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Betty White's 'Off Their Rockers' Revived at Lifetime (Exclusive)

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"Off Their Rockers"

Lifetime is reviving Betty White's Off Their Rockers.

The female-skewing cable network has picked up 20 original half-hour episodes of the hidden-camera series, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.

White will return to host the third season of the series in 2014. A formal premiere date has not yet been determined.

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The deal with producer Kinetic Content brings new episodes of the series to Lifetime, which has aired off-network repeats.

NBC aired the first two seasons of the series, which featured White overseeing the elderly playing pranks on younger folks in a hidden-camera fashion similar to Candid Camera. The show launched with a preview in April 2012 timed to an NBC special tribute for White's 90th birthday earning 12 million total viewers.

Following its 12-episode run from January to May 2012, NBC renewed the series for a second run of 14 installments, which started with back-to-back airings in January into February with its final four episodes airing March 19, June 25 and July 9.

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Rockers' most recent in-season run -- which was used to help fill holes on the network and often held up well -- averaged a 1.5 rating with adults 18-49 and 5.3 million viewers. The series failed to really see an uptick when factoring in Live+Seven-Day numbers as the show didn't traditionally perform well with the DVR crowd.

Rockers marks the latest series to be spared the ax at Lifetime. The cable network revived America's Most Wanted for a 25th season after Fox dropped the John Walsh crime-fighting series after 24 runs. (Lifetime ultimately canceled the series in March.) The network also picked up ABC's Devious Maidsafter the network originally passed on the Marc Cherry drama. That series has already been renewed for a second season.

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How To Read This Year's Rock Hall Nominations

Chic in 1977. From left to right, Bernard Edwards, Norma Jean Wright, Nile Rodgers and Tony Thompson.

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Chic in 1977. From left to right, Bernard Edwards, Norma Jean Wright, Nile Rodgers and Tony Thompson.

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If you look beyond the headlines that greeted this week's announcement of 16 nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — Nirvana, a foregone conclusion for first-round induction; KISS, long snubbed, getting its second shot at glory — you might notice that two Rock Hall records were quietly set. They tell you all you need to know about how this mysterious institution works.

The first involves '70s–'80s disco/R&B pioneer Chic. With this nomination, its eighth, Chic holds the current record for the most nominations for the Rock Hall without getting inducted. (The all-time record is still held by Solomon Burke, who went un-inducted nine times before finally getting in on his 10th nomination in 2001.) So officially, Chic co-founder and sole survivor Nile Rodgers is now the Susan Lucci of the Rock Hall.

The other record concerns the unusually large number of first-time nominees on this year's list. Artists become eligible for the Hall 25 years after the release of their first recording. For example, Nirvana just became eligible this year, a quarter-century after issuing the 1988 single "Love Buzz." Half of this year's list are first-timers, which in and of itself is not a record. There have been more in other years; in the Hall's first few years (starting in 1986), obviously most of the nominees were first-timers by default.

No, the record is this — seven of this year's eight debutantes have been eligible for the Hall for at least half a decade: Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, Link Wray, the Replacements, Linda Ronstadt, Yes and the Zombies. (Nirvana is this year's only debutante to get the nod in its first year of eligibility.)

If we omit the Replacements, who have "only" had to wait since 2006, the other half-dozen debutantes have all been eligible for more than a decade. (That means they released their first record at least 35 years ago.) This is unprecedented — the largest number of first-time nominees in a single year who have been Hall-eligible for more than 10 years. Let's call these six acts the Decade Debutantes.

How these two statistical anomalies came to pass reveals something about the two halves of the Rock Hall process: the opaque Nominating Committee, and the more mass-appeal (for good and ill) Voting Committee. Each has its biases, which leads to the sorts of snubs that drive music fans batty.

The Nominating Committee comprises about three dozen critics, editors, managers and a handful of stalwart musicians (Robbie Robertson, "Little" Steven Van Zandt and Lenny Kaye most prominently). They meet annually in a private cabal to debate and deliver the shortlist of nominees. They then open it up to the Voting Committee, which comprises several hundred voters. It's a more eclectic list — some critics and editors are included, but like the Actors' Branch that dominates Oscar voting, the Rock Hall voting body is overwhelmingly composed of music-makers, including virtually everyone who's been inducted in the Hall's three-decade history.

If you are a Chic fan looking to assign blame for its continued non-induction, the Nominating Committee actually deserves your thanks, and the Voting Committee, your scorn. Seven times, the small cabal has put Rodgers & co. before the voters, and seven times the voters have blown them off.

This reveals how both groups' collective minds work. With their music-nerd bona fides and known advocacy for R&B-based music, it's easier for the nominators to appreciate Chic — purveyors of "Le Freak" and "Good Times," inspiration for "Rapper's Delight," producers of Diana Ross, David Bowie, Debbie Harry and Madonna — than the voters, who are a closer proxy for the average rock fan. For them, the name "Chic" either draws a blank or, worse, evokes studio slickness and leisure suits. One imagines Rodgers' prominence this year on Daft Punk's smash "Get Lucky" might make this the year enough voters consider Chic worthy.

But let's be honest: the non-induction of Chic doesn't provoke much fan ire (save me and my poptimist-nerd friends). What makes your average rock fan really furious are the acts that never make it out of committee. This year's six Decade Debutantes are prime examples — until this year, they were all snubbed by the Nominating Committee and weren't offered to the wider Rock Hall voting body at all.

Last year's biggest headline-grabber was the most infamous Decade Debutante ever, the band Rush, who after years of fan resentment and 14 years of Hall eligibility was finally nominated by the cabal for the first time. The voters then inducted Rush instantly, on its very first ballot — suggesting the band would have been a shoo-in if the Hall had put them up a decade sooner.

This tells you something about the Nominators' biases. Infamously, they have issues with particular rock subgenres and are reluctant to reward, say, progressive rock or certain strains of metal and postpunk. This explains how, say, KISS went until 2009 without so much as a nomination, despite being eligible as far back as 1999; this year is only KISS' second time at the nomination rodeo.

Fans of Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley should count their blessings — KISS didn't wait as long for a nod as progressive-rock titan Yes, which this year finally earned a nod after 19 years of eligibility — an even longer wait than Rush's. Or consider poor Link Wray, power-chord pioneer, whose classic "Rumble" came out in 1958; he's been eligible since before the Hall of Fame launched, and he's been dead eight years.

Why is the Nominating Committee only now clearing its cupboard of snubbed acts? The cynic might say they're scraping the barrel of Boomer-friendly acts; with the likes of the Beatles and Eric Clapton long ago inducted, acts like Ronstadt or Wray start looking more attractive to them. The more optimistic assessment is that the Committee, which has grown somewhat in size and diversity over the last few years, is becoming more open-minded and sensitive to perceptions of the Hall as hidebound. If Hall and Oates or the Replacements finally warrant nods, the likes of the Monkees or the Smiths start to seem plausible.

In any case, for the Class of 2014, the Nominating Committee is now out of the way, and we're left only with the voters — who, let's not forget, are mostly insiders. (Since last year, the Hall has opened up voting to ordinary fans, but these votes result in a single "fan ballot" that is weighed against the hundreds of official voters' picks.)

How will the voters' biases — skewed toward more brand-name, mass-appeal acts — play out? Is Yes this year's Rush, with a silent majority of supporters who've been waiting decades for this nod? Have recent comeback tours by The Mats and Peter Gabriel rekindled appreciation, or are they still too marginal? Will the Hall's pattern of one rap act per year persist, and will that benefit the less threatening LL Cool J over N.W.A? Does Linda Ronstadt's recent claim of disinterest in the Rock Hall hurt her with voters — or, like the Sex Pistols, does she sound like a badass and get in anyway?

If I were a betting man, I'd lay odds on some combination of Nirvana, Yes, Ronstadt, Gabriel, Deep Purple, LL and, hopefully, Chic taking the podium early next year. But the ways of Rock Hall voters have been inscrutable before. Just ask Solomon Burke.

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Apple hires Burberry CEO to boost store sales

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, file photo, Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts speaks at the National Retail Federation's annual convention in New York. Apple said Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013, that Ahrendts, who used technology to drive a remarkable turnaround at Burberry, will take charge of Apple's expansion plans and retail operation, as she will become a senior vice president at the company next spring. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is entrusting the elegant stores that help define its brand to Angela Ahrendts, a respected executive who blended fashion sense with technological savvy to establish Burberry as a mark of luxury and success.

The hiring announced Tuesday is a coup for Apple Inc. Besides providing the Cupertino, Calif. company with another sharp mind, Ahrendts should help Apple deflect potential criticism about the lack of women in the upper ranks of its management.

Silicon Valley's long-running reliance on men to make key decisions has come into sharper focus as online messaging service Twitter Inc. prepares to go public. Twitter's closely scrutinized IPO documents called attention to the San Francisco company's all-male board of directors and the presence of just one woman in its executive inner circle.

Apple has one woman, former Avon Products Inc. CEO Andrea Jung, among the eight directors on its board.

Ahrendts will report directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook when she leaves Burberry to join Apple next spring in a newly created position of senior vice president of senior vice president in charge of retail and online stores.

In a memo sent Tuesday to Apple employees, Cook said he knew he wanted to hire Ahrendts from the time the two met in January and realized "she shares our values and our focus on innovation."

Ahrendts telegraphed her admiration of Apple in 2010 when The Wall Street Journal asked her if she was trying to mold Burberry into something similar to other luxury brands in the fashion industry.

"I don't look at Gucci or Chanel or anyone," Ahrendts told the Journal. "If I look to any company as a model, it's Apple. They're a brilliant design company working to create a lifestyle, and that's the way I see us."

Ahrendts' arrival comes at a crucial time for Apple and the stores that serve as the main showcase for its iPhones, iPads, iPods and Mac computers.

Like the rest of the company, Apple's stores aren't doing quite as well as they once were, primarily because tougher competition has forced the company to trim its prices.

For instance, in Apple's quarter ending in late June, average revenue per store declined 9 percent from the previous year to $10.1 million. Even more troubling, the retail division's operating profit for the quarter dropped 19 percent from last year to $667 million. Apple ended the period with 408 stores located in 13 countries.

The stores, which are staffed by nearly 42,000 workers, may have been suffering from a management void. Ron Johnson, a former Target Inc. executive credited for turning Apple's stores into a thriving operation, left the company in 2011 to become CEO of J.C. Penney Co. Johnson's successor, John Browett, left Apple in a management shake-up a year ago. Since then, the stores have been under the management of a lower-level executive and the senior vice president job remained vacant.

This will mark the first time that the Apple's senior vice president in charge of its brick-and-mortar stores also will be in charge of the company's online sales.

In his memo to Apple employees, Cook said he never had met an executive capable of doing both jobs until he got to know Ahrendts.

"She believes in enriching the lives of others and she is wicked smart," Cook wrote.

Ahrendts, 53, proved her ability to galvanize a well-established brand during the past seven years working in London as Burberry's CEO.

Burberry, established in 1856, was growing stale until Ahrendts came along to build upon the popularity of its trench coats by adding more flair and panache to the company's fashion line-up.

To help build buzz, the company brought more technology to the catwalk by streaming its fashion shows through online outlets such as Twitter. The strategy boosted Burberry's sales as Web surfers bought the fancy coats, shoes and bags the company previewed.

In the latest measure of Burberry's success under Ahrendts, the company's quarterly results released Tuesday disclosed that sales rose 14 percent to 1 billion pounds ($1.6 billion) in the first half of this year.

Ahrendts worked closely with Burberry's top creative officer, Christopher Bailey, who will become CEO when she leaves.

Although she is now a prominent fashion figure, Ahrendts comes from humble roots. She grew up in New Palestine, Indiana, which was a city with a population of about 2,000 in her youth. She graduated from Ball State University located about 50 miles from her home town.

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Associated Press writer Danica Kirka in London contributed to this story.

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Clark Gregg taps the action and humor of 'SHIELD'

NEW YORK (AP) — Like the character he plays, Clark Gregg has worked his way up the career ladder.

Five years ago, he played Agent Phil Coulson for the first time as a small role in the Robert Downey Jr. romp "Iron Man."

Now, after gaining an ever-higher profile as Coulson in subsequent projects including last year's mega-hit "The Avengers," Gregg has broken out as the star of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," the new acronymic sci-fi thriller (airing on ABC Tuesdays at 8 p.m. EDT), which finds Coulson leading a hand-picked band of agents on their extra-special missions.

Gregg's own mission: to savor his spot as No. 1 on the "Marvel's Agents" call sheet after years of diverse, solid and often acclaimed work that, nonetheless, fell short of making him a household name.

Gregg, 51, has earned his new prominence. As Coulson, he projects a mild demeanor (except when he doesn't) and a boyish smile (except when he takes dead-aim with his weapon or busts a bad guy in the chops). He's a tangy blend of milquetoast and steel.

And he looks good, though not too good, in his habitual company-man business suit.

"Coulson never takes his suit off," said executive producer Maurissa Tancharoen, speaking from Los Angeles, "whether he's on the beach, in the jungle ..."

"But at the risk of spoilers," stepped in fellow exec producer Jed Whedon, "you will see him in a future episode — sans tie!"

Agent Coulson is also a master of the dry quip, courtesy of Gregg.

"No matter what the line, Clark always makes it sound so classy and cool," said Tancharoen.

"The show doesn't take itself too seriously," Gregg notes gratefully during a recent chat in New York, "except in the moments when it needs to. The rest of the time it has a real sense of humor. 'I'm going to Taser you and watch "Supernanny" while you drool into the carpet': That's just not the kind of line I've gotten playing an agent in something else," like, for instance, "The West Wing," where he had a recurring role as, yes, an FBI special agent.

It should come as no surprise that Gregg has a gift for comedy. From 2006 to 2010 he played the mild-mannered but flighty ex-husband of Julia Louis-Dreyfus on her CBS sitcom, "The New Adventures of Old Christine."

Now he gets to lead a team of sexy operatives from the (wait for it) Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division who investigate the extra-normal and superhuman people infesting their futuristic world.

Like "The Avengers," ''Marvel's Agents" boasts a comic-book soul and the creative mojo of Joss (brother of Jed) Whedon. Rounding out its cast are Brett Dalton, Ming-Na Wen, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge and Chloe Bennet as Coulson's team.

"Coulson loves his job," says Gregg. "He's jaded, he's seen too much, but he can really geek out. You could imagine him doing selfies with crazy alien corpses! I'm making that up, but he's WAY into what he does."

So is Gregg.

"This show depicts a world that I loved as a kid," says Gregg, whose comic-book faves were Iron Fist, a Kung Fu superhero, and Adam Warlock, an artificial human built by scientists. "This show has given me a great chance to take my 13-year-old self to work with me every day."

Gregg has covered a great distance to get there. He studied drama at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where playwright David Mamet and actor William H. Macy were his teachers.

He later joined them to form New York's respected Atlantic Theater Company. He has written screenplays, including the 2000 Harrison Ford fright drama "What Lies Beneath." He has directed two films from his own screenplays, with his dark comedy "Trust Me" set for release next year.

Along the way, Gregg met actress Jennifer Grey.

"The universe threw us at each other a number of times," he says with a laugh, "but all our attempts at flirting nearly ended up in fistfights. Then, after four years of that, finally something clicked."

They wed in 2001.

When he first took on the role of Coulson, Gregg saw comics-bred cinema as a breed apart from the dramatic work he had done.

"I had worked with Mamet, Macy, ('West Wing' mastermind Aaron) Sorkin! I thought this would be different, that it would be slumming in a pop-culture world."

He now eschews such snobbery.

"When I see the connection that this kind of project has made with people on a global level, I realize that's what I got into acting for," he says. "I don't think there's a higher, more highbrow goal to hope for. After all, Shakespeare wasn't doing work for the queen, he was writing for a bunch of people chewing on disgusting sausages and talking back to the stage."

Gregg laughs and effects an apologetic air. "I don't mean to retroactively trash the sausage vendors of Elizabethan England!" he says. "I just destroyed their Yelp rating."

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EDITOR'S NOTE — Frazier Moore is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. He can be reached at fmoore@ap.org and at http://www.twitter.com/tvfrazier .

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Americans Willing to Spend More to Remodel, Survey Says | AOL ...

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Americans are increasingly willing to spend on home renovations, according to a survey that says they are taking on more projects and plan to use more expensive materials throughout the process. Remodeling app Planese outlined in a news release the results of an online survey done with remodelormove.com, in which homeowners were asked roughly 70 questions about their plans to remodel their home or move to a new one. All 5,000 respondents were interested in making some sort of change.

The results indicate Americans are willing to spend 30 percent of their home's value to remodel, up from 25 percent in 2007 and 28 percent in 2010, though home prices were significantly higher in 2007 and lower in 2010 than they are now. People plan to spend an average of about $102,000 to renovate. How homeowners said they'd use that money offers more insight into the consumer mindset.

Based on the survey results, those looking to remodel increasingly plan to hire professionals for the work and use more expensive materials for the renovation. And as far as what they're remodeling, homeowners surveyed in 2013 are undertaking more expensive projects by favoring kitchen updates over bathrooms.

In the news release, Planese CEO and Co-Founder Dan Fritschen added context to the numbers. "Consumers are spending again, which bodes well for the entire home improvement industry," Fritschen said. "More people are feeling secure enough during this economic environment that they are remodeling."

Home improvement is more than enhancing the aesthetics and comfort of a house, because it can pay off in the long term by adding value to the property. No matter how you finance renovations -- personal loan, savings, home equity line of credit -- staying on budget is crucial.

How to Spend the Budget: Though 43 percent of those surveyed by Planese said that they planned to be hands-off in the remodeling process (up from 36 percent in 2010 and 2007), a little do-it-yourself work may free up cash for other parts of the project. Nearly two-thirds of homeowners said they planned to hire a general contractor, and 54 percent said they'd hire an architect, up from 64 percent and 47 percent in 2010, respectively.

The biggest jump in the data seems to be the growing preference for pricey products. In 2007, 9 percent of homeowners said they would use "expensive materials" (the term is undefined in the release), and in 2010 that share was 10 percent. Now, 17 percent expressed a preference for the finer goods. Renovations should be an investment, not a path to debt.

If you need to take out financing in the form of a home equity line of credit, a personal loan or a credit card, make sure you understand the impact that new credit can have on your credit score. (Credit.com's Credit Report Card will provide your free credit scores and let you see how adding a loan or credit card will impact your credit.)

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Imagining iPad 5: Lighter, thinner design, gold as standard

Imagining iPad 5: Lighter, thinner design

Analyzing rumors and speculation surrounding Apple's 5th generation iPad casing, color, and design

Looking back, the original iPad was thick, heavy, RAM-starved, and low resolution. It was also magnificent. A big iPhone, according to its detractors, unimaginative, and, of course, doomed. Turns out it was an iPhone gone IMAX, bigger but also broader, as imaginative as the person using it, and the next evolution of personal computing. But, thick and heavy. Apple fixed that somewhat with the iPad 2, regressed slightly with the iPad 3 and 4, and then showed the world a thinner, lighter future with the 7.9-inch iPad mini. The iPad mini was so light and thin it was impossible to look at it and not want the same design on the 9.7-inch iPad 5. And it looks like that just might be exactly what we get...

Barriers to lifting

Would you want an iPad 5 that looks and feels just like an iPad mini?

The iPad mini is a fantastic device. Never you mind the screen is still standard density - for now - it's so small and so light it's very quickly become the tablet for many people. The size is important, of course. The ability to fit into purses and even pockets. But the weight is important to. The ability to hold the iPad mini up for longer periods of time just makes it better for everything from reading a book to watching a movie to surfing the web.

Yet size matters too. For many tasks, you want as big a screen as possible as well. Whether you're working on documents or reading a comic or catching up on a TV show, for the same reason people love big screens in the living room and theater, they love big screens in their hands.

Up until now, technology simply didn't allow for a 2048x1536 Retina display in a thin, light enclosure, with anything approaching 10 hours of battery life. All Apple could get was two of the three. For the iPad mini, that meant light and long-lasting, but not Retina. For the full-sized iPad, that meant Retina and long-lasting, but not light.

Going for all three requires more power efficient screen technology, including backlight, and more power efficient processors. Battery chemistry isn't getting better anywhere nearly quickly enough, but Apple is getting better at improving and sourcing everything around it.

If they can go from two LED backlights down to one, if they can use an Apple A7X and the Apple M7 coprocessor instead of the older Apple A6X, and if they can squeeze as much power to performance efficiency out of everything else, they have a shot at doing it.

A 9.7-inch iPad that's proportionately as thin and light as the iPad mini, will let everyone who wants a bigger canvas to work and play on to have it. It won't be as light as the mini, but it won't be anywhere nearly as heavy as past full-sized models as well. Many people may still choose the much more pocketable iPad mini, but it'll give everyone who really wants the bigger screen and much better, much more usable package for it as well.

Metallics unfinished

Apple to hold next iPad and Mac event on October 22, 2013

With the iPhone 5s Apple kept the same silver and white finish they used on last year's iPhone 5, but they switched the old slate and black to a new space gray, and added an entirely new gold and white finish to the mix. In a tock year where the iPhone didn't change design, it turns out the appearance of change was even more important. People flocked to the gold.

The 9.7-inch iPad has never had multiple metallic options. The original faceplate came in your choice of black or black, and subsequent models have come in your choice of black and white. All with the same, stately, aluminum backplate.

The iPad mini, however, got the same white and silver and black and slate options as the iPhone 5. So, if the full-sized iPad is taking on the same design language as the iPad mini, and the rest of the line, it makes sense it'll take on the same finishes as well.

Slate was a hard color to anodize, and it was prone to all sorts of chips and scratches. Space gray should be far more resilient, and isn't exactly bad looking either. The iPad 5 going from slate to space is a no-brainer.

Gold, however, still requires much brain. Apple has tended towards uniformity of color across their product lines in the past, and it's certainly possible they'll do so again and push gold out across their premium product line. Gold is an easy color to produce, and Apple proven they can do it and do it well. It looks great on the iPhone 5s, but would it look great at full-sized iPad scale? Would it be more gold to love, or too much of a gold thing?