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  • Fox renews ‘The Real’ through 2018

    Fox renews ‘The Real’ through 2018

    MUMBAI: The Fox Television Stations have renewed the talk series The Real for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons on stations in a deal with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.

     

    The series is posting ratings growth in its second season – a modern-day rarity in first-run syndication. The Real is up +14 per cent with W25-54 nationally. The series is also one of only two talk shows seeing national rating gains year-over-year. Looking at the past 10 years, The Real is one of only four talk shows that have posted national ratings gains in their second season. 

     

    Additionally, The Real is building in its recruitment in the advertiser-coveted Women 18-49 and 25-54 demos.

     

    On the Fox Television Stations, The Real continues to post strong numbers. This season to date, the series (0.9 W25-54 rating) has maintained its solid ratings, matching the prior year rating levels (0.9 rtg – Nov/Feb/May avg). Paired with Wendy Williams in 16 of the top 25 LPM markets, The Real is proving to be the perfect fit with Wendy Williams, retaining 100 per cent of its Wendy Williams lead-in share this season to date with all key Women demos.

     

    Fox Television Stations senior vice president, programming Frank Cicha said, “The Real has been an important piece in building our growing daytime lineup. In fact, in our universe, it often beats or tiesThe View. That alone is worth two more years in my book.”

     

    “The Real in its second season has expanded on its promise of connecting with the diverse daytime television viewers and is delivering substantial ratings growth in the process. The series did not invent this genre of television program, nor are they the only talk panel on television, but what ‘The Real’ has done is differentiate itself from the others, quickly becoming an original, distinct and entertaining hour that has given viewers a reason to make an appointment each and every day,” said Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution president Ken Werner.

  • HLN to launch new series based on Ellen DeGeneres game

    HLN to launch new series based on Ellen DeGeneres game

    MUMBAI: Heads Up!, a new television series based on the popular game and app of the same name from The Ellen DeGeneres Show, is coming to HLN as a fast-paced game show.

     

    Launching in first quarter 2016, the 65-episode half-hour game show strip from Telepictures will be hosted by Loni Love — comedian, actress and co-host of syndicated talk show The Real — and will air daily, Mondays through Fridays.

     

    In the Heads Up! TV show, contestants pair up with a celebrity and try to correctly identify as many cards as they can based on clues from their teammate in categories ranging from movies and songs to actions, accents, body parts and more. In Heads Up!, (almost) nothing is off limits.

     

    Ellen DeGeneres said, “I’m so excited that Heads Up! is going to be a game show. It’s so fun and addictive. I play it on my show all the time. I play it at home. I played it last night at Jennifer Aniston’s house. She wasn’t home, so please don’t print that part.”

     

    “We’re excited to translate this innovative game app into a TV show on HLN, and create another all-screens experience for our social media audience. And to be in business with a break-the-Internet star like Ellen is incredible,” said HLN executive vice president and general manager Albie Hecht.

     

    The Heads Up! app (iOS and Android) has been downloaded more than 16 million times worldwide and been played more than a half billion times. It was Apple’s top paid app of 2014.

     

    The Heads Up! series is HLN’s second game show based on a successful app. In January, the Keywords app paved the way for the premiere of Keywords, the TV show, in March.

     

    Heads Up! is from A Very Good Production in association with Telepictures. DeGeneres, Ed Glavin, Mary Connelly, Andy Lassner and Jeff Kleeman are the executive producers of the series.