 crashes that occur in the state every year. The series, comprised of six hour-long episodes, premieres Sunday, March 13 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Feb 02 2016
Casting News: Annaleigh Ashford Joins the Cast of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford (“Sylvia,” “You Can’t Take It With You,” “Masters of Sex”) has been cast as COLUMBIA, the castle’s feisty live-in groupie, in the two-hour television event THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, airing this fall on FOX. Ashford joins previously announced cast members Laverne Cox (Dr. Frank-N-Furter, “Orange is the New Black”), Victoria Justice (Janet, “Victorious”), Ryan McCartan (Brad, “Liv & Maddie,” “Heathers: the Musical”), Adam Lambert (Eddie, “Glee”), Reeve Carney (Riff Raff, “Penny Dreadful,” “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark”), Staz Nair (Rocky, “Game of Thrones”) and Tim Curry, the original Frank-N-Furter, who returns as the show’s Criminologist Narrator.
Jan 30 2016
TV News: E! Green lights Second Scripted Series The Arrangement *UPDATED* with Premiere Date
E! announced today the network’s second scripted series “The Arrangement,” a Cinderella story for modern times with a dark and complicated Hollywood twist. Produced by Universal Cable Productions, the 10 episode one-hour series stars Josh Henderson (“Dallas”), Christine Evangelista (“Chicago Fire”), Michael Vartan (“Alias”) and Lexa Doig (“Continuum”). The pilot was written by Jonathan Abrahams (“Mad Men”), who will serve as executive producer on the series.
Jan 29 2016
Grace Gummer Cast as Mr. Robot Series Regular
Grace Gummer (“Extant”) has been cast as a series regular in the highly anticipated second season of USA Network’s critically-acclaimed drama series MR. ROBOT.
Jan 27 2016
*Additional Performers Announced!* Special Duets Take Center Stage at The 58th Annual Grammy Awards Monday, Feb. 15 on CBS
In a press release — **2/04/16 UPDATED*** ADDITIONAL PERFORMERS ANNOUNCED FOR “THE 58TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS®,” MONDAY, FEB. 15 ON CBS JUSTIN BIEBER, DIPLO AND SKRILLEX TO TAKE THE GRAMMY® STAGE IN THEIR FIRST LIVE TV PERFORMANCE NOMINEE CHRIS STAPLETON TO PAY TRIBUTE TO BLUES LEGEND B.B. KING WITH GRAMMY AWARD WINNERS GARY CLARK, …
Jan 26 2016
TV News: Vice Returns For Fourth Season Exclusively on HBO Feb. 5
VICE kicks off its 18-show fourth season FRIDAY, FEB. 5 (11:00-11:30 p.m. ET/PT), immediately following a new edition of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” with other editions debuting subsequent Fridays at the same time. HBO partners with VICE on the Emmy®-winning weekly news magazine series. VICE takes viewers around the globe as its correspondents investigate the stories not being told elsewhere. Reporting on the world’s most pressing issues, the show uses an immersive documentary approach to bring a unique perspective to the events shaping our future. This season, VICE investigates such topics as Boko Haram, gene editing, the Syrian refugee crisis, euthanasia, gay rights and the plight of Afghan women.
Jan 24 2016
News: Jeff Orlowski Named First Sundance Institute/Discovery Impact Fellow
John Hoffman, Executive Vice President of Documentaries and Specials, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, and Science Channel, announced award-winning filmmaker Jeff Orlowski (“Chasing Ice”) as the first Sundance Institute | Discovery Impact Fellow at Discovery Channel’s 2016 Sundance Film Festival reception. In addition, Discovery Channel unveiled information on DISCOVERY IMPACT, a slate of groundbreaking documentaries focusing on humankind’s impact on the environment and what individuals and society as a whole can do to solve some of the largest problems facing the planet. Prior to the DISCOVERY IMPACT series launch in 2017, Discovery Channel will premiere DROUGHT as a DISCOVERY IMPACT special in 2016.
Jan 23 2016
TV News: NBC Sets Mid-Season Premiere Dates for Crowded, Heartbeat, and Game of Silence
Building on its extraordinary momentum this season, NBC has announced the premiere dates of three new midseason scripted series, including “Heartbeat,” Crowded,” and “Game of Silence,” plus the anticipated return of its summer hit comedy, “The Carmichael Show.”
Jan 20 2016
Discovery Channel Adds New Series Venom Hunters, Premiering February 17
New Discovery series VENOM HUNTERS will follow four brave teams of expert snake hunters who have the guts and skills to chase down the world’s most venomous snakes and collect this highly toxic liquid. The series premiere of VENOM HUNTERS debuts Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 10/9c on Discovery.
Jan 15 2016
TV News: PRISON BREAK To Return To Fox As Ultimate Escapist Event Series
FOX has ordered a thrilling new event series based on its hit series, PRISON BREAK, it was announced today by Dana Walden and Gary Newman, Chairmen and CEOs of Fox Television Group. An immediate critical and ratings hit when the original series premiered in the fall of 2005, the new event series will hit the ground running, reuniting series stars Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell as brothers MICHAEL SCOFIELD and LINCOLN BURROWS.
Jan 15 2016
TV News: Fox Orders 24: LEGACY, the Pilot For New Installment of the Drama Franchise
FOX has ordered the pilot 24: LEGACY, a potential new series installment of the groundbreaking and Emmy Award-winning drama franchise most recently revived as the event series “24: Live Another Day,” it was announced by Dana Walden and Gary Newman, Chairmen and CEOs, Fox Television Group.
Jan 15 2016
TV News: Animated Adult Series ANIMALS. Debuts Exclusively on HBO Feb 5
New York City, Earth’s least habitable environment, is home to a host of downtrodden creatures. Whether it’s lovelorn rats, gender-questioning pigeons or aging bedbugs in the midst of a midlife crisis, the awkward small talk, moral ambiguity and existential woes of these non-human urbanites prove startlingly similar to our own. Created by Phil Matarese & Mike Luciano, and produced by Duplass Brothers Television, the animated adult television series ANIMALS. kicks off its ten-episode season FRIDAY, FEB. 5 (11:30 p.m.-midnight ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.