Broadcast TV Ratings for Monday, March 23, 2009 March 24, 2009 5:31 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Nielsen TV Ratings, Television.Tags: Broadcast TV Ratings, Monday
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ABC’s Dancing With the Stars drew more than 20 million viewers, leading the network comfortably past the competition to take first place on the evening. Week three of Castle didn’t go so well, however, with the show dipping by double-digits across the board, and falling below 10 million viewers (Note: The numbers will likely fall more when the finals are released because DWTS ran two minutes into the 10:00pm hour).
Following in second place was CBS. I’m confused about why the network decided to move How I Met Your Mother to 8:00pm and put a repeat at 8:30pm, but whatever the reason, it did not work at all. The show dipped significantly (by more than double-digits). Rules of Engagement also slipped a bit at 9:30pm (it led out of a repeat of Two and a Half Men) but managed a still healthy number among adults 18-49, with near 100% retention among the demo (I know it aired out of a repeat, but its still noteworthy). CSI: Miami closed out the evening as the night’s #2 most-watched program after Dancing With the Stars.
Fox aired a repeat of House last night, but an original episode of 24 kept the network in a solid third place, with very little loss in viewership from the week prior.
NBC was stuck in fourth place with original installments of Chuck, Heroes and Medium. The biggest news is that Heroes hit series lows yet again.
And rounding out the was The CW which failed to get much traction out of Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill.
Full ratings and breakdown’s, including my full analysis, week-to-week comparisons, etc., follow after the jump.
New Star Trek TV Spot March 24, 2009 1:50 am
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Movies, Paramount, Video Clips.Tags: Star Trek
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Paramount has released a brand new 30-second TV spot (#3) for Star Trek. The new spot recycles some of what we’ve already seen in past trailers/spots, but also includes some new scenes. Watch it embedded after the jump. (more…)
Survivor: Live Opening in Theme Parks this Summer March 24, 2009 1:06 am
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in CBS, News, Television.Tags: Survivor: Live
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CBS Consumer Products has sealed a deal to bring the stage show Survivor: Live to three theme parks this summer.
“Audience involvement is key to the success of ‘Survivor,’ and we’ve been looking to make that tangible and real,” said Liz Kalodner, exec VP and general manager of CBS Consumer Products. “It took us a little time to create something that replicated the essence of the show.”
According to Variety, the half-hour program will use clips from the TV series — as well as actors portraying previous contestants — and divide the audience into four “tribes.” Volunteers from the crowd will go through a series of four challenges, leading eventually to a sole winner.
The show will debut May 2 at Denver’s Elitch Gardens and Oklahoma City’s Frontier City. On May 23rd a third show, at the Darien Lake Theme Park Resort in Darien Center, N.Y., will open.
Chelsea Handler Inks 3-year Deal March 24, 2009 1:02 am
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Casting, E!, News, Television.Tags: Chelsea Handler, Chelsea Lately
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Chelsea Handler, host of the E! Entertainment latenight show Chelsea Lately, has inked a new 3-year deal with parent company Comcast Entertainment Group that will keep her at the network for at least the next three years.
The deal, said to be worth as much as eight figures, means that Handler will continue as the host and executive producer of the latenight show through 2012.
Source: Variety
Casting Bites: Amanda Seyfried, Anne Hathaway, Tom Selleck, Peter Krause and More March 24, 2009 12:52 am
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in ABC, Casting, CBS, HBO, Lionsgate, Movies, NBC, Summit Entertainment, Television, Warner Brothers, Warner Independent.Tags: Big Love, Canned, Five Killers, Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland, Parenthood, State of Romance, Sucker Punch, The Eastman's, The Rum Diary, The Twilight Saga's New Moon, This Little Piggy, V
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Here’s a round up of the latest casting related news for television and film.
- Amanda Seyfried won’t be able to take on the lead role in Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch because HBO won’t release her from her contract on Big Love. Snyder’s film begins shooting this fall, which would conflict with scheduled shooting on the fourth season of Big Love. [EW]
- Actors Chaske Spencer, Bronson Pelletier, Alex Meraz, Kiowa Gordon and Tyson Houseman have all signed on to star as members of the wolf pack in Summit Entertainment’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon. [STYD]
- Anne Hathaway has signed on to star as Judy Garland in the film and stage adaptations of Gerald Clarke’s biography Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland. [Weinstein Co.]
- Giovanni Ribisi has joined the cast of Hunter S. Thompson’s adaptation of The Rum Diary from Warner Independent. Ribisi will play a carousing journalist in the film, which stars Johnny Depp. [Variety]
- Amanda Bynes has landed the starring role in the ABC pilot Canned. The actress will play Sarabeth, a naive Midwesterner who’s being exploited by her boss – and doesn’t realize it. [Variety]
- Tom Selleck, Catherine O’Hara and Martin Mull have all joined the cast of Five Killers, a Lionsgate action comedy that also stars Ashton Kutcher (as a retiring hitman) and Katherine Heigl (his computer tech girlfriend). Selleck and O’Hara are playing Heigl’s overprotective father and doring mother, while Mull is playing Holbrook, Kutcher’s handler. Robert Luketic is directing the film which is scheduled for release on June 4, 2010 release. [THR]
More casting bites after the jump. (more…)
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