Television Without Pity has revealed the winners of this year’s Tubey Awards, voted by television fans across a number of categories. Josh Friedman‘s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles scored as many as 15 Tubeys (of the positive variety), including Best Drama, Best Returning Show, Best Single Episode, Best Season Finale, Best Smackdown, Best Onscreen Death [...]
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Fox renews Lie to Me, picks up Human Target and Sons of Tucson
Fox has picked up its 2009 procedural Lie to Me for a second season and Shawn Ryan has been tapped as an executive producer where he’ll work alongside Brian Grazer, David Nevins and creator Sam Baum next season. Ryan, who’s also an executive producer of The Unit, is still awaiting the fate of the CBS [...]
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The Day the Earth Stood Still opens in IMAX December 12
IMAX Corporation and Twentieth Century Fox today announced that The Day The Earth Stood Still, directed by Scott Derrickson and starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, John Cleese and Jaden Smith, will open domestically on December 12, 2008 in 123 IMAX(R) theatres, including 38 new locations equipped with IMAX’s digital projection system, [...]
The Cleveland Show gets a full season on Fox
FOX has ordered an additional nine episodes of THE CLEVELAND SHOW, the highly anticipated FAMILY GUY spin-off, bringing the series to a full season order, it was announced today by Kevin Reilly, President, Entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company. Additionally, Arianna Huffington has been tapped for a recurring role and joins previously announced series regulars Sanaa [...]
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Dollhouse, Sarah Connor relegated to Friday on Fox
Fox has posted its midseason schedule earlier today and it’s pretty much bad news for the network’s only two non-procedural science fiction shows, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and the much anticipated Dollhouse. The entire schedule spells out one thing: caution. With the current economic crisis adding to all major networks’ other problems (losing viewers [...]
Sarah Connor thumbs nose at Nielsen ratings, goes to full season on Fox
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles will get a full second season on Fox despite having drawn only modest ratings this fall. After ordering additional two scripts last week, Fox has decided to add nine episodes to the existing 13 and give Sarah Connor the full 22 episode run that the show so richly deserves. The [...]
Most popular primetime shows now available in HD on iTunes
The most popular shows airing on all four major television networks – “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Lost” from ABC, “CSI” and “CSI: Miami” from CBS, “Bones” and “Prison Break” airing on FOX, and “Heroes” and “The Office” from NBC Universal – are now available in HD in the iTunes store, Apple announced today. “We’ve got an [...]
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New television shows in the fall season – hits and misses
In the aftermath of the writers’ strike and fewer pilots being developed this year, the major networks are launching only 13 new shows this season, which is half as many as a year ago. Experts at the independent media buying agency TargetCast tcm believe that the fall season may lack any breakout hits. “We are [...]
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Fox to stream premieres of Sarah Connor Chronicles and Fringe to on-campus students
In an unprecedented event, FOX will stream the premieres of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES and FRINGE exclusively for on-campus college students at www.fox.com. Only students on college campuses accessing through a college internet domain (.edu) will have the opportunity to watch the episodes online simultaneously with their primetime premieres. TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES [...]