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New Season of CNBC's "American Greed" Premieres on Wednesday, March 19 at 9PM ET/PT

(ALL TIMES ARE IN ET)

The season 8 premiere of AMERICAN GREED will air on March 19th at 9PM ET/PT. There will be 14 one hour episodes in the new season.

Wednesday, 3/19/2014:

9:00 PM AMERICAN GREED 81 - MURDER IN MEMPHIS

12:00 AM AMERICAN GREED 81 - MURDER IN MEMPHIS

American Greed 81: "Murder In Memphis"
Joe and Tina Caronna are living the good life: a nice house, a collection of fancy sports cars, and loads of cash for vacations and fun. But while Tina has earned her money as a financial executive, Joe's life as an insurance agent isn't exactly legit. For years, Joe has been stealing money from their friends by selling bogus annuities. When Tina learns of her husband's fraud... the results are deadly.

About "American Greed"

CNBC's "American Greed" examines the dark side of the American Dream. The scams, the schemes, the broken dreams . . . some people will do anything for money.

About CNBC:

With CNBC in the U.S., CNBC in Asia Pacific, CNBC in Europe, Middle East and Africa, CNBC World and CNBC HD, CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news and provides real-time financial market coverage and business information to approximately 371 million homes worldwide, including more than 100 million households in the United States and Canada. CNBC also provides daily business updates to 400 million households across China. The network's 16 live hours a day of business programming in North America (weekdays from 4:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. ET) is produced at CNBC's global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and includes reports from CNBC News bureaus worldwide. CNBC at night is the all new CNBC Prime featuring a mix of new reality programming, CNBC's highly successful series produced exclusively for CNBC including "American Greed" and "Crime Inc." and a number of distinctive in-house documentaries.

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