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Rosario T. Calabria on May 4, 2009 at 11:08 pm
The NBA playoffs are playing well on the court and off, as news comes in that TNT has set cable records for their first-round NBA Playoff contest Thursday. Nielsen estimates that the Chicago Bulls’ 128-127 triple overtime victory averaged 5.35 million viewers, easily cable’s top program for the night in most key categories.
The rating makes [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on April 10, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Just three days after its season finale, TNT has canceled its low-rated freshman drama Trust Me.
Although the cancellation will no doubt disappoint fans, it really shouldn’t come at much of a surprise. The show’s series on January 26th managed just 3.40 million viewers (okay for other cable nets, but not so for TNT), before dropping [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on February 2, 2009 at 7:07 pm
TNT has ordered a new non-fiction pilot titled First and Last. According to Broadcasting & Cable, the series would be an hour-long show split into two parts. The first half-hour would feature the stories of the first time something happens in a person’s life, while the second half-hour would focus on what happens in the [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on February 2, 2009 at 6:28 pm
TNT Has announced that they’ve given a renewal to the freshman drama Leverage, which has become ad-supported cable’s #1 program in the Tuesday 10pm (ET/PT) timeslot. The series has averaged 3.2 million viewers and scores well when time-shifted viewing is factored in.
The full press release follows after the jump.
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Rosario T. Calabria on January 12, 2009 at 11:44 pm
TNT has added another show to its lineup of original programming with the pick up Ray Romano’s midlife crisis drama Men of a Certain Age. 10 episodes were ordered by TNT and the network is targeting a January 201o premiere.
The pilot was written by Romano and Everybody Loves Raymond alum Mike Royce and is focused [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on December 9, 2008 at 2:45 pm
TNT had a very successful weekend. The third TV movie from The Librarian franchise, The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice got things started by drawing 5.44 million viewers on Sunday night from 8-10pm. That led into the series premiere of Leverage, which held steady from its lead-in and drew 4.99 million viewers from 10-11pm [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on September 10, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Given how common spinoffs have been as of late, the news that TNT is developing their own spinoff from The Closer isn’t all that surprising. The Closer is cable’s #1 drama and has even attracted Emmy attention so you can hardly fault the network for trying to capitilize on that exposure.
The spinoff is being headed [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on July 21, 2008 at 5:20 pm
TNT has put up a few sneak peek videos for tonight’s new episodes of The Closer and Saving Grace. Check them out at the links below.
The Closer (9pm)
http://www.tnt.tv/dramavision.jsp?oid=40499&eref=sharethisUrl
Saving Grace (10pm)
http://www.tnt.tv/dramavision/?oid=40322&eref=sharethisUrl
And don’t forget that there’s still time to enter the DVD giveaway for the third season DVD set of The Closer. Click here [...]