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Spike TV’s ‘Ink Master’ & TV Guide’s ‘Nail Files’ Renewed For Second Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday February 13, 2012 @ 10:44am PSTTags: Spike TV, TV Guide Network
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: Four weeks into its freshman run, Spike TV’s unscripted series Ink Master has been renewed for a second season with a 13-episode order. Hosted by rock veteran and tattoo aficionado Dave Navarro and judged by tattoo artists Chris Nunez and Oliver Peck, Ink Master debuted on Jan. 17 and through its first four episodes has averaged 1.4 million viewers for its premiere Tuesday airing and 5.2 million cume viewers a week. The show, part of Spike TV’s effort to broaden its audience by bringing in older males, has improved the Tuesday 10 PM slot by 102% in Men 18-49. The series, produced by Original Media, features 10 tattoo artists competing for a $100,000 cash prize, an editorial feature in the tattoo magazine Inked, and the title of ‘Ink Master.’

Also today, TV Guide Network renewed its own hit reality series Nail Files, for an eight-episode second season to air this summer. The series, from exec producer SallyAnn Salsano, launched in June to TV Guide’s best ever premiere ratings for an original series. It follows the personal and professional life of nail salon owner Katie Czorla.

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Spike TV Greenlights 3 Unscripted Series, Revives ‘World’s Wildest Police Videos’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday January 30, 2012 @ 9:12am PSTTags: Spike TV
Nellie Andreeva

Spike TV is bringing back one-time Fox reality staple World’s Wildest Police Videos. The cable channel, which previously syndicated the show, has ordered 13 new episodes of the series, a compilation of outrageous police footage. Spike also has picked up three new original unscripted series: Full Bounty, a reality competition featuring aspiring bounty hunters, which has received a 10-epidode order; Tattoo Nightmares, chronicling the stories behind unfortunate tattoos and their owners’ attempts to have them fixed, which has been picked up for six episodes; and Rat Bastards, following a group of guys in Louisiana who hunt down giant swamp rats, which has been ordered also for six episodes. Additionally, Spike has greenlighted a two-part special, Urban Jungle Man. “These three new non-scripted shows share a theme of larger-than-life characters in extreme situations where the high stakes are real,” said Spike’s EVP original series Sharon Levy. “They are perfect complements to our upcoming launches of Big Easy Justice, American Digger and Diamond Divers, which have similar distinctive characters.” Here are descriptions of Spike’s newly ordered series: Read More »

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Spike TV Pacts With Submarine To Hatch Non-Scripted Shows

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 24, 2012 @ 3:32pm PSTTags: Josh Braun, Spike TV, Submarine
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EXCLUSIVE: Spike TV has formed an alliance with Submarine Entertainment’s Josh Braun to find talent from the independent film sphere and develop non-scripted programming for the cable network. It marks the first major return into television for Braun, the former … Read More »

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Ben Silverman’s Electus Lines Up NATPE Offerings

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday January 20, 2012 @ 4:55pm PSTTags: Ben Silverman Electus, NATPE 2012, Spike TV

Ben Silverman’s Electus International has secured global distribution rights for three unscripted series from Spike TV and will be selling them during NATPE 2012 January 23-25 in Miami. The series are foreclosed house-flipping show Flip Men, historic relic scavenger … Read More »

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Zachary Levi To Host Spike TV’s Video Game Awards

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday November 30, 2011 @ 11:28am PSTTags: Spike TV, Video Game Awards, Zachary Levi

New York, NY, November 30, 2011 – Star of NBC’s “Chuck,” voice actor for “Fallout: New Vegas” and “Halo: Reach,” owner of the nerd culture site www.TheNerdMachine.com and video game super fan Zachary Levi will host Spike TV’s 2011

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Tom Zappala Joins Spike TV As EVP Programming

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday November 10, 2011 @ 8:15am PSTTags: ABC Family, Spike TV
Nellie Andreeva

Veteran ABC Family executive Tom Zappala has joined Spike TV as EVP Programming. He will oversee Spike’s scheduling, media planning and acquisitions, reporting to Spike TV president Kevin Kay. Zappala spent the last eight years at ABC Family, where he most recently served as EVP program acquisitions and scheduling, overseeing off-network, first-run and feature acquisitions, international and domestic co-productions, planning and scheduling, on-air promotional scheduling and digital scheduling initiatives. He was also the architect of ABC Family’s popular “25 Days Of Christmas” annual event. Zappala left ABC Family at the end of October when the network noted that he was relocating back east to be closer to his family. Read More »

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Spike TV Greenlights ‘Luggage Wars’ Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday November 3, 2011 @ 11:29am PDTTags: Spike TV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Someone might be bidding on your lost suitcase. With storage auction series emerging as the hottest sub-genre on the unscripted side, Spike TV is doing a variation involving lost pieces of luggage. The network has ordered Luggage Wars, a … Read More »

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Mark Burnett To Exec Produce Spike’s Video Game Awards

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday November 3, 2011 @ 10:00am PDTTags: Mark Burnett, Spike TV, Video Game Awards

Spike TV said today that Mark Burnett has been tapped to executive produce the network’s Video Game Awards, which are set to air live December 10. Burnett’s credits beyond unscripted hits Survivor, The Voice and The Apprentice include a swath … Read More »

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Spike TV Hires VP For Original Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 27, 2011 @ 10:36am PDTTags: Spike TV
Nellie Andreeva

Alex Eastburg has joined Spike TV as VP Original Series. He will be based in the network’s California offices, overseeing development of non-scripted series and reporting to SVP Original Series Tim Duffy. Eastburg comes from the producing side, most recently … Read More »

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Spike TV Lands Deal To Cover CES Confab

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday October 20, 2011 @ 11:15am PDTTags: CES, Spike TV

Spike TV has struck an exclusive deal with the organizers of CES to provide live coverage of the giant technology and consumer products trade show in January. The male-centric network said today that it will air more than 12 hours … Read More »

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Spike TV Renews ’1000 Ways’ For Season 4

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 9:59am PDTTags: Spike TV
Nellie Andreeva

With 3 seasons and 74 episodes produced, Spike TV’s reality series 1000 Ways to Die has still ways to go in depicting 1000 different ways of dying. The show, which now airs Season 3, will get closer with a fourth … Read More »

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Spike TV Orders ‘Diamond Divers’ Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday September 27, 2011 @ 9:30am PDTTags: Spike TV, Studio Lambert
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Spike TV, which has built its unscripted brand on urban series like Auction Hunters, Repo Games and Bar Rescue, is heading for the open sea with Diamond Divers, a docu-series about men performing dangerous jobs in a rough environment that … Read More »

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Spike TV Renews ‘Bar Rescue’ For Season 2

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 14, 2011 @ 5:40pm PDTTags: 3 Ball Productions, Spike TV, TV Renewal
Nellie Andreeva

Spike TV has picked up unscripted series Bar Rescue for a second season with a 10-episode order. The series has grown in the ratings from its July premiere, which drew 742,000 viewers. This past Sunday’s telecast hit a series high … Read More »

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Spike Puts Scripted Development On Hold

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 29, 2011 @ 4:10pm PDTTags: Back Nine, Blue Mountain State, Dustin Davis, Playing with Guns, Repo Games, Scripted TV, Spike TV
Nellie Andreeva

The writing had been on the wall for a while, and Spike executives began quietly telling agents over the past couple of weeks that the network is getting out of the scripted business, at least for … Read More »

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Spike TV Announces The End Of ‘Ultimate Fighter’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday August 18, 2011 @ 9:45am PDTTags: FX, Spike TV, UFC
Nellie Andreeva

With Fox Sports poised to officially confirm this morning that it has signed a multi-year deal with mixed-martial arts league UFC for coverage on Fox and FX, Spike TV announced the end of its UFC franchise, The … Read More »

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Rights Deal Puts Fox In Ring With UFC

By PATRICK HIPES, Managing Editor | Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 11:45am PDTTags: Comcast, Fox, Fox Sports, FX, G4, Spike TV, TV Rights, UFC, VERSUS

Fox Sports and mixed-martial arts league UFC have just finalized a multi-year deal that will put at least four primetime MMA cards on the Fox network … Read More »

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Spike Picks Up John Langley Cop Show, 3 Other Reality Series, Renews ‘Repo Games’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday August 10, 2011 @ 2:00pm PDTTags: John Langley, Repo Games, Spike TV, TV Pickups, TV Renewals, World's Worst Tenants
Nellie Andreeva

Spike TV has greenlighted four new reality series: Undercover Stings from Cops creator John Langley, about cops orchestrating sting operations; Big Easy Justice from Al Roker and Jennifer Lopez’s production companies, about a New Orleans bounty hunter; American Digger from the producers of Spike’s hit Auction Hunters, about a relic hunter digging up people’s properties for histotic artifacts; and World’s Worst Tenants from Zoo Prods., about a professional evictor. Additionally, Spike has ordered 20 more episodes of the SallyAnn Salsano-produced Repo Games. Sharon Levy, Spike’s EVP original series, said that the new shows are part of the network’s push to expand its core men 18-34 demo to the older men 34-49 demographic that was launched with such recent series as Auction Hunters, Bar Rescue and Repo Games. In primetime, Spike’s median age is currently 40, up from 38 last year. The median age for the network’s highest-rated unscripted original, Auction Hunters, is 41; for Bar Rescue it’s 42. “We have had success in our quest to broaden out our audience,” she said. “The new series continue that and hone our brand as a destination for dynamic characters that exist in high risk/high reward situations.” The goal is to have 52 weeks of originals on Spike every year, she added. Here are detailed descriptions of the new series, including the sizes of their orders: Read More »

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Spike TV Renews ‘Auction Hunters’ For Third Season, Plans Live Episode

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday June 20, 2011 @ 7:57am PDTTags: Auction Hunters Renewal, Spike TV
Nellie Andreeva

Spike TV has renewed its highest-rated non-scripted series, Auction Hunters, for a third season with a 26-episode order. The series will continue to follow Allen Haff and Ton Jones as they traverse the country in search … Read More »

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Cable News: BBC America Signs Chris Hardwick, Spike Orders Foreclosure Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday May 23, 2011 @ 10:36am PDTTags: BBC America, Chris Hardwick, Ministry Of Laughs, Spike TV
Nellie Andreeva

BBC America has signed comedian, writer and web personality Chris Hardwick to host the channel’s new Saturday night comedy block, Ministry of Laughs, and has committed to a pilot/special based on Hardwick’s Nerdist podcast. The pilot, a panel talk show … Read More »

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