Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Movies, News, Rumors, Superman Returns.
IESB.net is reporting on their website that a second film in the newly re-established Superman franchise has now been given an official go. The site is claiming that Singer has reached an agreement with Warner Bros. on the sequel, which will apparently start to get underway next fall and feature more action.
There are however, some conditions, mainly with the budget. Unlike the high $208M budget + $50M for prints and advertising of ‘Returns’ (which also included all the failed projects), this movie will range somewhere around $140-$175 million + prints.
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in News, Syndication, Television.
Beginning in the fall of 2007, ‘Criminal Intent’ will air in a stripped Monday to Friday format, foregoing the more popular weekend window that most syndication series run in.
This marks the first time since the 2001/2002 syndication year of “7th Heaven” that a drama has aired in a Monday to Friday format.
Criminal Intent is currently in its 6th season on NBC, where it airs there every Tuesday night at 9:00 PM. The series also runs in weekday off-net syndication on USA Network, where it airs weekly, with a repeat of the Tuesday night NBC episode airing every Sunday. The series also airs on Bravo, in a three hour Sunday night block.
“Law & Order: Criminal Intent” is averaging about 11.52M viewers a week this season.
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Fall 2006 TV, News, Television.
ABC has pulled “Extreme Makeover” from its schedule after only one episode, the season premiere, failed to attract an audience necessary to maintain the four specials that were set to air this year.
Repeats of “Grey’s Anatomy”, which had originally been airing in the time-slot, will once again occupy the 8:00 PM hour.
The season premiere averaged only 4.83M viewers, second to last for the network on the week.
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Broadcast TV Ratings.
NBC has set the return of “Medium” for November 15th with a a special two-hour presentation from 9-11 p.m. ET. The series, which is entering its third season, will then occupy the Wednesday at 10:00 PM time-slot, which was previously held by the pulled “Kidnapped” (which is burning off its remaining episodes on Saturday nights).
“I believe this special two-hour episode, ‘Four Dreams,’ is the perfect way for ‘Medium’ to begin its third season,” said Caron. “It is in many ways, it’s our most ambitious and emotional episode to date. The story spans from Indonesia to Phoenix and the larger canvas gave us an opportunity to play with techniques we’ve never used before, such as animation, which is used to depict middle child’s Bridgette’s dreams. It also allowed us to explore in greater depth some of the other characters in Allison’s world that we know very little about. But perhaps most exciting of all, it gave us the chance to invite Thomas Jane — an actor I’ve long admired — to play someone who ends up having an enormous emotional impact on Allison and her family. He is simply electric in the role, and the chemistry between Thomas and Patricia is palpable.”
The series averaged 13.92M viewers for its first season and 11.13M viewers for its second season.
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