Broadcast TV Ratings for Thursday, December 21, 2006 December 23, 2006 1:50 am
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CBS takes Thursday night in all main categories. A repeat of ‘CSI’ claims the top spot and “Identity” shows some improvement.
Top DVD Sales for the week ending December 17th December 22, 2006 1:02 am
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Showing just how strong a title it is, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest held off eight new releases this past week to stay atop the DVD charts for a second consecutive week.
First of two Stargate SG-1 movies set to begin filming April, 15 December 21, 2006 8:53 pm
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According to an interview he gave to IGN.com, Michael Shanks announced that the first of two Stargate SG-1 films will begin filming April 15, 2007, while the second will start shooting June 1.
The first movie will follow the current 10th season Ori storyline, and the second one will involve time travel.
The entire cast is signed up for both movies.
Movie 1 will be executive produced and written by Robert C. Cooper (who will also direct it), while the second movie will be executive produced by Brad Wright and directed by Martin Wood.
Head on over to IGN.com to check out more details and read the full interview with Michael Shanks.
Source: [tv.ign.com] — IGN Interviews Michael Shanks
CBS makes scheduling changes on Monday nights December 21, 2006 4:52 pm
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Setting way for its new midseason comedy “Rules of Engagement”, CBS has decided to tweak their schedule around, moving two of their current.
‘Rules’ will premiere February 5, 2007 at 9:30 PM. The timeslot is currently occupied by “The New Adventures of Old Christine” which will stay on the same evening but be moved to the 8:30 PM timeslot after “How I Met Your Mother”. ‘Old Christine’ will air its last episode in its current timeslot on January 29th and return March 12th in its new slot.
The move will be made possible because “The Class” will have its season finale March 5th.
Also included in the schedule change is “The King of Queens” which is in its final season. In order to give the show a proper sendoff, its remaining episodes (starting April 9th) will air on Monday at 9:30 PM after “Two and a Half Men”.
All times are eastern.
“These scheduling moves enable us to program more original episodes of comedy in targeted time periods for the remainder of the season,” said CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler. “It also provides an opportunity to give The King of Queens a proper send-off in a high-profile time period in the Monday-night block it helped build.”
CBS Monday Line-Up (Febuary 5 to March 5)
8:00 PM – “How I Met Your Mother”
8:30 PM – “The Class”
9:00 PM – “Two and a Half Men”
9:30 PM – “Rules of Engagement” (Series Premiere)
10:00 PM – “CSI: Miami”
CBS Monday Line-Up (March 12 to April 2)
8:00 PM – “How I Met Your Mother”
8:30 PM – “The New Adventures of Old Christine” (Time Period Premiere)
9:00 PM – “Two and a Half Men”
9:30 PM – “Rules of Engagement”
10:00 PM – “CSI: Miami”
CBS Monday Line-Up (April 9)
8:00 PM – “How I Met Your Mother”
8:30 PM – “The New Adventures of Old Christine”
9:00 PM – “Two and a Half Men”
9:30 PM – “The King of Queens” (Time Period Premiere)
10:00 PM – “CSI: Miami”
Top DVD sales for the week ending December 10th December 16, 2006 12:36 pm
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As was expected, and mentioned here a few days back, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” the second of an expected three films in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie franchise, was the number one best selling DVD for the past week.
ABC pulls “Day Break” and “Show Me the Money” from schedule December 15, 2006 5:51 pm
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ABC has pulled both struggling shows from their lineup, effective immediately.
“Show Me the Money” had actually just recently been given an additional six episode order, but ABC has canceled that order and ended production of the program.
“Day Break” will be replaced with an hour block of comedies to be named in the future, while “Show Me the Money” will be replaced with an airing of “America’s Funniest Home Videos”.
Broadcast TV Ratings for Thursday, December 14, 2006 December 15, 2006 2:36 pm
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CBS, once again, wins another night in all three main categories. A repeat of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” took the top spot in households and viewers, while “Survivor: Cook Islands” was the top rated show for the evening among adults 18-49.
Nathan Fillion gets attached to “Drive” December 15, 2006 1:04 pm
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Nathan Fillion (of “Firefly” and “Serenity” fame) has been tapped by Fox to star in the midseason drama series “Drive”.
The series is executive produced by Tim Minear, Ben Queen and Greg Yaitanes and is from 20th Century Fox TV.
“Drive” chronicles an underground race across America and Fillion wil play the role of Alex Tully, a roque landscaper who is forced into joining the race to search for his kidnapped wife.
New japanese inspired game show on the way to NBC December 15, 2006 12:55 pm
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Executive producer Vin Di Bona (“America’s Funniest Videos”) is preparing a one-hour pilot for NBC titled “Comedy Colosseum”, based on a popular japanese game show.
The program will be hosted by Saturday Night Live alum Dean Edwards and Olivia Lee (from Britain).
The format of the program has comics going head to head for $10,000 in the arena of a Colosseum, where the audience decides on the winners and losers. Each comic will be judged on the laughter they are able to generate from the audience.
‘Sopranos’ set for April return, “Rome” in January December 15, 2006 2:16 am
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HBO has set an approximate premiere date for the second half of the final season of “The Sopranos”. According to a note on the homepage of the series on HBO.com “The Sopranos final season starts in April”.
The original plan had the final episodes of the series debuting in January, however the filming schedule had to be pushed back when James Gandolfini (Tony Soprano) had knee surgery.
“Then we looked at the fact that we would be launching sort of in the middle of the [NFL] playoffs and the Super Bowl and all that stuff, and it seemed that for everybody’s sake we would push back a few weeks,” HBO chief Chris Albrecht Albrecht said.
HBO will re-air the first half of the sixth season of “The Sopranos” (currently available via HBO on Demand) beginning January 15th, 2007 .
In other HBO news, the second, and final, season of “Rome” is set for premiere on Sunday, January 14th, 2007.
TNT about to pick up two new series, “Saved” future in doubt December 15, 2006 2:10 am
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TNT is about to pick up two new series to go along with its hit “The Closer”.
One of the shows, “Grace”, stars Holly Hunter as a burned-out cop and the other titled “Heartland”, features Treat Williams as a heart-transplant surgeon whose work is affecting his personal life.
With the two new series set to join the TNT lineup sometime in 2007, it appears that “Saved” will not be returning after only one season one the air.
“Saved,” a drama about a Portland paramedic (Tom Everett Scott), drew good ratings, but was never able to hold more than half of the audience of its lead-in “The Closer”. TNT is commited to improve upon that performance with these two new shows. “Heartland” appears to be the series which will get the timeslot of “Saved”.
ABC pulling “Help Me Help You” in favor of bigger dose of “Big Day” December 15, 2006 2:03 am
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Effective next week, ABC is pulling all remaining episodes of “Help Me Help You” and replacing them with an extra half-hour of the new comedy “Big Day”.
The network will run back-to-back episodes of “Big Day” starting next Tuesday. ‘Help Me’ is on hiatus effective immediately. Nine of the show’s 13 episodes have aired, with no decision yet made on whether or not the remaining four episodes will be shown.
At its current rate of double airings, “Big Day” will reach the end of its 13-episode order by mid-January and ABC has not yet made a decision on the future of the series nor made plans known on what will air in the 9:00 PM timeslot after the show’s 13 episodes have been aired.
CBS is mulling new animated Trek December 15, 2006 1:04 am
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CBS and Paramount have apparently been considering an animated Trek series ever since the cancellation of the most recent live-action series, “Star Trek: Enterprise” (which begins its off-net cable run this January 8th on Sci Fi).
The animated series would take place in the distant future and have a darker tone.
The Trek Movie Report has the scoop.
In other Star Trek related news “Star Trek XI” appears to be on track for a 2008 release.
“He (Abrams) said work is on track to release the new “Star Trek” pic, which Abrams is overseeing for Par, in 2008.”
J.J. Abrams has staffed up his Bad Robot Productions and seems to be ready and willing to make the next Trek film a reality sometime in 2008.
Sources:
[TrekMovie] — CBS Considering New Animated Trek Series For The Web
[Variety] — Abrams hires ramp up film, TV units
New Stargate series in development December 15, 2006 12:51 am
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According to GateWorld.Net, a third television series in the Stargate franchise is now in development.
The series is still early along in the concept phase, and is being worked on by the creative forces behind “Stargate SG-1” and “Stargate Atlantis”. The premise behind the show is still not yet known.
Gateworld reports that the series is not likely to be put into production until 2008 at the earliest.
“Stargate SG-1” returns in April of next year to where it will air its remaining 10 episodes of its 10th, and final, season.
It was reported about two months ago that though this will be the final season of ‘SG-1’, the series will continue on in two Direct-to-DVD (most likely) productions which should premiere in the fall of 2007.
“Stargate Atlantis” returns to finish off its third season this April, and a fourth season has already been greenlit for a as yet determined 2007 premiere.
Source: [GateWorld] — Third Stargate series in development
Nominations announced for the 2007 Golden Globe Awards December 14, 2006 11:25 am
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Nominations have been handed out for the “64th Annual Golden Globes” to be awarded January 15th live on NBC.
The theme for this year’s Golden Globe nominations seems to be double nods, with Clint Eastwood drawing dual director nods for “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters From Iwo Jima” as well as Leonardo DiCaprio pulling off the rare feat of getting nominations for two starring roles in “The Departed” and “Blood Diamond”.
News Corp. was also a big winner in the nominations, as the corporation picked up nods from three of its units for a total of four out of five nominees in the comedy field (2oth Century Fox’s “Borat” and “The Devil Wears Prada” and Fox Searchlight’s “Little Miss Sunshine” and “Thank You for Smoking”). The other movie in the field was Paramount/Dreamworks “Dreamgirls”.
Joining “The Departed” in the Best Drama field were the movies “Babel” (which had the most nominations at seven overall, followed by six for “The Departed” and five for “Dreamgirls”), “Bobby”, “Little Children” and “The Queen”.
Eastwood’s nominations set up a sort of rematch with Scorsese, up for “The Departed,” after Eastwood took the prize two years ago.
Leonardo DiCaprio was joined in the Best Actor field by nominations for Peter O’Toole for his work in “Venus”, Will Smith for “The Pursuit of Happyness” and Forest Whitaker for “The Last King of Scotland”.
This year looks to pit, again, Martin Scorcese against Clint Eastwood as Scorcese’s “The Departed” will go up against Eastwood’s two films. Others nominated for Best Director were Stephen Frears for “The Queen” and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for “Babel”.
Looking towards the TV side, the Best Drama field was filled with two new series: NBC’s “Heroes” and HBO’s “Big Love” (HBO led the pack for another year with 13 nominations). Others nominated were Fox’s “24” and ABC’s “Grey’s Anatom” and “Lost”.
In the Best Musical/Comedy the nominees were led by another newcomer; ABC’s “Ugly Betty”. Others nominated were ABC’s “Desperate Housewives”, HBO’s “Entourage”, NBC’s “The Office” and Showtime’s “Weeds”.
Here are all the categories and nominees:
Peter Doyle Passes at the age of 71 December 13, 2006 8:13 pm
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Peter Doyle, known most recently for his work on the hit sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond” and for his role as the Monster in “Young Frankenstein”, passed away Tuesday night at the age of 71.
According to reports, the actor suffered from multiple myeloma and heart disease.
Mr. Boyle portrayed the character of Frank Barone (father to Ray) on ‘Raymond’ for 10 seasons and was nominated for an emmy 8 times. He won an Emmy for his work as a guest actor on an episode of “The X Files” in 1996.
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