The answer to Monday's Trivia Question: Emile Hirsch played Christopher McCandless the real life guy who gave it all up to live off the land in Alaska
FIRST FIVE: Mike O'Dea, Jim Carter, Lance Beitler, Karen Feldman & John Romeo
Honorable Mention: Daniel Block
Friday's Cable Top 5
Gold Rush-Discovery 1.5/4.2
Big Screen Movie-ABC Family 1.2/3.2
Bering Sea Gold-Discovery .9/2.4
Modern Family-USA .9/1.8
WWE Friday Night Smackdown-Syfy .8/2.8
Gold Rush-Discovery 1.5/4.2
Big Screen Movie-ABC Family 1.2/3.2
Bering Sea Gold-Discovery .9/2.4
Modern Family-USA .9/1.8
WWE Friday Night Smackdown-Syfy .8/2.8
Sunday's Broadcast Top 5
Sunday Night Football-NBC 6.0/16.5
Football Night in America-NBC 4.5/13.4
The Simpsons-FOX 3.0/6.8
Family Guy-FOX 2.6/5.2
60 Minutes-CBS 2.2/11.4
Football Night in America-NBC 4.5/13.4
The Simpsons-FOX 3.0/6.8
Family Guy-FOX 2.6/5.2
60 Minutes-CBS 2.2/11.4
Sunday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
Sunday Night Football-NBC/FOX 333,568
Family Guy-FOX 40,803
Once Upon a Time-ABC 26,940
Jenni Rivera-Univision 25,338
The Simpsons-FOX 19,043
Sunday Night Football-NBC/FOX 333,568
Family Guy-FOX 40,803
Once Upon a Time-ABC 26,940
Jenni Rivera-Univision 25,338
The Simpsons-FOX 19,043
Sunday's Cable Top 5
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Sunday's Cable Trendrr Top 5
Bonnie & Clyde-Multiple Nets 116,670
Real Housewives of Atlanta-Bravo 73,507
Total Divas-E! 24,860
I Love Jenni-Mundos 2 23,160
Naked & Afraid-Discovery 21,892
Sunday's Top 5 Nielsen Twitter Ratings
Bonnie & Clyde-Multiple Nets 90,000 Tweets
Real Housewives of Atlanta-Bravo 85,600 Tweets
Once Upon a Time-ABC 45,500 Tweets
Family Guy-FOX 20,400 Tweets
Homeland-Showtime 10,200 Tweets
Top 5 DVR'ed shows for the week of 11/18-11/24
Big Bang Theory-CBS From a 5.3 to a 7.9 (+49%)
Modern Family-ABC From a 3.4 to a 5.5 (+625)
Grey's Anatomy-ABC From a 2.6 to a 4.4 (+69%)
S.H.I.E.L.D.-ABC From a 2.4 to a 4.0 (+67%)
Scandal-ABC From a 2.9 to a 4.5 (+55%)
Santa Claus is Coming To Town
We decided to bag The Voice semi-finals since we hadn't watched all season. We decided to go with our first Christmas special of the year...Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Since you guys all know it, there's really nothing to recap, so...how about some trivia questions?
1. Who taught Chris Kringle to say "Ho Ho Ho?"
2. Where did Chris Kringle get his red suit?
3. Who declared Toys illegal in Sombertown?
4. What was the name of the scary monster in the woods?
5. What was the penguins name?
6. What year did SCiCTT premiere?
7. Where did the name Claus come from?
8. What was Mrs. Claus's first name?
The Great Christmas Light Fight
This show couldn't have been on at a more perfect time. I'm Jewish, my husband's Catholic and I've been BEGGING for years for my husband to decorate our house with Christmas lights. This is the first year he agreed to do it. He spent all this money and bought all this stuff, was outside for a hours only to realize we need a million more lights. It looks like we forgot to turn the rest of the lights on or he didn't finish or something. All that work and money resulted in only one bush and one branch getting lit up. He's a beginner, but knowing my husband, next year, he'll be ready to compete! If someone drives by our house, I bet they laugh at us. Totally looks like the Jews live there or something. I don't care.I'm just happy to have lights at all.
We enjoyed The Great Christmas Light Fight on ABC last night. The show has 4 families competing each week for 50K. A guy named Michael Maloney is the judge. Never seen him before, but he's REALLY into Christmas. Michael goes around the country judging Christmas lights. Not a bad gig at all. He gets driven around by Santa in a red 65 Impala. First stop was Whitestone NY where Kevin Lynch and his family: Tina, Tara, Tori and Timmy help to decorate. Kevin is a retired firefighter and 911 first responder. He has some crazy Christmas spirit and obviously LIVES for this time of the year. Kevin's house lit up like no other, he also actually buried ALL the wires so that the public could wander around and not get hurt. He had a projection of Santa in the window, tons of vintage toys and everything was very precise. Michael gave the family 2 tips. Lights in the doorway and paint the wires in the windows. Then he was on his way.
Next up was the Goff family of Canon GA. They were the rednecks. Robbie & Donna and their 3 kids. Donna looked a bit scared of Robbie, but it could have been her crazy eyebrows. I'm not 100% sure. They live on 2 1/2 acres and surprisingly enough, their display was very elegant. With so much space to decorate they had lots to look at. Only bummer was that they really had no spirit at all. I honestly thought they could have been zombies or something. They're total bible belters, so they had lots of god stuff. A manger, churches, choir boys, Jesus's of all different sizes and colors, vintage crosses and a live Mr & Mrs Clause.
In Laguna Hills CA, The Blount Family had a lot of spirit and really utilized technology to put on a synchronized light show to an original song that the family wrote. Andrew, the dad, was raised in a single wide trailer and has obviously come a long way. He used a lighting program and RGB lights all on a customized grid on their house. It was pretty amazing. People set up chairs and hung out just to watch the show.
The last stop was The Holt Family in Chesapeake VA. Alan, the Dad was dressed as an elf, had a crazy light show synchronized to music, Santa projected in the window using the Greg Brady curtain trick, toys, Santa himself and even a fake snow making machine. He got dinged for the mess of the wires and for leaving the tags on the them. Alan owns a lawn care company and has the worst lawn on the block. Ironic right? I'll let Alanis Morrisette know.
As I predicted, The Lynch family of Whitestone NY won the 50K and a really cool trophy.
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
The housewives all took a break from their super stressful lives to go down to Palm Springs and relax for a few days, but you the know the deal. Whenever the girls go on vacation or just leave the 90210, there is zero relaxing and 100% drama. It was all Brandi really. Brandi in the tiniest bikini. Brandi making out with Carlton, Brandi making racist remarks. Brandi calling Joyce, Jaqueline. Brandi drunk. Brandi sober. Brandi against Kyle and Kyle against Yolanda but for the most part it was...Brandi, Brandi, Brandi. One note...In a bunch of the little commentary scenes this season, Kyle's worn this massive teardrop shaped crystal necklace. It's GOTTA weigh like 10 pounds. I have no idea how she doesn't walk around slumped over when she wears it. Has anyone noticed this thing?
Bonnie & Clyde-Multiple Nets 116,670
Real Housewives of Atlanta-Bravo 73,507
Total Divas-E! 24,860
I Love Jenni-Mundos 2 23,160
Naked & Afraid-Discovery 21,892
Sunday's Top 5 Nielsen Twitter Ratings
Bonnie & Clyde-Multiple Nets 90,000 Tweets
Real Housewives of Atlanta-Bravo 85,600 Tweets
Once Upon a Time-ABC 45,500 Tweets
Family Guy-FOX 20,400 Tweets
Homeland-Showtime 10,200 Tweets
Top 5 DVR'ed shows for the week of 11/18-11/24
Big Bang Theory-CBS From a 5.3 to a 7.9 (+49%)
Modern Family-ABC From a 3.4 to a 5.5 (+625)
Grey's Anatomy-ABC From a 2.6 to a 4.4 (+69%)
S.H.I.E.L.D.-ABC From a 2.4 to a 4.0 (+67%)
Scandal-ABC From a 2.9 to a 4.5 (+55%)
Santa Claus is Coming To Town
We decided to bag The Voice semi-finals since we hadn't watched all season. We decided to go with our first Christmas special of the year...Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Since you guys all know it, there's really nothing to recap, so...how about some trivia questions?
1. Who taught Chris Kringle to say "Ho Ho Ho?"
2. Where did Chris Kringle get his red suit?
3. Who declared Toys illegal in Sombertown?
4. What was the name of the scary monster in the woods?
5. What was the penguins name?
6. What year did SCiCTT premiere?
7. Where did the name Claus come from?
8. What was Mrs. Claus's first name?
The Great Christmas Light Fight
This show couldn't have been on at a more perfect time. I'm Jewish, my husband's Catholic and I've been BEGGING for years for my husband to decorate our house with Christmas lights. This is the first year he agreed to do it. He spent all this money and bought all this stuff, was outside for a hours only to realize we need a million more lights. It looks like we forgot to turn the rest of the lights on or he didn't finish or something. All that work and money resulted in only one bush and one branch getting lit up. He's a beginner, but knowing my husband, next year, he'll be ready to compete! If someone drives by our house, I bet they laugh at us. Totally looks like the Jews live there or something. I don't care.I'm just happy to have lights at all.
We enjoyed The Great Christmas Light Fight on ABC last night. The show has 4 families competing each week for 50K. A guy named Michael Maloney is the judge. Never seen him before, but he's REALLY into Christmas. Michael goes around the country judging Christmas lights. Not a bad gig at all. He gets driven around by Santa in a red 65 Impala. First stop was Whitestone NY where Kevin Lynch and his family: Tina, Tara, Tori and Timmy help to decorate. Kevin is a retired firefighter and 911 first responder. He has some crazy Christmas spirit and obviously LIVES for this time of the year. Kevin's house lit up like no other, he also actually buried ALL the wires so that the public could wander around and not get hurt. He had a projection of Santa in the window, tons of vintage toys and everything was very precise. Michael gave the family 2 tips. Lights in the doorway and paint the wires in the windows. Then he was on his way.
Next up was the Goff family of Canon GA. They were the rednecks. Robbie & Donna and their 3 kids. Donna looked a bit scared of Robbie, but it could have been her crazy eyebrows. I'm not 100% sure. They live on 2 1/2 acres and surprisingly enough, their display was very elegant. With so much space to decorate they had lots to look at. Only bummer was that they really had no spirit at all. I honestly thought they could have been zombies or something. They're total bible belters, so they had lots of god stuff. A manger, churches, choir boys, Jesus's of all different sizes and colors, vintage crosses and a live Mr & Mrs Clause.
In Laguna Hills CA, The Blount Family had a lot of spirit and really utilized technology to put on a synchronized light show to an original song that the family wrote. Andrew, the dad, was raised in a single wide trailer and has obviously come a long way. He used a lighting program and RGB lights all on a customized grid on their house. It was pretty amazing. People set up chairs and hung out just to watch the show.
The last stop was The Holt Family in Chesapeake VA. Alan, the Dad was dressed as an elf, had a crazy light show synchronized to music, Santa projected in the window using the Greg Brady curtain trick, toys, Santa himself and even a fake snow making machine. He got dinged for the mess of the wires and for leaving the tags on the them. Alan owns a lawn care company and has the worst lawn on the block. Ironic right? I'll let Alanis Morrisette know.
As I predicted, The Lynch family of Whitestone NY won the 50K and a really cool trophy.
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
The housewives all took a break from their super stressful lives to go down to Palm Springs and relax for a few days, but you the know the deal. Whenever the girls go on vacation or just leave the 90210, there is zero relaxing and 100% drama. It was all Brandi really. Brandi in the tiniest bikini. Brandi making out with Carlton, Brandi making racist remarks. Brandi calling Joyce, Jaqueline. Brandi drunk. Brandi sober. Brandi against Kyle and Kyle against Yolanda but for the most part it was...Brandi, Brandi, Brandi. One note...In a bunch of the little commentary scenes this season, Kyle's worn this massive teardrop shaped crystal necklace. It's GOTTA weigh like 10 pounds. I have no idea how she doesn't walk around slumped over when she wears it. Has anyone noticed this thing?
News & Information:
-After the upcoming 12 episode season of Californication, Showtime is pulling the plug. I Hate David Duchovny, so I'm cool with it. I've never seen the show, but I had wanted to go and watch the episodes that Rob Lowe was in and never got around to it.
-The American Film Institute released their top 10 TV Shows of 2013. Here they are in alphabetical order:
1. The Americans
2. Breaking Bad
3. Game of Thrones
4. The Good Wife
5. House of Cards
6. Mad Men
7. Masters of Sex
8. Orange is the New Black
9. Scandal
10. Veep
I watch or have watched all of these except Veep...maybe I need to go back to it and try again. Thoughts?
Tuesday's Trivia Question: This week on Katie Couric's show she's bringing together the entire cast of Murphy Brown. That show was HUGE back in the day. What was Murphy's painters name...he painted her house for pretty much the entire series. I wonder what happened to that guy.
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The guy who played Murphy Brown's painter is dead in real life.
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