The Grammy Awards had their best numbers since 2004, knocking off American Idol for the number one spot for the week. Elsewhere, the final season of Lost returned as the number one scripted show in the adult demo.
It was a bit of a slow week of television. Football on FOX sent all the other networks scrambling on Sunday. Then Obama took over all the channels on Wednesday. Add in an oddly quiet Thursday and we had three pretty weak nights of numbers. Not to worry though, there was still the occasional cause […]
It’s a bit of a quiet week down at the DVD emporium. No huge current hits to speak of, but there are a host of good crime shows from across the pond hitting shelves. You can also look forward to another set from The Whitest Kids U Know, Bridget searching for sexy beaches, and my […]
The complete implosion of Heroes just never gets old. I’m fascinated by it, and the show found an all new low last week. Over the years we’ve seen plenty of shows fall from their once lofty heights. But to see one crash so fast, and in such a dramatic fashion, is a rare thing. On […]
Today, Elizabeth’s back Guest-clacking for us, after wondering if Heroes was about to blow our minds…. Southland could have been a solid cop-centered replacement for ER on NBC when the first few episodes aired last spring—probably a better replacement than the paramedic-centered Trauma, which already came and went this past fall—but instead turned into the […]
FOX has been waiting all season to drop the big hammer, and the time has finally come. Idol returned last week, and the ripple effect of adding over 20 million viewers to Tuesday and Wednesday was felt by a number of shows, but not all of them. Despite Idol adding some 24 million viewers to […]
The blogs are all atwitter. NBC is finally owning up to the Leno Experiment’s failure. Sure, they can blame the affiliates all they want to. I guess it’s pretty damn unreasonable to want, you know, competitive ratings at 10 and 11. The nerve of those guys, eh? I’m not a late night guy, so I’m […]
