PREMIERING SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 AT 8 P.M.*
Featuring A Special The King’s Men
Performance By Kirk Franklin, Marvin Sapp, Donnie McClurkin And Israel Houghton And An Unforgettable Performance
By Kim Burrell And The Two Finalists
NEW YORK—August 28, 2012-Finishing off its
highest rated season in series history,
SUNDAY BEST season five culminates Sunday, September 2nd at 8 P.M.*
with two back-to-back episodes featuring electrifying performances by
some of today’s top gospel and soul hit makers including Kurt Carr,
Marvin Winans,
Ledisi, Tye Tribbett, Israel Houghton and Marvin Sapp. SUNDAY BEST
judges Yolanda Adams and Donnie McClurkin and host Kirk Franklin are
also slated to take the stage to deliver rousing sets of their most
celebrated tracks.
After
nine weeks of fierce competition, the field has narrowed to two
finalists, South Carolina’s Joshua Rogers and Kansas’ Alexis Spight,
going head to head in the
finale. In addition to the coveted SUNDAY BEST
title, the winner of season five will receive a national recording
contract with Music World Gospel, a cash prize, and an exclusive prize
from Ford.
SUNDAY BEST season
five is hosted by Kirk Franklin with celebrity judges Pastor Donnie
McClurkin, Yolanda Adams and Cece Winans with vocal mentor Kim Burrell.
SUNDAY BEST, television’s #1 gospel series each year,
achieved a new franchise high on Sunday, August 19. The SUNDAY BEST
season five episode 9 is the #1 telecast in SUNDAY BEST
history drawing in 2.2 Million viewers during its time slot, making
it one of the Top 10 Ad-Supported Cable Telecasts for the weekend.
Episode 9 also ranked #1 in its time period across all Ad-Supported
Cable Networks among Adults 18-49 (906K P18-49).
The series continues to reign as the #1 reality competition show on
cable and ranks among BET’s top series ever in the third quarter. Season
five episodes have been Cable’s #1 Telecasts among African-American
viewers every Sunday since the season launch.
For continuous
SUNDAY BEST updates,
please visit http://www.bet.com/Sunday Best. Also, follow
SUNDAY BEST on Twitter at
www.twitter.com/BETSundayBest (hash tag:
#BETSundayBest) and Facebook fan page at
http://www.facebook.com/BETSundayBest.
*All times are ET/PT.
About BET Networks
BET
Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB), is the
nation’s leading provider of quality entertainment, music, news and
public affairs
television programming for the African-American audience. The primary
BET channel reaches more than 90 million households and can be seen in
the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and
sub-Saharan Africa. BET is the dominant African-American
consumer brand with a diverse group of business extensions: BET.com, a
leading Internet destination for Black entertainment, music, culture,
and news; CENTRIC, a 24-hour entertainment network targeting the 25- to
54-year-old African-American audience; BET
Digital Networks - BET Gospel and BET Hip Hop, attractive alternatives
for cutting-edge entertainment tastes; BET Home Entertainment, a
collection of BET-branded offerings for the home environment including
DVDs and video-on-demand; BET Event Productions,
a full-scale event management and production company with festivals and
live events spanning the globe; BET operates in the United Kingdom and
oversees the extension of BET network programming for global
distribution.
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