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Facing outrage in the Twitterverse, Nationwide defended its decision to run an ad during the Super Bowl that depicted a little boy who died in a household accident. “The sole purpose of this message was to start a conversation, not sell insurance,” said the company. “While some did not care for the ad, we hope it served to begin a dialogue to make safe happen for children everywhere.” The insurance company got a more positive response for its humorous “Invisible” spot, featuring Mindy Kaling with a surprise assist from Matt Damon, that did try to sell insurance. The message: that the company treats its customers as a priority.
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Sunday’s Super Bowl was the most-watched in the game’s history. New England’s dramatic 28-24 victory over Seattle delivered 114.5 million viewers for NBC, beating 2013’s match by 3 million, with a third-best-ever 47.5/71 rating among A18-49.
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Oprah Winfrey and filmmaker Ava DuVernay (Selma) have teamed for an OWN drama series inspired by the novel Queen Sugar. DuVernay will write, direct and exec produce; Winfrey will exec produce and appear in a recurring role, a first for Winfrey and the net that’s named for her. The themes of “reinventing your life, parenting alone, family connections and conflicts, and building new relationships are what I believe will connect our viewers to this show,” said Winfrey. Production begins later this year.
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The IMAX theater presentation of HBO’s Game of Thrones earned $1.5 million, averaging about $7300 per theater, with sales briskest in big cities. “This was a successful response for this first experiment,” said Greg Foster, chairman and president of Imax Entertainment. “We will continue to experiment and comb over the data.”
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Funny or Die’s The Chris Gethard Show moves from public access to national television with a 10-week season on Fusion, debuting in April. “Chris Gethard’s brand of comedy is unlike anything else out there, but his authenticity and charm have made him one of the best-kept secrets in comedy circles for years,” said Fusion Chief Programming Officer Wade Beckett. Among the quirky comedy’s exec producers are Gethard, Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis.
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Add two comedies from Universal Television to ABC’s pilot pile: Family Fortune, from Matt Hubbard, Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, starring Fortune Feimster (Chelsea Lately) as a gym teacher who comes out of the closet, and a remake of 1989’s Uncle Buck, a co-production with ABC Studios, produced by Will Packer (Ride Along).
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A sprinkling of the A-listers joining former cast members like Eddie Murphy, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray and Tina Fey, to name just a few, on NBC’s Saturday Night Live – 40th anniversary special, include Justin Timberlake, Steve Martin, Derek Jeter, Robert De Niro, Jerry Seinfeld, Jack Nicholson, Betty White, Tom Hanks and Peyton Manning. Today’s Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Carson Daly and Al Roker host; party starts with a red carpet special on Sunday, February 15 at 7p.
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Antenna TV is airing an 8-hour marathon of Doogie Howser, M.D., beginning at 4p on Saturday, February 21. The 1989-1993 series, of course, starred Neil Patrick Harris, host of the Oscars ceremony airing Sunday, February 22 at 7p on ABC.
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Nickelodeon debuts “The Big Goblin Problem,” an hour-long special episode of Wallykazam!, on Friday, February 6 at 12p. Wallykazam! was the number one preschool series in its time period during 4Q14.
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American Masters – August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand premieres Friday, February 20 at 9p on PBS (check local listings) in honor of the 70th anniversary of Wilson’s birth, 10th anniversary of his death and Black History Month. Documentary explores the life and legacy of Tony- and Pulitzer-winning playwright (Fences).
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Budweiser’s “Lost Dog” Super Bowl ad topped the popularity charts, according to the USA Today Super Bowl Ad Meter and TiVo research. Next came Always (“Like a Girl”), Fiat (“Blue Pill”) and Microsoft (“Braylon”) by USA Today’s count, and Joyful Heart Foundation (“911 Delivery”), Doritos (“Middle Seat”) and Nationwide (“Invisible MIndy Kaling”) by TiVo’s reckoning.
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Augustus Prew (Kick-Ass 2) landed the lead in HBO comedy pilot Mamma Dallas, reports Deadline. The project about a conservative family who unknowingly hires a drag queen for a nanny is written, directed and exec produced by Mike White (Enlightened).
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Marvel’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones tapped Carrie-Ann Jones (Vegas) to star opposite Krysten Ritter. Series premieres on Netflix this year.
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Bella Thorne (Shake It Up!) plays a high school heroin addict in Lifetime movie Perfect High. Film went into production February 1.
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Sarah Carter (Falling Skies) joins the season three the cast of DirecTV’s Rogue. Suspense drama stars Thandie Newton and Cole Hauser.
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Cristela Alonzo (Cristela) will guest on General Hospital’s Friday, February 13 Valentine’s Day ep, along with previously announced Derek Theler and Melissa Peterman from ABC Family’s Baby Daddy. Seems Alonzo’s a long-time fan of the ABC soap.
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With NBC’s Super Bowl dominant Sunday night and the remaining Big Three airing repeats (except CBS’s 60 Minutes), Univision was second among A18-49 (1.0/2) for the night, according to fast nationals, while CBS was runner up in total viewers (3.2 million).
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January was Bounce TV’s most-watched month ever. Primetime viewership was up 17 percent among HHs (175,000), 23 percent among P25-54 (106,000) and 22 percent among Viewers 2+ (241,000) versus December 2014.
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Longtime CBS News producer Sanford Socolow died January 31 after an illness. He was 86. The trusted lieutenant of anchor Walter Cronkite, Socolow served the network for 30 years, at one point reaching the position of executive producer of The CBS Evening News.
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