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ON TELEVISION (WEDNESDAY 10/24/12)
COOKING: My Grandmother’s Ravioli (Premiere) at 8:30pm
LIFETIME: The Houstons: On Our Own (Premiere) at 9pm
HALOGEN TV: Drum Heads (Premiere) at 9pm
LOGO: DTLA (Premiere) at 11pm
SYFY: Paranormal Witness (Finale) at 10pm
CBS gave full season back-nine orders to two of its rookie series, Vegas and Elementary. So far this season, Vegas in its Tuesday at 10p time slot has averaged 14.94 million total viewers and a 2.7/8 among A18-49. Elementary, in its Thursday at 10p time period, has averaged 14.30 million total viewers and delivered a 3.5/10 with A18-49 viewers. Both series are produced by CBS Television Studios.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Monday night’s third and final presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney tallied the least amount of viewers when compared to the other two primetime debates in this election cycle. According to Nielsen, 59.2 million viewers watched Monday which is a 10% decline from the second debate’s results on October 16 and 12% less than the first debate on October 3. The third debate did air against two live sporting events, Monday Night Football on ESPN which had 10.7 million tuning in as well as the MLB playoffs on FOX which attracted 8.1 million. For the debate, NBC drew the most viewers at 12.4 million followed by ABC at 11.7 million; FOX News with 11.5 million; CBS at 8.4 million; CNN with 5.8 million; and MBSNB with 4.1 million.
(Source: Cynopsis)
New comedy Guys with Kids received five additional scripts from its network NBC, per THR. In its latest airing, the sitcom pulled in a 1.4 A18-49 rating. Guys with Kids stars Jesse Bradford, Anthony Anderson and Zach Cregger with Jimmy Fallon serving as executive producer.
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Jane Fonda will star in a new ABC comedy scheduled to premiere in 2013. The project is tentatively titled Now What? from Pushing Daisies writer Abby Gewanter. The plot is about a young woman who tears into her mother using a public blog post listing the reasons she hates her. The mother (Fonda) ends up moving in with her daughter in order to settle their differences.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Showtime’s comedy series House of Lies added Larenz Tate (Rescue Me) and Nia Long (Third Watch) in recurring roles for season two. Tate will play Marty’s (Don Cheadle) younger, less ambitious activist brother while Long will play a fellow consultant and former classmate of Marty’s who becomes an adversary. Production on the second season commences in Los Angeles next month and Showtime has set the premiere date for January 13 at 10p.
(Source: Cynopsis)
SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 10/21/12)
1) Jason Aldean – Night Train – 409,303
2) Mumford & Sons – Babel – 73,583
3) Brandy – Two Eleven – 64,566
Other Debuts
4) Scotty McCreery – Christmas With Scotty – 40,786
5) Jamey Johnson – Livin’ For A Song – 32,028
10) Metalocalypse: Dethklok – Dethalbum III – 19,513
12) Donald Fagen – Sunken Condos – 18,007
16) Anberlin – Vital – 16,806
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