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Rosario T. Calabria on December 1, 2006 at 5:45 pm
ABC dominates, easily winning the evening in all the main categories. “Men In Trees” performs solidly, and “Scrubs” matches its season 5 premiere numbers. “Grey’s Anatomy” towers over the rest of the nights line-up as the most watched show of the evening in all categories, including A18-49.
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Rosario T. Calabria on December 1, 2006 at 5:12 am
Though it failed to make the midseason schedule, “Raines” hasn’t disappeared. NBC has set a March 2007 premiere date for the supernatural series which stars Jeff Goldblum as a detective who sees ghosts.
It will air Friday nights at 9:00 PM ET, replacing “Las Vegas” when that series ends its string of first-run episodes.
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Rosario T. Calabria on December 1, 2006 at 5:06 am
A&E has ordered a second season of the Gene Simmons reality vehicle, signing off on a 20 episode run.
“Our viewers have really connected with Gene and his family,” says Bob DeBitetto, executive vice president and general manager at A&E. “‘Gene Simmons Family Jewels’ is a great example of A&E’s unique brand of peal-life series, [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on December 1, 2006 at 4:57 am
According to Variety, Paramount will be bringing back Eddie Murphy in “Beverly Hills Cop IV” to reprise the role of Axel Foley. Lorenzo di Bonaventura will serve as producer of the film.
The first “Beverly Hills Cop” movie was released in 1984 and went on to become a major success, grossing more than $234.76M domestically and [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on December 1, 2006 at 4:46 am
According to moviehole.net, it appears that Sony is close to greenlighting a third film in the Starship Tropers franchise.
“Looks like – fingers crossed – Sony is moving forward”, Neumeier, who will write & direct the film, tells Moviehole. “Plans are afoot to shoot next year. Casper Van Dien will be back as Colonel John Rico. [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on December 1, 2006 at 4:32 am
Martin Scorcese will develop (with hopes to direct) an adaption of Eric Jager’s “The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal and Trial by Combat in Medieval France”. The movie will carry the title of “Duel”.
The film is part of Scorcese’s new four-year deal at Paramount which will see him direct and produce features [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on December 1, 2006 at 4:24 am
Columbia Pictures has acquired the screen rights to “Cleopatra” with hopes of debutinthe movie sometime in 2009.
The film will be written by pullitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff with Scott Rudin set to produce.
Columbia plots new ‘Cleopatra’ [Variety]
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Rosario T. Calabria on December 1, 2006 at 4:10 am
In a bit of a surprise, USA Network was the top rated ad-supported cable network for the week ending 19th in viewers, jumping ahead of the previous dominant ESPN for the first time since “Monday Night Football” began airing on the sports entertainment network.