ENTERTAINMENT
March 18, 2013 | By Matt Cooper
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 17 - 23, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies SERIES Splash Lakers legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, comic Louie Anderson, reality star Kendra Wilkinson are among the stars competing on this new celebrity diving competition. 8 p.m. ABC Pretty Little Liars The teen-themed drama ends another season, followed by a sneak peak at the pilot episode of the summer series "Twisted.
ENTERTAINMENT
March 4, 2013 | By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
"LA Shrinks" debuts Monday on Bravo, which may be broadly described as a network on which people who really do not need the money star in reality programs. It focuses on three therapists, hopping from one to the other -- they don't interact -- and following each in and out of the office. In contrast to the house style, the principals are relatively likable and well adjusted, though not without their challenges. For the space of the opening episode, at least, none of them scream. Our practitioners: -- Dr. Venus Nicolino, who lives and works in a big, marbled Bel-Air mansion, with a husband and four kids, two their own and two nephews under "permanent guardianship" (reason unstated)
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 18, 2013 | By Brian Bennett
Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - When Jessica Bravo came here this month to talk to her congressman, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach), about expanding rights for illegal immigrants, their meeting ended in a shouting match and tears. Bravo, an 18-year-old community college student at Golden West College in Huntington Beach, was smuggled over the border from Mexico by her parents when she was 3. She recently joined hundreds of other young illegal immigrants in a campaign to confront members of Congress and ask them to vote for a pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 9, 2013 | By Robert Faturechi, Los Angeles Times
When Justin Bravo applied to be a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy, background investigators noted the young man had some brushes with the law that raised red flags about his past. Nonetheless, the department hired Bravo as a deputy through a little-known program called "Friends of the Sheriff" - a screening process for applicants with connections to department officials. Bravo's link was his uncle: Sheriff Lee Baca. Now, the jail deputy is the subject of a Sheriff's Department criminal probe into whether he abused an inmate.
ENTERTAINMENT
December 5, 2012 | By Yvonne Villarreal
Bravo has established itself as a birth site for reality TV touchstones -- through franchises such as "Real Housewives" and "Top Chef" -- but it really, really wants to get in the scripted game and has picked up two new scripted shows to pilot to help make that their reality . The pilots are expected to start production early next year. "Rita," produced by Fox Television Studios, "is an adaptation of a Danish series that centers on...
ENTERTAINMENT
November 20, 2012 | By Ed Stockly
Click here to download TV listings for the week Nov. 18 - 24 in PDF format This week's TV Movies SERIES Criminal Minds : A busload of children goes missing on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., Sending Rossi (Joe Mantegna) and the BAU team into action in this new episode. Thomas Gibson, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook and Kirsten Vangsness also star (9 p.m. CBS). Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: When detectives investigate reports of sexual abuse at an elite private school, decades of secrets are exposed in this new episode (9 p.m. NBC)