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Earlier this year, New Times columnist Uncle Luke complained that The First 48, A&E's reality series that follows Miami police as they attempt to solve homicides, was unfairly depicting the city's black neighborhoods as "war zones."

Maybe the Miami cops agreed. The department has asked The First 48's producers to donate $10,000 per new episode to its Police Athletic League charity, Chief Manuel Orosa told the Miami Herald on Saturday.

The money would go to parks and schools in the communities the show frequents, Orosa said. In the past, The First 48 has centered on crimes in Overtown, Liberty City, and Little Haiti.

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- Uncle Luke: The First 48 Gives Black Miami a Bad Rap

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The lights are about to go out for Miami's favorite serial killer. At least as far as TV time. Today, Showtime released the trailer for Dexter's eighth and final season -- and it looks like it's gonna be a blood-soaked doozy.

The trailer shows Deb falling into disrepair, guilt over LaGuerta, Dexter confronting a brilliant expert on psychopaths -- and a whole lot of standard stabbiness and blood spatter. Check it out after the jump.

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Spoiler alert: This post contains spoilery details about last night's episode of The Office.

Last night's series finale of The Office was full of moments designed to make the show's fans choke up -- flashbacks, resurrected recurring jokes from earlier seasons, touching documentary-style interviews.

But for South Florida viewers, one of the best moments wasn't about Jim and Pam, or Dwight and Angela, or even Michael Scott. It was about forever curmudgeon Stanley Hudson.

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Hang on to your Botox. The mob wives are about to invade our sunny shores.

The infamous raspy-voiced, big-lipped Angela "Big Ang" Raiola is headed to the Magic City. The top-heavy ex-mob wife has brought her ridiculous crew of horny housewives into town for the filming of the newest season of her VH1 reality treasure, appropriately titled Big Ang.

According to permits recently approved by the Miami-Dade County Mayor's Office of Film and Entertainment, Big Ang is now fully approved for filming throughout Miami Beach. Somehow, we think she'll fit in just fine.

Here are our top ten suggestions for where she should hang out while in town.

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- What Reality TV Is Teaching the World About Miami (Hint: It's Not Good)
- Kourtney Kardashian Slaps Jonathan Cheban! Five Violent Outbursts That Should Replace the Reality TV Slap

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Real World Portland cast

Wanna feel old? MTV's original true-to-life (well, sorta) TV series, The Real World, is now casting its 29th season. Yeah, it's thisclose to the big 3-0. Seems like just yesterday the world was hating on Puck's obnoxious antics and Stephen socked Irene with the slap heard 'round the world. Memories.

Fast forward to now, and the granddaddy of reality TV is scoping South Florida for talent to stock its latest season. While the show's filming locale is TBA, Miami could be in the running. Either way, they're looking for local folks to show up at Vibe in Fort Lauderdale this Saturday for an open casting call.

Cultist spoke to casting Ddrector Damon Furberg of Bunim/Murray (producers of The Real World) for tips. Get your insider info after the jump.

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- Real World Casting at Vibe May 18

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Adriana de Moura: fake bridezilla?

What's worse than a handful of drunk, plastic, self-obsessed, quarrelling women with too much time on their expertly manicured hands?

A handful of drunk, plastic, self-obsessed, quarelling brides.

And if there's any reality left in Bravo's Real Housewives of Miami reality series, that's exactly what we can all expect when season three debuts later this year. Two of the wives are gettin' hitched, y'all!

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Miami's highest paid housewives -- Marysol Patton, Adriana de Moura, and Lea Black -- still aren't making much.

Upscale parties. Couture gowns. Top-shelf booze at exclusive restaurants. These are the kinds of things we associate with the faaaahbulous lifestyles of Bravo's Real Housewives series.

But according to a report in OK Magazine, the Miami housewives' lives are a little more shabby chic.

Of all six Real Housewives franchises, the Miami cast earns the least, with the highest paid members earning between $55,000 and $75,000 per season.

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Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis.

Ever since his early days in the public eye, it's been clear that Joe Francis -- the creator of the Girls Gone Wild video series and a recurring character on Bravo's Real Housewives of Miami -- hasn't had much respect for women.

But last night, an L.A. jury ruled that Francis' disrespect turned violent one night in 2011, convicting him on charges of assaulting a woman at his mansion in Hollywood.

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- Girls Gone Wild Founder Joe Francis and Real Housewives ' Joanna Krupa: A Bravo Blowjob Controversy (Video)
- Real Housewives Wife Swapping: Joe Francis Claims Joanna Krupa Cheated With Another Housewife's Husband
- Girls Gone Wild 's Joe Francis Calls Miami Housewives "Train Wrecks"

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Burn Notice fans aren't messing around. Coconut Grove politicians found that out when they tried to kick the USA series out of its filming hub last year, and met instead with mobs of angry TV viewers holding handmade signs outside City Hall.

Turns out, that's just the tip of the extreme obsession iceberg. In an impressive, obsessive feat of research, one Miami fan has compiled a list of the Burn Notice film locations around town -- all of them, episode by episode, across the show's five seasons.

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- Burn Notice Lease Extended, Show to Remain in Coconut Grove for One Year
- SNL Asks What Is Burn Notice?

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Miami is a city with its fair share of badasses. Pain and Gain, hello! But bodybuilders, basketball players and bouncers are one thing -- ninjas are a whole other category of awesome. There are few who make the grade.

And finding these select few is the purpose of the hit G4 TV show, American Ninja Warrior, which took over Bayfront Park this weekend to test the skill of some of the nation's most talented athletes.

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- American Ninja Warrior in Miami: Hardbodied Bros Win It All, or Fail Spectacularly
- American Ninja Warrior to Film Downtown This Weekend

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