Oxygen announces two new titles to its development pipeline that reflect the interests and tastes of today’s young modern woman. “Teen Weddings (wt)” is a powerful and dramatic look at several teen couples on their complicated journey to the altar and “Thrift Wars (wt)” features one of the newest fashion movements exploding across the country – competitive thrift shopping, known as “thrifting.” These two pilots mark the first of several new projects in contention for slots on the Oxygen schedule in 2012 and the first to be announced under Oxygen’s new Senior Vice President, Original Programming and Development, Rod Aissa.

To usher in the return of Oxygen’s reality series “Jersey Couture” and celebrate all things Jersey glam, the network has partnered with Minx, Ricky’s NYC and Temptu to create a Pop-Up Beauty Bar in New York City’s NoHo neighborhood February 3 - 7, 2012. Free and open to the public, this pop-up corner store will offer complimentary over-the-top beauty experiences via “Glamification Stations.”

Lea Michele will join Oxygen’s critically acclaimed series “The Glee Project” as the guest mentor for its premiere episode. In a tweet sent Saturday to her over 1.5 million followers on Twitter, Michele wrote, “So excited to announce that I'll be guest mentoring on the season 2 premiere of ‘The Glee Project!’” The second season of the series began filming earlier this week in Los Angeles, and Michele is the first guest mentor to be revealed. As announced earlier this week, Oxygen picked up a second season of “The Glee Project” to return summer 2012.

Oxygen’s Saturday afternoon “Glee” marathon stack (January 14^th from 11am – 11:30 pm ET) scored double digit increases across all key demos for the network, according to Nielsen. Compared to the prior four week time period average, the “Glee” marathon increased an impressive +88% among W18-34 and +52% among W18-49. The marathon peaked at 4pm in the key W18-34 demo up +265% above the time period average.

Oxygen has picked up a second season of the critically acclaimed competition series “The Glee Project” for a summer 2012 debut. The spinoff competition series, which awards one winner a seven episode arc on “Glee,” will return with Ryan Murphy and Dante Di Loreto continuing as executive producers along with series executive producers Michael Davies and Shauna Minoprio of Embassy Row. “The Glee Project” will air on Oxygen this summer with 14 contenders -- two more than season one -- additional themes and all new music.

Oxygen Media is on pace for another banner year that solidifies its position as a Top 20 ad-supported cable entertainment network for W18-34, according to Nielsen.  This was driven by several original series, notably the critically-lauded and award-winning “The Glee Project” which averaged more than one million total viewers (1.191 MM) linearly over the course of its summer run. The series’ winners (Damian McGinty and Samuel Larsen) landed seven-episode arcs on the hit series “Glee” and was a lightning rod for Oxygen’s robust social media strategy pushing the reach of the series to almost 45 million viewers (44,977,823) on linear, Oxygen.com, Hulu, and VOD platforms.

Oxygen’s “Jersey Couture” premieres on Tuesday, February 7, at 10 PM ET/PT with two half-hour back-to-back episodes with an all-new look and a whole lot of Jersey style. As viewers learned in the first season of “Jersey Couture,” mixing family with business can have its challenges for the Scalis –sisters Kimberly and Christine and mom Diane. With a trademark “no BS” attitude, the family has made its dress store the premiere glamour stop in South New Jersey. In this ultimate dress-up series, running the family business means having a flair for fashion, accessories, and even the right undergarments.

Oxygen will premiere “Best Ink,” a new competition reality series laying bare the cutthroat and wildly unpredictable world of tattoo artistry on Monday, January 30^th at 10 PM ET/PT.    “Best Ink” pits ten of the best male and female tattoo artists from around the country against one another in this all-new competition. With nothing but their needles, ink, and passion, these artists compete for $100,000 and a cover story in Tattoo magazine.