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Fox To Launch Speed Dating Show ‘Take Me Out’ This Summer
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Fox has picked up Take Me Out, a summer dating reality show to premiere on June 7 and air in the Thursday 8-9 Pm slot. Based on an international format, Take Me Out, produced by FremantleMedia North America, is filmed in front of a studio audience and features a “Flirty 30″ panel consisting of 30 good-looking single women. Every week, the women meet several bachelors who try impress them with their looks, personality and sense of humor. Each woman stands at a lighted podium with a switch: if she likes the bachelor, she keeps her light on; if not, she turns it off. The game show is held in 4 rounds. After the women narrow down their field to those interested in the guy on stage, the man takes charge, turning out the lights of those ladies he’s not into. During the final round, the bachelor will pose one final question to the »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
CBS Will Bring News And HD To Its Second NYC Station
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New York, April 2, 2012 – CBS Television Stations, a division of CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS), today announced the closing of its acquisition of independent New York station Wlny-tv (Channels 10/55) and initial plans for operating the station, highlighted by the addition of three hours of live local newscasts each weekday, including the tri-state area’s first one-hour 9:00 Pm news program. The pairing of Wlny (whose call letters stand for We Love New York) with Wcbs-tv (CBS 2), the Flagship of the CBS Television Network, gives CBS a duopoly in the nation’s largest media market. Peter Dunn, President, CBS Television Stations, announced that veteran New York local television executive Betty Ellen Berlamino has been named Vice President and Station Manager of Wlny. Berlamino assumes her new role after having served as Senior Vice President and Director of Sales, CBS Television Stations, since June 2011. Prior to joining CBS, Berlamino spent 17 years with Wpix-tv, »
- THE DEADLINE TEAM
Ratings Rat Race: ‘Academy Of Country Music Awards’, ‘Bob’s Burgers’ Drop
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The 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards on CBS (3.1/8 in adults 18-49, 13 million total viewers) was down 6% in 18-49 from last year to log its lowest demo rating since 2008. Still, the three-hour broadcast ranked as the highest-rated and most watched program of the night, delivering a nightly victory for CBS. ABC’s Once Upon A Time (2.7/8, 8.2 million) slipped another tenth to a new series low. Desperate Housewives (2.6/7) was even, while Gcb (1.9/5) continued its seesaw ratings run, down 10% to a series low after a 10% gain last week. Fox may have been affected by the blackout of Tribune stations on DirecTV though the impact was limited to about 1% of the country. Sophomore Bob’s Burgers (1.6/4) and veteran Family Guy (2.5/6), which debuted the trailer for Seth MacFarlane’s first feature, Ted, were down double-digits — 20% to a series low and 11%, respectively. American Dad (2.0/5) was flat. The three-hour (!) Celebrity Apprentice (1.8/4) on NBC was also »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
Apple TV Sets Probably Will Be Dazzling, But Not Revolutionary: Report
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The analysis out this morning from Barclays Equity Research captures the general ambivalence on the Street about the eagerly anticipated Apple television set, which the firm expects to see as early as 2013. It envisions a TV set that blends Internet and conventional TV programming enhanced by features including Apple’s Siri voice controls and an iSight camera and microphone. “Apple’s eventual television could be so much more than a TV — including gaming, video communication, content delivery, apps, computing and all the capabilities of the current Apple TV — that it is really not fair to compare it to products already on the market,” Barclays says. The TVs probably wouldn’t need to be connected to a cable set top box; they could use CableCARDs to unscramble the providers’ signal. Although that would mean no access to the operator’s VOD, Barclays says that consumers won’t mind because they’ll »
- DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
We TV Hires Head Of Original Programming
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We tv has appointed Lauren Gellert as Svp, original production & development. She will oversee the development and production of the channel’s original series, reporting to president and general manager Kim Martin. Gellert, who will be based in New York, replaces John Miller who left We a few months ago. Gellert previously served as VP, production & development at Ion Media Networks, Svp at Rdf/Zodiak USA and VP of program development at Tru TV. »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
Ryan Seacrest Has ‘Big NBC Announcement’ Tomorrow On ‘Today’, Former Host Meredith Vieira Revealed As Mystery ‘Today Legend’
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Ryan Seacrest’s long-in-works new deal with NBCUniversal appears finally done. “Tuesday morning live on the Today show in Studio 1A, Ryan Seacrest will make a big NBC announcement,” Today‘s executive producer Jim Bell tweeted last night. The announcement is likely tied to Seacrest’s new deal with NBC’s new sibling, Comcast’s E!, where he has been since 2006. The pact is expected to have a major NBC component, including some duties on Today, though not full-time (at least not for now), and a role in the network’s coverage of the upcoming London Olympics. Since the Comcast-nbc Universal merger, Seacrest has been courted about a bigger role in the larger company, which included a meeting with Bell in December. NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt hinted in January that Seacrest wanted to produce scripted shows for the broadcast network (E! too is venturing into scripted programming), and noted »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
‘Daily Show’ Will “Cover” Democratic National Convention
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New York, April 2, 2012 — “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” is heading to Charlotte with 125+ stalwart staffers to cover its fourth Democratic National Convention and broadcast a week of shows. “The Daily Show’s” coverage of the 2012 DNC will be taped at ImaginOn: The Joe & Joan Martin Center™ and air nightly at 11:00 p.m. Et/Pt from Tuesday, September 4 through Friday, September 7. “We are incredibly excited to spend a week in the beautiful city of Charlotte,” said Rory Albanese, Executive Producer, ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.’ “And to the good people of North Carolina, for their southern hospitality in hosting 125 smart-aleck New Yorkers, we offer in advance our thanks, but most of all, our apologies. Honestly, we didn’t mean to break that, and we promise we’ll pay for it.” ImaginOn: The Joe & Joan Martin Center™, a partnership between the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, »
- THE DEADLINE TEAM
Oprah Winfrey Wouldn’t Have Launched Own If She Knew Its Challenges: Video
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Now she tells us: Oprah Winfrey’s struggling network, Own — a joint venture with Discovery — wasn’t ready when it launched last year. In a guest appearance this morning on CBS This Morning the talk show host and Own chief tells her good friend Gayle King and Charlie Rose that SNL-creator Lorne Michaels warned her that people wanted to see her fail. But she says that the criticism is “just press…Just because you failed at something — and we haven’t failed — doesn’t make you a failure.” Now she says that she’s doing “what we should have done at the beginning” — which is to build the network a show and a night at a time. “I said from the beginning, this channel can’t be based on me. It has to be based on my philosophy and ideas.”
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- DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
CBS’ Ncaa Final Four Ratings Highest Since 2005, Up Slightly From Last Year
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Two hotly contested games gave CBS Sports the highest-rated Final Four Ncaa men’s basketball ratings in seven years, but they were up only a fraction from last year. The average of 9.0/17 household rating/share on Saturday was is the best since the 10.5/19 for the Illinois-Louisville and North Carolina-Michigan State games in 2005. Vs. last year’s Butler-vcu and Connecticut-Kentucky face-offs (8.9/17), this year’s contests were up a .1 or 1%. The first game, Kentucky beating Louisville, earned a 8.4/17, up 1% from last year (Butler-vcu). CBS’ coverage drew criticism after the network switched to a replay at the very end, thus missing the final seconds of the game. The second game, in featuring Kansas’ come-from-behind victory over Ohio State, delivered a 9.6/17, up 1% from last year (Connecticut-Kentucky). CBS/Turner’s Ncaa coverage this season has averaged a 5.9 rating, down 5% from last year when the two networks shared coverage from the first time but up 4% from »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
Robert Johnson Agrees To Buy Image Entertainment And Acorn Media
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Bethesda, Md., April 2, 2012 – Robert L. Johnson, Chairman of The Rlj Companies and founder of Black Entertainment Television (Bet), announced today that Rlj Acquisition, Inc. (Otcqb: Rljau; Rlja; Rljaw) (the “Company”) has entered into agreements to acquire each of Image Entertainment, Inc. (Otcqb:disk) and Acorn Media Group, Inc., two highly complementary media businesses to create one of the largest independent distributors of digital and video content globally. The new combined company will be named Rlj Entertainment, Inc. Shares of the new company are expected to trade on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Rlj Entertainment, where Johnson will serve as Executive Chairman, and will leverage his substantial expertise in media, consumer branding, and strategic relationships to accelerate growth and drive value creation. Under the terms of the agreements, the holders of common stock of Image Entertainment will receive from Rlj Entertainment 2,139,000 shares of common stock of Rlj Entertainment and the holders of preferred »
- DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
TV Trailers: HBO’s ‘Newsroom’, ‘True Blood’
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HBO has received first trailers for Aaron Sorkin’s new drama series The Newsroom and for the upcoming fifth season of Alan Ball’s True Blood. The Newsroom stars Jeff Daniels as the anchor of a primetime program on a cable news network whom the trailer portrays as outspoken, controversial and volatile. Great timing on the heels of the public firing by Current TV of Keith Olbermann who reportedly was one of the anchors Sorkin shadowed in his research for the show. The trailer also gives a glimpse at Newsroom‘s supporting cast, Emily Mortimer, Alison Pill, John Gallagher Jr, Olivia Munn, Dev Patel and Thomas Sadoski, as well as Sam Waterston as the network’s president and Jane Fonda in the guest-starring role of the CEO of the network’s parent company. As for True Blood, this is a first look at what will be the last season of »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
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