ABC's Duets Lands Kelly Clarkson, Robin Thicke, Lionel Richie, Jennifer Nettles

Jermaine Johnson With little competition, American Idol's Top 13 performance show ruled Wednesday evening.The 2-hour episode received 18.5 million audiences along with a 5.6 rating within the grown ups 18-to-49 demographic, surging 7 and 12 %, correspondingly, in the previous week.Idol recap: Is your champion?Other implies that loved bumps: Survivor: One World (10.six million, 3.2) - which hit a season full of the demo - Whitney (4.3 million, 1.6) and therefore are You There, Chelsea? (3.7 million, 1.5).Around the switch side, Happy Being, hampered with a Modern Family repeat, dropped about 25 % to some paltry 4.53 million along with a 2..8 p.m.CBS: Survivor: One World 10.six million audiences (3.2 demo rating)ABC: The Center (R) 5.25 million (1.5) Suburgatory (R) 4.six million (1.5)Fox: The American Idol Show 18.5 million (5.6) [8-10 p.m.]NBC: Whitney 4.3 million (1.6) Are You Currently There, Chelsea? 3.7 million (1.5)CW: One Tree Hill 1.48 million (.7)9 p.m.CBS: Criminal Minds (R) 7.two million (1.6)ABC: Modern Family (R) 6.15 million (2.4) Happy Being 4.53 million (2.)NBC: Law & Order: Special Sufferers Unit (R) 3.six million (1.)CW: America's Next Top Model 1.41 million (.6)10 p.m.CBS: CSI: Crime Scene Analysis (R) 8.3 million (1.8)ABC: Revenge legitimate 5.a million (1.4)NBC: Rock Center with John Williams 3.six million (1.)

British Actor Theo James Gets The Lead In CBS Pilot Golden Boy

British actor Theo James has landed the lead in CBS’ drama pilot Golden Boy, from Nick Wootton and Greg Berlanti. The project, produced by Warner Bros TV and Berlanti Prods., centers on Clark (James), a cop, and chronicles his meteoric rise from officer to detective and ultimately police commissioner. Ryan Phillippe was originally tapped for the role but exited shortly thereafter, triggering a lengthy auditioning process that resulted in the casting of James. James, who has a handful of credits in his native Britain, including a lead on the BBC series Bedlam, is virtually unknown in the U.S. aside from a guest spot in the first season of Downton Abbey where he played Kemal Pamuk, the Turk who died in Lady Marys bed. He made his Hollywood debut in the recent Underworld: Awakening. James is the latest non-American actor to get the lead in a pilot this pilot season. RELATED: American Actors Not Fairest Of Them All In Pilot Lead Castings

Ron Perlman drags up for Frankie Go Boom poster

Frankie Go Boom has debuted a new poster ahead of its premiere at SXSW, and it's fair to say it's one of the more attention grabbing one-sheets we've seen in the past few years.Do not adjust your set, because that is indeed Ron Perlman in a wig, make-up and a frock, starring as probably the most incongruous man in drag since Divine did her "thing" in Pink Flamingos. As for the plot, a brief synopsis has been recovered by Movieline, and it sounds just as off-the-wall as the poster would suggest."While trying to remove a compromising video from the internet, two brothers (Charlie Hunnam and Chris O'Dowd) visit a brilliant computer hacker named Phil (Ron Perlman). But when they get there, they discover that Phil is now Phyllis... and she has no intention of helping them for free."Yikes. If that didn't make you shudder, you've stronger stomachs than ours. Still, the cast is strong (Lizzie Caplan and Chris Noth are also involved) and we can't help but feel compelled by Perlman's makeover...Directed by Jordan Roberts, the film is expected to arrive later this year with a specific release date yet to be confirmed.

Fox Cancels Terra Nova, Nevertheless the Show Could Still Survive

Terra Nova Terra Nova went extinct - no less than on Fox. The dino drama not successful to acquire a renewal order within the network, TVGuide.com has confirmed. But relax a bit, Terra Nova fans: last century TV will probably shop the series along with other systems. Fall TV Scorecard: Which shows are returning? Which aren't The series, which adopted the Shannon family simply because they traveled over time in the dystopian future with a prehistoric Earth, opened up to 9.2 million audiences together with a 3.1 grownups 18-49 rating, but that fell to 7.2 million together with a couple.1 with the season finale. Terra Nova appeared to become one of the season's more pricey series to produce, the pilot alone costing a reported $10 to $20 million. Within The month of the month of january, Fox Leader of Entertainment Kevin Reilly told reporters the show "would be a thrilling wager to think about. It absolutely was helpful. We're racking your brains on... if that's the most effective show [for that schedule]. Whenever we had more holes, we'd be thrilled to lock that in. ... If this describes all we produce, we made money on it, the studio made money on it, as well as the audience loved it." Do you want another season of Terra Nova? Which network is a good fit?

Lindsay Lohan's Saturday Night Live Scores Second Highest Ratings of the Season

GCB got off to an OK start for ABC.The series opened to 7.6 million viewers and a 2.2 rating in the adults 18-to-49 demo - a marked improvement over predecessor Pan Am's final outing (3.77 million, 1.2), but well below the jet-setting show's series premiere (11 million, 3.1).Still, GCB's was the second-highest rated show in the 10 o'clock hour, helping ... Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com CSI: MiamiDesperate HousewivesFamily GuyThe ApprenticeThe SimpsonsAmerican Dad!The Good WifeOnce Upon a TimeGCBNapoleon DynamiteAmazing Race 20

Report: WGA distributed $104 million in levies

The Authors Guild of the usa has collected nearly $130 million in foreign levies from 19 nations in the last 2 decades and distributed $104 million of individuals funds, based on a lately completed report through the KPMG talking to firm.The report, spurred through the lengthy-running legal challenge towards the guild's handling of these funds, was published now around the WGA West site.Selection reported on Jan. 10 that lawyers for that WGA revealed the $104 million figure throughout a standing conference on that day in La Superior Court within the 2010 settlement of the class-action suit by William Richert ("Winter Kills").5-page KPMG report consists of formerly undisclosed particulars:The funds collected go as far back to 1992, when $1.28 million was collected from France and Germany.The biggest quantity of funds collected is at 2008, with $19.76 million.Investment interest collected in the funds within the 2 decades totaled $8.95 million $7.sixty five million of that's been moved towards the WGA West general fund to counterbalance the costs of giving this program.Admin costs, which add up to 5% of what is been sent towards the authors since 2004, came to almost $5 million.The very best year for funds given to authors was which are more recent fiscal year ended March 31, 2011, with $21.04 million.The WGA West had $21.62 million in "funds locked in balance" by last March 31.A Q&A concerning the report, also published around the WGA website, noted that 85% from the $104 million in distributed funds visited films and television projects included in WGA contracts. The rest of funds distributed were for "non-covered" works including news, sports, adult films and non-WGA animation."The report verifies the prosperity of this program, that has distributed $104 million to authors over two decades,Inch the guild stated inside a Jan. 10 statement. "Whether it wasn't for that efforts from the WGA West, these funds might have continued to be at the disposal of the foreign collection communities."Richert's 2005 suit alleged the WGA hadn't correctly handled foreign funds due scribes as compensation for telecasts along with other exhibition of writers' works. The settlement needed the WGA to pursue "best efforts" to pay for all foreign funds within 3 years and problem a study with a Large Four accounting firm to examine the foreign levies using their beginning in early the nineteen nineties.The settlement, signed this year by Judge Carl West, also needed a yearly overview of the foreign levies program included in its official annual are accountable to people. Richert attorney Neville Manley elevated concerns throughout the The month of january hearing the annual report would are unsuccessful on particulars, adding the foreign levies programs operated through the guilds have been stored under systems for fifteen years.WGA West general counsel Anthony Segall stated in reaction the annual report will have a significant degree of detail concerning the program, equal to the KPMG report.The WGA West revealed in the last annual report in This summer it was holding $25.4 million "because of people" but didn't bust out the amount of that figure originates from foreign levies. The levies for U.S. creatives started circulation following the U.S. agreement in 1989 to the Berne Convention, which determines the best of authorship for people who create pieces of art. The levies are addressed by collecting communities.West has additionally supervised pay outs of sophistication-action foreign levies suits which were filed from the Screen Stars Guild by Ken Osmond and also the Company directors Guild of the usa by William Webb. West lately left his judicial publish, departing supervision from the cases to evaluate Kenneth Freeman.Film writer Eric Hughes, who's offered like a consultant towards the litigants, belittled KMPG's review and stated it isn't an audit."An evaluation won't uncover fraud or any other improper financial activity," he stated."KPMG used the information and knowledge provided by the WGAW with no independent analysis or verification.The WGAW continues to have not created a shred of evidence within this situation and this isn't the accounting the court had guaranteed the objectors." Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Old Racists, Ex-Colleagues Among Harvey Weinstein's Latest Enemies

What week for Harvey Weinstein: Win a truckload of Oscars on Sunday, re-up on a PR war with the MPAA on Tuesday, and then today - as his company's other notable French import Intouchables prepares for its U.S. premiere in NY City - start a trans-Atlantic flame war with France's most infamously racist old coot. It's like Linsanity, but for Hollywood megalomaniacs! Weinsanity! And there's more. First though, here's the notorious, ultra-conservative French nationalist and political firebrand asshole Jean-Marie Le Pen weighing in on Intouchables, the blockbuster buddy flick about (per a Weinstein Co. statement) "a wealthy, physically disabled risk taker, the picture of established French nobility, who lost his wife in an accident and whose world is turned upside down when he hires a young, good-humored, black Muslim ex-con as his caretaker." I don't know how one exclaims, "Say whaaaa?" in French, but it probably sounds something like this: That aforementioned Weinstein Company statement translates: France is like this handicapped person stuck in this wheelchair, and we are going to have to wait for the help of these suburb youngsters and the immigration in general. I don't subscribe to this point of view. It's a movie, a novel. And we have to take it that way and not like an example for the future. It would be a disaster if France would find itself in the same situation as this poor handicapped person. On the one hand, this is just Le Pen being Le Pen. Big deal. On the other, check out Harvey being Harvey - i.e. waiting a full month after the interview aired (he acquired Intouchables' distribution and English-language remake rights last summer) to lay into the easiest, fattest target imaginable on his film's behalf: "It's not a surprise to hear such an intolerant statement from the man who founded and was president of the extreme-right, xenophobic, racist National Front party. Le Pen made a repulsive statement, representing a bigoted world view. And right now, Jean-Marie's daughter, Marine Le Pen, is running for president of France as the leader of the National Front party -- and she is fourth in the polls with almost 16% of the population intending to vote for her. That's frightening to me, and I think it's important to speak up and speak out against Le Pen and his ideas. That's why I'm proud to bring THE INTOUCHABLES to American audiences. This movie is based on a true story, and it's a funny, extremely entertaining illustration of how simple human connection trounces socioeconomic, religious and racial divides." Perfect. Did I mention Intouchables premieres this evening as the Opening Night film of Lincoln Center's prestigious Rendez-Vous with French Cinema series and opens May 25 in limited release? Ahem. Meanwhile, all of Harvey's recent protesting-too-much has received one of its most devastating rebuttals to date from Jeff Lipsky, the former indie exec turned filmmaker who got his start in the Weinsteins' Miramax regime. That experience yielded today's extraordinary takedown at indieWIRE, where Lipsky further exposed Harvey's hypocritical, gratuitously self-serving and exploitative handling of his documentary Bully: I hate bullying and always have. I also have an abiding contempt for hypocrisy. If Harvey has, in fact, reformed, he needs to come out and say so publicly. He needs to own his past behavior, admit to his addiction bullying is an addiction, after all, both to power and dominance and pledge to never bully anyone again. If hes looking for ink and controversy (and he certainly is) theres no more honest or powerful way for him and the film to get it. [...] Harvey, you have a rare opportunity with Bully to actually move the needle and leave the world a better place. I believe that youd like to see bullying stop. I believe that you want every child, parent, and educator in America to see Bully, and not just for the boxoffice. So get up on that incredibly high horse of yours and use that bully pulpit to assure children, parents and educators everywhere that if you can reform, anyone can. Light a fire, Harvey, for every kid thats ever bullied someone and for every parent who taught them how. Ouch. Your move, Harvey. Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.