This week, we’re going to chat about a new website for Chuck, an award bestowed upon Doctor Who and a bit about Syfy dominating Tuesdays with Warehouse 13. We also delve into some news about Burn Notice, Royal Pains & Dollhouse.
Some cast members have been added to Steven Spielberg’s unnamed alien pilot on TNT, we have an interesting tidbit on Disney and a quick, condensed look at last week’s Summer TV ratings.
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Doctor Who Recognized By Guinness
The series Doctor Who has just been recognized as the most successful sci-fi series by the Guinness Book of World Records.
They base this on quantifiable items such as ratings, sales of DVD’s, iTunes traffic and books sold. Longevity of the series was also part of the recognition process.
Doctor Who premiered in 1963 and has had a sporadic but continued successful existence.
What sci-fi show has the longest consecutive running record? Stargate SG-1. It had a consecutive 10-year run.
Source: Variety
Syfy Channel News
Warehouse 13 is proving itself a solid starter for the newly renamed network.
Warehouse 13 (WH13) hit new highs for a scripted series on the network. They pulled in 1.8 million adults between the ages of 25-54 and 1.4 million adults aged 18-49.
In the 9 p.m. hour of Tuesday, Syfy actually delivered more viewers between that ages of 25-54 than ABC did, and more male viewers than both ABC and Fox.
It was the top scripted drama on cable to boot.
But that’s not all.
As numbers come in from the Live+7 ratings, (That’s live viewers plus DVR playback over the course of 7 days), the premiere of WH13 brought in approximately 4 million viewers. Both WH13 and Eureka are doing some serious ratings numbers.
In fact, with both WH13 and Eureka, Syfy pulled in their best July numbers ever in its 17-year history. Even Ghost Hunters International is doing its part and bringing in 1.9 million viewers.
Right now, it seems that their plans are on track to grow the network. We just have to see if it will hold up over time.
If Warehouse 13 keeps going strong like it has, they’ve got a chance.
Source: NBCUMV
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Burn Notice Gets Renewed
Michael Westen is going to continue to give us instructional guidance on how to make things for another 16 episodes.
That’s how many episodes USA Network has ordered for Burn Notice. USA also ordered 16 episodes for the show Royal Pains.
Both shows are doing great, pulling in between 4 and 7 million viewers each.
Source: Variety
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Dollhouse Guest Star News
Jamie Bamber (Captain Lee ‘Apollo’ Adama in Battlestar Galactica) is going to be a guest star on the season 2 premiere of Dollhouse.
Bamber’s character will be engaged in an assignment with Echo (Eliza Dushku) and her new handler, Paul Ballard (Tahmoh Penikett). Wha!? That’s all we have.
Season 2 will premiere on Friday, Sept 25th 2009 on Fox.
Source: E Online
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Spielberg’s Alien Invasion Gets More Cast
Steven Spielberg’s unnamed alien invasion project that’s coming to TNT has more cast hoping on board.
Moon Bloodgood, Jessy Schram, Seychelle Gabriel and Maxim Knight will be joining Noah Wyle on the alien invasion pilot.
The show takes place just after aliens have wiped out most of humanity and focuses on a ragtag group of soldiers and people led by Noah Wyle as they struggle against the occupying alien invasion.
Is it me, or does this sound like something from Battlestar Galactica?
Source: Sci Fi Wire
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Disney To Charge For Content
Disney is looking to start charging for it’s online content that ranges from movies to games and TV shows.
The premise is that they’re looking at a single web site that may be subscription based that will provide these products.
They’re already making revenue off their ventures on Hulu and iTunes and I suspect that the performance of these two outlets is what prompted this decision.
In what I find to be a rather insightful statement by CEO Robert Iger, he said:
“consumers spend $5 an hour at theaters to see movies, 75 cents an hour to read books, newspapers and magazines and 50 cents an hour to watch cable and satellite TV, but only 25 cents an hour to surf the Internet.”
“There’s plenty of room for people to spend more money on things that they’re doing online.”
Plenty of room? Is that how they see us. Web surfers with plenty of room to spend more money? Nice. Real nice.
Source: Media Week
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Summer TV Ratings
Of the top 20 broadcast shows last week, NCIS was the best rated scripted drama in 3rd with 9.7 million viewers. The Mentalist was 4th with 9.6 mil viewers & CSI: Miami brought in 8.5 million viewers.
Outside the top 10, CSI was 11th with 7.8 mil viewers, Law And Order:SVU was 12th and CSI:NY was in 15th.
On the cable side of things, Burn Notice was the top dog with 6.8 million viewers, The Closer was 2nd with 6.6 million viewers. NASCAR was 3rd, Royal Pains 4th with 6.2 mil. and NCIS was 8th with 4.9 mil. viewers.
Source: TV By The Numbers
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Chuck Online Hangout
During Comic-Con, the new website called ChuckMeOut.com launched during the Chuck panel at Comic-Con.
At ChuckMeOut.com, you can get behind the scenes clips from cast and crew, blogs from the set and social networking tools.
So go, enjoy and let us know what you think!
Source: NBCUMV
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In regards to what Disney said
“consumers spend $5 an hour at theaters to see movies, 75 cents an hour to read books, newspapers and magazines and 50 cents an hour to watch cable and satellite TV, but only 25 cents an hour to surf the Internet.”
25 cents an hour for the internet? So people pay $168 a month for their internet do they? Remind me to never move to the US if that’s the case. And that of course means it also costs you $336 a month for cable and satellite TV.
What’s really getting me is the $504 you all seem to be spending a month to read books and magazines. Come on over to the UK, or most other countries really. We have these things called libraries, get this… you can read books for FREE. No really, it happens.
Now granted, I’ve just taken their figures and taken it out of context, but since CEO Robert Inger never provided any real context (like perhaps saying that this is what the average person spends on these things since they pay x amount per month and only spend y amount of time with them, and hence, here are our figures), I’m feeling quite free to mock him and his figures that seem to be some sort of justification.
Granted, it’s their content, if they want to charge us to see it, that’s up to them, but using the “they have money to spare, we need to get our hands on it” approach isn’t winning me over much.
@Joshi
Wow, just wow. Sounds like someone’s a bit condescending. A little research can go a long way. That’s something we’ve learned here in the States. You know, where we have these things called libraries, and get this… you can read books for FREE. I feel ashamed for my family in the UK.
And since you are incapable of doing research, we don’t pay close to that much for internet or satellite.
“And since you are incapable of doing research, we don’t pay close to that much for internet or satellite.”
Um, yes, well aware of that (hence my penultimate paragraph), my statements were made in jest to convey the absurdity of the claims Robert Inger made about how much it costs per hour for those things. I was in no way being condescending to the US at large… just that guy.
Apologies for the mis-understanding, guess it’s harder than I thought to convey tone over the internet. Need to start using /sarcasm tags.
Ah, then I apologize as well, I misunderstood what you said. And yes, conveying sarcasm over the internet is tricky, and I’ve had trouble with it too.
JOSHI: Mock away my friend! I’m right there with ya while we mock the giant mouse net.
ASH ALI: I have had my back side handed to me just because I too sometimes have quite the trick trying to convey the casm of sar.
I find I need footnotes, smiley faces and other decorative symbols to protect myself from the wrath of the cold, dark internet!
Thanks for coming by guys!
But on the note of Dollhouse. I just watch the unaired pilot and unaired season finale, it’s amazing how the two fit together extremely well.
kudos to syfy for maintaining Eureka and developing Warehouse 13, with luck we won’t have to wait another three years for them to develop another watchable series…
sheesh, that came off as harsh didn’t it? I guess I’m just disappointed by having so few real choices that I find palatable these days. now back to the novel that will change america….
It’s unavoidable odds PIRATEDAN. You have to throw out a whole bunch of darts for one to have a decent landing. Unfortunately, we suffer much before the gems hit target.
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