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Broadcast TV Ratings for Tuesday, January 20, 2009

New Watchmen Dr. Manhattan Viral Video

A new viral video featuring a news piece from a 1970 edition of NBS Nightly News, anchored by NBS stalwart Ted Philips, has been released online.  The video has a special report from co-anchor Jim Sizemore looking back at 10 years of Dr. Manhattan.  Watch the video embedded below.

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Watchmen hits theaters on March 6, 2009.

CNN Tops Cable Networks In Inauguration Ratings UPDATE: Inauguration Draws 37.8 Million

UPDATED ON 1/22/2009
Nielsen reports that from 10am to 5pm ET, an average 37,793,008 tuned into the ceremony, swearing in, speech and coverage of the Inauguration.  That’s the second-most ever, slightly below the 41,800,260 who watched Reagan’s nomination in January 1981.

Keep in mind that the number does not include any online viewers or radio listeners and [...]

Battlestar Galactica’s Premiere Draws 2.1 Million Viewers

The final episodes of the SCI FI series Battlestar Galactica got off to a solid start on Friday night, with the season 4.5 premiere episode “Sometimes a Great Notion” earning a 1.6 household rating and 2.11 million total viewers.

The show did well in the key demos as well, drawing over 1.3 million adults 18-49 and [...]

Oscar Nominations Will Be Unveiled Thursday Morning

Academy President Sid Ganis will be accompanied by actor Forest Whitaker to announce the nominations for the 81st Academy Awards on Thursday, January 22nd at 8:30am ET/5:30am PT.

10 of the 24 award categories will be unveiled at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Nominations information for all categories will be distributed simultaneously [...]

2012 Release Date Pushed Back to November

Sony has pushed back the release of Roland Emmerich’s sci-fi action film 2012 from July 10, 2009 to November 13, 2009.

“We’ve had such success with the James Bond films in November that we wanted a big tentpole film in that slot this year,” Sony distribution president Rory Bruer said Tuesday. “We’ve got so many [...]

New Watchmen TV Spot + Website Updates

Last week’s NFL AFC Championship game between the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers featured the second TV spot from Warner Bros. for Watchmen.  Watch it below.  The studio has also opened a new official website at watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com and updated the new viral site TheNewFrontiersman.net with new images (one of which I’ve included above, click to [...]

J.K. Simmons Returning to play J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man 4

J.K. Simmons, who played J. Jonah Jameson in the first three Spider-Man films, told MTV that he will be returning for the fourth film in the franchise:

The fourth film in the blockbuster “Spider-Man” franchise will begin shooting in 2010, actor J.K. Simmons told MTV News at Sundance, revealing that he’ll continue in the role [...]