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Ratings Clack – January isn’t that far away

The scheduling shenanigans continue as we race toward the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. Last week saw more holiday themed specials, and a lot of repeats. Fortunately, there were a few interesting numbers mixed in with all of the seasonal offerings. Things like big gains for The Middle, which is looking much better now that […]

by Brett Love

Quotation Marks – Bazinga, Ice Bullets, and the Sue Sylvester Express

Its hard to imagine that we won’t be getting any new Sue Sylvester quotes until Glee comes back in April. She’s easily the most quotable new character on television (I don’t know how Julia will be able to get through the winter!), and this weekly column will miss her barbs, insults, and observations. But with […]

by Ivey West

Modern Family doesn’t have to be funny to be good

One of the many things I like about Modern Family is how, even within all of the antics and humor, they can fit in some sort of touching message that makes sense and, dare I say, choke you up a little. No? Just me? Well, it happens to me, dammit, and usually it’s at the […]

by Keith McDuffee

Ratings Clack – Entering the holiday abyss

It’s that time of the year. Now that we’ve all been spoiled for months with tons of new TV, it’s all going away. Last week we saw the first real evidence of the holiday slowdown as CW just shut down completely and ABC was the only network that even made an effort on Thursday and […]

by Brett Love

Quotation Marks – Beefcake calendars, threesomes, and large breasts … making the Puritans proud

Dreams came true for a lot of people this week. Seinfeld staged a reunion show on the season finale of Larry David’s Curb, Martha Castle is set to meet a calendar’s worth of firefighters, Ted and Robin were gifted a slap, and Cam got to dress up like a clown. Unfortunately for billions of turkeys, […]

by Aryeh S.

Modern Family’s dangerous birthday party delivers the laughs

“We can’t get Luke a crossbow. He pokes himself in the eye every time he uses a straw.” – Gloria to Jay, about Luke’s birthday present What do you get when you cross How I Met Your Mother‘s non-linear storytelling with the action-packed Crocodile Hunter with the classic horror tale of a killer clown? This […]

by Debbie McDuffee

Ratings Clack – The Prisoner, it’s no Mad Men

The biggest premiere last week came from cable, as AMC finally released their modern take on The Prisoner. I had been planning for months to make a comparison between that and media-darling Mad Men. I always find the amount of coverage that Mad Men is able to generate, despite the fact that its latest season […]

by Brett Love
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