This Week on TV (8/25-8/31)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Daytime, Drama, Games, Kids, Music, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, Bravo, Cable, CBS, MTV, NBC, General Hospital

MONDAY (8/25)

• General Hospital (ABC, check local listings):  Genie Francis wakes up from her catatonic state. Hurry up and ask her all your questions before she goes back under.
• High School Musical: Get in the Picture (ABC, 8pm):  “The six finalists attempt to learn TV theme songs from the 1970s and ‘80s.” Should we really allow these teens to butcher classic songs from before they were born?
• Deal or No Deal (NBC, 8pm):  Season 4 premiere. Could this be the day that someone wins the million? Pleez. Do you think they’d give it up that quickly?
• America’s Toughest Jobs (NBC, 9pm):  Series premiere. “Average Joes perform dangerous and physically demanding jobs in this competition series. The winner is awarded the annual salary of each job completed.” Aren’t Average Joes the ones already performing these jobs?

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‘Star Jones’, ‘Montel Williams’ Cancelled

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Daytime, Talk Shows, Cable, Syndication, Cancellations

Somewhere, Barbara Walters must be secretly laughing right now.

Star Jones Reynolds, the woman who once occupied a seat on The View, is already looking for a new job.  After only six months on the air, truTV (formerly Court TV) officially turned off the lights on the The Star Jones Show today.  The program’s demise was announced only earlier this week.  In a statement, the network said the decision was “due to the rebranding and programming refocus of the network.”  (In other words, the channel was moving on and Star wasn’t coming with them.)

The end of Reynolds’ show, though, does not mean a departure for her from the channel.  As part of her goodbye gift, Star was given the opportunity to serve as a guest legal correspondent on the daily program that is replacing hers: Arrest & Trial.

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