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Vanessa Bell Calloway, Nestor Carbonell The Ringer season finale is upon us. Vanessa Bell Calloway has been tapped to guest-star in the freshman series' closer, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. The Coming to America actress will play Special Agent Berens, the Regional Director of the FBI who shows leniency to Agent Machado (Nestor Carbonell). Watch full episodes of Ringer Calloway's recent credits include HawthoRNe and Shameless. Ringer's season finale will air Tuesday, April 17 at 9/8c on The CW.

'Idol,' 'Family' set Wednesday pace

A two-hour installment of ''American Idol'' carried Fox to victory on Wednesday, but ABC's ''Modern Family'' was just a bit behind the music competition head-to-head while the two also finished neck and neck as the night's No. 1 show among young adults.According to preliminary national estimates from Nielsen, ''American Idol'' averaged a 4.9 rating/13 share in adults 18-49 and 17.0 million viewers overall from 8 to 10 p.m., down a smidge week to week in the demo and up in total viewers. For the two-hour block, Fox beat both ABC and CBS by 5 shares in adults 18-49.At ABC, ''Modern Family'' (4.8/12 in 18-49, 11.7 million viewers overall) was flat week to week, pulling to within two ticks of ''Idol'' for the 18-49 lead at 9 o'clock , its most competitive head-to-head finish to date; the comedy led its half-hour in men 18-49 and all 18-34 demos. Its comedy skedmates ''The Middle'' (2.6/8 in 18-49, 8.5 million viewers overall), ''Suburgatory'' (2.4/6 in 18-49, 7.2 million viewers overall) and ''Happy Endings'' (2.8/7 in 18-49, 6.2 million viewers overall) all rallied from their low showings of last week. And at 10, ''Revenge'' (2.4/6 in 18-49, 7.4 million viewers overall) returned from a week off at its same level of two weeks ago.For the night, ABC saw time-period improvement over the same night last year in all six half-hours.CBS held steady opposite ''American Idol'' with ''Survivor'' (2.9/8 in 18-49, 10.6 million viewers overall) and ''Criminal Minds'' (3.1/8 in 18-49, 12.5 million viewers overall) and was down a bit at 10 with ''CSI'' (2.6/7 in 18-49, 11.2 million viewers overall), though the crime vet still led its hour.NBC held at roughly the same low levels as last week with its lineup of comedies ''Whitney'' (1.5/4 in 18-49, 4.1 million viewers overall) and ''Are You There, Chelsea?'' (1.3/4 in 18-49, 3.5 million viewers overall), newsmag ''Rock Center'' (0.7/2 in 18-49, 2.9 million viewers overall) and drama vet ''Law and Order: SVU'' (1.6/4 in 18-49, 5.4 million viewers overall). ''SVU,'' certainly not being helped by its lead-in, did the same 1.6 rating with a repeat on the comparable night a year ago.At CW, ''One Tree Hill'' (0.7/2 in 18-49, 1.6 million viewers overall) was in line with last week, while the returning ''America's Next Top Model'' looked weak (0.6/1 in 18-49, 1.3 million viewers overall), down from last year's bow (0.9/3, 2.0 million). Preliminary 18-49 averages for the night: Fox, 4.9/13; ABC and CBS, 2.9/8; Univision, 1.7/5; NBC, 1.2/3; CW, 0.6/2.In total viewers: Fox, 17.0 million; CBS, 11.4 million; ABC, 8.1 million; NBC, 4.0 million; Univision, 3.7 million; CW, 1.4 million. Contact Rick Kissell at rick.kissell@variety.com

Paramounts Insurge Pictures To Debut Burning Love On Yahoo!

La, CA (March 1, 2012) Paramounts Insurge Pictures and Red-colored Hour Digital today introduced they've struck an offer with Yahoo! to premiere Burning Love, an authentic digital series, on Yahoo!. Burning Love will launch included in the Comedy Funnel on Yahoo! Screen (http://screen.yahoo.com), the companys video destination. Yahoo! may be the top destination online for original programming with more than 35 million unique site visitors per month. The scripted comedy series, starting in Spring 2012, spoofs popular reality dating shows featuring a remarkable fall into line of comedy stars from film and tv including Ken Marino, Malin Akerman, Kristen Bell, Michael Ian Black, Ken Jeong, Adam Scott, Abigail Spencer, Natasha Leggero, Ryan Hansen, June Diane Raphael, Noureen DeWulf, Kerri Kenney, Janet Dover, and much more. “We feel Burning Love will burn an opening online and make up a worldwide comedy meltdown. Think Wiki Leaks, only more sexy and more amusing,” stated Ben Stiller, Red-colored Hour. “We love Red-colored Hour’s make of comedy and that we’re excited to grow on Vital’s relationship with them within the digital space,” stated Amy Powell, Leader, Insurge Pictures. “Burning Love is simply plain amusing and that we can’t wait to talk about it with audiences.” Burning Love follows fireman Mark Orlando (Ken Marino) because he looks for an ideal lady. Audiences obtain a front row chair towards the champagne toasts, candle lights, heartbreak, bubble baths, chocolate, choreography, extensions, curler skating, unfaithfulness, spray-golden skin tone, and rainbows within the most romantic, comedy web series available. We're thrilled to deepen our relationship with Red-colored Hour and Vital by getting Burning Like to the Yahoo! Comedy Funnel, stated Erin McPherson, Vice president and Mind of Video at Yahoo! Our audience comes with an pressing appetite for reality television and were confident Burning Love will satisfy reality and comedy enthusiasts alike. Ben Stiller and Red-colored Hour Productions come with an extensive historycreating top tier comedy in film and tv too for digital platforms, including Stiller and Meara for Yahoo!, Stillerstrong.com, and Evening of 140 Tweets. Burning Love is executive created by Red-colored Hrs Ben Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld and Mike Rosenstein, Abominable Pictures Jonathan Stern, Ken Marino and Erica Oyama with Paramounts Insurge Pictures disbursing the project. The series is compiled by Erica Oyama and directed by Ken Marino.