Bam Margera's 'Potentially Dangerous' Game Show Gets Green Light From TBS

Bam Margera has found a new outlet for his prank-happy ways.

TBS has given the go-ahead for a new series for the "Jackass" star in the form of "Bam's Bad Ass Game Show," a competition series in which contestants will engage in "incredibly demented, potentially dangerous and occasionally painful challenges" in pursuit of a $10,000 prize, the network said Wednesday.

On the show, which has been given the go-ahead for a six-episode season, contestants will endure such ordeals as "answering trivia questions while dangling above a pool of trash-filled water or dropping a watermelon on a target after being shot out of a cannon." The loser of each competition will be sent home until a final victor emerges -- though, truth be told, elimination from the series sounds like the real prize.

Naturally, the series will have an educational component, with Margera and his cohorts helping to design and demonstrate the challenges and "occasionally wind[ing] up worse off than any of the contestants."

Margera is executive-producing, along with David A. Hurwitz ("Fear Factor") and Noah Bonnett ("Total Blackout"). Bill's Market & Television Productions is producing.

"Bam's Bad Ass Game Show" will premiere in 2014.

CBS Orders Pilots for 'Bad Teacher,' Bruno Heller Drama

A pilot based on the 2011 Cameron Diaz film "Bad Teacher" and a drama from "The Mentalist' creator Bruno Heller have been ordered by CBS, an individual with knowledge of the orders told TheWrap on Wednesday.

"Bad Teacher" will be written and executive-produced by "My Name Is Earl" and "Community" veteran Hilary Winston, with Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, who were behind the film, executive-producing as well. Sam Hansen and Jimmy Miller will also executive-produce the pilot, which comes from Sony Pictures Television in association with the Mosaic Media Group, and follows a  a sexy, foul-mouthed divorcee who becomes a teacher to find her next husband.

"The Advocates," written and executive-produced by Heller, revolves around a female lawyer and a male ex-con who team up as “victim advocates,” going to the very edge of the law to right wrongs and fight for the underdog. Warner Bros. is producing.

The new pilot orders follow on the heels of CBS ordering pilots for a small-screen adaptation of the Eddie Murphy film "Beverly Hills Cop" -- which is being executive-produced by "The Shield" creator Shawn Ryan, and Murphy will appear in -- as well as the sitcom "Friends With Better Lives" and the detective drama "Backstrom."

'Home Improvement' Co-Creator Matt Williams Enters First-Look TV Deal With Lionsgate

Matt Williams, the co-creator of the '90s sitcom "Home Improvement," has aligned with Lionsgate for a first-look television deal, Lionsgate and Williams' company, Wind Dancer Films, said Wednesday.

Under the agreement, Williams and Wind Dancer Films will develop scripted comedies and dramas with Lionsgate.

Williams' other television work includes the groundbreaking comedies "Roseanne" and "The Cosby Show." On the film side, he's produced the Mel Gibson-Helen Hunt comedy "What Women Want" and the Jack Black-Shirley MacLaine offering "Bernie."

Lionsgate Television Group President Kevin Beggs praised Williams and Wind Dancer as "masterful producers, known for creating and developing distinctive original material with great success."

Beggs added that the deal has already yielded potential projects.

"We’ve already discussed a number of exciting ideas and can’t wait to get started,” Beggs said.

Williams enthused that the agreement with Lionsgate "feels like a great match," adding, "we look forward to this collaboration."

Tricia Penrose, Frankie Dettori evicted from Celebrity Big Brother

Frankie Dettori and Tricia Penrose have become the latest stars to be evicted from Celebrity Big Brother.

The pair missed out on a place in Friday's final after receiving the fewest votes to win from the public earlier tonight (January 23).

Frankie was the first to leave the house this evening, making the jockey the fifth celebrity to be evicted from this series.

He was soon followed by Heartbeat actress Tricia, who had recently been made the bookies' second favourite to win.

Both contestants left to cheers from the crowd, with their fellow housemates expressing shock at their departures.

Heidi and Spencer, Rylan Clark, Ryan Moloney, Neil 'Razor' Ruddock and Claire Richards will now battle it out to be crowned winner of Celebrity Big Brother 2013 on Friday (January 25).

'Ben and Kate' Pulled From Fox Schedule

Fox has pulled its freshman comedy "Ben and Kate" from its schedule, effective immediately, the network said Wednesday.

The series, which has aired 13 episodes so far and aired Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m., will return at a later date to be determined, the network added.

For the time being, one-hour installments of "Raising Hope" will run Tuesdays at 8 p.m. to cover the programming hole through the February sweeps (except for Feb. 19, when a "New Girl" repeat will air at 8:30).

The season premiere of "Hell's Kitchen" will air Tuesday, March 12 at 8 p.m. The Gordon Ramsay reality hit will occupy the Tuesdays at 8-9 p.m. slot from there on in, preceding "New Girl" and "The Mindy Project."

"Raising Hope" will air its season premiere with a one-hour episode on Thursday, March 28, following "American Idol."

The series, which stars Dakota Johnson as Type-A single mother Kate and Nat Faxon as her laid-back brother Ben, who moves in with his sister to help care for her daughter, premiered in September with a lukewarm 2.0 rating/6 share in the 18-49 demographic most important advertisers and 4.2 million total viewers. Its most recent episode, airing this week, posted a 1.2/3 -- a modest improvement over the previous week -- with 2.6 million total viewers.

During the Television Critics Association winter press tour in January, Fox entertainment chief Kevin Reilly expressed disappointment that the network's Tuesday night comedy block hadn't been a bigger ratings hit so far, noting that he believes in the quality of the shows but that audiences may need time to find them.

CW Revives 'The Selection,' Gives Pilot Order to Taylor Hackford's 'Company Town'

The CW is taking another crack at its "Hunger Games"-esque drama project "The Selection," and has given a pilot order to "The Devil's Advocate" director Taylor Hackford's naval drama "Company Town," a spokesman for the network told us on Wednesday.

Based on the Kiera Cass novel of the same name, "The Selection" --  which received a pilot order last year, but didn't go forward, follows a working-class young woman in a futuristic land who's chosen to participate in a lottery with 25 other women to compete for the Royal Prince's hand in marriage, as a budding rebellion threatens to topple the royal family.

Also read: Can CW's "The Selection" Catch "Hunger Games" Fire Like "Vampire Diaries" Did With "Twilight"?

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain ("Dollhouse," "666 Park Avenue") are executive-producing the Warner Bros. Television project.

"Company Town," meanwhile, follows a scandal at a Naval base in Virginia that affects both civilians and military personnel. The pilot revolves around two women in their 20s who were once best friends, but now find them selves on opposing sides of the civilian/military divide. Hackford is directing and executive-producing, with Sera Gamble, of the network's "Supernatural," writing and executive producing.

The CBS TV Studio project is also executive-produced by Bill Haber.

Joanna Lumley on NTA Recognition Award: 'It was earth-shattering'

Joanna Lumley was awarded the Special Recognition prize at last night's National Television Awards.

Visibly shocked and surprised to be handed the award, it was proceeded by a short film about her career featuring contributions from her many co-stars and fans including Jennifer Saunders, Coronation Street's Bill Roache, prime minister David Cameron and Wolf of Wall Street director Martin Scorsese.

Speaking of her secret award, she told journalists backstage: "I've got to say it's the most unexpected and sort of earth-shattering thing that's happened to me.

"To see those kinds of people talking so generously about me - excluding Ms Saunders! - and to see my life coming back again, and to see me at 18 diving into a river in a Nimble advert right up to Patrick Macnee to the prime minister, who's taken time out of his busy life.

"Martin Scorsese, who I've only just worked with talking properly about shows that I was in, Ruby Wax, who's one of my great icons, Bill Roache - I mean, I nearly married him! I'd still be in Corrie now if he'd let me marry him.

"The whole thing was like a trance. I just sat there with my son beside me and I'm afraid to say tears were coursing down both our cheeks. It was unbelievably touching. And they showed the northern lights as well, I just [choking up] damn, I'm sorry, I just love you and I'm so touched."

When asked what makes an awards ceremony such as the NTAs special, she said: "I've always had a great passionate and undying and in fact growing love for people. I just love people and what we do in the acting world is read people written by people acted by people for people.

"It's a strange and dull way of putting it but everything we do is about connecting with people. A lot of acting is artifice and a lot of it isn't, and I think it's just very thrilling to be at something as important as this where what we call members of the public - when actually all members of the public are actors as much as we are - recognise the work that other people do to entertain them.

"So I just love humankind and I love us and I love tonight more than I can tell you - thank you."

On whether she still ever gets nervous about her work, she said: "No, not about my work, because I prepare properly and I love it. I love doing it and once you've done something, all of you know this, when you've done something many times - when you take your first picture, you're anxious it's going to be in focus, you're not going to be able to find it properly.

"When you've taken 140,000 you know pretty much that you're on the money - not that you're going to be successful, but that you're not going to let people down. So as an actor you just prepare the best you can and do it."

She added: "What touched me tonight so much was [choked up again] seeing a picture of my daddy. He's dead now and was the inspiration behind me supporting the Gurkhas as much as I do. My parents have gone but I've got them here. I don't always cry like this - I never cry like this actually."