GSN Spotlights Carnie Wilson

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Games, Reality, Cable

Don’t know who she is? Well, the Game Show Network is going to give you plenty of opportunities to find out everything you don’t know about Carnie Wilson, best known for her role in the girl group Wilson Phillips.

She’s currently appearing on GSN as the host of the newly revamped Newlywed Game, formerly made famous in past decades by Bob Eubanks. Now, the network will try a reality style they’ve never attempted before: they’re going to spotlight Carnie’s behind-the-scenes life.

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This Week on TV (9/28-10/4)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Food & Home, Games, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, Cable, CBS, HBO, MTV, NBC, The CW, Grey's Anatomy, Medium, The Office

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MONDAY (9/28)
Season premieres: County Jail, Lie to Me, Trauma

• Trauma (NBC, 9pm):  “A medical drama focusing on the first-responder paramedics at a San Francisco hospital and the extreme dangers they face to save lives.” It’s like a “very special episode” of ER...every…week.
• Unwrapped (FOOD, 9pm):  “The making of bacon ice cream at Delaware s Woodside Farm Creamery.” Hot bacon sundaes can be topped off with bacon bits and/or bacon grease.
• CSI: Miami (CBS, 10pm):  “The lab is attacked and new CSI Jesse Cardoza is taken hostage along with four other people.” Unfortunately, the newbie wasn’t eligible for his hostage compensation benefits yet.

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Friday Ratings: NBC Makes a Week End Mark

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Award Shows, Comedy, Drama, Games, Kids, Music, Sci-Fi/Horror, Talk Shows, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, Medium, Ratings

Up until now, CBS has traditionally dominated Friday nights with its Ghost Whisperer/Numb3rs combo. But could Jay Leno potentially change that? Although we’re still a week away from finding out, the program got off to a nice start this weekend. Primetime’s new 10:00 show helped give NBC a win in both the viewers and the demos.

8pm

• Dateline NBC (2.0/7 in 18-49) averaged 7.4 million over two hours.
• Approximately 5 million watched the finale of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (1.0/4).
• Ghost Whisperer* (1.1/4) pulled in 4.6 million.
• The 2009 Alma Awards (0.6/2) attracted 2.2 million.
• Smallville* (0.6/2) dialed up 1.6 million.

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Wednesday Ratings: Ugly Start for Beautiful Life

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Games, Music, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, America's Next Top Model, So You Think You Can Dance, Ratings

When it comes to shows about young adults, it seems audiences prefer characters who are awkward and musical—not pretty and anorexic. Yesterday’s debut of The Beautiful Life bombed despite an ANTM lead-in and raised approximately 5 million less than its FOX competitor (Glee). As Stanford Blatch would say, TBL was Wednesday night’s fashion roadkill.

8pm

• The finale America’s Got Talent (3.5/10 in 18-49) averaged 15.5 million over two hours.
• Wipeout (2.1/7) took 6.2 million down.
• So You Think You Can Dance (5.7 million, 2.4/7) slipped by 800,000.
• The New Adventures of Old Christine* (1.1/4) had 4.5 million laughing; Gary Unmarried* (1.2/4) turned in 4.5 million.
• America’s Next Top Model (2.8 million, 1.4/4) took a 400,000 hit.

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GSN Gathering Celebs for Two Renewals

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Games, Reality, Cable, Renewals

The Game Show Network is sticking with Catch 21 and the newly revamped Newlywed Game. Both game shows have been renewed for another run on the cable network, and both will see big surprises in upcoming episodes.

The Newlywed Game will turn standard marriages on their ear by featuring the first-ever same-sex couple on the series: George Takei (Star Trek) and his mate Brad Altman, to be exact. Other celebs scheduled to appear with their real-life partners include Davy Jones of The Monkees and his wife Jessica Pacheco, Edyta Sliwinska and Alec Mazo from Dancing with the Stars, and several celebs from The Biggest Loser, Survivor, Real Housewives and others.

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Tuesday Ratings: Melrose, 90210 Disappoint

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Drama, Games, Music, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, Ratings

The fall season hasn’t officially kicked into high gear, yet 90210 and Melrose Place are already coming up short. The sophomore drama debuted to nearly 2 million less than it did last year. Meanwhile, the freshman entry attracted a smaller number than Privileged did last September. (Note: CW has since canceled Privileged.)

8pm

• An NCIS* repeat (10.7 million, 2.1/6 in 18-49) was the hour’s largest draw.
• Hell’s Kitchen (7.6 million, 3.5/11) had the night’s best demos.
• America’s Got Talent* (1.5/5) got NBC warmed up with 6.8 million.
• Shark Tank* (1.1/3) attacked 3.4 million.
• 90210‘s debut (1.3/4) pulled in 2.6 million.

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TV Extensions, Renewals and Cancellations (9/8)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Drama, Games, Kids, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Cable, FX, PBS, TNT-HD, Cancellations, Renewals

Here’s an update on the shows you will and won’t be seeing in the months to come:

RENEWALS

• Giuliana & Bill (Style) - Season 2
• Leverage (TNT) - Season 3
• Mad Men (AMC) - Season 4
• The Singing Bee (CMT) - Season 2

CANCELLATIONS

• Reading Rainbow (PBS) - The program aired its last episode on August 28.
• Rescue Me (FX) - The seventh and final season will air in 2011.

(To get a look at TV Envy’s 2009 Fall Programming Schedule, click here.)

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This Week on TV (8/24-8/30)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Games, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, Bravo, Cable, HBO, MTV, Showtime

(To get a look at TV Envy’s 2009 Fall Programming Schedule, click here.)

MONDAY (8/24)

• Dating in the Dark (ABC, 9pm):  Season finale. “In the first season closer, an ex-FBI profiler assists the contestants.” Let’s hope proper background checks were part of his services.
• The Rachel Zoe Project (Bravo, 10pm):  Season premiere. “Season 2 opens with celeb stylist Rachel Zoe and her mod squad assigned to dress up five actresses for the Golden Globe awards. Meanwhile, a slumping economy affects the rich and famous when the production of couture gowns drops.” In other news: Us Weekly will devote an entire issue to dresses worn twice.
• Hoarding (A&E, 10pm):  “A woman whose children were removed from her home because of her hoarding wants to clean her home so that her children can return.” Until then, she’ll manage with the few children she kept hidden underneath the clothes.
• Nurse Jackie (Showtime, 10:30pm):  “The movie reviewer awakens from his coma to find that his critical senses have been radically altered.” Fortunately, his ability to sniff out crap was insured by Lloyd’s of London.

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TV Extensions, Renewals and Cancellations (8/18)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Food & Home, Games, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, Cable, FOX, MTV, TNT-HD, Hell's Kitchen, Cancellations, Renewals

Here’s an update on the shows you will and won’t be seeing in the months to come:

EXTENSIONS

• Leverage (TNT) - Summer season extended by two episodes

RENEWALS

• Hawthorne (TNT) - Season 2
• Hell’s Kitchen (FOX) - Season 8
• Is She Really Going Out With Him? (MTV) - Season 2
• Silent Library (MTV) - Season 2
• Teen Cribs (MTV) - Season 2

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Regis Philbin Returns to Millionaire

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Regis Philbin will once again host Who Wants to Be a Millionaire on ABC’s ten-year anniversary celebration for the show.

“For me it’s just a pleasure to come in and go through the whole thing again, and hopefully to give away a million-dollar check one more time before we wrap it up,” Philbin said of the event, which promises to be a Millionaire spectacular.

New and former contestants and a star-studded gallery will highlight the episode. Experts like Wolf Blitzer and Connie Chung will serve as experts for lifelines. The two week event will begin on August 9, carrying on for a full eleven nights before it ends August 23.

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