Monday, October 13, 2008

News Brief

DANCING WITH THE STARS Update: Lucci at her best
Judge Len Goodman said ALL MY CHILDREN star Susan Lucci did her "your best dance so far" on the show.

Carrie Ann said, "You were staring me down and you brought it. When we call dance moving art, that’s what we mean."

Bruno added, "I always knew under that polished appearance there was a tough broad and you showed it tonight."

SARA A. BIBEL: How About A Flash Forward?
"ABC’s new primetime show LIFE ON MARS, about a police officer who wakes up in the 1970s after getting injured, inspired me. Almost every daytime soap could benefit from a little time travel back to the moment where it nuked the fridge. With the benefit of hindsight, storylines that did irrevocable damage to the show could be reversed."

More SARA A. BIBEL: ATWT Listens To Its Fans – Has Hell Frozen Over?
"Last week something happened that illustrated everything that’s both right and wrong with ATWT. AS THE WORLD TURNS promoted Luke and Noah’s reunion with advertisements showing the two of them sitting on a bench. Daytime’s most passionate, tech savvy fan base analyzed the promos like they were the Zapruder film. When the October 1 episode aired, they noticed that there weren’t any scenes of Luke and Noah on the bench and e-mailed the show to complain that a scene of their favorite couple ended up on the cutting room floor. The show with the executive producer that told fans not to bother writing in actually listened and posted the deleted scene on their website, astheworldturns.net. This was a wonderful, fan friendly gesture on the show’s part. I hope it starts a trend."

GREG HERNANDEZ: The Luke and Noah plot finally thickens
"AS THE WORLD TURNS is worth keeping an eye on again for Luke and Noah fans. Today's episode featured decent plot developments and some above average material for Van Hansis and Jake Silbermann to sink their teeth into. Hansis is a wonderful actor, seems so natural and real in all that he does. Episodes like this show that these actors deserve more screen time and are far more effective in believable situations like battling discrimination on their college campus than the off-the-wall stuff like Noah marrying an Iranian girl or deciding to join the Navy."

Joost relaunching TV site as online shows abound
Forget about the boob tube. Places to watch TV on the Internet are proliferating, from NBC Universal and News Corp.'s Hulu to Joost -- a site that plans to relaunch Tuesday to make it a more interactive experience.

Joost's relaunch, which will let users watch shows like GUIDING LIGHT or THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL directly on the Web, comes as YouTube also is beginning to offer full-length, commercial-supported television shows in addition to the shorter clips it's best known for.

Previously, Joost users had to download the site's free software to be able to watch its programming, but the step was cumbersome. Now the company is scrapping its original setup in favor of Flash video, which has long been used by Hulu, YouTube and other sites.

Delayed viewing gives networks a bump
Networks worried about declining ratings can take some comfort in the growing DVR crowd.

In the first set of delayed-viewing numbers from the new season, out Monday, the four major broadcast networks collectively added an average of nearly 3 million viewers who watched shows from one to seven days after their original airing.

In all, 16 prime-time series on the four major networks gained 1 million or more viewers. But the gains are particularly startling for some shows: In the official premiere week of the new TV season, they reflect a 7% boost for ABC's DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES and a 20% jump for Fox's FRINGE. Among other top gainers, HEROES and HOUSE rose about 18%, and THE OFFICE was up 16% compared with same-day viewing levels. CW's 90210 also saw a big 19.5% gain, but the show's comparatively small audience meant it added fewer than 600,000 viewers.

ABC's GREY'S ANATOMY averaged 16.9 million "live" viewers, adding 1.7 million who saw it later that Thursday and 2.6 million who waited up to seven days to watch the season premiere, the biggest seven-day lift for any series. That 14% gain is up from 10% for last season's first episode.

The impact is sharpest among adults in their 30s, the most-frequent DVR users, and for serialized dramas. Sports, news, reality shows and sitcoms get the smallest bumps. There's virtually no delayed viewing for college or NFL football.

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