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Oxygen marks a new milestone as dating competition series 'Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too' delivered the network's highest rated freshman season in key demos W18-34 (260,000) and A18-34 (332,000) following last night's season finale, according to Nielsen Media Research. The series also marked another record-breaking achievement as 'Love Games' became the youngest skewing program ever on the network with a median age of 22.6.

This summer, USA will feature the most compelling shows on the hottest network. Adding to the sizzling line-up, including critic's darling and fan favorite, the new hot series WHITE COLLAR will serve as the launch pad for the premiere of the thrilling new series COVERT AFFAIRS, making USA Network the ultimate summer destination. USA's WHITE COLLAR and COVERT AFFAIRS premiere on TUESDAY, JULY 13 at 9/8c and 10/9c, respectively.

mun2, the leading bilingual cable network for bicultural Latinos in the U.S., earned honors at the 2010 CableFAXIE Awards. The coveted awards, which salute the most outstanding communications intitiatives and programs in the cable arena, were presented on April 28th at the CableFAXIES Award Luncheon in New York City.

NBC will present coverage of the fourth installment of its ultimate big-stakes poker showdown - the National Heads-Up Poker Championship presented by GoDaddy.com from Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nev. this Sunday at Noon ET. This Sunday will feature the Round of 16, and players who advance to the quarterfinals are guaranteed at least $75,000 in prize money.

Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Quail Hollow champion Rory McIlroy and defending champion Henrik Stenson headline the deepest field in golf as 27 of the world's top 30 players will challenge TPC Sawgrass and its iconic 'Island Green' par-3, 17th hole in hopes of winning THE PLAYERS Championship live on NBC Sports, Saturday and Sunday, 2-7 p.m. ET, with limited commercial interruption.

This week, 'The Biggest Loser: Couples' contestants get encouragement from Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, and helpful advice from two past season winners - Helen Phillips (season seven) and Erik Chopin (season three) - on the episode airing Tuesday, May 11 (8-10 p.m. ET) on NBC.

New Jonas Brothers music, a new So-Cal setting and a new serialized comedy format mark Season Two of the Teen Choice Award-winning series 'JONAS,' newly named 'JONAS L.A.,' premiering SUNDAY, JUNE 20 (8:30 p.m., ET/PT) on Disney Channel. It stars pop culture superstars Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas, Chelsea Staub and Nicole Anderson. The Jonas Brothers also star in the short-form series 'Jonas Brothers Living the Dream 2,' which gives viewers unprecedented access to their lives on stage and off during their European tour, and in the contemporary movie musical, 'Camp Rock 2 The Final Jam,' premiering Friday, September 3 on Disney Channel.

New original comedies will dominate Monday nights this summer on MTV with the premiere of 'Warren the Ape' on June 14 at 10:30pm ET/PT, immediately following the 'The Hard Times of RJ Berger' at 10pm ET/PT. The 12 episode series is a parody of 'the life of a celebrity' reality show, based on a D-grade celebrity puppet, Warren the Ape Demontague. Warren the Ape's character is a brash, cantankerous, out-of-work actor attempting to clean up his act, patch up his relationships and scramble his way back into the Hollywood limelight with the help of his doctor, Dr. Drew Pinsky.

The highly anticipated second season of BBC AMERICA's co-production, Being Human premieres this July. Russell Tovey, Lenora Crichlow and Aidan Turner return as George, Annie and Mitchell, the three twenty-somethings trying to live as normally as possible despite being a werewolf, a vampire and a ghost. Being Human premieres Saturday, July 24, directly following the Doctor Who season finale.

Please note that new summer series 'Scoundrels' and 'The Gates' are changing time periods from the originally announced schedule in ABC's Summer Programming release (issued April 7).

TLC's popular new series HOARDING: BURIED ALIVE is currently in production on a second season and scheduled to return Sundays this fall with nine compelling new episodes. The first season, which ends this Sunday, May 9 at 10 PM (ET/PT), was a ratings success, averaging over 1.5 million viewers.

Hidden amid the mammoth- Montana landscape are three family-owned and operated cattle ranches and the setting of Animal Planet's newest original series, LAST AMERICAN COWBOY. This epic adventure follows three families of tough, tenacious and headstrong cowboys through freak storms, deadly outbreaks of disease, hungry predators and forest fires that threaten their livelihood. Each ranch will need to rely on family bonds and personal strength to keep this tradition of the American West alive.

ABC's Tuesday line-up of DWTS the Results Show, Lost and V, continued to deliver impressive year-to-year returns, as the Net was up over the same night last year for the 5th time in 6 weeks. ABC's numbers surged over the same Tuesday a year ago (5/5/09), also a night of all-original programming, by 1.2 million viewers (9.0 million vs. 7.8 million) and by 40% in Adults 18-49 (2.8/8 vs. 2.0/6).

BIO Channel recorded its two most-watched quarters in network history in fourth quarter 2009 and first quarter 2010. The network also, for the first-time ever, hit the 100,000 mark in the target adults 25-54 demo in first quarter 2010. On the heels of this success, BIO continues to increase its investment in original programming with the addition of three new series - including a second series from Emmy winner William Shatner - and four news specials to join its slate of five returning original series and 50 new hours of the Emmy-award winning 'Biography' series in 2010, it was announced today by Bob DeBitetto, President and General Manager of A&E Network and BIO Channel.

A&E has solidified its place as the fourth largest entertainment cable network among adults 18-49, continuing its phenomenal ratings growth behind the strength of the network's Real Life Drama brand and expansive slate of original series.

This is one smokin' show that's B.Y.O.B. (bring your own blanket). 'The Daily Show & Friends' is this year's presentation of 'COMEDY CENTRAL Park' which will take place on Wednesday, July 21 at 8:00 p.m. The event will be hosted by Lewis Black and feature stand-up performances by 'Daily Show' correspondents Wyatt Cenac and John Oliver, series alum Rob Riggle, executive producer Rory Albanese and supervising producer Adam Lowitt.

Coming off its most-watched and highest-rated first quarter ever with boys 6-11 and 9-14, Nicktoons launches the U.S. premiere of Dragon Ball Z Kai with a special premiere week of back-to-back episodes Monday, May 24, through Thursday, May 27, from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. ET. The latest chapter in the Dragon Ball franchise, Dragon Ball Z Kai is a re-edited rendition of Goku's efforts to save Earth from destruction with the help of his friends and the seven magic Dragon Balls. The 99-episode series will continue to roll out Monday through Thursday at 8:00 p.m. ET.

'Saturday Night Live' wraps the season with an Emmy award-winner and a Grammy award-winner, as Alec Baldwin and Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers take to studio 8H for the season finale. Baldwin returns for his fifteenth time and will tie Steve Martin for the show record for most host appearances. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers will make their eighth appearance as musical guest.

Rogue Machine's RANT & RAVE presents a group of local writers and gives them a topic and a time limit. It's an evening of cathartic thinking by some of the most dangerous minds in the city.

The nominees for the highly competitive 64th Annual Tony Awards were announced this morning; the smash-hit new musical Million Dollar Quartet, developed early on in Village Theatre's Village Originals program, received 3 nominations. These nods include Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for Levi Kreis-first cast in Village Theatre's Festival reading and Mainstage production.