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'Camp Rock 2' Premiere Tops Labor Day Weekend Ratings
by Rich Keller, posted Sep 7th 2010 2:30PM
Disney's domination of the cable universe continued this Labor Day weekend as the premiere of 'Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam' broke all sorts of records.The website tvbythenumbers reports the made-for-TV musical, starring Disney Channel staples Demi Lovato and The Jonas Brothers, brought in 8 million total viewers on Friday night. While not as high as the 8.9 million the original 'Camp Rock' touted during its 2008 premiere, nor the astronomical 17.2 million of 'High School Musical 2' in 2007, the total made 'Camp Rock 2' the top cable TV movie for 2010.
'Lake Placid 3' Becomes Syfy's Most Watched Show
by Rich Keller, posted Aug 25th 2010 8:10PM
With names like 'Sharktopus' and 'Dinocroc vs. Supergator,' Syfy's Saturday night original movies might sound silly. But despite their outlandish titles and B-movie premises, they're doing big business for the network.Broadcasting & Cable reports that last Saturday's feature, 'Lake Placid 3,' scored a huge ratings win. Drawing in 3.12 million live, same-day viewers, the film has now been crowned as the most-watched Syfy show since 2005; usurping an October 2009 episode of 'Ghost Hunters' with 3.06 million viewers.
ESPN gets the greenlight to make more crappy sports movies
by Danny Gallagher, posted Mar 6th 2009 11:03AM
If you've been waiting, hoping and praying for the next big ESPN movie blockbuster, then you have my deepest sympathies. The network's film studio will produce two more made-for-TV movies about, let me guess, some sports hero's rise, fall, then rise again, then fall, then triumphant rise to redemption and glory in the annals of sports history.
The network plans to produce a film about Jim Jones Jr. and his rise to redemption through basketball, and a fallen firefighter who finds redemption by coaching a high school basketball team to a state title. It's bound to be redemptabulous!
The Five: TV movies they don't show anymore
by Bob Sassone, posted Jan 29th 2007 1:30PM
You don't see as many made-for-TV movies today as you used to. Sure, Lifetime does some and you'll find some on cable and the odd one on CBS, but the networks don't really do them anymore (and if they do they stretch them to two or more nights and call them a mini-series). But you could see them all the time in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Here are five they hardly show anymore, if ever, but I remember them fondly.
1. One Of My Wives Is Missing (1976): Mystery about a man who reports his wife missing, then a woman shows up claiming to be his wife and he says she isn't. Stars Jack Klugman, Elizabeth Ashley, and James Franciscus. I pride myself in being able to figure out the shocking endings and plot twists that so many movies have (that's what happens when you watch so much TV, not much surprises you anymore), but this movie completely blew me away. It doesn't just have a twist ending, it has about three, and you just smile at the end because it's so clever, and you try to think back to everything that happened to see if they played fair. I haven't seen this movie in about 15 years. It's not on DVD and I can't remember the last time someone ran it. (It was remade years later with a different title, but it wasn't as good.)TV Squad Hot Topics
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