Starz gave an early pick-up to Power, which debuted to 462,000 viewers Friday and delivered over 2 million viewers over the weekend. How will the soph season measure up? “Viewers may be loving the start of season one now,” said exec producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, “but season two will blow them away.”
For the first time ever, the week of June 2, HGTV was the top rated cable network among W25-54 (.77 rating) and in the top five among P25-54 (.55 rating), with over 21.8 million viewers watching the network in primetime. The season two premiere of Brother vs. Brother, along with Flip or Flop, Fixer Upper […]
Tracy Morgan (30 Rock), critically injured in a six-car pileup in New Jersey Saturday morning, will have a job when he’s recovered. FX Networks and FX Productions issued a statement regarding the FXX comedy starring Morgan that was supposed to start production in August, saying, “We will support Tracy and his family in every way […]
TV Land is partnering with book series Chicken Soup for the Soul to promote new comedy Jennifer Falls. As part of the campaign, which runs through June and will include on-air and digital components, Jaime Pressly‘s Falls character acts as a contributor for www.ChickenSoup.com.
Barbara Walters is still in the game. The veteran journalist, who retired from The View last month, landed an interview with Peter Rodger, the father of Santa Barbara shooting suspect Elliot Rodger. The talk will run on a special edition of ABC’s 20/20, and other ABC News platforms.
The World Cup lost Jennifer Lopez – the singer “regretfully” pulled out of performing at the event’s opening ceremony. Lopez recorded “We Are One (Ola Ola)” with rapper Pitbull and Brazil’s Claudia Leitte, and the threesome had been scheduled to perform it Thursday, June 12, before the first match.
A six-car crash early Saturday morning left comedian James McNair (aka Jimmy Mack) dead, and 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan critically injured. Morgan was returning from a tour date in Delaware when the limo bus in which he and McNair were passengers was hit by a tractor trailer in New Jersey. Two other passengers were […]
In the late night battle of Jimmy versus Jimmy, Kimmel beat an original telecast of Fallon for the first time on Thursday in the top 25 markets. Boosted by NBA finals and exposure in a prime time pre-game special, ABC‘s Jimmy Kimmel Live scored 3.1/9 in Households and 1.5/8 among A18-49, opposite NBC‘s The Tonight […]
He’s really big in Germany. National Geographic Channels International commissioned one-hour special Hasselhoff vs. the Berlin Wall, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the barrier, with David Hasselhoff (Baywatch) taking viewers on “an incredible personal journey back to Berlin” to retrace the Wall’s history. “I witnessed firsthand the horror and the pain the […]
Hallmark and Hallmark Movie channels are celebrating Christmas early – very early. Hallmark will run a “Christmas Keepsake” celebration with 24/7 holiday programming from Friday, July 4 at 2p through Sunday, July 13 at midnight; Hallmark Movie’s “Gold Crown Christmas” stunt offers holiday family films from Friday, July 4 at 6a through midnight, Sunday July […]