Tuesday, February 28, 2012

WATCHING WAY TOO MUCH 2/28/12


The answer to Monday’s Oscar Trivia Question:  Morgan Freeman opened this year’s Oscars
FIRST FIVES: Shawn Checkmayan, Mike Pierro, Heather Doyle, Tara Dowling, & Bill McLaughlin

Friday’s Cable Top 5
GOLD RUSH-Discovery 2.0/5.0
BERING SEA GOLD-Discovery 1.3/3.1
NBA ALL STAR RISING STARS-TNT 1.2/2.7
NBA ALL STAR EVENT-ESPN 1.1/2.3
SPARTACUS-Starz .7/1.5

Sunday’s Broadcast Top 5
ACADEMY AWARDS (CFF)-ABC 11.7/39.3
OSCAR’S RED CARPET LIVE 7-830p (CFF)-ABC 6.3/24.1
THE AMAZING RACE-CBS 2.1/7.5
CELEBRITY APPRENTICE (CFF)-NBC 1.8/4.9
NAPOLEON DYNAMITE-FOX 1.6/3.5

Sunday’s Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
ACADEMY AWARDS (CFF)-ABC 3,192,968
OSCARS RED CARPET LIVE (CFF)-ABC 161,385
THE SIMPSON-FOX 104,886
FAMILY GUY-FOX 96,797
CSI MIAMI-CBS 46,920

Sunday’s Cable Top 5
Still not available

Sunday’s Cable Trendrr Top 5
2012 NBA ALL STAR GAME-TNT 1,264,073
THE WALKING DEAD-AMC 188,776
LIVE FROM THE RED CARPET (CFF)-E! 106,304
COUNTDOWN TO THE RED CARPET (CFF)-E! 80,526
EASTBOUND & DOWN-HBO 26,175

-Lots of post Oscar numbers and facts to go through…some of the ones that I found important or interesting are here:
·         The Oscars had its 2nd largest audience since 2007 and reached 39.3 million viewers which was up 4% versus last year. The A18-49 numbers was flat to last year with an 11.7.
·         The Oscar.com and the Oscar app grew 42% with 10.2 million visitors to the site and 370,000 downloads of the app which is an increase of 1154% vs. last year.  On Sunday alone, 4 million people visited the site or used the app
·         E!’s million hours of coverage averaged 4 million viewers and was the most watched ACADEMY AWARDS LIVE FROM THE RED CARPET ever.  12 million viewers tuned into E!’s 8 ½ hours (okay so I exaggerated a little) of Red Carpet programming which was up 4% vs. last year.

-JIMMY KIMMEL’s post Oscar show was up 14% vs. last year and was his most watched post show ever.  Did you guys watch any of it?  Jimmy had Oprah on. While she looked horrible (definitely must have fired Andre or something and it looked like she gained some weight). She was FUNNY!  There were three great taped pieces…the first was Jimmy’s opening number with Billy Crystal, the second was a spoof of a movie trailer called: Movie…The Movie and the third was Jimmy pitching show ideas to Oprah for her struggling network.  Here are two of the three, if anyone can find the opening clip…send it my way…


-Mashable had a great infographic for Oscar Tweet recaps, here are some of the highlights:
·         1,980,930 total tweets for the awards show
·         633,879 users tweeting during the show
·         68% were from the United State
·         81% were in English
·         Most mentioned actor-Brad Pitt with 62,025 followed by his BFF George Clooney with 61,967
·         Most mentioned actress-Meryl Streep with 38,202 followed by Michelle Williams with 15, 610
·         Most mentioned movie-The Artist with 26,751 followed by Hugo with 25,056
·         Most mentioned from the red carpet-Emma Stone 4,562
·         Top 5 most retweeted accounts: @theacademy, @_sname,@eonline,@perezhilton,@hugogloss
·         Top 5 most mentioned accounts: @getglue, @theacademy, @_snape, @eonline, @tntla

-Kelly Ripa and her co-host Neil Patrick Harris took over the Kodak theatre for LIVE WITH KELLY yesterday.  Kelly apparently took Gayle King’s spot backstage at the Oscars and interviewed the celebrities as they came backstage after presenting or winning.  In the extremely condensed taped piece that recapped all of Kelly’s interviews, basically…she congratulated them, and drank with them…weird actually.  Kelly’s Oscar dress was also odd…a mint green belted dress that accentuated her lack of upper assets.  I am not advocating breast implants…really I’m not…but there are cutlets or even a good pair of socks…it’s 2012...everyone does it Kelly…The hair was also not helping the situation as it was was slicked back into a giant cinnamon bun.  I felt like Kelly got gyped on the guests they booked too…I mean it was what like 6AM in LA when Kelly’s show is live? So I could understand why the celebs didn’t want to appear, so Kelly ended up with Jean Dujardin from THE ARTIST with a translator in his ear, and some of the other cast members from the Best Picture Winner, and Octavia Spencer who won for THE HELP.  They also had Isaac Mizrahi on the red carpet which was also just condensed down to him asking who everyone was wearing and a really really awkward moment with Brad and Angelina…hate to say it…but Oprah and Gayle did a much better job…then again…it was Kelly’s first year so I will give her some slack.

-Okay…I guess, that Blake, Christina, CeeLo and Adam only did blind auditions for one day.  I get it, they are all really busy, and it was probably tough to get them all in one place…but perhaps they could have brought with them a change of clothes?  Same clothes for all 5 rounds of auditions.  I really needed some outfit changes…The cat was back…it seems to just magically appear in CeeLo’s arms during the show.  It is really funny and a little disturbing the way he handles and looks a that thing…I guess they gave up time to change clothes in lieu of time with their pets???  I loved Whitney Myer last night…she was the girl at the beginning wearing the earrings that looked like an abacus.  She was awesome and I am SO glad she is on Adam’s team. 

-Well, one thing that I wanted the writers to do on HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, was bring Lily and Marshall back to the city and…yeah! They are back…I knew that couldn’t last long. Now that Ted was kind enough to give them his place, he is in need of a new crib.  Maybe it is there, in his new building or at the dry cleaners or Starbucks in his new hood, that he will finally meet the MOTHER…enough already people…I need to meet her…soon!

-Sunday night caught up with me and I passed out before I could watch BETHENNY or CONAN or FALLON (with Bruce) or Sunday’s CELEBRITY APPRENTICE…so I have a lot of work ahead of me this week.  I promise I will get to it all.

-James Spader is out as Robert California on THE OFFICE after this season.  He had only signed a one year deal and that’s apparently all he wants to do…so I guess a new boss will be coming soon…or maybe…now don’t get upset people…but maybe it’s time to end this thing…just sayin.


-Who are the 2% that play 30 hours of video games a week?  Even kids don’t have that kind of time.

-I know who the 12% who watch 30+ hours of TV are…ME!

-The DAYTONA 500 finally got underway yesterday and ran on FOX in primetime…tons of crazy crashes meant that the race took 6 hours to complete. Matt Kenseth was the winner.  In addition to all the craziness of the race…I guess that Brad Keslowski can’t go anywhere without his smartphone…Brad was tweeting during the race.  Seriously…now that is taking racing to a whole new level…for anyone interested…here are his tweets:
·         No worries We stopped @LisShoe: @keselowski please! Don't tweet and drive! Lol ;) ;)"
·         Yup At least I'm not in the port-a-Jon :) @darrenrovell: @keselowski are u sitting in the car right now tweeting?"
·         My pocket @zanestoddard: BK - Where's that phone go when we're green? "@keselowski: 
-I’m not sure I completely understand what it means when I read that CONAN has “taken a giant leap into the future” with the new Team Coco Tablet App.  The app uses automatic content recognition technology to provide Conan’s fans with exclusive synchronized content that is delivered in real-time while they watch the show. So I guess it is sort of like Viggle Live?   Each episode of CONAN will feature up to 25 different pieces of bonus content delivered through the Team Coco app and synchronized with elements within the show.
If I can remember and stay awake…I will try to test it at some point this week.

-Tuesday’s Trivia Question-Last night on HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, Becki Newton made her first appearance as a stripper named Karma…what was the big show she co-starred in previously?

WWTM-Kristy

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