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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Nashville Finale AWESOME, the rest…not so much




THE ANSWER TO WEDNESDAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION: Back in the Game was the ABC Show that starred James Caan
FIRST FIVES: James Gabriele, Mike O'Dea, Megan Quirk, Karen Feldman & John Romeo
HONORABLE MENTION:Nancy Provod
Bonus Trivia-Milo Ventimiglia was the dude in the photo. Milo stars and produces that show Chosen I told you all about. He's also going to be in the new ABC/Steven Spielberg show called The Whispers

THE NUMBERS 

Tuesdays Broadcast Top 5
NCIS Season Finale-CBS 2.6/16.7
NCIS LA-Season Finale-CBS 2.5/14.7
The Voice-NBC 2.5/10.7
Person of Interest Season Finale-CBS 1.9/10.8
Chicago Fire-Season Finale-NBC 1.9/7.0

Tuesday's Cable Top 5
NBA Playoffs 940p-TNT 2.6/6.2
NBA Playoffs 7p-TNT 
American Dad-Adult Swim 1.0/2.1
Deadliest Catch-Discovery 1.0/2.7
The Big Bang Theory-TBS .9/2.5

Tuesday's Twitter Top 5 Primetime Ratings 
The Voice-NBC 1,922,000 Tweets
Bad Girls Club-Oxygen 171,000 Tweets
Glee-FOX 55,000 Tweets
Anderson Cooper 360-CNN 11,000 Tweets
Inside: U.S. Soccer's March to Brazil-ESPN2 7,000 Tweets

THE SHOWS 

The Goldbergs Season Finale
Had to watch it last night since I was out on Tuesday night. Of course I enjoyed it, but I had a feeling that it wasn't supposed to be the finale. Something didn't feel finaleish to me. Anyway, there was Fantasy Island on TV, Tattoo in all his glory. (give me his famous phrase for bonus points) Then there was the Garfield phone my sister had in Barry's room. I love those little 80's throwbacks. We found out a lot about Murray. He was in the Army, he was in a plane crash, he waited tables with Lou Reed AND he set his high schools record for consecutive free throws. All of which his family and I would have never guessed. While he and Bev were out accepting an award, Barry was attempting to throw a rager. Unfortunately nobody showed so Erica hooked him up big time and called her friend who called two friends and so on and so on. Who needed Twitter? The party got out of control and turned in to a Bev Sweater fiesta, Lainee made out with Barry in front of his crush, Lexie Bloom and even Murray let him have his moment with a final song. Name the 80's anthem that ended the season. Thanks Adam Goldberg…great rookie year. 

Glee Season Finale (THANK GOD)
Thank God Mercedes and Sam broke up. Thank God Blaine and Shirley came to an understanding, thank god this season is OVER. I was DONE. Good song selection this week. John Legend's "All of Me," Duran Duran's "Girls on Film," and Bastille's "Pompeii got me through it. Annoyed that it's Rachel going to Hollywood and not Blaine or Kurt. Would have been cool if it was Ryan Seacrest giving her the news but Glee's not cool anymore. Annoyed that Sam went back to Lima and annoyed that Brittany's back. So glad this show doesn't come back for a year. I'll need that much time to decide whether to watch or not. 

Survivor
Say what you will about Survivor but 27 seasons and it's still awesome. Last night was CRAYZEEEEE. I wanted to scream when Tony won the pizza reward challenge but then I wanted to vomit when I had to watch him and Trish eat it all. I can't stand Kass and I can't stand Tony and honestly, I couldn't stand Trish. I couldn't have been happier when Spencer won immunity. Kass and Trish got into it and Woo woke up. Didn't you think that Trish's crazy neck veins would burst during their brawl? Ewww those things are nasty. So here's what I didn't get. Why didn't Tony give the regular Idol to Trish and keep the other Idol for himself? On her way out, Kass gave Trish the finger. Can't wait til the reunion! Hope Kass kicks the sh*t out of Trish. Jeff Probst, Mark Burnett thumbs UP!!!

Suburgatory Series Finale
For some reason I thought last week was the season finale but this week was and with the news that the show isn't being picked up next season, it became the series finale as well. Glad that Tessa and Ryan ended up ripping each others clothes off in the middle of the street but I really wanted Dallas and George together at the end, especially after that song he sang. They didn't. 

Modern Family Season Finale Part 1 (Which means it's really NOT the Season Finale right?)
Did anyone laugh at all last night? I don't think I laughed once. Well, I sort of chuckled at the use of the word "jinkies" but other than that nada. I couldn't get past the idea that anyone in L.A. or anywhere else, would ever move their wedding up 4 hours. In L.A. with traffic on the 405 or the 101 you'd never make it on time. Plus what about all the hair and make-up appointments. I mean that would NEVER happen. Lily in the dry cleaners, Luke and Claire in the boat, Jay and Merle in the steam room and Andy and Hailey in the car ehhhhh. It was sorta funny when Phil pretended to be blind but nothing close to laughter came out of mouth. Part 2 next week not looking so good. Let's hope I'm wrong, let's hope the writers have a long Summer break and come back refreshed and back on the funny track. 

Nashville Season Finale
Now that's a finale. That's how you do it! How cool is Rayna James? She screwed over the evil Jeff Fordham, saved Juliette, was proposed to in front of everyone and given a 7 carat diamond and THEN had Deacon say it and do it even better with a simple platinum band (I'm going with platinum).  Finally, Will came clean to Lila, but little does he know that there is a camera in the bathroom even though the deal was no camera's in the bedroom or the bathroom. Nice cameo by Jess Cagle…anyone know who he is? 10 bonus points if you do. Glad Avery and Juliette are sort of working things out and maybe, just maybe Scarlett will stay in Nashville. Come on that duet was too good for her to walk away from. 

THE OTHER STUFF

I didn't go to the CBS Upfront because I was still recovering from the ABC Upfront if you know what I mean. I did stream most of it though and here are my thoughts: 

  • Overall…I felt a little bit like CBS had eaten a piece of humble pie. Not as many #1 proclamations as past Upfronts not from Nancy and not from Les. Sort of refreshing.  
  • As a Good Wife fan, it was fun to see Alicia, Cary and Diane say Cluster F*ck I love when celebs curse.
  • Alan Cummings Cabaret open was interesting. Quite a body. What's with the nipple references this upfront? First Jimmy Kimmel then Alan Cumming then David Letterman. Lets see if Jed talks nipples tomorrow.
  • So if NBC talked Olympics, CBS talked THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL. In case you didn't know, CBS got it and everyone else didn't
  • David Letterman got a standing O, told us about his 2 day phone fight with Les and left us with a joke about a moth and a podiatrist. 
  • Then it was time for Nina. She went with orange. Not a speck of white. On my computer her glasses made her look a little Mr. Magoo-ee hoping it was a streaming side affect.
  • Halle Berry was wearing some crazy pants and was there to get us psyched for Extant which launches in July. I don't know…it looks interesting. I might watch it. 
  • YEAH BIG BROTHER!
  • 3 NCIS's, 2 CSI's and 2 out of 5 New Kids on the Block! Yep CBS got Joey McIntyre in a comedy called The McCarthy's
  • Dylan McDermott got another gig…this ones way too scary for me. It's called Stalker
  • Madam Secretary looked good. I love anything White House-ish and Tea Leoni stars in this one as the new Secretary of State. Of course guess when it's on…SUNDAY nights! At least it's on at 8pm and not at 9pm. 
  • Out of respect and admiration for Vince Gilligan,  I will check out Battle Creek. 
  • Scorpion reminds me of Numbers a little bit. Glad to see Katherine McPhee got some bangs and another show
  • Last season of 2 1/2 Men 
  • Surprised that after ALL THAT PUBLICITY…no How I Met Your Dad, but Nina Tassler said the pilot just wasn't good and that Carter and Craig didn't want to re-pilot. Lets see if it ends up elsewhere.
  • No big finale this year. Guess you can't get The Who if you're not number 1 at something.   
CBS 2014-15 schedule:
MONDAY
8:00-8:30 PM              The Big Bang Theory/2 Broke Girls
8:30-9:00 PM              MOM (NT)
9:00-10:00 PM            SCORPION (N)
10:00-11:00 PM          NCIS: LOS ANGELES (NT)
TUESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM              NCIS
9:00-10:00 PM            NCIS: NEW ORLEANS (N)
10:00-11:00 PM          Person Of Interest
WEDNESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM              SURVIVOR
9:00-10:00 PM            Criminal Minds
10:00-11:00 PM          STALKER (N)
THURSDAY
8:00-11:00 PM, ET     THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL (N) (Sept. 11-Oct. 23)
5:00-8:00 PM, PT
8:00-8:30 PM              The Big Bang Theory (RTP) (As of Oct. 30)
8:30-9:00 PM              THE MILLERS (As of Oct. 30)
9:00-9:30 PM              Two and a Half Men (As of Oct. 30)
9:30-10:00 PM            THE McCARTHYS (N) (As of Oct. 30)
10:00-11:00 PM          Elementary (As of Oct. 30)
FRIDAY
8:00-9:00 PM              THE Amazing Race (NT)
9:00-10:00 PM            Hawaii Five-0
10:00-11:00 PM          Blue Bloods
SATURDAY
8:00-9:00 PM              CRIMETIME SATURDAY
9:00-10:00 PM            CRIMETIME SATURDAY
10:00-11:00 PM          48 HOURS
SUNDAY
7:00-8:00 PM              60 Minutes
8:00-9:00 PM              MADAM SECRETARY (N)
9:00-10:00 PM            THE Good Wife
10:00-11:00 PM          CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION (NT)/CSI: CYBER (N)
(CSI: CYBER will move into this slot later in the season).

-FX's Legit and Chozen (the other Chozen, not the one on Crackle that you guys NEED to watch) have both been cancelled. 

-Conan's locked into TBS through 2018. I guess there's zero pressure on him to deliver a number. 

-Harry Connick's already agreed to another season of Idol. I would too. Less hours=Less work and I'm betting the pays still pretty decent. 

Thursday's Trivia Question: Dylan McDermott was at CBS's Upfront last year for a different show than he was at this years upfront for. Name last years show.

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Friday, May 9, 2014

I hope SOMEONE watched The Vampire Diaries





THE ANSWER TO THURSDAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION: Silas, Shane and Stevie's Mom was Nancy Botwin. One of my favorite TV Moms
FIRST FIVES:  Mike O'Dea, Karen Feldman, John Romeo, Jim Wall & Brett Blattman
HONORABLE MENTION: Priscilla Paez

THE NUMBERS 

Wednesday's Broadcast Top 5
Modern Family-ABC 2.8/8.1
Survivor-CBS 2.4/9.8
Criminal Minds-CBS 2.3/10.4
CSI-CBS 1.9/9.9
American Idol-FOX 1.7/7.8

Wednesday's Cable Top 5
NBA Playoffs 947p-TNT 2.6/6.1
NBA Playoffs 7p-TNT 1.5/3.9
Love & Hip Hop Atlanta-VH1 1.3/2.6
Catfish-MTV 1.1/2.0
The Big Bang Theory-TBS 1.0/2.5

Wednesday's Top 5 Nielsen Twitter Ratings
Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta-VH1 898,000 Tweets
Catfish-MTV 258,000 Tweets
American Idol-FOX 67,000 Tweets
Law & Order SVU-NBC 26,000 Tweets
Tonight Show w/ Jimmy-NBC 21,000 Tweets 

Late Night Ratings for the week of 4/28/14-5/2/14
Fallon 1.2/3.7
Kimmel .6/2.7
Meyers .6/1.6
The Daily Show .6/1.5
Letterman .5/2.8
Colbert .5/1.2
Nightline .4/1.7
Ferguson .3/1.4
Carson .3/.9
Conan .3/.6

Early Morning Ratings for the week of 4/28/14-5/2/14
GMA 1.8/2.1
Today Show 1.7/2.0
CBS This AM .9/1.0
THE SHOWS

The Vampire Diaries
I know that the NFL Draft, Nets/Heat, Jerry McGuire, Grey's and John Tucker Must Die were all on at 8pm last night, but there was some crazy sh*t going on in Mystic Falls on Thursday. The town was taken over by travellers, everyone lost their powers, the Salvatores were homeless, the witches were helpless, the other side was falling apart and I'm not positive, but I think Stefan might have actually been killed. With all the shocking deaths of main characters in primetime this season it's possible right? Stefan's heart was ripped out and Bonnie saw him cross over. WTF? I went on Twitter and Facebook and nobody's saying anything about his demise. Somebody tell me…is he dead? Anyone? Anyone?

Reign
Francis and Mary can't get it together. They love each other and then he lies then they love each other and she tries to kill his father. King Henry didn't die which was the plan, but he's the craziest dude on the show, he can't die. Now his plan is to kill his own son and marry his daughter-in-law. Lola found out that Julian isn't Julian. He's Julian's assistant Remy. Julian's DEAD, Lola accidentally killed Julian's uncle,  Remy split and now Lola's heading back to court with Francis's baby and another secret to keep. 

The Goldbergs
Finallllly got to see The Goldbergs. Forget Chuck Norris, Speak & Spell, Zagnuts, and the Iron Sheik. Those were just the fun 80's references. This episode had SO much more. Return of the Jedi was opening and back then, you actually waited on A LINE. You couldn't buy tickets in advance ONline. You camped out over night just to be the first one to see it. Sure there are still Comic-Con freaks who get decked out and wait on lines for the new iPhone, but that's a different story. While Adam and Erica were on the line (and then off the line) Barry was learning the Annie soundtrack to fake out Bev as a diversion so she wouldn't find out that he really joined the wrestling team. Scariest thing and one I'm mortified to admit…I knew every word to "I Don't Need Anything But You" from Annie. I knew every word of  every song in Annie. Yep…LOOOOOSER! Loved every one of Bev's doomsday examples and her take down moves. I live for Bev Goldberg. Great episode!

LATE BREAKING NEWS...THE GOLDBERGS HAS BEEN RENEWED!!!!! 

Glee
OMG how bad was this weeks episode of Glee? It was written by Chris Colfer. I guess that's what you do when you've got nothing left, you let one of the cast write a script for the show. Kurt and retired performers doing Peter Pan, Rachel doing a benefit for animals just for good press, lame all around. I can't deal with Sam and Mercedes at all. The only thing the shows got going is Darren Criss and there's not enough of him anymore. Sure Academy Award nominee June Squibb guest starred, but do we care anymore? Not really.

The First Ever...American Comedy Awards
Winners WERE notified in advance that they won which I was fine with because all the comedians had time to prepare their funniness
  • Hammerstein Ballroom's a cool spot for an awards show
  • I expected everything to be super funny
  • Craig Robinson's intro of himself. Funny
  • Within 3 minutes first award…like THAT
  • Best Supporting Actor in a TV Series-Bill Hader for SNL. His acceptance speech with an Australian Accent-Funny
  • Billy Eichner aka Billy on the Street-Best Male Comedy Performance in a Film-Will Farrell who wasn't there BUT Billy accepted for him-Funny
  • Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series-Kate McKinnon SNL-Funny
  • Aubrey Plaza presented Best Director-Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg for This is the End-Funny
  • JB Smoove-Funny just typing his name, butttt-Not so funny
  • Best Club Comic-Maria Bamford-Eh, not that funny
  • Alternative Comedy Series-Key & Peele-sort of funny
  • Bill Hader was still Australian 44 minutes in
  • Best Actress in a Comedy Series-Amy Poehler for Parks & Rec-sort of funny
  • Best Comedy Screenplay-The Heat - Given Out before the show
  • Best TV Writing-Modern Family-Given Out before the show
  • Best Late Night Talk Show-Colbert & Daily Show and it was a funny, yet pre-taped acceptance speech
  • Best Viral Video-Badly Breeding. Person who made is unknown but Patrick Stewart was sort of funny
  • Adam Palli-funny
  • Best Actress in a Film-Melissa McCarthy…funny
  • Best Concert Comic-There were a million nominees and Jim Gaffigan won and was funny
  • In Memoriam: good way to remember the comedians…
  • Leslie Mann, was funny AND made a leather strapless bra work beautifully
  • Best Comedy Film-This is the End 
  • Every time I see Stephen Merchant I think of this
  • Best Comedy Series-Parks & Recreation
  • Chris Rock presented the Johnny Carson Award to Bill Cosby. Chris Rock is FUNNY!
  • Bill Cosby ended the show and was actually FUNNY!
  • Net/Net...comedians, given time to prepare are...FUNNY

THE OTHER STUFF

-Okay, Beauty and the Beast and The 100 are being renewed by the CW. Totally get it and congratulations, but they also renewed Hart of Dixie. This is SHOCKING to me. You know I used to adore Hart of Dixie. It was cute and light and sticky sweet and I enjoyed it. It sucks now. Were there not any other solid pilots out there? No disrespect to Rachel Bilson or Scott Porter, but it's time to pack it in. It's time. I can't promise I'll be back for another season. Even if the CW promises me shirtless Wade and shirtless George fighting over Zoey…can't say I'll be back. I guess I'll take a wait and see approach at this point. I honestly can't believe it's been renewed. 

-More news from the CW. We had the good news with the renewals now the bad news Carrie Diaries, Tomorrow People & Star-Crossed were all cancelled. Sorry guys.  

-ABC renewed S.H.I.E.L.D. Resurrection, Castle, Grey's and Scandal and Once Upon a Time. No shocks there. Sort of surprised that Revenge was renewed. 

-This morning I was notified by Netflix that new members will be charged 1 dollar more than me…$8.99 a month, but to thank me for my loyal membership they won't be raising my price for 2 more years. Thanks Netflix. I'm not even sure if I'm angry about that or not. 

-Hitfix ranked the WORST TV Mom's of all time: See what you think:
Dina Lohan
Cersai Lannister-Game of Thrones
Betty Draper-Mad Men
Norma Bates-Bates Hotel
Julie Cooper-The O.C.
Nancy Botwin-Weeds
Mags Bennett-Justified
Colleen Donaghy-30 Rock
Patty Hewes-Damages
Livia Soprano-The Sopranos
Jessica Tate-Soap
Kris Jenner-Keeping Up With the Kardashians
Sherry-Hoarding: Buried Alive
Teresa Giudice-Real Housewives of NJ
Constance Langdon-American Horror Story
Eddie-Absolutely Fabulous
Brianna Barksdale-The Wire

-I'm pretty sure that THE Jason Priestly Tweeted me back yesterday which was truly amazing. The Question: Will you be releasing an Audible version of your new book, Jason Priestly: Memoir? The Answer: "I believe so" OMG JASON PRIESTLY!

Friday's Trivia Question: Last awesome Mom of the week. Whose kids were: Justin, Kitty, Sarah, Kevin & Tommy? 

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!
Have a great weekend!

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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

TRUE TORI is BRUTAL in one way and GLEE is BRUTAL in another. Thank God I have THE GOLDBERGS to balance things out!




THE ANSWER TO TUESDAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION: Tootie & Natalie/ Corky & Becca=Facts of Life Goes On
FIRST FIVES: Mike O'Dea, John Romeo, Bill McLaughlin, Candace Gorin & Jeff Pelegrini

HONORABLE MENTION: Kathy Connelly


THE NUMBERS 
Sunday's Cable Top 5
Game of Thrones-HBO 3.7/6.9
NBA Playoffs 10p- TNT 2.1/4.7
Real Housewives of Atlanta-TNT 1.8/4.1
NBA Playoffs 7p-TNT 1.6/3.7
Bar Rescue-Spike 1.1/1.8

Monday's Broadcast Top 5
The Voice-NBC 11.4/3.0
The Blacklist-NBC 2.7/10.8
Dancing with the Stars-ABC 2.4/15.1
2 Broke Girls-CBS 2.2/7.7
Mike & Molly-CBS 2.2/7.5

Monday's Cable Top 5
WWE Monday Night Raw-USA 1.8/4.6
NBA Playoffs 10p-TNT 1.8/3.9
NBA Playoffs 7p-TNT 1.4/3.4
Fast N Loud-Discovery 1.2/2.6
Basketball Wives-VH1 1.1/2.2 

Monday's Top 5 Nielsen Twitter Ratings 
The Voice-NBC 220,000 Tweets
Basketball Wives LA-VH1 218,000 Tweets
WWE Monday Night Raw-USA 193,000 Tweets
Dancing with the Stars-ABC 89,000 Tweets
Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon-22,000 Tweets


THE SHOWS
Glee
Didn't think that Glee could get any more annoying but, it could and it did. If you recall, Glee USED to be about a Glee club with many members. Now, it's the Rachel Berry show. Sure Lea Michelle has a great voice, but her character is my least favorite and it's all her all the time. I can't take it. That being said, for 5 years all Rachel's wanted was to be on Broadway. She's there 3 weeks and she's ready to give it all up for a TV show in LA? COME ON! The Shirley MacLaine thing was odd. She looked good with that wig, and she was good, but it still felt weird having her and Blaine performing Janis Joplin's " Piece of my Heart."Okay there were 2 crazy cameo's in the show last night, that's honestly all that kept me going really. One of them was Eric Roberts, I'll give you that one, but did you catch the TV executive with Cerebral Palsy? I totally know who she is and where we knew her from back in the day. If you do too...bonus points. I know next season is the last season, just don't know if I'll be back for it or not. 

The Goldbergs
Forget the entire first love thing with Erica and Drew and the Varsity jacket. Forget Bev and her buddy across the street. Forget tater tots. Let's talk about THE ARCADE! Come on…how many quarters did all of us blow at the arcade? We all remember Asteroids, Pacman and Centipede but Zaxxon and Punch-Out! I remember jonesin for quarters like Barry Norman Goldberg did. I was a Crystal Castles, Xevious and Qix obsessed lunatic.  I was right there in the dark arcade for hours on end. I took the laundry money, I searched the couch, my Mom's bag... anything for a quarter. So Barry Norman Goldberg…I feel ya! I even had that same Gant rugby. Couple a things though…were interventions and mood rings around in the 80's? I sort of remember mood rings in the 70's not so much in the 80's but I could be wrong. 
Did you get the "Kessel Run in 12 Parsecs" reference. Points if you did. Also as is always the case after an episode of The Goldbergs…name that tune for even more bonus points. 


Deadliest Catch
One of the OTHER reasons I gave up watching The Deadliest Catch (The first was the Captain Phil Harris thing remember?) was because it became the same old thing week after week. Pots with crab, pots without, bad weather, good weather, The Hanson's and the Hildenbrands, great greenhorns, crappy greenhorns. You know what I mean. So I came back this season because I want to see Zig's daughter on deck. First 2 episodes, we've got bad weather, some crews are on the crab some are off. One captain's struggling with back pain and one captain's struggling with a greenhorn pain but guess what…no appearance by Zig's daughter. Where is she? If she doesn't show up until the finale, I'm gonna freak out! 

Chasing Maria Menounos
I know you are all making fun of me for watching Chasing Maria, but I don't even care. I think I have a real girl crush on Maria. It's not the same as my thing for Emma Stone it's a full on girl crush. She's SO beautiful and looks SO good in every single thing she wears and has perfect teeth and perfect hair and she's funny and she likes Howard Stern and I'm intrigued by the fact that she covers Hollywood but yet she lives with her parents, works out alone in her basement without a trainer and has been with Keven for 15 years and all he lives to do his make her happy and ya know what. I get it Keven! I would want to make Maria happy too! I think now that "MOTHER" has finally gotten some quality time with Maria, she's under the Maria Menounos spell too! Poor Kev…bit of an issue with his testicles, and I don't want to call this clue out, but Kev has a major vein that's near his eye, so when the doctor announced that he also had a varicose vein around his privates, I wasn't THAT shocked. Light bulb moment…Lisa, Jeff Lewis's super mean client on Flipping Out is also…DUN DUN DUNNNNNN Maria Menounous's boss!  Small world...even smaller in Hollywood.

True Tori
I was all over the place watching this show last night. I felt guilty for intruding, I felt guilty for enjoying it if that's what I was feeling. Shock over the revelation that Dean was suicidal. Intrigued by how the production team dealt with all of it. I feel sad for this family. Sad for the couple, the marriage and of course for the kids who may not understand right now what's going on but someday, they'll see all of this and it will penetrate them forever. I commend Tori and Dean for their courage and honesty and their need and desire to share such intensely private emotions with all of us. I do think that it probably will help others realize they aren't alone. With all that being said, I also feel extremely manipulated. I have watched every episode of Tori & Dean's other shows (don't judge) and was always so happy for them and the love they found. I loved Dean and wanted to believe that he really really loved Tori. He seemed like he had his sh*t together, but did he then? We never knew Dean had alcohol issues and self loathing issues or anything. When I heard he cheated on Tori, I sort of felt like it was more of a Karma thing. Once a cheater always as a cheater. I mean Tori and Dean both cheated on their spouses with each other. So it was karma right? The stress is obviously taking it's toll on Tori, she looks emaciated. Luckily she has some great girlfriends and THE best celebrity therapist in Hollywood, Dr. Ann Wexler, remember her? It's the last day of the month. Points if you remember the other celeb couple we saw sit down in Dr. Wexler's office. 

THE OTHER STUFF


-I'm assuming that all my readers know what binge viewing is, but for any newbies, binge viewing is defined as watching 3 or more episodes of one series in a single sitting. I'm a big fan, but I don't think I would consider myself a frequent binge viewer based on the definition below. Anyway…a really cool Binge Viewing study was recently conducted and here's what I learned:
  • 7 out of 10 U.S. TV viewers consider themselves binge-viewers
  • A frequent binge viewer is defined as someone who binge watches a few times a week
  • An infrequent binge viewer is defined as someone who binge watches once a month or less
  • 17% of binge-viewers do so on a daily basis
  • 63% of binge-viewers do so on a weekly basis
  • 90% of binge-viewers do so on a monthly basis 
  • frequent binge-viewers skew younger with 61%  being Millenials
  • frequent binge-viewers are also more ethnically diverse with 34% being non-white
  • frequent binge viewers are 2x more likely to have skipped showering or bathing because of their habit
  • 27% of binge viewers said binge viewing makes them feel lazy
  • 18% of binge viewers pay less attention to other aspects of their lives
  • frequent binge viewers are 3x more likely to order take-out instead of cook OR skip a meal entirely
  • 30% of binge viewers admit it makes them less active
  • 43% of frequent binge viewers watch MORE TV overall and yet...
  • 25% of frequent binge viewers get annoyed that they have nothing left to watch once they finish a series
  • 2 out of every 5 people surveyed were willing to pay more if they could instantly have access to a full season of their fave show instead of having to wait. 
  • Interestingly...frequent binge viewers are more prone to let commercials play and more likely to upgrade their cable subscriptions than infrequent viewers
  • Binge viewers who are married or living with a significant other are more likely to binge-watch together than alone
  • Women watch more procedurals than men
  • Men watch more comedies and animated adult shows
- The Tony Award Nominations came out yesterday. I'm really not a huge Broadway person, but there are quite a few TV people nominated. Bryan Cranston, Chris O'Dowd, Tony Shalhoub, Tyne Daly to name a few. I recently saw Neil Patrick Harris in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. It was an insanely hypnotic and mesmerizing performance especially since he had JUST finished How I Met Your Mother. He sings and dances all in drag and all in huge platform heels. He deserves a Tony. I might actually watch the show this year just to see what happens when he performs and hopefully wins.

-Now it's official…Gwen Stefani in for Xtina Aguilera next season on The Voice. What are the odds that Gavin makes an appearance?

-I gave up Grey's a while ago. Didn't even know that Christina Yang got left at the alter by Dr. Burke. ABC's going to air Dr. Burke's last show from 2007 in the 8pm time slot this Thursday before Dr. Yang's final episode for those of you that still watch Meredith and McDreamy.

-FOX cancelled Almost Human last night before I went to bed. Anyone bummed?

-ANOTHER version of the french show The Returned is in the works. First we had the original, then we had ABC's sort of version, Resurrection and now A&E is working on a true remake of the french version. None of them have answers by the end of the first season, sooooo do we need to have 3 of the same show? I doubt I'll get sucked in to that! 

Wednesday's Trivia Question: Same theme...Eric McCormack and Brett Butler
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Glee, Maria, Tori and the 10th Season of The Deadliest Catch





THE ANSWER TO TUESDAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION: Phil Dunphy & Urkel…Modern Family Matters 
FIRST FIVES: Elke Raskob, Mike O'Dea, Lillian Doremus, Jeff Pellegrini & Justin Jones
HONORABLE MENTION: Kathy Connelly & Bob Kaplan

THE NUMBERS 
Sunday's Cable Top 5
Game of Thrones-HBO 3.5/6.5
NBA Playoffs 9p-TNT 1.9/4.0
Real Housewives of Atlanta-Bravo 1.8/4.1
NBA Playoffs 7p-TNT 1.6/3.9
Naked and Afraid-Discovery 1.0/2.3

Monday's Broadcast Top 5
The Voice-NBC 2.9/11.0
The Blacklist-NBC 2.8/11.1
Dancing with the Stars-ABC 2.1/7.0
2 Broke Girls-CBS 2.1/7.0
Mike & Molly-CBS 1.9/7.2

Monday's Cable Top 5 
NBA Playoffs-TNT 1.7/4.1
WWE Monday Night Raw-USA 1.5/4.3
Boondocks-Adult Swim 1.5/2.9
Basketball Wives-VH1 1.1/2.1
Black Ink Crew-VH1 1.0/1.9

Monday's Top 5 Nielsen Twitter Ratings 
Boondocks-Adult Swim 360,000 Tweets
WWE Monday Night Raw-USA 189,000 Tweets
Basketball Wives LA-VH1 139,000 Tweets
The Voice-NBC 128,000 Tweets
Dancing with the Stars-ABC 51,000 Tweets 


THE SHOWS

Glee
I gotta give myself credit for hangin in there with this show. I'm not a Barbra Streisand fan, a Funny Girl fan or a Lea Michele fan and yet I can't bring myself to delete my season pass. I can't figure out the timing. Is it the following school year already? The gang graduated a few weeks ago and now Sue and Mr. Schu are back in school? WTF? I love Jane Lynch, but I just can't see her and Chris Parnell doin the wild thing anywhere, let alone all over Kurt and Rachel's apartment. Not buying it at all. Mr. Schu came in to town to see Rachel's opening night but THE second he got there he had to turn around and go right back to Lima for the birth of his son. I went to the OB/GYN every week when I was in the home stretch. He left without seeing that coming? Why do I find it so hard to believe that there's more than one flight a day to Lima? Of course Rachel killed and her reviews were amazing and all is right with the Gleeks.  I really need to just hit the button and delete the season pass. It's almost torture. 

Deadliest Catch Season 10 Premiere
I haven't watched Deadliest Catch in a few seasons. I think I needed time to mourn the loss of Captain Phil Harris and I didn't like seeing what was happening with his kids and the Cornelia Maria. This season, the gang was back and ready to fish but the government wasn't. They were in shutdown mode and not issuing any fishing permits. On the Northwestern, instead of Edgar biting the head off the frozen herring, Jake had to bite the head off a mushy microwaved one since he was back on board after checking out a different boat last season. Totally disgusting. Finally Obama got things moving again and the boats got out to the fishing grounds. I still hate it when the pots are empty or have very little crabs in them, but man when those pots are overflowing, it's amazing. Looking forward to the 10th season with the Hansons, the Hildenbrandts and all the other captains and their crews. 

True Tori
I've watched Tori Spelling since the first day of Beverly Hills 90210. I've always liked her and I've watched almost every project she's ever been in. While everything else in her life has been in the public eye, I wasn't sure why she wanted or needed to share the current state of marriage to Dean with all of us, but of course I watched. For the first time ever, I felt guilty watching a reality show. I felt SO bad for Tori and I admit, I felt bad for Dean even though I was pissed off for lying to Tori and all of us. Tori is home alone (it seems) trying to deal with 4 kids under the age of 6 while Dean is in treatment for alcohol addiction and I guess other stuff too. They both look terrible and if all that wasn't bad enough, it seemed like Tori was trying to grow out her bangs or something and for anyone who's been there, you know, it can be super stressful. Just watching Tori deal with a carsick child while the paparazzi kept shooting away and while Liam was freaking out about puke on his Ipad was enough for me to lose it. Of course, I admit, I'm going to keep watching. I'll always root for Tori and I think, as much as I hate to admit it, I'm rooting for Dean too. 


Chasing Maria Menounos
Maria's Party: 2 friends, quiet poolside afternoon, cocktails, dinner and smores by the fire. 
Keven's party: 100 people (most of them strangers), bikini clad girls, DJ spinning records, pool toys, Maria's Dad pouring cocktails down girls throats and Keven roof diving into the pool.
Who's party was more fun? Keven's of course, Maria saw it online, and booked it back home to join in on the festivities. Simple and fun and just what I needed. 

THE OTHER STUFF

-I never got around to discussing Jimmy Kimmel's show from after the Scandal finale last week. It was a bit overrated, but still worth checking out when they re-run it. The interview with Shonda Rhimes, Scott Foley and all of the replays of Escandelo were good but the last section was a regurgation of the casts appearances on Jimmy's show. Good yes, great…not really, but if you're jonesin for some Scandal it'll def fill the void.

-The Discovery Channel is still going to give me some Everest. Not the jump I was hoping for but they're going to use the footage they did get and put a documentary special together. That'll tide me over for now. Thanks Discovery! 

Wednesday's Trivia Question: TV MashUP Day 3- Gene Rayburn and Peter Dinklage

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