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It’s Official: ION Renews ‘Flashpoint’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 3, 2012 @ 7:20am PSTTags: Flashpoint, Ion
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ION Renews ‘Flashpoint’ For Fifth Season

NEW YORK, January 3, 2012 – ION Television announced today it is renewing its original police drama Flashpoint for a fifth season. The network is picking up 13 more episodes, set to begin shooting in February 2012.  The announcement was made today by Brandon Burgess, CEO, ION Media Networks.

Flashpoint joined ION’s primetime schedule in October 2011 after the network acquired all episodes from seasons 1-3 along with 11 season four original episodes. The production of season five contributes to ION Television’s original programming goals for 2012 and beyond.  Since its debut on ION, Flashpoint recorded its highest-telecast ever among the network’s key demos on December 27, including households (1.5 million), A25-54 (869,000), W25-54 (566,000) and among total viewers (2.1 million).

“Flashpoint’s solid performance season-to-date shows that a growing number of fans enjoy the series on ION Television,” says Burgess.  “We welcome back this exciting dramatic series and its cast to ION Television for another season in 2012.” READ MORE »

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ION Renews ‘Flashpoint’ For Fifth Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday January 2, 2012 @ 8:16pm PSTTags: Flashpoint, Ion
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EXCLUSIVE: I hear that ION Television has renewed Canadian-produced cop drama Flashpoint for a fifth season. The broadcast network is picking up all 13 episodes of the series’ fifth season, set to begin production in February 2012. Flashpoint, Canada’s most-watched drama series, has already been renewed north of the border by CTV with a 13-episode fifth-season order. Flashpoint was the first of the recent wave of Canadian scripted series to launch successfully in the U.S. when it premiered on CBS in 2008. Earlier this year, it became the first of the Canadian imports to land a U.S. syndication deal in a complex arrangement with CBS and ION. Under the deal, ION acquired all episodes from Seasons 1-4  that had aired in the U.S. on CBS along with 11 first-run (in the U.S.) Season 4 episodes. Since its ION debut in October, Flashpoint has been growing in the ratings. In its most recent airing on December 27, the drama posted series highs on the network in total viewers (2.1 million) and several demos, including adults 25-54 (869,000). Read More »

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‘The Firm’s Scheduling On NBC: High-Water Mark For Acquired Broadcast Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 1:14am PSTTags: Entertainment One, Flashpoint, Hannibal, NBC, Sony Pictures TV, The Firm, The Good Guys, TV Schedule
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Broadcast networks’ infatuation with lower-license-fee internationally produced drama series, which began during the run-up to the 2007 writers strike, is entering a major new phase with NBC’s midseason scheduling of the Entertainment One-produced 22-episode drama The Firm, based on John Grisham’s novel and the Tom Cruise-starring movie. Back in 2007, two of the acquired series stockpiled by the U.S. networks as strike contingency, Flashpoint by CBS and Crusoe by NBC, aired in-season on Fridays and Saturdays, and Flashpoint even got a brief turn in the Thursday 10 PM slot when the broadcast nets ran out of originals at the height of the labor dispute. But since then, NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox have largely limited lower-license-fee drama series acquisitions to summer runs. (Fox’s attempt to extend the run of such a series, The Good Guys, into the regular season backfired.) Then in April, NBC picked up The Firm based on a spec script by Lucas Reiter. Two weeks later, at NBC’s upfront presentation, the network announced The Firm as a midseason replacement to air on Sundays. And today, the straight-to-series drama was upgraded to the Thursday 10 PM slot, which for years had been considered NBC’s top drama slot, home of such iconic series as Hill Street Blues, LA Law and ER. Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Supernatural’ Ends Season On Low Note

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday May 21, 2011 @ 9:29am PDTTags: 48 Hours Mystery, Dateline, Flashpoint, Friday Night Lights, Kitchen Nightmares, Ratings Rat Race, Shark Tank, Supernatural, TV Ratings
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After taking last Friday off for the swan song of veteran Smallville, CW’s Supernatural returned last night for its own season closer. The finale drew 2.1 million viewers and a 0.8/3 in adults 18-49, down 20% in the demo from … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Smallville’ Up In Series Finale, ‘Flashpoint’ Rises In Week 2

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 9:25am PDTTags: Blue Bloods, CSI: NY, Flashpoint, Kitchen Nightmares, Ratings Rat Race, Shark Tank, Smallville, TV Ratings
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CW’s veteran Smallville had a solid though not spectacular end of its 10-year run last night. The two-hour series finale of the young Superman series drew 3 million viewers, 1.3/5 in 18-49 and 1.2/4 in 18-34. That was up 50% … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Fringe’ Down In Finale, ‘Flashpoint’ Low In Return

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday May 7, 2011 @ 9:32am PDTTags: 20/20, Blue Bloods, CSI: NY, Dateline, Flashpoint, Friday Night Lights, Fringe, Kitchen Nightmares, Ratings Rat Race, Shark Tank, Smallville, Supernatural, TV Ratings
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Fringe ended its third season last night in a ho-hum fashion. (Knowing their show is coming back, fans probably didn’t feel any urgency to see the finale right away.) It drew a 1.2 rating in 18-49, down a tenth from … Read More »

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CBS Pulls ‘Chaos,’ Brings Back ‘Flashpoint’, FX To Carry Final ‘Running Wilde’ Episodes

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday April 18, 2011 @ 4:23pm PDTTags: CBS, Chaos, Flashpoint
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CBS has pulled midseason series Chaos off the schedule after three low-rated airings in the challenging Friday 8 PM time slot. The CIA dramedy most recently drew a 1.0/3 in 18-49 and 5.7 million viewers this past Friday. That was actually … Read More »

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CBS And Netflix Ink Deal For Library Content

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 22, 2011 @ 11:13am PSTTags: Flashpoint, Medium, Netflix Straming Deal, The Twilight Zone, TV, TV Deals
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CBS Corp. and Netflix just announced a two-year, non-exclusive licensing agreement that will allow library CBS series to be streamed via Nexflix. Included in the deal are dramas Medium, Flashpoint, the original Hawaii Five-0, the different incarnations of Star Trek as well as Twin Peaks and The Twilight Zone. On … Read More »

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Canadian ‘Flashpoint’ In U.S. Syndie Deal, Will Air Originals On CBS And ION

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 21, 2011 @ 6:56am PSTTags: Canadian Drama Series, CBS Programming, Flashpoint, Ion, TV, TV Deals
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EXCLUSIVE: In the summer of 2008, Flashpoint became the first of several Canadian series picked up around the writers strike to premiere on a U.S. network, CBS. It became the first and only Canadian series success story here until the … Read More »

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CW Acquires Canadian Comedy ’18 To Life’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 15, 2010 @ 2:35pm PDTTags: 18 to Life, Flashpoint, Plain Jane CW, Rookie Blue, TV
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CW logo NEWMaybe the U.S. broadcast networks should just collectively outsource their summer scripted programming to Canada. The CW, which has been barely keeping the lights on with all-repeats this summer, has acquired the rights to the Canadian comedy … Read More »

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