David Garfinkle Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

Fresh from its launch earlier this month, Lionsgate Alternative Television is getting a little agency help.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Lionsgate is launching a new alternative television division. The news comes on the heels of the independent studio closing its $375 million acquisition of eOne in late December. Lionsgate Alternative Television will combine Pilgrim Media Group (which is majority owned by Lionsgate) with eOne’s U.S.

EXCLUSIVE: Bobby Bones-fronted social experiment Snake In The Grass won’t be returning to USA Network.

EXCLUSIVE: CBS won’t be heading back into the Panamanian jungle.

USA Network has ordered a slew of series including a bar competition series from Blake Shelton and Carson Daly, a social experiment fronted by former American Idol mentor Bobby Bones and an Alaska-set survival competition from the producers of Deadliest Catch.

The second week of Survivor season 42 managed to break Chicago Fire‘s demo-topping streak in the latest Wednesday primetime lineup. While not the top-rated program of the night, Fire was the most-watched.

It’s not I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here — but it sure is close. CBS on Wednesday debuted Beyond the Edge, a new reality show from Renegade (Naked and Afraid) that drops nine celebrities into the jungles of Panama to compete in challenges while earning cash for their charities (and personal pocketbooks).

There’s news from “deep in the heart of the Panamanian jungle.” CBS said today that its new celebrity-competition series Beyond the Edge will premiere at 9 p.m. Wednesday, March 16. Watch the cold open for the Survivor-style show above.