Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Anna and J.J. Abrams to present at WGA Awards
Spotlighting the creative collaboration between writers and other artists in the entertainment industry, a wide array of Hollywood talent is set to present honors at this year’s Writers Guild Awards L.A. show Saturday, February 5, at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel-Grand Ballroom. The West Coast WGA ceremony will feature writers, actors, and directors who’ve worked together to create memorable films, television shows, videogames, new media, and other written programs.
Awards presenter pairs include: author Mitch Albom and Emmy-winning actor Hank Azaria (Tuesdays with Morrie), Academy Award-winning screenwriter Mark Boal and Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), WGA-winning writer-director Morgan Spurlock and WGA-nominated writer Jeremy Chilnick (The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special: In 3-D! On Ice!), Emmy-winning writer-executive producer Greg Daniels and Emmy-nominated actress Amy Poehler (Parks & Recreation), Emmy-winning actress Catherine O’Hara and Emmy-winning actor Martin Short (SCTV), actress Anna Torv and Emmy-winning writer-director-producer J.J. Abrams (Fringe), Emmy-winning writer-producer Al Jean and actor Dan Castellaneta (The Simpsons), actress Mayim Bialik (The Big Bang Theory, Blossom) and Emmy-nominated writer-producer Don Reo (’Til Death), and Daytime Emmy-winning As the World Turns star Eileen Fulton, who appeared on the long-running daytime drama for over 50 years, and Daytime Emmy-winning ATWT director-executive producer Christopher Goutman.
The 2011 Writers Guild Awards will be held on Saturday, February 5, 2011, simultaneously at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel-Grand Ballroom in Los Angeles and the AXA Equitable Center in New York City. For more information about the 2011 Writers Guild Awards, please visit http://www.wga.org/ or http://www.wgaeast.org/.
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Awards presenter pairs include: author Mitch Albom and Emmy-winning actor Hank Azaria (Tuesdays with Morrie), Academy Award-winning screenwriter Mark Boal and Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), WGA-winning writer-director Morgan Spurlock and WGA-nominated writer Jeremy Chilnick (The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special: In 3-D! On Ice!), Emmy-winning writer-executive producer Greg Daniels and Emmy-nominated actress Amy Poehler (Parks & Recreation), Emmy-winning actress Catherine O’Hara and Emmy-winning actor Martin Short (SCTV), actress Anna Torv and Emmy-winning writer-director-producer J.J. Abrams (Fringe), Emmy-winning writer-producer Al Jean and actor Dan Castellaneta (The Simpsons), actress Mayim Bialik (The Big Bang Theory, Blossom) and Emmy-nominated writer-producer Don Reo (’Til Death), and Daytime Emmy-winning As the World Turns star Eileen Fulton, who appeared on the long-running daytime drama for over 50 years, and Daytime Emmy-winning ATWT director-executive producer Christopher Goutman.
The 2011 Writers Guild Awards will be held on Saturday, February 5, 2011, simultaneously at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel-Grand Ballroom in Los Angeles and the AXA Equitable Center in New York City. For more information about the 2011 Writers Guild Awards, please visit http://www.wga.org/ or http://www.wgaeast.org/.
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Has ‘Fringe’ Broken the Friday Night Curse?
Moving “Fringe” to Fridays has been fortunate for Fox.
“Fringe” helped the network take first place last Friday night in the young demographic networks and advertisers love to reach. The J.J. Abrams-produced sci-fi series was the night’s top show in the 18-49 age group with a 1.9 rating. Fox’s average for the evening was aided by “Kitchen Nightmares” leading off the night at 8/7c with a 1.7 rating in the demo.
“Fringe” – starring Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson and John Noble – also did pretty well in total viewers, attracting 4.53 million, which is a fine number for the Fox series. However, CBS won the night in the total viewer count with an average audience of 7.7 million for repeat episodes of “NCIS: Los Angeles,” “CSI: New York” and “Hawaii Five-0.”
“‘Fringe’ may have received some help from its competitors,” noted an analysis of the Friday night numbers in The Hollywood Reporter. “The CW decided to push the returns of “Smallville” and “Supernatural” back one week.” New episodes of both shows are scheduled for this Friday at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. (7c and 8c). Last Friday, CW aired repeats of “Vampire Diaries” and “Nikita.”
Separately, another THR story noted that “Fringe” is also doing well in DVR playback, realizing additional audience gains of 42 percent over its time-slot rating. (The DVR numbers are for the “Fringe” episode that aired a week earlier, on Jan. 21.)
There had been some speculation about how the cult series, which recently returned from hiatus in a new time slot, would perform on Fridays. Known as the “Fox Graveyard,” Fridays have been a sore spot for the network, who’s had a string of failures on that night in recent years (see “Dollhouse,” “Terminator,” and even Jessica Alba’s “Dark Angel”), but it looks like “Fringe” followers are transporting that “jinx” off to a parallel universe.
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“Fringe” helped the network take first place last Friday night in the young demographic networks and advertisers love to reach. The J.J. Abrams-produced sci-fi series was the night’s top show in the 18-49 age group with a 1.9 rating. Fox’s average for the evening was aided by “Kitchen Nightmares” leading off the night at 8/7c with a 1.7 rating in the demo.
“Fringe” – starring Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson and John Noble – also did pretty well in total viewers, attracting 4.53 million, which is a fine number for the Fox series. However, CBS won the night in the total viewer count with an average audience of 7.7 million for repeat episodes of “NCIS: Los Angeles,” “CSI: New York” and “Hawaii Five-0.”
“‘Fringe’ may have received some help from its competitors,” noted an analysis of the Friday night numbers in The Hollywood Reporter. “The CW decided to push the returns of “Smallville” and “Supernatural” back one week.” New episodes of both shows are scheduled for this Friday at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. (7c and 8c). Last Friday, CW aired repeats of “Vampire Diaries” and “Nikita.”
Separately, another THR story noted that “Fringe” is also doing well in DVR playback, realizing additional audience gains of 42 percent over its time-slot rating. (The DVR numbers are for the “Fringe” episode that aired a week earlier, on Jan. 21.)
There had been some speculation about how the cult series, which recently returned from hiatus in a new time slot, would perform on Fridays. Known as the “Fox Graveyard,” Fridays have been a sore spot for the network, who’s had a string of failures on that night in recent years (see “Dollhouse,” “Terminator,” and even Jessica Alba’s “Dark Angel”), but it looks like “Fringe” followers are transporting that “jinx” off to a parallel universe.
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