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Veria Living is a fellow health and wellness media company like Live Well Network, the ABC Owned Television Stations’ digital platform that ABC said yesterday it would shutter in January after five years. The move made an impression on Veria CEO Eric Sherman, who teed off on the business. “Beyond any implications about local broadcasting or the future of a multicasting distribution model, what’s most noteworthy is the impact on viewers,” he said in a statement released last night. “There surely is no shortage of options for those interested in adult-themed and salacious programming, yet once again the media world is turning its back on those who desire positive, wellness content.” According to Broadcasting & Cable. ABC did not say how many Live Well jobs might be affected; Live Well’s original programming was produced both by ABC stations and outside stations. “Despite Live Well’s tremendous accomplishments in distribution and original programming,...

Long-time Steven Tyler manager and former MTV Networks executive Eric Sherman is the new CEO of Veria Living, a media company that operates a cable network and web sites focusing on health and wellness programming. The New York-based firm was created by Subhash Chandra, chairman of India's Zee Group and chairman of conglomerate Essel Group. Chandra created Veria Living a few years ago to "promote Eastern wellness practices globally." Sherman is tasked with leading the expansion of Veria Living’s media properties. "This includes a television business that has grown distribution 50 percent over the past 18 months"

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What’s Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler’s manager doing running a little-known cable channel dedicated to healthy living? Eric Sherman appreciates how incongruous this sounds. “Chasing a rock star all over the planet doesn’t necessarily lead to opportunities to lead a healthy life,” he tells me. But the subject’s personally important to him — and he couldn’t resist the opportunity to try to build a multimedia brand the way he did as President of Fuse TV, and Gm of MTV Networks’ VH1 Classic, VH1 Soul, VH1 County, MTV Espanol, and Palladia. Privately held Veria Living was created by Subhash Chandra, chairman of Zee Group — India’s second largest media company — to promote Eastern wellness practices. But cable and satellite companies have little interest in picking up new channels, especially independent ones. Veria Living doesn’t disclose its total household distribution and only runs on a few systems including Cablevision,...

The midriff and booty baring girl who got booted from "American Idol" is pissed at Steven Tyler ... because she claims he approved of her skimpy outfit before her audition ... and even told her she "already won the damn thing!"Jennifer Diley was dismissed Sunday night after attempting two songs -- "With You" by Jessica Simpson and "Hero" by Mariah Carey. Jennifer tells us she was thrown off because she hadn't rehearsed either song -- and...

It may have been a "weird as heck" problem, but it is a problem no more! E! News confirms that singer Courtney Love has won a lawsuit filed against her by her landlord and will no longer be evicted from her Manhattan townhouse. Love's landlord filed the eviction lawsuit, claiming she owed $54,000 for two months of back rent—but Love contended she she didn't. Her attorney Eric Sherman tells E! News the court granted their motion for summary judgment to dismiss the landlord's claims and tossed out the case today. "We are very pleased the court agreed with our position and the court granted Courtney's motion dismissing the landlord's case. Courtney is not...

Exclusive: Production has just gotten underway on 3 Nights In The Desert, a drama that stars Amber Tamblyn, Wes Bentley and Boardwalk Empire‘s Vincent Piazza. Gabriel Cowan is directing the Adam Chanzit script in a co-production between New Artists Alliance and Caliber Media Company. Tamblyn, Bentley and Piazza play three estranged friends and former bandmates who reunite to celebrate turning 30. They come together for a weekend in the desert and expose unresolved wounds as they struggle with who they have become and what might have been had they done things differently. Chanzit, who moved to China to live with Daoists, based the tale on his travels. Cowan has the musical experience from his days as a member of the bands Lode and Ear Two Thousand. Cowan’s producing with his New Artists Alliance partner John Suits, and Caliber’s Jack Heller and Dallas Sonnier are the executive producers alongside Kerry Johnson,...

Steven Tyler suffered facial injuries in a fall at a hotel Tuesday while on tour in Paraguay, which his manager has attributed to food poisoning. "Steven Tyler suffered minor injuries as a result of food poisoning," Eric Sherman tells People in a statement. "He was taken to the hospital where he was treated and released." The Aerosmith frontman and American Idol judge, 63, suffered cuts to his face and lost two teeth after falling in his hotel bathroom, according to a Reuters report, which cites a local newspaper. Related: Steven Tyler: Sober and GratefulTyler reportedly received stitches and had emergency dental work done.

.Dam 999′, billed as the first international movie by mariners, is scheduled for a Nov 4 release. Directed by mariner Sohan Roy, the film is being distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. The 3D movie is an Indo-United Arab Emirates (UAE) conceptual epic, which is an emotional thriller that speaks about a century old dam built during the British colonial reign and the lives of nine individuals who witness the destruction of the dam, said a press statement by the producers, Biz TV Network, UAE. It is a movie with a social cause which describes the hazards dams can cause and creates awareness among the masses about the impending dangers of a dam collapse. To bring out the true essence of India, .Dam 999′ is also being released in regional languages like Tamil and Telugu. The project, co-supported by Biz TV Network and Aries Telecasting Pvt Ltd in the UAE, Singapore, and India respectively.

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It was a sad off-season for 'Celebrity Rehab,' which saw two former patients, Mike Starr and Jeff Conaway, die of drug overdoses. With the show returning for its fifth season Sunday night, June 26, on VH1, we're starting to feel more and more conflicted about tuning in. Rumors that Michael Lohan was paid $180K to go on the show this season and that Rachel Uchitel was paid $500K last season add to a cloud of ethical issues swirling around the show.

We had questions: Are we watching glorified train-wreck TV, or real rehab where good work can be done? And why is the show so, dare we say, addictive to watch? We had to talk to a shrink to sort it all out.

"I feel that 'Celebrity Rehab' does for rehab and substance abuse what the 'Jersey Shore' does for New Jersey," says Eric Sherman, Lcsw,...

It's a battle of the bands! After Bret Michaels told the crowd at his recent Windsor, Ont., concert that he would try to return to the city next year during a joint Poison-mötley Crüe tour, Tommy Lee and Mötley Crüe management are insisting the longtime rival rockers will not be hitting the road together. On Tuesday, when a Twitter follower asked Lee if the rumor of a 2011 tour was true, the drummer - who is among the guys in featured in People's new Sexiest Man Alive issue - tweeted back a definite "No!" Eric Sherman, President of Tenth Street Entertainment,...

Rocker Steven Tyler has completed 30 days of "intensive sobriety treatment" in a California rehabilitation clinic after publicly acknowledging he was struggling with a painkiller addiction. The former Aerosmith star, who fell from a stage in South Dakota during a show last summer, is now undergoing a 90-day "residential day treatment program," according to a statement from the singer's management company, Tenth Street Entertainment.

Tyler has been spotted in the Palm Desert area in recent weeks, leading to speculation he has been at the fabled Betty Ford Clinic nearby. Last Saturday, January 23, he showed up at a Home Depot hardware market and sang two Aerosmith songs over the store's tannoy system.

A source tells People.com, "(He) has privileges to leave the grounds... He was shopping." The rocker also showed up at a Palm Desert karaoke bar and belted out Aerosmith ballad "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing".

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Steven Tyler's serenading of shoppers over Home Depot's public address system has been explained. According to People, the singer was only shopping during a time when he could leave the grounds of his rehab centre in Rancho, CA, where he is undergoing treatment for a ten-year dependency on prescription painkillers. "Steven Tyler has completed the first 30 days of intensive sobriety treatment and is now in a 90-day residential day treatment program," confirmed Eric Sherman, the president of Tenth Street Entertainment, Tyler's management (more)...

As performances go, Steven Tyler nailed it. The longtime Aerosmith frontman, who announced in December that he had entered rehab for pain management and an addiction to prescription painkillers, put on a brief show in the unlikeliest of places: a Home Depot. Last Saturday, the singer, 61, visited the home improvement store's outlet in Rancho Mirage, Calif., where he serenaded shoppers over the p.a. system with Aerosmith hits "Dude Looks Like a Lady" and "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing." Oddly, it wasn't his only impromptu desert gig lately. On Jan. 19, he also joined a group of people at the Tilted Kilt,...