Today it was found out that Fox has put the nail in the coffin of a few shows that folks were interested in, making room for other new pilots and such for the upcoming 2011/2012 TV season!
We’ve already noted that Human Target, Breaking In and The Chicago Code were all cancelled by Fox. Now we can add Lie To Me to that list of dumped shows, and Traffic Light, if you watched that.
Shows that Fox has picked up to add to its slate of entertainment includes Alcatraz, Finder, New Girl & I Hate My Teenage Daughter.
About Alcatraz
Alcatraz is a Bad Robot (J.J. Abrams) production that will include stars Sam Neill, Jorge Garcia, Nagra Parminder & Stargate alumni Paul McGillion.
The show is about a team of FBI agents as they try to figure out the mystery behind a group of Alcatraz prisoners and guards who suddenly appear in present day, after having gone missing 30 years prior.
Other cast includes Jason Butler Harner, Jonny Coyne, Robert Forster, Santiago Cabrera and Sarah Jones.
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Back in 2005, John Gertz Prods (JGP) had purchased the rights to the novel “The Interview Room.” The book is about a shrink who is an expert at figuring out when folks are lying.
JGP turned that into a screenplay and they called it Lie to Lie.
In 2007 they presented their premise to Fox for a pilot and a few subsequent episodes, but Fox supposedly declined.
Then in 2009, Fox premiered their Tim Roth starrer, Lie To Me.
JPG is suing Fox for breach of confidence and for developing an incredibly similar premise.
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Continuing my new & returning show premier pieces that talk about the shows that are launching or relaunching this week for the mid-season time-frame. Popular TV series returning from their midseason breaks include Chuck, Family Guy, Lie To Me and the NCIS shows. Some of the new shows popping up include The Cape & Lights Out.
I’m as much of a genre fan as the next viewer and I’d love to see a genre show have a reasonable amount of success, but I’m just not feeling a good vibe. What I mean by good vibe is that I don’t think the Nielsen families that make or break the fate of TV series.
The Cape will star David Lyons (ER, Sea Patrol) as Vince Faraday, James Frain (True Blood, Tron: Legacy), Summer Glau (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Dollhouse) & the deep-voiced Keith David (Death at a Funeral, Lottery Ticket).
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Today’s entertainment news bits from Cinema Static on Brusimm.com include bytes about Fox’s fib detecting show Lie To Me, the sharp clawed non-sequel The Wolverine and another movie sequel with angry gods called Wrath of the Titans. Check it out
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Lie To Me
Lie To Me starring Tim Roth looks doomed. Fox did not order any more episodes beyond the thirteen they already have in stock for this present season.
Spokespeople for Fox tried to make it clear that the show wasn’t canceled and any future the show has, has yet to be decided. No decision has been made yet, though we can look towards the spring for any real decisions to be made.
Fox did something like this to Lie to Me last season. At least they didn’t re-order the episodes! (Or have they?)
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Fox Christmas Programming Plans
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For the Christmas holiday season, Fox television network is going to celebrate with us by airing some seasonally inclined programming from some of their more popular TV series. The shows that will be sharing some holiday cheer with the fans are Glee, Raising Hope, Human Target, COPS, The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Cleveland Show & American Dad.
For example, Glee will give us “A Very Glee Christmas,” while Family Guy will be on the “Road to the North Pole.” They have movies like Are We Done Yet, Rocky Balboa & a Paly Center Media Center special.
For more details on the December programming plans all the way up to New Year’s Eve programming, check out the press release below! It all starts December 5th!
Check after the break:
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Today I’m splattering out news that I’ve collected all last week on some TV shows that we like here at Cinema Static on Brusimm. The news includes bits from NCIS, Grey’s Anatomy (a warning), Chuck (good news), Fringe (seriously?), Medium (not good news), The Event (stalled), Undercovers (bah bye) and mid-season announcement press releases from Fox and NBC. In other words, there’s lots of tidbits of entertainment news for your consumption!
Let’s git on with it!
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NCIS
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If my math is right, then the paper shredding mystery by Director Vance is going to be answered this week and the Nov 23rd episode of NCIS will pay out big time.
So hang on to your hats and enjoy the episode of an incredible TV series.
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Grey’s Anatomy
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Folks, hang on to your hats with this one, but according to Michael Ausiello, despite being between gigs, keeps cranking out information via several sites and his own facebook account. The man’s a lean, mean working machine!
Oh, got carried away. Michael reported that there’s a rumor that Grey’s Anatomy is planning a musical episode for the second half of the season.
Would that make it Glee’s Anatomy?
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TV Ratings for Sun through Tues saw the NFL (27.8) dominate prime time Sunday, DWTS (20.0) won Monday but NCIS trounced it on Tuesday with 19.8 m viewers.
On the cable side of things, Hannah Montana Forever (7.1) won Sunday, MNF (15.0) won Monday and Sons of Anarchy pulled in 3.2 million viewers.
Stargate Universe viewers are down to nearly one million flat, with maybe folks bailing on the show/network with its partner show Caprica having been canned. And as the ship’s crew finally discovered that Rush had been running the ship and no one is happy. The Col gave him an ass-whooping for it, to boot. Yea… the crew has finally taken their seats on the bridge. Now we’re going somewhere as they decide: Try to go home, or continue the quest of the ship and that’s discover what was in the middle of the big bang that started it all. Meanwhile, Syfy’s WWE Raw pulled a strong 4.6 million viewers in for the network.
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This week with over 250 new titles, we have quite the variety of new DVD and Blu-ray releases coming out. New titles include the surprise hit (for me) of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, the first season of the TV series Sherlock. We also finally get a chance to snatch up the fifth series of Doctor Who, starring Matt Smith.
Other titles include Grown Ups with Adam Sandler, Charlie St. Cloud with Zac Efron and an animated DC Showcase of Superman/Shazam: The Return of Black Adam.
Surprise releases that caught my eye was a Cary Grant movie called Arsenic & Old Lace & a classic of a different nature, Westworld! Plus Mystery Science Theater 3000: Vol. XIX is coming out this week!
Movies on DVD
A Christmas Carol starring George C. Scott, Frank Finlay, Edward Woodward- Arsenic & Old Lace starring Cary Grant and Raymond Massey (Love this film… great classic!)
- Charlie St. Cloud starring Zac Efron and Kim Basinger
- Demolition Man starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Nigel Hawthorne (You might want to check out the under $6 price, at the time of this article.)
- Executive Decision starring Kurt Russell and Ray Liotta (Another sub $7 movie)
- Grown Ups starring Adam Sandler and Maria Bello
- Hunt To Kill starring Steve Austin, Eric Roberts, and Gary Daniels and Emilie Ullerup
Ramona & Beezus starring Selena Gomez and Joey King- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World starring Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin
- Tremors [Blu-ray] starring Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward
- Westworld starring Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin
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TV ratings for the 7-day week starting on October 20th didn’t see any real huge surprises as DWTS, NCIS, CSI, Criminal Minds and other Brusimm favorites that dominated the Nielsen TV ratings charts.
I think her name is Caprica, and she’s dead Jim!
The top TV broadcast of the week was Sunday Night Football, followed by CBS NFL Football! This week reality TV crawled up past scripted drama as Dancing with the Stars was the 3rd most watched show last week, even though NCIS had a 4 percent increase in viewers from the week before. (I am not tracking the % change in DWTS.)
CSI & Criminal Minds saw 3% more viewers and the huge viewer jump was with the Rocky Horror Glee episode which saw a 52% increase from the previous week’s repeat episode.
Blue Bloods & $#*! My Dad Says saw a 7% increase while Hawaii Five-0 had a 7% drop in viewers.
Other favorites that had good weeks was The Vampire Diaries which saw a huge 46% increase from the week before in viewers. While Supernatural’s story is getting pretty good in its sixth season, 15% fewer viewers got to enjoy it. Smallville’s final season episode last week saw a 23% drop in viewers.
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(L-R) Michael Weatherly, Mark Harmon and Sean Murray in NCIS
This last week saw the scripted crime drama NCIS actually beat out all the reality TV shows execpt one, if you can call the NFL a reality program, though luckily, it’s a sport so we don’t need to label it that! NCIS had a small boost in viewership from the previous week…
The big jump in viewers was CSI, with an increase of almost 14% from the week before and CSI: Miami, heartily surviving Sunday night and having a 13% increase in viewers. Detroit 187 also saw a great increase in traffic, at around 12%.
Though I seem to like Law & Order: Los Angeles, almost 14% fewer viewers did.
Smallville did well for The CW with just over 3 M viewers, and a huge 27% increase in viewers, as Supernatural also pulled in over 23% more viewers than the previous Friday night airing.
Of the top 15 shows, 6 of them are on Sundays, while Thursday & Tues each have 3 slots in that top-15.
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