Archives for January 2010
Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Free TV on iTunes including LIFE UNEXPECTED, CAPRICA, THE DEEP END & More!
SAG Award Winners (GLEE) and Losers (MODERN FAMILY, Again!)
Among the biggest winners at last night’s 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) held Saturday night in Los Angeles were 30 ROCK stars Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey and THE GOOD WIFE’s Julianna Marguilies (Who as it turns out, broke the record for most wins by an actor with her seventh overall win for Best Actress in a Drama Series). Among the losers — aside that is, from this TV Addict who couldn’t watch the awards thanks to TBS/TNT inexplicable decision to air them on the one night that we aren’t usually plopped firmly in front of our flatscreen — was MODERN FAMILY, who has the unfortunate timing of premiering in the same season as the unstoppable juggernaut that is GLEE (Which walked away with the award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series) are us, the viewers. A complete list of winners can be found after the jump.
Your TV Quotes of the Week
Available Now: The TV Addict Week in Review
Inspired by Movieline and in anticipation of this Wednesday’s Apple’s announcement that will more than likely signal the beginning of the end for traditional print media, this TV Addict thought it might be fun to start highlighting a look back on the week in television that was in nostalgic magazine form (And yes, we realize we may have a just little too much free time on our hands!)
This week on theTVaddict.com we offered up 5 reasons why you should tune into the CW’s newest hit LIFE UNEXPECTED, 5 celebs who should be given the opportunity to host SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE over Ashton Kutcher (again!) and interviews with THE DEEP END’s Tina Majorino and Matt Long, UGLY BETTY’s Ana Ortiz and Tony Plana, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES’ Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec, and 24’s Mary Lynn Rajskub.
TV Ratings: Friday January 22, 2010
Time | Network | Show | Rating | 18-49 |
---|---|---|---|---|
8PM | ABC | Hope for Haiti | 4.81 | 1.1/4 |
CBS | Hope for Haiti | 4.76 | 0.9/3 | |
NBC | Hope for Haiti | 4.62 | 1.2/4 | |
FOX | Hope for Haiti | 1.93 | 0.5/2 | |
CW | Hope for Haiti | 1.06 | 0.4/1 | |
9PM | ABC | Hope for Haiti | 4.28 | 1.1/4 |
CBS | Hope for Haiti | 4.15 | 0.9/3 | |
NBC | Hope for Haiti | 4.14 | 1.2/4 | |
FOX | Hope for Haiti | 1.63 | 0.5/2 | |
CW | Hope for Haiti | 836,000 | 0.4/1 | |
10PM | CBS | 20/20 | 6.53 | 1.6/5 |
NBC | Dateline | 4.84 | 1.3/4 | |
CBS | Medium (R) | 3.89 | 1.6/5 |
Morning Static: Conan O’Brien, LOST, GREY’S ANATOMY & More!
• Twitter + NBC = FailWhale Cock!
• Classy till the end, Conan O’Brien signs off on a high note.
• Get LOST! In the latest teaser that for the first time offers a glimpse of the new season (assuming you look really really closely)
• FOX heads back to PRISON, greenlights BREAKOUT KINGS from PRISON PREAK EP Matt Olmstead.
• MIRANDA’S ANATOMY? Ausiello has your first look at Miranda Bailey the early years.
Get Your First Look at SMALLVILLE: ABSOLUTE JUSTICE
This Just In: A Very Troubling ‘Situation’
MTV has just announced that last night’s season finale of JERSEY SHORE attracted a staggering 4.8 million viewers, besting the likes of COMMUNITY, PARKS AND RECREATION and BETTER OFF TED. In related news, the majority of America’s television viewing habits continue to make this TV Addict sad. That is all.
Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Celebs Who Should Be Hosting SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
Okay, at this point, we’ve gotten used to seen SNL serve up sketches that are moderately funny at best and about as topical as a copy of Time magazine from 2006, but must their hosts be plucked from the recycling pile as well? With all due respect to MAD MEN’s Jon Hamm (slated to host the supposed laffer on January 30) or camera spokesmodel Ashton Kutcher (February 6), we humbly offer up a few ideas for hosts who don’t come with their own “Been There, Done That, Hosted SNL” t-shirts.
Zachary Levi
NBC obviously knows they have a potential hit in the slow-to-grow CHUCK as evidenced by the ad campaigns devoted to it (not to mention their not putting our favorite Buy More employee on the shelf), so why not give the show’s star a shot in the host slot? Could prove to be a mutually advantageous situation for both shows.
Joel McHale
Live from New York… it’s the bitingly-funny star of COMMUNITY, the funniest NBC comedy that you’re not watching. And given that the guy used to still hosts THE SOUP — which is often funnier on an off day than SNL at its best — he knows a thing or two about bringin’ the funny.