Time | Network | Show | Viewers | 18-49 |
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8PM | ABC | The Bachelorette | 9.08 | 2.9/10 |
FOX | Lie to Me | 5.57 | 1.7/6 | |
NBC | America’s Got Talent (R) | 5.13 | 1.3/4 | |
CBS | How I Met Your Mother (R) | 4.57 | 1.5/5 | |
CW | 90210 (R) | 947,000 | 0.4/1 | |
8:30PM | CBS | Rules of Engagement (R) | 5.13 | 1.7/5 |
9PM | ABC | The Bachelorette | 9.63 | 3.1/9 |
CBS | Two and a Half Men (R) | 7.74 | 2.3/7 | |
NBC | Last Comic Standing | 4.66 | 1.7/5 | |
FOX | The Good Guys | 3.64 | 1.1/3 | |
CW | Gossip Girl (R) | 546,000 | 0.2/1 | |
9:30PM | CBS | The Big Bang Theory (R) | 7.72 | 2.3/6 |
10PM | CBS | CSI: Miami (R) | 6.55 | 1.6/5 |
ABC | True Beauty | 5.50 | 1.9/5 | |
NBC | Dateline NBC | 4.68 | 1.2/3 |
Archives for July 2010
Must Read TV: DEXTER, CSI: NY, HOT IN CLEVELAND & More!
• Part man. Part machine. All cop: RoboCop’s Peter Weller signs onto DEXTER for a eight episode fifth season arc.
• Another one woman bites the dust, Melina Kanakaredes exits CSI: NY.
• Oh Canada! ROOKIE BLUE, the highest-rated scripted show of the summer on broadcast TV gets a second season pickup.
• The boys are back in town, with Showtime announcing premiere dates for Matt LeBlanc’s EPISODES, William H. Macy’s SHAMELESS, and David Duchovny’s CALIFORNICATION.
• HOT IN CLEVELAND gets less so, signing Joe Jonas for an August episode guest spot.
• An unexpected surprise, as LIFE UNEXPECTED adds MELROSE PLACE alum Shaun Sipos.
Watch, PVR, Pass: Monday July 12, 2010
Fall Preview ‘10: HAWAII FIVE-0
You’ve seen the commercials. You’ve heard the hype. Now there’s only one thing you want to know: Which of the new fall shows are worth watching and which should be avoided at all costs? In this continuing series, we give you the scoop on some of the most highly-anticipated shows of the season, with today’s magnifying glass turning on CBS’ HAWAII Five-0 reboot.
The Boilerplate: Since these pilot presentations may go through numerous rewrites and casting changes prior to premiere, this by no means should be considered an official review. Rather a preview of what one can expect come Fall.
The Elevator Pitch: HAWAII FIVE-0 meets High Definition.
Unboxing a mystery we need YOUR help solving!
One of the definite perks to running one of the web’s most popular television blogs is that on any given day, you never know what’s going to show up at your door.
Sometimes it’s an exciting screener for a Fall pilot you’re dying to see (LONESTAR FTW!), sometimes — with apologies for the 50’s style AMERICAN IDOL TV tray that is continues to gather dust in our closet — it’s a bizarre promotional item that we have very little use for, and sometimes, in the case of this morning’s package, it’s a mystery that turns an ordinary Monday into, well, a slightly more exciting one.
For encased in this plain manila envelope (pictured above) is quite literally a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. See for yourself after the jump.
TV Ratings: Sunday July 11, 2010
Time | Network | Show | Viewers | 18-49 |
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8PM | CBS | Big Brother | 6.91 | 2.2/7 |
NBC | Law & Order: CI | 4.8 | 0.9/3 | |
ABC | Extreme Makeover: HE (R) | 4.64 | 1.2/4 | |
FOX | The Simpsons (R) | 3.74 | 1.7/6 | |
8:30PM | FOX | Cleveland Show (R) | 3.39 | 1.5/5 |
9PM | CBS | The Mentalist (R) | 5.77 | 0.9/3 |
NBC | America’s Got Talent (R) | 4.52 | 1.2/3 | |
FOX | Family Guy (R) | 4.04 | 1.8/5 | |
ABC | Scoundrels | 3.07 | 0.8/2 | |
9:30PM | FOX | Family Guy (R) | 3.76 | 1.7/5 |
10PM | CBS | Cold Case (R) | 5.45 | 1.1/3 |
NBC | America’s Got Talent (R) | 5.17 | 1.5/4 | |
ABC | The Gates | 3.28 | 1.0/3 |
Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Questions with COVERT AFFAIRS Executive Producer Doug Liman
What was the genesis of COVERT AFFAIRS?
Doug Liman: Like most things in Hollywood, everything just sort of came together at the right moment. (1) My producing partners Dave Bartis and Gene Klein had been trying to develop a spy show for quite some time. (2) Doing a film called Fair Game really immersed us in the spy world and gave us access to a lot of current and former covert officers with the CIA that had no place in the movie — unless I wanted the movie to be 10 hours long — but gave us this huge treasure trove of cool factoids which was perfect to channel into a TV show. And (3) Finding the right writers, Matt [Corman] and Chris [Ord]. I have partners that I really trust, and if they say, “We think we should do a spy show with these guys,” I’m going to usually not going to challenge that. And in this case, once we started talking about the show, and the ideas, it just was a great collaboration.
Since making a name for yourself with Swingers you’ve carved out quite a niche in the spy melue with the Bourne films, Mr. & Mrs. Smith and soon-to-be-released Fair Game What do you find so fascinating about the genre?
I always loved spy books growing up. Be it Robert Ludlum or or Ken Follett there was always a great sense of adventure that came with being a spy. And then on a personal front, because my father ended up working in Washington and I got to sort of see the world up close and personal, I always thought, “Wow, oh my gosh, these people are actually real!” When I was doing research for Fair Game and I was meeting with somebody who ran Europe for the Director of Operations – so very high level spies — he said, “I hope you’re not going to make Valerie Plame into some kind of superhero, because, you know, all she did was X, Y, Z. And we’ve got a million people who do that.” And all I’m thinking is X, Y and Z is more exciting than anything I was ever anticipating Valerie Plame would have done. And for them, it’s just like a day at the office. But it’s a rarefied world that I just never cease to be fascinated by.
Watch, PVR, Pass: Sunday July 11, 2010
Your TV Tech Fix: Sling Your Home TV to Android Devices… Finally.
It’s almost hard to believe that the very first Android device in the US more than 20 months ago. Whether you feel that was just yesterday or eons ago really depends on your frame of mind, but one thing’s for sure – if you have an Android device and a Slingbox, the wait for SlingPlayer Mobile has been unbearable.
Finally, the train has pulled into the station. SlingPlayer Mobile for Android is here. With a supported Slingbox (that’s the SOLO, PRO, and PRO-HD models, but the older boxes should also still work), you can watch and control your home television sources over the Internet on the major Android phones, like the Nexus One, EVO, Droid, and more. Even those clinging to their original G1 can join the fun.
So what took so long?
Must Read TV: LOST, GLEE, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES & More!
• Saturday Silliness: And you thought you were taking the end of LOST hard!
• GLEE a slave for her, announces plans to write a Britney Spears-centric episode this fall.
• HBO gets the ball rolling, on another series from TRUE BLOOD mastermind Alan Ball.
• No ordinary actress, Autumn Reeser on her return to ENTOURAGE.
• Out: Twilight’s Taylor Lautner. IN: Newest addition to THE VAMPIRE DIARIES Taylor Kinney.