Love this show. ABC’s Shark Tank can be cruel, yes, but the series turns everyday people into success stories quicker than any series on TV. Based on the also-great UK hit Dragon’s Den, Shark Tank takes starry-eyed entrepreneurs and gives them a cold dose of business reality. You’re not rewarded for voting people off the island, wooing a bachelor, or kissing up to Donald Trump, but on whether your ideas could actually survive in the real world. And for season two, there are celebrity guest Sharks (Jeff Foxworthy, Mark Cuban). Here’s an exclusive first look at the March 25 return of the Tank:
Archive: February 2011 (235-247 of 302)
Feb 7
2011
02:31 PM ET
Feb 7
2011
01:23 PM ET
'Glee' Super Bowl ratings are in! Biggest scripted TV telecast in three years, but...
Image Credit: Michael Yarish/Fox
Did Glee score a ratings touchdown after the big game?
Depends how you look at the numbers.
Despite plenty of promotion and that sports-fan-friendly opening performance to “California Gurls,” Glee was down 31 percent from Undercover Boss, which CBS premiered after last year’s game.
Glee was seen by 26.8 million viewers and had an 11.1 adults 18-49 rating. This ranks as the highest-rated Glee episode ever (which you probably figured) and is the top-rated scripted telecast of any TV show in three years (which is rather great). It’s about double the number of the show’s Madonna episode, for instance. Though Glee just barely edged out the previous scripted show to follow the Super Bowl, NBC’s The Office, two years ago. (Read Ken Tucker and Breia Brissey’s recaps of the episode here and here.) READ FULL STORY »
Feb 7
2011
12:45 PM ET
Super Bowl ad survey: Volkswagen best, Go Daddy among worst
The Force was definitely with Volkswagen for its brilliant Super Bowl ad. According to a survey by Hulu, the charming commercial showing a kid trying to force-push objects around his home, ranked “Most Liked” by viewers. The worst: Salesforce’s two ads for Chatter.com, along with Go Daddy’s ad featuring Joan Rivers.
Below is the full ranking of winners and losers (and you can watch all of them here): READ FULL STORY »
Feb 7
2011
10:51 AM ET
Sherri Shepherd to host gospel music awards
Sherri Shepherd will host the 42nd annual Dove Awards, which recognize and celebrate achievement in Christian music. Shepherd, who already co-hosts The View, is also the host of The Newlywed Game and a frequent guest-star on 30 Rock.
The Dove Awards will be held on April 20 in Atlanta and will air on the Gospel Music Channel April 24. [AP]
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Sherri Shepherd is engaged
Feb 7
2011
10:09 AM ET
Super Bowl most-watched program in TV history
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Super Bowl XLV was the most-watched telecast in TV history, delivering 111 million viewers.
For the fourth year in a row, the big game broke viewership records, climbing 5 percent from last year’s previous high. (Glee ratings are in; see them here). By comparison, the season finale of MASH drew 106. million.
The Super Bowl audience has climbed every year since 2005, peaking last year at 106 million viewers and a 38.6 adults 18-49 rating. Last night’s 47.9 metered market household rating — which gives you a sense of the percentage of viewers that tuned in — is 3 percent higher than last year’s overnight number. Updates to come, refresh for latest… READ FULL STORY »
Feb 7
2011
08:47 AM ET
'X Factor' hopefuls competing for $5 million prize
Image Credit: Ian Derry/FoxThere will be at least 5 million reasons to watch Simon Cowell’s X Factor when it premieres next fall. The singing-competition show has announced that the winner of this season’s contest will win a $5 million record deal with Cowell’s joint venture with Sony Music. Auditions are open to any aspiring superstar 12-years or older and will begin March 27 in Los Angeles, with Chicago, Dallas, Miami, New York/New Jersey and Seattle also set to host auditions. READ FULL STORY »
Feb 6
2011
10:12 PM ET
'Terra Nova' Super Bowl trailer
Fox gave Super Bowl viewers this first look at its upcoming Steven Spielberg-produced action-adventure-dinotastic drama series Terra Nova (here’s our take on the extended trailer the network showed critics in January). It’s a big primetime bet that the network will launch with a two-night preview in May, with the rest of the season picking up in the fall. The fierce dino at the end, I believe, is a Carnotaurus … or is it an Avatarasaurus? Here’s the trailer: READ FULL STORY »
Feb 6
2011
09:07 PM ET
Promo for 'The X Factor': Simon Cowell, broken man?
Is Fox picking up the pieces and starting over with Simon Cowell? The promo for the U.S. premiere of The X-Factor seems to indicate that. The network made an interesting choice of images to tease the fall berth of Cowell’s next talent show, along with the words “He’s Back.” View the whole spot here: READ FULL STORY »
Feb 5
2011
11:30 PM ET
'Mad Men,' 'Modern Family' pick up WGA Awards
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Mad Men and Modern Family were big winners at the Writers Guild of America Awards tonight — the two series picked up trophies for Drama and Comedy Series categories, respectively. Mad Men also picked up an award for its “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword” episode. (No doubt this acclaim only reminds Mad Men fans how relieved we are that a season 5 will air on AMC.) 30 Rock won in the TV Episodic Comedy category with “When It Rains, It Pours.” READ FULL STORY »
Feb 5
2011
07:23 PM ET
Anderson Cooper leaves Egypt
Image Credit: CNN More than a week after demonstrations began in Egypt protesting President Hosni Mubarak, Anderson Cooper has decided to leave the country. Like many U.S. journalists covering the demonstrations, Cooper had been attacked during his stay. “It is with a heavy heart that I have decided to leave Egypt,” Cooper wrote on his Twitter page. “CNN continues to have many teams in place. It was a hard decision to leave.” Katie Couric and Brian Williams left the country Friday; at the time, Cooper was steadfast in his desire to remain: He tweeted Friday, “Not sure where we can broadcast from, but we will find a way.”
Read more:
Katie Couric and Brian Williams leave Egypt, Anderson Cooper stays in an undisclosed location
The Egypt revolt: Why are we so shocked by journalists getting beaten up?
Anderson Cooper ‘punched and kicked’ by Mubarak supporters: VIDEO
Egypt demonstrations: How CNN is handling the attacks on journalists
Feb 5
2011
06:05 PM ET
Amanda Knox's lawyers try to stop Lifetime adaptation
Amanda Knox and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito’s lawyers are attempting to halt Lifetime’s airing of Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy, a TV movie chronicling Knox and Sollecito’s supposed involvement in the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher. According to the Associated Press, attorneys for both Knox and Sollecito — who are serving time in Italy after being found guilty of Kercher’s murder — are threatening to go to U.S. court if Lifetime airs the Feb. 21 film and keeps its trailer on the network’s website. Amanda Knox stars Hayden Panettiere as the title character; both Knox and Sollecito still maintain their innocence. Lifetime is not commenting on the matter.
Read more:
Hayden Panettiere cast as Amanda Knox in Lifetime TV movie
Feb 5
2011
11:20 AM ET
'Smallville,' 'Supernatural' return, 'Fringe' dips
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They’re back: The CW’s Smallville and Supernatural returned Friday night, the latter facing Fox’s Fringe.
Smallville (2.4 million, 1.0 preliminary adults 18-49 rating) and Supernatural (2.3 million, 1.0) both matched their last original ratings from Dec. 10. But Fringe (4.3 million, 1.6) dipped 16 percent from the 1.9 rating its averaged the last couple weeks. Details below… READ FULL STORY »
Feb 4
2011
10:32 PM ET
Rob Schneider to headline CBS comedy pilot
Deuce Bigalow, er, Rob Schneider will headline a sitcom pilot just ordered by CBS. The untitled laugher from Lew Morton (Futurama) will feature Schneider – last seen in Grown Ups - as a confirmed bachelor who marries into a tight-knit Mexican-American family. Schneider also helped to write the pilot that’s executive produced by Eric and Kim Tannenbaum.
CBS also picked up another comedy pilot on Friday called Homeground, which focuses on four generations of a blue-collar midwestern family living under the same roof. It’s from writers Jackie Filgo and Jeff Filgo (The New Adventures of Old Christine).
Fall 2011-12 development: Will reboots of Wonder Woman and Charlie’s Angels become great hits?
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