Broadcast TV Ratings for Sunday, August 17, 2008 August 18, 2008 6:25 pm
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A complete breakdown of the night’s ratings follows after the jump.
Zak Penn to Write/Produce “The Argonauts” August 18, 2008 1:22 am
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Zak Penn has been hired by 20th Century Fox to write and produce a big screen adaptation of the classic Greek tale The Argonauts. Penn will work with John Davis. This will be the third adaptation of the material, as it was first adapted in 1963 and more recently in 2000 for Hallmark Television. Dreamworks is also working on a project with the same title.
Source: Variety
“Nightline” At Risk of Cancellation August 18, 2008 1:13 am
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Despite a trend that shows the long-running newsmagazine Nightline closing the viewer gap against CBS’s Late Night With David Letterman, ABC could cancel the news magazine should the network get the opportunity to pick up Jay Leno in a new late-night talk show.
“It would be hard for ABC not to make a play for Leno,” said Greg Kahn, senior vice president of the ad-buying firm Optimedia. “He is still at the top of his game, and the thinking is that a lot of ad dollars would follow him to another network.”
Starting next year, Leno will step down from The Tonight Show, so that NBC can install Conan O’Brien as the new host, but Leno, 58, isn’t ready to retire and rival studios ABC and Fox are already making a play on the talk show host, whose show earns about $50 million a year profit for NBC.
Source: LA Times
“Star Trek” Movie Site Updated August 18, 2008 12:54 am
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The official website for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek has been updated with the four recently revealed new posters, featuring John Cho (Sulu), Simon Pegg (Scotty), Karl Urban (McCoy) and Anton Yelchin (Chekov), which I posted about in this article. You’ll find the high-resolution posters after the jump.
ABC Orders TV Pilot of “The Witches of Eastwick” August 18, 2008 12:43 am
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ABC has put in a script order for a new TV series based on the supernatural movie The Witches of Eastwick. The pilot will be written by Dawson’s Creek writer Maggie Friedman.
This marks the third attempt at a TV version of the 1987 film (and book of which it was based), which starred Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer. In 1992, Warner Bros. TV commissioned writers Carlton Cuse and Jeffrey Boam to develop The Witches of Eastwick for NBC and in 2002, Fox developed a version along with Warner Bros. TV titled Eastwick, from excecutive producer Jim Leonard and writers Jon Cowan and Robert Rovner.
Source: Variety
‘Night at the Museum 2’ and ‘Transformers 2’ To Hit IMAX August 18, 2008 12:35 am
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20th Century Fox and DreamWorks/Paramount will release Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, respectively, in both conventional and IMAX theaters next year. ‘Night at the Museum 2’ hits theaters on May 22, 2009, while Transformers 2 follows on June 26, 2009.
The original Transformers had a delayed release of more than 2 months back in 2007.
Source: ComingSoon.net
J.J. Abrams Signs Onto Earthquake Disaster Project August 18, 2008 12:30 am
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Universal Pictures has announced that J.J. Abrams (Lost, Star Trek) is developing an Earthquake disaster film with screenwriter David Selzter (Omen). While details on the project are being kept under tight wraps–surprise, surprise–we do know that it isn’t a remake of Universal’s 1974 film of the same name, Earthquake.
Source: THR
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