Quick Takes: ‘America’s Most Wanted’ moves to Lifetime

Just weeks after Fox dropped “America’s Most Wanted” after more than two decades, its creator-host, John Walsh, has a new home for the show on the Lifetime network.

The deal, announced jointly on Tuesday by Walsh and Lifetime, will return to the air Walsh’s weekly criminal roundup, which since 1988 has helped bring almost 1,200 fugitives to justice.

The series will return for its 25th season later this year.

In May, Fox announced it was axing “AMW,” citing high production costs. At the time, the network said it would present four quarterly specials in the coming season. The first of those programs will air in October. But Fox’s final weekly “AMW” was telecast in June.

“We kept the hotline and website up, and we’ve caught four guys,” Walsh said. “The viewers didn’t give up on us.”

—Associated Press

Swift among CMA nominees

Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton and Jason Aldean top the roster of nominees for the 45th Country Music Assn. Awards with five apiece. Right behind them with four nominations each are Kimberly Perry of the Band Perry and Zac Brown Band members Brown and Coy Bowles.

The CMA’s top award — for entertainer of the year — will have Swift, Shelton, Paisley and Aldean vying with Keith Urban.

Album of the year nominees are Swift’s “Speak Now,” Shelton’s “All About Tonight,” Paisley’s “This Is Country Music,” Zac Brown Band’s “You Get What You Give” and Aldean’s “My Kinda Party.”

The awards will be handed out Nov. 9 in a ceremony that ABC will televise.

—Randy Lewis

Getty Museum adds prized Bible

The J. Paul Getty Museum has added a prized 750-year-old Bible from Italy to its noted collection of illuminated medieval manuscripts, and the museum says it will go on display Dec. 13 as a highlight of the upcoming exhibition “Gothic Grandeur: Manuscript Illumination 1250-1350.”

The Getty said that the so-called Abbey Bible, named for a former British owner, was created in the mid-1200s for a Dominican monastery. According to museum officials, it “is one of the earliest and finest” illuminated Bibles to have emerged from Bologna in northern Italy, “one of the major centers” where scribes turned Latin scripture into art.

—Mike Boehm

Music director of Met sidelined

James Levine, the ailing music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, has suffered from recurring back problems in recent years that have forced him to cancel a number of appearances. On Tuesday, the company announced that Levine has had to withdraw from all fall appearances this season due to an accident last week that damaged one of his vertebrae.

Fabio Luisi has been named the Met’s principal conductor, and will replace Levine for most performances this fall.

Levine, 68, hopes to return in January.

—David Ng