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In its second year televising the entire BCS, ESPN's two January 2 Bowl Championship Series telecasts - the Rose Bowl Game Presented by VIZIO and the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl - combined for a four percent audience increase over 2011. The two games averaged a 9.4 overnight rating, according to Nielsen, vs. a 9.0 for the two contests last year, played on January 1.

Disney Channel's popular show WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE will premiere its series finale on Friday, January 6th. In the finale, viewers will finally learn which of the Russo siblings will become the family wizard.

SOAPnet continues to celebrate the start of 2012 with a THE LYING GAME Marathon, featuring the first 10 episodes from the hit ABC Family series. In addition, the January 2nd winter premiere episode will be broadcast. The marathon airs on Sunday, January 8, 2012 from 10AM - 9PM EST/PST.

Lucy Hale ('Pretty Little Liars') and Megan Park ('The Secret Life of the American Teenager') star in the television world premiere of A CINDERELLA STORY: ONCE UPON A SONG. The two-hour movie premieres on ABC Family January 22, 2012 at 8pm ET/PT. 'A Cinderella Story: Once Upon A Song' marks the third installment of the successful franchise. The second movie, 'Another Cinderella Story,' is ABC Family's No. 2 original movie of all time.

As first reported on TVline.com, legendary singer and actress Liza Minnelli will guest star on an upcoming episode of TV Land's hit comedy series, 'Hot in Cleveland'.

According to the Hollywoodreporter.com, TV mogel Simon Cowell will be returning to the British talent competition 'Britain's Got Talent' in the Spring.

Actor Daniel Radcliffe will be among the upcoming guests of NBC's LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON for the weeks of January 3 - 13th.

CBS began the New Year with a Monday win against broadcast competition, winning every half-hour in viewers and key demographics, according to Nielsen preliminary live plus same day ratings for January 2nd.

On the New Year's holiday Monday with the season opener of THE BACHELOR and a special preview of Celebrity Wife Swap, ABC earned a solid second place to CBS' original lineup, beating out NBC's original schedule by wide margins with Total Viewers (+41%) and Adults 18-49 (+41%). ABC finished #1 on the night among Women 18-34.

Snooki, the Situation and the rest head 'Back to Jersey' in the new season of MTV's JERSEY SHORE, premiering January 6TH. The cast of MTV's hit reality series have ditched the balmy climate of Miami for their spiritual home of Seaside Heights. MTV has unveiled the official trailer for the new season, and from the look of things, it's going to be quite the homecoming.

Academy award-nominated actor Gary Busey will be featured on tonight's premiere episode of ABC's CELBRITY WIFE SWAP. On the new series, five celebrity couples - including an evangelical pastor, a rapper, a rocker, a professional wrestler and award-winning singers and actors will put a new spin on the critically-acclaimed reality series, 'Wife Swap,' in CELEBRITY WIFE SWAP premiering TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012 (9:00-10:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

HISTORY and the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) are teaming up to introduce America to one of history's original extreme sports: jousting. The partnership will bring live jousting exhibitions to Professional Bull Riders events in New York and Anaheim, Calif., in January as part of the promotional run-up to the launch of HISTORY's new series, FULL METAL JOUSTING, premiering Sunday, February 12 at 10 p.m.

LILYHAMMER, a gripping fish-out-of-water story set in Norway and starring 'The Sopranos' mainstay and E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt, is a new Original Series premiering on Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) to watch instantly on February 6, 2012 in the USA, Canada and Latin America.

ION Television announced today it is renewing its original police drama FLASHPOINT for a fifth season. The network is picking up 13 more episodes, set to begin shooting in February 2012. The announcement was made today by Brandon Burgess, CEO, ION Media Networks.

EWonline reports that the Fox reality series SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE may be changing its format for its upcoming season and axing the 'results show' portion of the competition.

The first trailer has been released for the upcoming sci-fi romance UPSIDE DOWN. The film is written and directed by Juan Diego Solanas and produced by French company Studio 37, Onyx Films and Montreal's Transfilm through its local branch of Warner Bros. It is set to be released in theaters sometime in 2012. Starring Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst, the film is about a man searching an alternate universe for a long-lost love from his youth.

A new TV spot has just been released for THE WOMAN IN BLACK, coming to theaters on February 3, 2012. The horror thriller was written by Jane Goldman and directed by James Watkins. It stars HOW TO SUCCEED's Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds, Liz White, Janet McTeer, Alisa Khazanova, Tim McMullan, Roger Allam, Daniel Cerqueira, Shaun Dooley, Mary Stockley, Cathy Sara, David Burke, Victor McGuire and Lucy May Barker.

MTV's hit hidden camera show PUNK'D will be returning on March 19th with a different celebrity host each week. The cable network has recently announced that celebrity guest hosts will include Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Kellan Lutz, Bam Margera and Dax Shepard.

OVER THE HEDGE, featuring the voices of Bruce Willis, Gary Shandling, Wanda Sykes, Steve Carell, William Shatner, Thomas Hayden Church and Nick Nolte, airs as the "ABC Saturday Movie of the Week," JANUARY 21 (8:00-10:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network. The 2006 film will be broadcast in HDTV format with 5.1-channel surround sound.

WORST COOKS IN AMERICA, the hit primetime competition series that turns hopeless cooks into confident kitchen mavens, returns for a third season with two-time undefeated series champion Anne Burrell challenged by superstar chef Bobby Flay on Sunday, February 12th at 9pm ET/PT.