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Casting Calls

“ANTM” Casting Call Reaches For New Heights

By RabbitEars After 12 cycles of seeking supermodel wannabes with a minimum height requirement of 5’7″ — the industry standard — Tyra Banks and America’s Next Top Model are setting their sights lower for Cycle 13. The series, which begins open casting calls for its next installment this Saturday, is now looking only for women who are 5’7″ or under. “There have been top supermodels in the past that weren’t as tall as the industry demands,” says Banks, “like fashion icon Kate Moss. So we are changing up Top Model for Cycle 13 and making it a year for the […]

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Drama

“Breaking Bad” Fans: AMC Wants You To Get Down(loads) With Your “Bad” Selves

Breaking Bad addicts, are you counting the minutes until the second season of the best show on TV premieres March 8 (if you’re not, I’ve got my hands on the first three episodes and, honeys, you should be)? Happy news — thanks to Sony Pictures Television and AMC, fans of the Emmy® Award-winning series are now just a few clicks away from some fun little fixes. Start at amctv.com to catch five original mini episodes penned by Vince Gilligan, Kate Powers, and Gennifer Hutchinson, and directed by John Shiban. The “minisodes” feature the series’ regular cast members in storylines that […]

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Drama

SCI FI Channel Enters Warehouse 13

By RabbitEars SCI FI Channel has begun production in Toronto on its new, 11-part “dramedy” series Warehouse 13, premiering in July with a two-hour pilot. Apparently playing off (and maybe a spoof of) the mythology and speculation surrounding places like Area 51 and Hangar 18 — believed by some to be top-secret government storage facilities for all manner of alien devices and technology — Warehouse 13 finds two Secret Service agents, played by Eddie McClintock and Joanne Kelly, transferred to a similar hush-hush location in a remote part of South Dakota. This place houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic and […]

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Game Shows

“The Price Is Right” For Jack Wagner

By Jeff Pfeiffer CBS just announced that soap star/singer/celebrity golfer Jack “Frisco Jones” Wagner will, rather unsurprisingly at this point, make several “surprise” guest appearances throughout the March 6 installment of The Price Is Right. The Bold & the Beautiful actor will also be appearing in a Showcase at the end of the episode. P.S. Our apologies to those who may have thought this post was about the recently re-elected Pennsylvania auditor general, “Independent Fiscal Watchdog” Jack Wagner. Although he probably would know a good price when he saw it, as well. © 2009 CBS Broadcasting. Credit: Lisette M. Azar

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Documentary

“Biography: Mötley Crüe” Debuts On BIO Tonight At 10ET/8PT

Move over, Bret Michaels — Vince, Tommy, Mick and Nikki have scored some TV time and a hit disc too. Biography: Mötley Crüe premieres tonight on BIO, featuring exclusive concert, tour and personal footage; music videos and photographs; and interviews with all of the band members — plus  commentators including the band’s manager Allen Kovac, Billboard Magazine’s Christa Titus, author Neil Strauss (“The Dirt”), photographer Neil Zlozower and concert promoter Ron Delsener. Featured music includes “Shout at the Devil,” “Too Fast for Love,” “Kickstart My Heart,” “Looks That Kill,” “Home Sweet Home,” “Girls, Girls, Girls,” “Dr. Feelgood” and “Saints of […]

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Reality TV

A&E Can Touch This: “Hammertime” Is Coming To Prime Time

By ButtonKnows Time to dig your shiny harem pants out of the rummage pile and resurrect your stripey fade, my fellow post-Boomers! Because there ain’t no reality show star like a past-his-prime rap star with a brand new gig (especially one who’s too legit to quit), A&E is at work on a docu-series following the life of “U Can’t Touch This” artist Stanley “MC Hammer” Burrell, Mrs. Burrell and their family of seven, scheduled to air later this year. “Hammertime” will feature 11 half-hour episodes that lay bare the life of Hammer, who rapped and danced his way into the […]

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Sports

FSN Announces Return Of “Sport Science”

By Ryan FSN’s Emmy-winning Sport Science is making a comeback, debuting its 13-episode second season March 22 at 9pm (local time). Each week the best athletes in the world enter the Sport Science lab and run through a series of tests designed to question everything fans think they know about sports. Sport Science tests the limits of athletic performance and challenges the assumptions athletes have about their own bodies. Highlights this season include MMA fighter Houston Alexander getting injected with a dose of epinephrine to see how it affects his punching power. The goal is to determine if adrenaline really […]

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Reality TV

Ain’t Got That Swing: “The Haney Project” Takes On Charles Barkley

Former NBA star Charles Barkley once famously said, “I am not a role model.” We didn’t know it back then, but he was talking about his golf swing. Maybe you’ve seen any number of videos on the Internet featuring Barkley awkwardly hacking away on the tee box at a celebrity golf tournament. (Google “Charles Barkley Golf Swing” and see for yourself. We’ll wait.) Dreadful, isn’t it? It’s the golf equivalent of Elaine dancing on Seinfeld. Sweet fancy Moses. Shortly after Barkley’s swing caught on like wildfire on the web, GOLF CHANNEL announced that it would undertake a daunting endeavor: The […]

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Sports

MLB Network Debuts “30 Clubs In 30 Days”

By Ryan MLB Network’s spring training preview series 30 Clubs in 30 Days will premiere Feb. 20 at 8pm ET. The series devotes an hour to each MLB team, giving viewers an inside look at preparations for the 2009 season with field reports, interviews and a look back at each team’s 2008 season and offseason activity. Each episode also looks back at the best moments in team franchise history, and includes a roundtable discussion featuring a panel of front-office personnel and baseball writers. Reporters Hazel Mae and Trenni Kusnierek will report on-site at each club’s training facility, and an interactive […]

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Sports

Will Digger Bury NASCAR On FOX?

By Ryan FOX announced that it is taking Digger, its NASCAR Gopher Cam mascot, to disturbing new levels beginning with this Sunday’s Daytona 500. The Adventures of Digger and Friends, a collaboration between FOX Sports chairman David Hill and country music star Keith Urban, will premiere during the race, with five two-minute vignettes featuring the furry characters that will be repeated throughout the NASCAR season, long after we’ve all stopped watching. Says Hill: