Spike TV has tapped Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro to host Inkmaster, the first-ever tattoo competition series, TVGuide.com has learned.
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The show — executive-produced by Charlie Corwin and Jay Peterson, the team behind LA Ink, Miami Ink and NY Ink — will feature the nation's top tattoo artists competing in challenges to win a $100,000 grand prize and a feature in Inked magazine. The challenges will test the artists' technical proficiency as well as their on-the-spot creativity.
Navarro, who previously co-hosted...
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NBC is looking to do big business — or at least portray it — in the new half-hour comedy series on the network's development slate. According toVariety, Mogulettes comes from the brain of Bergdorf Blondes author Plum Sykes. The series will focus on Eva, the leader of a cosmetics empire and a group of highly successful, twentysomething jet-setters. Sykes will pen the script with Amy Harris (The Comeback). The series marks the second project from Charlie Corwin's Original Media, which has a first-look deal at NBC Entertainment, to be developed by the network. Sykes has also written The Debutante Divorcee and previously developed a version of Bergdorf Blondes for the WB network that was eventually passed over. — Adam Bryant
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