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READY, SET, DATE: Dating life got you down? Don't worry, Mr. Right is out there, and VH1 wants to help you find him. This weekend, VH1 is calling all the single ladies (all the single ladies) to make their way to Stoddard's Pub in Boston to audition for the reality dating series "Tough Love. " It's an open casting call for women ages 23-39 looking to find true love, and fame, the American way: through reality TV. Go forth and date, ladies! Dec. 10, noon - 6 p.m. Stoddard's Fine Food and Ale. 48 Temple Place, Boston.

Cable TV is getting ready to chronicle another sports-related celebrity wedding, this time involving NFL wide receiver Chad Ochocinco and "Basketball Wife" star Evelyn Lozada. VH1 said Monday that its eight-part series "Ev and Ocho" will air starting in September, culminating in a two-episode finale with their wedding. It should sound familiar: The E! Entertainment network scored its best ratings ever last fall by showing Kim Kardashian's wedding to NBA player Kris Humphries.

LOS ANGELES — On her new VH1 reality dating show, Rozonda Thomas — better known as Chilli from the groundbreaking hip-hop group TLC — doesn’t lounge in bubble baths or hand out fake bling to her suitors. Instead, the 39-year-old singer and mother meets bachelors at black-tie affairs and confers with a dating expert, as well as her 12-year-old son. The cable network synonymous with “Flavor of Love’’ and its sleazy spinoffs is trading trampiness for fabulousness with a new slate of series starring seemingly well-adjusted rich and famous black Americans.

The Loving Story 9 p.m., HBO For Valentine's Day, HBO is offering up a historic romance. This documentary chronicles a tale that is by turns heartwarming and devastating. Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter met and fell in love. They decided to get married. The only problem is that it was 1958, they lived in Virginia, and he was white and she was part-black, part-Cherokee, and interracial marriage was illegal. They traveled to Washington, D.C., to wed. Returning to Virginia they were arrested, tried, and convicted on a felony charge of miscegenation.

VH1 is exploring the connection between hip-hop and cocaine. The network will air "Planet Rock: The Story of Hip Hop and the Crack Generation" next month. It explores the development of crack cocaine in the urban community and features rappers Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill's B-Real and Wu-Tang Clan members RZA and Raekwon. The two-hour special will air Sept. 18 at 10 p.m. Eastern. It was executive produced by rapper-actor Ice-T. He also narrates the documentary. VH1 made the announcement Tuesday.

Cable TV is getting ready to chronicle another sports-related celebrity wedding, this time involving NFL wide receiver Chad Ochocinco and "Basketball Wife" star Evelyn Lozada. VH1 said Monday that its eight-part series "Ev and Ocho" will air starting in September, culminating in a two-episode finale with their wedding. It should sound familiar: The E! Entertainment network scored its best ratings ever last fall by showing Kim Kardashian's wedding to NBA player Kris Humphries.

LOS ANGELES - Spend any amount of time watching VH1's florid reality hit parade that includes "Flavor of Love," "I Love New York," and "Rock of Love," and the thought naturally occurs: Who comes up with this stuff? Meet Cris Abrego and Mark Cronin, the business partners and masterminds who have produced some of the channel's most popular and most talked-about - or howled-about - shows, and who this year alone will flood VH1 with eight series. October is a true Abrego-Cronin extravaganza.

Sometimes we use irony to cover up the pain. It's a form of po-mo stoicism, using bitter and self-referential humor to mask tragedy. By undermining all human feeling, and seeming to take nothing seriously, as Dave Eggers did in "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," the ironist can actually create quite a genuine effect. Other times, irony is just a way to display just how clever you are, or how generational you can be. And VH1's new comedy, "I Hate My 30's," falls squarely into that second category of irony.

VH1 Storytellers: Death Cab for Cutie 11 p.m., VH1 The band (pictured) shows up to tell heart-rending and funny stories about their melodic, and often melancholy, songs. Oh yeah, and to promote their forthcoming album, “Codes and Keys,’’ from which they will play three songs. It’s interesting to see VH1, home of movie repeats and reality crap like “Mob Wives,’’ “What Chilli Wants,’’ and “Audrina,’’ paying a little attention to the business of music after all. Ice Pilots 10 p.m., National Geographic There are so many reality adventure series right...

Packed with lavish wigs and heady intrigue, "The Last King" tells a juicy story, revealing that the 17th-century British royals were every bit as tempestuous and naughty as their modern counterparts. Cable's A&E Network will present this sumptuous BBC coproduction in one four-hour lump tomorrow night at 8. The story of King Charles II (Rufus Sewell) supplies a vivid history lesson filled with conspiracies, sexual shenanigans, and Protestant-Catholic conflicts. Whatever the movie lacks in clarity, it makes up for as an enticement to open the history books and learn more...

"The Artist" waltzed away with its first wins of Hollywood's awards season. The black-and-white ode to the silent-film era directed by Michel Hazanavicius led winners with four honors at Thursday's 17th annual Critics' Choice Awards, presented by the 250 members of the Broadcast Film Critics Association. "The Artist" took the top prize, best picture, as well honors for best score, costume design and director. "I made a silent movie," French director Hazanavicius joked in English while accepting the award for best picture.

VH1 hosted auditions for its dating reality show "Tough Love" at Stoddard's Fine Food and Ale on Saturday. Locals - including Naomi Bockian , Stella Bitran , Sheila Thompson , Maria Scenna , Elora Rosch , Vicky Campadonico , Katherine Volmer , and Jesenia Nova - came out to sign up for the show, which features matchmaker Steve Ward teaching women his "rules" for finding love. No word on whether any of our locals were chosen to follow Ward's rules on national television.

READY, SET, DATE: Dating life got you down? Don't worry, Mr. Right is out there, and VH1 wants to help you find him. This weekend, VH1 is calling all the single ladies (all the single ladies) to make their way to Stoddard's Pub in Boston to audition for the reality dating series "Tough Love. " It's an open casting call for women ages 23-39 looking to find true love, and fame, the American way: through reality TV. Go forth and date, ladies! Dec. 10, noon - 6 p.m. Stoddard's Fine Food and Ale. 48 Temple Place, Boston.

This year's "VH1 Divas" is celebrating soulful voices — and the cities where soul flourished. Mary J. Blige, Kelly Clarkson and Florence and the Machine are among the acts that will pay tribute to the places that helped create or contributed to the genre. According to a Thursday statement, Chicago, Detroit, London, Philadelphia and Memphis, Tenn., will serve as the musical inspirations for the performers, who will also include Jennifer Hudson, Jill Scott and Jessie J. The Roots will be the house band for the "VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul" special, which...

VH1 is exploring the connection between hip-hop and cocaine. The network will air "Planet Rock: The Story of Hip Hop and the Crack Generation" next month. It explores the development of crack cocaine in the urban community and features rappers Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill's B-Real and Wu-Tang Clan members RZA and Raekwon. The two-hour special will air Sept. 18 at 10 p.m. Eastern. It was executive produced by rapper-actor Ice-T. He also narrates the documentary. VH1 made the announcement Tuesday.