The “Fuse News” team (l-r): Walaszczyk, Moran, Babel, Chung, Osbourne. (PRNewsFoto/Fuse)
It’s been a banner week for veteran TV exec Richard Dominick.
Not only did truTV renew the Dominick-created “Hardcore Pawn” for a seventh season, but Dominick inked a deal with Detroit-based Horizon Entertainment to produce movies under a new company, Richard Dominick Entertainment Group (which will connect “the worlds of music and reality television production,” according to a press release).
In addition to “Hardcore Pawn,” Dominick’s long TV and movie resume includes executive-producing (“The Jerry Springer Show,” “The Steve Wilkos Show,” which he also created) and producing the big-screen movie, “Ringmaster,” starring Jerry Springer and Jaime Pressly, among other credits.
Speaking of talk shows — and Springer, indirectly — NBC Universal has renewed “Trisha Goddard” for a second season. The show, hosted by the British-born Goddard, airs here on CBS-owned Ch. 55 (at 5 p.m.) and originates from the same Stamford, Ct. studios as “Springer,” “Maury Povich” and “Wilkos.”
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Larry Manetti, who co-starred all those years go in “Magnum, P.I.,” is returning to the Hawaii beat for an episode of CBS’s “Hawaii Five-O.” Manetti, who co-hosts CRN Digital Talk Radio’s “P.M. Show” with his wife, Nancy, will guest-star as Nicky “The Kid” Demarco, a lounge owner and singer who assists in an investigation, in an episode slated for later next month.
Like “Magnum,” on which he played Orville “Rick” Wright, “Hawaii Five-O” is shot in The Rainbow State.
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Fuse is set to launch its new franchise, “Fuse News,” which will premiere with special Grammy coverage Feb. 6 (8 p.m.).
The new show, anchored by former MTV host Alexa Chung and Matte Babel — with contributors Jack Osbourne (yes, that Jack Osbourne), Elaine Moran and Liz Walaszczyk — will cover the music industry on a nightly basis.
Former ABC, CNN, MSNBC and CBS news exec Rick Kaplan is a producing consultant/senior executive producer; he’s joined behind-the-scenes by industry vet Audrey Gruber.
The show will air weeknights at 8 p.m.
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Last, but not least:
* Michael Kay has inked a new, multi-year extension with YES to remain the lead Yankees play-by-play voice and continue hosting “CenterStage” . . . Wilmer Valderrama guest-stars on tomorrow night’s episode of “Suburgatory” (9:30/Ch. 7) . . . DirecTV’s “Celebrity Beach Bowl,” airing Saturday from LA, includes, among others, Snoop Dogg, Nina Dobrez, Maria Menounos and Justin Timberlake’s first performance in almost five years (which won’t be aired) . . . Voices: Billy Dee Williams, who recently popped up on an episode of “Modern Family,” lends his pipes to this Thursday’s episode of “Annoying Orange” (8:30 p.m./Cartoon Network); Jennifer Garner will voice an episode of “Martha Speaks,” Feb. 4 on PBS Kids . . . The fifth and final season of Fox’s “Fringe” will be out on DVD/Blu-ray May 7.