News Roundup: Left Behind & Fraggle Rock Movies; Hulu & Netflix Deals; More Game Shows

by Amy K. Bredemeyer

Renewals, Cancellations, & Scheduling:
Tomorrow night, catch Steve Jobs - One Last Thing on PBS.

Bob's Burgers now has an order for a 22-episode second season, rather than the 13 it was scheduled for.

FX renewed American Horror Story for a second season.

FOX has canceled In the Flow with Affion Crockett, after six episodes on Sunday nights. [yeah, I've never heard of this show...]

ABC is premiering a new game show, You Deserve It, on Monday, November 21st. Contestants play for someone they think deserves the money... by buying clues to solve puzzles.

NBC has a new game show coming December 19th. Who's Still Standing? will run for a week before moving to its regular slot on Monday, December 26th. It alerady runs in Spain and Hungary, and has eleven people answering trivia questions... when you get one wrong, you fall through a trapdoor. [NBC Entertainment Press Release]

TLC's Long Island Medium [nope, I've never heard of it, either] got renewed for a second season of 12 half-hour episodes premiering in March 2012.

Cast & Plot Updates:
Jennifer Coolidge will be a recurring cast member on 2 Broke Girls, playing a neighbor to Max and Caroline.

The Sister Wives family had their 17th child.

Shows in Development & Other Fun Stuff:
In 2012, Oxygen will have two new series, LA Style - behind-the-scenes of runways and red carpets, and The Eva Marcille Project - a "docusoap" about four female BFFs - a model/actress/producer, an actress, an interior designer, and a talent/brand manager. Both are working titles. [Oxygen Media Press Release]

Want to vote for X-Factor via twitter? Starting tomorrow, you can.

FX has ordered ten episodes of Anger Management, to star Charlie Sheen. If it does well, they will order NINETY MORE EPISODES.

NBC is going to do a Wiseguy reboot.

New Regency now has the rights to a Fraggle Rock film.

In Spring 2012, In Living Color will return to FOX for two half-hour specials, featuring new talent. If it does well, an entire season may be picked up.

FOX and DirecTV reached an agreement after a rough ten days.

The nine current CW shows are going to be licensed to Hulu for a five-year agreement. FOX, ABC, and NBC already do so.

Speaking of ABC-Disney, they've now got a deal with Netflix as well... episodes of new seasons from Disney-ABC shows will be available for Netflix streaming 30 days after the last episode of the season airs.

While it's more movie-related than television-related, I wanted to point out that Left Behind is returning to the theaters, but this time with a $15,000,000 budget and without Kirk Cameron.

Steve Sanders Sells Cosmetics; Teen Moms Profit

by Amy K. Bredemeyer

Okay, folks. I wanted to let you guys know that I'm now living in the Pacific Time Zone, so stuff may get posted at times more aligned with my new awake/asleep times, LoL. Now, I did collect some great bits of info over the weekend and I wanted to share those with you. :)

ABC's The Whole Truth was canceled, and most of the world probably heard it first from Twitter.

The DIY Network (yeah, I've never seen it, either) has given The Vanilla Ice Project a second season. This is really only interesting to me because the guy is in Port St. Lucie every now and then (the show focuses on his just-outside-Palm Beach estate)... my brother has seen him at Duffy's at least three times, LoL.

Ian Ziering (aka Steve from the original 90210) is now selling cosmetics. AND he hopes to start a reality show where he helps people come up with good marriage proposals, LoL.

Apparently Joan Rivers wanted that Snickers commercial that Betty White did for last year's SuperBowl. In fact, Joan called Betty a b!tch who is stealing work from her.

The folks over on Teen Mom make between $60,000 and $65,000 per season. Not a ton of money, and nowhere near the amount the Jersey Shore fools make, but they are pulling in some real dough. My question is, how much of Amber's portion actually goes to Gary, or how does that work, LoL??

Not that I've ever seen it, but HBO's Big Love will be starting its final season on January 16th.

CBS is starting another reality show, this time it's Live to Dance, and will feature Paula Abdul. Starts Tuesday, January 4th.

For some reason, TLC's Sister Wives got renewed for a second season. How have they not been arrested yet? Is polygamy no big deal anymore?

Whoa, whoa, whoa... Susan Boyle can now be called SuBo??!? Regardless, the woman is getting a guest spot on Glee's holiday episode.

Kung Fu Panda is going to be a balloon in this year's Macy*s!!

Who knows who is going to be receiving OWN, Oprah's new channel? But, for those who might be curious to learn more about it, there is now information available about the early programming plan. Don't forget, it goes live at noon on January 1st, 2011.

Three holiday episodes are coming for Minute to Win It. They're going to air on December 7th, 14th, and 21st. 8pm all three nights.

Cake Boss's mini-spin-off, Cake Boss: Next Great Baker, is going full force now. They've got 10 contestants to play the 8-week series of challenges, trying to win $50,000 and the chance to work with Buddy. It starts December 6th at 9pm.

Silly ABCFamily and their constant updates on ideas for television series. This time around it's developing something based on the 1998 film, Practical Magic. Apparently, this is not the first time somebody has tried to make a show out of this film-based-on-a-novel, but the last attempt never got off the ground.