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TruTV Topper Marc Juris To Depart

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday May 2, 2013 @ 12:53pm PDTTags: Marc Juris, TruTV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Marc Juris, who has led Turner Broadcasting’s TruTV as EVP and COO, is leaving. The exact timing of his departure is unclear; his current contract is up at the end of the year. Turner Entertainment Networks president Steve Koonin just announced Juris’ exit in a company memo (below). Juris joined TruTV in 2004, when it was known as Court TV. He was promoted to EVP and General Manager in 2007 and led the network’s transformation into TruTV. He was upped to COO in 2011. TruTV recently hit a ratings record as the network’s flagship series, Hardcore Pawn, drew 1.6 million adults 18-49 in its seventh season premiere in March, truTV’s biggest delivery ever in the key demo. Hardcore Pawn also scored truTV’s biggest season opener ever, drawing 3.2 million total viewers. But for the most recent month of April, truTV averaged 874,000 viewers, down 8% from last year. In 18-49, it posted 405,000, down 18%. The network also has faced accusations that many of its unscripted shows are staged/scripted.

Today the company is announcing the departure of our colleague Marc Juris. As executive vice president and chief operating officer of truTV, Marc has provided valuable leadership, especially through the network’s rebranding and subsequent audience growth.

I have already begun the process of evaluating truTV’s current and future leadership needs so that we can choose the right executive to lead the network.

We are extremely grateful to Marc for his many contributions to our business, and we wish him all the best in his future endeavors.

Steve Koonin

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TruTV Unveils 3 New Series, 7 Pilots With Focus On Comedic Reality Series

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday April 17, 2013 @ 10:58am PDTTags: TruTV

TruTV said today as it meets with advertisers that it is shifting half its lineup to comedic reality series by year’s end, and has greenlighted three new original series and ordered seven pilots to go with current hits Impractical Jokers and Killer Karaoke. The network says the move targets “funseekers” — a demo evenly split between males and females with a median age of 35 “who look for comedic reality shows that are exciting to watch and prefer humor that is suspenseful, edgy and irreverent. They also look for mood-elevating shows that provide an escape and feature compelling twists and turns”. TruTV also officially renewed four series: Impractical Jokers, Guinness World Records Gone Wild, Upload With Shaquille O’Neal and the previously announced Hardcore Pawn: Chicago. Here are the network’s descriptions of the new offerings: Read More »

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TruTV’s ‘Hardcore Pawn’ Hits Ratings High In Season Premiere

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday March 27, 2013 @ 4:01pm PDTTags: Hardcore Pawn, TruTV, TV Ratings

Back for its seventh season Tuesday, truTV’s Hardcore Pawn premiered with record rating and viewership numbers. The pawn shop-based reality series pulled in 1.6 million viewers in the adults 18-49 demographic last night, rocketing up 36% … Read More »

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TruTV Orders More ‘Impractical Jokers’ & ‘Hardcore Pawn: Chicago’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday February 20, 2013 @ 12:35pm PSTTags: Hardcore Pawn: Chicago, Impractical Jokers, TruTV

There’s going to be even more reality on reality network truTV. The network said today it has ordered more episodes of Hardcore Pawn: Chicago and Impractical Jokers. That makes eight more episodes of the hit … Read More »

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‘Hardcore Pawn’ Renewed For Season 7

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 25, 2013 @ 8:33am PSTTags: Hardcore Pawn, TruTV
Nellie Andreeva

TruTV has ordered a seventh season of its flagship series Hardcore Pawn, which just shot its 100th episode. The docu reality series is set at family-owned American Jewelry & Loan. In its sixth season, Hardcore Pawn, … Read More »

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‘Hardcore Pawn: Chicago’ Posts TruTV’s Highest-Rated Series Premiere

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday January 2, 2013 @ 1:43pm PSTTags: Hardcore Pawn: Chicago, TruTV, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

Boosted by a Hardcore Pawn original, spinoff Hardcore Pawn: Chicago got off to a strong start, drawing more than 2.1 million viewers for its series premiere last night to rank as truTV‘s biggest series launch ever. … Read More »

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Hot Objectionable TV Clip: ‘Killer Karaoke’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 21, 2012 @ 2:34pm PSTTags: TruTV
Mike Fleming

Here is a clip from the new TruTV singing competition Killer Karaoke. The series begins airing in November, and my question is: was this Steve-O hosted show specifically mentioned among the ancient apocalyptic Mayan prophecies that the world will end later this year?

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TruTV Sued For Allegedly Stealing ‘Caught Red Handed’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday October 30, 2012 @ 8:07pm PDTTags: Lawsuit, TruTV

Two aspiring show creators launched a lawsuit against TruTV today for supposedly lifting their idea for a series about shoplifters. In their suit (read it here) Harry Dunn and Steven Bloch say that in March 2008 they pitched TrueTV a show called Hands Off The Merchandise about identifying and catching shoplifters for retailers. Actually, the duo, who say they came up with the idea for the show, didn’t actually engage with the network. Producers Scott Hallock and Kevin Healey, with whom Dunn and Bloch signed a collaboration agreement, did that for them. In 2009, after various meetings and “enthusiasm,” as the suit puts it, on the network’s part, TruTV told Hallock and Healey that they were going to pass on the idea. The producers passed the bad news onto Bloch and Dunn.
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TruTV’s ‘Black Gold’ Renewed For Season 5

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 13, 2012 @ 7:52am PDTTags: Black Gold, TruTV
Nellie Andreeva

TruTV has ordered a 10-episode fifth season of its unscripted series Black Gold to air this winter. Produced by Thom Beers’ FremantleMedia-owned Original Prods., Black Gold follows roughneck crews in the oil fields of Texas. Black Gold is coming off … Read More »

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TruTV Greenlights Shaquille O’Neal Series

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday July 11, 2012 @ 9:34am PDTTags: Shaquille O'Neal, TruTV

TruTV Shaquille O'NealThe recently retired NBA star is the host of Upload With Shaquille O’Neal, on which he, comedians Gary Owen and Godfrey, and a special guest scour the Web for the funniest online videos. They also will create their … Read More »

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TruTV Unveils Programming Slate

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday April 30, 2012 @ 1:15pm PDTTags: Howie Mandel, Shaquille O'Neal, TruTV

TruTV‘s slate of development titles announced today include a Howie Mandel-produced game show set on an airplane and a funny-video pilot from the producers of America’s Funniest Home Videos and Tosh.0 starring Shaquille O’Neal and Gary Owen. There are four series on the production slate, including the cast-contingent auction title Container Wars, in which experts compete against each other to buy the contents of huge shipping containers whose contents are unknown only until the last minute before bids are due. TruTV also announced the return dates for six series, with hit Hardcore Pawn and Vegas Strip coming sometime in July. Here’s the full slate: Read More »

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TruTV Names Adam Dolgins SVP Original Programming

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday March 21, 2012 @ 12:30pm PDTTags: TruTV

TruTV Adam DolginsAdam Dolgins will focus on comedic and alternative reality shows as TruTV’s new SVP Original Programming. His group will oversee the network’s Impractical Jokers as well as its upcoming Killer Karaoke hosted by Steve-O. Dolgins arrives from his own production … Read More »

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Marc Juris Promoted To COO At TruTV

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday December 14, 2011 @ 10:03am PSTTags: Hardcore Pawn, TruTV

TruTV has promoted Marc Juris to EVP and Chief Operating Officer after he helped spearhead the network’s transition from Court TV in 2008 with the addition of original programming like Hardcore Pawn, Lizard Lick Towing and Full Throttle Saloon. Those … Read More »

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TruTV Picks Up Extreme Singing Reality Series ‘Killer Karaoke’ With Steve-O As Host

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 3, 2011 @ 2:02pm PDTTags: Steve-O, TruTV, Zodiak USA
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: TruTV has picked up Killer Karaoke, a U.S. version of British game show Sing If You Can. Comedian and Jackass co-star Steve-O will host the new series, which has been given an 8-episode order for a launch in early … Read More »

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Cablevision Unveils TV Everywhere Arrangement For Turner Programming

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday September 13, 2011 @ 2:46pm PDTTags: Adult Swim, Cablevision, Cartoon Network, CNN, Comcast, Dish Network, HLN, MTV Networks, TBS, TNT, TruTV, Turner Entertainment Networks, Verizon, Viacom

It may not sound like much at first, but Cablevision and Time Warner took an important step today to help make TV Everywhere a reality. The companies announced that Cablevision customers now can watch shows from TBS, TNT, CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and truTV on broadband-enabled devices outside the home — not just inside. The arrangement also provides for live streaming of news from CNN and HLN. Over the next year or so you can expect to hear a lot of announcements like this from pay TV distributors and programmers. Comcast, Dish Network, and Verizon are already a step ahead of Cablevision in offering out-of-home service. But this deal for a package called Turner TV Everywhere is the first time Cablevision has offered such popular entertainment and news programming so broadly to digital devices. Read More »

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TruTV Orders More ‘South Beach Tow’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday August 30, 2011 @ 8:23am PDTTags: Nuyorican Productions, TruTV, TV Renewal
Nellie Andreeva

TruTV has ordered 13 additional episodes of its new reality series South Beach Tow, from Jennifer Lopez’s Nuyorican Prods and Bodega Pictures. In its first season-to-date, the series about the family-run Tremont Towing has averaged 1.6 million viewers; 834,000 adults … Read More »

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TruTV Orders DMV Reality Series Produced By Ashton Kutcher

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday August 11, 2011 @ 10:11am PDTTags: Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg, Katalyst, TruTV
Nellie Andreeva

TruTV has teamed with Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg’s Katalyst for a reality series set at the DMV. Tentatively titled California DMV: Field Offices, the series “will provide an eye-opening, behind-the-scenes look at hard-working personnel who deal with everything from … Read More »

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TruTV Renews ‘Hardcore Pawn’ For Fifth Season After Season 4 Premiere

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday June 22, 2011 @ 1:01pm PDTTags: Cable Ratings, Hardcore Pawn, TruTV
Nellie Andreeva

TruTV’s Hardcore Pawn launched its fourth season last night with an average of 2.1 million viewers for its two original episodes (1.9 million for the first and 2.2 million for the second). And today, the network renewed the show for … Read More »

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TruTV Renews 4 Shows, Acquires ‘Wipeout’, Sets Projects From Ridley & Tony Scott, JLo

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday April 12, 2011 @ 10:56am PDTTags: Black Gold, Hardcore Pawn, Lizard Lick Towing, TruTV, TV, TV Deals, Wipeout
Nellie Andreeva

TruTV, which has been on a ratings upswing, got an additional boost last month when it launched its first high-profile sports franchise, sharing with TNT, TBS and CBS the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship coverage. At its second annual upfront today, the network announced a slew of series renewals and projects in development. The network has renewed Hardcore Pawn and Black Gold for a fourth season, Full Throttle Saloon for a third season and has ordered additional episodes from freshman Lizard Lick Towing, a spinoff of All Worked Up. Additionally, truTV has picked off-network rights to ABC’s reality series Wipeout to start airing in the fall. Here is a list of TruTV’s projects in development, including shows from NFL Films and producers Tony and Ridley Scott and Jennifer Lopez: Read More »

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