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[DrDoom]

So...why is he only called Arrow and not Green Arrow?

So, far Revolution is the only one I am interested in.

Because there's no reason to call him Green Arrow?

How about because it's his superhero name?

People already had a hard enough time differentiating Green Lantern and Green Hornet.

And they need to differentiate it from Smallville's GA.

It's simple, "Green Lantern" bombed horribly and the studio making "Arrow" didnt want people associating it with the movie so they dropped the "Green".

Same reason "John Carter" dropped the "From Mars" from their title because "Mars Needs Moms" bombed horribly. Movie/TV Studios believe the general audience are incredibly stupid, they're not far off

 

[Shifty]

It's simple, "Green Lantern" bombed horribly and the studio making "Arrow" didnt want people associating it with the movie so they dropped the "Green".

Same reason "John Carter" dropped the "From Mars" from their title because "Mars Needs Moms" bombed horribly. Movie/TV Studios believe the general audience are incredibly stupid, they're not far off

Mars movies just seem to be poorly made like, okay we're on Mars so no need to make a good film.

There was also Mars Attacks, Mission to Mars and Ghosts of Mars along with Red Planet. Given that Total Recall was the only successful movie that involved Mars and all the rest (the above mentioned plus Doom, RocketMan) were all box office bombs or disappointments I'm surprised the suits at Disney couldn't change the planet from Mars to some made up one. Audiences don't mind that, fake planets = box office gold. Mars = box office poison.


TVbytheNumbers.com

Broadcast primetime ratings for Tuesday, September 11 2012:
Time Net Show 18-49 Rating 18-49 Share Viewers Live+SD (million)

8:00PM NBC The Voice 3.9 12 11.30
FOX So You Think You Can Dance (8-10PM) 1.5 4 4.29
CBS NCIS -R 1.2 4 8.64
ABC The Middle -R 0.9 3 3.84
CW Hart Of Dixie -R 0.3 1 0.70

8:30PM ABC Last Man Standing -R 0.8 2 3.03

9:00PM NBC Go On 3.4 9 9.57
CBS Hawaii Five-0 -R 1.1 3 6.92
ABC Happy Ending -R 0.8 2 2.28
CW the Next -R 0.2 1 0.64

9:30PM NBC The New Normal 2.5 7 7.00
ABC Don't Trust The B in Apt 23 -R 0.7 2 1.94

10:00PM NBC Parenthood 1.9 5 5.57
CBS NCIS: Los Angeles -R 1.2 3 6.80
ABC Private Practice -R 0.5 1

Solid numbers for NBC's new comedies, though this is NBC and they could decline once they're up against more competition but I think ABC's comedies moving to new nights and premiering in October they could be the losers in the three way battle between NBC-Fox-ABC.

ABC is rerunning their comedies but then they'll be off for a few weeks while a 2 hour Dancing with the Stars airs.

 

[Shifty]

TVbytheNumbers

FOX was the number 1 network with adults 18-49, but NBC won with total viewers.

On FOX, the premiere of The X Factor earned a 3.3 adults 18-49 rating, down considerably from last years premiere 4.4 18-49 rating. For those interested, during the common hour The X Factor and The Voice shared, The X Factor notched a 2.7, effectively giving The Voice the win for the 8PM hour.

On NBC, The Voice scored a 3.3 adults 18-49 rating, down seven tenths from yesterday's 4.0 18-49 rating. America's Got Talent earned a 2.9 18-49 rating. The premiere of Guys With Kids earned a 2.2 adults 18-49 rating.

On CBS, Big Brother garnered a 2.0, down a tenth from last week's 2.1 adults 18-49 rating.

On the CW, Oh Sit! was even last week's 0.4 adults 18-49 rating.

Overnight ratings for Wednesday, September 12, 2012:
Time Net Show 18-49 Rating 18-49 Share Viewers Live+SD (million)
8:00PM
FOX The X Factor (8-10PM) 3.3 10 8.47
NBC The Voice 3.3 11 10.66
CBS Big Brother 2.0 6 6.12
ABC The Middle -R 0.9 3 3.71
CW Oh Sit! 0.4 1 0.93

8:30PM
ABC Suburgatory -R 0.9 3 3.01

9:00 PM
NBC America's Got Talent 2.9 8 11.01
ABC Modern Family -R 1.3 4 3.66
CBS Criminal Minds -R 1.2 3 5.62
CW Supernatural -R 0.3 1 0.70

9:30PM
ABC Suburgatory -R 0.9 3 2.74

10:00PM
NBC Guys With Kids 2.2 6 6.28
CBS CSI -R 1.3 4 6.43
ABC Revenge -R 0.6 2 2.51

10:30PM
NBC The New Normal -R 1.4 4 3.931

Instead of letting American Idol decline and last another 6 years, Fox and NBC have sped up the singing reality show death by adding The X-Factor and The Voice last year.

Losing 4 million viewers and 1/4 of the demo from the premiere AND finale numbers is not good for The X-Factor.
Granted it was up against night three of The Voice and half of those 4 million may watch it tonight on DVR.

Still it could be going from 1st at 8pm and 2nd at 9pm to 3rd in both hours losing to CBS and ABC. Still to be determined is how Animal Practice will do so it could be an embarrassing 4th place at 8pm.

Guys with Kids did well considering the 10pm airing when it will normally be broadcasted at 830pm.

Glee's 4th season premieres tonight at its new night with a new X-Factor as its lead in.

 

[Dr. Evil]

NBC got a lot of heat for airing Animal Practice after the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.

 

[Shifty]

Mainly from people who didn't watch or would never watch it to begin with. I didn't care for it but there could be enough viewers out there to top what X-Factor will settle into.

 

[Specter313]

The CW Buys High School Monster Drama from Gossip Girl Producers

Take Season 1-era Blair Waldorf on her worst day and cross her with a chupacabra, and you’ve got a sense of what the creative minds behind Gossip Girl and Twilight have in store for The CW.

The network has ordered a script for Copeland Prep, a drama about a private high school so competitive it turns its students into actual monsters, our sister site Deadline reports.

Gossip Girl EPs Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage will co-executive produce along with Brett Easton Ellis (American Psycho), who’ll also write the pilot. Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke will serve as executive consultant.

In addition to Gossip Girl — which begins its final season on Monday, Oct. 8 — Schwartz’s Fake Empire is also behind the network’s Hart of Dixie, Carrie Diaries and Cult.

Read More at: http://tvline.com/2012/09/12/cw-buy...82#utm_source=copypaste&utm_campaign=referral

Ooooookkaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy.

 

[Sawyer]

I'm strangely intrigued.

Which is why I made a thread!

 

[Shifty]

TVbytheNumbers.com:

NBC was #1 with adults 18-49 and total viewers

On NBC, The Voice scored a 4.6 adults 18-49 rating, up 10% from a 4.2 for last week's premiere on Monday andscoring its best numbers since Monday, March 19, 2011. The highly anticipated premiere of Revolution garnered a huge 4.1 18-49 rating, making it the highest rated drama debut in three years (since ABC's V, 5.2) and the highest rated NBC drama debut in 5 years (Bionic Woman, 5.7). It was up 39% from a 2.5 for last week's preview of The New Normal in the time period and up a whopping 156% from the premiere of the shortlived The Playboy Club last season (1.6.). It is also up 8% from the premiere of Smash on February 6, 2012, which also had The Voice as a lead-in. Revolution even outperformed most of your predictions.

On FOX, the premiere of Bones earned a 2.3 among adults 18-49, down 30% from a 3.3 for last season's premiere on Thursday, November 3, 2011 when, it should be noted, it had The X Factor as a lead-in, but up 21% from a 1.9 for the season finale on May 14, 2012. The series premiere of The Mob Doctor scored a low 1.5 among adults 18-49 down 51% from a 3.1 for the two hour series premiere of Terra Nova in the time period on September 26, 2011. About 25% of you accurately predicted the show's ratings.

On ABC, CMA Music Festival: Country's Night to Rock garnered a 1.7 among adults 18-49, matching the performance of last year's two-hour telecast on Sunday, August 14, 2011.

On The CW, The LA Complex earned a 0.4 , up from last week's 0.3 adults 18-49 rating. A second new episode at 9PM garnered a 0.2 among adults 18-49.

Late-night results are below the primetime data.

Broadcast primetime ratings for Monday September 10, 2012:
Time Net Show 18-49 Rtg/Shr Viewers (millions)
8:00
NBC The Voice (8-10PM) 4.6/12 13.36
FOX Bones (Premiere) 2.3/6 7.82
ABC CMA Music Festival: Country's Night to Rock (8-11PM) 1.7/4 6.22
CBS How I Met Your Mother - R 1.4/4 4.29
CW The L.A. Complex 0.4/1 0.81

9:00
CBS 2 Broke Girls - R 1.6/4 4.91
FOX The Mob Doctor (Premiere) 1.5/4 5.09
CW The L.A. Complex 0.2/1 0.54

10:00
NBC Revolution (Premiere) 4.1/11 11.65
CBS Hawaii Five-0 - R 0.9/2 4.39

Well The Mob Doctor looks DOA. They'll see how it does in week two or maybe three and make a decision to A) stop production on future episodes of the show B) to move it to Fridays and have Touch premiere early on Mondays C) outright remove it from the schedule D) replace it with Bones reurns or a Gordon Ramsay show.

The season finale of Terra Nova scored a 2.2 in the demo and had 7+ million viewers. Of course it had a bigger budget but Fox seems to have flushed more money down the toilet with this show that lost to a 2 Broke Girls rerun.
The Voice will keep NBC competitive and likely fighting ABC for second.

 

[Sawyer]

The Mob Doctor can say hello to Lone Star for us.



Sorry, Prison Mike.

 

[wiegeabo]

I just watched the Last Resort pilot. ABC has it online early like NBC did for Revolution.

The acting started weak.

Then the show got damned good damned fast.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2012/09/midnight-mass-nbc-developing-drama-series-adaptation-of-comic/

‘Midnight, Mass.’ Comic Gets Drama Series Adaptation At NBC
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

EXCLUSIVE: NBC has put in development Midnight, Mass., a drama series based on characters from the Vertigo comic books and graphic novels published by DC Entertainment. Snow White And The Huntsman co-writer Evan Daugherty will write the adaptation, produced by Warner Bros. TV and Bill Gerber‘s Gerber Pictures, which has received a script commitment.

The Midnight, Mass. comics creator John Rozum will serve as an executive consultant on the TV project, about a sophisticated, sexy, globe-trotting husband and wife paranormal investigator team — based in Midnight, Massachusetts — that takes on supernatural foes, macabre mysteries and the most frightening creature of all: marriage. Feature producer Gerber (Gran Torino) executive produces, with Daugherty co-executive producing.

This is the second time NBC and Warner Bros. TV are taking a stab at a Midnight, Mass. drama series. In 2009, WBTV’s adaptation with a different team, writers Gretchen Berg and Aaron Harberts and non-writing executive producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, also landed at NBC but did not go to pilot stage. Feature scribe Daugherty, repped by UTA, manager Jake Wagner and attorneys Jeff Frankel and Rob Goldman, recently wrote the upcoming action thriller Killer Season.

Anyone here ever read the comic? I haven't.

 

[Shifty]

http://www.deadline.com/2012/09/midnight-mass-nbc-developing-drama-series-adaptation-of-comic/

Anyone here ever read the comic? I haven't.

Nope. But it sounds interesting, basically Mulder and Scully minus the aliens.
It was only two mini-series that were never collected, they only have 14 issues to work from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight,_Mass.

 

[TheVileOne]

So they trot the globe in . . . Massachusetts.

 

[Hunter Rider]

That sounds like it could be pretty cool and they can write their own stories once they have used up the 14 eps which they'll probably only partially adapt.

 

[Prison Mike]

The Mob Doctor can say hello to Lone Star for us.



Sorry, Prison Mike.

 

[PyroChamber]

The CW Buys High School Monster Drama from Gossip Girl Producers

Take Season 1-era Blair Waldorf on her worst day and cross her with a chupacabra, and you’ve got a sense of what the creative minds behind Gossip Girl and Twilight have in store for The CW.

The network has ordered a script for Copeland Prep, a drama about a private high school so competitive it turns its students into actual monsters, our sister site Deadline reports.

Gossip Girl EPs Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage will co-executive produce along with Brett Easton Ellis (American Psycho), who’ll also write the pilot. Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke will serve as executive consultant.

In addition to Gossip Girl — which begins its final season on Monday, Oct. 8 — Schwartz’s Fake Empire is also behind the network’s Hart of Dixie, Carrie Diaries and Cult.

Read More at: http://tvline.com/2012/09/12/cw-buys...paign=referral

Ooooookkaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy.

Oh CW, just can't leave that high school **** alone can you?

 

[Sawyer]

Given that only one of five of their new series this season is high school-set, I'd say yes, yes they can.

Anyway....

Fox Developing Modern ‘Hamlet’ Drama Set In Washington DC
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

EXCLUSIVE: Something is rotten in the District of Columbia…

Fox has bought America’s Son, a drama from writer Paul Redford, Amblin TV and Sony Pictures TV. Described as part juicy soap, part paranoid political thriller set in Washington DC, America’s Son is a sophisticated contemporary spin on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. When a beloved presidential hopeful dies in a tragic car wreck, a renegade JFK Jr. type returns home to D.C. to discover his father’s death was no accident — and he makes it his mission to untangle a complicated web of family secrets, expose the truth and ultimately avenge the murder. Redford has background in both dramas about the inner working of Washington DC — he spent five seasons on The West Wing, which he joined after the pilot — and soaps — he did a stint as a co-executive producer on ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money.

Redford is executive producing America’s Son, which has received a script commitment with penalty, with DreamWorks/Amblin TV’s co-presidents Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey. (Steven Spielberg is reverting to the name Amblin TV for his TV company. While existing series Smash and Falling Skies will continue under the DreamWorks TV moniker, the rest of the company’s current shows and all upcoming ones will be branded Amblin TV.)

This is the second drama project this season that draws inspiration from a Shakespeare tale. McG is producing Westside, a Byron Balasco-written soap for ABC that is a contemporary take on Romeo & Juliet and the musical it inspired, West Side Story. Redford most recently reunited with West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin, working as a co-executive producer on his new HBO drama The Newsroom. This is Amblin TV’s second sale this week — the company also set up drama Embrace, based on Jessica Shirvington’s supernatural young adult novel, at the CW.

I'd check it out.

 

[Prison Mike]

That sounds good.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

It's simple, "Green Lantern" bombed horribly and the studio making "Arrow" didnt want people associating it with the movie so they dropped the "Green".

Same reason "John Carter" dropped the "From Mars" from their title because "Mars Needs Moms" bombed horribly. Movie/TV Studios believe the general audience are incredibly stupid, they're not far off

The GA is actually smarter than you think. It's just that the dumbasses are much louder.

I agree about dropping the Green. It's had bad luck and superheroes with Green in the name hasn't gone well, so just drop the green and use arrow could work better.

 

[wiegeabo]

Besides, we know it's Green Arrow. It doesn't matter if the general audience does or doesn't, as long as they watch.

(And after how poorly Green Lantern did, it's probably not a bad idea avoiding in relationship with it.)

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2012/09/diane-kruger-fx-pilot-the-bridge-starring-role-gerardo-naranjo/

Diane Kruger To Star In FX Pilot ‘The Bridge’
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

In her U.S. series debut, Inglourious Basterds actress Diane Kruger is set as the female lead of FX’s drama pilot The Bridge, directed by Mexican director Gerardo Naranjo (Miss Bala).

Adapted from the Scandinavian series Bron/Broen, The Bridge centers on two detectives from the United States and Mexico – El Paso Police Homicide Detective Sonya North (Kruger) and Marco Ruiz — who must work together to hunt down a serial killer operating on both sides of the American-Mexican border. Sonya North is described as a dogged cop who lacks tact, warmth and empathy. Shockingly candid, she calls the world like she sees it – which can be off-putting to her colleagues, but also refreshing and funny. The Bridge was adapted for American television by Meredith Stiehm (Homeland) and Elwood Reid (Hawaii Five-0) who executive produce alongside Carolyn Bernstein, Lars Blomgren and Jane Featherstone. The Bridge, a co-production of Shine America and FX Prods., begins production this fall in El Paso and Los Angeles.

German-born actress Kruger got her Hollywood break when she was cast as Helen in Troy opposite Brad Pitt. She went on to star opposite Nicolas Cage in the National Treasure franchise, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds and, most recently, playing Marie Antoinette in Benoît Jacquot’s film Farewell, My Queen which opened the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. She will next be seen in Special Forces, The Host and the Terrence Malick-produced Green Blades Rising.

Weekly Diane Kruger? Thank you, FX.

 

[Shifty]

Anyway....

I'd check it out.

Even though adapting existing works and putting a new spin on them seems to be popular this development season this sounds good and I hope it gets on the air.

Fox should have more timeslots open next year too.

 

[Hunter Rider]

America's Son and The Bridge both sound promising.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2012/09/a-k...s-ron-moore-adapting-movie-as-series-for-abc/

‘Battlestar Galactica’s Ron Moore To Adapt ‘A Knight’s Tale’ As Drama Project For ABC
By NELLIE ANDREEVA

EXCLUSIVE: A Knight’s Tale, the 2001 feature starring Heath Ledger, is headed to the small screen in a series adaptation written by Battlestar Galactica developer/executive producer Ron Moore. ABC has bought the project, from Sony Pictures TV, with a script commitment.

The Knight’s Tale feature was a 14th century romantic adventure set in the world of jousting to a music score of popular rock songs that centered on William Thatcher (Ledger), a peasant posing as a knight. (See the original tralier below.) The series is expected to stay close to the premise and the style of the movie — it is described as a medieval fantasy incorporating modern music and themes that follows the journey of a young man who starts out impersonating a knight of the realm and ends up becoming one. In addition to writing, Moore is executive producing with his producing partner at Tall Ship Prods. Maril Davis as well as the film’s writer-director-producer Brian Helgeland and producer Todd Black. The title is part of the Sony library as the movie, which featured Ledger in his first lead role, was produced by Columbia Pictures. It was a worldwide box office success, turning the 22-year-old actor into a movie star.

For CAA-repped Moore, the project stems from his new overall deal with Sony TV he inked in March. At ABC, A Knight’s Tale would be a good fit for hit Once Upon A Time and other fantasy dramas the network has in development for next season, including A Kingdom Far Away from feature writer Justin Marks and di Bonaventura Television. Meanwhile, Sony TV is behind another series adaptation of a hit movie, Beverly Hills Cop, which has a pilot production commitment at CBS with Shawn Ryan writing/exec producing and Eddie Murphy exec producing and potentially recurring.

What the **** are you playing at, Ron Moore?

 

[Marvolo]

http://www.deadline.com/2012/09/a-k...s-ron-moore-adapting-movie-as-series-for-abc/

What the **** are you playing at, Ron Moore?

I liked A Knight's Tale a lot so I'm intrigued.