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The Screen Actors Guild To Bestow Life Achievement Award Upon Rita Moreno!

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Even if – unlikely as it might seem – the name isn’t familiar, her face will recognized by many generations. Rita Moreno has won  a host major awards – an Oscar®, two Emmys®, a Tony® a Grammy®, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of the Arts.

Now she is being feted with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment. With lead or major supporting roles in classic films like The King and I, West Side Story (winning the Oscar) and Singin’ in the Rain; on television, she currently co-stars on TVLand’s Happily divorced but has has key roles on shows like B.L. Stryker (with Burt Reynolds), 9 to 5 and The Cosby Mysteries. Her work on stage includes the female take on The Odd Couple, The Glass Menagerie, a Tony-nominated performance in The National Health and a Tony win for The Ritz. Kids of all ages will know her from several appearances on The Muppet Show and The Electric Company.

The 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® will be simulcast on TNT and TBS on Saturday, January 8th, 2014. For more details, check out the official press release after the jump.

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TBS & TNT Announce Fall Schedule and Aggressive Development Slate!

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Some of Hollywood’s best storytellers are developing projects for Turner networks TBS and TNT to add to their already deep bench of quality new and returning shows for 2013-14. Steven Spielberg, Steve Carell, Diablo Cody, Denis Leary, Sylvester Stallone, Dick Wolf, Nicholas Sparks, Marcia Clark, Dee Johnson, Walt Becker, Jamie Foxx and James Duff are developing series that range from Dick Wolf’s intriguing unscripted Cop Swap (two law enforcement professionals swap lives to help learn how to be better officers, partners and citizens of the law) to Portal House (a group of young scientists examining a haunted house discover a portal through the time-space continuum).

New series for TNT include: King & Maxwell, The Hero, 72 Hours and Cold Justice. Returning shows include: Fallings Skies, Franklin & Bash, Major Crimes, Perception and Rizzoli & Isles.

For TBS, new shows include: Bam’s Bad Ass Game Show, The CeeLo Life, Deal With It, Deon Cole’s Black Box, Ground Floor, Trust Me I’m a Game Show Host, Untitled Pete Holmes Late Night Show and Who Gets the Last Laugh?  Returning shows include: Cougar Town, King of the Nerds, Men at Work and Sullivan & Son. 

For a look at both networks’ new and returning shows for 2013-14, the official premiere dates, series descriptions and a complete look at their development slates, check out the official press release after the jump.

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Emmy Nominees Sell Ground Floor to TBS!

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TBS has picked up Ground floor, a new workplace comedy with a romantic twist, from Cougar town’s Bill Lawrence and How I Met your Mother’s Gregg Mailins. The premise finds hotshot banker Brody thinking he’s had a one-stand with Jennifer then discovering that she works in the maintenance department of the building he works in. The series stars Pitch Perfect’s Skyler Austin as Brody, Cougar Town’s Briga Heelan as Jennifer and Scribs/Burn Notice vet John C. McGinley as Brody’s boss, Mr. Mansfield.

For more details, follow the jump.

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TBS Takes Over Cougar Town!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cougar Town began as a series about an older woman dating younger men – hence the title – but then turned into this peculiar and specific comedy about finding family not just in blood relatives, but also in the friends made over the years.

After three seasons on ABC, Cougar Town’s ratings had dipped to the point where the show couldn’t be sustained on a major network, but a white knight has arrived to save the series. Cougar Town’s fourth season will be on TBS – the Turner network that is based on comedy.

For the official TBS press release, follow the jump.

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Television: Brian Austin Green Begins Production On the New TBS Comedy Pilot, The Wedding Band

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Brian Austin Green is is best known for his portrayal of David Silver on the original television series Beverly Hills, 90210 .  Now, he has a new TV gig in The Wedding Band.

Brian Austin Green, along with Peter Cambor, Derek Miller and Harold Perinneau are starring in the TBS comedy pilot,The Wedding Band. The comedy series, from FremantleMedia and Tollin Productions and written by Josh Lobis and Darin Moiselle, follows a group of guys who try to escape the stress and craziness of their lives by performing in a wedding band. The band, which strives to be the best at giving clients a memorable wedding, is anchored by 2 lifelong best friends – one a perennial bachelor (Green) and the other a married father of two (Cambor). The TBS comedy pilot began production on January 24th and no air date is currently set.

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Conan Smokes Leno [And Everyone Else]!

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TBS trounces network late night talk shows with its premiere of Conan! The gangly redhead with his fresh-from-my-live-tour beard drew 4.2 million viewers for his TBS premiere which was, yes, very funny. Even better, of that 4.2 million, 3.3 million were adults 18-49. By comparison, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno drew a total of 3.5 million viewers with a mere 950,000 in the 18-49 demographic. Meanwhile, The Late Show with David Letterman reached a total of 3.4 million, with 1.3 million in the 18-49 demo.

Conan also benefited George Lopez Tonight, which beat both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report in total viewers and all demos

It will be interesting to see if Conan can maintain this audience – but even if there’s as much as a 50% drop in ratings [as happened in his second week on The Tonight Show], he will still be giving TBS a triple-digits ratings increase in the timeslot. If he holds his audience, it will be the biggest shake-up in late night ratings, ever – and one of the biggest in basic cable vs. networks.

Photo courtesy of TBS.

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Conan O’Brien’s NEW explosive promo for TBS

here’s something I’ve been waiting to share with all of you Conan O’Brien fans out there. Since his unpleasant departure from NBC and now joining the “Very Funny” network TBS, Conan has finally shot a promo for his new show coming in November. Conan gets into a car filled with explosives and un-poped popcorn and drives it off a cliff. This promo was just released hours ago. Personally I love the promo and enjoy watching it over and over. I stongly believe his new show on TBS will be hit. The only bad thing is that his long time drummer Max Weinberg will not be on the show but I’m still anxious to see how the show will turn out.

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TNT & TBS Order Four Pilots – Three Cop-Driven Mysteries and a Dallas Reboot!

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TNT [We Know Drama] and TBS [Very Funny] have announced their orders for four pilots: Perception, Untitled Allan Loeb Project and Dallas from TNT; Brain Trust from TNS. Perception, Untitled Allan Loeb Project and Brain Trust are being described as procedurals, while Dallas updates the soap opera travails of the Ewing family to the 21st century.

Details from the press release follow the jump.

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TELEVISION: Turner Adds Lawyer Buddy Series Franklin & Bash for TNT; ‘80s College Comedy Glory Daze for TBS!

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The buddy lawyer series Franklin & Bash [pictured above ], starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar (NYPD Blue, TNT’s Raising the Bar) and Breckin Meyer (Heroes), has been given a ten episode order by TNT, while TBS has given and eight episode order to the one-hour comedy series Glory Daze, a 1980s-set college comedy.  Series details follow the jump.

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