Revenge, Once Upon a Time, Tanked, and Joan and Melissa and I have a ton to catch up on.

The answer to Friday's Trivia Question: The Big East was the first conference to have 3 teams in the Final Four.

FIRST FIVES: Bobby Aguilera, Dan Realson, James Schiro, Chris Lenge, & Larry Price

Honorable Mention: Monica Caraffa

Thursday's Broadcast Top 5

Grey's Anatomy-ABC 2.9/9.1

American Idol-FOX 2.8/11.6

Scandal-ABC 2.7/8.5

Glee-FOX 2.0/5.8

Wife Swap-ABC 1.7.5.0

Thursday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5

American Idol-FOX 199,722

Scandal-ABC 186,166

Vampire Diaries-CW 127,167

Glee-FOX 123,431

NCAA Basketball-CBS 89,939

Thursday's Cable Top 5

Swamp People-History 1.6/4.8
NCAA Basketball-TNT .9/2.4
American Dad-Adult Swim .9/2.3
NCAA Basketball-TBS .9/2.2
Big Rig Bounty Hunters-Histry .9/2.4

Thursday's Cable Trendrr Top 5

NCAA Basketball-TNT 132,044

NCAA Basketball-TBS 97,118

NCAA Basketball-Tru 66,197

Ridiculousness-MTV 23,939

Impact Wrestling-Spike 23,072

Friday's Broadcast Top 5

Last Man Standing Season Finale with Jonathan Taylor Thomas-ABC 1.6/7.8
20/20-ABC 1.6/6.2
Shark Tank-ABC 1.4/5.7
Grimm-NBC 1.4/4.9
NCAA Basketball-CBS 1.0/3.6

Friday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5

NCAA Basketball-CBS 231,944
Grimm-NBC 45,641
Fashion Star-NBC 26,946
Last Man Standing-ABC 22,627
Touch-FOX 20,729

Friday's Cable Top 5

NA

Friday's Cable Trendrr Top 5

NCAA Basketball-TNT 270,485
NCAA Basketball-Tru 233,410
NCAA Basketball-TBS 198,644
WWE Smackdown-Syfy 64,240
Ghost Adventures-Travel 35,051

Revenge

Nobody ever wants to go to the police anymore.  Every one's so smart, has access to information, weapons, etc. they no longer need the cops.  Nolan and Aidan figured they could handle the Carrion drop off and get Padma and her Dad outta there safely all on their own.  No cops. Didn't go so well.  Jack and Decklin are doing their own detective work to find out what REALLY happened to Amanda.  No cops and so far not too much luck on the case.  Of course we know that Emily and the Graysons all work alone.  Must be nice to have that much confidence in your crime solving abilities to never need real law enforcement.  So, Eli James, Emily's fo bro, who just showed up in the Hamptons last week, and ended up at the Grayson's dinner table and co-chairing the Amanda fundraiser scammed Victoria and ruined everything.  He chose the big check ceremony to bring down Mrs Hayward and piss off Victoria. I need to know the name of the company that produces these giant checks. What do people actually do with them? I don't think there's a Giant Check Bank North where recipients can go cash them or anything. I wonder how much they charge to make a big check like that. I'm totally of topic now. Back to Revenge... Eli wanted to make sure he made good on his promise to Emily by taking down Hayward and giving her the additional letters from her Dad that somehow now seem to exist. Of course he only had one of them and guess who had the rest...Mason.  So of course Emily headed right over to prison where she learned that Daniel has a brother. DUN DUN DUNNNNNN.  (Hope you could here the music in your head as that's what I was going for.) I thought that Revenge was getting back to being good again, but it's still way too complicated and getting more and more ridiculous each week.  I wish I stayed awake for Red Widow. That one, so far, is still pretty simple. I'll let you guys know after I catch up on it if I can still understand the plot.

Once Upon a Time
Snow/MM/EB hit the woods with her Ipod, her bow and arrow and jammed to a little Joan Jett while she cleared her head.  While in the woods she found August/Pinocchio all in wood.  I couldn't tell if that was make-up or CGI, but it was pretty cool.  Apparently August was in Hong Kong in 2011 when he started turning to wood and this guy turned him on to "The Dragon" who had a potion that could help him but it would cost August his puppet string necklace and 10G's.  He ended up stealing the 10G's from Tamara who coincidentally (or not) is Neil's fiance.  Tamara's up to no good in general.  She tazered "The Dragon" and took the potion for herself.  Cut to present day and she shows up in Storybrooke with bagels and lox, and to get August to leave town. We're still not sure why though.  August was just over the Storybrooke line when he figured out that Tamara's trouble. So he turned around to warn everyone, but she had her trusty tazer and got him good.  Henry realized that by Pinocchio warning them all, he acted brave, truthful and unselfish which did reverse the spell and turned Pin back into a boy who wears silly puppet clothes.  Regina saved that lanyard that Owen made her when he was little, cause that's really all lanyards are good for and finally made the connection that he is the strange new guy in town. Shocking twister of the night...Owen is "with" Tamara.  They're working together and "doin the nasty" so they are both not what they seem at all. Who is anymore?  Snow/MM/EB told David that she has blackness in her heart but David knows that Snow/MM/EB has a pure heart and every thing's going to be fine...it's a fairytale. IT HAS TO BE!

Joan & Melissa

Dylan and I caught up on 2 episodes of Joan & Melissa when his Travel baseball game got cancelled on Sunday.  We really love Joan & Melissa.  Over the course of both episodes, I think Joan changed outfits and necklaces a minimum of 40 times.  Joan got freaked out by an earthquake and made the whole team go to an emergency preparedness place to stock up on supplies.  Apparently in LA, there are quite a few of these places to chose from.  The place that Joan found had an earthquake simulator which of course the crew had to try out. It was scary and hilarious, scalarious!  I gotta give Joan credit,  she is open and up for anything and pretty forward thinking about technology.  First she decided to do a show on the web because of her frustration regarding censorship (It's called In Bed With Joan and it's pretty good you should check it out in your spare time.) and then she gave hologramming a shot.  Gotta admit, it was pretty realistic. The entire posse headed to London for a few meetings and a few shows.  Tony, one of Joans writers, begged her to let him open for her and he bombed...bad.  She was so nice about it I couldn't believe it.  Melissa had a date with a gorgeous Brit named Duncan.  This guy was perfect, and I think Melissa really needed a nice guy for a change.  Her track record has sucked and she's a bit nervous and gunshy.  I love Melissa, but she really needs to trim those bangs a little.  They're wayyyyy to long and I would think they would drive her crazy too.

Tanked
Yeah! My friends Brett and Wayde are back and so are Redneck, Heather and the General.  This week, the Tanked team was asked to build a giant Smoothie tank for Tropical Smoothie Cafe in Florida and a huge 10 foot tank for the producer of Jackass.  The Jackass guy seemed like he actually was a bit of a jackass.  No idea if the prank pulled on Brett and Wayde was for the cameras or if the guys were messing with them cause that's just what they do, but they took the tires and lug nuts off Brett & Wayde's rental car.  Seemed a bit contrived, but whatever.  The guys got them back with a beer tap that bunches you in the balls when you go to fill up your cup, so I was satisfied.  Back in Vegas, the guys tried imitating the Jackass guys by trying to replicate their shopping cart stunts.  This time someone did get hurt...Frankie one of the ATM office guys.  In the end, as is the case every week, the tanks were awesome and everyone was okay.  So glad new episodes are back!

NEWS & INFORMATION

-Some interesting facts from the Deloitte State of the Media Democracy survey

• There has been 160% growth in consumers who own the new triple play: tablet, smartphone, and laptop.   This represents more than 25% of US consumers. 
• Tablet ownership is up 177% over the past year
• Smartphone ownership was up 28%
• laptop ownership remained flat. 
• Tablet owners stream movies 70% more often than non-tablet owners.  
• Millennials (ages 14-23) have nearly doubled their frequency of using online video services in the past year
• Millennials have increased watching TV shows on smartphones by 5x and tablets 10x.  
• Us consumers prefer to rent rather than own their TV and movie content 2 to 1.  
• 80% of consumers are multitasking while they watch TV. 
• More than 1/2 of consumers have their TV connected to the Internet in some way and that group watches TV content from online sources over 40 percent of the time. 

-As you know we are still in the midst of March Madness and we always here about how work productivity decreases during the tournament.  Here are some March Madness facts:

• 108.4 million people watched the Superbowl, 85 million watch the NBA finals, 57.2 million people watch the NCAA Tournament and 12.7 million watch the World Series.
• 86% of people who plan to watch tournament games devote at least some time during their workday to watching or check stats and scores which is up 81% from last year.
• 25% spend 1 to 2 work hours following the tournament, 20% 3-5 hours and 11% 5 or more hours.
•  61% use their laptops or desktops to watch while 39% use their mobile devices
• 50/50 use company networks vs their own cell data
• 42% of IT professionals say March Madness has impacted their networks
• 34% of IT professionals report that their networks have shut down as a result of employees streaming games
• 65% of IT professionals say they take some sort of action to block, throttle or ban streaming non work content
•  71% of IT professionals ban the game in order reduce distraction

There's a ton to catch up on, and a lot of stuff on tonight.  What are you guys planning on watching? The Voice? Dallas? Real Housewives Finale?  How I Met Your Mother?  Let me know!

Monday's NCAA Trivia Question: What team was the first NCAA Men's Basketball championship team to finish the season undefeated? 

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