TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2010
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V industry suits have chewed their fingernails to the nub trying to figure out
what you’re watching, and let’s face it: You are not making it any easier. These days, they can’t wake up
and find out, but have to endure weeks of anticipatory frothing to receive Premiere Week’s so-called Live-Plus-7 numbers. That’s the number of people
who watch an episode when it airs in its time slot, like God intended, or as much as a week later via DVR. At some point the TV industry got together with Nielsen and decided that people who have not watched a TV series episode within seven days of recording it are probably not going to watch it. Do not ask me to explain this. There are some things about the TV industry you just have to accept, just cuz. Anyway, NBC went ahead and ordered a special Live-Plus-3— get it? halfsies! — tally from Nielsen and, even though it was for network eyes only, somehow some reporter got his hands on the fact that NBC’s “The Event,” which airs in a competitive Monday time slot against such shows as “Dancing With the Stars” and “Monday Night Football” and “Two and a Half Men,” was the new series with the biggest gain in what has already been dubbed by the biz as “the L3.” (Easier to tweet!) Except, of course, that’s only among 18-to-49-year-olds, because, though you know we don’t like to dwell on painful subjects, the rest of you — all you 16-year-olds, 17-year-olds, 10-year-olds, not to mention all
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Delayed reaction: Here’s looking at you, CBS
under 11 million. No denying this is good news for the struggling network. But the most
watched-within-three-days program of the new season: CBS’s returning “The
Mentalist,” adding nearly 3 million pairs of eyeballs to its debut-day audience of 15.5 million.
And, so you don’t stay up tonight wondering: Neither Fox’s “Lone Star” nor ABC’s “My Generation” — the season’s first two cancellations — would have been saved by these stats. “Lone Star’s” premiere only gains about 760,000 viewers, and “My Generation,” a measly 370,000, according to the L3 — nowhere near enough to save either show.
MARIO PEREZ/CBS HIGH FIVE:CBS’s “Hawaii Five-0” scored big gains in DVR ratings, with 2.4 million new viewers.
THE TV COLUMN Lisa de Moraes
you 50-year-old and ups — you people just don’t count in NBC World. Because NBC, and many other networks, are really not programming to you — they are programming to advertisers. Among what we like to call
“All of the People in the Country,” the most DVR’d new show over the first three days of
the TV season was: CBS’s “Hawaii Five-O.” The dusted-off, iconic cop drama added a full 2.4 million more viewers to its debut-day audience of 14 million. First runner-up: CBS’s how-did-Tom Selleck-get-so-old cop drama “Blue Bloods,” which added nearly 1.9 million viewers to its debut-day crowd of 13 mil. Next, NBC’s
aliens-are-among-us drama “The Event” added 1.84 million.
“A combination of our choice and viewers’
choice.” — General Manager Allan Horlick, on WUSA’s new anchor
Which brings its total audience for the first episode up to nearly 13 million viewers, whereas, on its debut day, it had clocked just
But ABC’s “The Whole Truth,” which, by all accounts, is next in line to be tossed on the tumbrel, added nearly 860,000 viewers. That may actually give ABC some reason to reflect.
newscast. And, 4:30 a.m., you know, is the new 11 p.m. when it comes to local-news war games. Hydeck and Roane will be the
station’s team through 7 a.m. every weekday, joining meteorologist Howard Bernstein and traffic reporter Angie Goff on the “9 News Now” crack-of-dawn team. Hydeck left his Hartford
station, WFSB, a couple of weeks ago, and the buzz in the Hartford Courant was that Hydeck had not renewed his contract and was being “sought out by a couple of other local stations” in that market, which is the country’s No. 30-ranked TV zone. But, word at that time was that Hydeck appeared to be headed for an anchor job here in the DMV, the Courant said. That’s a big step up for Hydeck, since Washington ranks No. 9 in the country. The search for
Mike Hydeck
New anchor at WUSA WUSA General Manager Allan
Horlick confirmed that he’s hired CBS station morning co-anchorMike Hydeck of Hartford, Conn., to join Andrea Roane as co-anchor of WUSA’s morning news shows. Hydeck started at the
Gannett-owned CBS station this week, but won’t debut on-air until Oct. 18. He’ll be seen with local TV vet Roane on weekdays in the very competitive 4:30 a.m.
Roane’s new co-anchor has been going on for a
virtual eternity in TV-industry years. Horlick told the TV Column it was “the most intensive search” he’s ever conducted at the station. “We auditioned maybe 10
finalists, and then did substantive focus groups [made up] of people who were morning-news viewers, and narrowed it down to a couple of finalists,” Horlick said. “Mike prevailed as a combination of our choice and viewers’ choice.”
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HIGHLIGHTS Just in time for the baseball
playoffs, “30 for 30” (ESPN at 8 p.m.) features “Four Days in October,” which relives Boston Red Sox glory when they crawled out of a three-game hole to beat the Yankees for a World Series spot during the American League Championship Series in 2004. How does “Glee” (Fox at 8) tackle the all-encompassing subject of religion? Finn sees the face of Jesus in a grilled cheese sandwich, of course! Plus, the kids get philosophical about beliefs when Kurt starts to question his own. The contestants on “The
Biggest Loser” (NBC at 8) try to keep up with tennis star Anna Kournikova during a workout session; later, one player causes drama after sharing a confession with the house. Although Paige accidentally burned down Baze’s bar and stole money to pay for the damage, Baze still encourages his buddy Math to ask her out on “Life Unexpected” (CW at 9). What a pal. Backstreet’s back, all right.
“Don’t Forget the Lyrics!” (MyNetworkTV at 9) features the boy-band members (Nick Carter, Brian Littrell, AJMcLean and Howie Dorough) competing as they try to win money for charity. Shoppers on Rodeo Drive get quite a scare when a Marine is found dead in a Beverly Hills parking lot on “NCIS: Los Angeles” (CBS at 9), and the team works to solve the man’s murder. Jenni’s job is on the line when
Jeff blames her for his missing planner on “Flipping Out” (Bravo at 9). While she’s out searching for it, Jeff frightens an intern with extremely high expectations for his job.
Virginia has been keeping a
secret on “Raising Hope” (Fox at 9): She’s a hoarder. Unfortunately, her favorite storage space happens to be the shed, where Hope loves to crawl and get lost in the junk. “POV” (WETA and MPT at 9)
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“POV”: Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon in “The Most Dangerous Man in America.”
wraps up Season 23 with the documentary “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers,” which looks at the reasons behind Ellsberg’s actions to leak Vietnam War information from the Pentagon. Now rivals, Cary and Alicia go head-to-head on “The Good Wife” (CBS at 10) when an Army Reservist is put on trial for allegedly killing his wife; and on a completely random note, TV/radio host Lou Dobbs guest-stars. New series “House of Glam”
(Oxygen at 11) chronicles life at an image agency, B. Lynn Group, which tasks teams of hair, makeup and wardrobe stylists to make celebs look flawless. Oh, and don’t worry — there’s plenty of drama to go around with the competing stylists. Former British prime minister
Tony Blair stops by “Late Show With David Letterman” (CBS at 11:35), along with musical guests Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy. “The Tonight Show With Jay
Leno” (NBC at 11:35) hosts actor Terrence Howard, fitness expert Jillian Michaels and singer K.T. Tunstall.
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Sundance to launch international program for indie filmmakers
by Jacqueline Trescott The U.S. federal cultural agen-
cies have selected the Sundance Institute to launch an interna- tional cross-cultural program for independent filmmakers. The project, called “Film For- ward: Advancing Cultural Dia- logue,” was announced Monday and initially plans to send 10 con- temporary films made by Amer- ican and foreign artists to loca- tions in the States and abroad. “We thought it was a great op-
portunity for Sundance, which has been promoting the inde- pendent film sector, to increase our international relationships. We have a number of overseas partnerships. And we want to reach out to underserved com- munities in the U.S. and abroad that don’t get to see many inde- pendent films,” said Keri Put- nam, Sundance executive direc- tor. The initiative was organized by
the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, a pan- institution advisory group to the
White House, and is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endow- ment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Each agency will under- write the initiative with separate grants of $160,000. Sundance will contribute $200,000. Previously, the president’s committee had a four-year part- nership with the American Film Institute that showcased the work of 42 filmmakers in a simi- lar exchange program. After the project expired, the NEA’s media
arts panel considered 11 appli- cants and chose Sundance. “With Sundance’s interna- tional programs, it gave us a wid- er net,” said Margo Lion, the suc- cessful Broadway producer and co-chairman of the president’s committee. “The purpose is to have quality films that have the added value of speaking to our common humanity.” At this point, the films have not been selected, Putnam said. But both documentary and nar- rative approaches will be includ- ed in the mix.
“We are looking for recent
films that can connect us across differences,” she said. Each venue will select what to screen from the 10 films, creating a custom- ized mini-festival with auxiliary activities. Besides the screenings, several filmmakers will appear at each event and hold discussion groups and master classes. The details of the year-long ef-
fort will be announced in New York in December. All of the films will be screened in the spring at the Smithsonian Institution. Sundance, a nonprofit organi-
zation that promotes cinematic storytelling, was founded by ac- tor Robert Redford in 1981 with an initial grant from the NEA. The institute has become a worldwide organization, with a 10-day film festival in Park City, Utah. International artists represent 30 percent of all artists support- ed by the festival and the in- stitute’s other programs. The State Department and Library of Congress are partners in these ef- forts.
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