programming
Glee, Jersey Shore make Google Zeitgeist
ICYMI: The annual Google Zeitgeist is out, and it’s endlessly fascinating to play with. It shows you the most searched terms for 2010, and it’s very interactive this year. You can see the top searches by month and country. While the term “Lost Remote” didn’t make the list, the Fox TV hit Glee ranked #9 [...]
Social media lifts TV show ratings 10 percent
Earlier this year, Bravo began holding virtual viewing parties — called Bravo Talk Bubble — designed to encourage people to hold real-time conversations while watching new episodes of shows like The Real Housewives of New York City. Viewers can track tweets from the housewives themselves, along with show producers, on BravoTV.com or via a hashtag [...]
Would you watch a TV show on Twitter.com?
On the new Twitter, clicking a tweet will spawn a preview in the right pane. When there’s a link to a YouTube or Ustream clip — two of Twitter’s first video partners — it will automatically embed the corresponding video player on Twitter.com. Twitter has announced a new video partner — Blip.TV, which features over [...]
ABC-Disney adds new shows to Netflix
In a new licensing deal, ABC is adding hundreds of new TV episodes to Netflix, from Desperate Housewives to Ugly Betty — and every episode of Lost. Shows from the Disney Channel and ABC Family will be included, as well. The catch? The shows are only available to watch 15 days after the air. The [...]
Bravo TV launches Twitter experience
BravoTV.com has launched a new Twitter experience that lets fans browse and engage with tweets from stars of many of its shows, like Real Housewives and Top Chef All Stars. The dashboard has three parts — browse tweets with “Tweet Tracker,” spout off with “Just Sayin‘” and face off with Twitter debates on “Tweet Battles.” [...]
New TV series to feature Foursquare check-ins
The entertainment company Endemol has teamed up with Foursquare to develop a new TV series that will somehow incorporate check-ins into the show. Reports Variety: Endemol is still mulling an exact format for the Foursquare show — but the show seems likely to have an “Amazing Race”-style competitive element, in which participants travel to various [...]
Today goes viral with ‘I’ve Got a Feeling’
I have to say, this is pretty amazing — one continuous steadicam shot of nearly the entire Today Show staff (wearing T-shirts with their job titles) dancing to “I’ve Got a Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas. It was part of “Today Goes Viral” week, designed in part to drive social media sharing of video [...]
Fox now blocking Google TV
Fox has joined ABC, CBS and NBC in blocking Google TV viewers from watching video, reports GTVHub.com. Google TV allows you to punch up a web browser on your TV set, but when you visit Fox.com and click to watch a clip, a message says, “This content is not compatible with your device.” When we [...]
Twitter: Please tweet while watching TV
Twitter’s Robin Sloan told an audience at a conference this week that Twitter brings a real-time social layer to watching television, which in part, can help bring back the shared experience of watching entertainment TV shows as they air. “[In the last 18 months], I think we actually saw the pendulum swing back toward things [...]
Will Conan’s social marketing blitz turn into ratings?
Update: The premiere pulled in 4,155,000 viewers overall — beating both Leno and Letterman — with 2,451,000 (over half!) between the ages of 18-34. In fact, TBS said the median viewer age was just 30 years old. “Conan’s audience has been very vocal online, and he clearly made a smooth transition from Twitter to TBS,” [...]
Conan puts first guest to Twitter vote
Conan O’Brien returns to television on TBS on November 8th, and he’s asking his Twitter fans to pick the show’s first guest. Twitter-stars Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber are among the choices, but also some highly unlikely options like Pope Benedict XVI, the Sultan of Brunei and Jack Nicholson, who hasn’t appeared on a talk [...]
