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LOS ANGELES: Lifetime is scheduled to premiere the scripted movie Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret and the documentary Jodi Arias: Beyond the Headlines, focused on Jodi Arias’ murder trial. Starring Tania Raymonde (Lost) and Jesse Lee Soffer (The Mob Doctor), Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret tells the story of the 28-year-old woman …

BURBANK: The final unaired episodes of Don’t Trust The B—- in Apartment 23 are now available in their entirety through WATCH ABC on ABC.com, the WATCH ABC Player for the iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and Kindle Fire, Hulu and iTunes. The show, a Twentieth Century Fox Television production, was previously cancelled …

NEW YORK: Deborah Turness, who formerly served as editor for ITV News, has been named president of NBC News.  Turness joins a team that includes Mark Hoffman, the president of CNBC, and Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC, as part of the NBCUniversal News Group, reporting to Pat Fili-Krushel, the chairman of …

BEVERLY HILLS: HBO has scored the most nominations for the third annual Critics’ Choice Television Awards, with 21 nods, followed closely by FX, which landed 19. The most-nominated series are The Big Bang Theory and American Horror Story: Asylum, with six each. Parks and Recreation and Top of the Lake …

REDMOND: Microsoft has unveiled the all-in-one gaming and entertainment system Xbox One, which will feature exclusive content such as an original live-action series produced by Steven Spielberg based on the Halo franchise. The new console promises to put games, TV, movies, music, sports and Skype all together in one device. …

LOS ANGELES: CBS has placed an order for the single-camera comedy Bad Teacher, based on the feature film of the same name, for the 2013-14 season. Ari Graynor will star in the series, playing an inappropriate and unapologetic former trophy wife who becomes a teacher in order to find a …

NEW YORK: FX is piloting the comedy The Comedians, starring Billy Crystal, which is based on a Swedish format of the same name. The Comedians comes from showrunners Larry Charles (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm), Matt Nix (Burn Notice) and Ben Wexler (Community, Arrested Development). The show will see Crystal portraying a …

LOS ANGELES: The Lifetime original movie Anna Nicole, which stars Agnes Bruckner as the late cultural icon Anna Nicole Smith, is to make its debut on June 29. The TV movie will explore the sordid details that created this infamous persona. It will chart her early days as a high school …

NEW YORK: USA Network has given the go-ahead for the new original half-hour pilot Divide & Conquer, which comes on the heels of the network making its first comedy pickups, for Sirens and Playing House. Divide & Conquer is a comedy about a family with four children who are all …

LOS ANGELES: CMT has scored a multi-year agreement with Debmar-Mercury to become the exclusive cable home for off-network episodes of Hell’s Kitchen. Produced by ITV Studios America, the show has aired on FOX since 2005. It is based on the successful British short-run series of the same name. Hell’s Kitchen debuts …