Time | Network | Show | Rating | 18-49 |
---|---|---|---|---|
8PM | ABC | The Bachelor | 10.53 | 3.0/9 |
FOX | House | 10.36 | 3.6/10 | |
CBS | How I Met Your Mother | 9.26 | 3.4/10 | |
NBC | Chuck | 5.62 | 1.7/5 | |
CW | 90201 | 1.44 | 0.6/2 | |
8:30PM | CBS | Mad Love | 7.95 | 2.7/7 |
9PM | ABC | The Bacehlor | 11.40 | 3.6/10 |
CBS | Two and a Half Men (R) | 11.56 | 3.2/9 | |
FOX | The Chicago Code | 8.37 | 2.3/6 | |
NBC | The Cape | 4.06 | 1.2/3 | |
CW | Gossip Girl | 1.41 | 0.7/2 | |
9:30PM | CBS | Mike & Molly | 11.41 | 3.4/9 |
10PM | ABC | Castle | 10.43 | 2.9/8 |
NBC | Harry’s Law | 9.10 | 1.8/5 | |
CBS | Hawaii Five-0 (R) | 7.49 | 2.0/6 |
Archives for March 2011
Why You Shouldn’t Fall in Love With TV Pilots Before They Hatch!
Every year Hollywood touts the next big thing and regales us with tantalizing teases — it is called the television “pilot” season. Beginning in January and continuing into early May, we hear some of the biggest names in the business being cast in upcoming television shows. There is the flush of excitement and rush to broadcast every juicy tid-bit of who will be co-starring and how much money was spent on each of the shows. Yet there is a dark-side to the glossy glamour being painted across the industry news pages — many, if not nearly all of these hotly anticipated shows will never air.
Pilot season is merely a testing ground to see if any of the pitched ideas are worthy of spending obscene amounts of money so that the show can air on broadcast television. It is like inviting a hundred beautiful girls to a debutante ball, parading them through dress shops, dressing them up to the gills in ribbons and lace and then one by one determining if any are worthy of going to the ball. In the end, perhaps half-a-dozen are chosen.
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Morning Static: DANCING WITH THE STARS, SHAMELESS, TWO AND A HALF MEN & More!
• Dance on, Dance off! Karate Kid Ralph Macchio among the 12 contestants revealed for the new season of DANCING WITH THE STARS.
• Pilot Watch: MY NAME IS EARL’s Jaime Pressley, FRINGE’s Kirk Acevedo and WITHOUT A TRACE’s Poppy Montgomery join pilots.
• Best. News. Ever. SHAMELESS and EPISODES earn much-deserved second seasons!
• CSI Scoop: Marg Helgenberger wants to do only ‘a few episodes’ next season.
• Charlie-Watch 2011: Sheen calls rumors of John Stamos replacing him a “tragic joke,”, spills his guts to TMZ, unleashes lawyers on CBS and Warner Bros., slams former publcist,, and will continue his media tour this morning on TODAY.