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Raising the Bar’s Gosselaar on the Overdue Haircut

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Drama, Prime Time, Cable, TNT-HD, Gossip

Raising the Bar's Mark-Paul GosselaarRaising the Bar's Mark-Paul Gosselaar

If there’s one thing Mark-Paul Gosselaar should have realized from his years playing Zack Morris, it’s this: The hair makes the man. Unfortunately, it took a whole season of Raising the Bar before that lesson was learned.

In an interview with TV Guide, the 35-year-old explained the reasoning behind his public defender’s distracting stringy look. “It defined a characteristic of Jerry [Kellerman], that he’s not going to conform to a system. But this year, we had to evolve Jerry. He had to mature, he had to become more tactful. So we cut his hair. It’s down with a story in mind also with a client that he’s working with.”

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Army Wives Re-Enlist on Lifetime

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Drama, Prime Time, Cable, Renewals, Video


Lifetime’s runaway success will return this summer for a third season. The second season of the show, which finished it run in November 2008, drew more than 80 million total viewers.The series has already been picked up by the cable network for a fourth season.

Army Wives focuses on a group of wives, and one husband, whose spouses are actively serving their country. The show, set on a military post, has been critically acclaimed and well-received by fans. Kim Delaney, Sally Pressman, Brigid Brannagh, Brian McNamara, Sterling K. Brown, Wendy Davis, Drew Fuller, Terry Serpico, Katelyn Pippy and Catherine Bell make up the cast.

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Howie Mandel to Host Game Show Awards

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Award Shows, Games, Reality, Cable, Amazing Race, The, American Idol, Gossip

Howie Mandel

The Game Show Network will sponsor the first-ever game show awards, an event that will celebrate everything the cable channel loves about televising gaming. will emcee the event, which airs June 6 at 8pm ET on GSN.

“I want the game show awards to be unlike any awards show on television,” Mandel said in a recent statement. “We’ll see what happens.” Mandel’s comedic career enjoyed renewed success with the launch of , which became a hit for NBC. Mandel was nominated for an Emmy in 2008 by virtue of his work on the show.

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Arr, Matey: Spike TV Docudrama Details Pirate Pursuits

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Drama, Reality, Cable, Gossip

Description is all set to present Pirate Hunters: USN, which comes just on the wake of national news involving Somali pirates. The series showcases the U.S. Navy’s pursuit of pirates and piracy in the Gulf of Aden.

Though the series is in the same locale where piracy made recent headlines, the deal has already been in the works for months. The Navy has allowed cameras aboard the USS San Antonio and the USS Boxer, the latter of which was part of the recent rescue effort.

A Pirate Hunters pilot is in the works, but there’s no word on when it will air.

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Bullrun: The Great Reality Show You Probably Don’t Know About

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Reality, Cable, Gossip, Video


Looking for an adrenaline rush with your TV? Want something high-speed to kick your evening into high gear? The original series Bullrun has it all - speed, horsepower, an exciting race, team tension and drama, drama, drama. It’s even got Bill Goldberg.

Speed is one of those channels that’s pretty high up on the dial, putting Bullrun outside the cable reality loop. There is something of an feel to the format - teams of two are racing to a finish line to win. Each team strives to race between check points and eventually to a finish line at the end of the day. Bullrun, however, comes with its own unique twists and turns.

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Get in Trouble with Chris Brown and Rihanna

Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Drama, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Specials, Talk Shows, Cable, MTV, Gossip

Rihanna and Chris Brown

Cable TV is capitalizing on the scandalous post-Grammy headlines that paint Chris Brown as a woman-beater and a victim. They were two young, hot popstars. Now, they’re young, even hotter tabloid fodder. Want to see one version of this relationship?

will air Chris Brown & Rihanna: Love in Trouble on Monday night at 6pm EST. A presentation of MTV News, the special will be studded with specialists, journalists and other “experts” who will provide “insight” and “commentary” into how the recent events might unfold in the future. An audience of young Brown and Rihanna fans will pepper the stands, offering their take on the events.

The relationship between the pair, which lasted for about a year, will be retold and explored during the special. It will also delve into Brown’s background, which is said to be fraught with abuse. A relationship expert will also participate, offering insight and advice to help young people face domestic violence in their own relationships.

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Watch United States of Tara Now

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Cable, Showtime, Video


Earlier this week, we told you how to gain advanced - and free - access to an upcoming Showtime premiere. Now we’ve made it one step easier for you.

In the clip above, you can preview an edited version of . In the new series, Toni Collette (The Sixth Sense) stars as a married mother of two dealing with multiple personalities.

Like what you see? Then make sure you have your membership in place when the program makes its official debut on January 18th.

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Watch Showtime Premieres Without a Subscription

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Cable, Showtime, Internet, News

Toni Collette in The United States of Tara

Still deciding whether to renew your Showtime subscription? Maybe some free previews will help.

On Thursday, January 8th, Netflix will offer advanced access to United States of Tara. The series - which won’t officially debut until January 18 - lists Steven Spielberg and as two of the program’s executive producers. Cody (Juno) also penned the show’s pilot.

Tara tells the story of a woman () with dissociative identity disorder (a.k.a. multiple personalities). John Corbett (Sex and the City), Brie Larson and Keir Gilchrist play the family members who must deal with the appearances of the “provocative teenager,” the “gun-toting Vietnam vet” and the “Betty Crocker homemaker.”

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Record Ratings for Clone Wars Debut

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Prime Time, Sci-Fi/Horror, Cable, Ratings

Cartoon Network's Clone Wars

Just weeks after leaving quietly from the theaters, The Clone Wars is being given new life on television.

This past weekend, the premiere of Stars Wars: The Clone Wars raised galactic-sized numbers for the . The half-hour animated program had the best debut for any series on that channel ever.

The first two back-to-back episodes pulled in nearly 4 million viewers. That bested Ben 10: Alien Force‘s previous record by a million. The time slot also saw triple-digit increases in several key youth demos over the same period last year.

The Lucasfilm Animation series - voiced by many of the same actors in the film version - airs Fridays @ 9pm.

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Mad Men Gets No Post-Emmy Ratings Bump

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Drama, Prime Time, Cable, News, Ratings

Mad Men

Well - at least they’ll have their statues to keep them warm.

Despite Best Drama wins this year at both the Emmys and the Golden Globes, the buzz still hasn’t paid off for Mad Men.

Although AMC’s critical darling has seen an improvement since its first season (when it averaged 915,000 viewers), the show still struggles to draw audiences to its basic cable channel. After pulling in 1.95 million for the Season 2 debut, the drama saw a 30% ratings drop in Week 2. And despite the free publicity from last month’s barely-watched Emmys, the drama saw a ratings drop (from 1.9 million to 1.6 million) the following week.

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