NBC's Olympics coverage logs one final ratings win (AP) AP - It was seven more golden days for NBC last week, radiant with Olympics coverage that brought the sort of ratings victory a network dreams of. Publ.Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:06:40 GMT Source: Yahoo.com
TiVo tying up with Entertainment Weekly: report (Reuters) Reuters - Digital video recorder maker TiVo Inc is set to enter into an agreement with Time Warner's Entertainment Weekly that will allow its users to automatically record shows suggested by the magazine's staff, the Wall Street Journal said. Publ.Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:40:05 GMT Source: Yahoo.com
TV Tidbits: Notes of Interest (Mediaweek.com) Mediaweek.com - Effective today at 2 p.m. ET, the Warner Bros. Television Group will officially launch TheWB.com, a video-on-demand destination for encore episodes of Angel, Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, Babylon 5, Everwood, Firefly, Friends, Gilmore Girls, In Living Color, The Loop, MADtv, The O.C., One Tree Hill, Roswell, Smallville and Veronica Mars. Publ.Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:34:09 GMT Source: Yahoo.com
Ratings Box: What's Hot/What's Not (Mediaweek.com) Mediaweek.com - The second season-premiere of ABC Family drama Greek on Tuesday, Aug. 26 rose to a series-high performance in total viewers (1.6 million), persons 12-34 (1.2 million) and females 12-34 (841,000). Comparably, that finished second in the 9 p.m. hour among all basic cable in the three categories, with growth over its debut (on July 9, 2007) of 500,000 viewers and as much as 134 percent among women 18-34. Lead-in The Secret Life of an American Teenager also soared, finishing first for the day on all of cable in adults 18-34 (1.2 million), women 18-34 (815,000) and women 18-49 (1.2 million). Publ.Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:27:14 GMT Source: Yahoo.com
'Thunder' pulls in $16.3M, holds off 'House Bunny' (AP) AP - The action comedy "Tropic Thunder" clung to the top spot again at the weekend box office with $16.3 million, while the campus romp "The House Bunny" debuted in second place with $14.5 million. Publ.Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:25:21 GMT Source: Yahoo.com