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MTV2 Unveils Its 2014 Programming Slate

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Rebecca Murray
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MTV 2014 Program Schedule
Lil Duval and Chris Distefano star in 'Ain't That America' (Photo Courtesy of MTV)

Jobs That Don’t Suck joins the 2014 lineup on MTV2 alongside Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘N Out, Guy Code, and Charlamagne and Friends. The network’s coming off its biggest ratings year to date, with 2013’s Ain’t That America with Lil Duval, Guy Code, Mac Miller and the Most Dope Family, Hip Hop Squares, and Nitro Circus Live now five of MTV2’s six highest-rated original shows in the network’s history.

Details on MTV2’s 2014 Schedule:

Ain’t That America with Lil Duval (premieres January 15 at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT):
In MTV2’s highest-rated original series of all-time, comedian Lil Duval and a panel of his funniest friends explore America’s biggest cultural traditions from camping and Christmas to parenting and pets through the most outrageous viral videos spanning across every social and geographic group in the country. The first season of Ain’t That America with Lil Duval ranked as the No. 1 original cable series in its time slot among P12-34.

Charlamagne and Friends (premieres January 15 at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT):
The series is hosted by Guy Code and Guy Court star Charlamagne tha God, who will be joined by a variety of friends, including artists, athletes and comedians, as they give their unfiltered opinions on the biggest music and pop culture stories. In the season premiere, Charlamagne will interview Ice Cube, Kevin Hart and Tika Sumpter of Ride Along.

Guy Code (premieres April 2014):
Guy Code is the ultimate guy’s guide to the laws of manhood, creating the ultimate playbook for all guys to follow. In the fourth season of Guy Code, the show will return its favorite cast members from the previous three seasons, as they revisit key topics with updated tips, insights, and intelligence.

Jobs That Don’t Suck (premieres April 2014):
MTV2’s brand new, half-hour comedy series is designed to help you find your dream job, by revealing how people – just like you – found theirs. Each week Andrew Schulz, Eddie Huang and Nessa hilariously guide viewers through the innovative ways that young Americans are getting rich by doing what they love. Viewers will meet millionaires, entrepreneurs, inventors, app developers, YouTube sensations, CEOs and even a few teenagers who have killer jobs, as they all reveal the secrets to their success.

Untitled Major League Baseball Series (premieres April 2014):
This new series will launch a multi-year programming partnership between MTV and the MLB, with the weekly show moving beyond game analysis, stats and highlights to showcase MLB athletes off the field, spotlighting the stars’ personalities and passions through a series of player interviews and features, in addition to celebrity appearances. The series will be shot in New York City from inside the MLB Fan Cave, MLB’s first-of-its-kind space that mixes baseball with music, pop culture, media, interactive technology, and art.

Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘N Out (premieres summer 2014):
Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘N Out mixes lightning fast comedic improv, head-to-head competition and cutting edge entertainment that’s more rap battle than comedic stage. The most recent season featured appearances from today’s hottest celebrities, including Mariah Carey and Kevin Hart, as well as musical performances from Mac Miller, A$AP Rocky, Macklemore, MGK and more.




Something’s Fishy About Nat Geo Wild’s New Show

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Rebecca Murray
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Nat Geo Fish Bowl

Nat Geo Wild has just made a major casting announcement for their new reality event, Fish Bowl. The four-hour event will star “Goldie,” a new player in the world of fish bowl antics. The golden-faced actress nabbed the lead role, creating a bit of controversy while doing so.

Geoff Daniels, EVP and General Manager of Nat Geo WILD, discussed the decision to hire an unknown in the lead role.

“Goldie showed such promise in early casting auditions that we felt confident in the aquatic wonder’s ability to entertain and captivate an audience, for four long hours, on a relatively young network, while the most-watched television event of the year just happens to be taking place,” explained Daniels.

Fish Bowl will premiere on Super Bowl Sunday, airing from 6pm to 10pm ET/PT on Nat Geo Wild.

Commenting on her casting, Goldie reportedly said, “I’m comfortable in my own scales and have no doubt the Fish Bowl will be the talk of the town.”

The Plot:

In the vein of other reality series, where the daily drama of a character’s life plays out in a “fishbowl” setting, Goldie will swim about her daily business in an actual fishbowl. Without filters and with remarkable candor, Goldie navigates through an average day in the life of a goldfish. When asked how this stacks up to her competition, Goldie offered, “Can Bruno Mars pack all of that into his halftime show? Right, I didn’t think so, blub, blurb, bubble.”




HBO Finally Releases a ‘Game of Thrones’ Season Four Trailer

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Rebecca Murray
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HBO recently announced the fourth season premiere date of the critically acclaimed, award-winning series Game of Thrones and now we finally get a look at actual clips from the upcoming season with this just-released trailer. It doesn’t look as though life has calmed down for any of the central characters in the series based on George R.R. Martin’s bestselling book series “A Song of Ice and Fire,” and I’d advise those who haven’t read the books to remember not to fall too much in love with any particular character. You’ve been warned.

Game of Thrones returns on April 6, 2014 at 9pm ET/PT.

‘Black Sails’ Promises a Different Type of Pirate Tale

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Rebecca Murray
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Behind the Scenes of Starz' Black Sails
Anne Bonny (Clara Paget); Billy Bones (Tom Hopper); Captain Charles Vane (Zach McGowan); Captain Flint (Toby Stephens); Eleanor (Hannah New); Gates (Mark Ryan); Idelle (Lise Slabber); Jack Rackham (Toby Schmidt); John Silver (Luke Arnold); Max (Jessica Parker Kennedy); and Mr.Scott (Hakeem Kae Kazim) in 'Black Sails' (Photo © 2014 Starz Entertainment)

What can audiences expect from the new action series Black Sails sailing onto the small screen on January 25th at 9pm ET/PT on STARZ? According to this new video promoting the upcoming premiere, Black Sails will feature a pirate world unlike most we’ve seen on television or in movies.

No one will have a parrot riding around on their shoulder and unlike some current television pirates or Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow, don’t expect the pirates of Black Sails to be wearing any guyliner.

The Plot:

The eight-episode first season of Black Sails centers on the tales of Captain Flint and his men. Toby Stephens (Die Another Day) stars as Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, who takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver. Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality.

First Look: ‘Outlander’ Trailer Starring Sam Heughan

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Rebecca Murray
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Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser in 'Outlander'
Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser in 'Outlander' (Photographer: Ed Miller Courtesy of © 2014 Sony Pictures Television Inc.)

Ronald D. Moore’s epic new series Outlander will make its debut on Starz this summer, and the network is now ready to show off the first official trailer. Based on Diana Gabaldon’s bestselling book series, Outlander stars Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Tobias Menzies, Gary Lewis, Graham McTavish, Duncan Lacroix, Lotte Verbeek, and Nell Hudson.

The Plot:

The Outlander series spans the genres of romance, science fiction, history, and adventure in one epic tale. It follows the story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie Fraser, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire’s heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

Watch the trailer:

‘Better Call Saul,’ ‘Mad Men’ Get 2014 Premiere Dates

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Rebecca Murray
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Better Call Saul Bob Odenkirk
Bob Odenkirk stars in ‘Better Call Saul’ (Photo © 2014 AMC)

The Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul starring Bob Odenkirk will debut on AMC in November. The new series will focus on Saul Goodman (Odenkirk) in the years before he became Walter White’s lawyer.

AMC also revealed that Mad Men‘s final season’s first half will kick off on April 13, 2014 at 10pm ET/PT.

And AMC has set an April 6th at 9pm ET/PT time slot for the premiere of the new spy thriller Turn. The new drama takes place during the Revolutionary War and centers on the “untold story of America’s first spy ring.” Turn will premiere with a special 90-minute episode.

The network’s 1980s-set series Halt and Catch Fire will get a summer start, joining the network’s lineup in June. Per the official announcement, Halt and Catch Fire “captures the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, during which an unlikely trio – a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy – take staggering personal and professional risks in the race to build a computer that will change the world.” Meanwhile, AMC says the critically acclaimed Western Hell on Wheels will be back for season four this summer.

The Walking Dead‘s current season is back with new episodes on Sunday, February 9th at 9pm ET/PT. Season five of the zombie apocalypse series will premiere in October.

The unscripted series Game of Arms debuts on February 25th at 10pm.

“We are extremely excited about the 2014 line-up,” said Charlie Collier, AMC President and General Manager. “Both the returning and new series reflect our commitment to serving passionate audiences with compelling, character-driven story-telling.”




‘Da Vinci’s Demons’ Season 2 Premiere Date and First Look Video

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Rebecca Murray
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Da Vinci's Demons Second Season Details
Tom Riley as Leonardo Da Vinci in 'Da Vinci’s Demons' (Photo © 2013 ADJACENT, LLC.)

Starz will be premiering season two of the dramatic series Da Vinci’s Demons on March 22, 2014 at 9pm ET/PT. Starring Tom Riley as Leonardo da Vinci, the series debuted in 2013 to Starz’ highest numbers for a first season premiere. Created by David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight trilogy screenwriter, Man of Steel writer), Da Vinci’s Demons‘ second season will consist of ten new episodes.

The cast also includes Laura Haddock as Lucrezia Donati; Elliot Cowan as the de factor ruler of Florence, Lorenzo Medici; Lara Pulver as Clarice Orsini; and Blake Ritson as the ruthless and unwavering Count Girolamo Riario, nephew of Pope Sixtus IV.

The Plot: Brilliant and passionate, the 25-year- old Leonardo da Vinci is an artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer, and idealist. As a free thinker, with intellect and talents that are almost superhuman, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time.

Season two of Da Vinci’s Demons finds Florence thrown into chaos in the wake of the Pazzi conspiracy. Lorenzo is gravely ill and Leonardo da Vinci must push the limits of his mind and body to defend the city against the forces of Rome. While the Medicis go to unthinkable lengths to deal with new threats, da Vinci continues on his quest to find the fabled Book of Leaves and uncover the secret history of his mother.

He’ll come to realize that he has lethal competition in his quest — new enemies who may be even worse than the forces of Pope Sixtus. His search will take him to faraway lands and force him to reevaluate everything he knew about the world and his own history.

Watch the trailer:





‘Dallas Buyers Club’ – Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner Videos

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Rebecca Murray
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Jared Leto Wins Virtuosos Award
Jared Leto and Matthew McConaughey star in 'Dallas Buyers Club' (Photo Credit: Anne Marie Fox / Focus Features)

Focus Features has just released twp new featurettes in support of the critically acclaimed, award-nominated drama Dallas Buyers Club. Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, and Jennifer Garner discuss getting into their characters in these new videos.

The Plot:

Matthew McConaughey stars in Dallas Buyers Club as real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. These were the early days of the AIDS epidemic, and the U.S. was divided over how to combat the virus. Ron, now shunned and ostracized by many of his old friends, and bereft of government-approved effective medicines, decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal.

Bypassing the establishment, the entrepreneurial Woodroof joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts – who he once would have shunned – and established a hugely successful “buyers’ club.” Their shared struggle for dignity and acceptance is a uniquely American story of the transformative power of resilience.

Construction Begins on Disney’s ‘Avatar’-Inspired Land

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Rebecca Murray
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Construction Begins on Avatar Land at Disney Park
Using Na'vi-inspired shovels (left to right) Joe Rohde, creative executive, Walt Disney Imagineering; Bruce Vaughn, chief creative executive of Walt Disney Imagineering; Jon Landau, AVATAR producer and Tom Staggs, chairman, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts celebrated the ceremonial groundbreaking for the largest expansion in Disney’s Animal Kingdom history. (Photo Courtesy of Disneyland)

It’s official: construction is now underway on the brand new Avatar-inspired land at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Inspired by James Cameron’s blockbuster film, the new land marks the biggest expansion in Animal Kingdom’s history. The Avatar land is being designed by James Cameron and Lightstorm Entertainment along with Walt Disney Imagineering.

Per the Disney Parks blog: “The area […]will be unlike anything ever experienced at a Disney park. Guests will experience the wonders of Pandora when they fly with banshees and explore a rich natural environment with mountains that float and interactive plants that glow at night.”

“Disney’s Animal Kingdom is already home to some of our guests’ favorite attractions,” said Tom Staggs, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. “With Avatar, we are adding a spectacular new world and an exciting set of attractions unlike any our guests have experienced. The expansion now under way will make the park a true full-day, must-see experience.”

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New Clip: ‘I, Frankenstein’ “Summon” Video

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Rebecca Murray
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Aaron Eckhart stars in this new short clip from the action horror movie I, Frankenstein arriving in theaters on January 24, 2014. The clip finds Eckhart as ‘Adam’ revealing a plot against humanity.

Directed by Stuart Beattie, the cast also includes Bill Nighy, Yvonne Strahovski, Miranda Otto, Jai Courtney, Socratis Otto, Mahesh Jadu, Caitlin Stasey, and Aden Young as Victor Frankenstein.

I, Frankenstein
Aaron Eckhart stars as ‘Adam’ in I, FRANKENSTEIN. (Photo credit: Ben King / Lionsgate Films)

The Plot:

Set in a dystopic present where vigilant gargoyles and ferocious demons rage in a battle for ultimate power, Victor Frankenstein’s creation Adam (Aaron Eckhart) finds himself caught in the middle as both sides race to discover the secret to his immortality.

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