I hate you Cablevision!

THE ANSWER TO MONDAY'S EASY TRIVIA QUESTION: Carmella Soprano's kids were Anthony Junior (AJ) and Meadow

FIRST FIVE: Megan Quirk, Dan Realson, Phyllis DiCesare, Crystal Kyler & Alex Nagler

HONORABLE MENTION: Caryn Vitolo 

THE NUMBERS  

Friday's Cable Top 5
American Dad-Adult Swim .8/1.9
WWE Friday Night Smackdown-Syfy .8/2.7
College World Series-ESPN .6/1.6
Family Guy-TBS .5/1.0
Law & Order SVU-USA .5/1.6

Sunday's Broadcast Top 5

America's Got Talent-NBC 2.1/8.0
Rising Star-ABC 1.5/5.0
The Simpsons-FOX 1.2/2.4
Family Guy-FOX 1.1/2.2
American Dad-FOX 1.1/2.2

Sunday's Cable Top 5

NA

Sunday's Top 5 Nielsen Twitter Ratings

Rising Star-ABC 129,000 Tweets
True Blood-HBO 106,000 Tweets
America's Got Talent-NBC 33,000 Tweets
Keeping Up With the Kardashians-29,000 Tweets
The Last Ship-TNT 12,000 Tweets 

-I don't have the official cable numbers yet, because you know the deal with Nielsen, but The Last Ship did pretty well Sunday night. 7.4 million viewers tuned in between the 9pm and 11pm airings. Falling Skies returned to solid numbers with 4.7 million viewers too.  A good night for TNT all around. 

THE SHOWS

24

Lots of shockers in the 7-8pm hour. Still no bathroom breaks, no beverages, no power bars nada. BUT…POTUS is still alive, and Jack was able to find Margo and her son, kill them both while hanging from a bungee and re-route the missile all with one hand! Then after everyone's brains were spattered all over the sidewalk, Jack kept going and delivered the override device back to the super safe CTU. NOT! We all know that CTU is actually never safe, always has a bad guy on the inside, and doesn't really check employee references before sending out the offer letters. Sooooo Benjamin Bratt stole the override device and with the help from Chloe's dude is on the lam. Thing is, something's definitely up with Chloe and her boss/guy whatever. We just aren't sure at all what it is.  Audrey is still TOTALLY into Jack, who knows what'll happen with them in the next few hours. All I know is that all we cared about was killing Margo, but now that she and her crew are dead, no time for celebration, no time for a cigarette or a beer, now it's all about finding Steve Navarro and figuring out why he's on the run.

The Howard Stern Birthday Bash

• All I wanted to do all day was go home and watch Howard's Birthday Bash online. I got home, got comfy and settled in to watch. Cablevision sucks. My streaming experience stinks. It wasn't Sirius's fault it was Cablevision's. I love Howard so much though that I didn't care, I sat there and watched as much as my Cablevision connection would allow which was 3 of the 4 hours. 
• Jimmy Kimmel rules but he was VERY sweaty, midway through the show and nobody gave him a towel. Very disturbing.
• I know Robin's been sick, but I was a bit surprise at how heavy she was, so much for the Vegan thing. 
• Beth looked great and had multiple dress changes.
• I skipped through the Black Keys
• Joan Rivers and Jeff Ross were awesome. Joan is hilarious. Note to self I need to see her act next time she's in town.
• John Mayer was amazing BUT he had on some bizarre shoes and a nutty necklace that I'm pretty sure you can only buy in Montana. 
• Heidi Klum's a tool
• Jeff Probst can do no wrong
• JD is sooooo awkward. SO incredibly awkward 
• Adam Levine is SO much more talented than he's given credited for. He and Pat Monahan from Train performed Prince's "Purple Rain". I gotta post it to Facebook when my Cablevision feed is working again…I'm obsessed. 
• Steven Tyler is out of his mind
• I may not get Louis C.K.'s FX TV show, but he was amazing at Howard's Birthday Show. I love the guy. 
• I didn't realize that everyone in the audience had to wear earpieces to hear the show. You'd think they could make them less stupid looking.
• Barbara Walters has a weird way of clapping
• Wonder what Barbara thought about Whoopi's shoes and the fact that she has a vapor-pen and smokes it after the show every night
• Bryan Cranston got a standing ovation from the crowd and was brilliant
• Jimmy Fallon was there. Totally forgot about that! Loved Kimmel serving Fallon a shot of Ketel One. Classic. The impressions my FBFF did were amazinggggg
• Hard to tell if Seth Meyers killed or bombed, the audience got out of control at a certain point and nobody was paying attention
• Fred Armisen's rendition of "Blackbird" was funnier watching it than listening to it.
• The reverse was true for Lena Dunham. Easier to listen than see her. 
• Jimmy Kimmel def looked awkward when Sarah Silverman came out to perform. 
• Highlight…Natalie Maines and Sarah's song "Stop the Clock" ruled! 
• No way Natalie Maines isn't gay (Not that there's anything wrong with that)
• I had forgotten how interesting Howard's Letterman interview during  the party was.  Watching Jimmy Kimmel watch Howard interview Letterman was even more interesting
• Katie Couric and her now husband were tooooo cute
• "Silver Nickels & Golden Dimes" ahhhhh Jewel
• George Clooney's just the cooolest
• I totally forgot that Rosie O'Donnell was at the Birthday Bash and I forgot how awful her song was. Didn't realize Howard laughed his head off during it. Sort of changed things for me. 
• I skipped John Fogerty
• Maria Menounos looked INSANE especially when she laughed.  She did have good questions for Howard though.
• Psych, Little Mikey and Eli Braden…finally got to see what they look like. Not as weird as I expected. 
• As I started to watch the last hour, the buffering and streaming became brutal and I gave up…sorry…couldn't get that last hour in…time for Jack Bauer!  He can save the world, wonder if he can solve my Internet connection problems too.

THE OTHER STUFF

-I had every intention to watch Turn on AMC and I didn't. I'll have to decide if I should before it comes back next year since it just got renewed. Nobodies really talking about that one, that one or Halt and Catch Fire. What do you think? Tune in or not? 

-Gordon Ramsay is done with Kitchen Nightmares, he's just not going to do it anymore. He's done.

-I cannot believe it is 25 years, but it is. Next week TBS will celebrate the 25th anniversary of my favorite comedy of all time, Seinfeld. They'll be running the 25 most popular and acclaimed episodes of the series. 4 episodes a night starting Monday 6/30 from 6pm to 10pm. The last day of the tribute, 7/5, they will run the first telecast ever. I've seen um all a million times, they never get old and I don't think they ever will for me.  So next week will be a Seinfeld Trivia week. Get ready.

-I know I'm probably the ONLY person who could care less about the World Cup. You guys are all into it, talking about it, streaming the games, yelling, screaming. Yeah…that's not me. I'm the opposite. Not only do I not care, all of you guys annoy me with the World Cup thing. I don't know what it is about the World Cup that annoys me SO much but I don't want to piss you all off so here are some World Cup facts: 

• The USA/Portugal game was the most viewed soccer match in the US EVER with an average of 18.2 million viewers. At one point, 22.9 million viewers tuned in.
• WatchESPN had 1.3 million viewers with 61.6 million minutes viewed
• Washington DC was the top market for the USA/Portugal game with a 13.3 rating then Columbus OH, NY, Boston and Hartford. 

Tuesday's EASY Trivia Question: What is the name of Howard Stern's movie?

PS. I've seen the pilot episode of Tyrant on FX. It premieres tonight. It's awesome! Check it out!

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ANOTHER SHOCKER...This time on 24

THE ANSWER TO MONDAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION: Casey Kasem not only made millions counting backwards, he also was the voice of Shaggy on Scooby Doo. RIP Casey! 

FIRST FIVE: Crystal Kyler, Mike O'Dea, Mitch Klein, Bill McLaughlin & Dan Realson 

HONORABLE MENTION: Lori DeCillis

THE NUMBERS  

Friday's Cable Top 5
American Dad-Adult Swim 1.0/2.2
Friday Night Smackdown-Syfy .7/2.3
The Cleveland Show-Adult Swim .6/1.3
FX Movie Prime-FX .5/1.3
Modern Family-USA .5/1.1

Sunday's Broadcast Top 5

NBA Finals-ABC 10.3/17.8
NBA Countdown-ABC 2.5/7.0
Jimmy Kimmel-ABC 2.1/6.5
US Open-NBC 1.1/5.1
Family Guy-FOX 1.0/2.0

Sunday's Cable Top 5

NA

Sunday's Top 5 Nielsen Twitter Ratings
NA

Official numbers aren't in yet, but the Game of Thrones finale delivered 7.1 million viewers at 9pm which was an increase of 32% vs. last seasons finale. 

THE SHOWS

These are the worst TV weeks aren't they? I don't have much to watch at all. Anything out there you think I need to binge? I'm open for suggestions! 

24
If you've watched 24, you know that in order to maximize your enjoyment level, you need to embrace the ridiculousness and just go with it. When you're watching, you have to call out these ridiculous things right away. Could be a drinking game really. Jack JUST so happens to have a surgeons gigantic medical kit handy. He just so happens to know EXACTLY where to cut the president open to take out his transponder (who knew the President had a transponder?) He has such magical surgical skills that the Prez barely bled, needed no stitches and was fine with just a Band-Aid. After the anesthesia free surgery, Jack and the Prez snuck out of wherever they were, walked down the street without a disguise, hopped a helicopter and found Wembley Stadium without GPS. Pretty sure electricity isn't free in London, but all the lights were on in Wembley and to make it super easy to get in, the gates were all open. See what I mean…just go with it. President Heller walked to the center of the stadium, took his glasses and hat off and just waited. I get it, the guy has Alzheimer's, didn't want to deal with it, so Margo's timing was pretty good and of course before he departed for death, the Prez pardoned Jack Bauer of all crimes. Of course Margo had face recognition software to make sure she was killing the right guy and…SHE DID! She actually killed the Prez and messed Wembley up pretty good in the process. I honestly thought that Chloe would come up with something to stop the drones, but in a year of crazy deaths, even 24 got in on the action. 

THE OTHER STUFF

-I need to know how long it takes to do one of these. Brian Williams is the awesome isn't he? Check it out: http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/segments/7461

Tuesday's Trivia Question:  Again…I know I said that June was EASY month, but with President Heller dead, it's only fair to pay tribute with a trivia question. The Prez was played by William Devane. What was the name of the character he played on one of my fave soaps ever…Knots Landing? Didn't you LOVE Knots Landing back in the day? All you people who have no idea what I'm talking about…hit Netflix! 

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Jack Bauer and Me on a Monday Night

THE ANSWER TO MONDAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION: The Walking Dead airs on AMC. Nice to see so many responses, maybe my questions are too hard!

FIRST FIVE: Ed Ziskind, Elke Raskob, Justin Jones, Mike O'Dea & Alex Nagler

HONORABLE MENTION: Mitch Klein
Bonus Trivia Question #1- Sam the Butcher aka Sam Franklin was Alice's BF on the Brady Bunch
Bonus Trivia Question #2-The only member of the E Street Band to actually live on E Street was David Sancious

THE NUMBERS  

Friday's Cable Top 5
NBA Playoffs-ESPN 2.7/6.8
NHL Playoffs-NBC Sports .8/2.2
American Dad-Adult Swim .8/1.9
Modern Family-USA .7/1.4
WWE Friday Night Smackdown-Syfy .6/2.4

Sunday's Broadcast Top 5

The Bachelorette-ABC 1.3/4.9
Cosmos-FOX 1.3/3.4
Family Guy-FOX 1.3/2.7
The Simpsons-FOX 1.1/2.4
Americas Funniest Home Videos-ABC 1.0/5.1

Sunday's Cable Top 5

NA

Sunday's Top 5 Nielsen Twitter Ratings

Game of Thrones-HBO 230,000 Tweets
WWE Payback-PPV 209,000 Tweets
The Bachelorette-44,000 Tweets
Cosmos-FOX 27,000 Tweets
Real Housewives of Atlanta-Bravo 25,000 Tweets

Top 5 DVR'ed Shows for the Week of 5/12/14-5/18/14
Big Bang Theory-CBS From a 4.9 to a 7.4 (+51%)
Modern Family-ABC From a 3.2 to a 5.2 (+63%)
Blacklist-NBC From a 2.6 to a 4.6 (+77%)
Grey's Anatomy-ABC From a 2.6 to a 4.1 (+58%)
Marvel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D-ABC From a 2.0 to a 3.3 (+65%)

Top 5 TV Shows on Twitter for the 2013-2014 Season
Breaking Bad
The Walking Dead
Pretty Little Liars
The Bachelor
Game of Thrones 

Sunday's premiere of Halt and Catch Fire was seen by 1.2 million people. What we DON'T know is how many people had already watched the premiere episode on all the available sneak peek platforms. I guess we'll have to wait and see how many people watch NEXT weeks 2nd episode do determine its success. Getting more confusing by the minute to track this stuff. 

Sunday's Game of Thrones was seen by 7.2 million viewers which ties their record. With the repeat airings 8.2 million viewers saw Tywin sentence his own son to death. 

THE SHOWS

24

Not a good hour for Kate Morgan, the prez gave her to Jack to run a covert mission and find this guy named Rask. In order for Jack's little plan to work, he had to knock her out, and put her in his trunk. She did it herself. Jammed the needle right into her own neck. Of course when Rask got her he had his goons begin the torture. She got strung up, cut, electrocuted and almost drilled (with a drill...not that). She must have gone to the Jack Bauer school of secret agents because she squeezed and killed one guy and was able to escape. MI-5, the James Bond guys were on the scene and messed everything up. Not sure where they took Jack or Rask at this point. Simone's crazy mother smacked her brother in the face and sent her to calm Naveed's sister down, but since Simone hasn't exactly been raised in a warm loving environment, she killed her instead. Pretty sure Mom will be pleased. Of course what would 24 be without the bad guy on the inside plot line? Now we just know who it is... Benjamin Bratt. Of course he is. There's ALWAYS a bad guy on the inside. Don't they vet these people? Check references? CTU's pretty bad at background checks from what I can tell in all my years of watching.

THE OTHER STUFF

-If you watched the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on HBO last weekend, you got to see Dave Grohl in all his brilliance. Next up, Dave and the Foofighters are releasing a pretty interesting documentary on HBO. The documentary follows the making of the bands 8th studio album. Each song will be recorded at a different studio around the country and will incorporate local talent from the area. Dave did something very experimental with each song, he didn't write the lyrics until the last day of each session so that he could be inspired by the experience. Here's a sneak peek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-z8A9P5ziA

-TBS renewed King of the Nerds for a 3rd season. The nerd thing is still pretty popular. Bigger than ever actually. We can thank The Big Bang Theory for this trend. 

-Here are some Twitter numbers from the 2013/2014 TV Season

• Show with the greatest Reach-Breaking Bad-The final episode reached 9.1 million people on Twitter
• Show with the greatest Activity & Reach-The Superbowl-25.3 million Tweets posted. The event reached 15.3 million people on Twitter and #esurancesave30 was mentioned 1.8 million times
• Nuestra Belleza Latina was the show with the most unique Tweets with each fan tweeting 8.3 Tweets on average. 
• Most Tweets Award goes to The Grammy Awards with 13.8 million Tweets.
• Most Impressions goes to The Oscars. 1 billion impressions meant that 13.9 million people in the Twitter universe each saw 75 Tweets on average. The Selfie heard round the world from Ellen was retweeted 1.1 million times. 
• The Voice gets the Most Tweets and the Tweets Per Minute Award. Viewers sent 1.9 million Tweets on 5/13 which included a record 310,000 Tweets at 8:59pm

Tuesday's Easy Trivia Question:  Name the actress who plays Olivia Pope on Scandal. 

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