First-run weekly hour to premiere fall 2011
By Paige Albiniak -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/21/2010 3:20:19 PM
Tribune Television has picked up Pt. Dume, a new weekly hour from Twentieth Television, to premiere on Saturday nights on its stations next fall. With the Tribune sale, the series is sold in 30% of the country."Now that our CW stations are offering five nights per week of original programming, we are looking to add a 6th night. Pt. Dume is the perfect complement to our existing prime line-up," said Sean Compton, Tribune's president of programming, in a statement.
Pt. Dume, about a group of troubled teenagers who are involved in a unique and intense detention program, is created and will be executive produced by Gregory Bonann, who created Baywatch, one of the most successful hours in syndication history. Twentieth Television, Engine Entertainment and QED have partnered on the series, with Twentieth Television handling domestic distribution and Engine handling international distribution. The project was packaged by Paradigm, with Michael Gendler brokering the deal.
Pt. Dume is the first first-run weekly hour to be produced for syndication since Disney-ABC introduced Legend of the Seeker in 2008. The Tribune stations also first cleared that show, which Tribune declined to renew in March.
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