deadlinehollywooddaily.com - 3/24/2009
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I'm told that Laurence Fishburne is being paid "north of $14 million" for his CSI gig. And here the world thinks Les Moonves' CBS Inc is flat broke. But the show logged its best ratings since its season premiere, averaging 20.9 million viewers and a 5.8 rating/15 share among adults 18-49, easily ...
tvweek.com - 3/30/2009
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tvweek.com —
CBS may soon decide to pull the plug
on “Guiding Light,” the longest-running daytime drama in television...
history. While no final decision has been made, the network’s deal for the Procter & Gamble-produced drama—the least watched of the eight daytime ...
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CBS Shopping for ‘Light’ Replacement
tvbythenumbers.com - 3/24/2009
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tvbythenumbers.com —
NBC’s weekly primetime average viewership fell below 6
million average viewers for the week, a dramatically low...
number approaching the level of Spanish language Univision in every demo category. Except in the adults 18-34 demo, where NBC ...
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NBC Averages Fewer Than 6 Million Viewers And Crashes In ...
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Fishburne's $14M 'CSI' Takeover
NY Post: LIVE: The TV Blog —
... Laurence Fishburne is being paid "north of $14 million" for his role on "CSI."
The "Matrix" actor made the jump to the little screen this season to replace William Petersen on the veteran procedural crime drama as Raymond Langston, a professor and pathologist with a past chalk full of secrets.
"CSI" marks Fishburne's first prime-time TV gig after a successful big-screen career, including "What's Love got to Do With It," which earned him an Oscar nomination.
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The More You Know: Half price burgers edition
TiFaux —
... Posted by Dan March 25th, 2009 at 05:14am In General It always seems like a great, economical idea until you want to vomit an hour later. Simon Cowell is trying to get Obama to come on American Idol . Which is a bad, but sadly plausible, idea. They’re unearthing Craig T. Nelson, as well as Maura Tierney and Peter Krause, for a remake of Parenthood . Kiefer Sutherland will begin shooting the 8th season of 24 in May . Remind me to ask Laurence Fishburne for some money . An Andy Richter interview . For those interested. SFC and Beyond ...
Fishburne is the $14 million man
TV Squad —
... Well, CSI decided not to skimp when they cast Laurence Fishburne to assume the star spot on the crime drama. Fishburne is earning more than $14 million for this season of CSI. (So much for a recession!) ...
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