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The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that they have acquired the film rights to writer Paul Tough's (HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED) New York Times Magazine article “A Speck in the Sea.” The piece, which ran as the magazine's cover story last Sunday, will be produced for the screen by Rachael Horovitz (Academy Award® nominated for MONEYBALL and Emmy and Golden Globe Winner for GREY GARDENS) along with Jason Blum and Harvey Weinstein. Bob Weinstein will executive produce the project, with TWC creative executive Julie Oh overseeing development.

“Switched at Birth” star Katie Leclerc (Daphne Vasquez) and “The Fosters” star Maia Mitchell (Callie Jacob) will participate in live chats via Twitter during the East Coast feeds of their series' Winter premiere episodes, airing on Monday, January 13, only on ABC Family.

“The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' have dominated the broadcast competition during the disrupted holiday week of Dec. 30-Jan. 3.

CBS announced today that the Fan Built “Five-0” initiative, where HAWAII FIVE-0 producers invite viewers to help build an episode to be broadcast later this season, has added additional key elements on CBS.com for fans to vote.

-Starz announced today that the anticipated second season of the historical fantasy 'Da Vinci's Demons,' an original series created by David S. Goyer, who most recently wrote the screenplay for Man of Steel and its untitled sequel as well as co-writer of The Dark Knight trilogy, will premiere on STARZ in the U.S. on Saturday, March 22nd at 9pm ET/PT. The ten-episode drama, produced by Adjacent Productions, follows the 'untold' story of the world's greatest genius, Leonardo da Vinci, during his turbulent youth during the Renaissance. Starz greenlit 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a second season following its record-setting first season weekend debut on STARZ on Friday April 12, 2013. Outside of the United States and English-speaking Canada, 'Da Vinci's Demons' is distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide, in partnership with FOX International Channels (FIC) who broadcasts the series to audiences in 125 countries in Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa following Starz's exclusive premiere in the U.S.

Known as playing Clark and Ellen Griswold in National Lampoon's 'VACATION' films, the pair are currently developing a comedy pilot at ABC for the 2015-16 season, according to Deadline.

“Days of our Lives” has delivered its biggest weeklong women 18-49 audience in more than two years and its biggest overall audience in nearly three years, reaching those peaks during the holiday week of Dec. 30-Jan. 3, according to “live plus same day” viewing figures for the week of Dec. 30-Jan. 3 from Nielsen Media Research.

BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL and The Young and the Restless enter the New Year on ratings roll, with both CBS Daytime dramas posting their largest weekly audiences in years, according to Nielsen ratings for the week ending Jan. 5.

NBC has announced premiere dates for five of its upcoming midseason series — comedies “About a Boy” and “Growing Up Fisher,” dramas “Believe” and “Crisis,” and alternative program “American Dream Builders.”

Comedy Central has posted a “humanimated” clip from Neal Brennan's new stand-up special, Neal Brennan: Women and Black Dudes. The short captures an animated retelling of Brennan describing how the president and the first lady commiserated with him over the cancellation of Chappelle's Show, the program he co-created. The “humanimated” clip offers a taste of Brennan's new stand-up special, which airs on Saturday, January 18th at midnight ET/PT. Check out the clip below!

Mike Judge ('Office Space,' 'Beavis & Butthead,' 'King of the Hill') brings his irreverent brand of humor to HBO in the new comedy series SILICON VALLEY. Partially inspired by Judge's own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late '80s, the show kicks off its eight-episode season SUNDAY, APRIL 6 (10:30-11:00 p.m. ET/PT).

DOLL & EM, a six-episode comedy series starring Emily Mortimer (HBO's 'The Newsroom') and Dolly Wells ('Bridget Jones's Diary'), will debut WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, presenting two half-hour episodes back-to-back, followed by two episodes on both of the subsequent Wednesdays, March 26 and April 2.

When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. Three years later, the new HBO drama series THE LEFTOVERS is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.

According to Deadline, PITCH PERFECT star Rebel Wilson has signed on to join Ben Stiller in NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 3.

The season premiere of VEEP and series premiere of SILICON VALLEY will follow the return of THRONES.

The Emmy-winning HBO drama series BOARDWALK EMPIRE will return for a fifth and final season this fall, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming.

Lifetime's newest fashion competition series, Under the Gunn (#UnderTheGunn), premieres January 16, 2014, at 9pm ET/PT. The series' Emmy(R) Award-winning host Tim Gunn selected three past Project Runway luminaries, Mondo Guerra, Anya Ayoung-Chee and Nick Verreos, to each lead a group of designers to fashion stardom. They will have to nurture and inspire their band of hopefuls week-after-week to ensure their designers' looks impress the program's judges, including designer Rachel Roy; celebrity stylist Jen Rade, creator of some of the most iconic red carpet looks in Hollywood; and TV fashion correspondent and Marie Claire Senior Fashion Editor Zanna Roberts Rassi. Under the Gunn will feature guest judges Heidi Klum, Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), musician Macklemore, actors Jaimie Alexander (Thor), Zoey Deutch (Vampire Academy), Zendaya (Disney Channel's Shake It Up), designers Georgina Chapman (co-founder of Marchesa) and Trina Turk, and costumer Wendy Partridge, and special appearance by Sarah Hyland (Modern Family, Vampire Academy).

During 2013, ABC Family's social media powerhouse, “Pretty Little Liars,” ranked as the year's #1 most-tweeted TV series for the 2nd-consecutive year, amassing 16.8 million total tweets by 2.5 million unique users, at an average 6.7 Tweets per user, demonstrating how engaged the series' viewers are. Further, the series nearly doubled its 2012 Tweet total, increasing by 93% (vs. 8.7 million).

Lifetime's critically-acclaimed hit series Devious Maids (#DeviousMaids, #DeviousArmy), returns for a second season on Sunday, April 20, at 10PM ET/PT. The series is executive produced by Marc Cherry and Eva Longoria, and stars Ana Ortiz, Dania Ramirez, Roselyn Sanchez, Edy Ganem and Judy Reyes as five maids with ambition and dreams of their own while working for the rich and famous in Beverly Hills. Longoria will direct the series' eagerly anticipated season two opener, marking her television directorial debut.

Rob Thomas' film, a project which broke records with its Kickstarter campaign in 2013, will premiere at this year's South by Southwest Festival, ahead of its limited theatrical release on March 14, it was announced today.