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Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Shows Vastly Improved By Recent Cast Additions

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES Although much of the pre-season hype centered around Vanessa Williams’ Renee, the real stars have proven to be Brian Austin Green as Bree’s much-younger beau and Emily Bergl as Paul’s secret-keeping wife, Beth.  GOSSIP GIRL Katie Cassidy’s Juliet not only spiced storylines up a bit, but finally provided eternally storyless Nate and his [...]

3 Posted in Daytime TV, Desperate Housewives, Glee, Gossip Girl

The Showrunner in the Screening: An Evening with BONES creator Hart Hanson

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Last night, your very own TV Addict was fortunate enough to attend The Canadian Film Centre’s Test Pattern Series honoring native countryman Hart Hanson. Entertaining, informative and armed with a surprisingly spot-on Australian accent, Hanson wowed the audience of loyal BONES fans as he spoke candidly about the glorious highs and dizzying lows that comes [...]

0 Posted in Bones, Featured

TV Ratings: Monday November 8, 2010

Source: MediaWeek, Ratings: in millions Time Network Show Rating 18-49 8PM ABC Dancing with the Stars 17.90 3.4/9 FOX House 9.65 3.7/10 CBS How I Met Your Mother 9.08 3.5/9 NBC Matt Lauer Reports 703 1.7/4 CW 90210 1.85 0.8/2 8:30PM CBS Rules of Engagement 8.64 3.1/8 9PM ABC Dancing with the Stars 21.63 4.5/11 [...]

0 Posted in Nielsen Overnight TV Show Ratings

Q: Has the Golden Era of Television Abandoned Us? (A: No, You just need to know where to look!)

By: Tiffany Vogt   It has been said that the past decade of television has offered the best shows ever. Television quality had reached such a degree that it was said to have surpassed the quality of films. Shows such as THE WEST WING, LOST, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, VERONICA MARS and DEADWOOD were hailed as examples [...]

11 Posted in Random Musings

Must Read TV: CONAN, COMMUNITY, THE COMEBACK & More!

• Q&A with… COMMUNITY’s Danny Pudi • Because surely we weren’t the only ones who didn’t stay up until 11PM, click here for the monologue and cold open from CONAN’s TBS series premiere. • A literal no-brainer! AMC renews THE WALKING DEAD for a second season. • Discuss: Is the good-natured Jimmy Fallon the logical [...]

0 Posted in Morning Static

Exclusive: Hart Hanson Reveals the Reason Behind the BONES Spin-off Delay

Hot on the heels of Michael Ausiello’s exclusive news that shooting on the BONES spinoff — which was rumored to commence in late November — has been pushed to sometime in 2011, comes our exclusive news as to why.

0 Posted in Bones

Watch, PVR, Pass: Monday November 8, 2010

3 Posted in on tv tonight

A CONANcopia of Links

In celebration of tonight’s highly anticipated return of Conan O’Brien to our living room, we thought we’d take this opportunity to put down The War For Late Night — Bill Carter’s phenomenal account of the Late Night Wars 2.0 — by offering up a collection of must read links. See for yourself after the jump, [...]

1 Posted in Conan O'Brien

Behind-the-Scenes of RULES OF ENGAGEMENT with Creator Tom Hertz (Also known as: The funniest show you’re probably not watching!)

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Although it probably should come as little surprise that show creator Tom Hertz calls RULES OF ENGAGEMENT “television’s best kept secret,” what surely might is that we’re inclined to agree. In fact, there’s a little something we at theTVaddict.com have been keeping from you. While most of you geek out over CHUCK or check in [...]

1 Posted in Featured, Rules of Engagement

TV Ratings: Sunday November 7, 2010

Source: MediaWeek, Ratings: in millions Time Network Show Rating 18-49 8PM CBS 60 Minutes 17.20 4.6/11 NBC Football Night in America 13.12 4.6/11 ABC Extreme Makeover: HE 8.51 2.2/5 FOX The Simpsons 8.20 3.7/9 8:30PM NBC Sunday Night Football 18.83 7.0/17 FOX Cleveland Show 6.70 3.1/7 9PM NBC Sunday Night Football 18.63 6.9/16 ABC Desperate [...]

0 Posted in Nielsen Overnight TV Show Ratings