Category Archives: Spring 2016

Shades of Blue: Post #3

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NBC’s Shades of Blue is taking on another season:

Variety reported this week that NBC picked up Shades of Blue for a second season. The show’s ratings have decreased slightly week-by-week, but they still show promise because of the star power of Jennifer Lopez.. This past week the show got a 1.09 rating with about 5.4 million viewers.  Lopez has such star power that overall she is carrying the show and it has still been successful for NBC.

Thursday night at 10:00 can be a tough program slot, but Variety also reported that Shades of Blue gave NBC “it’s first Thursday-at-10 wins with in-season regular programming over original competition on ABC and CBS since March 2010 in the demo and since March 2008 in total viewers.”

The number of episodes for season two was not announced, but due to Lopez’s star power season one (13 episodes) went straight-to-series. Variety reported that since Lopez has such a busy schedule it is likely that the second season will also be short.

Shades of Blue twitter following update: 16.9K followers

ABC’s Of Kings and Prophets – Post 1

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Of Kings and Prophets is a new ABC biblical saga premiering Tuesday March 8th at 10:00 pm. The show’s plot is based on the Old Testament story of Saul, the first king of the Israelites dating from 1000 B.C. It is prophesized by Samuel that God wants Saul to destroy an ancient Israeli army in order for him to keep his throne. With his refusal, Samuel then prophesizes that Saul will lose his power and it will be given to another: David the shepherd (from the story of David and Goliath). The show stars Ray Winstone as King Saul, Olly Rix as David, and Mohammad Kari as the prophet Samuel.

With this show being based on characters from the Bible, it was only right for two of the executive producers to be Bill Collage and Adam Cooper who are also the creators of the show. They were also the writers and executive producers of the recent biblical film Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) which told the story of Moses starring Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton. Other executive producers include Chris Brancato, Jason Reed, Reza Aslan, and Mahyad Tousi.

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As far as promotion goes, there is a dramatic trailer that is available on ABC.com along with a blog post from November 2015 by Aaron Welsh. There are also many promotional videos that includes cast videos, behind the scene looks, and 30 second clips of episodes. The cast is full of new faces so having detailed videos available is important for potential viewers and fans. It allows them to do a bit of research and gain a connection with the type of actors they will be watching.There is a Twitter page with only 962 followers but executive producers Collage and Tousi have been tweeting heavily about the show with a combination of 4,000 followers. There is also a Facebook page that has 9,466 followers and it has the same videos that are found on the ABC website.

 

ABC’s The Catch – Post 3

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With the recent release of the official trailer, The Catch has gained over 1,500 followers on Facebook which lands them at 28,533 followers today. Their Twitter is in the low range of 3,777 but the premiere date is more than a month away so those numbers may rise closer to March 24th. The show’s first major promotional spot was last Thursday during the #TGIT lineup winter premiere night. The Catch will be joining the lineup taking the place of How To Get Away With Murder and being led in by The Family at 9:00pm which premieres on March 3rd then the local news afterwards at 11:00pm.

It does have to compete with shows with older followings like Elementary on CBS and Shades of Blue on NBC. Both shows also have strong female leads but what their advantages come with female leads who are veterans in a primetime slot. Jennifer Lopez’s (34.8 million followers) notoriety for Shades of Blue helps the show maintain a loyal fan base with a collective Twitter following for the show at 16k. Elementary (which premiered in 2012) has a Twitter following of over 66k and Lucy Liu’s (181k followers) fan base has been a great support for the show. Mireille Enos’ Twitter was created in January 2016 (most likely for the show) and only has 431 followers. The three tweets that she has are about The Catch; two Instagram posts and one post announcing the premiere date. Hopefully social media will help this show live up to the #TGIT powerhouses built by Shonda Rhimes.

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ABC’s The Catch – Post 2

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On February 11th, the official version of the preview for The Catch was released on its Facebook page. Its previously noted that another preview was released on Imdb.com that did not feature Peter Krause from NBC’s Parenthood. In the false preview, the character Keiran Booth is played by Damon Dayoub. The two previews are very similar. They both portray Mirelle Enos as a PI who searches for people who have committed high profiled fraud and that her fiancé embezzles millions from her then disappears. This questions the credibility of Imdb.com as a source for it does allow access for anyone to update the information similar to Wikipedia. Another website that premiered the promo video was tvseriesfinale.com which has articles about cancelled, new, and renewed shows. They published their information about The Catch from ABC.com and had the same promo video that Facebook had. Peter Krause has been confirmed to play Keiran Booth on this site as well. Under The Catch blog on ABC.com, there is the official trailer for the show as well published by Derek Wong.

Further research revealed that there was a major recast of the show back in May 2015 where Damon Dayoub and Bethany Joy Lenz were no longer part of the show. This was confirmed by variety.com, usmagazine.com, and tvwise.com.uk. The trailer on imdb.com has not been updated since the change last year which has been giving viewers old content.

Second Chance Post #3

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With each passing week, it’s more and more clear that FOX’s “Second Chance” will more than likely not be getting one… The show dropped to a 0.6 rating pulling only 2.24 million viewers. A .1 decline from last week’s .7 rating in the demo.

Interestingly enough, the show has been getting paltry ratings but its social media following tells another story. On Facebook, Second Chance has 11,922 likes — not too bad, but then again a show like Empire has 3+ million. What’s interesting about the following Second Chance has is that the interaction their posts have is nearly universally positive. Especially on Facebook, I can’t recall the last time I’ve seen a page whose comments are universally positive. On almost everything they post there are a bevy of comments saying how great the show is and how disappointed viewers will be if the show gets cancelled. The engagement numbers aren’t high, but the engagement they do get is overwhelmingly positive.

ABC’s The Catch – Post #1

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Shonda Rhimes has done it again! Premiering March 24th at 10pm on ABC, the new crime drama The Catch will be joining the #TGIT line up taking the place of Rhimes’ other hit show, How to Get Away With Murder. Alice Vaughn is a forensic accountant in LA who specializes in cases for high profiled frauds. But when her fiancé cons her out of millions and disappears weeks before their wedding, her new focus is finding him and regaining her funds. Unfortunately, its discovered that he was in a master con plan with another woman while still falling for his mark: Alice.

Alice is played by Mirielle Enos who is best known for her Emmy and Golden Globe nominated role in AMC’s hit drama The Killing. Another familiar face within the cast is Bethany Joy Lenz from CW’s One Tree Hill. According to ABC.com and Imbd.com, Peter Krause from NBC’s Parenthood would be playing Alice’s fiancé Kieran Booth but the show’s trailer depicts an up and coming actor named Damon Dayoub who played a reoccurring role in Freeform’s Stitchers.

Production for the show is taking place in LA at the ABC Studios and Shondaland. Rhimes is the executive producer but is also partnering with Betsy Beers. Beers has worked as a producer on Rhimes other ABC hit Grey’s Anatomy which will air before The Catch on #TGIT at 9pm.

Second Chance Post #2

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This past week was the first with Second Chance’s new spot at the last bastion of close-to-being-canceled television shows: Friday evenings. We know that shows are typically moved to Fridays as a result of low ratings, and Second Chance made its move after only two episodes. In its new time slot, its numbers were even worse pulling a 0.7 rating in the demo with a paltry 2.22 million total viewers. Its cancellation is imminent. After this past week, TV By The Numbers deemed it “sure to be cancelled by May 2016.” Important to note, however, is that Second Chance is owned by FOX Studios and as such does have a better shot at renewal than a show from an outside producer might.

Second Chance is receiving mixed/average reviews on Metacritic, pulling a score of 47. Most reviews didn’t have great things to say, and even the more positive ones cited tired cliches and unoriginal content. RogerEbert.com gave the show a score of 10 (out of 100) and stated that “The writing is atrocious, the production values are subpar, and there’s not a single good performance.” It would seem clear, then, that not only are viewers not tuning in to watch Second Chance, critics seem wholly unimpressed with the program.

Lucifer Post #2

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Fox’s new series, Lucifer, had a bit of a downfall in this weeks ratings and viewers. Last week Lucifer premiered a 2.4 rating, leaving it to be the second highest numbers of the night.

This week Lucifer brought in a rating of 1.9 and 6.0 million viewers. Although the show was down 21% from its premier, Lucifer still managed to take second place in the 9p.m time slot. With this only being the show’s second week, many believe Lucifer will pull through and work its way to a 2.0 in the finals. According to Fox, the show has gotten about 500,000 total viewers in a three day streaming on Hulu and FoxNow, so it is quite evident the show is attracting viewers on other platforms.

Fan and viewers have also been very supportive of the new series, showing a high engagement on Twitter. From just last nights airing, lead actor Tom Ellis gained about 1.1 thousand more followers. The official Lucifer twitter page also gained approximately 1.4 thousand followers as well. Both twitter pages show a tremendous amount of interaction between the fans and actor/show. Along with the gaining of followers and fan interaction, the hast tag #LuciferisHere, is still trending.

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Rush Hour – Post #1

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Going with the ever popular trend in Hollywood these days, CBS has decided to sign on and reboot the movie franchise Rush Hour into a television series. Hoping to work off the feeling of nostalgia, CBS is going to be tapping into already a goldmine of a franchise and they will be accessing a very large fan base. There are three Rush Hour movies, all of which were very successful financially, and they starred Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan as two cops forced to be partners, despite coming from different sides of the world and different cultures. The franchise is very funny and action packed. The last movie came out in 2007 and made 140 million dollars in the US. In 2007, that number was considered a successful movie. CBS is hoping that they can get those kind of returns from advertising dollars for the new show.

CBS is going to air the pilot episode on Thursday, March 31 at 10pm. The time slot is pretty late, but I think that the audience that this show is aiming for, the 18-34 male demographic, will stay up and watch it. The show does not bring back Jackie Chan or Chris Tucker, but the two guys replacing them seem very funny and fit for the roles, judging on the trailer. The show is also produced by the people behind the films, so the show is definitely clear to head in the right direction.

The Catch – Post #1

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