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TV Ratings: Lost Girl, Being Human & The CW Sets a “Record” Of Sorts

by on January 19, 2012

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Brusimm Cinema Static TV NewsIf you were hanging out here around Cinema Static on Brusimm.com Monday night or Tuesday morning, you might have caught my not-so-rosy season premiere review of Syfy’s Lost Girl.  But like many others, we all tuned in to see what the show was all about.

The TV ratings for Lost Girl showed that 1.47 million viewers tuned in to catch the series premiere episode of this Canadian sci-fi hit, pulling in a 1.2 HH rating.

Airing before Lost Girl was the 2nd season premiere of Being Human, which pulled in 1.8M viewers, with a 1.3 HH.

For Syfy, those look like good numbers, especially in the market of VoD and online streaming…  I fully expect Being Human to pull in solid numbers but I am going to wait and see what numbers we see for subsequent episodes of Lost Girl before committing, though I would not be surprised if the numbers take a dive.

Did you know that the executive producers of Being Human are Michael Prupas (The Kennedys), Jeremy Carver (Supernatural) and Anna Fricke (Men in Trees, Everwood) who are both writers/showrunners, Adam Kane (The Mentalist, Heroes), and Rob Pursey and Toby Whithouse.

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Surprised That Bobby (Jim Beaver) Was Killed Off in Supernatural?

by on January 12, 2012

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SUPERNATURAL, Jim Beaver

When Bobby Singer, played by Jim Beaver, was first shot in the head during an episode of Supernatural, I wasn’t too worried.  When he lay there in the hospital bed in a coma in a subsequent episode, I still wasn’t too worried.

I was wondering what exactly will happen and how they will deal with this life-altering moment with Bobby’s character in Supernatural.

And I wasn’t worried because in June of 2011, the news was that even though Jim Beaver wasn’t full-time on the show, that it worked out perfectly for him to be a part-time cast member/character.

Steven Williams as Rufus Turner and Jim Beaver as Bobby Singer in SUPERNATURAL

But the mid-season finale of Supernatural in December, with Bobby fighting off the Reaper was a very touching send off.

But…

And then “the lie” that fooled me!

Sera Gamble (Supernatural‘s showrunner) said that we will be seeing Bobby Singer in season 7 of Supernatural and called the character a fixture.  She even touched on enjoying his being part-time and about the possibility of his going full-time in future seasons.

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Courts Are Looking At Approving Profanity and “Nudity” on Television

by on January 11, 2012

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Brusimm Cinema Static TV NewsThough it may take six months to actually come to a conclusion, the U.S. Supreme Court is actually pondering the idea if censoring, to some degree, is even worth the effort in this day and age of cable TV and time-shifted viewing.

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The FCC is a powerful entity whose biggest, arch nemesis, Howard Stern, has been on Sirius XM satellite radio for the last few years… though Howard Stern is coming to America’s Got Talent.

But all joking aside, the FCC is becoming an antiquated entity with the rules it is enforcing and maybe the money spent there can be placed like say, into education programs so more teachers don’t lose their jobs?

Look, if the Nielsen Ratings org can adapt to streaming entertainment in their metrics, sooner or later the advertisers will embrace it more… seeing as how adverstisers spend nearly $10 billion per season on ads!

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Everyone behind the TV industry has been rather slow to adapt to what is evolving as far as watching TV goes, but if you think about it, TV is no longer about sitting down at 8pm to catch a TV show.  Today, “TV” is about when you’ll pull up your favorite show or on what device you might watch it.

Advertisers still base their funding decisions on live+7 TV ratings.  That’s counting who watches a TV show live, then they also take into account viewership for the next 7 days.  But like I noted, TV is no longer just, well, on TV any more.  It’s all over the place.   It’s on our phones, our computers, in our cars, it’s at the gas stations, at sporting venues and what not.

So when the Supreme Court starts pondering the idea of why worry about censoring time-shifted TV viewing, you know we’re starting to take a step in the modern era.

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Syfy TV News: Neverland; January Original Movies, Lost Girl Premiere Reminder

by on January 5, 2012

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Syfy channel LogoHere are some Syfy TV news bits from Neverland, Saturday Original Movies for January on the network and a Lost Girl series premiere reminder.

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Neverland

First thing’s first, and I was wondering how Neverland on Syfy fared in the TV ratings.  Neverland was the Peter Pan prequel from the same folks that brought you Alice and Tin Man.

Syfy sent out a press release touting the first part’s TV ratings.

For the first two-hour evening of Neverland that aired on Sunday, December 4th, 2011, during the 9-11PM slot, it pulled in 2.59 million total viewers.

They never released a follow-up, but I found that the 2nd 2-hour session of Neverland pulled in 2.094 million viewers (live/Same Day).  So it wasn’t as bad as I suspected.

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Cinema Static Divider - TV News, Movie News & Various Opinion

For the month of January, the two Saturday Original Movies airing on Syfy include Collision Earth and Swamp Volcano.

Collision Earth airs January 14th and stars Kirk Acevedo (Fringe) and Diane Farr (Californication).

In this epic TV movie,

{A solar flare knocks Mercury out of its orbit and onto a collision course with Earth. With global devastation quickly approaching, the secret military initiative, “Project 7,” must be activated to save the world from disaster.}

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Swamp Volcano airs January 28th 2012, is about oil!

{Oil rig drillers in the Gulf of Mexico accidentally hit an underground lava flow, causing a massive volcano to form in Miami. Now a volcanologist and her sister attempt to blow the whistle on an illegal oil drilling scheme before it sets off the eruption that will destroy civilization.}

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Cinema Static Weekend Edition: Star Trek’s John Billingsly Talks

by on December 11, 2011

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Cinema Static, TV and Movie News and Opinion

Today, I came across an insightful interview with John Billingsly.  Billingsly played Dr. Phlox on Star Trek: Enterprise.

In his interview with The Indianapolis Star, at first I felt like he was shooting his career in the foot, but by the end of the interview, I realized how insightful he was in his chat in the interview.

I thought it worthy to look at and review, hence, a quick write up.  And I’d like to preface the recap of his interview with one thought that was triggered by some things …

Movies and television are nothing more than a business.  No matter how much you love a show, a series or a movie, they are only made to make money for the studios.  As soon as the TV ratings drop below an acceptable level, it’s not longer a business venture worth investing in.  No matter if there are a few thousand fans that are devoted to a franchise, that’s not enough for an advertiser to support a show.  Hence why some smart and favorite shows go away.

With that said, let’s check out that interview with Star Trek‘s John Billingsly.

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A Theory Why Star Trek Enterprise Failed

When the prequel, Star Trek: Enterprise was canceled, apparently the actor who played D. Phlox, had an opinion on what happened.

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TV News: Ratings for a Friday , Grimm; The Loss of Legend: Andy Rooney

by on November 5, 2011

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Brusimm Cinema Static TV News-Andy Rooney passed away Friday, a mere one month after signing off with his last telecast on the 60 Minutes news broadcast.  Andy Rooney was 92 and died from complications from what’s called a minor surgery.

He was a cornerstone of wry wit, reflecting on trends and fads with that usual, “Why do we really need it” kind of perspective.  His observations left no stone unturned as he pondered being a pack-rat, hoarding celebrity autographs and the latest social trends on the internet.

He was always on the leading edge of what ever was happening and he was mostly always right for the thirty-three years that he spouted his observations WHY? on the air.

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So the after-Friday reports are coming out and without baseball going on, other shows benefited from that.  Or at least that’s how it’s being spun in some circles.

For Grimm fans (Check out my Grimm season premiere TV review), it’s numbers dropped, but still beat out the other genre show, Fringe.  (5.9 vs 3.3 million estimated viewers.)

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Syfy Channel Hits No 1 Spot in Cable Primetime TV Ratings How?

by on September 3, 2011

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The Syfy Channel hit a personal high with some TV ratings.  Their press release got me to thinking, or more accurately, waxing for the old days of when they were the Sci-Fi Channel.  Bear with me while I spell out the news while reflecting back on yesteryear of the Sci-Fi Channel, when it was a genre-fan friendly network.

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Syfy channel LogoAs any Syfy channel fan can attest to, things around the “inn” have changed.  Instead of the comfortable brick and mortar feel fans of old were accustomed to, the “inn” at the Syfy channel has been getting updated throughout.  It doesn’t even look the same on the outside either.

And such is my waxing on about the network.  For years, there was a core of fans that fell in love with what was then called The Sci-Fi Channel.  But the network, though it strove to offer fans of the genre what they wanted, needed to make changes to survive in the ever-changing world of television.

First they themselves said they changed their name because the old name made people think that all they had to offer was Star Trek and Star Wars.  The renaming was the first warning shot across the bow of the fans boat.

After that genre series stated getting cut and more fans were finding themselves left behind.  Series were shoved into the darkened corner of the TV week, Mondays and Tuesdays, and then the network had even more excuses to cut the sci-fi fare.

The cost to the old-school fans have been tremendous.  They’ve been left behind despite voicing their opinions valiantly, and yet, sometimes, no one can hear you scream in space.  The space or void that is known as the realm of TV ratings.  Fans are becoming victims of the narrow focus of the Nielsen families.

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Is Comcast To Blame for the ‘Eureka’ Cancellation?

by on August 10, 2011

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EurekaTV Fans everywhere are recovering from the news that Syfy has cancelled Eureka, the longest running scripted Syfy series on the air.   Being that among the genre fans, this show seemed to be the most popular show on Monday nights*, the cancellation report came as a shock to many.  And yet, with each new TV season, more core sci-fi/fantasy series seem to be getting shoved to Mondays and Fridays, then subsequently, getting the boot.

Though we’re in the midst of the 4th season of Eureka and we do have a 5th season coming, and now, with an extra episode added to next season so the writers can create a proper ending, the end is a wee bit off, but it is coming.

Fans reactions to the cancellation seem to be focused on the understandable frustration and angry aspect of losing one more TV fave from the tube and from this network in particular.  Many folks are threatening to cancel their cable packages/tiers that had the Syfy channel in it and using other colorful metaphors to describe how they feel about the network.

Before you tie Syfy to the stake and light the pyre, you should keep something in mind:  Syfy, whose parent network is NBC, is now owned by Comcast.  Yes, we now have to add the newest ingredient to the programming decision makers, Comcast.

I was reminded of this scenario when it was driven home when Eureka‘s co-exec producer Amy Berg (Eureka, Leverage, The 4400) used Twitter to make the following public note:

“Everyone is asking why. It’s simple, really.”

“We are the network’s golden child in every way, except profit margins. Fact is, #Eureka is an expensive show to make.”

“And we could not maintain the quality of our show with the cuts it would take to make us profitable for Syfy’s new parent company.”

“Our creative execs at Syfy fought hard to keep us. Trust me, they LOVE us. We just couldn’t make the numbers work.”

You don’t have to look between the lines to see that she notes that the cuts needed to renew the show to make it profitable for Syfy’s new parent company.  In other words, it looks like Syfy is being dragged even deeper into the business realm of return of investment, or the balancing out of cost vs investment.

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‘Eureka’ Has Been Canceled By NBC’s Syfy Channel

by on August 9, 2011

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Syfy TV Cancellation News

Foreboding news gang.  Despite the glowing news last week about how as far as Syfy is concerned, Eureka would go on forever, the tune has suddenly changed and Eureka has been canceled.

EUREKA -- "Glimpse" Episode 413 -- Pictured: Colin Ferguso

EUREKA -- "Glimpse" Episode 413 -- Pictured: Colin Ferguso

Instead of a 6th season already pre-ordered, EW is reporting that Syfy is ending Eureka when it concludes the 5th season.  What Eureka fans have left, will be the holiday episode and 12 regular episodes in 2012.  (Remember, Syfy’s parent network is NBC.  NBC is now run by Comcast.)

In hopes of keeping you around until the end, Syfy says the 12 eps of season 5 are some of the best they’ve seen.  The sales pitch isn’t necessary.  The core fan-base of Eureka fans will not only stick it out until the end, they’ll be letting the network know how they feel.

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Dover 2012 Discount Prices; NASCAR TV Ratings Uptick!

by on June 30, 2011

in nascar, sports

In this NASCAR news article, let’s take a look at some discounts that Dover International Speedway is making available to its customers for next year and we saw a nice bit on NASCAR’s TV ratings and a small tidbit on attendance numbers to boot!

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NASCAR News, Updates and Opinions

Early-Bird Dover Fans Look To Make out

Dover International Speedway is trying to entice you to save money by offering you discounted race tickets for the June 3rd 2012 Sprint Cup Series race.

The twist is this… normally, tickets range from $65 to $96.  But if you snag yourself some tickets before August 24th 2011, you can get a discount.  The discount of the tickets range from $5 to $39, depending on the location.  Frontstretch tickets will be discounted $5 while certain sections in the turns will see a $39 savings.

Even if you don’t snag tickets before August 24th, you still have through May 18th to save on turn tickets, which between 8/24 and 5/18, you can still save $10-$19.

There’s even more details on further ways to save money at the source link at Scene Daily:

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