Monday, December 9, 2013

Homeland and Betrayal







The answer to Friday's Trivia Question: Captain Von Trapp's first name was Georg pronounced GAY ORG
FIRST FIVES:Elke Raskob, Karen Feldman, John Romeo, Monica Caraffa & Justin Jones
Honorable Mention: Cyndi Greeley

Bonus Trivia Question: The Michael Jackson song in Scandal was "Ben"

Thursday's Broadcast Top 5
The Big Bang Theory-CBS 4.8/15.6
The Sound of Music Live-NBC 4.6/18.6
Scandal-ABC 3.0/8.2
The Millers-CBS 2.4/9.2
Grey's Anatomy-ABC 2.3/7.0

Thursday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
X Factor-FOX 1,960,126
The Sound of Music Live-NBC 461,331
Scandal-ABC 291,635
Glee-FOX 109,657
The Vampire Diaries-CW 88,029

Thursday's Cable Top 5
Thursday Night Football-NFL Network 1.7/4.6
Pawn Stars-History 1.0/2.9
Big Screen Movie-ABC Family 1.0/2.7
The Big Bang Theory-TBS .9/2.2
NBA Basketball-TNT .9/2.0

Thursday's Cable Trendrr Top 5
NBA Heat/Bulls-TNT 112,009
Mob Wives-VH1 34,182
Impact Wrestling-Spike 15,202
Braxton Family Values-WE 9,254
Gypsy Sister-TLC 8,310

Thursday's Top 5 Primetime Twitter Ratings
The Sound of Music Live-NBC 449,500 Tweets
Scandal-ABC 395,700 Tweets
The X Factor-FOX 358,900 Tweets
The Vampire Diaries-CW 121,400 Tweets
Glee-FOX 58,700 Tweets 

Friday's Broadcast Top 5
Shark Tank-ABC 2.0/7.4
Frosty the Snowman-CBS 1.6/6.8
Bones-FOX 1.6/6.7
Grimm-NBC 1.6/6.4
Dateline-NBC 1.4/7.3

Friday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
The Grammy Nominations Concert-CBS 451,657
Shark Tank-ABC 12,144
The Carrie Diaries-CW 10,019
Bones-FOX 8,873
Grimm-NBC 8,122

Friday's Cable Top 5
NA

Friday's Cable Trendrr Top 5
WWE Smackdown-Syfy 49,234
Piers Morgan Live-CNN 10,037
Modern Family-USA 7,133
Haven-Syfy 4,282
Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta-TLC 2,763


Late Night Ratings for the week of 11/25/13-11/29/13
Leno 1.1/4.4
Letterman .7/3.0
Kimmel .7/3.1
Fallon .7/2.1
Nightline .4/1.7
Ferguson .4/1.5
The Daily Show .4//9
Carson .4/1.0
Colbert .4//7
Conan .3/.6

It was hard to decide my viewing strategy for Sunday night with so much on, especially with Bonnie & Clyde in the mix, but I decided to go with Homeland, Masters of Sex Betrayed and watch Bonnie & Clyde on DVR instead.  I still can't seem to get my thoughts out on Masters of Sex. I'm hoping after the finale it all comes flowing out.

Homeland
Wow, I had NO idea what was happening during last night's episode of Homeland. I mean we really didn't know what Brody's REAL plan was. I hoped he'd stick with the CIA's plan,  but that plan kept changing, and not because of Brody. It was more like Murphy's law, whatever could go wrong sort of did and what did the CIA do? They tried to kill Brody and cut their losses, but Carrie would have none of it. She trusts him and had some pretty good phone service over there in Tehran and was able to get in touch with him with no problem at all. She warned him that the same assassins she hired to kill Akbari, were now after him.  Of course he escaped and came up with a really awesome plan B or C...go to Akbari and tell him about Juvadi. Seemed like a good plan but then when Brody told Akbari that he too was part of the plan I honestly thought he was switching sides...again. Especially after he connected with Abu Nazeer's wife Nazareen. That's quite a name huh? Nazareen Nazeer.  Thankfully, Brody stayed on the CIA's side. He smashed Akbari's head with a glass bowl and then suffocated him.  How he gets outta dodge, we'll have to wait for the finale. Carrie's been a huge help and is nearby but it's gonna be tough, especially now that she's starting to show a little bit. Don't you think that Saul's beard is getting way too terrorist like? It's getting thicker and longer, he could hide a cynonide pen in it.

Betrayal
Knowing that Betrayal's not coming back makes watching it now a bit different. I feel like things need to get wrapped up. I want everything to end well and I honestly don't think it can. All I want is for Jack and Sarah to leave town. Just go. They almost did that in this weeks episode. They took a road trip, picked up a couple whose car broke down, and drove them to their friends wedding in Iowa. They took some Ecstasy, did it in the woods and had some cake. Awesome right? Wrong. The feds followed and told Jack he better turn against Karsten or they'll go after him too. Sarah's in, she's with him, but it sure does take all the fun out of things doesn't it? Worst part of all of this is that Karsten's a guy that freaks out when he doesn't get his way. Jack refused to come back to work so what did Karsten do? Framed him for the murder of the prostitute and told Drew the news. Drew's gotta love it, his wife's lover is the murderer? Fun times. Between Karsten, Oliver's homework and now this, it's amazing he found time to get those divorce papers done but he did and I guess in Chicago you can get divorced pretty quick. I mean we three episodes since he found out and divorce papers are in?  I knew that Aidan the wine guy was too good to be true. I was right unfortunately, he's working undercover. He told his boss he has feelings for Elaine, but she didn't care. Now he needs Delphine, Val's girlfriend to do his dirty work or he's going to really hurt Elaine. I don't think she can take much more. See...no way can they wrap this one up before episode 13 right?


NEWS & INFORMATION

-Paul Rudd did a great job on SNL this weekend. I tuned in (Sunday AM) because the 2nd greatest boy band of all time, One Direction was on the show. They did a great opening number and Paul was hilarious as Dan Charles, One Direction's Biggest Fan. If you didn't see the show, check it both clips below:
 http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/one-direction-concert-line/n44023/ 

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/the-cast-of-anchorman-2-sings-afternoon-delight-during-paul-rudds-snl-monologue/

-Grammy Nominations came out on Friday, here are some of the key categories and nominees:

  • Record of the Year: Get Lucky, Radioactive, Royals, Locked Out of Heaven & Blurred Lines
  • Album of the Year: Sara Bareilles, Daft Punk, Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis & Taylor Swift
  • Song of the Year: Just Give Me A Reason, Locked Out of Heaven, Roar, Royals, & Same Love
  • Best New Artist: James Black, Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Kacey Musgraves & Ed Sheeran
  • Best Pop Solo Performance: Sara Bareilles, Lorde, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry & Justin Timberlake
  • Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: Daft Punk & Pharrell, P!nk & Nate Ruess, Rihanna & Mikky Ekko, Robin Thicke, TI & Pharrell and Justin and Jay Z
  • Best Country Solo Performance: Lee Brice, Hunter Hayes, Miranda Lambert, Darius Rucker & Blake Shelton
  • Best Country Song: Begin Again, I Drive Your Truck, Mama's Broken Heart, Merry Go Round, Mine Would Be You
-Some Sound of Music numbers:
  • With a 4.6 RA18-49 ratings Sound of Music  was the top non-sports Thursday Night program since the ER finale
  • Sound of Music had 18.5 million viewers and was NBC's most watched night on any night of the week since The Golden Globes in January of 2007
  • Sound of Music had more viewers on NBC than any Thursday night since the Frasier finale in May 2004
  • Sound of Music had the most total viewers of any non-sports Thursday night show for any network since FOX aired a Thursday American Idol on 3/3/2011 which had 25.3 million viewers
  • NBC beat its Big 4 rivals for the fifth night in a row in A18-49. First time that's been done since June of 2002 and that includes the Olympics
  • Among all the metered markets, Sound of Music was most popular in Oklahoma City, which is where Carrie Underwood is from.
-Bummer...big time bummer for all of us Scandal fans aka Gladiators. we are getting gypped by 4 episodes this season.  Instead of the original 22 episodes, we're only getting 18. I'm guessing it's because Kerry Washington's pregnant, but no confirmation on that one. 

-FOX cut the episode order for Dads down to 19 but I'm pretty sure that Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi aren't pregnant, so maybe it's because the show stinks?

-Glad I never went for Low Winter Sun, AMC already cancelled it after just one season. I had a feeling about that one.

Monday's Trivia Question: Emilie Hirsch is playing Clyde in Bonnie & Clyde. He also starred in Into the Wild which is one of my fave books and a great movie. Can you name the person he played? It was a true story. 

WWTM-Kristy
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