Fast forward seven month later, both shows are not doing well and they decided to put Jay Leno back at his old time slot and move Conan and The Tonight Show to after midnight. Conan decided that isnt cool to move “The Tonight Show” too after midnight and the funniest begins. The Tonight show has came on right after the news in The South for as long as I can remember. It would be crazy to have The Tonight show basically tomorrow.

Thats as much as I understand. I dont think its fair to ask someone to have the same ratings in seven months that took someone 17 years to build. Thats just my opinion. I AM TEAM COCO all the way. The only thing NBC has going for them is Law and Order and that is it.

Who’s side are you on and why?

Who knew that Pep was freaky cougar? Well we all know now. Ol’ buddy with the juicy curl that caught on fire during that hot tub action you also receive a standing O from me from bouncing back. It takes a lot of game to bounce back from having your hair catch on fire. LOL.

Anways I have my new guilty pleasure on Mondays now. Le Sigh.

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Press Release

Sandra ‘Pepa’ Denton and Three of Her Closest Friends Search for Mr. Right in the Big Apple

New VH1 Original Series “Let’s Talk About Pep” Premieres Monday, January 11
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ — “Let’s Talk About Pep” is a real-life comedy following Sandra “Pepa” Denton of Salt-n-Pepa fame as she emerges from an over four-year romantic and sexual sabbatical to search for love again.
After being burned by bad boys one too many times, Pep decided to get out of the game for a while. She thought maybe clearing her head and going celibate would cause “The One” to magically appear. Guess what? It didn’t! Now Pep is joining forces with three of her closest girlfriends — all single and searching, too — to try the dating scene again. Together the four friends will laugh, cry and dish lots of dirt as they all try to find true love.
VH1’s new original series, “Let’s Talk About Pep” is set to premiere Monday, January 11th at 10:30PM ET/PT. We’ll get to know Pepa’s partners in crime: TV personality and journalist Jacque Reid, who’s entertaining the notion of trying motherhood alone until Mr. Right comes along; Joumana Kidd, former model and sports journalist, now returning to the dating scene after her highly-publicized divorce from basketball superstar Jason Kidd; and the wild child of the bunch, voiceover artist and radio personality Kali Troy (a.k.a. “Kittie”), on the hunt for a man who’s man enough to keep up with her.
While potential suitors range in age and occupation, the ladies are at a similar place in their lives: All have achieved success in their professional ventures but lack that partner to share it with. Of course they each have very different strategies for finding the perfect guy. But “Let’s Talk About Pep” isn’t just about the dating game — it’s about the ties that bind these girlfriends together. No matter how they fare in sex and romance, they’ve always got each other.
Watch their stories unfold when “Let’s Talk About Pep” premieres Monday, January 11th, 2010 at 10:30 PM ET/PT on VH1.
“Let’s Talk About Pep” is executive produced by Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman and Brian Nashel for Left/Right, as well as Sandra “Pepa” Denton and Cheryl “Salt” Wray. Jeff Olde, Shelly Tatro, Danielle Gelfand and Kari McFarland oversee the series for VH1.
VH1 connects viewers to the music, artists and pop culture that matter to them most with TV series, specials, live events, exclusive online content and public affairs initiatives. VH1 is available in 95 million households in the U.S. VH1 also has an array of digital channels and services including VH1Classic, VH1 Soul, VH1 Mobile, VH1Games and extensive broadband video on VH1.com. Connect with VH1 at VH1.com.

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Enter Scripps Network Interactive, owner of HGTV and The Food Network,  and Cablevision. They could not agree on this price so all Cablevision subscribers lost the two networks. The real loser is the customers on Cablevision who love these networks.

So imagine if the content provider and cable provider were the same company. Would these Cable Networks get sweetheart deals regarding premium rates or would non company owned networks get the short end of the stick or will both happen and your cable bill go up? Enter Comcast and NBC. The government needs to seriously look into this upcoming deal.

As you can tell by reading their press releases they are not friends

Statement Issued by Scripps Networks Interactive
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Cablevision simply is not telling the truth.
Scripps Networks Interactive has been trying to have productive negotiations with Cablevision for more than six months, but to no avail. Repeated requests to sit down together to discuss a fair market price for our networks have been rejected – even as recently as Sunday afternoon.
Cablevision is trying to characterize our rate increases as exorbitant and our negotiating strategies as unusual or unethical.
Yet, every other cable and satellite provider in the country has willingly and professionally renegotiated a fair market rate for the rights to carry these popular networks. That’s why both networks can still be seen on every other cable, satellite and telecom system in the country except Cablevision. Under our current contracts, Cablevision pays us about 25 cents per subscriber for the combination of Food Network and HGTV. That combined rate is substantially lower than rates earned by other, individual top 10 cable networks and considerably less than rates Cablevision pays itself for less popular networks that it owns.
True, short-term contract extensions are often granted, but only when the two parties are engaged in productive negotiations and there has been substantive agreement between them. Cablevision’s offer was take-it-or-leave-it, and would still make Food Network – a Top 10 network – one of the lowest paid channels on its lineup.
We regret deeply the interruption of service for Cablevision customers who rely on us for quality programming, but we hope and trust that they understand that Cablevision can’t get something for nothing. Let’s be clear, we have been and remain ready and willing to negotiate. But until they will step forward in good faith, it’s Cablevision that’s holding their customers hostage.
SOURCE Scripps Networks

Cablevision Statement Regarding Scripps Networks’ Programming
BETHPAGE, N.Y., Jan. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — “Cablevision offered Scripps the ability to continue delivering HGTV and Food Network to our customers while we negotiated a new agreement. This is common practice in the cable industry, and such an extension occurred in the recent dispute between Time Warner Cable and the Fox Network, and in Scripps’ own negotiations with Time Warner Cable. But instead, with virtually no warning, Scripps took the extraordinary step of flipping a switch and removing its channels from Cablevision – effectively holding their own viewers hostage in order to pursue a more than 200 percent fee increase from Cablevision and our customers. The channels where HGTV and Food Network appeared on Cablevision remain available, and if Scripps really cared about their viewers Scripps could put their programming back while we negotiate a new agreement. We believe it was irresponsible for Scripps to take the channels off, and it is irresponsible for them not to put the channels back on.”
SOURCE Cablevision Systems Corp.

Official Press Release

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ — Before Taylor Swift even enters her 20s, she adds four CMA Awards to her collection, winning Entertainer, Female Vocalist, Album and Music Video of the Year at “The 43rd Annual CMA Awards,” which aired live on the ABC Television Network and before a sold-out crowd at the Sommet Center in Downtown Nashville.

By winning Entertainer of the Year, 19-year-old Swift is the youngest performer to ever win the honor and the first female to win since Shania Twain in 1999. “I’ll never forget this moment,” an emotional Swift said, “because at this moment everything that I have ever wanted just happened to me.”

Accepting the Female Vocalist Award, Swift poked fun at her famed Kanye West interruption experience: “I want to thank every single person here tonight for not running up on stage during this speech.”

Fearless, Swift’s five-time Platinum sophomore release, produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman, was named Album of the Year. “This album is my diary, and so for all the people who voted for it, thank you for saying you like my diary,” Swift said. “The fans, you made this album into what it is.”

In the pre-telecast ceremony, Swift picked up the Music Video of the Year Award for “Love Story,” her Jane Austen-inspired fairytale directed by Trey Fanjoy.

Swift kicked off “Country Music’s Biggest Night” with “Forever & Always” from Fearless. Later in the broadcast, Swift, with only her guitar and surrounded by former classmates, performed new current single “Fifteen.”

Second-time hosts Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood summed up the night in their opening remarks: “What makes Country Music the biggest and best music in the world?” asked Underwood. “Well, Carrie, it’s the songs,” Paisley replied.

Top nominee Paisley picked up his third consecutive Male Vocalist Award and fourth Musical Event of the Year for “Start A Band” with Keith Urban. Those Awards bring Paisley’s career CMA Awards total to 13. He performed his recent No. 1 hit “Welcome to the Future” from his nominated album American Saturday Night.

After winning New Artist of the Year in 2008, Lady Antebellum’s momentum didn’t slow down in 2009. The trio picked up two Awards, the Vocal Group and Single of the Year for “I Run To You,” produced by Victoria Shaw and Paul Worley. “I’d like to thank my two best friends I get to do this with every day of my life,” Hillary Scott said about her partners Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood. “That was a complete shock that was not expected,” Kelley said backstage. “We’ve got a lot left to prove.” The group performed “Need You Now,” from their forthcoming sophomore album.

Sugarland picked up their third consecutive Vocal Duo of the Year Award, giving thanks to 14-time Vocal Duo Brooks & Dunn, who announced they were disbanding in 2010. “Thank you for what you’ve done for us and thank you for what you’ve done for Country Music,” Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles said to Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn. “It’s an honor to be nominated in your category.”

Soon after Sugarland performed the poignant ballad “Keep You,” Brooks & Dunn tore the place down with Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top performing “Honky Tonk Stomp.”

Winning the coveted New Artist of the Year, Darius Rucker thanked the people who “took a chance on a pop singer from Charleston, S.C. God bless y’all for that.” Earlier, Rucker performed “Alright,” his third consecutive No. 1 hit from his debut Country album Learn to Live.

Jamey Johnson picked up his second CMA Song of the Year Award for “In Color” co-written with James Otto and Lee Thomas Miller. “I never thought y’all would even let me come to stuff like this,” Johnson joked. “Thank you for listening to my music and letting me do what I do.” Johnson won Song in 2007 for George Strait’s “Give It Away” with Bill Anderson and Buddy Cannon. Johnson teamed with Kid Rock to perform “Between Jennings and Jones.”

Urban, who won his first Musical Event of the Year Award with Paisley in the pre-telecast ceremony, offered the pensive new single, “‘Til Summer Comes Around.” Four-time nominee Strait performed his latest hit, the title track from his Album,Twang.

Country Music Hall of Fame 2009 inductee and two-time CMA Entertainer of the Year Barbara Mandrell was feted by Female Vocalist nominee Martina McBride and Strait, who dueted on Mandrell’s signature hit “I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool.”

The Female Vocalist nominees proved that the ladies of Country Music are some of the strongest performers in all music.Miranda Lambert offered “White Liar” off of her third album Revolution, and Reba McEntire performed “Consider Me Gone” from her latest album Keep on Loving You. Underwood, who currently has the No. 1 album and single in the nation, performed that single “Cowboy Casanova” with a bevy of back-up dancers.

In one of the many exciting collaborations of the evening, rock band Daughtry was joined by 18-time CMA Awards winnerVince Gill for a stripped down performance of “Tennessee Line” from Daughtry’s album Leave This Town.

Four-time Entertainer of the Year Kenny Chesney performed the duet “I’m Alive” with Dave Matthews.

Other noteworthy performances included Jason Aldean with his No. 1 “Big Green Tractor” and superstar Tim McGraw’sreturn to the CMA Awards stage after four years, performing “Southern Voice,” the title track from his latest album. Multiple-nominee Zac Brown Band did a rousing rendition of Charlie Daniels Band’s “Devil Went Down to Georgia.” Fellow Georgian Billy Currington performed the Single and Song of the Year-nominated “People Are Crazy.”

CMA Awards presenters included Dale Earnhardt Jr.; stars of ABC’s “The Middle” Neil Flynn and Patricia Heaton; Faith Hill and husband McGraw; Julianne Hough; nominee Randy Houser; nine-time Awards winners The Judds; Kid Rock; Country Music Hall of Fame member Kris Kristofferson; nominee Jake Owen; Kellie Pickler; LeAnn Rimes; ABC News’Robin Roberts, co-anchor of “Good Morning America”; and six-time CMA Awards winner Lee Ann Womack. Love and Theft hosted the Pre-Telecast Awards.

The winners of “The 43rd Annual CMA Awards” are:

    ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR
    Taylor Swift

    MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
    Brad Paisley

    FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
    Taylor Swift

    VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR
    Lady Antebellum

    VOCAL DUO OF THE YEAR
    Sugarland

    NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
    Darius Rucker

    ALBUM OF THE YEAR
    Fearless
    Taylor Swift
    Produced by Nathan Chapman and Taylor Swift
    Big Machine Records

    SINGLE OF THE YEAR
    "I Run To You"
    Lady Antebellum
    Produced by Victoria Shaw and Paul Worley
    Capitol Records Nashville

    SONG OF THE YEAR
    "In Color"
    Written by Jamey Johnson, Lee Thomas Miller and James Otto

    MUSICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR
    "Start A Band"
    Brad Paisley (duet with Keith Urban)
    Arista Nashville

    MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR
    "Love Story"
    Taylor Swift
    Directed by Trey Fanjoy

    MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR
    Mac McAnally - Guitar

In 1958, CMA was the first trade organization formed to promote a type of music. Its membership includes nearly 6,000 companies and music industry professionals around the globe.

“The 43rd Annual CMA Awards” is a production of the Country Music Association. Robert Deaton is the Executive Producer, Paul Miller is the Director, and David Wild is the writer. The special will be shot in high definition and broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC’s selected HDTV format, with 5.1 channel surround sound.

Premiere Radio Networks is the official radio packager of the CMA Awards. American Airlines is the official airline of the 2009 CMA Awards. Chevy: The Official Ride of Country Music.

SOURCE Country Music Association

Photos provided courtesy of Country Music Awards

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Morena Baccarin info from IMDB.com

Daughter of Vera Setta.

Attended The Juilliard School

Raised in New York City

One of four actors from “Firefly” (2002) who voiced superheroes on “Justice League” (2001). She voiced “Black Canary” while Adam Baldwin voiced “Hal Jordan, the Silver Age Green Lantern”, Nathan Fillion voiced “The Vigilante” and Gina Torres voiced “Vixen”.

Was Maid of Honor at her Firefly/Serenity co-star Jewel Staite’s wedding in Maui in 2003.

Her mother, Vera Setta, played a character named “Morena” in the movie O Vampiro de Copacabana (1976) in 1976, three years before her daughter “Morena” was born.

Niece of Ivan Setta.

About V from tv.com

When UFOs place themselves over major cities around the world the Visitors claim to come in peace, providing humanity with medical miracles and technological breakthroughs, while different characters become suspicious of the ‘V’s (visitors) real intentions and try to investigate what is really going on before it is too late so they can claim Victory (V)!

Based on the original 1980s miniseries about alien lizards visiting Earth, this ABC sci-fi project is the brainchild of The 4400 co-creator/exec producer Scott Peters

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By Lynette Rice

updated 7:19 p.m. CT, Wed., Nov . 4, 2009
Roland Emmerich, the director/producer of the apocalyptic film “2012” (opening Nov. 13), confirmed to EW exclusively that a small-screen version of the end-of-the-world movie is already in the works. Emmerich said there was “plenty to do in a TV show” and that “2012” executive producer Howard Gordon — who’s also an exec producer on TV shows like “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Private Practice” — would be attached.

“The plan is that it is 2013 and it’s about what happens after the disaster,” Emmerich told EW while walking the red carpet for the “2012” premiere Tuesday. “It is about the resettling of Earth. That is very, very fascinating. (“2012” writer/producer) Harold Kloser and I came up with the idea and we have the luxury of having a producer on the film who is a big TV producer, Mark Gordon. We said to Mark, ‘Why don’t you do a TV show that picks up where the movie leaves off and call it 2013?’ I think it will focus on a group of people who survived but not on the boats … maybe they were on a piece of land that was spared or one that became an island in the process of the crust moving. There are so many possibilities of what they could do and I’d be excited to watch it.”

Word in Hollywood is that Gordon has already entered talks with ABC to develop the disaster drama. Though Gordon wouldn’t confirm this, he did tell EW that ABC “will have an opening in their disaster-related programming after ‘Lost’ ends” (An ABC spokeswoman declined to comment). “I think people would be interested in this topic on a weekly basis,” Gordon said, who also attended Tuesday’s premiere. “There’s hope for the world despite the magnitude of the 2012 disaster as seen in the film. After the movie, there are some people who survive and the question is how will these survivors build a new world and what will it look like. That might make an interesting TV series.”

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Added Emmerich, “The movie talks about the varied reactions people have in the face of disaster and who should survive and how we carry on and what parts of our culture do we save. The TV show could carry on all that.”

With reporting from Carrie Bell.