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Early Ratings: Fallon Sets Record; Sochi Opening Ceremony Down From Vancouver, Up From Torino
7 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
The Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Sochi was down slightly from the 2010 ceremony in Vancouver, but up from the last opening that wasn’t aired live in the U.S. Jimmy Fallon’s final “Late Night” before he takes over the “Tonight Show,” meanwhile, set a series record in metered market households. Friday’s Sochi opening had an overnight rating of an 18.5 and a 30 share for NBC in metered markets. The rating was up 26 percent from the 14.7 for the non-live opening of the Torino Winter Olympics in 2006. Also read: Sochi Olympics: Stray Dog, Ring Fail Bring Awkward to the Opening. »
- Tim Molloy
Fallon Bids Farewell to ‘Late Night’ as ‘Tonight Show’ Awaits
15 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
New York (AP) — It’s not so much “goodbye” as “on break.”
With Jimmy Fallon’s departure from “Late Night” on Friday after five years in the host chair, he will be off the NBC airwaves a scant 10 days before coming back as host of “The Tonight Show,” which was vacated Thursday by Jay Leno after 22 years.
“I’m really going to miss being on TV at 12:37,” Fallon joked in his farewell monologue, noting that his “fierce rivals” have been CBS host Craig Ferguson “and a Veggie-Chopper infomercial.”
But if he was overjoyed at his promotion to a slot one hour earlier — and he radiated joy all through the finale (taped Friday afternoon) — at the same time he could hardly keep his tear ducts in check.
“I’m not gonna cry,” he vowed early on, “but I’m gonna get really close.”
“You got to pull it together,” teased his guest, »
- Associated Press
'Shark Tank,' 'Duck Dynasty,' 'The Bible' Win Faith & Values Awards
12 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Duck Dynasty, Frozen, Iron Man 3, Grace Unplugged and The Bible producer Mark Burnett were the big film and TV winners at the 22nd Annual Movieguide Faith & Values Awards Feb. 7 at the Hilton Universal City, a ceremony filmed for a one-hour Reelz Channel special to air Mar. 1-3, counterprogramming the Oscars. Polished performances by Richie Sambora, Billy Ray Cyrus, Jacob Latimore, A.J. Michalka, and Joni Eareckson Tada (disabled singer of the disqualified Oscar nominee "Alone But Not Alone," who lip-synched because she only has 40 percent lung capacity) won applause. "America was built on
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- Tim Appelo
'House of Cards' Season 1 episode 7: VP Matthews feels left out
1 hour ago | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
"House of Cards" returns for Season 2 on Netflix on Friday, Feb. 14 -- happy Valentine's Day, right? -- and in preparation, Zap2it is taking a quick look back at the first season. Saturday (Feb. 8) things are heating up with "Chapter 7."
Where we are:
In this episode, the focus turns to Vice President Matthews (Dan Ziskie). He gets wind that Frank is grooming Peter Russo for a run in the Pennsylvania governorship special election, and he's annoyed to be left out of the process (since it's his seat the special election is for). Matthews is also rankled because he isn't getting to play as much of a role in the administration as he thought he would.
President Walker's chief of staff Linda Vasquez has to kind of smack Matthews down a bit -- he knew what the vice-presidency would entail when he signed on. The president is also unhappy with how »
Watch: 3 Clips From Roman Coppola's Amazon Seres 'Mozart In The Jungle' Starring Gael Garcia Bernal
2 hours ago | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
If Amazon Studios is trying to get into the streaming game alongside Netflix, they've got to step up their PR game a bit. While we did know they had put a bunch of pilots online this week, including Roman Coppola's "Mozart In The Jungle," we had no idea some peeks via clips were available too. In fact, we stumbled across these completely by accident—but we're glad we did. Starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Saffron Burrows, Lola Kirke, Malcom McDowell, Bernadette Peters and Peter Vack, and co-written by Jason Schwartzman, the proposed series is based on Blair Tindell's memoir of the same name about the apparently very wild world of classical music. Bernal is playing a popular young prodigy who is clearly ruffling the feathers of the old guard, and these two clips give a good sense of the tone of the series. That said, they feel very much like pilot-material, »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Jimmy Fallon's 'Late Night' exit breaks ratings records
2 hours ago | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Jimmy Fallon's farewell to "Late Night" may not have been a super emotional affair -- he is returning to NBC as the new host of "The Tonight Show" in a few short weeks, after all -- but his final hour broke ratings records nonetheless.
Preliminary metered-market ratings for Friday (Feb. 7) late night (excluding Philadelphia) show Fallon's final "Late Night" averaging a 4.8 rating/13 share, according to Nielsen. The rating is the highest ever for the shown any night of the week, more than three times the show's season average (1.5). The marks beat the 4.6/15 rating from the night before, earned following Jay Leno's final "Tonight Show."
Not only was the 4.8 metered-market household rating the highest in Fallon's tenure at "Late Night," but it also represented the highest for the franchise dating back to the mid-'90s.
Fallon's final guests included Andy Samberg and the Muppets, who joined the comedian for »
Update: Sochi Olympics Opening Ceremony Ratings Dip From Vancouver 2010 But Surge From Torino 2006
2 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
First Take: Looks like it’s going to be a ratings Silver medal for NBCs coverage last night of the 2014 Olympics Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. Hosted for NBC by Today’s Matt Lauer and his former morning partner Meredith Vieira, the network’s primetime tape-delayed coverage of the Xxii Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony garnered a 18.5/30 in metered-market results. That’s down 8% from the 20.0/33 overnight rating that the live 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony drew on February 12 that year. However, last night’s result is an 26% rise from the 14.7/23 overnight that the last tape-delayed Winter Games Opening Ceremony from Torino got in 2006. Still, on a night of almost all repeats on every other network but Fox, the Opening Ceremony guarantees NBC a Gold medal in terms of ratings and viewership for Friday. Check out the Top 10 markets for last night’s Opening Ceremony below (nice one Minneapolis). Related: Winter »
- DOMINIC PATTEN
Rita Moreno To Co-Star In Amy Poehler’s NBC Comedy Pilot ‘Old Soul’
2 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Rita Moreno, fresh off winning a lifetime achievement award at the SAG Awards, has been tapped to co-star opposite Natasha Lyonne in NBC‘s single-camera comedy pilot Old Soul. Co-created/exec produced by Amy Poehler, Josh Bycel and Jonathan Fener and directed by David Wain, Old Soul centers on a reformed wild child Nadia (Lyonne) who has a business caring for the elderly and feels she has more in common with her colorful old clients than she does with people her age. Moreno will play one of the clients, a character that appears tailored for her down to the name, Rita. A sexy old gal and a ball of joy, Old Soul‘s Rita (Moreno) is a flamboyant, larger-than-life Broadway vet who has been happily married to her writing partner/husband for over 50 years. Moreno, repped by Innovative Artists, was the first and one of the very few performers to win an Oscar, »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
‘Late Night With Jimmy Fallon’ Finale Hits Ratings High, Draws Franchise’s Largest Audience Since David Letterman
3 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Update: Refined numbers are in, and the final episode of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon drew 6.6 million viewers, its largest audience ever. In an encouraging sign for Fallon‘s prospects at The Tonight Show, he delivered the largest viewership for the Late Night franchise since the final show of David Letterman on June 25, 1993 (7.5 million). Fallon outdrew every episode of his predecessor, Conan O’Brien. In adults 18-49, the final Late Night with Jimmy Fallon posted a 2.2 rating, the highest ever for a regularly scheduled episode and the second highest behind the special post-Super Bowl show in 2005 (2.5), which also held Late Night with Jimmy Fallon‘s previous viewership record with 6.1 million. Previous 7 Am: He’ll be taking over The Tonight Show on February 17 but last night was an Olympic high all unto itself for Jimmy Fallon. One night after Jay Leno took his last bow on Tonight with monster ratings, his »
- DOMINIC PATTEN
Watch: 'Office Space' Director Mike Judge Skewers the Tech Industry in the Teaser for HBO Comedy 'Silicon Valley'
3 hours ago | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
The great Mike Judge, of "Office Space," "Idiocracy," "King of the Hill" and more, returns to television on April 6th with "Silicon Valley," a half-hour HBO comedy that's his first live action series. Thomas Middleditch, T. J. Miller, Martin Starr, Kumail Nanjiani and Zack Woods star in this skewering of the tech industry, which will be premiering in Austin at SXSW as part of the festival's first TV section next month. Check out the first teaser for the series below.
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- Alison Willmore
TV ratings: Winter Olympics opening ceremony win big for NBC on otherwise sleepy Friday
4 hours ago | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Fast National ratings for Friday, Feb. 7, 2014
With the 2014 Winter Olympics underway in Sochi, nearly every network stayed out of NBC's way on Friday night, allowing Friday's opening ceremony to handily take the evening. The only other network who bothered to program against the event was Fox, seemingly burning off a new episode each of "Enlisted" and "Raising Hope." Not surprising, both were down from last week.
NBC's win saw an average of 31.7 million viewers and a 17.1 rating/27 share in households, followed by CBS (5.6 million, 3.7/6), ABC (4.6 million, 2.9/5), Fox (2.4 million, 1.6/3) and The CW (826,000, 0.6/1).
In the adults 18-49 demographic, NBC again came out on top with an 8.6 rating, followed by ABC (1.1), CBS (0.8), Fox (0.7) and The CW (0.2).
Friday hour by hour:
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NBC: "2014 Winter Olympics" (31.1 million viewers, 16.8/27 households)
CBS: "Undercover Boss" rerun (5 million, 3.3/5)
ABC: "Last Man Standing" rerun (4.6 million, 2.8/5)/"Last Man Standing" rerun (4.1 million, 2.6/4)
Fox: "Bones" rerun (3.1 million, 2.0/3)
The CW: "Attack of the »
Watch: First Teaser For 'Office Space' Creator Mike Judge's New HBO Comedy Series 'Silicon Valley'
4 hours ago | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
Mike Judge is going back to work. The brains behind one of the best workplace comedies of all time, "Office Space," is once again returning to the well of punching the clock, this time with a modern age twist, with HBO's "Silicon Valley." And yes, as one of our 20 Most Anticipated TV Shows Of 2014, we're very excited for this one. Perhaps the most promising thing about the new series is that it's given a handful of people who aren't household names yet a big chance to shine. The ensemble cast includes Thomas Middleditch ("Fun Size," "The Kings Of Summer," "The Wolf Of Wall Street"), Playlist fave T.J. Miller ("Successful Alcoholics," "Our Idiot Brother"), Zach Woods (Gabe from "The Office"), Martin Starr ("Freaks & Geeks," "Party Down"), Kumail Nanjiani ("Franklin & Bash"), Josh Brener, Christopher Welch, and Amanda Crew. It's a pretty solid lineup. And the premise, following a bunch of tech nerds »
- Kevin Jagernauth
'MasterChef Junior' Season 2: Graham Elliot and Dara Yu discuss casting, and could Troy Glass return?
5 hours ago | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
In January, Fox's "MasterChef Junior" visited New York, Chicago and Dallas seeking the season-two competitors. There was also an open call in Los Angeles.
On hand were some of young chefs from the first season, who happen to live in the L.A. area, including Sarah Lane and runner-up Dara Yu -- and Troy Glass, who was auditioning in hopes of getting a return appearance (no word on whether he made it, sorry).
Yu, wearing her trademark red bow, says she keeps in touch with her fellow competitors -- including winner Alexander Weiss, with whom she video chats from his home in New York City.
"Whenever I'm around them," she tells Zap2it, "I just feel myself, very comfortable."
Although the 12-year-old didn't win and hasn't yet decided on whether to just keep pursuing cooking as a lifelong passion or also as a career, Yu has already accomplished one of her goals. »
Celebrating the joy and humility of 'Late Night' final episodes
5 hours ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
”You gotta pull it together man,” Andy Samberg, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’s final guest, told his friend. “You’re moving up a time slot, across the hall, bigger stage, this is all good stuff!” Fallon, who has proven again in his last week before taking over The Tonight Show just what a gracious, big-hearted guy he is, agreed that he was a mess. “I’m an Irish mush!” he said. And bless him for it.
Fallon navigated the week with a sense of decency that was both unapologetic and generous. Three episodes were taped remembrances of the show »
- Karen Valby
'Black Sails' Hakeem Kae-Kazim: Mr. Scott has 'a sense of self' that's different from other former slaves
5 hours ago | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
February is Black History Month and as such, Zap2it has an exclusive behind-the-scenes video from "Black Sails," where actor Hakeem Kae-Kazim discusses the role that Africans played in the golden age of piracy.
"Slave ships were raided by these pirate ships, and so slaves on these ships would have a choice -- they could either join the pirates or get thrown overboard," says Kae-Kazim. "They were judged purely on their talent and effectiveness as sailors, not on the color of their skin. The only option for them was either slavery or this form of freedom, so they would fight hard and be braver than any of the other pirates."
Kae-Kazim's character of Mr. Scott walks an interesting line between the pirate world and the wealthier world of the Guthries, the family that runs New Providence. He says because of that, Mr. Scott has a different sense of self than »
Jimmy Fallon's final 'Late Night' scores big ratings: 'I'm not gonna cry'
6 hours ago | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
Another late-night record this week for NBC: Jimmy Fallon’s final show as host of Late Night scored a series-high rating.
Following NBC’s coverage of the Sochi Olympics Opening Ceremony (those numbers here), Fallon’s show had a 4.8 rating in the metered-market households, the best performance ever of the show using this data-set. The prior record was set on Thursday following the final telecast of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Given more than 30 million viewers tuned in for the Opening Ceremony, however, anything except a record for Fallon might have been seen as a disappointment.
Fallon’s final »
- James Hibberd
Sochi’s Opening Ceremony, Fallon’s ‘Late Night’ Exit Score Big for NBC
6 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Friday was another big night for NBC, with the official Opening Ceremonies of the Sochi Games holding up very well and Jimmy Fallon exiting his “Late Night” post with series-high numbers.
According to Nielsen overnights, the Sochi Opening Ceremony averaged an 18.5 household rating/30 share, off only 8% from the live telecast of the 2010 Vancouver Opening Ceremony (20.0/33). And it was up a big 26% from the last non-live Opening Ceremony of the Winter Games (a 14.7/23 for Torino in 2006).
With a boost from the Olympics lead-in, Jimmy Fallon’s final bow of “Late Night” brought in 6.6 million viewers — the highest total viewer tally for the show since 1993.
The top local markets on Friday were Minneapolis (26.0/45), Salt Lake City (24.4/43), Ft. Myers (21.7/34), Chicago (21.6/34) and Boston (21.5/37).
In preliminary national estimates, the Opening Ceremony did an 8.6/26 in adults 18-49 and 31.7 million viewers overall during primetime.
According to Facebook data editors, roughly 5.9 million people worldwide were chatting about the Opening Ceremony on Facebook, »
- Rick Kissell
Olympics Opening Ceremony ratings: Sochi below Vancouver
6 hours ago | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
Add this to the list of potential #SochiProblems: Lower ratings.
Friday’s Opening Ceremony of the Xxii Olympic Winter Games on NBC came in below 2010′s Vancouver launch. The ceremony hosted by Today’s Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira delivered a 18.5 overnight household rating, down 8 percent from four years ago. The numbers follow Thursday’s “bonus” night of game coverage likewise slipping below the first night of competition coverage from Vancouver.
However: Friday’s tape-delayed coverage from Russia posted gains from the last non-live Opening Ceremony in 2006. In fact, it’s the most-watched Opening Ceremony for a non-live Winter Games since the 1994 Lillehammer Games. »
- James Hibberd
Video: Jimmy Fallon Says Goodbye to Late Night with The Muppets
6 hours ago | TVGuide - Breaking News | See recent TVGuide - Breaking News news »
Jimmy Fallon might have signed off Late Night Friday, but before you break out the tissues, don't forget he'll be back on TV in a week. Nevertheless, his final episode was a fun, sentimental affair.
"I can't believe it. This is it! It's our last episode of Late Night," Fallon's final opening monologue began. "You know, I'm really going to miss being on TV at 12:37. I'll especially miss the battle for late-night ratings with my fierce rivals — Craig Ferguson and a veggie chopper infomercial."
Behind the scenes of Jay Leno's Tonight Show finale
That veggie chopper will continue to face stiff competition starting Feb. 24, when Seth Meyers takes over Late Night (Fallon begins The Tonight Show on Feb. 17).
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- Sadie Gennis
Clint Eastwood Saves Choking Man's Life
6 hours ago | TVGuide - Breaking News | See recent TVGuide - Breaking News news »
It seems Clint Eastwood isn't just a hero on screen. The actor saved a man from choking to death at an event on Wednesday, People reports.
Eastwood was at a volunteer party for the At&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in Monterey Bay, Calif., when he noticed the golf tournament director Steve John choking and performed the Heimlich.
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- Sadie Gennis
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