Planet Green, Access Hollywood to Roll Out New Series

SILVER SPRING, June 3:
Planet Green, Discovery Communications’ new 24/7 eco-friendly network launching
tomorrow, has teamed with the syndicated television program Access Hollywood for Hollywood Green with Maria Menounos.

The exclusive new one-hour
entertainment magazine-style series features Maria Menounos, a correspondent
for NBC’s Access Hollywood and
the Today show. The series will
launch on Wednesday, June 4, in a special time slot at 6 p.m., and will air in
its regular time slot beginning Thursday at 9 p.m. Hollywood Green with
Maria Menounos will highlight
green fashion trends and cover star-studded green events, featuring
up-to-the-minute Hollywood news on stars making green headlines in movies,
television, music and fashion.

Menounos is an actress in
movies and television, and can be seen this summer in Ben Stiller's Tropic
Thunder. She is also the founder
and executive director of the charity Take Action Hollywood! and is an
independent film producer. Additionally, she has hosted the NBC prime-time
series Clash of the Choirs.

Hollywood Green with
Maria Menounos is a production of
NBC Universal for Planet Green. Rob K. Silverstein is the executive producer
and Michael Soares is the broadcast producer. Howard Lee is the VP of
production and executive producer for Planet Green and Lisa Caruso is executive
producer.

—By Irene Lew