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weber_dubois22The Second CBS Ad, Promoting Ghost Whisperer and MEDIUM together (Contains Footage from Ghost Whisperer's Fifth Season Premiere, but nothing new from Medium's Sixth Season Unfortunately).
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A boring Friday before Labor Day, but at least the Medium repeat was in its new time slot and we’re only three weeks away from reporting on Dollhouse’s season premiere!
A night of split leadership as CBS won the adults 18-49 demographic and a Dateline-fueled NBC won the most viewers. CBS won the night with adults 18-49, in an all rerun-filled night (that will at least mirror its fall schedule) with Ghost Whisperer’s 1.3/5 (rating/share) with adults 18-49 and 5.05 million viewers, Medium (1.3/5, 5.11) and Numb3rs (1.2/4, 5.1M). It’s very risky to make predictions based on viewing of repeats, but if you ignore such precautions and do it anyway, it looks like Ghost Whisperer and Medium go together like peas and carrots.
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weber_dubois22While the CBS Fall Preview may of been a mixture of disappointment (on the Medium side of things, but I suppose its too early to show anything relatively new, video-wise, from the new season. Either that, or their still filming episodes) and interesting, globaltv360TV2 has uploaded a new Promo from CBS, featuring both Ghost Whisperer and Medium, using the one of the Eurythmics' most famous songs, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)". Very cool, IMHO.
Medium will stay in Friday slot
Aug. 21st, 2009 05:03 pmweber_dubois22Medium fans take note: If you've been following the Patricia Arquette psychodrama these past few seasons, you know you have to be almost psychic to keep up with the pre-emptions, schedule changes, rumours of cancellation and other assorted near-death experiences.
If you've been following the fall season announcements, you also know Medium will return this fall -- somewhat unexpectedly -- for a sixth season, but on a new parent network: CBS. What you may not know is that CBS is now showing reruns from last season on Friday nights. Many TV listings don't reflect this. Now you know. The move is intended to get Medium fans used to the idea that the program will air on Friday nights from now on, when it returns with new episodes on Sept. 25.
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If you've been following the fall season announcements, you also know Medium will return this fall -- somewhat unexpectedly -- for a sixth season, but on a new parent network: CBS. What you may not know is that CBS is now showing reruns from last season on Friday nights. Many TV listings don't reflect this. Now you know. The move is intended to get Medium fans used to the idea that the program will air on Friday nights from now on, when it returns with new episodes on Sept. 25.
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Fans of Medium were relieved when CBS decided to pick up the show after NBC did not renew it for the fall schedule, and today, president of CBS Entertainment Nina Tassler told reporters that her network will do Medium better than its original broadcaster.
"On behalf of the studio, I don't think NBC really treated the show the way it should have been treated, where it was put on the schedule, how it was supported," Tassler said in a press conference at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, Calif. "To get Emmy winner Patricia Arquette on Friday night for us was a home run."
Tassler did not remember the specific chronology of when NBC let Medium go and when CBS swooped in, but she recalls proactively chasing the show. "When we did know that we had an opportunity, we jumped at it," Tassler continued. "We're thrilled with the show. I can't remember the actual chronology, but it was pretty fast."
Medium joins Ghost Whisperer on CBS Friday nights in the fall. The two shows create a supernatural block for CBS, with both Patricia Arquette and Jennifer Love Hewitt playing characters with the power to communicate with spirits of the dead. For now, that is where the similarities will end, but Tassler remained open to the possibility of crossovers in the future.
"It's never too soon [to consider]," Tassler said. "Their mythologies are different, and we haven't talked about a crossover, but it's possible. I think right now the shows have a different language. They have a different skill set, different rules, etc., but once we get the show launched and comfortable in its time period, we could certainly talk about it."
Medium premieres on CBS Sept. 25 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
SOURCEOn CBS, Will "Medium" Remain Well-Done?
Jun. 7th, 2009 05:06 pmweber_dubois22On Monday night, NBC aired what it billed as the "finale" of Medium, the drama starring Patricia Arquette as a psychic crime solver and mother of three in Phoenix. When my partner and I saw that word "finale" in the teaser for Monday's episode, we nearly fainted. In the five years since its debut, Medium has become the only network show we watch without fail every week, and it's right in the middle of several long-term story arcs too juicy to be wrapped up in a single hour.
But, mercifully, NBC's teaser was misleading. What the peacock was too proud to add is that after a heated negotiation at last month's TV upfronts, the show was acquired by CBS, where it'll be airing on Friday nights starting in the fall, in between Ghost Whisperer and Numb3ers.
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But, mercifully, NBC's teaser was misleading. What the peacock was too proud to add is that after a heated negotiation at last month's TV upfronts, the show was acquired by CBS, where it'll be airing on Friday nights starting in the fall, in between Ghost Whisperer and Numb3ers.
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TVGuide: MEDIUM - 'Life After Death'
Jun. 7th, 2009 04:17 pmweber_dubois22JUNE 1-14th, 2009: HIGHLIGHTS
Medium (6/1) 10/9c, NBC
The Dubois Family can't seem to catch a break. First, a vengeful ghost took up residence in Allison's head. Then Ariel became hooked on anti-anxiety meds. Finally, Medium, was nearly canceled ---before it was offered a last-minute reprieve on CBS' 2009 Fall Lineup. The Trouble Continues in tonight's season 5's closer---the show's last episode on NBC--- When Allison (Patricia Arquette, left) has visions that Joe and kids wind up dead. "She has a dream set in the very near future," Reveals creator-exect producer, Glenn Gordon Caron.
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Medium (6/1) 10/9c, NBC
The Dubois Family can't seem to catch a break. First, a vengeful ghost took up residence in Allison's head. Then Ariel became hooked on anti-anxiety meds. Finally, Medium, was nearly canceled ---before it was offered a last-minute reprieve on CBS' 2009 Fall Lineup. The Trouble Continues in tonight's season 5's closer---the show's last episode on NBC--- When Allison (Patricia Arquette, left) has visions that Joe and kids wind up dead. "She has a dream set in the very near future," Reveals creator-exect producer, Glenn Gordon Caron.
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weber_dubois22Jun 2, 2009, 10:15 AM | by Michael Slezak
Three cheers for CBS! If the Eye Net hadn't picked Medium off NBC's scrap heap and given it a sixth season -- it'll be paired with Ghost Whisperer on Friday nights next fall -- then the underrated psychic detective series would've ended its run with Emmy winner Patricia Arquette's Allison Dubois unconscious and unresponsive after suffering a stroke during brain surgery. (FYI: I put in a call to CBS Paramount to find out if an alternate ending was shot, just in case last night's episode had turned out to be a series finale. Check back this afternoon for an update.)
Still, the grim final scene -- Allison lying bandaged and comatose in a hospital bed -- was in keeping with the episode's less-than-upbeat mood.
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Medium: Eulogy for an NBC Show
May. 29th, 2009 02:14 pmweber_dubois22
Nice try, NBC.
Those promos you made for next week's Medium finale subtly imply that after five years Medium is going off the air entirely. Of course, that's not true; Medium is really just moving to your competitor CBS after five years on NBC, having been banished from Leno-land because it supposedly doesn't generate enough 18-49 tweets or some such nonsense that totally disrespects an otherwise wonderful series.
If you've never watched Medium, the thing to know is that it's mostly about middle-class people living middle-of-the-road lives—oh, and the lead character happens to be a spiritual medium who communes with the dead.
Like Supernatural, Medium is a solid and innovative genre show that manages a wonderful balance between thrills, chills and gore, on one hand, and heartwarming family stuff on the other. It's not flashy, but it is a deeply creative enterprise and very rewarding for viewers.
So this is our thank-you blog post to and about Medium, and in an effort to be detailed and specific in our gratitude, we've made a list of what we appreciate about Medium.
Long story short, Medium should never have gotten semicanceled because no one talked about it! We can't change the past, but in hopes of providing Medium with a more secure future, here goes:
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weber_dubois22May 21, 2009, 02:51 PM | by Jeremy Medina
Categories: 'Medium', Television
Medium jumping ship to CBS makes so much sense it's scary. As CBS chief Nina Tassler suggested, the show is practically the spiritual lovechild to the Eye's own Ghost Whisperer* and Numb3rs. NBC offered the somewhat dubious reasoning that the network wants to go younger, and just didn't think people cared enough about Medium. Even though, you know, it gets higher ratings than Chuck. (Surprising, right? Chuck fans must be just very vocal. And also hungry.) With Medium switching networks, and folks rallying for My Name Is Earl to find a new home somewhere not run by Ben Silverman, loyalty seems to lie with the shows, not the networks. Of course, whether fans follow the Patricia Arquette whodunit to CBS remains to be seen, but I bet it'll be just as popular, if not more so.
Confession time: The only show I watch on CBS is The Amazing Race. That's all. I've caught a few episodes of How I Met Your Mother, but have yet to fully commit. Yet, out of all the networks, CBS seems to be the most focused, offering procedurals, traditional sitcoms and reality shows for the masses. As Time magazine put it, the network's audience is "sometimes older, sometimes not, but generally more conservative in its taste." There's certainly nothing wrong with that. The network has some of the highest-rated shows on TV in The Mentalist, NCIS and CSI and its brood of stepchildren. But does liking CBS make you less cool? And, uh, boring?
PopWatchers: What is YOUR network? Given NBC's identity crisis and ABC's propensity to cancel shows in their first or second seasons, do you even hold any loyalty to one network in particular anymore? Which channel is home to most of your favorites? Sharing is caring, so speak up!
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*I'm confused. How did "Medium" end up being Ghost Whisperer's Lovechild when it came first? Seriously?
CBS' Official Medium Page
May. 23rd, 2009 12:13 amweber_dubois22CBS certianly isn't one to wait for their newly aquired show to offically premiere on their channel, are they? Found this over at NBC's Message Board for Medium; It would seem that they've already set up a new Official Webpage for the five year old show. Nothing flashy as of yet (naturally), just a brief description and a list of the returning cast members. Official Website Here
Emmy© winner Patricia Arquette comes to CBS with MEDIUM, a chilling drama inspired by the real-life story of medium Allison DuBois. A young wife and mother, DuBois has the extraordinary, but terrifying, ability to talk to dead people, see the future in her dreams and read people's thoughts. Struggling to find a balance between this incredible calling and her family, she uses her psychic powers to solve horrifying crimes, never truly knowing whether this is a gift or a curse.
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You would think that when a TV show moves from one network to the other that the executive producer who runs it and the star would be the first ones to know.But that's not really how the TV business works.
It wasn't until "Medium" show runner Glenn Gordon Caron ("Moonlighting" and "Now and Again") and actress Patricia Arquette arrived in New York City on Wednesday morning, after a red-eye flight, that they were told that their 5-year-old series had been rescued by CBS. Of course, they both had heard the rumors Tuesday that CBS was interested after NBC unceremoniously dumped the show about a psychic and her family, but they had no confirmation that their show was alive.
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--Maria Elena Fernandez source here
I ♥ the last few lines. I read elsewhere Patricia had been in Cannes for the festival, seemed they were as much in the dark as us!
weber_dubois22CBS & NBC Feud Over 'Medium' Win/Loss
Here's something you don't see every day: two networks spinning, spinning, spinning over the same primetime series renewal, and busy, busy, busy badmouthing each other because of it. I love a Hollywood pissing contest.CBS right now is on the verge of scheduling Medium, which had been airing on NBC. "Medium is not ordered yet, but probably will be," a CBS insider tells me. "It's a show our Entertainment team has always liked and thinks is a good fit."
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Good news!
May. 20th, 2009 01:12 pmdani-ellie.livejournal.comHollywood Reporter is reporting that CBS has indeed picked up Medium!
The show will air Friday nights at 9 after Ghost Whisperer (which is kind of a neat pairing, if you ask me ;)).
The show will air Friday nights at 9 after Ghost Whisperer (which is kind of a neat pairing, if you ask me ;)).
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The foolios at NBC have failed to pick up Patricia Arquette's psychic crime-solving drama Medium for a sixth season, but what else did you expect from a network that's handing over its Mon-Fri 10 p.m. hour to Jay Leno? Still, all hope is not lost! My colleague Michael Ausiello reports CBS is considering throwing a lifeline to one of TV's most underrated dramas. Aside from Arquette's Emmy-winning turn as Allison Dubois, here's five additional reasons the show deserves another season on a new network: 1) Joe and Allison DuBois are TV's best married couple. Seriously, network TV loves depicting married life as an endless cycle of bickering, resentment, and negotiations. But Medium, while never ignoring the workaday challenges faced by an average middle-class couple, also manages to depict the joys and comforts of a long-term relationship. Which is comforting, and almost quaint, in the 'Til Death/Rules of Engagement era.
2) Miranda Carabello (Marie Dubois) is currently challenging Maria Lark (Bridgette Dubois) for supremacy as cutest kid on the small screen. Anyone catch the recent episode in which Marie woke up with a nightmare about being dressed as a pea pod and forgetting her lines in the school play? Well, if you missed it, it's embedded after the jump. Sometimes, video is worth 1,000 words!
3) Jake Weber still needs his Emmy nomination! Dude got shortlisted last year, and while it'd be great if he makes the cut in 2009, I'm worried he'll get shafted in favor of William Shatner (again!).
4) Weekly scares are fun for the whole family! How many shows on your DVR roster consistently leave you clutching your pillow all scurrr'd-like? (Aside from some of those VH1 reality shows?) With Medium, you get an elevated heart rate without ever leaving the couch!
5) Medium is like a creepy, well-written, modern-day Love Boat for TV guest stars. Season 5 alone has found nifty roles for everyone from Jeffrey Tambor to Blythe Danner to James Van Der Beek to Emily Bergl. Support working actors, CBS, and give Medium its sixth season!
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NBC axed Medium, but
May. 19th, 2009 06:38 pmcrazyboltonlass.livejournal.comaccording to here, CBS is going to pick it up. If it doesn't there's no more Medium, no more Dubois family and the prospect of that makes me quite sad. Anyway, I was thinking about a Save Medium campaign, even if it's just an LJ community. (I need my weekly fix of Joe Dubois!) I figure it can't hurt, any internet-savvy people want to assist me?! I was trying to set up a site on google (it isn't public yet because I haven't a clue what I'm doing. or maybe a wordpress blog. I mean it probably won't make any difference, being vocal seems to have helped Chuck..There's a rumour going round that Chuck saved over Medium because the fans wanted it more.
If I must quote Ben Silverman...
So Medium's loyal fanbase got shafted just because of that or buy Subway sandwiches. As an international viewer, I don't make any difference to ratings but I'm still annoyed. It's one of the few shows I watch regularly.
Comment away here or here, show your Medium love!
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If I must quote Ben Silverman...
"A couple of our shows were aging as we were getting younger," "And the demand for Chuck that came from online and the advertising base made us have to pick up that show. The other shows, there was not that kind of attention or energy."
So Medium's loyal fanbase got shafted just because of that or buy Subway sandwiches. As an international viewer, I don't make any difference to ratings but I'm still annoyed. It's one of the few shows I watch regularly.
Comment away here or here, show your Medium love!
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weber_dubois22NBC may have canceled 'Medium,' but the show's producer, CBS Television Studios, is not ready to pull the plug just yet. Insiders say that corporate sibling CBS may pick up the show, and EW speculates it could be paired with Friday-night hit "Ghost Whisperer."
But either way, the studio is not happy, releasing the following statement Tuesday morning: "NBC's cancellation of 'Medium' is inexplicable to us."
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But either way, the studio is not happy, releasing the following statement Tuesday morning: "NBC's cancellation of 'Medium' is inexplicable to us."
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'Medium' Could Be on the Move
May. 19th, 2009 02:47 amweber_dubois22"Medium" could be on the move.
Negotiations between NBC and CBS Television Studios are said to be at an impasse, leading to informed speculation that the show could be headed to the CBS Television Network.
NBC had been looking to bring back "Medium," but with a deal similar to what the network negotiated last year: A firm 13-episode pickup with an option to expand the order to 22 episodes later in the season. That's the deal NBC brokered with CBS' studio arm last year; the network eventually increased its commitment to a full season.
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Negotiations between NBC and CBS Television Studios are said to be at an impasse, leading to informed speculation that the show could be headed to the CBS Television Network.
NBC had been looking to bring back "Medium," but with a deal similar to what the network negotiated last year: A firm 13-episode pickup with an option to expand the order to 22 episodes later in the season. That's the deal NBC brokered with CBS' studio arm last year; the network eventually increased its commitment to a full season.
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