It never fails. A show is humming along perfectly and then… they walk into the room. You know who we mean. That character who just brings the show to a grinding stop. The one who gets under your skin and causes your eyes to roll. As with most things, it’s completely subjective… what causes one viewer’s skin to crawl has another purring like a kitten. But here’s our list of characters we’d love to see take a long walk off a short pier. [Read more…]
Archives for December 2011
TV Ratings: Monday December 12, 2011 (FEAR FACTOR Scares Up Big Audience in Return)
Time | Network | Show | Rating | 18-49 | VS. |
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8PM | CBS | 2 Broke Girls | 12.46 | 4.1/11 | |
NBC | Fear Factor | 8.69 | 3.2/8 | ||
FOX | Terra Nova | 6.99 | 2.1/6 | ||
ABC | I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown | 5.29 | 1.4/4 | ||
CW | Hart of Dixie (R) | 1.42 | 0.4/1 | ||
8:30PM | CBS | 2 Broke Girls (R) | 10.25 | 3.3/8 | |
9PM | CBS | Two and a Half Men | 14.71 | 4.6/11 | |
NBC | Fear Factor | 8.52 | 3.5/8 | ||
FOX | House (R) | 4.42 | 1.4/3 | ||
ABC | You Deserve It | 3.40 | 0.9/2 | ||
CW | Hart of Dixie (R) | 1.31 | 0.5/1 | ||
9:30PM | CBS | Mike & Molly | 13.83 | 3.9/9 | |
10PM | CBS | Hawaii Five-0 | 10.93 | 2.8/7 | |
ABC | Castle (R) | 4.16 | 1.0/2 | ||
NBC | Rock Center with Brian Williams | 4.04 | 1.1/3 |
Morning Static: GLEE, ALL-AMERICAN MUSLIM, PRETTY LITTLE LIARS & More!
• Instant Syfy! Crowd-sourcing the ultimate Syfy movie.
• Awwww Alert! JUST SHOOT ME cast reunion.
• Pilot Watch: Eva Longoria sells legal drama to the CW.
• Must Read TV: ALL-AMERICAN MUSLIM meets an Un-American advertising pullout.
• Has GLEE lost its grip? Discuss.
• ENLIGHTENED Season (Series?) Finale: 5 reasons HBO needs to renew this Laura Dern vehicle.
• PRETTY LITTLE LIARS Shocker! The identity of ‘A’ to be revealed…
ONCE UPON A TIME Redux: Why Do TV Shows Have To Break Our Heart?
One of my favorite new shows just broke everyone’s heart. ONCE UPON A TIME is premised on the idea that Emma Swan is the key to breaking the Evil Queen’s curse and that she will bring back the “happy endings.” But if this most recent episode is any indication, the curse is still alive and well — for Storybrooke is still a place where “happy endings” die.
Coming from the creators and writers of the episode “The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter,” Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis (both former writers of LOST), ONCE UPON A TIME took a page out of the LOST-playbook and killed off a beloved principal character. It was as if the one thing that we all dreaded the most has come back to haunt us – writers who dare to kill off characters. In the past decade, television has become more enamored with the idea of raising-the-stakes and making TV shows more unpredictable by killing key characters. Other shows have done it, but none more so and more heart-wrenchingly than LOST. It was a show that we all both loved and loathed for various reasons. But perhaps the greatest taboo that LOST ever broke was killing off beloved characters. [Read more…]
On TV Tonight: Monday December 12, 2011
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown | You Deserve It | Castle (R) | |||
CBS | 2 Broke Girls | 2 Broke Girls (R) | Two and a Half Men | Mike & Molly | Hawaii Five-0 | |
CW | Hart of Dixie (R) | Hart of Dixie (R) | ||||
FOX | Terra Nova | House | ||||
NBC | Fear Factor | Rock Center with Brian Williams | ||||
TNT | The Closer | Rizzoli & Isles |
The CW Gets its Mid-Season Report Card
The Good: Making good on his mandate to broaden the Network’s audience, newly-minted CW President Mark Pedowitz kicked off his first full season at the helm by successfully adding the heartwarming HART OF DIXIE and the dark and twisty RINGER to its roster of veteran hour longs.
The Bad: Nobody’s watching! Which is to say that with the exception of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES and one perfectly timed MUPPET special, the first half of the CW’s season saw the majority of the its schedule stalled between the 1 to 2 million viewer mark. And while actual audience levels of the youth oriented Network are undoubtedly more when you incorporate DVR numbers, legal and dare-we-say-it, illegal online alternatives — the simple fact of the matter is that based on the traditional method in which audiences are measured and advertising is sold — the CW Network remains a virtual non-factor from a pure ratings point of view. Which brings us to… [Read more…]
TV Ratings: Sunday December 11, 2011 (No Fairy Tale Finish For ONCE UPON A TIME)
Time | Network | Show | Rating | 18-49 | VS. |
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8PM | NBC | Football Night in America | 16.68 | 6.2/15 | |
CBS | The Amazing Race | 13.68 | 3.4/8 | ||
ABC | Once Upon a Time | 8.91 | 2.9/7 | ||
FOX | The Simpsons | 6.45 | 3.0/7 | ||
8:30PM | NBC | Sunday Night Football | 20.45 | 7.4/17 | |
FOX | Cleveland Show | 4.98 | 2.3/5 | ||
9PM | NBC | Sunday Night Football | 23.25 | 8.7/17 | |
CBS | The Good Wife | 11.14 | 3.1/7 | ||
FOX | Family Guy | 6.05 | 3.1/7 | ||
ABC | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Movie) | 3.74 | 1.2/3 | ||
9:30PM | FOX | American Dad! | 4.99 | 2.5/6 | |
10PM | NBC | Sunday Night Football | 21.02 | 8.2/17 | |
CBS | CSI: Miami | 11.05 | 2.2/5 | ||
ABC | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Movie) | 3.74 | 1.2/3 |
Editor’s Note: Ratings for CBS are slightly skewed due to NFL overrun
The Backlot: Plane Crazy
Morning Static: GAME OF THRONES, ALL-AMERICAN MUSLIM, BOARDWALK EMPIRE & More!
• Change We Can Believe In: Julia-Louis Dreyfus settles into “Office.”
• Are these TV’s Best Holiday Episodes? Discuss.
• BOARDWALK EMPIRE Redux: Showrunner explains shocking finale, talks season 3.
• AFI’s Top 10 TV shows: GAME OF THRONES in; GLEE out.
• Lawmaker: Lowe’s ‘bigoted’ for pulling ALL-AMERICAN MUSLIM ads.
• Must Read TV: Top 10 Things THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART got wrong about Tap Fish!