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The burly, mustachioed color man who followed a Hall of Fame football career with a three-decade stint in the broadcast booth is hanging up his microphone. Dan Dierdorf will retire from CBS after this season, his 43rd connected to the National Football League. After a 13-year stint as an offensive tackle for the St. Louis Cardinals, he began his announcing career with CBS Radio in 1984, moving to the TV side the following year. He left CBS in 1987 for ABC, where he did color for Monday Night Football until 1999 and also covered Ncaa games, boxing and the 1988 Winter Olympics. He has been with CBS for the past 14 years. Dierdorf’s often brusque, call-it-like-he-sees-it style earned him plenty of detractors — snarky L.A. sports radio legend Jim Healy famously referred to him as “Dan Dierdork” — but in 2008 he became one of only four Pro Football Hall of Fame players to receive the...

It's a battle of the football baby-daddies!Here's 28-year-old Adrian Peterson who's reportedly fathered five (or possibly 7) children to date (left) -- and 29-year-old Antonio Cromartie  who famously struggled to remember the names of his seven children on HBO's "Hard Knocks" show (right).The question is... Read more...

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“We didn’t get mad, we got smart,” HBO CEO Michael Fuchs said about hitting The Wall, looking back at HBO stalling in 1984 from the vantage of the early 1990s. Actually, a lot of the rank and file didn’t get mad or smart; we’d seen 125 of our friends and colleagues get shown the door when the company had suddenly flatlined after eight years of phenomenal growth, and what we got was scared.

But it’s to the credit of HBO’s execs that whatever anxieties they may have had, they showed no panic or even nervousness in public. Instead, they poured any concerns into energetically and immediately addressing the question of, “What do we do now?” The world we knew had changed and there was no going back to the Gold Rush days of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The company required a humongous...

The NFL has quietly passed a rule during its fall meeting that will force one franchise per year to be filmed for HBO’s Hard Knocks. The news came the same day that the league was fending off some negative PR over PBS’ premiere of the football concussion docu League Of Denial and President Obama weighing in on the Washington Redskins nickname flap. The popular series, which follows a team through preseason, had a tough time finding a subject this year. Five teams declined to participate before the Cincinnati Bengals — a good-not-great small-market franchise with a negligible national following — agreed to do it for a second time. The NFL and HBO signed a multiyear extension for the program in July, so something had to be done. Under the new rules, teams can volunteer to be on the program, but now the league will select one if there are no takers.

Discovery Channel announced this morning it will air a two-part special, NFL In Season, in which the network goes on the road with the NFL as the Pittsburgh Steelers, Minnesota Vikings, San Francisco 49ers and Jacksonville Jaguars prepare for two “critical regular season games” — in London. It will be produced by NFL Films. The two-part special will premiere Friday, October 4, and Friday, November 1. In this way the special will book-end PBS’ Frontline special about head injuries sustained by NFL players, League Of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis, which is now scheduled to debut on PBS on October 8. The Frontline project was originally scheduled to debut as a two-parter October 8 and October 15, but that was before Espn pulled out of that documentary, calling it a “branding” issue. Anonymous sources in August told the New York Times that Espn, which reportedly pays the NFL upwards of $1 billion a year for Monday Night Football rights,...

The NFL and Super Bowl will air on Channel 4 in the UK, after the American football league signed a two-year deal with the terrestrial broadcaster.

Channel 4 will air the NFL's annual games at Wembley Stadium live, a weekly highlights show and Hard Knocks, a fly-on-the-wall documentary about life at an NFL training camp, amongst other specialised programming.

Jamie Aitchison, Channel 4 sports editor, said: "The NFL has always had a connection with the Channel 4 audience and it's fantastic that after the return of Sunday Night Football we now can tell the story of the whole season right up to its spectacular conclusion.

"The Super Bowl is an iconic event and alongside the live Wembley games we can showcase the sport in all its glory. We are proud to be the NFL's sole terrestrial partner."

Alistair Kirkwood, managing director of NFL UK, said: "We are thrilled to be...

This season’s ‘Catfish: The TV Show,’ which premiered Tuesday, June 25 at 10 p.m. on MTV, features so many Omg moments that it is best to analyze each episode with equally expressive reactions. And not just text-based or still image reactions — Gif reactions.

This episode apparently originally aired on Sunday before the VMAs. Did anyone watch it then? Does anyone watch this show at all? Does anything matter anymore? Max makes baby crying noises really well, and that’s all that matters.

Nev needs to stop forcing unnatural banter in these nondescript hotel openers. It’s not a good look.

Aaron Maybin's career took a surprising turn for the better last night -- 'cause after the linebacker was 86'd from the Cincinnati Bengals on "Hard Knocks," demand for his artwork went through the roof ... TMZ has learned. Maybin's demise from the team was chronicled on the HBO docu-series last night -- along with his passion for painting. Cameras rolled as he worked on two pieces ... and his stuff was actually pretty good. In fact, after...

You saw the injury ... you saw the tears ... but Cincinnati Bengals lineman Larry Black tells TMZ he is Determined to get back into the NFL after mangling his leg in a freak accident captured on "Hard Knocks."Millions watched as Black's promising rookie campaign came to a heart wrenching end last week when he suffered a dislocated ankle and broken fibula during a routine practice drill. The big man's tearful phone call to his...

On TV this Tuesday: Wilson Bethel asks Whose Line Is It Anyway?, the Cincinnati Bengals prep for another season of Hard Knocks, “A” puts the “surprise” in a Pretty Little party and Suits find themselves at cross purposes. As a supplement to TVLine’s original features, here are 10 programs to keep on your radar.

8 pm So You Think You Can Dance (Fox) | Choreographer Kenny Ortega (Dirty Dancing) guest-judges, which means the Top 12 better get to the lake and practice those lifts!

8 pm The Diplomat (Espn) | This documentary, part of the network’s Nine for IX series, chronicles how East German...

Hard Knocks 2013: HBO goes back to the Cincinnati Bengals for its popular NFL training camp reality series beginning Tuesday, Aug. 6, at 10pm Et/Pt. Hard Knocks: The Bengals Are Back Also See: 2013 NFL Preseason TV schedule 2013 NFL Preseason games on NFL Network 2013 Pro Football Hall of Fame Induction on ESPN2 NFL Films again teams up with HBO for a new edition of the Hard Knocks training camp docuseries, this time featuring the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals were previously on Hard Knocks in 2009. They finished 10-6 and won the Afc North that year, bucking the trend [...]

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Summer is here and for NFL fan, the agonizing post draft drought is almost over. In the heat of late summer, almost 3000 men will compete in the ultimate job interviews; NFL training camps. Each of the 32 teams will take a training camp roster to camp and whittle those 90 hopefuls in a active roster of 53 and an eight man practice squad. For a select few superstars and veterans, this is a more part of the process, though a new coaching regime might test a veteran’s ability to survive their 11th or 12 camp. But for 100s of other highly touted rookies, undrafted players, on the bubble veteran players and aging veterans, training camp means a job or no job as they show their wares over the next month.

While the drama of training camp is truly must see TV as shown by the hit HBO TV series, “Hard Knocks”, there is...

Doctor Who dame Jenna-Louise Coleman has joined BBC One’s upcoming Pride and Prejudice-based project Death Comes To Pemberley.

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Based on the suspense novel by P.D. James, the serial — which is timed to P and P‘s 200th anniversary — centers on three of author Jane Austen’s iconic characters: Mr. Darcy (played by Matthew Rhys) Elizabeth Bennet (Anna Maxwell Martin) and George Wickham (Matthew Goode).

Coleman joins Pemberley as Elizabeth’s sister and George’s wife Lydia.

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In the 12-year, eight-season history of HBO’s Hard Knocks, only one franchise – the Dallas Cowboys, often cited as “America’s Team” – has been featured twice. Make that two. The premium network on Monday officially tapped the Cincinnati Bengals to star on its popular series chronicling life at an NFL training camp. The Bengals first were featured in 2009, with the season earning a pair of Sports Emmys. Last year’s Hard Knocks showcased the Miami Dolphins, and plenty of screen time was devoted to aging former All-Pro wide receiver, who was known as Chad Ochocinco when he was onscreen with the ’09 Bengals. The show began in 2001 with then- and current defending Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens, followed by the Cowboys in 2002. But that was the last Hard Knocks until the Kansas City Chiefs in 2007. Since then it has aired every year expect 2011, when the series went dark because no team...

HBO have, over the years gained a reputation as the frontrunner in terms of producing great TV shows, and indeed, some of the very greatest TV shows have been broadcast on the network. HBO have commissioned numerous Emmy and Golden Globe winners and in 2004 The Wire, The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sex and the City, Deadwood, Entourage and Six Feet Under were all featured on HBO’s schedule in what is arguably the finest line up in television history.

Other networks such as Showtime and AMC are catching up with HBO with shows such as Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Dexter, Californication and Homeland but HBO still possesses a formidable schedule that includes Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Girls, Treme and True Blood. HBO possesses an entire back catalogue of great shows which means AMC and Showtime still have some catching up to do. HBO’s dedication to sport is also...

Espn has announced two new films for round two of its sports documentary series "30 for 30," both to air this spring -- "Survive and Advance," from director Jonathan Hock ("Unguarded," "The Lost Son of Havana"), looks at Jim Valvano and the North Carolina State Wolfpack's 1982-1983 season, and "Elway to Marino," from NFL Films and director Ken Rodgers ("Hard Knocks"), examines the 1983 NFL Draft and its six first-round quarterbacks, including John Elway and Dan Marino. The next full slate of "30 for 30 Vol. II" films is scheduled to premiere in October. Here are the full descriptions for the spring pair, courtesy of Espn: Survive and Advance Directed by Jonathan Hock Airdate: Sunday, March 17, at 9pm Et on Espn When the 1982-83 college basketball season began, Jim Valvano and his North Carolina State Wolfpack faced high expectations with equally high aspirations. But with ten losses for the...

“We Decepticons now face our darkest hour.” – Megatron

We have an Exclusive clip from this week’s episode of Transformer’s Prime, “Hard Knocks,” featuring Bulkhead and Smokescreen. As we head into the Transformers Prime Season 2 finale, the rivalry between the Autobots and Decepticons is beginning to heat up and get more deadly.

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If you’re a fan of Transformers G1, you’ll definitely want to tune into Transformers Prime, especially going into the Season 2 Finale. Both Peter Cullen and Frank Welker, who originally voiced Optimus Prime and Megatron in the 1980s cartoon, reprise their roles in this Hasbro Studios’ CG series.

In “Hard Knocks”:

As the race for the Omega Keys grows more desperate, Knock Out harnesses the power of sound, and Starscream the power of hyper-speed.

Hasbro Studios’ Transformers Prime airs Friday, October 5 at 7pm Et/4pm Pt on The Hub.

Greed. Corruption. Trans fats. Such is the sordid state of candy today. We are a miserable populace force-fed the injustices of corn syrup and artificial flavors.

No more!

Enter Unreal — a brand-spankin’-new candy company that’s here to cast off our chains and liberate us, O children of the earth, from our oppressors.

Their new four-minute promo video takes viewers on a journey into forests and rivers and other exotic locales as it unlocks the all-natural origins of their sweets. And adding their gold-plated endorsements are, that’s right PopWatchers, celebrities: Giselle Bündchen, Tom Brady, Matt Damon, John Legend,...

Just over one month after his arrest for suspected domestic battery, Chad Johnson is officially divorced from reality star Evelyn Lozada.

Johnson's attorney, Adam Swickle, confirmed the divorce finalization to The Associated Press on Wednesday, saying that the split was "governed by a confidential prenuptial agreement."

Related: Chad Johnson Arrested, Cut From Miami Dolphins

The estranged couple, who wed on July 4, had an altercation on August 11, resulting in Johnson's arrest. The six-time NFL Pro Bowl wide receiver was later dropped from the Miami Dolphins before his first regular season game. HBO's Hard Knocks captured the firing on their season finale.

Just over one month after his arrest for suspected domestic battery, Chad Johnson is officially divorced from reality star Evelyn Lozada.

Johnson's attorney, Adam Swickle, confirmed the divorce finalization to The Associated Press on Wednesday, saying that the split was "governed by a confidential prenuptial agreement."

Related: Chad Johnson Arrested, Cut From Miami Dolphins

The estranged couple, who wed on July 4, had an altercation on August 11, resulting in Johnson's arrest. The six-time NFL Pro Bowl wide receiver was later dropped from the Miami Dolphins before his first regular season game. HBO's Hard Knocks captured the firing on their season finale.

President Barack Obama put new meaning to the cliche "wide-ranging interview" while speaking with DJ Laz of Miami Latin station Romance 106.7 FM Tuesday morning.

"DJ Laz!" said Obama.

"O-bama" said DJ Laz back, who is also known as the Pimp with the Limp.

When asked how he was, Obama said, "Blessed and highly favored."

When Laz said that it was an honor to have Obama on, Obama replied, "I’m the one who should be humbled. You’re big time. You’ve got Pitbull and Flo Rida and all these guys just beating a path to your door. And so I’m hoping I can get a little of that magic from you in this interview."

Obama wasn't too pleased when Laz said he was wearing a Dolphins jersey. "You gotta start with that Dolphins thing. Did you see that HBO special Hard Knocks? That’s a pretty good show.

Welcome to the first installment of the NFL Bottom Of The Barrel. Each week, myself and fellow We Got This Covered writer Dave Gilbert will take a look at who we think are the best and worst NFL teams of the week.

We will alternate each week starting with me looking at the bottom three and Dave picking the top three.

So, as we head into the first week of the 2012 NFL season, here’s my bottom three teams:

30. Minnesota Vikings

The Vikings have the misfortune of playing in the Nfc North, which should be one of the tougher divisions in the Nfc. The Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions were both in the playoffs last year, and the Chicago Bears are much improved.

The Vikes have a sketchy defense at best and the offense will be led by 2nd year pro Christian Ponder. The O does have a few good skill position players,...

On TV this Tuesday: It’s tough to keep a poker face when you learn you’re Lady Gaga’s Opening Act, Simon’s Covert Affairs are the subject of much discussion, a Happy Endings encore raises more than a glass, the Democratic party gets started and it’s just about time for the check on Hell’s Kitchen and MasterChef. Here are 10 programs to keep on your radar tonight.

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8 pm Hell’s...

Talk about sending a message. Chad Johnson (formerly Ochocinco), normally a vivacious Twitter presence with more than 3 million followers, has finally broken his silence - on Twitter - following his arrest for allegedly head-butting his new wife Evelyn Lozada. "I haven't had to tread water in a long time.…" he wrote on Tuesday. "Special thank you to my fans...family...friends for keeping me afloat..." Also, the football star and Dancing with the Stars alum changed his Twitter profile picture to a road sign pointing in two directions: "Rock" and "Hard Place." Lozada, meanwhile, has been more vocal. On Tuesday,...

Chad Johnson lied to his coach's face this week in an effort to keep from being cut from the Miami Dolphins ... but it didn't work ... and Chad's humiliating termination was all caught on tape. Johnson's ill-fated meeting with Coach Joe Philbin was captured by the crew at "Hard Knocks" ... a weekly HBO documentary series following the Dolphins which aired last night. "Hard Knocks" cameras followed Johnson on the day after he was arrested for domestic...

Los Angeles, California (X17online) - Following the arrest of six-time Pro Bowl winning wide receiver Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson, VH1 has canceled the NFL player's upcoming reality series Ev and Ocho, starring Johnson and his wife Evelyn Lozada. "Due to the unfortunate events over the weekend and the seriousness of the allegations, VH1 is pulling the series Ev and Ocho from its schedule and has no current plans of airing it," the network said in a statement. The reality series, which was scheduled to air on September 3rd, followed Johnson and his Basketball Wives star wife Lozada. Johnson was arrested on Saturday for simple domestic battery charges after he allegedly head-butted Lozada during an argument in their car outside their home in Florida. According to the arrest report, she confronted him about a receipt of condoms in the trunk of the car. He was cut by the Miami Dolphins after...

VH1 is pulling Chad Johnson and Evelyn Lozada's planned reality show "Ev & Ocho" in the wake of Johnson's arrest on domestic violence charges.

Johnson, an 11-year NFL veteran wide receiver formerly known as Chad Ochocinco, was arrested Saturday after allegedly head-butting Lozada, one of the stars of the VH1 reality show "Basketball Wives," outside the newly-married couple's Davie, Florida home. They were reportedly arguing over a receipt for a box of condoms.

VH1 posted a statement announcing the cancelation on its blog:

“Due to the unfortunate events over the weekend and the seriousness of the allegations, VH1 is pulling the series ‘Ev and Ocho’ from its schedule and has no current plans of airing it.”

The show was scheduled to premiere on September 3, and was to cover the couple's July wedding.

Meanwhile, HBO confirmed to Adam Beasley of the Miami Herald that the incident and its aftermath will be...

Ev and Ocho isn't going to premiere on Sept. 3. Soon after Chad Johnson's arrest for a misdemeanor domestic violence charge in Florida on Saturday, VH1 announced the cancellation of the reality show starring the Miami Dolphins receiver, who used to go by Chad Ochocinco, and his new wife, Basketball Wives star Evelyn Lozada. "Due to the unfortunate events over the weekend and the seriousness of the allegations, VH1 is pulling the series Ev and Ocho from its schedule and has no current plans of airing it," the network said in a statement Monday. Related: Chad Johnson (Ochocinco) Arrested for...

Chad Johnson of the Miami Dolphins was arrested last night following an altercation with his wife Evelyn Lozada, Et has learned.

According to the police report, Evelyn says she confronted the former Dancing with the Stars contestant, 34, after finding a receipt for a box of condoms. In the report, Evelyn goes on to claim that Chad head butted her and began to scream, at which point Evelyn reportedly ran to a neighbor's house.

Related: Ochocinco Takes Johnson Back

Chad reportedly told police that it was Evelyn who head butted him. According to the report, Evelyn sustained a laceration on her forehead "approximately 3 inches in length," while Chad "did not have any visible marks or bruises."

Chad was charged for battery with a bond set at $2500.

This news comes just days after the two were seen joking around on HBO's Hard Knocks. According to People.com, the couple, who married last month, are currently...

On TV this Tuesday: Two Little Liars can’t handle the truth, Dianna Agron is a “Perfect” Glee Project guest, the Miami Dolphins report for a season of Hard Knocks and Olympic gymnasts take to the mat one last time. With the TNT and USA Network dramas all taking a breather tonight, here are nine programs to keep on your radar.

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Sig Hansen has been captain of the crab-fishing vessel Northwestern for almost 20 years, and he and his boat have starred on the Discovery Channel's Emmy-winning reality show "Deadliest Catch" for all 8 seasons. In this candid interview, the captain -- widely regarded as one of the crab industry's top providers -- reveals his deepest fear (and no, it isn't his boat sinking).

First of all, I want to say that if I ever become a crab fisherman, I'm going to try to sign up on the Northwestern.

Thatta girl!

I don't know if I have the physical strength, but I would really try hard.

You'd love it!

My first question for you is, what's your definition of “fearless”?

It's overcoming. That's all it is. Pushing through.

What makes you fearless?

Well, I never really looked at myself as fearless, to be quite honest. But it seems like the older I get,...

Sig Hansen has been captain of the crab-fishing vessel Northwestern for almost 20 years, and he and his boat have starred on the Discovery Channel's Emmy-winning reality show "Deadliest Catch" for all 8 seasons. In this candid interview, the captain -- widely regarded as one of the crab industry's top providers -- reveals his deepest fear (and no, it isn't his boat sinking).

First of all, I want to say that if I ever become a crab fisherman, I’m going to try to sign up on the Northwestern.

Thatta girl!

I don’t know if I have the physical strength, but I would really try hard.

You’d love it!

My first question for you is, what’s your definition of “fearless”?

It’s overcoming. That’s all it is. Pushing through.

What makes you fearless?

Well, I never really looked at myself as fearless, to be quite honest. But...

Washington Nationals teen sensation Bryce Harper has proven advanced beyond his years, ever since he earned his Ged after his sophomore year of high school so that he could accelerate the timetable for being drafted by a Major League Baseball team. Now 19, he’s hitting .287 with seven home runs for the first-place Nats.

But it’s not only on the field where Harper is making an impact. Last week in Toronto, a local reporter asked Harper if he planned to take advantage of Canada’s 18-and-over drinking laws to celebrate a big home run. Harper, a Mormon from Las Vegas,...

Football star Tom Brady has sung on Saturday Night Live, been immortalized on The Simpsons, and popped up on an episode of Entourage, so it shouldn’t have been a surprise when he delivered another funny performance in a recent FunnyOrDie video to promote Under Armour. Brady plays the comic straight man, just hoping to locate some gear at a California sporting goods store when the salesperson and some customers become fascinated by him — not by his stardom, but what they perceive as his thick Bah-ston accent. In fact, no one seems to recognize him as the Patriots Super Bowl quarterback,...

The Glee Project‘s new season won’t be hurting for star power.

Glee vets Cory Monteith and Naya Rivera will join the previously announced Lea Michele as mentors in Season 2 of the Oxygen reality series, per The Hollywood Reporter. Glee Project‘s first co-winner, Samuel Larsen, has also been tapped to assist the new contestants.

Related | The Glee Project Season 2: Meet the Cast and Give ‘Em a Storyline!

The competition kicks off June 5 at 10/9c.

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• Andie MacDowell (Jane By Design) is set to star in Hallmark Channel’s first drama pilot,...

After struggling to find an NFL team to chronicle for its seventh season, HBO’s Hard Knocks has landed in Little Havana, reports the Washington Post. The sports miniseries will focus on the Miami Dolphins, who accepted the opportunity to step into the spotlight after the Seattle Seahawks, New York Jets, San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins, Houston Texans, and Minnesota Vikings all told the network “no thanks.”

According to the Post, the team will struggle with, among other things, the search for a franchise quarterback (all hopes are pinned on rookie Ryan Tannehill), the loss of wide receiver Brandon Marshall,...

A heaping plate of bite-sized TV news, including items on yet another singing competition on NBC and another Thomas Harris-related series in development.

- HBO will focus on the Miami Dolphins for the new season of its docu-series "Hard Knocks," which returns after a one-year, NFL lockout-induced hiatus. The show about the Dolphins' training camp under first-year coach Joe Philbin will debut Aug. 7, 10 days after the team opens camp. [NFL/HBO]

- "NCIS" star Michael Weatherly will play the other side of the law when he guest-stars on TNT's new series "Major Crimes" later this summer. He'll play a con artist posing as a life coach -- and who dreams of having a show on Own -- in an episode set for early in the show's run; "Major Crimes" premieres Aug. 13. [TVLine]

- Hey, look: Another televised singing competition! NBC has greenlit "The Winner Is," a game show that will pit solo...

HBO will return for a seventh season of its NFL training camp series Hard Knocks on August 7 featuring the Miami Dolphins, a year after the network scrapped the Emmy-winning documentary series because of the NFL lockout. Espn reported that the Atlanta Falcons and New York Jets were also mentioned as possible teams to be profiled; in 2010, the Jets’ season on the show earned HBO three Sports Emmys. Five hourlong episodes are planned for the show, co-produced with NFL Films. It’s a logical move for the Dolphins, whose ownership group is trying to drum up fan interest in a mediocre team. Owner Stephen Ross has brought in celebrities like Gloria Estefan and Venus and Serena Williams as minority owners, and the team has a red-carpet entrance to the team’s Sun Life Stadium for celebrities attending games.

It's turning into a Hard Knocks life for Reggie Bush—but he comes prepared! HBO, which has selected a team to shadow through the NFL preseason for seven seasons now, has picked the Miami Dolphins, Bush's latest team, for its 2012 installment. While most of those guys are used to playing for an audience of millions, not many of them are used to having cameras follow them around behind the scenes. But Bush has practice, remember? Kim Kardashian's now-ex-boyfriend was prominently featured on earlier seasons of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, so the transition might not be as tough for him. The seventh season of Hard Knocks, featuring Bush and his fellow Dolphins,...

HBO’s cinema verité series Hard Knocks is back in production. The struggling Miami Dolphins – which finished last season with a 6-10 record – will be featured in the docudrama about NFL training camp. The first episode airs Aug. 7 at 10 p.m., with four additional episodes airing on subsequent Tuesdays culminating in the Sept. 4 finale. Photos: TV’s Top Offices: Where the Showrunners of 'Mad Men,' 'New Girl,' 'Sons of Anarchy,' Work and Play Last year, the NFL lockout was blamed for scuttling what would have been the seventh season of the HBO Sports franchise.

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Exclusive: Starz has signed an exploratory deal with Ben Silvrman’s Electus to search together for premium network-suited unscripted programming that would compliment Starz’s original programing slate. Electus sought the partnership with Starz after taking a look at the TV landscape and seeing a void in the unscripted space on premium cable, Electus CEO Chris Grant said. So far, reality TV’s presence on premium cable has been limited to sports documentaries (HBO’s 24/7 and Hard Knocks, Showtime’s The Franchise) and erotic fare (HBO’s Real Sex). That is not a direction Electus and Starz want to follow. “We are looking for tentpole ideas with strong dynamic characters, a little bit of danger and unprecedented access; we want to tell stories that couldn’t be told elsewhere,” Grant said, adding that he and Electus’ development team are hoping to hear from reality producers who have come up with...

HBO's NFL-theme reality series "Hard Knocks Training Camp" is returning for another season of bone-crunching pro football drama, both on and off the field. This year's profiled team will be the Afc East's Miami Dolphins. "Knocks" will chronicle the debut season of head coach Joe Philbin, and feature all the team's veteran players, free agents and untested rookies (including Qb Ryan Tannehill) as they go through training camp and preseason play. “We are delighted that 'Hard Knocks' will be returning this summer and placing the spotlight on the Miami Dolphins, a venerable franchise that had an exciting off-season activity,” said...

London, May 12: Brad Pitt is tipped to play Paddy Doherty in a movie based on the life of the bare-knuckle fighter.

Doherty, who won 'Celebrity Big Brother' has just released his autobiography, 'Hard Knocks And Soft Spots', and talks are underway to turn it into a movie.

Hollywood heart-throb Pitt, 48, who played prize-fighting gypsy Mickey O'Neil in the 2000 Guy Ritchie film 'Snatch', is said to be in talks to play the role.

"It's a fascinating story and will translate really well into a film," the Daily Star quoted a source as.

Update, Monday Am: A lot of great news for Liev Schreiber this morning. His deal with Showtime to star in the drama pilot Ray Donovan formally closed, and the network just made the official announcement. And, in what appears to be a change of heart, HBO Sports has renewed its overall deal with the actor to continue to be the voice of virtually all HBO documentaries as well as the 24/7 reality series, and the NFL reality series Hard Knocks. During the lengthy negotiations, HBO had considered not to re-up the overall with Schreiber and open up the field to other narrators, but in the end it extended Schreiber. I hear that the actor’s Showtime series contract allows for that. Previous, Sunday Pm: With a deal to star in Showtime’s pilot Ray Donovan, Liev Schreiber may one day become the face of the pay cable network. But at the same time,...

Body of Proof gave me flashbacks. Not to any rave I've ever been to, but to those cheesy after school specials they used to show on TV. Despite a few bright moments, "Hard Knocks" wasn't one of my favorite outings for the series.

It started with Bud and Samantha breaking the news of the Jake's death to his parents. It was the cliche of the parents being the last to know as mom ran upstairs to wake up her son, only to find out he had snuck out the night before and really was dead. The father reacted with typical denial and I found the entire scene tiresome.

Jake turned out to be your regular high school bully and I picked Maxine as the killer as soon as she turned up. Isn't it always the geeky honor student/scorned love interest? Even the ring being flipped felt like something we've seen done before.

How can you tell if someone's lying?

Well, if that quote isn't the premise of this entire show, I'm not sure what is. "Sex, Lies and Hard Knocks High" took us one step closer to everything we've been waiting for.

Sutton is out of jail and slumming it in Vegas. Lucky for her she has an awesome, loyal, hilarious best friend in Lexi. Lexi was so close to Emma she knew instantly that it wasn't Emma. I think Sutton was shocked at what it's like to have a friend like that.

Hopefully now that Sutton has seen what Emma has been dealing with in Vegas, she'll go easy on her when they reunite. The scene when she got in Clarice's face and told her off had to be my absolute favorite Sutton scene of the whole season. She may be stuck up, but she can also stand up to someone...

HBO's Hard Knocks was cancelled this year, but in its place HBO is airing Hard Knocks: A Decade of NFL Training Camps. The 90-minute special is not so much a recap as it is a behind-the-scenes episode about the show's production, from outtakes to footage of the production. From montages of practical jokes and farts, to interaction with the producers, to anger at the crews, it's both insightful and fun. It debuted last week and...

The NFL lockout may have finally come to an end, but HBO's "Hard Knocks" has been sent to the showers. HBO Sports and NFL Films issued a joint statement that this year’s five-episode season of the reality series has been canceled, due to the protracted labor dispute. Each year, the series -- which premiered in 2001 -- follows a different NFL team through training camp as it prepares for the upcoming season. However, with the havoc that the lockout played with the league and its schedule, this summer’s season has been canceled. “The...

It looks like we'll have to get our profanity fix elsewhere this fall. Today, HBO Sports and NFL Films announced that HBO's Hard Knocks, a five-episode series that follows a single NFL team during preseason training camp, will not air this season. The companies in a release blamed the lockout-shortened offseason that will condense teams' prep times for the upcoming season, but several teams reportedly declined offers to host the show. The four-month labor stoppage ended Monday when NFL players and owners agreed to a new 10-year collective bargaining agreement. HBO said a 90-minute edition of Hard Knocks cobbled together with footage from previous seasons will premiere Aug. 31, and that the series will resume in 2012. Last year's Hard Knocks featured the New York Jets and coach Rex Ryan, who started off the first show of the season with a swear-word-rich rant that he said he eventually had to apologize to his mother for.

Hard Knocks, the HBO reality series that follows a football team's pre-season training, won't be filmed this year because of the NFL lockout. The network had scheduled the new season's debut for August 10. Sports Illustrated's Peter King reported that there will be "No 'Hard Knocks' this year." This won't be the first time the show has taken a break; it didn't air new seasons from 2003 to 2006. Earlier, Sporting News reported that "several...