The answer to the special Saturday Blog Only Trivia Question: AMERICAN BANDSTAND with Dick Clark was the show I watched on
Saturday mornings.
FIRST FIVES: Karen Heniger, Lance Beitler, Alex
Nagler, He Who Shall Not Be Named, & Lillian Doremus
Thursday’s Broadcast Top 5
THE BIG BANG THEORY-CBS 4.5/13.6
AMERICAN IDOL-FOX 4.2/15.2
PERSON OF INTEREST-CBS 3.3/14.4
TOUCH (CFF)-FOX 2.8/9.1
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT (KF)-CBS 2.8/8.8
Thursday’s Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
AMERICAN IDOL-FOX 200,105
THE VAMPIRE DIARIES (KF)-CW 122,856
THE BIG BANG THEORY-CBS 80,033
COMMUNITY-NBC 40,830
THE SECRET CIRCLE-CW 38,044
Thursday’s Cable Top 5
NBA BASKETBALL-TNT 1.7/3.4
PUNK’D-MTV 1.6/3.2
PAULY D PROJECT-MTV 1.6/2.9
SWAMP PEOPLE-History 1.6/4.3
BIG BANG THEORY-TBS 1.4/3.0
Thursday’s Cable Trendrr Top 5
PUNK’D-MTV 190,140
THE PAULY D PROJECT-MTV-138,978
MARY MARY-WE 24,791
CONAN-TBS 23,151
BRAXTON FAMILY VALUES-WE 19,718
Friday’s Broadcast Top 5
20/20-ABC 2.1/6.9
UNDERCOVER BOSS-CBS 1.8/8.0
BLUE BLOODS-CBS 1.6/10.6
CSI NY-CBS 1.6/9.4
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?-ABC 1.5/5.0
Friday’s Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
SUPERNATURAL-CW 58,427
FRINGE-FOX 54,998
GRIMM-NBC 28,396
NIKITA-CW 18,661
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?-ABC 9,721
Friday’s Cable Top 5
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Friday’s Cable Trendrr Top 5
WWE-Syfy 59,163
PIERS MORGAN-CNN 35,709
SPARTACUS-Starz 33,238
GHOST ADVENTURES-Travel 33,068
SPORTSCENTER-ESPN 17,632
-HUGE news…HUGE…Nielsen announced that it would be abandoning its trademark People
Meters as data gathering devices for its television ratings measurements and
would begin using Facebook Likes and Twitter Trends instead. No idea how soon this will happen but I am
Sooooooooooooooooooooo happy about this.
I have always had issues with Nielsen and it’s measurement system…to me
this is a huge win for networks, programs, broadcasters and brands. In my opinion…the sooner the better.
-Sunday night, no matter how many
DVR’s you own, was a tough night…hard choices need to be made and even I didn’t
get to watch everything I wanted to…Lucky for me I don’t watch THE KILLING or
MOB WIVES, but I also didn’t get to see CELEBRITY
APPRENTICE (3 hours…Donald…you are KILLING me!) or the ACMA’s…my choices were…
-ONCE UPON A TIME…I am glad I stayed loyal here or I would have
missed a couple big reveals. SPOILER ALERT: The first thing we found out is
why Regina/The Queen hates Mary Margaret/Snow White so much…apparently over in
fairytale land, Regina had found her true love in Daniel, a stable boy. Unfortunately Regina’s mean magical Mom
(played by Barbara Hershey) wouldn’t allow them to be together, so they were
going to run away, but Snow caught them. Regina asked Snow to keep her secret
from her MMM. But unfortunately, MMM tricked Snow into telling her the truth
and then took Daniel’s heart and forced Regina to marry Snow’s Dad…Toby from
the West Wing aka The King…the look alone when Regina found out that little
Snow had betrayed her explained everything…and now we know. Big, big, big news though…Katherine is
alive??? Good news for Snow…maybe? I am sure Mr. Gold has something to do with
it, which means…all is not what it seems.
-Next was the season premiere of GAME OF THRONES. I probably should have re-watched last
season, as I had a little trouble remembering all of the various plots and
subplots. There are so many families
vying for power and war is breaking out all over the place. Joffery/Geoffrey whatever the evil kid king’s
name is has some crazy malice in his gene pool…I guess that’s what happens when
your parents are brother and sister though.
The Starks still have Joff/Geoff’s Dad and the Lannister’s want to trade
the Stark girls for Jaime…one problem…they can’t seem to find Aria the youngest
daughter who is traveling the country as a boy. Bailish and the Queen went at it pretty well…that
relationship could get interesting and of course we have Kalheesi and her
dragons to contend with even though they are all starving to death and losing
their horses from the schlep across the country. Best part of the show is any scene with Peter
Dinklage in it…he is brilliant and hilarious.
I have a major crush on him…even though Jon Snow is the hotty and I do
love him too…PD is my guy.
-HBO is so good to me that they kept
GAME OF THRONES to an hour which allowed me to read a little bit more of the
last 50 Shades book before ICE LOVES
COCO. This week my son and my
husband watched with me…not sure if that wins me any bad parent award or not,
it seemed okay…but we have established that I am really not the greatest judge
on this topic…anyway, Coco got a part on SVU where she has to kiss someone and
all in all Ice handled it much better than I expected…classic though…we find
out 5 minutes before the end of the show that the person Coco has to kiss isn’t
a hot young dude, but a hot young girl instead!
They all handled it well and didn’t seem to miss a beat. Also in this episode, Ice & Coco find a
girlfriend for Spartacus their bulldog…hilarious how they filmed the dogs
running together in slow motion on the beach and Ice just goes along with it
all…I love that guy!
-Saturday night was the KIDS CHOICE AWARDS on Nickelodeon. I know for us it was appointment TV. My son voted a few times, but in total,
according to host Will Smith, there were 220 MILLION votes… For me it was all
about checking out my favorite new boy band…ONE DIRECTION. If you haven’t heard of them, you will. They are performing on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
this coming Saturday! Anyway…the KIDS CHOICE
AWARDS is all about the slime. Every
year, Nick comes up with more insane ways to shower people with slime and I am
amazed at what good sports people are about it.
Halle Berry, Chris Colfer, Taylor Lautner and some WWE wrestlers all got
slimed but nobody got slimed like Justin Bieber…OMG they just got pummeled the
kid with slime at the end of the show. He looked surprised, but I would have to
think that one needs to prepare in advance if they are going to be slimed.
-Direct TV subscribers in 19 US markets have lost access to certain
programming after Tribune Broadcasting
said it failed to reach a settlement with the satellite television provider in
their contract negotiations. The
affected markets include NY, Chicago, New Orleans and Philadelphia. Customers could lose programs like AMERICAN
IDOL, GOSSIP GIRL and Major League Baseball depending on who owns local
affiliates that carry the shows. So between the crazy rain we had yesterday and
this news…so glad I don’t have Direct TV!
-With the NCAA Basketball
Championship looming, thought you guys would like some interesting MARCH MADNESS stats:
·
Once March Madness starts,
productivity for many workers comes to a halt…here’s how
·
During the tournament, minutes spent
on work: 390 Minutes spent on games: 90
·
Average pay for private sector
workers: $186.32 per day Average pay
lost per private sector worker: $34.94 per day
·
Workers spend 8.4 million hours
watching March Madness games
·
An estimated $175 million dollars
will be lost during the first two days of the tournament
·
86% of workers devote some of their
workday to follow games
·
56% plan to dedicate at least one
hour during the first two days
·
11% plan to dedicate at least five
hours during the first two days
·
6% plan to take the first two days
off (these must be the ones that need to go to Gamblers Anonymous)
·
In 2011, the top 10 advertisers
spent a combined total of 272 million dollars for March Madness ads
·
Odds of filling out a perfect
bracket: 1:18000000000000000000
·
26% plan to bet money on games
·
31% will bet more than they did last
year
·
43% have never won any money
·
62% lose their money
·
22% have won between $1 & $50
·
17% have won over $200
-Just when we had sort of forgotten
about the Charlie Sheen/Chuck Lorre battle, another major battle is playing out
in TV land between Chevy Chase and COMMUNITY creator Dan Harmon. Chevy Chase has a history of being difficult
and it seems he walked off the set during the taping of the shows finale due to
his belief that the show and his character are just not funny enough for his
taste. Didn’t Chevy walk away from SNL
after the first season? Does he have a
boatload of dough that none of us don’t know about? Doesn’t he sort of need to
work? Can’t he just suck it up at this
point? I don’t know Chevy…maybe some
therapy? It did work for Charlie…maybe
you could get his number?
-When I first heard that Brad and
Angelina were having a biological baby, I thought there couldn’t be a more
beautiful combination to create a human…but I am now rethinking this since Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green are
having a baby. While B.A.G. isn’t has
hot as Brad Pitt, he is nothing to sneeze at and Megan Fox is right up there
with Angie…battle of the babies…new series!
-Tonight on THE VOICE, the live shows begin and for the first time, in addition
to texting, online and calling in your votes, you will now be able to vote via
FACEBOOK…all options allow you to vote a maximum of 10 times, plus you can also
get involved socially on the site…I know
that I will be participating tonight…but as much as I am excited for this…I am
even more excited that all of the judges will have finally changed their
clothes!
-Not surprising that the younger
demos are where newspapers are suffering the most…but the older ones are now
dropping off too…now that the have their Ipads, they are sorta not missing the
big bulky paper and the ink on the fingers…
For the record, I have 2 people helping me with questions…James Gabriele
from MediaVest and Bobby Aguilera from Tribune…so thanks to them…here are your
questions:
Monday’s Easy Baseball Trivia Question: Where is the Baseball Hall of Fame
located?
Monday’s Hard Baseball Trivia Question: Which batter did Nolan Ryan strike
out to pass Walter Johnson’s All Time Strike Outs record?
WWTM-Kristy
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