Russian
10 May 2006, 15:52
Tuesday
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Seven - 44.9%
Nine - 21.6%
Ten - 18.2%
ABC - 11.2%
SBS - 4.2%
1. DWTS - 2.665 (highest ever by 300k, scheduled time 7:30-9:45, over 3 million for winner announcement which was out of that time so this number will go up)
2. 7 News - 1.876 (scheduled time 6:00-6:55)
3. Today Tonight - 1.717 (scheduled time 6:55-7:30)
4. All Saints - 1.66 (scheduled time 9:45-10:45, first 20 minutes was DWTS with between 1.8 and 3 million)
5. 9 News - 1.641 (scheduled time, won Adelaide)
6. ACA - 1.306 (scheduled time)
7. Big Brother - 1.285 (more than 7 and 9 combined in 16-39)
8. 10 News - 1.157
9. DOND - 1.03
10. ABC News - 997k
11. Neighbours - 987k (won 16-39)
12. Futurama - 961k (2nd in 16-39)
13. 7:30 Simpsons - 965k (2nd in 16-39)
14. CSI - 940k (scheduled time 8:30-9:30)
15. CSI NY - 930k (scheduled time 9:30-10:30)
Survivor - 910k (scheduled time 7:30-8:30)
6:00 Simpsons - 809k
7:30 Report - 798k
Bert - 770k
OC - 721k (thrashed Nine, thrashed by Seven in 16-39)
Rove - 697k (thrashed Nine, thrashed by Seven in 16-39)
6am-9am
Sunrise - 721k
Today - 463k
6am-7am
Sunrise - 485k
Today - 332k
10 News - 50k
7am-9am
Sunrise - 839k
Today - 529k
4:30 News
Seven - 506k
Nine - 251k (Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide only)
6pm-6:30pm
Seven - 1.91
Nine - 1.65
6:30pm-7pm
Seven - 1.82
Nine - 1.44
7pm-7:30pm
Seven - 1.71
Nine - 1.16
Seven beat Nine and Ten combined in 25-54, and won 16-39
Week-to-date
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Nine - 32.8%
Seven - 30.9%
Ten - 19.7%
ABC - 12.8%
SBS - 3.9%
Russian
12 May 2006, 12:43
Lost and TAR continue to follow the American downward trends, and a huge Footy Show audience makes things worse for Seven
Thursday
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Nine - 35.3% (41.6 Melbourne)
Seven - 28.1% (24.7 Melbourne)
Ten - 21.1%
ABC - 10.3%
SBS - 5.3%
1. TFS - 1.570 (scheduled time, 1.75 first hour, 1.969 peak)
2. Today Tonight - 1.565
3. 7 News - 1.500
4. MPU - 1.488
5. Getaway - 1.413
6. Lost - 1.410
7. Hello Goodbye - 1.39
8. 9 News - 1.391 (won Melbourne)
9. ACA - 1.257 (won Melbourne)
10. Home & Away - 1.21
11. Temptation - 1.21
12. Las Vegas - 1.19
13. Big Brother - 1.11 (more than 7+9 combined in 16-39)
14. Medium - 1.014 (3rd 16-39)
15. ABC News - 1.00
16. Smallville - 946k (3rd 16-39)
17. Law & Order - 939k (distant 3rd 16-39)
DOND - 910k
TAR - 878k
Neighbours - 855k (won 16-39)
6:00 Simpsons - 754k (won 16-39)
Bert - 660k
American Dad - 507k
Family Guy - 498k
10 Late News - 490k
BB Up Late - 192k
Sunrise - 411k
Today - 202k
Nine just won 25-54 from Seven, Seven won 16-39 from Nine
Week-to-date
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Nine - 31.8%
Seven - 29.9%
Ten - 21.6%
ABC - 12.6%
SBS - 4.2%
Programming
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Tonight is the last episode of Skating with Celebrities in primetime. From next week, Punk'd takes that slot, Skating moves to after BB Up Late, News and Sports Tonight
Next Year
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Networks are starting to order new shows for next year - the dramas confirmed so far:
American Crime (Fox)
WB/Bruckheimer = Nine
Stars: Eamonn Walker (Oz), Kerr Smith (E-Ring), Rebecca Mader (Conviction), Victor Garber (Alias)
Crew: Director of Kangaroo Jack, Bruckheimer and Littman, Executive Producer of Just Legal, Writer of Cold Case
Legal drama set in the world of high-powered los angeles lawyers with the focus on the forensics of law, examining how "celebrity" lawyers go about freeing their clients, most of whom are either very rich or involved in high-profile cases
Description makes this one look like a winner, Bruckheimer's name makes that a near-certainty
The Black Donnellys (NBC)
NBC Universal/BlackFriars Bridge, I think Ten have this output deal
Stars: Billy Lush (Huff), Christopher Shand, Jonathan Tucker (Hostage), Keith Nobbs, Kirk Acevedo (Trial by Jury), Michael Stahl-David (Uncle Nino), Olivia Wilde (The OC), Tom Guiry
Crew: Lots of people from Crash and a producer from Mutant X
The series concerns the exploits of four young Irish brothers and their involvement in organized crime in New York's notorious Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. The handsome brothers fight for love yet cannot escape sinking deeper into the criminal underworld in this contemporary story of the Donnellys.
Can't see mass appeal in this one
Day Break (ABC)
Touchstone/Gross, Ten maybe?
Stars: Adam Baldwin (The Inside), Meta Golding (JAG), Moon Bloodgood (Eight Below), Ramon Rodriguez (Rescue Me), Taye Diggs (Will & Grace), Victoria Pratt (Mutant X)
Crew: Executive Producer of Alias, Producer of Joe Somebody, Writer of After the Sunset, Director of Night Stalker
Did you ever have a day so bad you couldn't wait to get past it? The kind of day nothing goes your way, and everything turns out wrong. What would happen if you couldn't put this day behind you... literally? Today Detective Brett Hopper will be accused of shooting state attorney Emilio Garza. He will offer his rock solid alibi. He will realize he's been framed. And he will run. Then he will wake up and start the day over again. This time he'll do it differently – and will continue to – until he finds out who's framing him, gets his gang witness to court to testify, and until he saves the lives of his loved ones. Hopper has only one advantage in his favor – he remembers everything he did the "day prior" that didn't work. It's a painful way to learn because he also carries the bruises and battle scars from every mistake-filled day. Hopper must find the delicate balance between doing what's important and what's right to get through this killer day and move on to tomorrow.
Groundhog Day? These sort of shows are difficult but when they work they're very good. Not holding my breath
Friday Night Lights (NBC)
NBC Universal/Imagine/Film 44, who cares it'll never be shown here
Stars: Adrianne Palicki (South Beach), Aimee Teegarden, Connie Britton (24), Gaius Charles, Jesse Plemons, Kyle Chandler (Grey's Anatomy), Minka Kelly (What I Like About You), Scott Porter, Taylor Kitsch, Zach Gilford
CreW: Producers of Inside Man, Arrested Development and Pepper Dennis
Friday Night Lights focuses on the high school football program in the small town of Dillon, Texas. This year, the Dillon Panthers are expected to go all the way. That’s a lot of pressure for Eric Taylor in his first year as coach. Nevertheless, he’s ready and willing to mold these boys into champions and encourage them to be better men. Brought to you by Peter Berg and Brian Grazer, this family drama is all about achievement, heartache, friendship and tough love.
Guess who's got football coverage this year - will never work in Australia
Heroes (NBC)
NBC Universal/Tailwind, think this is Seven
Stars: Adrian Pasdar (Desperate Housewives), Ali Larter (Final Destination 2), Greg Grunberg (Alias), Hayden Panettiere (The Book of Daniel), Leonard Roberts (Buffy), Masi Oka (Scrubs), Milo Ventimiglia (The Bedford Diaries), Noah Gray-Cabey (My Wife and Kids), Santiago Cabrera (Empire), Sendhil Ramamurthy, Tawny Cypress (Jonny Zero)
Crew: Director/Producer of House, Executive Producer of Crossing Jordan, Writer of Crossing Jordan, Executive Producer of Alias
They thought they were like everyone else...until they woke with incredible powers. In Japan, a lowly office worker can teleport at will. In New York, a struggling artist can paint the future. In Los Angeles, a discontented beat cop can hear the thoughts of others. Heroes chronicles the lives of these people, and the lives of others like them – whose destiny just might be the saving of humankind...but first they must come to grips with their newfound powers. This original, edge-of-your-seat thriller will make you wonder if there really are heroes among us.
This couldn't work, could it?
Kidnapped (NBC)
NBC Universal/Sony/25c = Nine
Stars: Boris McGiver, Carmen Ejogo (Lackawanna Blues), Dana Delany, Delroy Lindo (Domino), Jeremy Sisto (Six Feet Under), Linus Roache (Batman Begins), Mykelti Williamson (Boomtown), Timothy Hutton (Last Holiday), Will Denton
Crew: Director of Invasion, Executive Producer of Kevin Hill, Writer of Karen Sisco, couple of unknowns
A high-stakes serialized thriller in which the teenage son of a wealthy Upper East Side family (Timothy Hutton, "Kinsey," and Emmy winner Dana Delany, "China Beach") is kidnapped and everyone is a suspect. The series focuses on the elaborate, triangulated game between the kidnappers, law enforcement, FBI, and the private negotiating team of the "perhaps" not-so-picture-perfect family.
Concept looks a winner but the crew concerns me
The Nine (ABC)
WB = Nine
Stars: Camille Gauty (Prison Break), Chi McBride (Killer Instinct), Dana Davis (Veronica Mars), Jessica Collins, John Billingsley (Enterprise), Kim Raver (24), Lourdes Benedicto (24), Owain Yeoman (Kitchen Confidential), Scott Wolf (Everwood), Timothy Daly (Eyes)
Crew: Director of The West Wing, Writer/Executive Producer of Without A Trace, Writer/Executive Producer of Judging Amy
So much in life is beyond your control. One day you wake up and go to work like a regular day. Suddenly a random moment, an accident, a blessing, even a stranger, comes from out of the blue and redirects your life forever. But it's up to you to decide if that moment will stop you in your tracks or lift you up to new heights. Today nine people face just such an unexpected twist when they are caught in a bank robbery gone wrong and endure a 52-hour hostage standoff that will leave one person dead. When all is said and done, these nine people will never be the same. They will always share the common bond of what happens inside the bank... which only they'll know. And they will be forever affected and intertwined because of it. This is a dramatic character study that will keep audiences hooked from the beginning of the bank robbery to the end of the hostage standoff. Taking a twist from Lost, each episode will begin with a flashback to reveal another 10 minutes of the hostage crisis, uncovering why and how these nine strangers are still linked today.
Looks the most likely hit so far
Primary (Fox)
20th Century Fox = Seven
Stars: Gina Torres (The Shield), Michael Cudlitz (Prison Break), Raquel Alessi (Carlito's Way: Rise to Power), Ron Livingston (Sex and the City), Rosemarie Dewitt (Rescue Me)
Crew: Writer of The Inside, Executive Producer of The Shield, Director of Fantastic Four
Centers on a man and a woman who dance around their budding relationship while focusing on their jobs as hostage negotiators
Boooring
Raines (NBC)
NBC Universal = Seven or Ten
Stars: Dov Davidoff (My Suicidal Sweetheart), Jeff Goldblum (Will & Grace), Linda Park (Enterprise), Luis Guzman (Luis), Matt Craven (Assault on Precinct 13), Nicole Sullivan (Hot Properties)
Crew: Director of The Green Mile, Writer of Boomtown, Producer of Wildfire
Los Angeles. Present day. Michael Raines, an eccentric but brilliant cop, solves murders in a very unusual way – he turns the victims into his partners. These visions are figments of Raines’s imagination, and he knows it, but when he can’t make the dead disappear, he works with them to find the killer. He talks to them. He profiles them. And he’s only free of them when the case is closed. Other detectives question Raines’s sanity. So does he, but he is unable to stop the visions from coming, and a small part of him is glad he can’t. That’s because there is one recurring hallucination he can’t live without.
Monk, Numb3rs haven't worked here - doubt this will either
Six Degrees (ABC)
Touchstone/Bad Robot = Seven
Stars: Bridget Moynahan (Lord of War), Campbell Scott (The Exorcism of Emily Rose), Dorian Missick, Erika Christensen (Flightplan), Hope Davis (The Matador), Jay Hernandez (Hostel)
Crew: JJ Abrams, Executive Producer of Lost, crew of What About Brian
It's said that six people separate any one person from another. Considering the millions of people in the United States alone, it's an amazing thought that we're connected to anyone and everyone by a chain of six. Laura, a grieving single mother, begins the chain. Then to Whitney, the self-made success story who thinks her boyfriend is cheating. Move on to Steven, the artist/photographer who believes he's lost his 'eye.' Follow with Damien, who can't escape his criminal brother's shadow. Then to Mae, the girl with a dangerous past she's hiding from. And finally to Carlos, the good guy with a crush who doesn't know what he's in for. These six strangers are going about their normal lives but not realizing the impact they're having on each other – yet. It's a mysterious web of seeming coincidence and happenstance that draws these people closer to those who will change their lives forever. Even decisions made freely will seem part of a larger design begging the question if there is a greater force at work in our world, guiding us along and connecting our lives.
Being JJ it'll probably start with a bang, take off on some strange tangent and be dead in a couple of years. Now I'll read the description - yep typical JJ, very complicated, enough there to suggest it'll work for a while
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (NBC)
WB/Shoe Money = Nine
Stars: Amanda Peet (Syriana), Bradley Whitford (West Wing), Carlos Jacott (Fun with Dick and Jane), DL Hughley, Evan Handler (Hot Properties), Matthew Perry (Friends), Michael Stuhlbarg (The Grey Zone), Nathan Corddry (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart), Sarah Paulson (Deadwood), Steven Webber (The D.A.), Timothy Busfield (The West Wing)
Crew: Writer of The West Wing, Director of Invasion, Producer of Without A Trace
Aaron Sorkin takes us behind the scenes of a fictional late-night sketch comedy series. Lately, funny has been in short supply at Studio 60. The executive producer just had a breakdown. The control room is out of control. The actors are acting up. And that’s just for starters. Now the show’s only hope at a successful future lies with two wunderkind writers (Matthew Perry and Bradley Whitford) and a headstrong new network president.
Will take something special from Sorkin and the 2 stars to make this work, can't see it
Vanished (Fox)
20th Century Fox = Seven
Stars: Christopher Egan (Empire), Gale Harold (Queer as Folk), Joanne Kelly (Jeremiah), John Allen Nelson (24), John Patrick Amedori, Margarita Levieva, Ming-Na (Inconceivable), Rebecca Gayheart (Nip/Tuck), Robert Hoffman (Quintuplets)
Crew: Writer of Killer Instinct, Director of Related, Executive Producer of The Unit
Tracks the search a senator's wife who goes missing as part of a larger conspiracy, through the eyes of law enforcement, family members and the media
Political so that reduces the chance of it working here, reasonable bet to work in America and get on our screens if The Unit does ok.
All these have 13 episodes ordered, CBS yet to announce what they're picking up
US stuff from The Futon Critic (www.thefutoncritic) and mediaweek (www.mediaweek.com)