Time | Network | Show | Viewers | 18-49 |
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8PM | CBS | 48 Hours Mystery (R) | 4.58 | 0.8/4 |
NBC | Friday ight Lights | 3.63 | 1.0/4 | |
ABC | Wife Swap | 3.11 | 1.0/4 | |
FOX | House (R) | 2.85 | 0.8/4 | |
CW | Smallville (R) | 1.27 | 0.4/2 | |
9PM | NBC | Dateline NBC | 4.39 | 1.0/4 |
ABC | Primetime: What Would You Do? (R) | 4.00 | 1.3/5 | |
FOX | Bones (R) | 3.34 | 0.8/3 | |
CBS | Medium (R) | 3.10 | 0.6/3 | |
CW | Supernatural (R) | 1.38 | 0.5/2 | |
10PM | CBS | Flashpoint | 5.59 | 1.1/4 |
NBC | Dateline NBC | 5.57 | 1.1/4 | |
ABC | 20/20 | 4.67 | 1.3/5 |
Archives for July 2010
Your TV Tech Fix: Are You Hitting AT&T’s New Data Cap?
In just the past few years, wireless hardware companies like Apple and HTC are pushing the mobile experience into new frontiers of versatility with amazing smartphones crammed full of nifty features. These devices, particularly the iPhone and Android variants, have become increasingly useful tools for surfing the Internet and staying connected with friends and family, but they’ve also become platforms for mobile audio and video streaming -some of them even make phone calls, too. Back then, regular mobile phones consumed “minutes.” Today, the modern smartphone gorges on data.
While the cellular providers like AT&T are pushing smartphones into the hands of every man, woman, and child, they’re taking away the valuable resource that makes these smartphones useful – data. Just a few months ago, AT&T took away their $30 “unlimited” (5GB glass ceiling) data plan and replaced it with a 200MB and 2GB plan priced at $15 and $25 respectively. Why? Because it’s easy to offer unlimited data when no one was using it. Today’s phones, with their access to Pandora, YouTube, Slingbox, Netflix, and Hulu can chew through data pretty quickly. So now that you can use it, they’re retracting the offer.
Figures.
Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Big news stories we missed while waiting in line for 12 $#@!#^! Hours for an iPhone 4 (FYI: Totally Worth It!)
Live from New York it’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE 30 ROCK! Which on October 14 will broadcast from the hallowed halls of Studio 8H in a not-so-subtle attempt on behalf of the Peacock Network to attract additional eyeballs to the critically lauded, albeit ratings anemic series. Explained NBC Prime-time President Angela Bromstad during her “State of the Network” address at the semi-annual Television Critics Association Press in Beverly Hills. “Tina [Fey] is up for it, we’re were just doing as much as we can to garner attention for the shows and stay true to them creatively.”
Following in the recent footsteps of a slew of highly watchable actors who deserve better (including Alfred Molina, Sela Ward and Skeet Ulrich) comes the news that Oscar nominee Terrence Howard has signed on to NBC’s Los Angeles based LAW & ORDER spin-off. According to an NBC press release, Howard will portray a district attorney and will share the position with Alfred Molina, who plays Deputy District Attorney Morales, in alternate episodes. According to us, somebody needs to find himself a new agent.
Watch, PVR, Pass: Friday July 30, 2010
TV Ratings: Thursday July 29, 2010 (ROOKIE BLUE Rebounds Nicely)
Time | Network | Show | Viewers | 18-49 |
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8PM | CBS | Big Brother 12 | 6.44 | 2.2/8 |
ABC | Wipeout (R) | 6.40 | 2.0/7 | |
FOX | Glee (R) | 3.84 | 1.3/5 | |
NBC | Community (R) | 2.84 | 1.0/4 | |
CW | The Vampire Diaries (R) | 1.47 | 0.5/2 | |
8:30PM | NBC | 30 Rock (R) | 2.60 | 1.0/3 |
9PM | ABC | Rookie Blue | 6.78 | 1.8/6 |
CBS | CSI (R) | 5.98 | 1.2/4 | |
FOX | So You Think You Can Dance | 5.77 | 1.9/6 | |
NBC | The Office (R) | 3.12 | 1.3/4 | |
CW | Moonlight (R) | 1.25 | 0.4/1 | |
9:30PM | NBC | Parks and Recreation (R) | 2.63 | 1.1/3 |
10PM | CBS | The Mentalist (R) | 7.42 | 1.4/4 |
ABC | Boston Med | 4.72 | 1.2/4 | |
NBC | Law & Orderr: SVU (R) | 3.01 | 0.9/3 |
Must Read TV: AMERICAN IDOL, NIKITA, CW & More!
• NIKITA is not… the new DOLLHOUSE!
• IDOL Chatter, Kara DioGuardi on her way out.
• IDOL Chatter II, Jennifer Lopez on her way in?
• IDOL Chatter III, Simon Cowell reacts to Ellen’s departure.
• CW Prez delivers her State of the CW address, claims ratings don’t matter anymore!
• Found: Terry O’Quinn, who already has his first post-LOST gig lined up.
Not-So-Killer Scoop from the DEXTER TCA Panel
How do you top John Lithgow’s soon-to-be-Emmy winning performance as the Trinity Killer? Well, if you’re DEXTER executive producers Chip Johannessen, John Goldwyn and Sara Colleton you don’t.
“In the wake of John Lithgow we wanted to shake up the single big bad [format],” said Johanessen, during today’s DEXTER panel at the semi-annual Television Critics Association Press Tour. “There will be different characters who will come in and interact Dexter. Different people help him along the way in different capacities.”
That’s the good news.
Watch, PVR, Pass: Thursday July 29, 2010
Does Showtime’s THE BIG C Make the Grade?
Who says Cancer can’t be funny? Certainly not Showtime, who is so confident that THE BIG C, their newest series starring Laura Linney, Oliver Platt and Gabby Sidibe warrants a big “A,” that they’ve teamed up with theTVaddict.com to give viewers a sneak peak of the first episode prior to the series August 16 premiere. Check it out for yourself, and be sure to let us know in the comments whether or not THE BIG C makes the grade.
Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Hysterical Things Uttered by Lane on BIG BROTHER Last Night
While the 12th season of BIG BROTHER is turning out to be a major snoozefest, last night we were at least kept entertained by the unexpectedly entertaining things said by Lane, the Texas boy who until now has been relatively quiet.
Upon seeing a statue of a unicorn: “I’ve seen a lot of horses in my life, and none of them have had a horn growing out of their forehead.”
On his love of guns: “It?s not uncommon to see a gun in someone’s car or someone’s truck. It doesn?t mean we?re going to go rob a bank. You know, we might be bored that day and want to go shoot a turtle!”
Explaining a favorite hobby: “You’ll have 10 people with rifles and a case of beer, riding through a pasture at nighttime with a spotlight. An’ you shine it in the trees and when you see eyes, you shoot it. An’ you just go out there and kill stuff.”
And the one that doesn?t even need an explanation: “I didn’t know Jewish guys wore ninja outfits when they prayed. That’s the good thing about being in BIG BROTHER. You know, I can learn different cultures and how they work.”
On his home state, Texas: “We’re a state, we have laws, too!”