“Brotherhood” Renewed for a Second Season September 19, 2006 11:18 pm
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Showtime has renewed its critically acclaimed freshman series Brotherhood for another year, ordering 10 episodes.
The series premiered with 454,000 viewers back in July of this year. A total of 1.2M viewers watched the premiere and its repeats in the first week.
Second season episodes are scheduled to premiere in January of 2007.
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13.33M Watch Second Regular Season Week of ESPN Monday Night Football September 19, 2006 9:45 pm
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The contest between The Pittsburgh Steelers and Jacksonville Jaguars drew an estimated 9.81M Households (13.33M viewers), an increase from last week’s first regular season telecast (12.57M viewers for the first game between the Vikings and Redskins and 10.495M viewers for the game between the Chargers and Raiders).
It is now the highest rated program in the history of ESPN.
The game scored a 5.4/15 A18-49 rating, behind only CSI: Miami in the key demo.
The football game gave ESPN the win in all male demos for the evening.
Son of JRR Tolkien Completes Father’s Unfinished Novel, To Be Released Next Spring September 19, 2006 9:19 pm
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As reported to the Associated Press from the books publishers, The Children Of Hurin an unfinished work by the famous Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien is set to be released after more than 30 years of editing by one of his son’s, Christopher. Christopher’s works include the creation of maps for the Lord of the Ring’s Trilogy and the publishing and editing of The Silmarillion.
“It has seemed to me for a long time that there was a good case for presenting my father’s long version of the legend of The Children Of Hurin as an independent work, between its own covers.” Christopher said.
The Children Of Hurin (featuring the elves and dwarves of Middle Earth) will be published by Houghton Mifflin in the US and HarperCollins in the UK. It will be released next spring.
Pitt to become new lead in Mission Impossible franchise? [Update: Paramount source says rumor untrue] September 19, 2006 8:51 pm
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Rumors have surfaced on the net with regards to the fate of the Mission Impossible franchise now that Tom Cruise is no longer part of any plans. It turns out that one possible semi-replacement (the character of Ethan Hunt will not be replaced) to helm Mission Impossible IV is Brad Pitt (more recently of Mr. & Mrs. Smith fame).
The British tabloid The Daily Mail is reporting that Paramount is mulling over a decision to offer the lead role to Brad Pitt.
“MI:IV will not include Cruise’s character, agent Ethan Hunt,” the Mail‘s source claims. “They’re considering a brief mention, saying Hunt retired to live a safe life with his new wife. … They’re set on Brad taking over as a gutsy new head operative who puts together his own unique team of specialists.”
UPDATE: A paramount source has told TrekMovie that the rumor is “total fiction”.
Fall 2006 TV Review, Part Two (“Smith”) September 19, 2006 2:15 pm
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Before we begin with part two (here is part one for those who missed it) of my look at this Fall’s new series’, lets have a quick rundown on the ratings of last night’s premieres:
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Averaged a 8.7/14 HH Rating with a 5.0 A18-49 rating (13.39M viewers) Overall, thats a strong start and enough for a solid second place in the timeslot (behind the power-house CSI: Miami). It’s not all peachy for the critically acclaimed series though, as audience dipped roughly 2.4M viewers in the second half hour in total viewers (from 14.57M to 12.20M) and in A18-49 (going from a 5.4 to a 4.6). It could be cause for concern, or it could be nothing. Something to watch for no doubt.
(NOTE: I made a mistake and posted the viewers for “Deal or No Deal” instead of those for “Studio 60”. Apologies for the mistake, it’s been edited out. I’ve also added additional data on the 2nd half decline.)
The Class
Averaged a 6.9/11 HH Rating with a 3.7 A18-49 Rating (10.74M viewers). That’s a good start to the show (second place in the time-slot behind “Deal or No Deal”), improving on last year’s time-slot occupant (“The King of Queens”) by almost 9% in A18-49. It’ll be interesting to see where the show goes from here.
Alright, now that we got that out of the way, lets continue on towards tonight’s new premieres, correction, new premiere. That’s right, while there are a few season premieres this evening, there is only one series premiere; “Smith”, the thief focused series led by the very powerful on-screen presence of Ray Liota.
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Broadcast TV Ratings for Monday, September 18, 2006 September 19, 2006 2:00 pm
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Premieres of “Deal or No Deal” and “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”, hold off Comedy block and “CSI: Miami” on CBS for the win on this first night of Fall competition.
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