“Friday Night Lights” Given a Full-season Order November 13, 2006 6:34 pm
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“Friday Night Lights” never got off to a very good start for NBC, but good word of mouth by fans of the show and a continued like expressed by critics has allowed NBC to stick with it in hopes that it continues to grow and find a larger audience.
“We’re proud to reward an authentic, poignant series like ‘Friday Night Lights’ with a full-season order, demonstrating our confidence in it’s appeal and quality,” said Kevin Reilly, President, NBC Entertainment. “Television critics and devoted fans have supported the show with well-deserved praise for the executive producers, writers and exceptionally talented cast.”
“Friday Night Lights” is averaging a 2.7 rating, 7 share in adults 18-49 and 6.7 million viewers overall with Tuesday originals through November 5. The acclaimed drama delivered 18-49 increases from its first half-hour to its second with each of its first five Tuesday telecasts. On a special Monday, October 30 telecast, “Friday Night Lights” won its time period among adults 18-34, men 18-34 and men 18-49.”
Time will tell if NBC will try to increase the audience of the show. Most may remember it was given a time slot change of Monday at 10:00 PM for one week where it showed promise, improving the time period’s numbers in all categories from its current occupant ‘Studio 60’. As of now, however, there is no talk of any more changes in shows schedule.
Broadcast News Makes Its Way to Podcasting November 13, 2006 6:25 pm
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Starting this Tuesday, “NBC Nightly News” and “Meet the Press”, both from NBC, will be offered online from podcasts.msnbc.com free of charge.
‘Nightly News’ will be available each evening at 10:00 PM, while “Meet the Press” will be available every Sunday at 1:00 PM (all times eastern).
Fox pulls “Justice” from its November Sweeps schedule November 10, 2006 5:53 pm
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Fox has pulled its struggling freshman drama, “Justice” from its schedule with a return expected sometime in December with no exact date yet announced.
Repeats of “House” will fill the remaining holes left over for November sweeps. The change will take place immediately (November 13th).
The series has struggled to hold onto much of an audience and was moved to a post “Prison Break” time slot a few weeks back to no avail.
Production will end after the 13th episode.
FX has renewed “Always Sunny in Philadelphia” for a third season November 10, 2006 4:58 pm
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FX has picked up its comedy series “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” for a third season, ordering 15 episodes of the show, surpassing the previous two orders for the series.
“We couldn’t be happier to bring back a group as talented as the Sunny cast for a third season,” said executive vp of original programming Nick Grad, in a prepared statement. “We’re encouraged with the ratings growth, we love the show and think that creatively, it’s just hitting its stride. The fact that Danny DeVito is returning speaks highly about the quality of the writing, and we look forward to another successful season.”
Danny DeVito, who joined the cast last season, will guest-star in all 15 episodes for the third season of the show and has also committed to six seasons, should FX continue to renew the series.
The series is averaging 1.3 million total viewers and 880,000 among adults 18-49, increases of 15 and 18 percent, respectively over the series’ first season run.
NBC gives full season order to “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” November 10, 2006 4:50 pm
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NBC has gone ahead and ordered the back nine of its freshman drama/comedy which has been struggling as of late.
Citing the shows strong ratings among upscale households as one of the reasons, NBC hopes the vote of confidence in the expensive show will increase its viewership and justify its full season renewal.
“I am pleased to show our support for this outstanding and ambitious effort from executive producers Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme,” said Kevin Reilly, President NBC Entertainment. “From the start, they have delivered the superb show that we wanted. The critical support has been rock-solid and there is a passionate core audience. We can’t wait for what’s going to come in the remainder of the season.”
“Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” is averaging a 4.0 rating, 9 share in adults 18-49 and 9.8 million viewers overall (through November 6) and has increased its rating week-to-week in 18-49 with each of its last two telecasts. “Studio 60” has consistently delivered some of the highest audience concentrations among all primetime network series in such key upscale categories as adults 18-49 living in homes with $75,000-plus and $100,000-plus incomes and in homes where the head of household has four or more years of college.
“Men In Trees” given full season order, moved to new time slot. November 10, 2006 4:45 pm
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ABC has given freshman drama “Men In Trees” a full season order, picking up the back nine. In addition to that vote of confidence in the low rated by critical and fan favorite, ABC has moved the series to the plush post-“Grey’s Anatomy” time slot (Thursday at 10:00 PM) effective November 30th.
The series has averaged 7.32M viewers with a 2.2/7 among adults 18-49 in its former Friday at 9:00 PM time slot.
Site Notes November 9, 2006 12:32 pm
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I once again will be unable to update the site until this evening. I apologize for the lack of updates, I’ve been busy of late.
Check out the Hot Off The Press! thread over at AVS Forum to keep up with all the updates and ratings pertaining to yesterday’s programs and todays news.
Brandon Routh talks about ‘Superman Returns’ sequel November 6, 2006 8:31 pm
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Speaking with Rotten Tomatoes Brandon Routh, star of “Superman Returns”, shed a view details on the sequel to the successful franchise.
Speaking on making the movie more action packed, Routh had the following to say: “Bryan [Singer] said at Comic-Con they were going to add some more fighting elements and stuff like that. “That might be kind of interesting to throw some punches or throw something, I don’t know, a little more active.”
Production on the movie seems to be some time away: “I think I’ve got a while. We probably won’t start for another at least six months. They’ve got to get things written so I’m still in the gym. I still work out a little bit but certainly not as much as I had been.”
Routh goes on to state his excitement for the project: “I’m extremely excited, even though I don’t know what the story’s going to be, to find out what the story’s going to be and excited for them, Bryan, Dan [Harris] and Mike [Dougherty] to go start writing and continue the story. I’m excited to see what happens, where the characters are going to go.”
Brandon Routh Looking For More Fights In “Superman Returns 2” [Rotten Tomatoes]
“The Incredible Hulk” return set for a Summer 2008 release November 6, 2006 8:20 pm
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Confirmed today by Marvel Studios and Universal Pictures, there will be another big-screen addition to the ‘Incredible Hulk’ franchise. Marvel has announced that the release date for the movie will be June 27th, 2008.”The Incredible Hulk will be the type of fun, high-octane event film people have come to expect from Marvel. We could not be more excited about this project and our summer 2008 prospects now that we have both our green goliath and our highly-anticipated Iron Man set for release” Commented Kevin Feige, President of Production for Marvel Studios.
The movie will be directed by Louis Leterrier (Transporter 2 and Unleashed) and its screenplay written by ‘X2’ and ‘X3’ screenwriter Zak Penn.
Casting is already underway but there is no word on which actors will play the parts.
CBS greenlights new pirate-themed reality show November 6, 2006 7:59 pm
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CBS is teaming up with reality hit producer Mark Burnett (“Survivor”, “The Apprentice”, “The Contender”, “Rockstar”) for a pirate-themed reality series with the hopes of a premiere launch in the summer of 2007.
The program will take place on both land and at sea, and be faithful to certain pirate related traditions.
CBS has confirmed the order for the series, but not other details about the project are known.
NBC to begin streaming “Passions” on their website November 6, 2006 7:55 pm
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A first for daytime television soaps, NBC will stream full episodes of “Passions” at their NBC.com website in a free ad-supported format.
“As we have shown with our prime-time programming, adding digital extensions to our shows is immensely popular,” said Jeff Gaspin, president, NBC Universal Cable Entertainment, Digital Content, and Cross-Network Strategy in announcing the move. “We anticipate similar results with Passions, because this daypart has such loyal viewers.”
The episodes will be available at 9:00 PM Eastern on the day of their first airing, and will stay online for one week at which point they will be replaced by the next episode.
NBC switches match up for November 19th SNF presentation November 6, 2006 7:48 pm
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NBC, using the flex schedule clause in their contract with the NFL, has decided to switch the game that was currently scheduled for a new match up.
Viewers will be seeing the San Diego Chargers and the Denver Broncos that night (both 6-2 teams) instead of the previously scheduled and currently sub-500 teams of Washington Redskins and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The Redskins/Buccaneers game moves will become a regional CBS game.
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