VIDEOS: First Look - 'Election Night, Part 1' on HBO's THE NEWSROOMAugust 29, 2013On the next episode of HBO's THE NEWSROOM titled 'Election Night, Part 1' - Will becomes the director of morale as ``News Night' goes forward with its election night coverage; Sloan is upset that her book was auctioned with a forged signature; the team considers holding off on a story that might influence a Senate race.
VIDEO: New SCANDAL Season 3 PromoAugust 29, 2013ABC has just released the first promo for SCANDAL upcoming third season, premiering THURSDAY OCT. 3 10/9c. Check it out below!
SAG Foundation Hands Out $400,000 Worth of ScholarshipsAugust 29, 2013The Screen Actors Guild Foundation has awarded $400,000 in John L. Dales Scholarships to 109 SAG-AFTRA performers and their children ranging from $1750 to $4000 for study at accredited institutions of higher learning for the 2013-2014 school year.
JAKE AND THE NEVER LAND PIRATES Primetime Special to Air 9/29August 29, 2013When Never Land begins to disappear, Jake must go on his most heroic mission ever to save the magical land in Disney Junior's 'Jake and the Never Land Pirates: Never Land Rescue,' a primetime special premiering SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 on Disney Channel (6:00 p.m., ET/PT) and Disney Junior (7:00 p.m., ET/PT). One of Disney's most famous and beloved characters, Tinker Bell, makes her first-ever debut appearance in the action-packed family night special presentation.
Showtime Sets DEXTER, RAY DONOVAN Marathons for this WeekendAugust 29, 2013This weekend, SHOWTIME subscribers will have the opportunity to catch up on the climactic eighth and final season of DEXTER and the critically-acclaimed hit drama series RAY DONOVAN, when the network airs marathons of both series on Labor Day Weekend. Replays of the first nine episodes of DEXTER and RAY DONOVAN will air this weekend on SHOWTIME and will be available on SHOWTIME ON DEMAND and the network's authentication service SHOWTIME ANYTIME. For a full list of replay dates and times, please visit: www.sho.com/marathon. New episodes of DEXTER and RAY DONOVAN return to SHOWTIME, on Sunday, September 8 starting at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Jay Craven's NORTHERN BORDERS to be Screened at Various Vermont Venues in Sept.August 29, 2013Award-winning Vermont director Jay Craven will present his new film, “Northern Borders,” at special screenings, Friday, September 6th at the Brandon Town Hall; Friday, September 13th , Vergennes Opera House; Saturday, September 14th at Middlebury Town Hall Theater; and Sunday, September 15th at Holley Hall, Bristol. Showtimes are 7:30pm. The film is based on the award-winning novel by Vermont writer Howard Frank Mosher.
Premieres, Panels & More Announced for Film Society of Lincoln Center's 2013 NYFF ConvergenceAugust 28, 2013 The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today the details for the 2013 NYFF Convergence, which will run on Saturday, September 28 through Monday, September 30. Building on the success of last year's debut, the second edition of the crowning event for the Film Society of Lincoln Center's year round programming commitment to transmedia will be presented at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center and the Walter Reade Theater with three days of panels, workshops and “immersive experiences.” This year's edition will also feature a special secret event to close out NYFF Convergence that will be announced at a later date.
FRIDAY THE 13TH Complete Collection on Blu-ray Gets 9/13 ReleaseAugust 28, 2013On September 13th, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will provide plenty of blood-curdling thrills whenFriday The 13th: The Complete Collection debuts on Blu-ray. For the first time, all twelve Friday the 13th films will be packaged together, (with seven of them making Blu-ray debuts) as a result of a strategic distribution alliance between Paramount and Warner announced last fall, granting Warner exclusive video distribution rights to over 600 Paramount titles. The set also includes a Friday The 13th Killer Extras Bonus DVD.
BBC America Slides BURTON & TAYLOR Premiere to 10/16August 28, 2013BAFTA award-winning actors Dominic West (The Hour, The Wire) and Helena Bonham Carter (LES MISERABLES, The King's Speech) star as Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor - Hollywood's most volatile on-again-off-again lovers who famously played out every high and low of their love affairs, multiple marriages and divorces right in the public eye. Recognized as one of the most fascinating, glamorous and tempestuous relationships of the 20th century, Burton and Taylor made their last stage appearance together in the critically reviled 1983 revival of Noel Coward's stage play, Private Lives. This is the story of their ill-fated reunion, on and off stage. Burton and Taylor, a BBC America co-production, premieres Wednesday, October 16, 9:00pm ET/PT as part of Dramaville. The special was originally slated to debut on October 20.
PRETTY LITTLE LIARS Summer Finale is Most-Tweeted Episode in Series HistoryAugust 28, 2013At 8 o'clock, the summer finale of “Pretty Little Liars” set season highs across the board, ranking as the series' biggest summer finale on record in Total Viewers (3.3 million), Adults 18-34 (1.4 million/2.1 rating), Women 18-34 (1.2 million/3.5 rating), Adults 18-49 (1.8 million/1.4 rating), Women 18-49 (1.5 million/2.3 rating), Viewers 12-34 (2.3 million/2.5 rating) and Females 12-34 (2.0 million/4.4 rating), and becoming the #2 finale ever of its seven finales to date in target 18-34s and 18-49s. In fact, the 4A season closer became the series' #3 telecast of all time in Women 18-34 and Women 18-49, and is now the #4 telecast in ABC Family history among young Women.
OWN-Featured DARK GIRLS Coming to DVD, 9/24August 28, 2013One Village Entertainment, an entity of RLJ Entertainment (NASDAQ: RLJE), announces the DVD release of the captivating documentary Dark Girls, directed by Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry. Dark Girls will be available on DVD onSept. 24, 2013, at an SRP of $14.98. Featured on Oprah Winfrey's OWN Network, it's a film that has everyone talking.
Lisa Kudrow Set for Recurring Role on ABC's SCANDALAugust 28, 2013According to Deadline, Lisa Kudrow has boarded Shonda Rhimes' hit political drama Scandal in a recurring role on the series' upcoming third season. For now, details on the length of Kudrow's arc, as well as her character, are being kept quiet.
National Geographic to Premiere New Series YUKON GOLD, 9/5August 28, 2013 It is a job few would want: 18-hour work days. Unforgiving landscapes. Mechanical struggles. All risk, and sometimes no reward. On the surface, it might look like the famous Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1800s. But this is a modern-day take on the quest for the ultimate dream - to strike it rich with one lucky strike. In National Geographic Channel's new series Yukon Gold, follow four family-run mining camps as they risk everything in the hope of hitting the paystreak. Working grueling days under the midnight sun, the crews give it their all to battle the elements ... and each other. Yukon Gold airs Thursdays at 7 p.m. ET/PT beginning September 5 on National Geographic Channel.
HGTV's BROTHER VS. BROTHER Goes Out StrongAugust 28, 2013 The finale of HGTV's newest competition series Brother vs. Brother on Sunday, August 25 at 10P delivered 0.79 P25-54 rating. In fact, the Sunday finale was a top 5 program in all of cable for the night among upscale A25-54 viewers in households with 100K plus income. During its six-week run, the series was up 100% over the same time period last year and was a top 4 regularly scheduled Sunday night cable series among upscale A25-54. In addition, 12.5 million viewers tuned in to the series and 57 percent of the show's A25-54 prime viewers reside in households with $100k plus incomes -- 117% higher than the cable average.