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Don’t Shoot the Messenger, Re: GLEE

From: CT To: The TV Addict Date: May 19, 2009 Subject: Shame On You, FOX! Message Body: For weeks, viewers have been complaining about missing the final moments of AMERICAN IDOL due to the show running over. But last night, FOX not only ticked off millions of viewers but officially screwed themselves by allowing IDOL [...]

9 Posted in Glee

Tonight’s TV Addictions: May 19, 2009

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING: AMERICAN IDOL (8PM CBS, CTV in Canada) Adam and Kris are given three songs each to woo your vote. Unless of course you’ve already made up your mind, making tonight’s penultimate episode of IDOL pretty much pointless. 90210 (9PM CW, Global in Canada) Assuming a Jim Walsh sighting and the return of [...]

3 Posted in 90210, American Idol, Glee, The Mentalist

Review: GLEE

By: Aleks Chan GLEE, FOX’s musical dramedy hybrid about a high school glee club, seemed at first everything that ratings-hungry advertisers and networks love: HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL meets AMERICAN IDOL, complete with a pretty young cast, catchy song ditties, and the sarcasm-laced script that the 18-49 demographic has shown to eat up in droves – [...]

24 Posted in Fox, Glee

Good News, Bad News: UpFront Edition 2009

Good News: NBC made it official today by announcing that CHUCK and FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, two critically acclaimed albeit ratings anemic fan favorites will be returning to a small screen near you in 2010. Bad News: Make that spring/summer 2010, with fans having to wait until after the Olympics for CHUCK’s return and summer for [...]

4 Posted in Chuck, Friday Night Lights, Ugly Betty

TV Ratings: Monday May 18, 2009

Source: MediaWeek, Ratings: in millions Time Network Show Rating 18-49 8PM ABC Dancing with the Stars 17.27 3.9/12 FOX 24 8.74 2.9/9 CBS Rules of Engagement 8.74 2.9/9 NBC Deal or No Deal 4.25 1.2/4 CW Gossip Girl 2.23 1.1/3 8:30PM CBS How I Met Your Mother 8.69 3.7/10 9PM CBS Two and a Half [...]

0 Posted in Nielsen Overnight TV Show Ratings

Meet GLEE’s Cory Monteith

Cory Monteith signs autographs for fans in the King of Prussia Mall, PA “You really think the show is going to be a stratospheric hit?” asks Cory Monteith of GLEE, the about-to-be-the-next-big-thing debuting tonight at 9 p.m. on FOX, with a charming modesty that only a guy who was working as a Wal Mart greeter not [...]

8 Posted in Cory Monteith, Glee

NBC Unveils Their 2009-2010 Schedule

We interrupt today’s celebration of GLEE to bring you NBC’s 2009-2010 schedule.

15 Posted in NBC

It’s GLEE Day!

On the off chance you haven’t clued into theTVaddict.com’s temporary redesign, today marks GLEE DAY! A celebration of FOX’s new musical comedy hybrid GLEE. Now, I know what you’re thinking, “Um… TV Addict, just how much is FOX paying you for this shameless promotion?” Well, allow me to set the record straight: Absolutely nothing! Honestly, [...]

8 Posted in Glee

ABC Unveils Fall 2009 Schedule

This morning Stephen McPherson, ABC Entertainment Group president, revealed ABC’s plans for next season and unveiled the network’s 2009-10 fall schedule. Plans that can be summed up in four words: A Bet on Comedy (ABC, get it?) Adding to the already solid lineup which include the inexplicable ratings juggernaut that is DANCING WITH THE STARS, [...]

8 Posted in ABC, upfront

Snap Judgements: FOX’s New Slate of 2009-10 Shows

GLEE According to the official FOX description: After a special preview event airing tomorrow, Tuesday, May 19, GLEE, the distinctive new comedy from Ryan Murphy (NIP/TUCK) starring Jane Lynch (The 40 YEAR-OLD VIRGIN) and newcomers Matthew Morrison (Broadway’s “Hairspray”), Lea Michele (“Spring Awakening”) and Cory Monteith (KYLE XY), will enter its freshman year this fall. [...]

6 Posted in Fox, Glee, Human Target, Random Musings, Sons of Tucson, The Cleveland Show, Wanda Sykes