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Fall premiere schedule for The CW Network June 29, 2012 | Comment on this article

The CW Network has announced its fall primetime premiere schedule, beginning with the second season debut of “Hart of Dixie” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 2, according to a news release. The CW’s fall premiere lineup is as follows: TUESDAY, OCT. 2 7 p.m. “Hart of Dixie” (Season Premiere) WEDNESDAY,... Read More

Edmond dancer is Top 20 finalist on “So You Think You Can Dance”

June 28, 2012 The Top 20 finalists competing for America’s Favorite Male and Female Dancer on the current edition of the Fox reality competition series “So You Think You Can Dance” have been announced, and Edmond’s Audrey Case, 18, is among them. Case’s dance specialty is jazz and she can be followed on Twitter... Read More

OETA teams up with Oklahoma Conservation Partnership to launch Dust Bowl education project

June 28, 2012 OETA has teamed up with the Oklahoma Conservation Partnership to launch a statewide community engagement initiative to examine the history and lessons of Oklahoma’s experience of the Dust Bowl, according to a news release. The Oklahoma Conservation Partnership is made up of the Oklahoma Association of... Read More

“Strike Back”: Season 2 World Premiere at Comic-Con includes panel and screening for fans

June 28, 2012 Season 2 of the Cinemax action drama series “Strike Back” will make its world premiere for fans at San Diego’s Comic-Con 2012 preceding its August debut on the network. The series centers on stealth counterterrorism unit Section 20 as its members span the globe to eliminate potential threats.... Read More

Matt LeBlanc in “Episodes”: Second season brings many more laughs

June 27, 2012 Matt LeBlanc is back as Matt LeBlanc, sort of, in the second season of the comedy “Episodes,” premiering at 9:30 p.m. Sunday, July 1 on Showtime. LeBlanc, who won a Golden Globe Award for this role as a fictionalized version of himself, is absolutely hysterical and the show itself is equally amusing and... Read More

James Franco to debut on “Hollywood Heights” Friday

June 27, 2012 James Franco will make his debut on Nick at Nite’s primetime family drama “Hollywood Heights” at 8 p.m. Friday, June 29. Franco will appear in a multi-episode arc during the season as Osborne “Oz” Silver, an eccentric movie mogul who loves making films and lives life to the fullest, often... Read More

Kristin Chenoweth joins “The Good Wife” cast with recurring role

June 26, 2012 Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning actress, and Broken Arrow native, Kristin Chenoweth has been cast in a recurring role in the fourth season of “The Good Wife,” and will make her first appearance in September’s season premiere. Chenoweth will match wits with both Alicia and Peter in her role as a... Read More

“The Living Room with Gerry Bonds”: Water is featured topic in July edition of radio program

June 26, 2012 In July’s “The Living Room with Gerry Bonds” radio program, the spotlighted issue is water. Guests in the first segment of the show are the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Water Resources Board J.D. Strong and the Chairman of the Board for the Chickasaw Nation Neal McCaleb. The pair talk about the... Read More

Bill Geddie wins Lifetime Achievement Award at the 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards

June 25, 2012 Bill Geddie, executive producer of “The View” and co-producer of “The Barbara Walters Specials” was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards June 23 for his contributions in a 30-plus year career in the television industry as a writer, producer and... Read More

“The Good Wife”: Maura Tierney and Marc Warren join cast in recurring roles

June 25, 2012 Emmy Award nominee Maura Tierney (“ER”, “Rescue Me”) and British actor Marc Warren (“Wanted,” “Hustle”) will appear in recurring roles in the fourth season of the CBS drama “The Good Wife,” making their debut in the season premiere in September. Warren will play Kalinda’s (Archie... Read More

Charlie Sheen makes an adept return to television in “Anger Management”

June 25, 2012 Charlie Sheen is proficient in his return to primetime television in the new FX comedy “Anger Management,” which premieres with two back-to-back episodes at 8 and 8:30 p.m., Thursday, June 28. The series then moves to its regular timeslot at 8:30 p.m. Thursdays on FX. Sheen stars as “Charlie,” a... Read More

Connor Jessup: Actor’s role grows in “Falling Skies”

June 25, 2012 (This story was published in the Life section of The Oklahoman June 23, 2012.) Angst is often a trait that comes along with being a teen, and it’s likely to be even more prominent if you’re a teen living in a world that’s been decimated by aliens. Toronto native Connor Jessup, 18, talked during ... Read More

Lifetime picks up “Devious Maids” from Marc Cherry and ABC Studios

June 22, 2012 Lifetime has picked up the new drama “Devious Maids” from executive producer Marc Cherry (“Desperate Housewives”) and ABC Studios, ordering 13 episodes to premiere in 2013, according to a news release. A summary and production information on the series, provided by Lifetime, is as follows: Following... Read More

“The Walking Dead” Season 3 preview weekend to air July 7 and 8 on AMC

June 22, 2012 AMC will present “The Walking Dead” Season 3 Preview Weekend on Saturday, July 7 and Sunday, July 8 starting at 10:30 a.m. each day. The two-day television event will consist of a marathon of all 19 episodes from the show’s first two seasons, concluding with a “Talking Dead” live special at 8 p.m.,... Read More

Travel Channel to feature “Bizarre Foods Celebrates 100″ July 9

June 21, 2012 In commemoration of “Bizarre Foods America’s” 100th episode next month, the one-hour retrospective special “Bizarre Foods Celebrates 100″ will debut at 7 p.m. Monday, July 9 on Travel Channel. “Bizarre Foods America” host Andrew Zimmern and his team look back over six years and 100 episodes and... Read More

HBO’s “The Newsroom” delivers excellent television

June 20, 2012 “We don’t do good television, we do the news,” MacKenzie McHale (Emily Mortimer) quips in the new HBO drama “The Newsroom,” which debuts at 9 p.m. Sunday, June 24. MacKenzie has taken over as executive producer of the ACN cable network show “News Night,” hosted by Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels), in... Read More

“It’s a SpongeBob Christmas!” special to debut this holiday season

June 19, 2012 Nickelodeon will be airing its first full-length stop-motion animated special, “It’s a SpongeBob Christmas!” this holiday season. The program is inspired by the classic Rankin/Bass (“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reinder,” “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town”) specials as well as the popular SpongeBob song... Read More

Fox fall premiere dates announced

June 18, 2012 Fox has announced its 2012 fall season premiere dates, which include “The X Factor” kicking off a two-night season premiere event from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12 and from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, and “Glee” moving to Thursday nights at 8 p.m., according to a news release. Kate Hudson... Read More

“School Spirits” debuts June 20 on Syfy

June 18, 2012 Syfy is set to premiere the first of six one-hour episodes of its summer docu-series “School Spirits” at 9 p.m., Wednesday, June 20. The show features ghost stories from schools and universities from around the country, with each tale being told through first-person, eyewitness accounts of the students,... Read More

NBC sets dynamic fall season primetime premiere strategy

June 15, 2012 NBC is planning a fall premiere season built to capitalize on the network’s coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, the “America’s Got Talent” finale, and “The Voice’s” return, as well as Sunday Night Football, with most of the new fall series premiering in advance of the start of the season,... Read More

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