The entire cast of Everybody Loves Raymond will reunite for the first time since the death of fellow cast member Peter Boyle to receive the Impact Award at this year’s show. Everybody Loves Raymond ran on CBS for nine successful seasons and joins the TV Land line-up on March 18. This year’s Future Classic Award will be bestowed upon Fox’s runaway hit, Glee. Previous future classic recipients include Desperate Housewives and Arrested Development. Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles) and Carl Reiner (The Dick Van Dyke Show and Ocean’s Eleven) — the Renaissance Men of Comedy who started out on Your Show of Shows — will each receive the Legend Award. This marks the first time that this award will be given to two recipients. Stars of the 1970’s TV phenomenon Charlie’s Angels will be on hand to receive the Pop Culture Award and to pay tribute to their cast member Farrah Fawcett, who passed away of cancer in June 2009.

Now in its eighth year, the TV Land Awards pays tribute to classic and contemporary luminaries of television, music and movies. The ninety-minute telecast will feature exhilarating musical performances and will reunite some of the most iconic celebrity TV casts.

Previous honorees include Mike Myers, Garry Marshall, the cast of Desperate Housewives and the hilarious sitcoms Cheers, The Dick Van Dyke Show and M*A*S*H*. Past presenters include Academy Award©-winner Halle Berry, Justin Timberlake, Ray Romano, Steve Carell, Billy Crystal, Sharon Stone, Robin Williams and Academy Award©-nominee Robert Downey, Jr. to name a few.  Past musical performers include Diana Ross, Willie Nelson and Lionel Ritchie.

Photo courtesy of King World Productions

CBS’s As The World Turns and CBS.com are launching a casting call contest to celebrate actress Eileen Fulton’s 50th anniversary on the show.  ”50 Fabulous Years With Lisa” — named after Fulton’s character, Lisa Grimaldi — invites fans to upload videos of themselves performing cabaret songs to cbs.com.

As The World Turns producers and fans will vote online for the winner.  One lucky fan will perform with Fulton, a cabaret performer in her own right, on the show, Tuesday, May 18, on the CBS Television Network.

Beginning Monday, March 15, at 12:00 Noon, PT, viewers can go to cbs.com/daytime/as_the_world_turns/upload to upload their videos.  The upload period ends on Tuesday, April 13 at 11:59:59 PM, PT.

As The World Turns producers will reveal their top 10 picks on Wednesday, April 14; voting for the top three will begin at 12:00 Noon PT, and end Wednesday, April 21 at 12:00 Noon PT, when the top three will be revealed.  Voting for the winning video begins at 12:01:01 PM, PT on Wednesday, April 21, and runs through Wednesday, April 28.  The winner will be notified and flown to New York to tape the episode the week of May 3; the episode will air Tuesday, May 18, when the winner will be revealed.

For complete rules, go to cbs.com/daytime/as_the_world_turns/upload/rules.php

Preparations for the first Earth Day

From PBS:

American Experience will host a premiere broadcast of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival Closing Night Film, Earth Days, from acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone on Facebook Platform. The 102-minute film honors the origins of the first Earth Day, which took place 40 years ago this April. The online screening, scheduled for Sunday, April 11 at 8:00 p.m ET, represents the first time a major broadcaster has premiered a full-length documentary on Facebook Platform ahead of its national broadcast. Earth Days is scheduled on the PBS series American Experience on Monday, April 19 at 9 p.m.

Earth Days will premiere on Earth Days’ Facebook Page utilizing the Social Screening Application created by Brand Networks, a Boston-based Social Solutions company.  Leveraging a proprietary video player, an integrated poll and the Facebook Comment Box, participants will be able to view Earth Days in its entirety while interacting with friends, other participants-and with filmmaker Robert Stone and American Experience Executive Producer Mark Samels in real-time.

“When we participate at film festivals and preview events around the country, audiences have unique opportunities to interact with filmmakers, ask questions and discuss their work, but these events are not always accessible to everyone,” said Samels. “We want to bring that experience to our fans and make it possible for anyone with an internet connection to join us in the national dialogue surrounding the past, present and future of the environmental movement.”

Earth Days spotlights the amazing changes that have occurred in the eco-movement in the last four decades.  Just as there was no Internet or Facebook, 40 years ago there was no EPA.  Ninety percent of America’s rivers were heavily contaminated with industrial pollution, agricultural run off, and human waste. Breathing the air in Los Angeles was equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. Dangerous pesticides, such as DDT, had brought the American Bald Eagle-the nation’s symbol-to the brink of extinction. National concern about the environment crystallized on April 22, 1970, when 20 million Americans from all walks of life-ten percent of the US population-mobilized in a dramatic show of support for a cleaner environment.

Leading up to the screening on April 11, American Experience will expand the Earth Days Facebook page with new applications and content such as quizzes, polls, “gift” buttons, and preview videos. A campaign utilizing Facebook’s Engagement Ads will drive awareness of and RSVP’s to the screening Event.

“We are thrilled to help American Experience concept and power this innovative program with our Social Screening application and other engaging tools from our Tab Application Suite,” says Brand Networks’ CEO Jamie Tedford. ” The powerful message and images of Earth Days are perfectly suited for a social viewing experience.  Amplifying the voices of event participants through Facebook Platform gives new meaning to “social media” and will demonstrate its ability to create real change.”

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Photo credit: John Sotomayor/The New York Times/Redux

Kristina Wandzilak, Credit: TLC

Recovering Addict -  Now Renowned Interventionist - Kristina Wandzilak Helps Others On New TLC Series “Addicted”

By Barb Oates

TLC is the newest network to tackle drug and alcohol addiction in its new one-hour docu-series Addicted, airing Wednesdays at 10pm ET beginning March 17. The series features renowned interventionist, author and recovering addict Kristina Wandzilak candidly helping families who are profoundly affected by addiction. Their stories are profiled in this heart-wrenching and unpredictable journey of recovery and struggle.

A journey Wandzilak knows very well. Sober now for over 16 years, Wandzilak spent her adolescence (beginning at age 13) indulging in alcohol and drugs, which eventually led to her leaving her family and upper-class home in favor of living on the streets to fuel her addiction.

“Addiction happens — people need to know that,” Wandzilak told us. “It is an equal-opportunity disease. It doesn’t matter if you live in a multimillion-dollar neighborhood or you come from the inner city. Addiction happens and there isn’t an equation to keep it from happening.”

And the number of people needing help is continually growing. “Addiction is everywhere. In fact, that’s one of my hopes for the show and that people have a new understanding of addiction and how it affects good people and decent families all the time. I’m never surprised at how many people need help, because I see it all the time — families struggling and hurting. I think what makes me sad is that families could reach out for help and intervention so much earlier than they do. They go on suffering — they prolong suffering much more than it needs to.”

Wandzilak describes addiction as an isolating disease and says many times family members feel ashamed and don’t reach out for help. ‘“People feel shameful — parents with addicted children in particular. And, I think parents admitting they don’t have control and don’t know how to help their child is profoundly challenging. That’s why it goes on for so long. By the time I get the call for intervention, it’s a very difficult call to make and I know that things must be very difficult for them. It’s not an easy thing to do. It’s humbling to say to a professional, ‘I don’t know how to help the person I love most.’”

Fortunately, Wandzilak learned the equation to recovery and sobriety long ago and has been living it ever since. She took the disease that nearly killed her and turned it into a career.

“I know addiction better than I know anything else,” Wandzilak says. “I know how to recover better than anything else. So I consider it a gift and a privilege to be able to pass this message on to those who want it. I consider it a privilege to live a life of service.”

A service she finds completely fulfilling. “I consider it such a privilege to watch addicts recover pieces of themselves. It’s like building a person.”

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Having covered HGTV for the past couple of years, I’ve seen more than a few shows pitched as something completely different for the network. While sometimes you can chalk that up to clever marketing, it happens to be oh-so true in the case of The Antonio Treatment. For instance, how many design shows can boast life-size pink rhinos coming out of walls and boxing with a former Saved by the Bell heartthrob?

Design Star Season 4 winner Antonio Ballatore brings his rock’n'roll background heavily into play as he revamps dumpy spaces with his signature edgy style. Along with his crew of longtime friends, and his ever-present bulldog Chewie, Ballatore sets out to make radical designs custom-suited to his clients. Among his tasks this season are a renovating a non-profit music studio for young people, creating an art studio for a deaf cartoonist, a punk rock family looking to incorporate antique furniture into their home, and giving Mario Lopez a swanky new workout gym. It all gets started when The Antonio Treatment premieres with two episodes at 10pm ET Sunday on HGTV.

Ballatore took some time to answer some questions about getting the show off the ground, and the backlash to his unconventional approach.

Did you know right after you won Design Star what your show would be, or was there a lot of planning that had to be done?

Antonio Ballatore: I think we had a basic plan to begin with, and once we started, we really got into more of my life and what I was doing and captured a lot of that also. It’s definitely evolved since then. A lot of what goes on, it’s a lot of my friends, a lot of things that are in my life, a lot of artist friends I bring in as guest artists. I could have a guest artist come in every week. A lot of that developed as it went.

What was it like coming from Design Star, which was such a competitive show, to something like this where it’s just you doing your job?

That was definitely nice, to collaborate. My crew is awesome and we all work together and everybody helps come up with ideas. But we were definitely competing against the clock. We’re doing these major makeovers in three-and-a-half days. That was the competition.

Every makeover show has the part when things start to go wrong, and the audience is led to believe the whole project could fall apart at any minute. But, sitting at home, you can’t help but be pretty sure everything is going to turn out OK. How dicey do things really get?

It can get pretty close. We had to figure out each other’s work and what we could do in that time frame. By the third episode, we were pretty tight. We were cranking them out. We took on some pretty big jobs — retail spaces, clothing stores, we did a bar, the art studios at the Boys and Girls Club of Hollywood, we did a bunch of residential spaces. You know what was funny, the big spaces, we really knocked out. It was the little spaces that always came from behind and shook us a little bit and almost didn’t finish. The smallest spaces always came back to get us. Maybe we were just too laid back and thought we had it in the can and didn’t realize that we were running out of time. We got them all out, though. That became fun, being able to do such crazy jobs in such a short time.

The episode I saw, where you redo the music studio, there was an injury to one of your crew. Anything else like that happen?

No. Thank God nobody hurt themselves. Greg has been a friend of mine since we were kids and stuff like that always happens to him. (Laughs) I ripped him a little bit for it and people thought we were being mean to him. But it’s a construction crew and we’re all buddies, so he had to get made fun of for a little bit. Nobody got injured, but we were all hurting after awhile. We did 13 shows in 15 weeks, with just two weeks of prep time, so it was a crazy schedule.

Since you’ve known most of your crew for a long time, was it easy to be yourselves on camera and capture your camaraderie?

That’s what was pretty cool about it. There was one new guy, Billy, and he was a little shy at first, but then two or three episodes in, we all got to know each other and we pretended the cameras weren’t even there and just treated it like a regular job. We all had a blast together. Toward the middle we started bringing guitars to the set and having little jam sessions at lunchtime. It was definitely a fun gig. We’ve been done two weeks now and we’re still tight, calling each other and missing each other. Last night we all went out together, so it’s a really tight crew, even behind the scenes, with the camera crew. It became a cool little family.

Was there something you thought was missing in the design show genre that you wanted to fill with this show?

The whole thing with this show and with me is that I’m just trying to do something different and push it a little bit and just inspire people. What I do isn’t for everybody, but if it inspires people to go out there and try something different and be a little bold with their design and not be intimidated by design, that’s what the main goal is behind this thing. That’s what I want to get across.

By “intimidated by design,” do you mean the people who might feel they’re not cultured enough to tackle design, or that they need formal training?

Yeah. A lot of designers use a lot of big terms, and they try to intimidate people with things. Where I come from, it’s just from the gut. It’s almost like an artist’s point of view. There’s no right or wrong. If it’s you, if it’s something that fits you and you dig it in your house, then go for it. Don’t worry about what people think. That’s the big thing, a lot of people either really love me and they get it, or some people, like, there’s a lot of bloggers that kind of hate me. “This guy’s not a designer,” and all this. You’d think I was out eating babies on the weekend, but I’m just trying to do something different and open people’s minds up and have fun with it.

What do those bloggers get mad about? Do they think you’re not qualified?

They get worked up about it. People have their opinions on what they think good design is and, for me, if you dig it, it’s all personal. Sure, you can lay something out wrong that doesn’t go together, but it’s all about being creative with your space and doing what you want.

You seem really unfazed by all this — winning Design Star, now having your own show. Are you just good at hiding it, or are you really not nervous and blown away by it all?

With the cameras around, and the whole show, I’m just doing what I’ve always been doing. It’s almost like, “It’s about time the cameras showed up.” I’m just doing my thing and having fun with it and the show and interviews and the whole artistic end of it. I’m just going for it and having fun and just being myself, and if it succeeds, that’s awesome, and if not, at least I went at it being myself and didn’t sacrifice anything.

You’ve been working as a professional designer for a long time, so how has being on TV changed your career?

For the past 12 years I’ve been a set designer. I’ve worked for people like David LaChappelle and Annie Leibovitz. Since I’ve been doing the show, I haven’t had a chance to do any of that. We just finished taping two weeks ago, and I’m just trying to catch up and recover and just chill out a little bit and see where this takes me. The interior thing is a whole new thing for me. I did small interiors here and there and commercial spaces, but now being this interior-designer guy is a whole new world.

What do you think of the episodes of The Antonio Treatment you’ve seen so far?

I think with the first episode, the one with the music studio, it was more kind of just following me around. There wasn’t too much of the design in there. As the episodes go on, there’s more and more design and it’s more of a design show than a reality show. I think they were setting it up and just showing the crew on that first show. You definitely see me evolve as a designer, too, and do all these crazy different spaces. … By the last two episodes, I was in a real groove and really figuring things out and really getting it tight.

This seems like a show aimed at bringing in viewers who might not even think they’d enjoy a design show. Do you think that’s the case?

Most definitely. That’s the thing about the show, it will go across lines and get a new audience in there to watch HGTV and get into design shows. We’re not doing your run-of-the-mill stuff. I did this hotel room with this life-size pink rhino coming out of the wall, and all sorts of stuff. I’m just going over-the-top with it and going crazy with it and making it entertaining and inspiring at the same time.

You’ve got your Mario Lopez episode coming up. How was that to shoot?

We do his home gym and a gym at his Extra studios. I get in the boxing ring with him, and it was pretty crazy. We went to his boxing gym where he trains, and Mario Lopez is no joke, he’s ripped on top of ripped. Muscles everywhere, he’s been training and boxing for years. He even fights semi-pro dudes. I went in there and I was warned, everybody’s like, “He’s going to rough you up, no matter what.” I went at him swinging full force and he just lit me up and I almost went down twice. I almost got knocked out. My knees got wobbly. That’s the first time in my life that’s happened to me. Mario calls me a “method designer.”

That is definitely not something I’m used to seeing on HGTV.

(Laughs) Yeah, we do all sorts of crazy stuff. Each episode is something kind of fun and crazy.

CBS will again have full coverage of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, with live coverage on CBS and online at March Madness On Demand. The preliminary CBS TV schedule is below (first-round matchups to be announced March 14).

CBS SPORTS 2010 NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP BROADCAST SCHEDULE

Thursday, March 18
Noon-5:00 PM - FIRST ROUND DOUBLEHEADER, Providence, R.I., New Orleans, La., Oklahoma City, Okla., San Jose, Calif., Regional
7:00 PM-12:00 AM - FIRST ROUND DOUBLEHEADER, (same sites as above listing), Regional

Friday, March 19
Noon-5:00 PM - FIRST ROUND DOUBLEHEADER, Jacksonville, Fla., Buffalo, N.Y., Milwaukee, Wisc. & Spokane, Wash., Regional
7:00 PM-12:00 AM - FIRST ROUND DOUBLEHEADER, (same sites as above listing), Regional

Saturday, March 20
Noon -1:00 PM    THE ROAD TO THE FINAL FOUR, National
1:00-10:00 PM - SECOND ROUND QUADRUPLEHEADER, Providence, R.I., New Orleans, La., Oklahoma City, Okla., San Jose, Calif., Regional

Sunday, March 21
Noon-7:00 PM - SECOND ROUND TRIPLEHEADER, Jacksonville, Fla, Buffalo, N.Y., Milwaukee, Wisc. & Spokane, Wash., Regional

Thursday, March 25
7:00 PM-12:00 AM - REGIONAL SEMIFINAL  DOUBLEHEADER, Syracuse, N.Y. & Salt Lake City, Utah, Regional

Friday, March 26
7:00 PM-12:00 AM - REGIONAL SEMIFINAL DOUBLEHEADER, St. Louis, Mo. & Houston, Texas, Regional

Saturday, March 27
1:00-3:00 PM - MEN’S DIVISION II CHAMPIONSHIP, MassMutual Center, Springfield, Mass., National
3:00-4:30 PM - THE ROAD TO THE FINAL FOUR, National
4:30-9:00 PM - REGIONAL FINAL DOUBLEHEADER, Syracuse, N.Y. & Salt Lake City, Utah, National

Sunday, March 28
2:00-7:00 PM - REGIONAL FINAL DOUBLEHEADER, St. Louis, Mo. & Houston, Texas, National

Saturday, April 3
3:30-4:00 PM - THE ROAD TO THE FINAL FOUR, “Outside the Games”, National
4:00-6:00 PM - THE FINAL FOUR SHOW, National
6:00-11:00 PM - NCAA MEN’S FINAL FOUR, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Ind., National

Monday, April 5
9:00-9:15 PM - PRELUDE TO A CHAMPIONSHIP, National
9:15-11:30 PM - NCAA MEN’S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Ind., National

MILITARY CHANNEL SALUTES LOYAL AUDIENCES
WITH FIRST EVER VIEWER’S CHOICE MONTH

- Military Channel’s Online Polls Open Thursday, March 11 for the “Battle of the Branches”
Pitting the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard Against Each Other -

Wil Willis in Military Channel's hit series "Special Ops Mission"

(Silver Spring, MD) - This April, Military Channel is putting its viewers at the top of the chain of command for the network’s first ever VIEWER’S CHOICE MONTH.  Every Thursday night’s primetime lineup in April will be chosen by the Military Channel fans, appointing them “programmers-in-chief” of the network.  Each week plays host to a particular genre as fans go to www.military.discovery.com/tv/viewers-choice to vote for their favorite selection in each category.

Kicking off Viewer’s Choice Month is the “Battle of the Branches,” where divisions of the U.S. Military — Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard — square off in a popularity contest chosen by Military Channel’s viewers.  Whichever branch gets the most votes will win and seize control of the Military Channel on Thursday, April 1 from 8-11 PM (ET).

Starting Thursday, March 11, the Viewer’s Choice Month polls open online  and fans can begin to vote on their top picks in each genre.  Video previews and sneak peeks of the episodes offer insight into what will be on the air for each selection.  Viewers have the chance to bring victory to their favorite branch, historical eras or combat weaponry as they take command of Military Channel.

A breakdown of the weekly programming battles is as follows:

• Battle of the Branches (Thursday, April 1 from 8-11 PM): With good-natured rivalry expected, which U.S. Military branch will be the network’s fan favorite? Will it be the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or Coast Guard?
• Battle of the Weapons (Thursday, April 8 from 8-11 PM): Tanks, submarines, airplanes, aircraft carriers and guns go head-to-head. Which high-powered weaponry will reign supreme?
• Battle of the Battles (Thursday, April 15 from 8-11 PM): Which battle will be reenacted? With Gettysburg, Stalingrad, Pearl Harbor, Normandy or Baghdad on the list, viewers could see anything from cannonballs to stealth fighters.
• Battle of the Wars (Thursday, April 22 from 8-11 PM): Historical turning-points clash to see which era takes the top spot between WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War or Gulf War.
• Battle of the Shows (Thursday, April 29 from 8-11 PM):  It’s the showdown of Military Channel’s most popular series including World at War, Hitler’s Bodyguard, Ultimate Weapons, Great Planes or Special Ops Mission.

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CBS announced its plans for Sunday’s NCAA Tournament Selection Sunday special, airing March 14 at 6pm ET on CBS. Here’s the full press release from CBS:

CBS SPORTS TOGETHER WITH CBS COLLEGE SPORTS NETWORK BREAK DOWN THE BRACKETS WITH THREE HOURS OF NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SELECTION SHOW COVERAGE

CBS Sports Broadcasts Exclusive, Live, First-time Announcement of  2010 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship Field of 65 on Sunday, March 14

CBS College Sports Network Offers Two-Hours of In-Depth Analysis of Field of 65 Following CBS Sports’ Live Bracket Reveal

CBSSports.com Streams CBS Sports’ Selection Show Live

CBS Sports, together with CBS College Sports Network, offers college basketball fans the most comprehensive coverage of Selection Sunday with the exclusive, live, first-time announcement and three hours of in-depth coverage of the 2010 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship field of 65.

CBS Sports tips-off the madness with the announcement of the pairings for the 2010 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship on Sunday, March 14 (6:00-7:00 PM, ET) during the NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SELECTION SHOW.

Greg Gumbel, Greg Anthony and Seth Davis host the NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SELECTION SHOW live from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York.  Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg join Gumbel, Anthony and Davis via satellite from the site of the Big Ten Championship at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Ind.  In addition, Dan Geuerro, Chairman of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee joins them live from Indianapolis, Ind. to discuss the bracket and the committee’s selection process.

Immediately following CBS Sports’ live bracket reveal, CBS College Sports Network takes over with BRACKET BREAKDOWN (7:00-9:00 PM, ET) featuring comprehensive analysis of the field, as well as interviews with players and coaches. CBS College Sports Network’s Adam Zucker and CBS Sports’ Tracy Wolfson host the show, along with analysts Wally Szczerbiak, Pete Gillen, Steve Lappas and RPI expert Jerry Palm from their New York studio. BRACKET BREAKDOWN also features CBS Sports’ Gumbel, Anthony and Davis throughout the program.

Additionally, CBS Sports’ coverage of the NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP SELECTION SHOW will be streamed live on NCAA March Madness on Demand (MMOD) available at CBSSports.com and NCAA.com, as well as MMOD apps available for the iPhone and iPod Touch and through the CBS Channel on FLO TV, which is available through AT&T and other wireless providers. MMOD viewers on CBSSports.com and NCAA.com will have the option of watching via a standard video player or by downloading a high-quality player, offering an enhanced video experience, free of charge. For more information on 2010 NCAA March Madness on Demand, users can visit: mmod.ncaa.com

Hard to believe, but NCAA Tournament time starts again, with the announcement of the tournament field on Sunday, March 14, and the first round beginning on Thursday, March 18. CBS will again cover the tournament, with Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg its top announcing team. More details from CBS:

CBS SPORTS’ EXCLUSIVE NETWORK COVERAGE OF THE 2010 NCAA DIVISION I MEN’S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP TIPS-OFF WITH FIRST-ROUND ACTION ON THURSDAY, MARCH 18

COVERAGE CULMINATES WITH NETWORK’S BROADCAST OF  FINAL FOUR® AND CHAMPIONSHIP GAME FOR 29th CONSECUTIVE YEAR

Spero Dedes Added to CBS Sports’ Announcer Line-up

Tournament Schedule and Broadcast Pairings Announced

“March Madness®” returns to the CBS Television Network when CBS

Sports broadcasts the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship for the 29th consecutive year.  Exclusive live, network coverage begins on Thursday, March 18 and concludes on Monday, April 5 with the National Championship game from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Ind.

THE ROAD TO THE FINAL FOUR, the Network’s studio show, tips off CBS Sport’s coverage of first- round games on Thursday, March 18 and Friday, March 19 (12:00 Noon-5:00 PM, ET and 7:00 PM-12:00 AM, ET, both days/nights) and is hosted by Greg Gumbel, Greg Anthony and Seth Davis from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City. Lesley Visser, Tracy Wolfson and Sam Ryan serve as reporters for THE ROAD TO THE FINAL FOUR throughout CBS Sports’ coverage of the tournament.

CBS Sports broadcasts the one-hour NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SELECTION SHOW on Sunday, March 14 (6:00-7:00 PM, ET), during which the exclusive, live, first-time announcement of the pairings for the NCAA Tournament are made.  The show originates from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York, hosted by Gumbel, along with Anthony and Davis. Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg will be live from Indianapolis, Ind.

Following is the CBS Sports roster of announce teams for first and second-round action, led by Nantz, covering his 25th Final Four, and analyst Kellogg, calling the Final Four and Championship game for the second time.

Play-By-Play/Analyst

Jim Nantz/Clark Kellogg
Dick Enberg//Jay Bilas
Verne Lundquist/Bill Raftery
Gus Johnson/Len Elmore
Kevin Harlan/Dan Bonner
Ian Eagle/Jim Spanarkel
Tim Brando/Mike Gminski
Spero Dedes/Bob Wenzel

Harold Bryant is Vice President, Production, CBS Sports. Bob Dekas is coordinating producer of CBS Sports’ NCAA basketball coverage, and Bob Fishman is the lead director.  Eric Mann is Senior Producer.  Mann, David Winner and Vin DeVito produce THE ROAD TO THE FINAL FOUR studio coverage.  Bob Matina directs.

March 10, 2010 - New York, NY - Mattel, Inc., Lionsgate,  and AMC announced today the launch of four Barbie® Collector Mad Men dolls available to consumers July 2010. Designed by Barbie designer Robert Best, the Mad Men Barbie doll line features key players from the Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency: creative director and leading man Don Draper; his wife Betty Draper; Sterling Cooper partner Roger Sterling; and bombshell office manager Joan Holloway. Today’s announcement marks the first licensed doll line in the Barbie Fashion Model Collection, a signature silkstone collection within the Barbie brand known for featuring couture quality fashions and accessories.

The Mad Men Barbie Collector doll collection embodies the Mad Men series’ couture fashions and accessories, and its iconic 1960s style and aesthetic. The series, which is produced by Lionsgate and airs on AMC, has made history with its multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Awards by chronicling the lives of the men and women of Madison Avenue advertising in the 1960s.  Season four of Mad Men premieres this summer.

Gracefully molded of Silkstone, a material that resembles the look and weight of porcelain, each doll is stylized in iconic costumes from the series, and comes with accessories true to their show counterparts.  Don Draper wears his classic, polished red-lined suit and comes accessorized with a hat, overcoat and brief case; Betty Draper’s classic look is captured with unparalleled detail, from her faux pearl necklace to her pumps; Joan Holloway looks chic in a purple skirt suit and perfectly styled coif with her staple accessory - a pen necklace; and Roger Sterling is looking dapper in his monogrammed shirt.

Fans can get exclusive collectible sketch drawings of the Mad Men Barbie Collector dolls when the Season Three DVD hits stores on March 23, 2010 as each DVD set will include one of the four character sketches. The Mad Men: Season Three DVD contains all 13 episodes of the season and is also loaded with hours of special features including extensive commentaries and innovative featurettes that examine the historical events that shaped 1963.

The Barbie® Fashion Model Collection Mad Men Barbie® dolls will be available for a suggested retail price of $74.95. Available at BarbieCollector.com, amctv.com and select retailers.

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