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Daily Archives : Jul 13, 2011

Syfy Has Its Most-Watched Series Debut in Two Years, as Three of the Network’s Shows Open Strong

Syfy had its most-watched series debut since 2009 for a drama it premiered Monday night, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. The new drama "Alphas" debuted to 2.5 million viewers, the story says. It was the biggest…

Middle East, North Africa Turmoil Burdens Ad-Spending Forecast — ZenithOptimedia Outlook Keeps Overall Outlay on Par With April Estimate

By Alexandra BruellAdvertising Age Publicis Groupe’s ZenithOptimedia expects global ad expenditure to reach $471 billion in 2011, a 4.1% boost from 2010 that’s on par with a 4.2% increase it predicted in April, but still down from the 4.6% increase…

Numbers Are Down for Season Premieres of TNT Hits — But Still Not Bad

The seventh and final season of TNT’s "The Closer" debuted Monday night with 7.2 million viewers, down from the sixth-season premiere, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. Still, the turnout represented cable’s biggest audience of the year…

Rupert Murdoch: Too Much Jack Bauer and Not Enough Betty Ford. At 80, Can He Find His Moral Compass? An Intervention Begins NOW

We all should be able to expect–at a minimum–when we read stories in our newspapers that no illegal means were used in the gathering of the news stories. That’s a key issue in the growing phone-hacking scandal involving The News of…