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Tuesday’s second season conclusion of Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing at 10p pulled in 949,000 A18-49 viewers and 1.27 million total viewers. (Cynopsis 9/11)

Also on Tuesday, ABC Family polished off the last episode of its freshman midseason series, The Secret Life of the American Teenager at 8p, delivering 1.3 million W18-34 viewers, 1.7 million A18-34 viewers, 3.0 million P12-34 viewers and 4.5 million total viewers. Twelve new episodes of the series will return to ABC Family next January. (Cynopsis 9/11)

Last Saturday’s premiere of “The Locator” on WE tv notched a 0.98 household rating at 9 p.m. and a second installment a half-hour later garnered a 1.08, according to Nielsen data. That performance marks the female-focused network’s best series premiere ever. Multichannel News (9/10)

Bravo has started assembling a cast of 18- to 25-year-old Orange County, Calif., denizens to star in a reality series that will begin shooting this fall, according to this report. The potential show theoretically would attract a younger demographic than the network’s popular “The Real Housewives of Orange County.” The Hollywood Reporter (9/11)

Time Warner is unlikely to acquire NBC Universal after the media giant spins off its cable unit, according to CFO John Martin. Time Warner will maintain a certain “level of discipline” to acquisitions, he says, appearing to dismiss speculation that the company is eyeing NBC. (Iwantmedia 9/11, http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6594900.html 9/10)

Food Network will debut The Chef Jeff Project on October 12 at 10p, offering viewers a new type of reality cooking show. Under the tutelage of Chef Jeff Henderson, a former prison inmate now executive chef, six troubled young adults will learn how to cook and help Jeff run his new Los Angeles-based catering company. Each episode follows Jeff as he teaches these young adults the ins and outs of food and life skills. (Cynopsis 9/11)

Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, the midseason drama series for FOX and produced by 20th TV, closed down production for two weeks to work on scripts, per THR. After finishing the third episode, creator/executive producer Whedon decided the upcoming scripts needed time for rewrites. (Cynopsis 9/11)

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