TV NOTES & NEWS
NEW YORK — Bruno Mars isn't the only singer in the family.
The 27-year-old Grammy winner's four sisters will appear in a WEtv reality series documenting the recording process of their debut album, the cable network announced recently.
The show will air this fall. It will include eight hourlong episodes.
Tiara, Tahiti and Presley Hernandez are moving from Hawaii to Los Angeles to join their older sister Jamie. The sisters perform as The Lylas.
Mars, who was born Peter Hernandez, moved from Hawaii to live with Jamie in Los Angeles in 2002 after he graduated from high school. He released his platinum-selling debut, “Doo-Wops & Hooligans,” in 2010 and last year released his sophomore album, “Unorthodox Jukebox.” His No. 1 hits include “Locked Out of Heaven,” “Just the Way You Are” and “Grenade.”
NEW YORK — The GSN television network is looking to build on the success of “The American Bible Challenge” with a church-based dating show.“The American Bible Challenge,” which just began its second season, is a runaway hit for the game show-focused cable network. Jeff Foxworthy is host of the show, which quizzes contestants on their Biblical knowledge. The show gets more than twice the viewers than anything else on the network.GSN is developing “It Takes a Church,” where church parishioners compete to find a love interest for a single member of the congregation. GSN programming chief Amy Introcase-Davis said Tuesday that no air date has been set for the new show.Gospel superstar Kirk Franklin has recently joined “The American Bible Challenge” as its musical director.
