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Style Announces Development Slate Of Nine Reality Projects

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday April 18, 2013 @ 1:01pm PDTTags: Style
Nellie Andreeva

Style Media has announced its 2013-2014 development slate, which features nine projects in the network’s signature areas of beauty and fashion, home design and entertaining. The concepts range from crazy beauty procedures, cosmetic surgery gone bad, kid fashion designers, “progressive dinners,” as well as shows about home design and luxury real estate. There is also a series following Selita Ebanks’ attempt to transition from supermodel to fashion mogul and a comedic look at outrageous, fashion-obsessed divas executive produced by Jack Osbourne. The projects join previously announced competition series Glam Squad (working title), executive produced by Charlize Theron. Here are details about the new projects:

“Crazy Beautiful” (working title)

Produced by 20 West Productions with Scot Thor as Executive Producer. “Crazy Beautiful” provides intimate access to some of the bizarre, over-the-top and, often times, painful beauty regimens and procedures women will endure to achieve their desired looks. From achieving a 20-inch waist with intense corseting, to growing foot-long fingernails, to desiring triple-L breast implants, these individuals strive to defy the conventional standards of beauty. READ MORE »

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Style Orders Three New Series, Puts Charlize Theron-Produced Show In Development

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 12, 2013 @ 9:00am PSTTags: Charlize Theron, Style
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Style has greenlighted three more original series to bring the number of new shows set to debut on the network this year to 10 — more than double the new offerings in 2012 as Style is aiming at a 22% increase of original programming. The new series include Style’s first-ever live show, weekly topical fashion series Pop Style (working title) hosted by Jeannie Mai and Louise Roe, which is expected to feature extensive interactive elements; a new “reimagined” version of Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous; and a new docu-series from real estate mogul Katrina Campins. Other new series on tap for 2013 include recently launched Kimora: House Of Fab; Styled To Rock, executive produced and starring Rihanna; a home makeover series with Bill Rancic; and Betsey + Lulu, about Betsey Johnson and her daughter Lulu.

Additionally, Style has teamed with Oscar winner Charlize Theron to develop new competition series Glam Squad (working title), featuring hair stylists and make-up artists who compete to win major Hollywood assignments. The network’s new programming “speaks to all aspects of what we call stylish living,” said Style Media president Salaam Coleman Smith. Style, which also is bringing back Giuliana & Bill for a sixth season and Tia & Tamera for third this summer, is coming off a rebranding last year and posting its highest-rated January among women 18-49 in primetime last month. “There is a lot of momentum in our favor,” Smith said. There are also corporate changes afoot, with Style reuniting with its former Comcast sibling E! as all NBCUniversal entertainment cable networks were recently put under the purview of Bonnie Hammer. (Style had been overseen by Lauren Zalaznick after the NBCU-Comcast merger). Smith, who started off at E! before moving to Style, welcomes the combining of all networks into one cable group and the potential new collaborations with E! and other new corporate siblings. “It is a huge opportunity to harness the power of NBCUniversal and tap into the strength of other sister networks,” she said. Here is information about Style’s newly picked-up series and Glam Squad: Read More »

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Rihanna To Produce & Star In Fashion Reality Series For Style

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday December 5, 2012 @ 10:26am PSTTags: Rihanna, Style
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Rihanna TV StyleMusic superstar Rihanna will executive produce and star in Styled To Rock, a fashion design reality competition series for Style from Will Smith and James Lassiter’s Overbrook Entertainment and Shed Media U.S. The series, which has been picked up for 10 hourlong episodes to premiere in 2013, will feature 12 up-and-coming designers, hand-picked by Rihanna, who will create fashion pieces for A-list celebrity talent. This marks the first competition series for Style. “On the heels of our successful network rebrand, Styled To Rock and Style’s new partnership with Rihanna will reinvent the fashion competition genre, fueling our viewers insatiable appetite for all things style,” said Salaam Coleman Smith, President, Style Media. Candidates can apply on Style’s website. “Fashion has always played an integral part in my life and career,” said Rihanna. “I am so excited to partner with Style Network and share my creative insight with these 12 designers and give them this opportunity to showcase their work.” Read More »

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Style Greenlights New ‘Jerseylicious’ Spinoff Set In Chicago

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday April 3, 2012 @ 1:52pm PDTTags: Chicagolicious, Jerseylicious, Style
Nellie Andreeva

The Style Network has picked up Chicagolicious, a spinoff from the network’s flagship docu-series Jerseylicious, which will premiere on June 3 after Jerseylicious. Produced by Jerseylicious producer Endemol USA, the 10-episode Chicagolicious is set  in the Windy City and follows … Read More »

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Style Renews ‘Tia & Tamera’ For Season 2

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 15, 2011 @ 9:27am PDTTags: Style, Tia & Tamera, TV Renewal
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Style Network has renewed breakout reality hit Tia & Tamera for a second season. The docu-series starring twin sisters Tia and Tamera Mowry premiered Aug. 8, posting the network’s most-watched series launch in history with 750,000 viewers. The … Read More »

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Frances Berwick Promoted To President Of Bravo And Style Media

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday July 19, 2011 @ 6:47am PDTTags: Bravo Media, Lauren Zalaznick, Style
Nellie Andreeva

In a restructuring move in the cable division of the post-merger NBCUniversal which is run by Lauren Zalaznick, her top lieutenant, Bravo’s president and general manager Frances Berwick, is also getting oversight of Style, which came from the Comcast side of the company. Berwick, a 15-year Bravo veteran, is being named president of Bravo and Style Media. She will continue to report to Zalaznick. Salaam Coleman will remain President of Style but will now report to Berwick. Here is the release: Read More »

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