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Rosario T. Calabria on November 18, 2009 at 11:59 pm
HBO has renewed the hit political talk show Real Time With Bill Maher for an eighth season. The liberal-leaning talk show, which bowed in 2003, drew strong ratings last season in its new 10:00 p.m. time slot (1.2 million viewers) and was up 23% from its sixth season average.
Bill Maher has been a mainstay in [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on November 18, 2009 at 11:58 pm
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced their list of 15 films — narrowed down from 89 qualifying films — that will vie for the Best Documentary Academy Award Nomination.
However, several high-profile documentaries didn’t make the cut. They include Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story, James Toback’s Tyson and Sacha Gervasi’s Anvil! [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on November 18, 2009 at 11:54 pm
ABC Family has announced that The Secret Life of the American Teenager and Make It or Break It will premiere on January 4, 2010. The two shows were originally slated to premiere a week later, on January 11th.
‘Secret Life’ has a 12-episode order from the network, with Make It or Break It is scheduled to [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on November 18, 2009 at 11:48 pm
In an effort to stay away from the beginning of the NFL season, this year’s Emmy Awards telecast will be shifted into August. NBC has scheduled The 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards to air on Sunday, August 29, 2010. Despite typically low audience tune in during the summer months, NBC did the same thing in [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on November 18, 2009 at 7:22 pm
FX’s hit drama Sons of Anarchy continues to light up the cable TV ratings with last week’s episode drawing 2.503 million adults 18-49 (#1 for the week among all scripted shows on cable).
The series also fared well among adults 18-34 (1.31 million), which was good enough for second place on the week among scripted shows [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on November 18, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Oprah Winfrey’s interview with the former Republican vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin lifted her daytime show to its best rating in two years with an 8.7/13 household rating/share.
That’s the best rating for Winfrey since her 2007 interview with the Osmond family. Sarah Palin was on the show promoting her new book, Going Rogue: An American [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on November 18, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Full ratings and breakdown’s, including week-to-week comparisons, etc., follow after the jump.
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Rosario T. Calabria on November 18, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Fox France has released the final French poster for James Cameron’s Avatar. Head on over the jump to see the poster in full. The film actually hits theaters two days earlier in France (December 16, 2009) than it does in North America (December 18th).