Mixed most current listings for nets' weekend fare

The broadcast systems perform a reasonably good job of delivering ratings for your low-rated weekend several hours with unscripted and news programs -- but not every them work. Fox struck out Saturday having its Jennifer Lopez-fronted Latin Americas talent show "Q' Viva! The Chosen.Inch And on one evening, NBC's burnoff of "The Firm" ongoing to produce a small amount. According to preliminary Nielsen national estimations for Saturday, "Q' Viva" came only .7 rating/2 participate grownups 18-49 and two.2 million audiences overall from 8 to 10 p.m. -- behind ABC, Univision and CBS inside the demo. 7 days earlier, Fox did single. rating for Saturday by getting an hour or so of "Cops" together with a repeat of "The Finder." At NBC, "The Firm" -- demoted from Thursday lately -- settled for just about any prelim .4/one out of 18-49 and two.2 million audiences, doing the identical demo score becasue it is repeat "Smash" lead-in. Faring better on Saturday was ABC's limited-run news series "20/20: My Extreme Affliction" (prelim 1.3/4 in 18-49, 4.9 million), which compares the lives of people having a couple of of medicine's most two extremes or who've unbelievable abilities. It won from 9-11 p.m. while using net's best showing inside the slot since the Miss America Pageant within the month of the month of january. And also on Friday, the big Four have began towards the realization that alternative series are the easiest method to make use of the outlet hour, where roughly just 30% in the country's under-50 adult inhabitants are watching television. CBS and NBC started the summer season with pricey scripted skeins "A Gifted Guy" and "Chuck," correspondingly, but walk inside a brand new direction this winter. On Friday, the interest won with feel-good reality show "Undercover Boss" (prelim 2./7 in 18-49, 9.6 000 0000) and NBC was round the upswing with genealogy-designed reality show "Who You Think You are?Inch (prelim 1.5/5 in 18-49, 7.6 000 0000), which made an appearance to acquire a week-to-week boost by spotlighting Reba McEntire. ABC remains enhanced inside the hour too with entreprenuerial-designed reality show "Shark Tank" (second-place 1.7/6 in 18-49, 6.millions of) and Fox is solid with Gordon Ramsey restaurant skein "Kitchen Bad dreams or nightmares.Inch Despite a repeat "Kitchen Bad dreams or nightmaresInch inside the mix (1./3 in 18-49), the big Four combined for just about any combined 6.2/20 in grownups 18-49 in Friday's 8 o'clock hour -Up in the 4.4/15 round the comparable evening this past year. Also of ratings note in the last weekend will be a strong perf for "Saturday Evening Live," situated by She. The show averaged a 5.5 household rating/14 participate Nielsen's metered-market overnights, it is the the second best consequence of year (behind only the evening NBC broadcast a Saturday playoff game in primetime). Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com

Pilot Season: Mira Sorvino to Star in CBS' Trooper

Bristol Palin Bristol Palin can't get enough of the reality show spotlight. The daughter of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will star in her own docuseries on Lifetime called Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp, the network announced Wednesday. As the name indicates, the series will focus on the younger Palin being a single mother to her toddler son Tripp as she adjusts to living alone in Alaska. Sarah and Bristol Palin trademark their names Palin previously placed third in the 11th season of Dancing with the Stars and appeared on her mother's TLC docuseries, Sarah Palin's Alaska. "From the first moment she was thrust into the public eye, Bristol and her son have been the subjects of a huge amount of curiosity and misunderstanding," Lieftime's Rob Sharenow said in a statement. "This show will reveal the real Bristol Palin and her journey as a daughter, a mother and a young woman making her way in the world." The 10 half-hour episodes will air later this year.

Former Real Housewife Bethenny Frankel: I Experienced a Miscarriage

Denzel Washington Carrying out a slow start for Safe House, the film edged the Vow for your No. 1 devote this area office throughout Presidents' Day Weekend. The Denzel Washington-fronted film, which finished third on Friday, made an thought $28.4 million inside the four-day weekend, according to Box Office Mojo. The Vow, which acquired no. 1 place a week ago with roughly $41.7 million, fell to No. 2 now, getting inside an additional $26.6 000 0000. Box Office: Moviegoers purchase The Vow, Safe House starts solid Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, starring The Rock, showed up at No. 3 with $26.4 million. Nicolas Cage's Ghost Driver follow-up, Spirit of Vengeance, didn't burn as gaily since the first film, drawing only $25.7 million for fourth place. (Its predecessor first demonstrated to $52 million in 2007.) Other era This Means War, starring Reese Witherspoon, Tom Sturdy and Chris Pine, bowed to $20.4 million to simply accept No. 5 place. At No. 6, the 3-D re-relieve Stars Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace introduced in $10.2 million, while Chronicle fell for the No. 7 place with $9.2 million. Rounding the very best ten: The Important Thing Arena of Arrietty (No. 8, $8.millions of), The Woman in Black (No. 9, $7.9 million), as well as the Grey (No. 10, $3.8 million)

Berlinale Dispatch: A Chinese Epic plus an Indonesian Zoo Tale Vie for your Jury's Favor

Today might be the following-to-last day's competition tests in the Berlinale, meaning people take an opportunity of a possible champion for the extent that forthcoming nexus s ever possible. The 2011 jury is headed by Mike Leigh, at dinner another evening some pals which i were playing the WWMLL What Is Going To Mike Leigh Like? game. Voting for honours can be a democratic process, nevertheless the jury leader can set a bad tone. Nonetheless, its hard to say, searching around inside the Berlinale 2012 bag, what Leigh and co. might choose. Professionals faves up to now seem to become Christian Petzolds Barbara, a distinctive, slow-building drama occur seventies East Germany, and Miguel Gomes Tabu, an inventive melodrama that employs old-school movie conventions and sensuous black-and-white-colored cinematography to weave an account of love and loss. But experts faves together with a jurys options dont always align. At this time around, the region is quite open. Im wondering just what a Mike Leigh-introduced jury will consider Postcards within the Zoo, with the youthful Indonesian filmmaker who passes the title Edwin. Postcards can be a gentle story, getting a loose-jointed, somewhat impressionistic narrative structure, of a youthful lady, Lana (Ladya Cheryl), who stays her existence in the Jakarta zoo, though she doesn't formally work there. She helps bathe the zoos baby tiger she knows many particulars in regards to the zoos tigers, which she shares authoritatively while using zoos site site visitors and, eventually, she occupies with another zoo denizen, a magician-cowboy who turns her into his assistant and accomplice. (She dons an Indian-girl outfit and takes her devote his knife-throwing routine.) Throughout this meandering journey of self-discovery, Lana also becomes a massage girl inside a health health spa, serving males who nonchalantly remain in for full-service satisfaction, together with a happy ending (if theyre prepared to cover this). The look is superbly shot the very first section is actually a quantity of postcards, an easy meditation round the zoos peaceful, inspiring character, including shots from the mother and baby hippo idling in the pool, together with a droll little sequence through which Lana muses aloud about why one of the tigers wont eat. (She surmises he feels sorry for your chickens that become his dinner.) Postcards, Edwins second feature, is actually low-key that it's emotional effects dont really linger the look does not matter, nonetheless it is also reasonably enjoyable, particularly due to its pensive, low-key aura. Wang Quanans White-colored Deer Plain, however, isn't low-key. This nearly-three-hour Chinese epic includes no real fight moments and extremely little pageantry, nevertheless it does something thats possibly harder to tug off: It wrestles while using changes and struggles the nation experienced between 1910, the conclusion of Imperial China, and 1938, time in the Japanese invasion. The story, an adaptation from the questionable historic novel by Chen Zhongshi, uses the power struggle between two village families difficult thats intensified with the lady, carried out by an significant actress named Cat Zhang Yugi, who gets into their midst as a means of talking about sweeping or painful alteration of China throughout the initial half from the final century. The look is gorgeous to look at - well, not the famine sections, but virtually otherwise. Wang features a weakness for showing, over and over again, the twinkling golden wheat fields that play part inside the story, and they are beautiful. An individuals figures, sadly, frequently possess a back burners for the scenery. Theyre cogs inside the machinery of the united states and because in the movie, too possibly thats intentional, nevertheless it does keep White-colored Deer Plain from being as including as possible. You never know, from what weve seen up to now, just what the Berlinale 2012 jury applies to? (The crowd includes Franois Ozon, Mike Gyllenhaal, Anton Corbijn and Charlotte now now Gainsbourg, additionally to Asghar Farhadi, the director of last years Golden Bear champion A Separation.) A Hungarian picture that examined today, Bene Fliegaufs Just the Wind, draws its written content from recent real-existence problems, through which several Romany families were wiped out inside their houses, the targets of racial hate. The look is harrowing, yet it's also somewhat detached Fliegauf frequently works harder than he must, maybe, to underscore the panic and anxiety visited upon the town inside the wake of individuals killings. Nevertheless the picture is topical, and thats an excellent making a jury crunches and get sucked in. Well see what continues on Saturday, by which time Ill have bid the Berlinale adieu for the next year though before that, Ill be checking along with a review of Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerods Bel Ami, featuring the Pale One themselves, Rachelle Lefervre. Discover much more of Movieline's coverage within the 2012 Berlinale here. Follow Stephanie Zacharek on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Music's Best Remember Whitney Houston

Kelly Rowland The annual celebration of music's smartest stars converted to a mental tribute for most likely probably the most legendary artists ever, after Whitney Houston out of the blue died on February 11, every day just before the Grammy Honours. "This can be my eleventh show, which i'd say this really is really probably the most emotional Grammys that i've ever personally attempted... however it should be,In . mentioned Neil Portnow, leader in the Recording Academy, following a show. "Transpire was pretty apparent," he added. "[The tribute] should be simple, it should be elegant, it should be advantageous, it should be inspiring also it should be healing because many of us are doing harm to badly.Inch Moments just before the show, site visitors and artists shared their applying for grants Houston's dying simply because they hit peak red-colored-colored carpet with mixed feelings. "I'm conflicted," Gayle King told TV Guide Magazine. "You have to celebrate individuals who've labored so desperately all year long lengthy extended, however everybody feels very sad in regards to the passing of Whitney Houston." Site visitors came prepared to share their preferred memory or Whitney song, as well as the recognition of Houston's talent was unanimous among her peers. "Whitney Houston will be a brilliant singer, [and] a great specialist," mentioned Corinne Bailey Ray. "Just like a girl, I used to be inspired by her joyfulness, to ensure that like a music artist I'm inspired by her technical capabilities and how she made something appear easy." The honours reveal - numerous complex puzzle pieces that in some manner meet up the evening just before the live telecast - also faced some challenges, getting a final-minute addition of "I'll Always Adore YouInch completed by Jennifer Hudson. Right before the show, Kelly Rowland expressed concern on her behalf friend as well as the pressure to complete beneath the conditions. "I am unsure how she'll contain her feelings," the Destiny's Child singer mentioned. "I realize she's [nervous]." Despite the fact that many relived their encounters while using legendary songstress, others were thrilled only to occur to take part in her existence in a few small way. "I didn't meet her, however met [Whitney's daughter] Bobbi Kristina, and he or she mentioned they seen Drake & Josh and her mother thought I used to be funny," recalls Community's Yvette Nicole Brown. "So she understood that we existed that was enough personally.InchSign as much as TV Guide Magazine now!

National Theatre Live Broadcast of 'Traveling Light'

National Theatre Live Broadcast of 'Traveling Light' Feb 8, 2012 "Traveling Light" For individuals individuals who choose plays, movies, or silence, you are in luck. Nicholas Wright includes a new play that imagines the birth of quiet film inside a remote eastern European village in the turn from the twentieth century. Despite the fact that this production has been carried out across the Atlantic Sea in London's National Theatre, National Theatre Live is broadcasting the performance on February. 12 at 4 p.m. to 100s of movie theaters and carrying out arts venues all over the world. You can view this stream in the James Bridge Theater in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and tv, 235 Charles E. Youthful Dr., L.A. Call (310) 827-0889 or visit world wide web.latw.org. Tickets are $20 ($10 with student ID). For locations in New york city, in which the play is going to be broadcast beginning on February. 9, and across the nation, visit world wide web.ntlive.com. National Theatre Live Broadcast of 'Traveling Light' Feb 8, 2012 "Traveling Light" For individuals individuals who choose plays, movies, or silence, you are fortunate. Nicholas Wright includes a new play that imagines the birth of quiet film inside a remote eastern European village in the turn from the twentieth century. Despite the fact that this production has been carried out over the Atlantic Sea in London's National Theatre, National Theatre Live is broadcasting the performance on February. 12 at 4 p.m. to 100s of movie theaters and carrying out arts venues all over the world. You can view this stream in the James Bridge Theater in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and tv, 235 Charles E. Youthful Dr., L.A. Call (310) 827-0889 or visit world wide web.latw.org. Tickets are $20 ($10 with student ID). For locations in New york city, in which the play is going to be broadcast beginning on February. 9, and across the nation, visit world wide web.ntlive.com.

B.O.: More 'Money' remaining along with you

Lionsgate's Katherine Heigl starrer 'One for your Money' is predicted to think about between $13 and $15 million for your weekend.Open Road's 'The Grey' leads the B.O. pack and may gross between $15 million and $17 million for your weekend.Open Road's wolf adventure pic "The Grey" is searching on course to win the weekend box office, early Friday B.O. estimations for Lionsgate's "One your hard earned money can buyInch are delivering something from the surprise. Midweek monitoring had put Katherine Heigl starrer "One" inside the $5 million-$7 million range through Sunday. But Friday mid-day grosses -- elevated mainly having a special from coupon website Groupon -- show the pic angling to usher in between $13 million and $15 million in the last weekend frame. "The Grey" is around the pace to consider between $5 million and $6 000 0000 on Friday, putting it in line to earn between $15 million and $17 million for your weekend. Which means that Summit's "Guy around the Ledge" will most likely take third place among the trio of openers. Box office experts estimate "Ledge" to earn between $2 million and $2.5 million Friday, positioning the Mike Worthington-toplined action thriller to earn $6 000 0000 to $8 million through Sunday. Summit also offered an internet-based deal for "Ledge" using the Living Social site, but monitoring by Friday mid-day doesn't show the pic producing greater than data had indicated this year's week. Meanwhile, Screen Gems' holdover "Underworld: Awakening" will most likely be lower by about 60% within the soph sesh, putting the fourth installment inside the vampire versus. werewolves franchise in line to earn around $millions of. Contact Rachel Abrams at Rachel.Abrams@variety.com