ABC Family's MELISSA & JOEY, BABY DADDY Hit Year Highs in Key DemosJanuary 30, 2014At 8 o'clock, “Melissa & Joey” set 17-month highs among Total Viewers (1.4 million), Adults 18-34 (535,000/0.8 rating), Women 18-34 (405,000/1.2 rating), Adults 18-49 (843,000 /0.7 rating), Women 18-49 (632,000/1.0 rating), Viewers 12-34 (631,000/0.7 rating) and Females 12-34 (478,000/1.0 rating) – since 8/29/12.
Natasha Bedingfield Lends Voice to Disneytoon's THE PIRATE FAIRYJanuary 30, 2014Disneytoon Studios' new adventure “The Pirate Fairy” features Zarina, a smart and ambitious dust-keeper fairy whose wild ideas get her into trouble. And according to filmmakers, a fairy with such an outgoing personality called for a very special musical accompaniment.
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN Concludes with 4.2 Million Total ViewersJanuary 30, 2014FX's American Horror Story: Coven, the third miniseries of the American Horror Story franchise, wrapped up in spectacular fashion as last night's season finale (1/29/14, 10-11:11PM ET/PT) delivered 4.2 million Total Viewers, 2.84 Million Adults 18-49 and 1.58 million Adults 18-34 (Live+SameDay). When Live+7 ratings become available in approximately three weeks, last night's finale of American Horror Story: Coven could rank as the #1 episode ever of the three American Horror Story miniseries.
VH1's LOVE & HIP HOP NY Finale Scores 3 Million Total ViewersJanuary 30, 2014On Monday, January 27th, VH1 wrapped up the highest rated season yet of the network's hit series 'Love & Hip Hop NY' with a finale that scored a 2.0 in the key adult 18-49 demo and attracted 3 million total viewers. When combined with the 10:00 PM ET/ PT encore, 4.2 million total viewers tuned in to the season four finale on VH1 Monday night.
60 MINUTES SPORTS to Profile Eddie George, 2/5January 30, 2014Eddie George reached heights few have ever achieved on the football fields of the Big Ten and the NFL before he hit the low many NFL players find themselves in post-career. He then remade himself in the business world and on television. But in keeping with the former running back's never-give-up attitude, he's now looking to make a big gain in another career that is as far from the gridiron as one could imagine – to play Shakespeare, something even an Oscar-winning actor will tell you is the craft's acid test. Correspondent Armen Keteyian reports on George's remarkable reinvention into a Renaissance man on the next edition of 60 MINUTES SPORTS premiering Wed. Feb. 5 at 10 p.m. ET/PT only on SHOWTIME.
Rebecca Hall to Join Jason Sudeikis & Blythe Danner in TUMBLEDOWNJanuary 30, 2014The film features 'Hall as a young widow unable to move on after the death of her husband, an acclaimed musician and the subject of a biography she's struggling to write. She teams with a brash New York academic (Sudeikis) who has an entirely different take on her husband's life, and death, as they try to make the biography a reality.'
Forest Whitaker in Talks to Direct, Star in Film Adaptation of THE SHACKJanuary 30, 2014Summit has enlisted John Fusco to adapt the book, which was published in 2007 out of a garage by Brad Cummings and Wayne Jacobson. Since its original release, THE SHACK has Gone on to sell over 18 million copies, and has been on The New York Times Bestseller List for over 180 weeks. Cummings will produce alongside Gill Netter of Netter Productions.
OUTRAGEOUS ACTS OF SCIENCE to Premiere 2/15 on Science ChannelJanuary 30, 2014The internet is undoubtedly the world's greatest source for ridiculous, hilarious and mind-blowing video clips. But what if the time spent playing Youtube videos also exposed us to first-hand demonstrations of some of science's fundamental principles? Science Channel proves that you can have your viral videos and your lab lessons too with the second season of the breakout series OUTRAGEOUS ACTS OF SCIENCE.
ABC News' Brian Ross Investigative Unit Scores 2014 Goldsmith Award NominationJanuary 30, 2014 It was announced today that the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's School of Government recognized ABC's Brian Ross, Matthew Mosk and the ABC News Investigative Unit, in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, as a 2014 Goldsmith Award finalist in investigative reporting for “Breathless and Burdened: Dying from Black Lung, Buried by Law and Medicine.”
Lincoln Center to Screen FATAL ASSISTANCE, Begin. 2/28January 30, 2014FATAL ASSISTANCE is award-winning Haitian born filmmaker Raoul Peck's two-year journey inside the challenging, contradictory and colossal rebuilding efforts in post-earthquake Haiti. Through its provocative and radical point of view, Fatal Assistance offers a devastating indictment of the international community's post-disaster idealism. The film dives headlong into the complexity of the reconstruction process and the practices and impact of worldwide humanitarian and development aid, revealing the disturbing extent of a general failure. We learn that a major portion of the money pledged to Haiti was never disbursed, nor made it into the actual reconstruction. Fatal Assistance leads us to one clear conclusion: current aid policies and practice in Haiti need to stop immediately. (Description by Human Rights Watch Film Festival)
SHARKNADO Stars Ian Ziering & Tara Reid to Return for SequelJanuary 30, 2014They're back – and shark happens! Syfy and The Asylum today announced that Ian Ziering and Tara Reid will reprise their roles as Fin and April in the eagerly awaited Sharknado sequel, Sharknado 2: The Second One, which begins filming in New York February 13.
STEM CELL UNIVERSE with Stephen Hawking to Premiere 2/3 on Science ChannelJanuary 29, 2014From executive producer Morgan Freeman, Revelations Entertainment, and one of the greatest minds of our generation, Stephen Hawking, Science Channel presents a controversial and groundbreaking new special STEM CELL UNIVERSE with Stephen Hawking premiering on Monday, February 3 at 10PM on Science Channel.
Fox Picks Up BONES for 10th Season; Will Move Back to Mondays in MarchJanuary 29, 2014FOX has picked up a 10th season of BONES, it was announced today by Kevin Reilly, Chairman of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company. In addition, after airing a new installment this Friday, Jan. 31 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT), BONES will return to Mondays, with all-new cases, beginning March 10 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT).
NBC Tops All Networks for 2014 State of the Union Post-Speech CoverageJanuary 29, 2014NBC News was the most-watched broadcast or cable television network for analysis immediately following President Obama's 2014 State of the Union address. For coverage of the speech itself, NBC drew more viewers in the key demographics of ages 18-49 and 25-54 than any other television network.