TV ratings: 'About A Boy' rises, 'Supernatural' surges |
NBC's new comedy "About A Boy" rose week-to-week in the ratings, even with a diminished showing from its big lead-in, "The Voice."
According to early numbers from Nielsen, "About A Boy" earned a rating of 1.9 among key 18-to-49-year-old viewers, up 6% from the last episode, marking the second week in a row that the show has grown.
Singing contest "The Voice," Tuesday night's highest-rated show, fell 10% to a 2.7, its lowest ever, not counting specials. "Growing Up Fisher" was flat at a 1.5. NBC was the top network, turning in an average of 1.8 in the 18-49 demographic, where a ratings point...
Aereo tries to make case to Supreme Court. HBO sells to Amazon |
After the coffee. Before analyzing the Redskins' 2014 schedule.
The Skinny: Sorry we are a little late today. Had to jump on the HBO/Amazon story and make sure that was in our roundup. Other stories include recaps of Aereo's big day at the Supreme Court and Comcast and Charter are trying to work on a deal to swap and sell some cable systems.
Daily Dose: The NFL will unveil its fall schedule this evening. Things to watch for will be what games CBS gets for its new Thursday package. When all the Thursday night games were on the NFL Network, the matchups were not always the most exciting. The...
HBO sells reruns of hit shows to Amazon's Prime Instant Video |
HBO has cut a deal to sell reruns of many of its hit shows to Amazon.com Inc.'s Prime Instant Video platform.
Among the programs that will be made available on Amazon's Prime Instant Video streaming service are "The Sopranos," "Six Feet Under," "The Wire," "Girls" and "Veep." The agreement also covers HBO's miniseries including "Band of Brothers" and original movies such as "Game Change."
As part of the pact, HBO's online streaming service HBO Go will also be available on Amazon's new Fire TV settop box the end of the year. HBO shows will be available on Prime Instant starting May 21. Terms...
Eastwood starts shooting 'American Sniper' at Santa Clarita ranch |
Clint Eastwood's latest movie, "American Sniper," kicked off with a bang in Los Angeles County this week.
The Warner Bros. film, which stars Bradley Cooper as a Navy SEAL who recounts his military exploits, began 10 days of filming Monday in an Afghan village set at the Blue Cloud Movie Ranch in the Santa Clarita area.
The scenes involved "simulated warfare sequences with full load automatic gunfire, explosions, squibs, bullet hits, smoke, burning debris," according to a county film permit.
The movie is the latest in a flurry of feature films with small to mid-size budgets shooting in L.A....
NBC turnaround and Winter Olympics help lift Comcast earnings |
The NBC broadcast network, after trailing in the ratings for nearly a decade, could finish the TV season in first place among viewers prized by advertisers.
Comcast Corp. executives Tuesday lauded the peacock network's performance, which helped power the Philadelphia cable giant's earnings for the quarter ended March 31.
This season, NBC has increased its prime-time audience among viewers ages 18 to 49 — the audience that advertisers pay a premium to reach. "The Blacklist" with James Spader and the singing competition show "The Voice" have been reliable performers.
Comcast also declared...
Universal's longtime distribution chief Nikki Rocco to retire |
Nikki Rocco, the veteran head of domestic distribution at Universal Pictures, will retire at the end of this year, she said Tuesday.
Rocco, the first woman to become president of a major studio’s distribution operations, has worked for the studio for nearly five decades.
Rocco, 64, first joined Universal Pictures as a paid intern in 1967 while she was a high-school senior, after which she was hired to work in the company's New York office. She has been Universal's head of domestic distribution since 1996.
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Comcast pushes back on Netflix; touts benefits of TW Cable deal |
Netflix has emerged as one of the biggest foes of Comcast's proposed merger with Time Warner Cable.
Despite a recent agreement in which the digital programmer agreed to pay the cable and broadband giant for a direct connection to its 20 million high-speed Internet customers to improve the speeds and quality of its video streams, the two companies are publicly trading shots at each other.
On Monday, Netflix said it was opposed to Comcast acquiring Time Warner Cable, a deal that would give Comcast an estimated 40% share of the U.S. broadband market. It would also make the company the biggest...
Analysts cheer Netflix price-hike plans; stock rises |
Here's one group that's happy about Netflix's planned price hikes: Wall Street.
The video giant said Monday it will soon raise prices for new customers of its streaming service by $1 or $2 a month as it bets its growing slate of original content will continue to draw subscribers. Existing customers will continue to pay current prices for a time.
Wall Street analysts praised the coming hikes as a way to drive profitability as Netflix continues to spend on new content -- including originals such as "Orange Is the New Black" and "House of Cards" -- and deals to ensure video quality.
"Price...
NBC turnaround, Olympics, Jimmy Fallon help lift Comcast earnings |
The NBC network is beleaguered no more.
After nearly a decade in the ratings cellar, NBC is poised to finish the prime-time TV season in May in first place in the coveted advertising demographic of viewers aged 18 to 49.
February's coverage of the Winter Olympics from Sochi, Russia, generated strong viewership and $1.1 billion in revenue, Comcast executives said in announcing the Philadelphia-based company's first-quarter earnings, which exceeded analyst expectations.
"Any way you look at the Olympics, it was a tremendous success," Comcast Corp. Chief Executive Brian Roberts told Wall Street...
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