RATINGS RAT RACE: Once Upon A Time, Allen Gregory Hit Series Lows, Hallmark Hall Of Fame Barely Registers On New Net

As Americans were wrapping up the four-day Thanksgiving weekend last night, some stayed away from their TVs, leading to depressed ratings for the broadcast networks. (We’ve yet to get numbers for The Walking Dead fall finale on AMC.) ABC may be having second thoughts about picking up the Hallmark Hall Of Fame original movie franchise after it was dropped by CBS at the end of last season. In the franchise’s first ABC outing, the telefilm Mitch Albom’s Have A Little Faith posted an underwhelming 1.1/2 in 18-49, down a whopping 48% from November Christmas, which aired on CBS on the same night last year. In 18-49, Have A Little Faith was by far the lowest-rated program of the night despite having the night’s highest-rated entertainment program as a lead-in: freshman drama Once Upon A Time, which slipped 11% from its last original two weeks ago to a series low but still robust 3.4/8. At 7 PM, America’s Funniest Home Videos (1.8/4) was up 6%. Following an NFL overrun, Fox’s The Cleveland Show (1.9/5) was up 6% from its 7:30 PM time slot premiere last Sunday. The Simpsons (2.6/6) was down a tenth, while rookie Allen Gregory (1.5/3) accelerated its ratings descent, down 15% to a new series low. How long before Fox swaps Allen Gregory and Cleveland? At 9 PM, Family Guy (2.8/6) was down 13%,and American Dad (2.2/5) was down 8%. NBC once again won the night with Sunday Night Football, but the sports franchise continued its downward ratings trend from the previous week. Last nights game, in which the Steelers defeated the Chiefs 13-9, posted a 12.5 overnight rating/19 share. That was down 11% from last week and down 4% from last years Week 12 game that featured the Colts hosting the Chargers. CBS’ lineup was once again pushed back by NFL overrun, which boosted 60 Minutes to a 3.6/8, up 24% from last week. The Amazing Race (2.4/5, down 14%) was followed by a Person Of Interest rerun.

SAG Foundation Leader JoBeth Wiliams Praises Quiet Philanthropists

In their publish as leader in the nonprofit and philanthropic Screen Stars Guild Foundation, JoBeth Williams handles a slew of outreach programs. Here, the veteran of film ("The Big Chill") and television ("Dexter") shares the finest and several rewarding challenges of her guild publish.The Hollywood Reporter: You've been a SAG member since 1979, if you made your film debut as Dustin Hoffman's girlfriend in "Kramer versus. Kramer." How perhaps you have try the SAG Foundation? JoBeth Williams: I used to be round the national board in the guild, and actress Bonnie Bartlett asked for me essentially understood in regards to the foundation's work. I didn't. She described by mentioning wonderful programs, and [actor] Esai Morales described he'd been connected with this literacy program, BookPals. I loved the idea of stars helping other stars. Our profession is actually up minimizing no matter amount of success, many of us undergo periods of not receiving that which you need. I really seriously considered involved, to ensure that they selected me for the board. couple of years later, in 2007, they selected me leader.THR: This is often a volunteer job. The amount of time can you spend transporting this out? Williams: At this time around, I'm very involved as there exists a new executive director, Jill Seltzer. I'm also on every committee, so you will discover some several days I'm investing 30 to 40 several hours. I'm around the telephone a good deal I'm delivering e-mails, searching to obtain people get to occasions and lead. We are always searching to produce on new board people. And, clearly, I'm furthermore a functional actress.THR: The inspiration runs many outreach programs, like BookPals, while offering financial aid to individuals who require healthcare or can't pay rent. What's your finest challenge to managing these needs? Williams: Funding its it, clearly, but furthermore getting our individuals to even understand about the programs. For example, with BookPals, I'm wishing we have more funding with this. It is rather simple enough to accomplish in L.A., but we are a national organization, too as with certain areas, high aren't as much people, we would like donations. The inspiration is outdoors from the guild and funded wholly by donations no dues are used. We are essentially a charitable organization.We recently did this incredible golf tournament to enhance money for that catastrophic health program combined with wonderful stars like Ray Romano, Ron Perlman and Scott Bakula participate. Many of them described, "I didn't understand about the SAG Foundation." Now Ron desires to join the board. He described, "If only to get the message to my fellow stars about these programs."THR: What areas hold the finest need at this time around? Williams: We have strong requirement of emergency health care assistance. Also, our literacy programs, like [the streaming video site] Story Online, are growing quickly. We have numerous web hits around the globe for Story. Annette Bening just read the sunday paper online, and James Earl Manley did one too. Teachers enjoy it, and kids around the world are able to see these incredible stars. It is always good to acquire strong funding for Story since it reaches lots of youthful people.THR: What's the most important factor SAG is doing to affect Hollywood?Williams: SAG established the recommendations that prevent stars from being scammed. The 12-hour turn-around, meal breaks items that we ignore now however, you see daily and realize that these rules weren't forever in position. THR: What moments throughout your tenure stand out as particularly poignant? Williams: When people showed up at us and say, "I am unable to have the ability to pay medical insurance because I'm ill and really should not work." We now have had numerous well-known names showed up at us in occasions of need we never say who they may be, clearly which is definitely amazing in my opinion. The actor's existence can be a ride. You never know when it will occur. The Hollywood Reporter

UPDATED: George Michael In Vienna Hospital With Pneumonia

First Published: November 23, 2011 6:16 PM EST Credit: Getty Images Caption George Michael kicks off his 25 Live tour in San Diego, June 17, 2008VIENNA, Austria -- George Michaels publicist says the British singer has been hospitalized in Vienna with pneumonia. Connie Filippello said Wednesday that Michaels upcoming tours in Vienna, Strasbourg, France, and Cardiff, Wales, have been postponed as a result and will be rescheduled. Her statement said the singer has been diagnosed with pneumonia and he is currently receiving treatment. Austrian state broadcaster says that is happening at Viennas AKH hospital. A woman who answered the phone there refused to comment due to privacy rules. She also did not give her name. Michael, 48, canceled his planned Vienna concert on Monday two hours before it was due to start. Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Movie Academy Preident Tom Sherak To Produce Family Sitcom For ABC

EXCLUSIVE: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Tom Sherak is already in business with ABC over the broadcasting of the Academy Awards. Now he is adding to that producing duties on a family comedy project created and executive produced by High Fidelity scribe Steve Pink and Jeff Morris. ABC has just bought the pitch, We’ll Be Out By Christmas, which is based on real-life experiences by Sherak and his producer wife Madeleine when their daughter moved back into the family home with her three kids while her husband while getting his MBA. Tom and Madeleine Sherak will executive produce the hybrid comedy through their My Bench Prods., along with Tom’s son, producer William Sherak, and Jason Shuman through their Blue Star Entertainment. The Sheraks originally sold the pitch as a feature to Paramount in 2009 with different writers, Kristen Buckley and Brian Regan. Veteran film marketing and distribution executive Tom Sherak’s only producing credits to date are features Rent and The One, so this would mark his TV debut. UTA-repped Pink recently directed the 2010 movie Hot Tub Time Machine and produced Knight And Day. Morris is with WME and Art/Work Entertainment. My Bench and Blue Star were repped in the deal by attorney Scott Whitehead.

Demi Moore Divorce: Actress Files for Split from Ashton Kutcher

Non-shocking news from the world of Hollywood marriages: Demi Moore has told the Associated Press that she's filing for divorce from Ashton Kutcher. The celebrity couple was besieged with rumors of a split since September, when gossip magazines reported Kutcher was with another woman in San Diego on Sept. 24 -- the night of Kutcher and Moore's wedding anniversary. "It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton," Moore said in a statement to the AP. "As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life. This is a trying time for me and my family, and so I would ask for the same compassion and privacy that you would give to anyone going through a similar situation." Moore and Kutcher are quite intertwined in each other's lives: not only did they co-launch the DNA foundation, an organization that combats child-sex exploitation around the world, but Moore also has Kutcher's name on her Twitter handler. As of post time, Moore had not changed the account name. Meanwhile, Kutcher tweeted his own thoughts on the split. "Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail," he wrote. "Love and Light, AK." For more on Moore and Kutcher, head over to Huffington Post. [Photo: AP] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Visual Cool: The Title Design Of Saul Bass

In honor of the publication of Saul Bass: A Life In Film & Design, Art of the Title editor-in-chief Ian Albinson assembled this compilation of clips from some of Bass’ memorable designs for movies. In addition, the Museum of Modern Art featured a screening and talk Monday night with the NY premiere of Saul and Elaine Bass’s Academy Award-winning short Why Man Creates (1968), newly preserved by the Academy Film Archive, and a selection of title sequences, commercials and corporate campaigns. Bass created titles for Psycho, The Man with the Golden Arm, Spartacus, The Seven Year Itch, West Side Story, Walk on the Wild Side, Anatomy of a Murder and many other classics. He also designed posters for numerous Academy Awards ceremonies. Bass, who died November 14, 1996, also created logos for Dixie, Quaker Oats, United Airlines and many other companies. If you’re curious a section of thissite is dedicated to Bass movie stills.

'Hunger Games' Trailer: Are You Currently Presently Lost?

"The Hunger Games" trailer will be here, by the design of things, the options ever in your favor if you know what happens you're searching at, that's. For fans of Suzanne Collins' books, this really is really the very best look yet within the Jennifer Lawrence starring adaptation. Getting see the book, I'm happy while using outcome. But people people who haven't read "The Hunger Games," I understand some mind-itchiness inside the new trailer. Most likely probably the most extensive "Hunger Games" look yet, this new trailer still handles to keep a great lid round the best surprises the story must offer while still giving plenty of teases worth eating on, like the ceremonial Taking pleasure in, Katniss and her fellow tributes planning within the Training Center, encouragement from Woodsy Harrelson as Haymitch plus much more. It's just enough the educated "Hunger Games" fan reaches see familiar figures and beats, but minus the finest moments are actually blown in addition to recommended at while watching movie's release. Nonetheless, I'm unsure a clip is user-friendly for just about any viewer that has not see the books. You can lead to the fair argument a clip doesn't clearly outline just what the Games are, why they exist, or perhaps the rules in the competition (aside from Katniss' brief explain that you will find only capable of being one champion). If you don't know very well what "Hunger Games" is about beginning a clip, I'm unsure that you'll probably leave any clearer about the subject. Should you are among the numerous which has not been uncovered to "Hunger Games," did this trailer apparent anything up to suit your needs, or still at night time? Inform us inside the comments section and also on Twitter!

Kerbside Takes note of 'Albert Nobbs,' Prepares to Mount Late Campaign for 'Margin Call'

Scott FeinbergJanet McTeer and Glenn Close Earlier today, I'd the pleasure of trading some time inside a reception in Hollywood while using folks within the film Albert Nobbs, including stars Glenn Close (who, along with John Banville, co-modified the script in the short story), Jesse McTeer (who now began coping with Close round the TV series Damages), and Mia Wasikowska (who was simply also magnificent this year in Jane Eyre and Restless) director Rodrigo Garcia (who two occasions formerly directed Close and gave Wasikowska her large break by casting her round the recently canceled Cinemax show In Treatment) and composer John Byrne (who increased being connected using the project within the native Ireland).our editor recommendsGlenn Close Scores Best Actress Prize at Tokyo, japan, japan Film Festival for 'Albert Nobbs''Albert Nobbs' Trailer: Glenn Close Dons Drag to see 19th-Century British Butler (Video) The large event was situated by Kerbside Sights, the small studio that brought The Cove (2009) with a best documentary Oscar couple of years ago and Winter's Bone (2010) to best picture, best actress, best supporting actor, and greatest modified script Oscar nominations a year ago. This year, they are strongly pushing Nobbs, using the expectation of scoring Close a best actress jerk (and possibly work-acknowledgement victory) and McTeer a best supporting actress jerk -- and, they made a decision in the last 48-several hours, another film, too: Margin Call, which was written and directed starting with-time filmmaker J.C. Chandor featuring an incredible ensemble cast introduced by Zachary Quinto, Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Paul Bettany, Stanley Tucci, Demi Moore, and Mary McDonnell. STORY: Glenn Close's Passion Project 'Albert Nobbs' Premieres Margin Call, which was created for just $3.5 million and shot in just 17 days in NY City, opened up within the Sundance Film Festival within the month of the month of january. Kerbside and Lionsgate acquired its distribution rights through the festival, then needed the film for the Berlin Film Festival, and ultimately released it simultaneously in choose theaters and also on VOD on October 21. Passionate reviews from the 3 major high-profile experts and timely written content aided to elicit strong turnout at movie houses and phenomenal interest on VOD (that's the way in which when i first seen it this year's week), as well as the resulting word-of-mouth buzz and media attention have convinced the studio the film -- which received a best ensemble Gotham Honours jerk captured -- features a very good shot at garnering major honours attention inside the future and many days: a best ensemble SAG jerk together with a best original script Oscar jerk being most likely probably the most realistic targets possibly best supporting actor SAG/Globe/Oscar nods for Irons and/or Spacey (although are both presently working overseas and for your reason unable to complete all of the glad-handing that effective honours campaigns usually demand) and, unlikely while not impossible, a best picture Oscar jerk. STORY: Glenn Close on Existence, Work, and also the options of Oscar Recognition for 'Albert Nobbs' Consequently, screeners are actually mailed for the HFPA, with others for SAG as well as the Academy still along the way Quinto does SAG Q&As and may probably attend the Gothams, possibly with Irons together with others in the cast and Kerbside is starting to buy ads on various websites that may be read by honours voters. Basically, they're all in. STORY: Mia Waikowska on her behalf account Busy Year in 'Jane Eyre,' 'Restless' and 'Albert Nobbs' (Audio) Since it calculates, Margin Call, against all odds, risk embracing function as one true "late surprise" in the honours season that individuals've all been waiting for. PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Hollywood's 10 Finest-Paid out Stars Winter's Bone Margin Call Albert Nobbs Honours Season Preview

'Glee's' Cory Monteith on 'The First Time' Episode

From coming out to friends and family to teen pregnancy, Fox's "Glee" has never shied away from telling stories teenagers face on a daily basis and Tuesday's "The First Time" episode is no different.The installment features two of the series' most beloved couples Rachel (Lea Michele) and Finn (Cory Monteith) as well as Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Blaine (Darren Criss) -- taking the next step in their committed, long-term relationships: sex."Having watched it myself, I think it was a really well done episode and I think it handled a lot of sensitive topics very maturely," Monteith tells "The Hollywood Reporter."Tuesday's "Glee" features both nods to safe sex and teen pregnancy when Finn turns to Puck (Mark Salling) for advice about condoms and instead gets a funny yet poignant line that references Puck and Quinn's (Dianna Agron) Season 1 pregnancy story line."Puck says, 'I don't use 'em and it works for me 99 percent of the time,' " Monteith says. "I think the show has a certain level of responsibility to advocate for teenagers making better choices. To see a scene that implies that teenagers have the opportunity to make the right choices in situations like that is pretty cool."With Finn already having lost his virginity in a Season 2 story line in which he and Santana (Naya Rivera) did the deed in a bid for the school quarterback to up his cool factor, Monteith says he approached Finn and Rachel's intimate story line as if it were the character's first time."Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) has a speech [in the episode] that I liked about her first time and how it was enjoyable because her first time was with someone she loved," he says. "That's very much Finn's experience because it's an emotionally committed relationship for him. In a sense, Santana is water under the bridge."While there may be a red flag or two in the episode indicating that Finn may not know Rachel as well as he thinks he does he serves a vegetarian Rachel dinner that includes meat on the menu -- ultimately Monteith says the couple's sexually active status can only mean good things for the duo that has certainly seen its share of ups and downs."I think it's only going to strengthen it because they have such a history," he says. "I think they both, from what I can see from what's coming down the pike from writers, they are both very much committed and symbiotic.""Finn is smart like a fox; he's certainly come a long way in the last year and a half but is still very young and I think forgetting that his girlfriend was a vegetarian was something Finn would do just because he's Finn, not because he doesn't know Rachel," he adds."While Michele told "THR" in October that Finn is "deciding if he's an Ohio boy or if he's going to come to NY," Monteith says Rachel will continue to stand by Finn's side after he receives some bad news about his post-high school plans in Tuesday's episode from a football recruiter visiting McKinley."The romantic relationship will continue and she's very much a support system for him," Monteith says. "She's very much there for him and she's not taking any of his shortcomings personally and not sweating him so he can get through what he needs to get through. It's a healthy relationship."As for Finn's uncertain future, Monteith says Finn could consider any number of options, including working at Burt's (Mike O'Malley) garage, exploring other colleges with football programs or putting a greater emphasis on his performance in New Directions.Meanwhile, Monteith is very pleased with the way Tuesday's episode turned out and singles out a Kurt-Blaine scene as his most memorable of the episode."Darren Criss and Chris Colfer have a parking lot scene and the way that they handled it was really brilliant; it was very mature and I loved it," he says of the scene in which Kurt rejects a tipsy Blaine's advances."I'm a huge fan of this episode and it's very personal to me," he says. "I feel like it's a good accomplishment for the show. It's one of the best [episodes] so far." The Hollywood Reporter

Exclusive: Not such a long time ago Casts Lost's Emilie p Ravin As Belle

Emily p Ravin Not such a long time ago has showed up another Lost alum. Emilie p Ravin, who carried out Australian castaway Claire round the ABC island mystery series, remains cast as Belle, just like Beauty as well as the Beast's Belle, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. ABC's Not such a long time ago turns favorite anecdotes into reality Nuances of her role are scarce, but we hear Once's Belle might have a connection to Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle). Unsure on when the titular Animal look, but Gaston is slated to look too. The 29-year-old Roswell alum has starred such films as Remember Me, Public Competitors and Brick. She'll first are available in Episode 12, slated to air early next season.