E! Opens Early Door to House of Carters

E! Entertainment Television will open the doors to its House of Carters online one week prior to the series’ debut on the linear network.

House of Carters -- in which Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys reunites his younger brother, teen sensation Aaron, and their three sisters, Bobbie Jean, Leslie and Angel, to live under one roof after 10 years of being apart -- will debut on E! Monday, Oct. 2 at 9 p.m. (EST/PST).

But the debut one-hour episode will be available free-of-charge via The Vine @ E! Online (www.eonline.com), Google Video (video.google.com) and Comcast.net (www.comcast.net/comcast.html) Monday, Sept. 25-Oct. 2.

E! also announced that new weekly episodes of House of Carters will be available the day after they air for consumers to purchase on Apple Computer’s iTunes Music Store (www.itunes.com) starting with the debut installment Tuesday, Oct. 3.

“We want to give as many people as possible the opportunity to sample House of Carters, as we believe the young, Web-friendly audience will rally around this show," E! Networks executive vice president of marketing and communications Suzanne Kolb said in a prepared statement.