Southland Moves to TNT

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

TNT isn’t only a place for countless Law & Order reruns. The cable channel is now home to another former NBC show.

Starting early next year, TNT will officially begin airing episodes of Southland, the John Wells-produced drama starring The O.C.‘s Benjamin McKenzie.

Despite critical acclaim and an October start date, the program was pulled from NBC just weeks before it was set to return. Now the entire series - including Season 1 and the unaired episodes from Season 2 - will have a new opportunity.

“This is a great win for fans of Southland and a perfect opportunity to introduce the series to new viewers,” said Steve Koonin, president of Turner Entertainment Networks, said in a statement. “It’s also another outstanding example of how TNT has established itself as the go-to place for the best dramas on television.”

Southland will debut on January 12.

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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.)

Read More | Entertainment Weekly

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Time Warner Cable to test TV Everywhere in select markets

Posted by Jacci Lewis Categories: BBC, Cable, CBS, HBO, Cable/Satellite, Internet

Time Warner Cable is about to put yet another nail in the coffin of office productivity.  The company plans to test delivery of cable TV programs on the Internet.  How ever will the average cubicle dweller cram that, YouTube, and relentless Facebook updates into the average work day?

Time Warner calls it’s prototype TV Everywhere.  The initial test will involve 5,000 customers in selected markets around the country. The company has not yet said which markets will be involved. CBS, Syfy (a.k.a. Sci Fi Channel), TNT, TBS, AMC, and BBC America, HBO, WE tv, and the Discovery Channel are among the many networks committed to participating in this initial test of TV Everywhere.

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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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Raising the Bar’s Gosselaar on the Overdue Haircut

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

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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Read More | TV Guide

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TV on DVD: June 2, 2009

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Kids, Prime Time, Sports, Cable, CBS, FOX, NBC, Showtime, TNT-HD, Prison Break, DVD

Here are some of the TV on DVD options available this Tuesday.

• Army Wives (Season 2)
• Cannon (Season 2, Vol. 1)
• The Hunger (Season 1)
• The Jetsons (Season 2, Vol. 1)
• Prison Break (Season 4)
• Raising the Bar (Season 1)
• Quincy M.E. (Season 3)
• Rugrats (Seasons 1&2)
• Thrilla in Manilla
• Weeds (Season 4)
• Zeroman (Complete Series)

Click here to see the DVD and Blu-ray film options for this week.

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TV Extensions, Renewals and Cancellations (4/16)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Reality, BBC, Cable, HBO, Showtime, TNT-HD, Cancellations, Renewals

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

CANCELLATIONS

• Trust Me (TNT)

RENEWALS

• Crime 360 (A&E) - Season 2
• Eastbound & Down (HBO) - Season 2
• Hotel Babylon (BBC America) - Season 3
• Intervention (A&E) - Season 7
• The Tudors (Showtime) - Season 4 **This will also be the final season**
• Z Rock (IFC) - Season 2

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

Read More | Entertainment Weekly

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TV on DVD: February 24, 2009

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, Cable, FOX, NBC, The CW, TNT-HD, DVD

Here are some of the TV on DVD options available this Tuesday.

• Breaking Bad (Season 1)
• Canterbury’s Law (Complete Series)
• Cities of the Underworld (Season 2)
• Dirty Jobs (Collection 4)
• Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
• Girlfriends (Season 6)
• Just Shoot Me! (Season 3)
• The Lair (Season 2)
• The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice
• My Wife & Kids (Season 1)
• Samurai 7 (Complete Series)
• Summer Heights High

Click here to see the DVD and Blu-ray film options for this week.

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TV Extensions, Renewals and Cancellations (2/9)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Kids, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Cable, HBO, Syndication, TNT-HD, Cancellations, Renewals

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

RENEWALS

• Ax Men (History) - Season 2
• Big Love (HBO) - Season 4
• Can You Duet (CMT) - Season 2
• Charm School (VH1) - Season 3
• Leverage (TNT) - Season 2
• The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family) - Season 2
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Cartoon Network) - Season 2

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This Week on TV (1/19-1/25)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Award Shows, Comedy, Drama, Games, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Specials, ABC, Cable, FOX, MTV, NBC, The CW, TNT-HD, House, Lost, The Office

(You can view TV Envy’s Midseason Programming Schedule here.)

MONDAY 1/19)

• The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family, 8pm):  “Ricky’s dad arrives in town with a proposal for how Ricky should handle impending fatherhood.” Apparently leaving town is an option?
• House (FOX, 8pm):  “Cuddy discovers that caring for her newly adopted baby leaves her little time to run the hospital.” Taking care of House and a baby is an impossible feat.
• Bromance (MTV, 9pm):  “The guys embark on a camping trip, but before reaching their destination, they stop at a biker bar where each must face off against a huge biker in the parking lot.” The reality is, many people want to kick Brody Jenner‘s ass. It’s time to hone their defense skills now.
• Paranormal State (A&E, 10pm):  Season premiere. “A family believes their new home in suburban New Jersey is haunted. The team’s investigation leads them to dig in the yard for possible answers.” Haunting or no haunting, buried things in my yard is reason enough to move.

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