Television Blog

  Investigation Discovery is featuring the story of Oklahoma ex-fugitive Scott Eizember on its “I (Almost) Got Away with It” series at 9 p.m. tonight. After Eizember’s girlfriend left him, he sought revenge with a violent spree that included attacking her family, murdering her...

Disney Channel and Disney XD have scheduled an open casting call in Austin, Texas, June 4 to look for promising new actors, actresses, singers and dancers ages 10-18 for upcoming series and movies. The open casting call registration and auditions will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 4 at the...

  CBS News will present a special town hall on the economy with Republican leaders hosted by CBS News’ “Face the Nation” anchor Bob Schieffer and “The Early Show” co-anchor Erica Hill. The town hall, conducted before a live audience at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., on June 13,...

  AMC’s Memorial Day War Heroes Weekend, a special programming event in celebration and remembrance of America’s bravest servicemen and women is set to air Friday through Monday. Tom Brokaw serves as host for the event, which features an AMC original short documentary series entitled...

  “Dexter’s” Lauren Vélez is guest starring in the season finale of “Breakout Kings,” which airs at 9 p.m. Monday, May 30, on A&E. The description of the show, provided by A&E, is as follows: Carmen Vega (Vélez), the ruthless queen of a drug cartel, pulls off a violent...

  Josh Gates will be traveling to the farthest corners of the earth for a fifth season of the Syfy series “Destination Truth,” with seven episodes scheduled to premiere on the network in early 2012. Production has begun on season five of the globetrotting investigating reality series and...

  The Academy Award-nominated Western “True Grit,” starring Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, and Matt Damon, is among the upcoming movies slated for release on Cox Cable’s Movies on Demand, according to a news release. “True Grit” will be accessible on Movies on Demand June 7, the...

  Tom Selleck is back in “Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost,” the seventh in the series of television movies based on characters in the collection of books written by the late Robert B. Parker. In this installment though, Stone is no longer police chief of the fictional town of Paradise,...

The May 14 wedding of Tishomingo residents and country music stars Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton is featured in the new issue of US Weekly magazine, which has exclusive details and photos of the event, according to a news release. Shelton is also a coach on NBC’s singing competition series...

  The CW has announced its 2011-12 primetime schedule today, which includes new shows starring Rachel Bilson, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Britt Robertson. In “Hart of Dixie,” Bilson stars as Doctor Zoe Hart, a sophisticated New York City woman who finds herself practicing medicine in a...

  Five new series have been ordered by CBS for the 2011-12 primetime season, while 19 shows will be returning. Information on the five new series, provided by CBS, is as follows: The new series include three new dramas and two new comedies: “Person of Interest,” a crime thriller from...

  To celebrate the fourth season premiere of “Leverage” coming up at 8 p.m. June 26 on TNT, the cast of the show visited the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City’s Times Square Tuesday, May 17, according to a news release. Cast members, shown above, including Christian Kane from Norman,...

“Will Rogers’ Romance with Betty and America,” a one-woman musical written and performed by Lynette Bennett, is set to air at 8 p.m. May 21 on OETA. Will Rogers’ story is told from the point of view of his wife Betty Blake Rogers, and in playing this role, Bennett reveals Betty’s...

  ABC has announced its 2011-12 primetime schedule in a news release today, and “Good Christian Belles,” which features Broken Arrow native Kristin Chenoweth as a co-star, is among the new series in the lineup. “Good Christian Belles” is described as a soap opera-type drama centering...

  NBC features six new dramas and six new comedies in its 2011-12 primetime schedule, with names behind them such as Steven Spielberg, Lorne Michaels, Brian Grazer, Tom Werner, John Grisham and Peter Berg. The new dramas are “Smash,” “Prime Suspect,” “The Playboy Club,”...

Fox announced its 2011-12 primetime schedule today, which includes “The X Factor” and “Terra Nova” making fall debuts. Singing competition “The X Factor” marks the return of Simon Cowell to Fox. Cowell will join Antonio “L.A”. Reid, Cheryl Cole and Paula Abdul as judges of a...

  CBS.com has launched the “Big Brother” “Ultimate Fan” sweepstakes, which allows fans to complete a series of online challenges for a chance to win a trip to the “Big Brother” house in Los Angeles. One lucky fan will win the ultimate “Big Brother” experience by getting to...

  There’s a campaign by Oklahoma City Thunder fans on Facebook calling for Ellen DeGeneres to “Thunder Up!” They are asking her to make the Thunder her #1 team and they want to make her their #1 Thunder Girl – and they want to see her dance! So far, there are 15,893 people who...

CBS and Warner Bros. Television have announced today that Ashton Kutcher will join the cast of “Two and a Half Men.” Kutcher joins Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Holland Taylor, Marin Hinkle and Conchata Ferrell on the series, which will begin production on its ninth season this summer for...

  Producers of “Karaoke Battle U.S.A.” will be presenting the biggest karaoke competition in America, Karaoke World Championships U.S.A., on the new show premiering at 9 p.m.  Aug. 8 on ABC, according to a news release. Qualifying contests at local venues are underway now and...