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MTV Cancels ‘Hard Times Of RJ Berger’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday August 12, 2011 @ 3:08pm PDTTags: David Katzenberg, MTV, Paul Iacono, Seth Grahame-Smith
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It was the first of MTV’s new generation of scripted series. Now The Hard Times of RJ Berger has been canceled after two seasons, series co-creator Seth Grahame-Smith tweeted earlier today. The series, which Grahame-Smith co-created with David Katzenberg, launched with 2.8 million viewers last year when it aired after the MTV Movie Awards. Its second-season premiere hit a series high of 3.1 million viewers airing behind Jersey Shore. But by the end of the second-season run in May, the series’ viewership had dropped below 1 million. RJ Berger, which stars Paul Iacono as a well-endowed high-school student, is the second MTV scripted series to be canceled following the axing of Skins after one season. Teen Wolf has been renewed for a second season, and new comedy Awkward appears a lock for a second-season renewal after hitting a series high in persons 12-34 this week. Coming up is the premiere of Death Valley on Aug. 29 and a post-Video Music Awards sneak of I Just Want My Pants Back, and the October launch of animated comedies Beavis and Butt-head and Good Vibes. The Inbetweeners is in production for a 2012 debut.

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UPDATE: Signings by ICM, WME, Gersh

By NIKKI FINKE AND MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 26, 2010 @ 8:30pm PDTTags: Agents, Gersh, ICM, Melina Kanakaredes WME, Melissa George, Paul Iacono, Takashi Shimizu, Tony Shalhoub, WME

UPDATED: ICM has signed actor clients including Emmy-winner Tony Shalhoub (Monk for 8 seasons) from CAA, Melissa George (In Treatment) from Paradigm, and Kieran Culkin (Scott Pilgrim vs the World) from WME. In addition, the agency signed away from UTA new motion picture lit clients Steven Rogers (Enchanted Inc, P.S. I Love … Read More »

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