Skins, Jersey Shore, WWE Raw, The X-Life, Pawn Stars, Greek and more...Monday's Cable Ratings- All your favorite SHOWS

Special episode of Jersey Shore didn't break any records this time around but still beat everything on cable and only came 2nd to Two and a Half Men on NETWORK television.


Its 3.9 adults 18-49 rating and 7.7 million viewers on a MONDAY night was amazing. Especially considering it was simply moved to help launch SKINS. This is a great testament to the success of this cultural phenomenon. 

Selected Monday cable results via Travis Yanan: (all Live+Same Day ratings):

Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family, 8pm)
- 2.992 million viewers
- 1.8/3 HH
- 1.2/3 A18-49
- 2.6/7 W18-34
- 3.8/11 T12-17
Greek (ABC Family)
- 0.915 million viewers
- 0.5/1 HH
- 0.4/1 A18-49
- 1.0/2 W18-34
- 0.7/2 T12-17
Intervention (A&E, 9pm)
- 1.737 million viewers
- 1.1/2 HH
- 0.9/2 A18-49
Heavy (A&E, 10pm, 57 minutes)
- 2.459 million viewers
- 1.6/3 HH
- 1.2/3 A18-49
American Chopper: Senior vs Junior (DISC, 9pm)
- 2.492 million viewers
- 1.5/2 HH
- 1.1/3 A18-49
Fashion Police: 2011 Golden Globes (E!)
- 1.314 million viewers
- 0.9/2 HH
- 0.6/2 A18-49
American Pickers (HIST)
- 5.763 million viewers
- 3.4/5 HH
- 1.7/4 A18-49
Pawn Stars (HIST, 10pm)
- 5.954 million viewers
- 3.6/6 HH
- 2.2/6 A18-49
Pawn Stars (HIST, 10:30pm)
- 6.021 million viewers
- 3.7/6 HH
- 2.3/6 A18-49
Jersey Shore (MTV, 9pm)
- 7.697 million viewers
- 4.7/7 HH
- 3.9/10 A18-49
- 7.0/18 W18-34
- 7.3/21 T12-17
Skins (MTV)
- 3.255 million viewers
- 2.2/4 HH
- 1.5/4 A18-49
- 2.7/8 W18-34
- 4.1/14 T12-17
Victorious (NICK, 8pm)
- 3.579 million viewers
- 2.2/3 HH
- 0.6/2 A18-49
- 2.5/8 T12-17
- 4.7/15 K2-11
Victorious (NICK, 8:30pm)
- 3.603 million viewers
- 2.2/3 HH
- 0.6/2 A18-49
- 3.1/9 T12-17
- 4.5/15 K2-11
Bag Girls Club (OXYG, 8pm)
- 1.492 million viewers
- 0.9/1 HH
- 0.7/2 A18-49
- 1.4/4 W18-34
Being Human (SYFY, 9pm, 62 minutes)
- 1.961 million viewers
- 1.3/2 HH
- 0.8/2 A18-49
Cake Boss: The Next Great Baker (TLC, 9pm)
- 2.027 million viewers
- 1.1/2 HH
- 0.7/2 A18-49
NBA Game (TNT, 8:16pm, 158 minutes)
- 2.618 million viewers
- 1.7/3 HH
- 1.0/3 A18-49
NBA Game (TNT, 10:54pm, 150 minutes)
- 2.430 million viewers
- 1.6/4 HH
- 1.1/4 A18-49
WWE Raw (USA, 9pm)
- 4.799 million viewers
- 2.7/4 HH
- 1.7/4 A18-49
WWE Raw (USA, 10pm, 68 minutes)
- 5.250 million viewers
- 2.9/5 HH
- 1.9/5 A18-49
You’re Cut Off (VH1, 9pm)
- 0.559 million viewers
- 0.4/1 HH
- 0.2/1 A18-49
The X-Life (VH1, 10pm)
- 0.379 million viewers
- 0.3/0 HH
- 0.2/0 A18-49
The X-Life (VH1, 10:30pm, 31 minutes)
- 0.386 million viewers
- 0.3/0 HH
- 0.2/1 A18-49
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Guess who is Cat Woman in "The Dark Knight Rises" ...

I don't think she fits the role, but shes a pretty good actress so it can't be horrible- So many hotter women could have played the sexy role of CATWOMAN!

Here is the official  studio announcement:
BURBANK, CA, January 19, 2011 – Warner Bros. Pictures announced today that Anne Hathaway has been cast as Selina Kyle in Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises.” She will be starring alongside Christian Bale, who returns in the title role of Bruce Wayne/Batman.
Christopher Nolan stated, “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Anne Hathaway, who will be a fantastic addition to our ensemble as we complete our story.”
In addition, Tom Hardy has been set to play Bane. Nolan said, “I am delighted to be working with Tom again and excited to watch him bring to life our new interpretation of one of Batman’s most formidable enemies.”
Nolan will direct the film from a screenplay he wrote with Jonathan Nolan, from a story by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer. Nolan will also produce the film with his longtime producing partner, Emma Thomas, and Charles Roven.
“The Dark Knight Rises” is slated for release on July 20, 2012. The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

American Idol Season 10 comes back to rule TELEVISION yet again!

So American Idol Season 10 premiers Wednesday at 8pm and many say it will be doomed. I personally think it is coming back to bigger and better ratings. I say this for many reasons, some of which is the added star power of Steven and Jennifer to the panel. Also all the revamping to the format of the show that they are implementing will give us viewers a fresh take on this NEW season. 

Everything from Hollywood week being different, to the top 40 going to Las Vegas to perform The Beatles music, to AMERICA voting for their top 10. 

I WILL BE WATCHING, WILL YOU? 

Great NewYorkDailyNews piece:

On Wednesday night, when Fox’s “American Idol” begins its 10th season, the spotlight will be fixed on the two new judges, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler.

But it is two others, the music executive Jimmy Iovine and the television producer Nigel Lythgoe, who will do the most to determine the future of America’s most-watched reality show.

With Simon Cowell and his smugness gone, the two men are trying to make “Idol” more true to its former motto, “The Search for a Superstar.” After several years of contests that were panned by critics and many viewers, the producers are promising more input from professional music producers, more entertaining performances by contestants and fewer distractions from surprise guests.

“We have got to go back to creating an American idol,” said Mr. Lythgoe, who helped create “Idol” and returned to it last fall after two years away.

Last year “Idol” brought an average of about 24 million viewers to Fox twice a week. That’s a huge audience, but it has been slowly diminishing for several years, casting some doubt on the show’s sustainability over the long term. The changes this season will either stop the erosion, slow it — or speed it up.

“This is the first top-to-bottom reboot that they’ve had,” said Richard Rushfield, the author of “American Idol: The Untold Story” and a former writer for The Los Angeles Times. It is needed, he said, to put more emphasis on musical talent, since the last hugely successful singer produced by “Idol” was Chris Daughtry, five years ago — and Mr. Daughtry was a runner-up. “If they can create another Kelly Clarkson that sells millions and millions of albums right away, they’ll have a huge fresh wind in their sails,” Mr. Rushfield said.

A central part of the remodeling is Mr. Iovine, the chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M Records, an arm of Universal, which is replacing Sony as the music label that markets and distributes albums from “Idol” winners and runners-up. For Mr. Iovine, “Idol” is adding a new role on the show — “in-house mentor” or coach — for the entirety of the season. Mr. Lythgoe, who will remain off camera, calls him the “music czar.”

Mr. Iovine said at a news conference in early January: “The kids can’t just be told, ‘O.K., sing better.’ Someone has to work with them every week on performance, on style, and also make the songs they do have some kind of originality as well.”

To do that, Mr. Iovine intends to bring in producers like Timbaland to coach the contestants two or three days a week.

“They’re going to be bringing them along the same way they bring any artist that signs with Interscope along every week,” Mr. Iovine said. “I think you’re going to see a remarkable difference from week to week; much bigger than it was in the previous shows and previous airings.”

The brunt of the changes won’t be noticed until after the first month of telecasts, which feature auditions in different parts of the country. The contestants who make it through the Hollywood round of auditions will perform Beatles songs in a new setting for the show, Las Vegas, on Feb. 23; the next night, back in Hollywood, the judges will name 20 semifinalists, and then the public will begin voting.

Fox has shifted “Idol” to Wednesday and Thursday nights this season, from Tuesday and Wednesday in prior seasons, somewhat complicating the ratings comparisons.

The show is mostly casting away the guest judges and mentors that it featured in previous years. It is also eliminating some of the theme weeks that the producers came to dislike.

“We’re no longer going to get the country singer to sing rock, and the rock singer to sing folk,” Mr. Lythgoe said. “They are now going to stay with what they believe and what Jimmy believes is their genre that they need to work in.”

“Idol” has also reportedly signed up a new music director, Ray Chew, replacing Rickey Minor, who exited last year.

All the talk about the music plays down — deliberately, it seems — the three judges who weigh in on every episode. There has been no visible attempt to cast someone just like Mr. Cowell, or, for that matter, copies of Ellen DeGeneres or Kara DioGuardi, who also departed after Season 9. Mr. Cowell is preparing another singing competition for Fox, “The X Factor,” which will start in the fall. Randy Jackson remains a judge, and Ryan Seacrest remains the host.

Mr. Rushfield said the former judge panels had become “outsized,” detracting from the aspiring stars onstage. He said he expected that this year the panel would “consume a lot less oxygen, in terms of the drama it creates.”

Ms. Lopez noted that unlike Mr. Cowell, she and Mr. Tyler are singers and performers. Mr. Tyler, the frontman for Aerosmith, is working on another album for Sony now.

“We’re artists,” Ms. Lopez said. “We’ve been up there. We’ve auditioned. We’ve been through the ranks.”

Tim Kring gets 1st pilot pick up since his hit "Heroes" on NBC

Tim Kring is back to business with a pilot pick up of his drama series "Touch". This is his first pilot since the NBC super hero drama. This time it lands at FOX and is being produced by 20th TV and studio-based Chernin Entertainment.

Touch centers on a father who discovers that his autistic, mute son can actually predict events before they happen. Kring wrote the project on spec, his first pilot script since Heroes. It was developed internally at Chernin Entertainment with the company's head of TV Katherine Pope who had remained close with Kring after shepherding Heroes while at NBC and UMS. Because of 20th TV relationship with Fox, the spec was taken out to Fox first, and the network quickly gave it a pilot green light. Kring, Peter Chernin and Pope are executive producing Touch, one of two pilots picked up at Fox today. 

Regis Philbin Retires!!!

via press release:

Television Legend Regis Philbin Announces Retirement From ‘LIVE! with Regis and Kelly’

NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ – Regis Philbin announced today that he will be retiring from the very successful, long-running talk show “LIVE! with Regis and Kelly.”  Philbin made the announcement live on-air this morning during the Host Chat portion of the show.

As Philbin stated to the viewers this morning, “This will be my last year on this show. It’s been a long time, it’s been 28 years since I’ve been here… There is a time that everything must come to an end…”  Referring to his remaining time on the show he added, “We’ll have a lot of fun between now and then.”

Regis Philbin is a legend in the entertainment industry, a hall of fame broadcaster with more than 50 years in front of the camera.  “LIVE! with Regis and Kelly” premiered in national syndication in 1988 as “Live with Regis & Kathie Lee.” The show debuted locally in 1983 on WABC New York as “The Morning Show.”  A three-time Emmy Award winner, Philbin was also honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at the Daytime Emmy Awards in 2008.

“It has been my great honor to work with Regis since the Walt Disney Company nationally syndicated ‘LIVE’ in 1988,” said Janice Marinelli, president, Disney-ABC Domestic Television.  “Regis is one of the great, iconic television personalities of our time and we couldn’t have asked for a better friend and partner over the years.  We will all certainly miss having Regis be a part of our day.”

The “LIVE” franchise will continue, and in the coming months Disney-ABC Television Group will name a new co-host to join the talented and captivating Kelly Ripa – who celebrates ten incredible years co-hosting with the show, next month.

While 2011 will be a year of great change for “LIVE,” it will also be a time of incredible excitement as the show sends Philbin off in style.   In the coming months, “LIVE” will welcome top guests and feature special segments, all part of the countdown to the spectacular farewell celebration for the incomparableRegis Philbin.

“WABC is proud to be the home of ‘LIVE! with Regis and Kelly,’ and it will be difficult to say goodbye to Regis after 28 years as a member of our family,” commented Dave Davis, president and general manager, WABC. “We will miss him as a colleague and friend.  We’re fortunate, however, to have two real pros who can lead ‘LIVE’ into the future – Kelly Ripa, who has spent the last ten years developing her own amazing voice in daytime talk, and Michael Gelman, who has been with the show since its inception and is one of the best executive producers in daytime television.”

“LIVE” began when Regis Philbin created “The Morning Show” for WABC in his native New York City; it soon became the number one show in the market.  Kathie Lee Gifford joined him in June 1985 and inSeptember 1988, the program debuted in national syndication and the title was changed to “Live with Regis & Kathie Lee.”  The show matched its local success with extraordinary national ratings and established itself as a dominant fixture in national television, a tradition that continued when Ripa joined the show in 2001.

For nearly 25 years, “LIVE” has been an essential stop for the top names in the entertainment industry.  From award-winning actors to the hottest musical acts, the show boasts A-list celebrity guests, top-notch musical performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television.

Currently in its 23rd season in national syndication, “LIVE! with Regis and Kelly” is executive produced by Michael Gelman, and is distributed by Disney-ABC Domestic Television.  Produced by WABC-TV inNew York, “LIVE” airs in more than 200 markets across North America.

SOURCE Disney-ABC Domestic Television
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