As expected, last night’s Saints-Colts match-up now ranks as the most watched Super Bowl of all time with a whopping 106.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media. The Saints’ underdog victory also beat the 1983 M*A*S*H series finale as the most watched television program of all time as measured by households, garnering 51.7 million in comparison to M*A*S*H’s 50.2 million. The total viewership, which includes same-day DVR playback, tops last year’s Arizona-Pittsburgh game by 7.8 million viewers.
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Film and stage producer David Brown dies
David Brown, whose producing credits included The Sting, Jaws, and The Verdict, died Monday of kidney failure in his Manhattan home, The New York Times reports. He was 93. Perhaps known best as the husband of Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown, he began his career as a journalist for publications such as The Saturday Evening Post, Harper’s, and Collier’s. In the 1950s, producer Darryl F. Zanuck hired Brown to run the story department at 20th Century Fox, where Brown eventually rose to executive vice president of creative operations. He and Darryl’s son, Richard Zanuck, left in 1971 for Warner Bros., then started their own production company. The Sting, Jaws, The Verdict, Cocoon, and Driving Miss Daisy were among their films. Even after Brown left the company, they continued to collaborate on films that included The Player and Chocolat.
Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, Billy Crudup join crime drama
Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, and Billy Crudup have signed on to star in crime drama The Convincer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film, which starts shooting Monday in Minnesota, follows a desperate insurance salesman who gets his hands on a rare violin.
Orlando Bloom starring in indie 'Good Doctor'
Orlando Bloom will star in Hitchcockian indie thriller The Good Doctor, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Michael Pena, Troy Garity, Courtney Ford, Taraji P. Henson, Rob Morrow and J.K. Simmons are also in negotiations to co-star. Bloom is producing the script from Veronica Mars writer John Enborn about a frustrated doctor whose 18-year-old patient gives him such a self-esteem boost that he tampers with her treatment to keep her in the hospital.
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'Sex and the City' creator directing Anita Bryant biopic for HBO
HBO is developing a biopic about anti-gay activist Anita Bryant with Sex and the City creator Darren Star at the helm, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The former beauty queen and Christian singer became a crusader against gay rights in the ’70s when she fought a Miami-Dade County ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. “As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children,” she said. When she succeeded, she promised to “seek help and change for homosexuals, whose sick and sad values belie the word ‘gay,’ which they pathetically use to cover their unhappy lives.”
Olivia Wilde in talks to star with Daniel Craig in 'Cowboys & Aliens'
House star Olivia Wilde is in discussions to join Daniel Craig in Cowboys & Aliens, a sci-fi Western that Jon Favreau is directing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Wilde will play Ella, who joins Craig’s mysterious gunslinger in fighting an alien invasion. Craig recently took the role after Robert Downey Jr. dropped out. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci co-wrote the script with Lost’s Damon Lindelof.
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Maura Tierney goes back to work after battling cancer
Maura Tierney is back on the job six months after treatment for breast cancer prompted her to drop out of the NBC dramedy Parenthood. The 44-year-old actress will soon take to the stage in the satirical play North Atlantic, as a member of a Cold War-era peacekeeping force aboard an aircraft carrier. Written for the Wooster Group, a performance collective, in 1982, this iteration of the musical also stars Frances McDormand.
The Emmy-nominated ER actress, who also appeared in a guest stint on Rescue Me last year, declined to comment on her return to acting, but her publicist told EW exclusively, “She has finished treatment and is doing very well, and is happy to move forward with the next phase of her life.”
With a run scheduled for Feb. 10–21 at L.A.’s Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater and March 10–April 25 at New York’s Jerome Robbins Theater, Tierney’s turn in Atlantic happens to coincide with the March 2 premiere of Parenthood — now starring Gilmore Girls vet Lauren Graham in the role of Sarah, a harried single mom played by Tierney in the pilot. (The rest of the original ensemble, including Six Feet Under’s Peter Krause, remains intact.) This TV take on the 1989 movie had been set to debut in September, but Tierney’s departure from the project delayed production last summer. Now that her health is back on track, here’s hoping her return to TV won’t be far behind.
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Martha Stewart makes Hallmark Channel home
Martha Stewart has signed a deal to bring her syndicated talk show to Hallmark Channel beginning in September. She’ll also develop new series and primetime specials for the network, known most for its original movies. The hourlong Martha Stewart Show will air at 10 a.m. weekdays and kick off a 2 1/2-hour block of Stewart-developed programming.
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