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Imagine “America’s Funniest Home Videos” meets “The Blair Witch Project….” “Freak Out,” the hilariously scary hidden-camera prank show is back with all-new episodes starting Wednesday, March 25th (8:30 Pm -Et/Pt).495 Productions, launched in 2006 in California, is a complete TV production company that births strongly formatted, character-driven reality television shows anchored by powerful personalities who are guaranteed to deliver off-the-wall TV moments.SallyAnn Salsano is the founder of 495, and she has produced some of the most well known and most watched reality programming in recent history, including “The Show With Vinny” (MTV), “Jerks With Cameras” (MTV), Disaster Date” (MTV), “The Pauly […]...

Ashton Kutcher isn't the only new face on "Two and a Half Men" this season.

The actor, whose debut on the show helped the re-configured sitcom bow to a massive audience of 27.8 million Americans on Monday, plays Walden Schmidt, an internet billionaire suffering from a broken heart after being getting dumped. The show has already announced that comedy vet Judy Greer will be playing the former flame, and now Entertainment Weekly reports that "True Blood" star Joe Manganiello will take on the role of her new beau.

It figures that Walden will suffer severe embarrassment thanks to the hot body of his ex's new guy; Manganiello famously gets in the buff for "True Blood" and is next starring in the Steven Soderbergh-directed "Magic Mike," playing a stripper named Big Dick Richie. His episode will air October 24th.

Also joining the show in a guest role is Monika Smith, The Hollywood Reporter relays.

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People who love reality TV should be as familiar with SallyAnn Salsano as Mark Burnett. First of all she’s produced big name shows like The Bachelorette, Dance Your Ass Off and A Shot at Love. But her real claim to fame is bringing the kids from the Jersey Shore into your living room. In a recent exclusive interview she talked about creating the controversial series and the other shows on her production company’s slate.

SallyAnn talked about a career-changing call that she got from a cable network executive, “There was a woman at VH1 named Shelley Tatro that called me and goes, ‘You’re the biggest Guido I know. We need to do a show on the Guido.’” And with that Jersey Shore was born.

An exhaustive casting process for the ideal cast of characters to share a Shore house began. Having...

In Barry Katz's world, a blown-out knee is funny. Katz, who heads New Wave Entertainment's talent management division, is producing "Dumbbells," a buddy comedy about a college basketball star who blows out his knee and gets a job working at a dumpy Los Angeles gym. The basketball player, who has NBA dreams, learns the true meaning of life at the gym. Brian Drolet (MTV's "Disaster Date," "2 Dudes and a Dream") wrote the movie and stars. Hoyt Richards ("The Disciple") also stars. "Hit and Runway's" Chris Livingston is directing. Travus Pope, Jordan Eubanks and Josh...

Hasan Minhaj has joined the cast of ABC Family's upcoming comedy "State of Georgia" in a recurring role, according to his management company, New Wave Entertainment. Minhaj, who also serves as a regular on the new season of MTV's hidden-camera series "Disaster Date," will have a recurring role as Seth, a graduate student in physics at Columbia University. The series stars "That's So Raven" alum Raven-Symoné as Georgia, who moves from the rural south to New York in order to pursue her acting career. The cast is fleshed out by Majandra...