LIVING Unveils Fall Lineup

LONDON, September 4:
Celebrating its 15th anniversary this month, LIVING has prepped a slate of new
series, including Lipstick Jungle,
Pop Goes the Band and The
Underdog Show, to join returning
hits such as America’s Next Top Model and Grey’s Anatomy in
its fall schedule.

New for the network,
LIVING has commissioned Four Weddings (working title), an entertainment series from ITV Productions. Living
with Boy George, from Giant Films,
is the latest in the Living with… strand
and sees the ’80s icon working on his struggles with addiction and releasing a
new single. The channel is also set to broadcast Living with Jane Goody and Living with Karl and Yvette Fielding.

LIVING2 acquired two new
shows: Queen Bees and She’s Got
the Look. From Endemol
International, Queen Bees watches
mean girls get an attitude adjustment. She’s Got the Look, from FremantleMedia Enterprises, is a modeling
competition show for women over 35.

Also on the roster are Dirty Dancing: The
Time Of Your Life, Conversations with a Serial Killer, Prom Queen and Most Haunted.

Claudia
Rosencrantz, LIVING’s director of programs, said: “Watching LIVING is like
opening a delicious box of chocolates, which flavor do you choose first? Happy
birthday LIVING, the original, and still the sparkliest, star in multichannel.”

She
continued: “LIVING's autumn schedule is literally bursting with guilty
pleasures. Our compelling new show Four Weddings delves into the bit we
all secretly enjoy about other people’s weddings—dissecting it in the car
on the way home! For the first time ever we go behind closed doors with Boy
George, and bring you the latest in the life of Jade Goody who we have been
filming over the past three months.
Then iconic pop bands go under the knife in Pop Goes the Band and The Underdog
Show is
just adorable. We have more fantastically outrageous U.S. reality and of course
all our fabulous returning series—LIVING has never shone more brightly.”

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski