Broadcast TV Ratings for Monday, March 30, 2009 March 31, 2009 6:23 pm
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Full ratings and breakdown’s, including my full analysis, week-to-week comparisons, etc., follows after the jump.
True Blood Season Two Set for June 14th + First Photos March 31, 2009 1:41 am
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HBO has set a June 14th date for the second season premiere of its hit vampire drama True Blood. The network has also released several new publicity photos from the second season. Click through the jump to see more. (more…)
MTV Orders Four More Seasons of The Real World March 31, 2009 1:32 am
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MTV has ordered four additional seasons of its 17-year-old reality hit The Real World. The renewal will bring the reality series to an amazing 26 cycles. The network is also ordering another four seasons of The Real World/Road Rules Challenge, bringing the competition series to 21 cycles.
The early extended renewal will help spur creativity among the show’s creators:
“This allows us to plan,” executive producer Jon Murray said. “It helps us figure out where we’re going next and allows us to do some long-range thinking.”
Source: THR
Friday Night Lights Gets Renewed for Two More Seasons March 30, 2009 8:50 pm
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DirecTV and NBC have finalized a deal to produce 26 more episodes, to be aired over the course of two seasons, of the critically hailed, but poorly rated, NBC series Friday Night Lights.
The 26-episode order will likely be the last for the series, given its low ratings. The 26 episodes will be produced consecutively without a break, but DirecTV will air the episodes as two 13-episode seasons. NBC will get a second window of Friday Night Lights episodes after they air on DirecTV, just as they’re doing currently with the third season.
Through 11 episodes this season, Friday Night Lights has averaged a 2.7/4 HH rating/share, 3.98M viewers and a 1.3/4 A18-49 rating/share on NBC.
But forget the ratings, I love this series and am thrilled to see it’ll be around for at least two more seasons.
Source: TV Week
CBS May Cancel Guiding Light March 30, 2009 7:46 pm
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TV Week is reporting that CBS may soon decide to pull the plug on Guiding Light, the longest-running daytime drama in television history (it started on radio and together with its television run its survived more than 70 years). While no final decision has been made yet, the network’s deal ends in September and the network would likely settle on a decision within the next month.
Last February the show changed its storytelling approach to one that gave the show a more realistic, less stage feel. That was also around the time that CBS renewed the show for its current season and retaining an option for an additional season. But ratings haven’t improved since the switch. According to data from Nielsen, season-to-date, the show is averaging 2.17 million viewers and a 0.9 rating in women 18-49 rating (the target demographic for daytime soaps); that’s down 18% in viewers and 25% in the demographic season-to-season.
Broadcast TV Ratings for Sunday, March 29, 2009 March 30, 2009 3:12 pm
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FOX Sets Summer Schedule March 29, 2009 11:10 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in 2008/2009 TV Season, Fox, News, Television.Tags: Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, Don't Forget the Lyrics, Hells Kitchen, Mental, So You Think You Can Dance, Teen Choice 2009
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Fox has announced their summer schedule, which will see the return of So You Think You Can Dance? on May 21st, new medical drama Mental on May 22nd, Hell’s Kitchen on July 21st, Teen Choice 2009 on August 10th and Don’t Forget the Lyrics! on May 22nd and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? on July 3rd. The full press release follows after the jump. (more…)
Broadcast TV Ratings for Saturday, March 28, 2009 March 29, 2009 11:03 pm
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Lipstick Jungle Officially Canceled March 29, 2009 9:42 pm
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What’s been expected for months is now official, NBC’s Lipstick Jungle has been officially canceled, that according to star Brooke Shields:
“It was going to stay and we just were officially told it’s finally not coming back,” Shields, who played movie exec Wendy Healy, told E! “I think a lot of people were really sad, but I think we hung on a really long time. It was three great years that we’ve been working on it.”
While NBC hasn’t officially made the announcement of the show’s cancellation, a source to TV Guide confirmed Shields’ version of the story.
Source: TV Guide
NBC Cancels The Chopping Block March 29, 2009 9:21 pm
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After just three weeks on the air, NBC is pulling its weak performing original cooking competition series The Chopping Block. According to THR’s James Hibberd, the network informed affiliates of the decision Thursday night.
Beginning this Wednesday, the show will be replaced with repeats of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. The repeats will be episodes that have already aired on the network. USA Network episodes will still make their broadcast debut on NBC starting on April 29th.
The Chopping Block premiered on March 11th with just 3.77M viewers and a 1.4/4 A18-49 rating/share. In week two the show fell to just 3.40M viewers and a 1.2/4 A18-49 rating/share, before completely fizzling out last week with just 2.58M viewers and a 0.9/2 A18-49 rating/share (32 and 36 percent slides, respectively, from the already low series premiere).
NBC plans to burn off the remaining episodes sometime in the future.
Broadcast TV Ratings for Friday, March 27, 2009 March 28, 2009 11:54 pm
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Broadcast TV Ratings for Thursday, March 26, 2009 March 27, 2009 2:26 pm
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ABC To Air Ben Hur Miniseries March 27, 2009 12:56 am
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in ABC, Movies, News, Television.Tags: Alan Sharp, Ben Hur, Steve Shill
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ABC will be airing a new four-hour Ben Hur miniseries. The $22.5 million production hails from Alchemy Television Group and Spain’s Drimtim Entertainment. Steve Shill (Rome) is on board to direct from a script penned by Alan Sharp (Rob Roy). Production is set to begin in May in Spain, Morocco and Canada. Casting is still underway.
The project will be presented by ABC as a limited series. No air date has been set yet.
Source: Variety
Broadcast TV Ratings for Wednesday, March 25, 2009 March 26, 2009 11:09 pm
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40.35M Watched President Obama’s Second News Conference March 25, 2009 5:25 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in News, Nielsen TV Ratings, Television.Tags: Barack Obama, Broadcast TV Ratings, Cable TV Ratings
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The second press conference of President Barack Obama last night drew an audience of 40.35M viewers. The hour-long conference had a combined household rating of a 25.9 and was carried on 11 networks: ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, Telemundo, Univision, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and mun2.
President Obama’s previous news conference was seen by 49.46M viewers in February. Over the past week, the President has racked up impressive audiences for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (an 11.2 household metered market rating) last Thursday and 60 Minutes on Sunday (17.04M).
For comparative purposes, President Obama’s inauguration day celebration was seen by 37.79M viewers and his address to congress was watched by 52.37M viewers.
Bob Barket to Guest Star on The Price Is Right! March 25, 2009 2:25 pm
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Bob Barker, the legendary emcee and former host of The Price Is Right!, will return to the show Wednesday to tape a guest apperance. His appearance is part of the promotional tour for Priceless Memories, his new autobiography.
CBS plans to air Mr. Barker’s guest spot on April 16th.
Bob Barker stepped down as host of the hit daytime game show in 2007, after 35 years. Drew Carey currently hosts the show.
Source: TV Week
George Lopez to Host Late-Night TBS Show March 25, 2009 2:19 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in News, TBS, Television.Tags: George Lopez
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TBS is entering the late-night talk show ring, tapping actor/comedian George Lopez to host a new talk show. The network handed the project, still untitled, a 34-week order after seeing a presentation. The show will launch in November, airing at 11pm Monday-Thursday.
“If change can come to the White House, then change can come to late-night,” Lopez said. “Yes I can!”
According to THR, the show will feature celebrity guests, live music and comedy acts and the audience will be encouraged to interact with Lopez and his guests.
Broadcast TV Ratings for Monday, March 23, 2009 March 24, 2009 5:31 pm
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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.
Survivor: Live Opening in Theme Parks this Summer March 24, 2009 1:06 am
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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
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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]
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Broadcast TV Ratings for Sunday, March 22, 2009 March 23, 2009 6:30 pm
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Big Boost for Battlestar Galactica Series Finale [Update] March 23, 2009 5:54 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in News, Nielsen TV Ratings, Sci Fi, Television.Tags: Battlestar Galactica, Cable TV Ratings
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Updated on 3/25/2009 at 1:05PM: The final numbers for the episode were 2.36M viewers. Among the demos, it drew 1.5M adults 18-49 and 1.6M adults 25-54. In terms of the season 4.5 average (based on live + same day DVR playback) the show averaged 1.77M viewers. SCI FI reports that the season 4 average (based on live+7-day numbers with the exception of the penultimate episode and the two-hour series finale) is 2.3M.
Original article follows below.
The two-hour series finale of Battlestar Galactica drew 2.4 million viewerslast Friday, according to preliminary data (final data will be released by Tuesday/Wednesday). While on its own, that’s not all that impressive (after all, a normal airing of Ghost Hunters on the network drew 2.7 million viewers the week before last), but when compared to its most recent episode, the show was up 41%. Overall, the 10-episode season 4.5 averaged 1.77M viewers.
The finale was also the most-watched episode of the series since the season 2.5 premiere nearly 3 years ago on January 6, 2006.
Source: THR
Roseanne Barr Looking to Return to Primetime March 23, 2009 5:32 pm
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Roseanne Barr, star of the long-running and successful ABC sitcom Roseanne, may be returning to primetime. Jim Vallely (Arrested Development) is attached to pen the script for the project, which has been pitched to Fox.
According to THR, Barr has teamed with one of the Roseanne producers, Caryn Mandabach, for a family comedy where Barr will play the matriarch.
Broadcast TV Ratings for Saturday, March 21, 2009 March 22, 2009 11:26 pm
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