"BAD BOWL" MARATHON KICKS OFF OXYGEN'S NEW YEAR FEATURING "BAD GIRLS CLUB" SEASON TWO BREAKOUT-STAR TANISHA

NEW YORK-December 18, 2008-Oxygen will ring in the New Year with a "Bad Girls Club" Bad Bowl, a football-themed marathon of the first three episodes of the hit series "Bad Girls Club" season three. Season two's breakout star and baddest bad girl Tanisha will host with whistle and penalty flags in hand. During the marathon, Tanisha will be calling the shots in a referee uniform, issuing penalties on the bad girls and their wild and outlandish behavior. The Bad Bowl kicks off on New Year's Day, January 1 all day, starting at 2PM ET/PT.

After the show, Tanisha will be providing color commentary and explaining rationale of the penalties she called, including calls of "unnecessary roughness" and "too many men on the field!" The Bad Bowl is the baddest bowl of all, allowing fans to tune in and from a real "bad girl's" perspective.

Season three of "Bad Girls Club" made network history, becoming Oxygen's highest rated and most watched season premiere ever, based on Nielsen Media Research data. Posting a record-breaking 0.8 household rating, the airing was the most successful season premiere among all key demos including P18-49 (568,000), W18-49 (405,000), W18-34 (337,000) and total viewers (807,000). "Bad Girls Club" returns to the air, filled with even more cat-fights and jaw-dropping drama on Tuesday, January 6 at 10PM ET/PT only on Oxygen.

About Oxygen Media:

Oxygen is a program service of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment and is currently available in over 74 million homes. The network was launched 2000 to fill a void in the television landscape - creating a network targeted to younger women. Oxygen is rewriting the rulebook for women's television, with a vast array of unconventional and original programming including "Bad Girls Club," "The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency" and "Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood."