Showing posts with label 30 Rock. Show all posts
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Friday, July 3, 2015

NEWS: Teens Abandoning TV; Plus, Katherine Kelly Lang, Melissa Leo, Robin Wright, Tiffani Thiessen

American teens are slowly abandoning TV
TV is still the number-one medium where people spend their time. But over the last five years the amount of time Americans aged 12 to 17 spend watching TV has dropped more than 25%, from more than 24 hours at the beginning of 2011 to less than 18 hours at in the first quarter of 2015, according to Nielsen's quarterly Total Audience report as compiled by Statista.

The Bold and the Beautiful offering "Beach Locations Tour" with Katherine Kelly Lang
The B&B Beach Locations Tour begins with a guided backstage tour of CBS Television City and historic Stage 31, home of The Bold and the Beautiful for over 28 years. On the tour you’ll have a chance to see various sets including Forrester Creations, as well as the Wardrobe, Hair & Makeup and Art Departments.

After touring the studio, you’ll board a state of the art, air-conditioned bus, and depart for the SoCal coast. Along the way Lang will present special behind the scenes clips and share B&B insider information.

4th of July TV marathons
E!'s list includes Pivot's Buffy the Vampire Slayer marathon on Saturday, July 4 from 12 p.m.-9 p.m. ET.

Ratings: Extant returns to a new series low
CBS’ retooled Extant opened Season 2 on Wednesday night with 5.2 million total viewers and a 0.7 demo rating, down 46 and 56 percent from last summer’s series launch, off 4 and 36 percent from its freshman finale and hitting series lows on both counts.

Melissa Leo to play Lady Bird Johnson 'n HBO's LBJ movie All The Way
The former All My Children actress will star opposite Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, Loving) in All The Way, HBO’s adaptation of the Tony-winning Robert Schenkkan play.

First Lady Michelle Obama meets 'House of Cards' counterpart Claire Underwood (Robin Wright)
After Ms. Wright praised Mrs. Obama's work on girls' education and called the first lady, “Inspirer-in-Chief," Mrs. Obama didn't quite return the compliment.

“I’m certainly not taking any inspiration from Claire Underwood,” Obama joked, as she took the stage and talked about her "Let Girls Learn," girls' education initiative.

TV Land has banned re-runs of The Dukes of Hazzard because of the General Lee’s Confederate flag design. Is our ‘banning’ culture out of control?
Write's The Daily Beast's Tim Teeman: What is achieved by activist Bree Newsome scaling the flagpole outside the South Carolina statehouse, and removing the Confederate flag? Everything. What is achieved by TV Land banning reruns of The Dukes of Hazzard? Nothing."

USA's Mr. Robot is a great entry into the Summer TV lineup
"Shot with unsettling wit and verve, Mr. Robot presents contemporary New York City the way its protagonist views it: as a grim, vertiginous dystopia of commerce and deception. Colors are reserved for ads. Honesty is the last resort of suckers."

9 30 Rock predictions that gave come true, including renaming 30 Rockefeller
Over the course of several seasons, Tina Fey mocked Comcast’s acquisition of NBCUniversal. Dubbed Kabletown on the series, the company eventually took over NBC and dubbed 30 Rockefeller the ‘Kabletown Building.’ In July, Comcast announced it was doing the same thing in real life by renaming 30 Rock as the ‘Comcast Building.’

Beverly Hills, 90210 star Tiffani Thiessen welcomes a baby boy
Thiessen nd her husband Brady Smith welcomed their second child on Wednesday, July 1, she announced Thursday on Instagram. Son Holt Fisher Smith joins big sister Harper Renn, 5.

MTV’s Scream has an okay debut
Following months of promotion and built-in name recognition, about 1 million viewers checked out the premiere of the MTV series based on the horror franchise.

Only 4 of 25 Scream Queens characters will survive, and return for Season 2
"It's similar to American Horror Story in that it's anthological but different in that at the end of the first season there will only be four characters out of 25 left," Ryan Murphy told The Hollywood Reporter following a recent press screening. "And those four in season two will go on to a new horror genre — like a sorority is a horror genre to me, it's a place where there were horror movies in the '80s like Sorority Row — and they will go on. That's the format of the show."

Sunday, December 23, 2012

NEWS ROUNDUP: Redaric Williams, AMC's Showrunner Problem, EASTENDERS Christmas Moments

New Y&R Hunk Redaric Williams: 'I'm ready to bite off something and sink my teeth into it'
"I'm an actor first and foremost. I moved to New York City for acting. I trained and performed, but New York is theater and fashion. I had so many people approach me about modeling. I never was into it, but finally, I went ahead. I started doing a lot of modeling, and you've got to portray this sex symbol. You've got to exude that. So it's not a new experience."

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

NEWS ROUNDUP: Irna Phillips, Tracey E. Bregman, Ming-Na, Kamar de los Reyes, Wally Kurth

Irna Phillips: Brief life of soap opera’s single mother (1901-1973)
Lynn Liccardo writes in the January-February 2013 issue of Harvard Magazine: "Haunted by her lost pregnancy, in 1972 she created ATWT's beautiful and independent Kim Reynolds, who was meant to have a baby of her own. Of course, to conceive that baby, Kim seduced her sister’s husband. Sponsor Procter & Gamble, unwilling to reward adultery, chose to veto that happy ending; when Phillips—increasingly difficult to work with and unwilling to sensationalize her plots to compete with rival shows—was fired, Kim’s pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. It’s hard to say what caused Phillips more pain—losing the show that was so real to her, or reliving the loss of her baby as Kim lost hers. A few months later, she died of a heart attack, or perhaps of a broken heart."

Ming-Na to guest star in NASHVILLE
Ming-Na will appear in an upcoming episode of NASHVILLE as Calista Reeves, a successful Los Angeles music-label exec with designs on luring Connie Britton’s country superstar away from her Edgehill roost.

Y&R Star Tracey E. Bregman Drives a Fisker Karma (Video)
The attention Bregman (Lauren) gets driving her Karma makes her feel like a rock star.

Watch the video below:

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominations

The nominations for the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards have been announced. The ceremony will air Sunday, January 27 on TNT and TBS at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

PRIMETIME TELEVISION

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
KEVIN COSTNER / Devil Anse Hatfield – HATFIELDS & McCOYS (History)
WOODY HARRELSON / Steve Schmidt – GAME CHANGE (HBO)
ED HARRIS / John McCain – GAME CHANGE (HBO)
CLIVE OWEN / Ernest Hemingway – HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN (HBO)
BILL PAXTON / Randall McCoy – HATFIELDS & McCOYS (History)

Friday, November 30, 2012

DO NO HARM Set To Premiere January 31 Follow One-Hour Series Finale Of 30 ROCK


NBC will premiere the new drama DO NO HARM on Thursday, January 31 (10-11 p.m. ET/PT) following the hour-long series finale of the Emmy Award-winning 30 ROCK (8-9 p.m. ET/PT) earlier that same night. In addition, ROCK CENTER WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS will move to Fridays beginning February 8 (10-11 p.m. ET) following “Dateline NBC” (9-10 p.m. ET/PT).

The announcements were made today by Robert Greenblatt, Chairman, NBC Entertainment.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Alec Baldwin Responds To Being Thrown Off Flight With Lessons Learned

Former KNOTS LANDING and THE DOCTORS star Alec Baldwin was thrown off an American Airlines flight on Dec. 6 for for playing a Scrabble-like game on his cell phone as the plane was about to depart from Los Angeles. He wrote an apology of sorts for Huffington Post yesterday detailing lessons learned from the experience. Here's an excerpt:

Airlines in the US are struggling with fuel costs, labor costs, bankruptcies, you name it. It's no secret that the level of service on US carriers has deteriorated to a point that would make Howard Hughes red-faced. Filthy planes, barely edible meals, cuts in jet service to less-traveled locations. One of the big changes, in my time, is in the increase of the post-9/11, paramilitary bearing of much of the air travel business. September 11th was a horrific day in the airline industry, yet in the wake of that event, I believe carriers and airports have used that as an excuse to make the air travel experience as inelegant as possible.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Fox Nixes Alec Baldwin Phone Hacking Joke From Emmys; Baldwin Won't Appear

Rupert Murdoch's Fox network cut a joke by former KNOTS LANDING and THE DOCTORS star Alec Baldwin about the company's phone hacking scandal out of a skit for Sunday's Emmy Awards, causing Baldwin to pull out of the ceremony.

Deadline was the first to report the news, and Baldwin confirmed it on Twitter.

"Fox did kill my NewsCorp hacking joke," Baldwin wrote. "Which sucks bc I think it would have made them look better. A little."

Friday, May 20, 2011

NEWS: Daytime Ratings, Macho Man Dead, Trends For Fall

Daytime Soap Ratings for the Week of May 9-13, 2011
Total Viewers (versus last week/versus last year)
1. Y&R 4,630,000 (+87,000/-483,000)
2. B&B 2,790,000 (-33,000/-397,000)
3. OLTL 2,582,000 (+84,000/+166,000)
4. DAYS 2,489,000 (+250,000/+45,000)
5. GH 2,371,000 (-8,000/-327,000)
6. AMC 2,299,000 (-36,000/-201,000)