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Click here to download TV listings for the week of July 8 - 14 in PDF format TV listings for the week of July 8 - 14 in PDF format are also available here This week's TV Movies   SUNDAY If you hear any noise it's likely to be of the joyful variety when the vocal competition "Sunday Best" raises up a fifth season. Kirk Franklin returns as host, and gospel-music greats Yolanda Adams and CeCe Winans join the judges' panel.

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 21 -27, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies       SUNDAY Ask your doctor if a magic potion is right for you. Side effects may include singing, dancing and turning 30 years younger, as seen in "Lovestruck: The Musical. " Jane Seymour, Chelsea Kane and Sara Paxton star. 8 and 10 p.m. ABC Family Get a refresher course on the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s, and the subsequent investigations, book and film, in "All the President's Men Revisited.

Canadian actress Natalie Brown(actress) has really great eyebrows. Also, a lovely smile. In fact, she's very pretty all around, and no doubt has a bright and shining future. There, I've said something nice. "Sophie," the ABC Family comedy in which she stars, on the other hand, is painful to watch.

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 3 - 9, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies     SERIES "The Biggest Loser" Fashion expert Tim Gunn and hairstylist Ken Paves give the contestants makeovers in this new episode 8 p.m. NBC "The Bachelor" Controversial bachelorette Tierra gets the chance to defend herself...

Paul Lee, the executive who revived Walt Disney Co.'s moribund ABC Family channel with shows that appealed to the sensibilities of the millennial generation, was elevated Friday to president of ABC Entertainment Group. Lee immediately takes over for Steve McPherson, who abruptly stepped down this week. The 50-year-old, London-born Lee, a former BBC television executive, will oversee creative and business operations for the broadcast network as well as ABC Studios, the company's in-house TV production unit.

Serena and Venus Williams will be starring in their version of a tennis reality show. The sisters' off-court lives -- their family, friends and the glamour of big-time tennis -- will be featured in a six-episode show that is still untitled but set to premiere on ABC Family in July. "The series will provide our fans with an up-close, inside look at our lives away from the tennis courts," Venus Williams said. The sisters have won 11 major singles titles between them. Serena is ranked No.

A court hearing on Walt Disney Co.'s request for an injunction to prevent EchoStar Communications Corp., the nation's second-largest satellite firm, from dropping the ABC Family channel has been postponed. Attorneys for both companies agreed with U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess to reschedule the hearing to Jan. 17 to allow the court more time to review additional briefs both sides are preparing for the hearing.

The TV series "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" opens with a 15-year-old girl coming home from band practice, reaching into her French horn case and pulling out a home pregnancy test. Her horrified look confirms the results. No less startled are some parents whose children watch the ABC Family cable program that revolves around the sex lives of high school students.

Walt Disney Co.'s ABC Family cable-television network lost $362.9 million in the quarter ended Dec. 31 after Disney wrote off the value of programming it will no longer use. The loss contrasted with net income of $8.49 million a year earlier, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. ABC Family Worldwide Inc.'s sales declined 27% to $134.7 million from $184.9 million.

Walt Disney Co. has new allies in the fight to keep ABC Family channel on DirecTV. Fans of televangelist Pat Robertson's talk show, "The 700 Club," which appears several times each weekday on ABC Family, have flooded DirecTV President Roxanne Austin's corporate office with phone calls to protest its plans to drop the channel.

On a chilly morning at Santa Clarita Studios, the cast and crew of ABC Family's "Switched at Birth" are about to tape a scene at an outdoor carwash. It is not quiet on the set. A creaky cart rattles past. Rubber cables swoosh as they're dragged along the concrete. A hiss comes from the hot-coffee dispenser at craft services. In the distance, a car engine starts up. The collective sprightly chatter of milling crew members rises, then falls as a call for calm goes out. The director, in a North Face jacket and wool cap, shouts, "Action!"

Amy Sherman-Palladino is trying to get a scene just right. She is directing the season finale of her show "Bunheads," an episode that could determine whether the ABC Family network returns the series for a second season. "Bunheads" is a sweet drama about a Las Vegas chorus girl starting over in a small town by teaching ballet. Sherman-Palladino, a classically trained dancer turned television writer, is trying to start over too. The pivotal scene of this episode, which airs Monday night, is being filmed on location in Hollywood.

This post has been updated. ABC Family announced the renewal of three shows Friday: a third season for "Melissa & Joey," a second season of "Switched at Birth" and a second season for "Baby Daddy. " Additionally, the channel has ordered more episodes of its ballet school comedy-drama "Bunheads. " "Melissa & Joey" stars Melissa Joan Hart as a successful politician and Joey Lawrence as her family's "manny. " "Baby Daddy" stars Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Derek Theler and Tahj Mowry in a "Three Men and a Baby"-style situation.

ABC'selephant in the room - "Modern Family" - got poked and prodded by a room full of reporters at the Television Critics Assn. press tour Friday, but the network's entertainment president mostly ignored the beast in his session presenting a fall season overview. The Emmy-winning comedy has been making headlines as key cast members hold out for more money, skipping a table read for the coming season, then deciding to sue 20th Century Fox Television. As many as four questions during the 45-minute session focused on the network's hit comedy and the current status of contract talks, but ABC entertainment president Paul Lee kept things brief.

'Beverly Hills Nannies' Where: ABC Family When: 9 p.m. Wednesday Rating: TV-14-D (may be unsuitable for children under the age of 14 with an advisory for suggestive dialogue)

During the 18th century, a fashionable pastime among London's rich and royal was to visit Bethlem Royal Hospital, most commonly known as Bedlam, and watch the antics of the mentally ill. In the 21st century, it is the rich and famous who are gaped at, their habits and habitats reveled in and reviled through the lens of reality TV. What started as an aspirational experience, epitomized by the gushing "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," has become...

Walt Disney Co. plans to cut about half the staff at its recently acquired ABC Family channel, according to sources at the company. About 300 employees at the cable channel's headquarters in Westwood will be laid off in the next several weeks, said an executive at ABC Family who asked not to be identified. The layoffs will cut across all divisions, but will fall more heavily on administrative and support staff than creative personnel, the source said.

Sharpening their attack on Walt Disney Co. and its chief executive, former directors Roy E. Disney and Stanley P. Gold have accused the company of concealing from shareholders the diminished value of one of its key cable channels. But outside experts say the Burbank conglomerate seems to be operating within the scope of federal accounting rules, despite questions that for weeks have been swirling around the finances of the ailing ABC Family Channel.

Click here to download TV listings for the week of July 8 - 14 in PDF format TV listings for the week of July 8 - 14 in PDF format are also available here This week's TV Movies SERIES The Bachelorette:  Emily and the three remaining bachelors travel to the Caribbean island of Curaçao (8 p.m. ABC). American Ninja Warrior:   The competitors begin the first stage of the final course in this new episode (9 p.m. NBC)

Click here to download TV listings for the week of July 8 - 14 in PDF format TV listings for the week of July 8 - 14 in PDF format are also available here This week's TV Movies   SUNDAY If you hear any noise it's likely to be of the joyful variety when the vocal competition "Sunday Best" raises up a fifth season. Kirk Franklin returns as host, and gospel-music greats Yolanda Adams and CeCe Winans join the judges' panel.