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Today’s TV Addict Top 5: “No She Did Not Really Say That” Moments From Last Night’s THE BACHELOR

By: CT During last night’s episode of THE BACHELOR, Jake went on a date with two women, both of whom knew that one of them would wind up being dumped. What neither could have imagined was that he would send both packing (literally) and then, in a wildly dramatic (read: scripted) moment take the rose [...]

1 Posted in The Bachelor, TV Addict Top 5

TV Ratings: Monday January 25, 2010

Source: MediaWeek, Ratings: in millions Time Network Show Rating 18-49 8PM FOX House 14.17 5.2/13 ABC The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love 10.88 3.6/9 NBC Chuck 6.94 2.5/6 CBS How I Met Your Mother (R) 6.10 2.1/6 CW One Tree Hill 2.21 1.1/3 8:30PM CBS Accidentally on Purpose (R) 5.60 2.0/5 9PM CBS Two [...]

3 Posted in Nielsen Overnight TV Show Ratings

If Aziz Ansari Ran PARKS AND RECREATION

Let’s face it. We all love saying, “If I ran the world, things would be way different. Well, turns out actors love to do the same thing on behalf of the characters we played. So in the first instalment of this recurring feature, we asked Aziz Ansari how his fictional alter ego, the not-quite-as-hip-as-he-thinks Tom [...]

3 Posted in Parks and Recreation

Morning Static: CBS, AMERICAN IDOL, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER & More!

• Out: Late Night Wars, In: AMERICAN IDOL Wars. • But were they entertained? SPARTACUS premiere attracts a record audience for Starz. • Third times the charm? Former PRIVILEGED GOSSIP GIRL JoAnna Garcia to headline a new ABC sitcom. • Father doesn’t know best, especially the one who cost his son his spot in AMERICAN [...]

3 Posted in Morning Static

Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Things you didn’t know about LIFE UNEXPECTED

The origins of Lux’s name. Aside from creator Liz Tigelaar’s inexplicable love for names featuring the letter ‘X,’ the origins of LIFE UNEXPECTED’s pint-sized protagonists moniker can be directly attributed to the showrunners love for the movie Virgin Suicides, whose lead character, played by Kirsten Dunst, was… you guessed it, named Lux. What’s in a [...]

10 Posted in Life Unexpected

Watch, PVR, Pass: Monday January 25, 2010

GREEK (10PM ABC Family) When GREEK returns for its fourth season tonight, the campus of Cyprus Rhodes University is rife with worry. But while the ZBZ’s fret that their role in last season’s Gamma Psi fire will come to light, the KT’s stress over their expelled brothers, Clavin’s roomie Grant stresses over the repercussions of [...]

2 Posted in Greek, on tv tonight

Spotted: Chace Crawford’s Newest Squeeze!

Following in the illustrious footsteps of GOSSIP GIRL’s Blair Waldorf, Serena Van Der Woodsen and Vanessa Abrams is… Meg Griffin? Sure looks like it, with the upcoming January 31st episode of FAMILY GUY entitled “Dial Meg for Murder,” featuring Meg getting thrown into the big house when she gets busted for hiding her jail bird [...]

7 Posted in Family Guy, Gossip Girl

SPARTACUS: By the Numbers (There Will Be Boobies!)

With all due respect to the creative team behind SPARTACUS: BLOOD AND SAND, we’re fairly confident that there are only two reasons why viewers are going to tune into the series: Sex and violence. With that in mind, this TV Addict thought that rather than spend hours crafting a review on the historical accuracy and [...]

9 Posted in spartacus

TV Ratings: Sunday January 24, 2010

Source: MediaWeek, Ratings: in millions Time Network Show Rating 18-49 8PM FOX NFC Playoffs: Minnesota vs. New Orleans 48.49 17.4/41 ABC Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 7.18 2.2/5 CBS CSI: NY (R) 5.35 1.0/2 NBC Dateline 4.48 0.8/2 9PM FOX NFC Playoffs: Minnesota vs. New Orleans 53.05 19.5/42 ABC Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 8.20 2.5/5 CBS [...]

5 Posted in Nielsen Overnight TV Show Ratings

Review: DAMAGES Season 3

If two seasons of DAMAGES has taught this TV Addict anything, it’s that those who say “No” to Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) do so at their own peril. Which is why, rather than join Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) in turning our backs on New York’s most powerful litigator following two years packed with a seemingly [...]

8 Posted in Damages