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TV Legend Wins Award For Outstanding Performance – By A Female Actor In A Comedy Series

New York, NY, January 30, 2012 – Betty White received top acting honors at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® last night at The Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center, winning Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series for her role as Elka in the TV Land original sitcom, “Hot in Cleveland.” This is White’s second win for her role on the series as she won the SAG Award® in the same category last year.

“Hot in Cleveland” is the network’s critically-acclaimed hit starring beloved actresses Valerie Bertinelli (“One Day at a Time”), Jane Leeves (“Frasier”), Wendie Malick (“Just Shoot Me”) and Emmy® Award-winner, Betty White (“The Golden Girls”). The show is currently in its third season and airs Wednesdays at 10pm ET/PT on TV Land.

“There are reasons that Betty White has been on television for over 50 years,” said Larry W. Jones, president, TV Land. “She’s hilarious, her comedic timing is unmatched, and there’s nothing she can’t do. We’re grateful to work with her on ‘Hot in Cleveland,’ and couldn’t be more proud of her continued achievements.”

“Hot in Cleveland” revolves around three fabulous best friends from LA – novelist Melanie Moretti (Bertinelli), eye-brow archer to the stars Joy Scroggs (Leeves) and former soap star Victoria Chase (Malick) – who find their lives changed forever when their plane, headed for Paris, makes an unexpected landing. When the friends discover that life is better for them and that they are hot in Cleveland, they decide to stay. Starting over together, they rent a house that happens to come with a very opinionated caretaker, Elka Ostrovsky (White).

Filmed in front of a live audience, “Hot in Cleveland” is executive produced by Emmy® Award-winner Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner of Hazy Mills Productions and is helmed by Emmy® Award-winning Suzanne Martin (“Frasier,” “Ellen”) serving as executive producer, show runner and writer. Lynda Obst also serves as executive producer, and Larry W. Jones and Keith Cox are executive producers for TV Land. “Hot in Cleveland” is currently seen around the world in over 165 countries.

With Halloween creeping up, wanted to make you aware of some festive programming premieres from networks including AMC, TRAVEL CHANNEL, BRAVO, HALLMARK CHANNEL, DIY NETWORK and SUNDANCE CHANNEL. The premieres are broken out by Specials, New Series, Returning Series and Marathons.

ENJOY!

SPECIALS:

HAUNTED HOUSE FOR SALE (DIY NETWORK)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 at 11PM ET
What would it take to scare you away from buying your dream home? These three beautiful houses in North Carolina, Florida and New Jersey harbor a hidden secret, they are haunted. On this one-hour special, each home buying couple chooses to face their fears to find out exactly who is haunting their perfect home. Find out if they can handle the results of the investigation and want to live alongside their ghostly tenant. Or does this haunted house have one ghost too many?

MARTHA STEWART’S HAUNTED HOUSE (HALLMARK CHANNEL)
OCTOBER 31 AT 10AM ET/PT
In this special which originally aired in primetime on October 24, Martha shows viewers how to turn a two car garage into a frightful haunted house! Creative guests, including a professional haunt expert, will give tips to help viewers take their haunt to the next level. Viewers will learn how to recreate everything from wicked lawn decorations to a fearful maze through their garage. Friends and family can get into the spirit by helping to create the haunt. Chill and thrill your neighbors with a festive party afterwards. Actor Justin Long stops by Martha’s party to join in the celebration. This will be a trick or treat destination for the whole neighborhood!

NEW SERIES:

MAKING MONSTERS (TRAVEL CHANNEL)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2 at 8PM ET/PT
Run: Sundays thru 10/23
A behind the scenes look at a Colorado based business, run by a family who are the trendsetters and masterminds behind the fiercest, most gruesome, vile and terrifying monsters supplied to the haunted house, Halloween and scare-amusement industry. They are the largest animatronics creator and producer in the world, pumping out hundreds of creatures year-round. They LOVE scaring people!

RETURNING SERIES:

THE WALKING DEAD Season 2 (AMC)
OCTOBER 16, 2011 AT 9PM ET/PT
AMC’s hit “The Walking Dead,” which broke ratings records in its first season reaching more Adults 18-49 than any other show in the history of cable television, returns for its second season this October with 13-episodes. The series is based on the comic book series written by Robert Kirkman and tells the story of the months and years that follow after a zombie apocalypse. It follows a group of survivors, led by police officer Rick Grimes, played by Andrew Lincoln (“Teachers,” Love Actually), who travel in search of a safe and secure home. Shot on location in Atlanta, the series also stars Jon Bernthal (“The Pacific,” The Ghost Writer) as Shane Walsh, Sarah Wayne Callies (“Prison Break”) as Lori Grimes, Laurie Holden (“The Shield,” Stephen King’s The Mist) as Andrea, Jeffrey DeMunn (Stephen King’s The Mist, The Green Mile) as Dale, Steven Yeun (“The Big Bang Theory”) as Glen, Emma Bell (The Bedford Diaries) as Amy and Chandler Riggs (Get Low) as Carl Grimes.

TOP CHEF: TEXAS (BRAVO)
NOVEMBER, 2 at 10PM ET/PT
It’s a whole new ballgame for the competing chefs on Bravo’s “Top Chef: Texas,” premiering Wednesday, November 2 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. For the first-time ever, season nine will boast a record 29 chefs – almost double the amount of chefs in season’s past – who will see if they have what it takes to become an official chef’testant and qualify to wear the Top Chef coat. Only 16 will go on to compete across the Lone Star State – in Austin, Dallas and San Antonio. In what will prove to be the most challenging season yet, some of the biggest names in food, music and entertainment including Charlize Theron, Pee-wee Herman, Cat Cora, John Besh, Tim Love, Patti LaBelle will be featured this season on “Top Chef: Texas.” Returning to the Judges’ table is host Padma Lakshmi and head judge, chef Tom Colicchio, alongside judges Gail Simmons and new this season, famed chef and restaurateur Emeril Lagasse and critically acclaimed chef Hugh Acheson.

NEW EPISODES:

WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE (BRAVO)
OCTOBER 31 AT 11PM ET/PT
Grab your best wig and fiercest costume, Bravo’s “Watch What Happens: Live” is throwing its first ever Halloween party and the viewers are invited! On Monday, October 31st at 11:00pm ET/PT, Andy Cohen will host a live Halloween party in the Bravo Clubhouse, complete with costumes, trick or treaters and spooky games galore! Guests who will be ringing the Clubhouse doorbell to show off their Halloween spirit include, “Top Chef Just Desserts” Gail Simmons, “Mad Fashion’s” Chris March, “The Real Housewives of Atlanta’s” Pheadra Parks joined by her husband Apollo and many more! Tune in for a special treat as “Mad Fashion’s” Chris March reveals the costume he has created for Andy.

EMERIL’S TABLE (HALLMARK CHANNEL)

HALLOWEEN TREATS FOR KIDS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25TH, 11AM ET
Special guest Elmo and some very adorable trick-or-treaters join Emeril to make some boo-tiful treats! First up, Emeril’s Grilled Cheese Sand-witch, Spooky Boo Cupcakes and Black Cat cookies with a bittersweet ganache.

HALLOWEEN ISN’T JUST FOR KIDS: GROWN-UP TREATS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26TH, 2011 at 11AM ET
Emeril will guarantee your Halloween Party is spook-tacular with his bone chilling Brew—a spiked Cranberry Clementine punch. Plus, crispy Pumpkin Shaped Cheddar Crackers, Devil’s Flaming Shrimp and Crabmeat Coffins—fit for Sir Dracula himself.

GHOST ADVENTURES (TRAVEL CHANNEL)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28 at 9:00PM ET/PT
Letchworth has been called “The Village of Secrets” because the walls have always had something dark to hide. Overcrowded conditions, malnourished patients, and staff abuse plagued these buildings and opened the land up to something dark. Long since shuttered and abandoned this series of buildings overrun by nature still harbors evil. Zak Nick and Aaron have come here to unlock those secrets.

THE DEAD FILES (TRAVEL CHANNEL)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28 at 10:00PM ET/PT
Amy and Steve investigate a historic Central Florida hotel where owners and guests have been tormented by terrifying visions. Steve’s interviews with frightened eyewitnesses, hotel staff and local historians lead him on a twisted path through the inn’s morbid past, revealing the sociopathic schemes of a villain obsessed with immortality. Unaware of Steve’s findings, Amy’s abilities bring her to the edge of madness face-to-face with angry spirits all yearning to escape. If their findings correlate, the hotel owners will be forced to face the growing darkness that hides in their hotel.

MARATHONS:

LOVE LUST (SUNDANCE CHANNEL)

THE UNDEAD
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28TH at 6:00PM ET
The Undead have risen, and they’ve taken over popular culture. Far from being a recent phenomenon, vampires and zombies have haunted us for centuries, evolving to fit the challenges of each culture and era.
Simultaneously bewitching, repelling, seductive, and terrifying, these blood- desires. LOVE LUST: THE UNDEAD looks at how every generation defines itself with monsters, from Dracula to “Twilight” and from Vlad the Impaler to “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

SECRET SOCIETIES
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28TH at 7:00PM ET
It takes more than a secret handshake to crack the world’s most secret societies. Shrouded in mystery and cloaked by riddles, these hidden groups fascinate us, making our imaginations run wild with conspiracy theories both far-fetched and tantalizingly real. From their cryptic origins to their secluded initiation ceremonies, our thirst for information about secret societies is a witch hunt to last the ages.
And just why are they so secretive anyway … is their goal a fun diversion or total world domination? Whether it’s “The Da Vinci Code”, “The Godfather”, or an episode of “The Simpsons,” the media has stoked the fires so much that now it’s hard to tell fact from fiction.

THE PARANORMAL
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28TH at 8:00PM ET
From sightings of UFOs to mysterious ghostly apparitions and unexplained psychic phenomena, all over the world, regardless of the country, culture, or era, the paranormal has always had some degree of prominence in the public psyche. Sundance Channel’s LOVE LUST: THE PARANORMAL explores the deepest hopes, fears, and desires fueling our fascination with the paranormal. Our experts look through history to find a wide range of strange phenomena, revealing the people behind the stories and examine how UFOs, ghosts, and the occult have found their way from underground subcultures to the mainstream as well as where the future of the paranormal might be headed.

POSSESSION OF DAVID O’REILLY (SUNDANCE CHANNEL)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28TH at 10:00PM ET
Newly single and looking for a place to nurse his emotional wounds, dejected Londoner David O’Reilly realizes that dark forces are following his every move while temporarily living in the apartment of an old friend.

DREAM HOUSE (SUNDANCE CHANNEL)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28TH at 11:30PM ET
The story of a newly wed couple who wanted the American Dream but ended up in the middle of a terrifying nightmare. Gary and Jessica move into a suburban home in the rural countryside. Soon Jessica begins to have strange, haunting visions of a mysterious woman wandering the halls and the shady locals hint at a morbid and tragic back story to the house.

MUTANTS (SUNDANCE CHANNEL)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29TH at 6:20PM ET
A mad scientist inadvertently unleashes the apocalypse while attempting to create an addictive additive for a greedy manufacturer. Instead of creating an army of compulsive consumers, it turns regular people into frenzied mutants.

ICHI THE KILLER (SUNDANCE CHANNEL)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29TH at 7:50PM ET
When a Yakuza boss named Anjo disappears with 300 million yen, his chief henchman, a sadomasochistic man named Kakihara, and the rest of his mob goons go looking for him. After capturing and torturing a rival Yakuza member looking for answers, they soon realize they have the wrong man and begin looking for the man named Jijii who tipped them off in the first place. Soon enough Kakihara and his men encounter Ichi, a psychotic, sexually-repressed young man with amazing martial arts abilities and blades that come out of his shoes. One by one Ichi takes out members of the Yakuza and all the while Kakihara intensifies his pursuit of Ichi and Ichi’s controller Jijii.

ONE MISSED CALL (SUNDANCE CHANNEL)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29TH at 10:00PM ET
Beth Raymond is a college student whose friends have all been dying in droves, and the one connecting factor between all of the incidents is that just before their deaths, each of the victims received a message in which they heard themselves being murdered. Upon receiving her own frightening phone call, Beth has only three days to solve the mystery and cheat death.

*AMERICA’S FAVORITE FAMILY IS BACK* MODERN FAMILY* THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON *

America’s favorite extended family is back for even more laughs when “MODERN FAMILY” THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON arrives on Blu-ray and DVD September 20th from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Packed with tons of exclusive features and never-before-seen footage, “MODERN FAMILY” THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON Blu-ray and DVD will satisfy even the most diehard fans. Each set includes all 24 episodes of the critically acclaimed hit plus deleted family interviews, extended and deleted scenes, a hilarious gag reel, a music video and much more.

[The ARP for Blu-ray is $49.99 and DVD is $39.99 respectively.]

The Pritchett clan has Jay sitting at the head, a true guys’ guy experiencing a bit of mid-life crisis, has remarried a much younger wife, Gloria, whose passion and loyalty is matched by her 11-year-old son, Manny, a boy wise beyond his years. Blending together into this new family has quite the learning curve with some culture clashes, a few awkward misunderstandings, and plenty of sweet victories along the way Jay’s grown daughter, Claire, has her own family. Claire and Phil are the proud parents of three kids with whom they want that open, healthy, honest relationship. It’s not always easy, especially when you have a teenage daughter who’s growing up a little fast, a too-smart-for-her-own-good middle daughter and a scatterbrained boy. On top of that, Phil wants to be the “cool dad,” while Claire is just trying her best to run a tight ship, determined not to let her kids have the rebellious childhood she had. Claire’s brother and Jay’s grown son, Mitchell, adopted a Vietnamese baby with his partner of five years, Cameron. Opposites attract in this household, with Cameron having a wonderfully big personality and maybe a flare for the dramatic, whereas Mitchell is the more serious of the two. They balance each other out and are doting fathers trying to do their best as new parents.

All of these three families are unique unto themselves, and together they give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted embrace of the modern family. “MODERN FAMILY” stars Ed O’Neill as Jay, Julie Bowen as Claire, Ty Burrell as Phil, Sofía Vergara as Gloria, Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell, Eric Stonestreet as Cameron, Sarah Hyland as Haley, Nolan Gould as Luke, Ariel Winter as Alex and Rico Rodriguez as Manny.

The series is produced by Twentieth Century Fox Television in association with Levitan Lloyd Productions. Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd are executive producers/creators. The series is produced by Twentieth Century Fox Television in association with Levitan Lloyd Productions. Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd are executive producers/creators. About Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, LLC (TCFHE) is a recognized global industry leader and a subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a News Corporation company. Representing 75 years of innovative and award-winning filmmaking from Twentieth Century Fox, TCFHE is the worldwide marketing, sales and distribution company for all Fox film and television programming, acquisitions and original productions on DVD, Blu-ray Disc Digital Copy, Video On Demand and Digital Download. The company also releases all products globally for MGM Home Entertainment. Each year TCFHE introduces hundreds of new and newly enhanced products, which it services to retail outlets from mass merchants and warehouse clubs to specialty stores and e-commerce throughout the world.

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