Showing posts with label Guys with Kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guys with Kids. Show all posts

Thursday, February 28, 2013

A GUYS WITH KIDS CLIFFHANGER? That better mean it's coming back!

Today is the last day of February Trivia. Winners will be notified tomorrow and we will begin an all new trivia contest. for the month of March.  Remember all correct answers count towards the monthly prizes! 




The answer to Wednesday's Trivia Question: Fredrick Crane was Lilith's and Frasier's son. 
FIRST FIVES: Dan Realson, Phyllis DiCesare, Nancy Oboyski, Monica Caraffa, & Bobby Aguilera
Honorable Mention:Cyndi Greeley

Tuesdays Broadcast Top 5 
NCIS-CBS 3.4/20.6
NCIS LA-CBS 2.9/17.0
Celebrity Wife Swap-ABC 2.4/7.0
New Girl-FOX 2.3/4.3
Golden Boy-CBS 1.8/10.5

Tuesday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
NCIS-CBS 50,101
New Girl-FOX 16,193
The Taste-ABC 31,407
NCIS LA-CBS 26,212
Smash-NBC 24,403

Tuesday's Cable Top 5
The Big Bang Theory-TBS 1.5/3.5
Tosh.0-Comedy 1.3/2.1
Pretty Little Liars-ABC Family 1.2/2.7
American Dad-Adult Swim 1.0/2.1
Snooki  & JWoww-MTV 1.0/1.6

Tuesday's Cable Trendrr Top 5
Pretty Little Liars-ABC Family 609,511
The Bad Girls Club-Oxygen 96,267
Dance Moms-Lifetime 56,613
The Lying Game-ABC Family 30,303
Real Husbands of Hollywood-BET 28,456

WWTM Last Night

Survivor started out with Shamar and Reynold (no S) going at it big time and then Shamar almost quitting, questioning if he should even be there, blah, blah, blah.  This guy is supposedly a FAN of the show and has done 2 tours in Iraq or Afghanistan. He can't handle 39 days on an island with wackos? C'MON dude...suck it up.  Look at Phillip, he's 59 years old, doing push ups and on his second tour of Survivor!  Look at Malcolm. This kid's an Ivy Leaguer, playing the game back to back and finding idols. Shamar made me sick and of course he didn't quit, didn't get voted off and now I'm stuck with this ungrateful whiner for another week.  Brandon on the other hand is out of his mind. So much so that he swore he would "pee in the rice, pee in the beans and burn the shelter to the ground" if things didn't go his way.  What kind of people do these casting directors come across that DON'T make this show if these nut jobs are the ones that do?  This weeks challenge was super tough if you ask me.  I don't know who thinks of these things, but the teams had to go under water in this cage thing, get a heavy trunk, lug it out of the water, get to the beach, move these heavy tracks in place with a giant key ring (think Mike Brady in the Grand Canyon episode part 1 I believe), then put the trunk on the tracks to get it to the winning spot.  Sounds a lot easier than it looks and the Faves won it again.  At tribal, there was a 3 way tie which I'm not sure has ever happened before, I need to check that.  Eddie, Shamar and Hope and of all the people to get voted out...Hope left camp. WHAT?  Don't these people watch the show?  Jeff...we need to talk!

I really hope that last nights Guys with Kids wasn't it's last.  First of all IT'S SO CUTE and fun and enjoyable.  It has a great theme song, cute guys, cute girls cute funny kids that don't annoy you and Vanessa from the Cosby Show.  There's really nothing wrong with the show.  It needs a better night, better time slot, and some promotion, and the audience will come.  Well, I can't guarantee that, but I can only hope.  Last night, a Cosby reunion. Vanessa's little sister Rudy, who played Marni's sister Bridgett.  Rudy looks and sounds NOTHING like she did 30 years ago, but it was still fun to see the two together again.  Gary hired Bridgett to help him with the Rapkin (it's a smock you wear over your nice clothes so your kids don't ruin your good ones) and of course he didn't want her to work for him but she saves the day.  Better storyline though was that Sheila and Chris, who are divorced, decided they were going to have  another kid together for Ernie's sake.  Sheila didn't want to put any hormones into her body and convinced Chris to do it the way they did it the last time.  Nick pulled out all the stops to try to convince him that she was trying to get back together but Chris just didn't see it. Nick brought in the big guns...Sage, Chris's ex and "the right one" so at the end of the show, the season and hopefully not the series we are left with Gary singing "My Life Would Suck Without You" at the bar and a Chris not sure if he should be with Sheila or Sage cliffhanger. NBC, you better bring this show back...PLEASE! (And I'm not just saying this because of my desire to be Jimmy Fallon's FBFF) It's a good show!

Does anyone really use shelving paper anymore? Cam and Mitch were changing shelving paper on last nights Modern Family and it's just one of those things I didn't think people did these days.  Maybe I'm wrong..no idea.  Anyway Jay and Gloria hired Dahlia, a sort of hot nanny with not quite as big boobs as Gloria's. Manny was secretly obsessed with her and was drawing nudes every chance he could get.  Jay and Gloria thought it was because Gloria walks around in sexy clothes breast feeding baby Joe, but once they realized it was Dahlia who Manny was into and not his Mom, they ran home to deal with the issue.  Luckily Dahlia let him down easy. It was sweet actually.  Claire was excited to have dinner with Hailey and thought maybe she was coming back to her from the dark side of the moon, but while they were on their way out for dinner Hailey ran into a friend and left to go hang with her which made Claire sad.  She did come back though, and Claire and Hailey saw Alex perform with her band and were shocked (as was I) that the band was actually pretty cool and pretty good.  I hated the entire Elizabeth Banks storyline with Cam and Mitch.  It was ridiculous actually.  Old friend we've never really seen or heard about is getting married in a tiny ceremony and she wanted Cam and Mitch to be her "Best Men" she goes wild before the wedding, but gets married anyway.  New husband is just as insane as she is.  Whatever.  The other annoying storyline was Luke's date with Simone which happened because Phil did the Facebooking and so did Simone's Mom on the other end.  Simone's Mom turns out to be another wacko.  Whatever. I'm still stuck on the shelving paper thing quite frankly.

Kind of bummed they killed off Marty the steam guy on Suburgatory.  It could have been funny to keep him around and more sweaty towel time for Jeremy Sisto.  The sad part was that this guy had never left Chatswin, had eaten the same breakfast every day and lived in the same house his whole life and basically nobody knew him.  So who gets his ashes? George. Mainly because George spent the most time in the steam room (topless thankfully) with Marty.  Funny yes, but sad as well.  George and Noah tried to find Fatima (Freddy "Boom Boom" Washington's Mom from Welcome Back Kotter who looked surprisingly good for her age) because Marty was going to leave town and travel with her, but she had no idea who he was and only knew him as "Hash and Eggs".  Tessa thought Ryan was cheating on her last week, but he was really looking at colleges, not other girls. He lied because he thought Tessa would freak out if he used the "L" word (leaving).  She of course didn't want him to miss out on college for her and had to call off the "hit" Ryan had put out on himself.  That was one of those things ya had to see...it's not translating well.  Best part of the night though as always, Dhalia's proclamation of love for super geeky Evan...she learned Yiddish for him.  Hilarious and great uses of all the good Yiddish words if I could spell them all, I'd try too!  

Lots of juicyness on Nashville last night.  Glad I chose it over The Americans on FX this time.  Rayna and Teddy are already at getting nasty in their divorce which I love because I can't stand Teddy.  Interestingly enough, I do like him with Kim Paisley though.  But that's more about her than him. Juliette threw a huge surprise birthday party for Deacon who supposedly hates his birthday and usually just sits home watching Old Yeller every year. But he seemed to have a really good time and wasn't that pissed off about it at all.  He sure does have a ton of friends in Nashville, including Vince Gill who showed his face at the party.  Of course lots of birthday performances.  Scarlett and Gunner played, then Rayna sang right back into Deacons heart which should have pissed Juliette off, but she was dealing with her Mom who went off the wagon and had to go home.  During the party, the cops came to get Gunner to identify his dead brothers body.  Killbuzz.  Dying to know how many takes they needed to get a usable shot of Gunner reacting to his bros beaten body.  The one they chose still stunk. He's not the greatest actor in the world that guy.  Of course Scarlett was worried sick wondering where Gunner was, but when he got home and was distraught she helped ease his pain by FINALLY giving him what he's wanted since the show started...her!  It wasn't as sexy as it could have been.  He still can't act and her hair was really distracting.  Now lets see if next week they stay at it or do the "this was a huge mistake" thing.  Or worse...they lose their music mojo!  Now that would suck.

NEWS & INFORMATION

-I'm a CW fan, I've said it before, I'm loud and I'm proud, I've been rooting for their success since they were the WB and Michigan J, was their mascot. You guys know that currently I love Hart of Dixie and The Vampire Diaries on the network and I was hoping that I'd like Cult,  but it was too weird for me.  Too hard to keep track of.  First, I thought it was me, or my age (I'm a bit out of the target demo...there, I said it) but after hearing that they are moving the show to Friday night, I'm thinking that maybe it's not me or my demo problem, maybe it was just too difficult for everyone!.  I'm going to pull the plug on this one and take it off of my viewing list.  I could use the time back on my calendar.  My fingers are still crossed for you guys at the CW and I know there's another Buffy or Felicity just waiting in the wings somewhere. 

-It looks like I'll have been waiting for FOX to run The Goodwin Games for a year since I saw the pilot.  As of now it will air on 5/20.  I liked it and had high hopes for it especially since Carter "How I Met Your Mother" Bays is the executive producer of it.  Well, it's finally going to see the light of day. 

-For the first time ever, Univision will finish in 4th place ahead of NBC for the crazy competitive February Sweeps period against RA18-49.  Note to NBC, this is what happens when you let your big shows "take a break".  No Revolution + no Voice+ no football = no ratings.  What a difference a quarter makes.

-FX renewed Archer for a 5th season.  I don't do animation, don't really care about this one, but I owe you guys the info regardless of my issues.

Thursday's Trivia Question: Elizabeth Banks who was on Modern Family last night, played Jack Donaghey's wife and baby mama on 30 Rock.  What was her characters name on the show and what was their babies name?  1 point for each correct answer.

WWTM-Kristy

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Come on Survivor Fans team...you should know better! Keep the idol a secret!





The answer to Wednesday's Trivia Question: Al Pacino won Best Actor for Scent of a Woman and Best Supporting Actor for Glengarry Glenross
FIRST FIVES: James Schiro, Bill McLaughlin, Lance Beitler, Lori Decillis, & Ed Ziskind
Honorable Mention: Monica Caraffa

Sunday's Cable Top 5
Walking Dead 9p-AMC 5.6/11.0
NBA All Star Game-TNT 3.5/8.0
Talking Dead-AMC 2.2/4.0
Real Housewives of Atlanta-Bravo 1.2/2.6
Walking Dead 8p-AMC 1.1/2.5

Monday's Cable Top 5
WWE-USA 1.6/4.8
Teen Mom 2-MTV 1.6/2.6
Pawn Stars-History 1.5/5.0
Love and Hip Hop-VH1 1.1/1.8
American Pickers-History 1.0/4.3

Tuesdays Broadcast Top 5 
NCIS-CBS 3.5/20.9
NCIS LA-CBS 2.7/16.3
The Bachelor-ABC 2.6/8.1
The Taste-ABC 1.6/4.8
The Mindy Project-FOX 1.6/3.0

Tuesday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
Pretty Little Liars-ABC Family 368,854
The Bad Girls Club-Oxygen 98,263
Piers Morgan-CNN 81,561
Real Husbands of Hollywood-BET 73,670
Dance Moms-Lifetime 51,751
Tuesday's Cable Top 5

Tuesday's Cable Trendrr Top 5
The Bachelor-ABC 114,451
New Girl-FOX 56,142
NCIS-CBS 54,339
Smash-NBC 51,767
NCIS LA-CBS 38,319

Survivor was sort of a bookend of weirdness last night. I'm not sure what was going on with Brandon at all.  Last season, he wanted to be anything BUT his Uncle Russell.  Last night he wore an odd sticklike earring and started playing the game Russell style but then, had an immediate change of heart.  How about being real?  Is that even a possibility anymore?  We all know that there are always hidden immunity idols. The fans know this and should know how to deal with them and how important it is to keep the idol a secret as long as possible.  But every time someone finds one I say to my son..."how many minutes before the secret is out?" I have no idea how much real time passed from when Reynold (who looks like JC Chazez from N Sync) found the idol and when Laura figured it out, but viewing wise it was under a minute. We timed it.  I was relieved that he ended up not playing it, unfortunately now he has nobody to keep him warm since his snuggle bunny, Allie, was voted out .  Each tribe has their "crazy person" this season.  Phillip is just reprising his role from last go around and Shamar is playing crazy for the favorites .  No idea what "Boo Boo the Foo" means, but I think it's some sort of crazy person slang. 

I don't normally make fun of kids (well maybe Lily from Modern Family) but on Guys with Kids, Chris and Sheila's son Ernie is really cute but, they must have him sedated or something.  The kid never really has any emotion at all.  Last nights episode was focused on Ernie because he wasn't scribbling like his friends.  This infant (or infants, I'm guessing he's a twin) must have popped a Xanax or something.  Nothing at all sets him off, makes him smile, or anything, until finally in this episode, he threw a hammer at his Mom because she was driving him nuts trying to teach him to scribble. (to his defense...she is super annoying, I'd hit her with a hammer too) Marnie and Gary finally revealed their twin sons names, Robby and Gary Jr. Nothing will ever beat their other kids names...Clark and Yoda. There was a really funny storyline that has probably happened to any of you out there with kids.  A toy that you can't find is making a noise that is driving you nuts. It's happened to us, I'm sure it's happened to you and this week it happened to Nick and Emily but in their case it ended up that the toy making the horrible sound was actually a bottle opener. I wish I could remember the toy this happened to us with because it has happened a few times and looking back now...hilarious...then...not so funny at all. 

Mini Married with Children reunion last night on Modern Family.  Well, not really, but kinda sorta.  David "Bud Bundy" Faustino appeared as "Tater" a guy that had a crush on Claire in college. He didn't have any seasons with his ex-Dad but it was a fun little nuance.  Okay, so yes, I do still hate Lily, but it's because we all hate her that the storyline of her gluing a wig onto baby Joe's head worked so well.  She would do that because she's so annoying and unlikeable.  The funniest thing was when Cam cut the wig to make baby Joe look like Bieber.  Hilarious.  Manny was depressed over losing the lead role in the school play, but it resulted in my favorite line of the night (and there were SO many)..."Just coffee for me...black like I feel on the inside". 

Last nights episode of Suburgatory was really good. I'm not sure I can do it justice since what makes the show good overall is the look and tone of it, but I'll give it a shot.  Tessa and Ryan were doing so great that everyone "Asks Tessa" for dating advice, including Mr. Wolfe, the school prinicipal. Apparently he was sleeping with the school chef. Tessa believed that the chef and his new assistant were doin the nasty together.  Well, they did catch them at their own private Oscar party which was quite disturbing since the chef had gold glitter lipstick and his assistant was painted like an Oscar statue. Noah and Dallas were still fighting over the stealing of Carmen, Noah's housekeeper, so they decided to settle it on the T Ball field which made no sense since neither one of them have kids on the team, but it did settle the score...I think. Yeah...after re-reading this section, I'm doing the show any justice.  Check it out on demand or online if you can.

President Reagan's assassination attempt was what Phil and Elizabeth had to deal with on The Americans in last nights episode. Apparently when this happened, the government needed to rule out the KGB right away. Initially that's where blame could have been assigned.  I still like this show, but they need to start investing in it a bit more.  The wigs they have everyone wearing are so cheap and fake looking.  It's a wonder everyone that comes into contact with these two don't figure out that they aren't who they say they are JUST from the wigs.  The ridiculous factor was pretty high last night.  When the couple needed a governmental vehicle and seemed be able to produce one before the commerical break, it was a little unbelievable.  Then when their orders are to prepare for "Project Christopher", which pretty much means kill all high level government officials, Elizabeth went into the woods and all by herself dug out a huge locker, pulled it out of the ground and took out 2 massive sniper rifle looking type guns (I honestly know nothing about guns. They could have been assault weapons...not a clue) and a million sticks of dynamite.  Just seemed a bit impossible, but these Russians are pretty tricky, so maybe.  Also, other than very old 80's vehicles, not so many 80's pop culture and musical references like they had in the first episode which to be honest is what sucked me in.  Felicity needs more than one pair of Guess Jeans! I love the 80's.  I'm still watching but...not sure I'll keep it up, the verdict is still out for me.

NEWS & INFORMATION
-Netflix is still not releasing any official numbers on House of Cards is faring, but external the investment firm Cowen and Company recently conducted a survey of 1,229 people.  Some findings:
  • 28% were Netflix subscribers.
  • 18% had access to a Netflix subscription.
  • Among Netflix subscribers and those who have access to a Netflix account, 10% streamed at least one episode of House of Cards in the 12 days the show was available.
  • The average House of Cards viewer watched six episodes in that timeframe.
  • 19.4% watched all 13 episodes of the first season.
  • 36% rated the series as "exceptional" 43% felt it was "good"
  • 86% said they were less likely to cancel their subscription after watching the show.
  • As for Netflix's decision to make all 13 episodes available at once, 90% of respondents approved the idea.
-While it's not finalized just yet, it looks like former Spice Girl, Mel B may be taking Sharon Osbournes place on America's Got Talent.  I wasn't a big Spice Girls person.  I'm not sure that she is a good choice but I don't think I'm going to watch this year anyway, so it really won't matter that much who they pick.  I had heard that there was a shot that Cher was in the running...I would have watched if she joined Howard and Howie.

-Congratulations to Robin Roberts on her return yesterday to Good Morning America. I forgot to set my DVR to see it, but I'm a GMA person and am happy to have her back and doing her thing.  

-If I wasn't already upset with the death of Matthew Crawley on Downton Abbey this week, reading that Bon Jovi is going to perform on Idol on 3/14 was enough to send me completely over the edge.  Why on earth do they need or even want to perform on American Idol?  It is killing me. Just killing me.  I don't ever want to say anything bad about one of my favorite bands, but COME ON GUYS REALLY? WHY?

Thursday's Trivia Question: Only 2 sequels have ever won Best Picture.  Name the films.  1 point for each correct answer.

WWTM-Kristy

Thursday, February 14, 2013

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!! SURVIVOR'S BACK!






The answer to Wednesday's Trivia Question: Jennifer & Jonathan Hart, Max the Driver and Freeway the Dog were all part of the extremely enjoyable show...Hart to Hart.
FIRST FIVES:Monica Caraffa, Dan Realson, Allison Shapiro, Neil Moffatt, & Jim Carter
Honorable Mention: Dani Jackel

Tuesdays Broadcast Top 5 
State of the Union-NBC 1.6/5.7
NCIS LA-CBS 1.5/9.1
The Taste-ABC 1.5/4.7
Betty White's Off Their Rockers-NBC 1.4/5.1
Betty White's Off Their Rockers-NBC 1.2/5.0

Tuesday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
State of the Union-All Nets 2,203,331
The Taste-ABC 13,658
New Girl-FOX 11,829
NCIS LA-CBS 9,124
NCIS-CBS 8,843

Tuesday's Cable Top 5
The Big Bang Theory-TBS 1.6/4.1
Tosh.0-Comedy Central 1.2/1.9
State of the Union-CNN 1.2/3.6
Cougar Town-TBS 1.2/3.6  (YEAH COUGAR TOWN!)
Pretty Little Liars-ABC Family 1.1/2.4

Tuesday's Cable Trendrr Top 5
Pretty Little Liars-ABC Family 458,746
The Bad Girls Club-Oxygen 113,566
NBA Basketball-NBA Network 76,986
Dance Moms-Lifetime 70,774
Westminster Dog Show-USA 46,033

 -Yeahhhhhh Survivor is back!  Good thing Jeff Probst didn't give up his night job...he unfortunately lost his day job with the news that his talk show has been cancelled.  Damn...he should have taken the Regis job.  I love Strahan, but Jeff and Kelly would have been awesome. As long as Jeff is there to tell us all that "the tribe has spoken" that's really all that matters.

This season it's Fans vs. Favorites 2. Phillip and his pink undies are BACK! Jeff and his blue safari shirt are back and Cochran's back too. But instead of his sweater vest, he brought a huge white pussie pimple and crazy sunburned feet.Somebody must have gotten their fingers on that pimple because in some scenes it was there and some it wasn't. The show started off as it always does. Some nature shots, a little background on the island and boom...a reward challenge as soon as the teams landed on the beach.  The Fave's won the challenge, fire and 20 lbs of beans. Beans??? Is that a good idea? Especially when you're getting to know your new tribemates?  Matt, a fan and a BMX dude has this crazy beard spike. (See photo on the left) I can't figure out how it stays that way, it's so odd looking. Super cute fan Reynold (yes, I'm spelling right, there's no "S") used one of my favorite words in a sentence...serendipitous.  I mean that's pretty impressive.  He's on Survivor, strategizing, starving, sweating and he used that word correctly in sentence?  That's talent! What wasn't so smart was doing the nasty with Ali in camp night number 1.  He's just asking for trouble! If you're a true fan, you know that hooking up with a tribe member is a no-no and your ticket to being kicked right out of camp.The fans were able to build a fire without flint which was pretty impressive, but if I was going to be on Survivor, I'd practice at home until I could do it with my eyes closed.  Phillip's still nuts, but I loved his Boston Rob Rules of Survivor...of course Phillip knows them but can't seem to play by them. The immunity challenge was really close and unfortunately, Favorites lost that one and headed to tribal. Francesca was voted out first AGAIN! That has to just suck!  I felt bad for her! 

 -On my favorite Wednesday night, too cute for words sitcom, Guys with Kids, Gary invented the wrapkin. A smock that you wear over your nice clothes so your kids don't mess them up with their puke, blood, spit, food, or goo before you go to work or out for dinner.  After everyone calls out how much Chris's life sucks, he decides to seize the day and change things up. He ends up dating Stacee the babysitter, going to DJ school and considering quitting his law firm.  At his first gig at Stacee's college dorm, he mashes up "Thank You For Being a Friend" and proves he has a knack for DJ'ing, but luckily Sheila brings hims back down to earth and he decides to DJ on the weekends for fun. Show over...22 minutes of light mindless entertainment...it is what it is and I love it.


-I didn't love the Modern Family Valentines episode.  Claire had a heart "episode" while she and Phil's sexy man of mystery, Clive Bixby, where role playing again.  While that wasn't funny, Phil invented my new favorite word...Blimpnic...a picnic on a blimp!  Sure it sounds a little bit like that other word, but lets not go there at all.  This blog is rated PG (most of the time).   Mitch and Cam threw a crazy party and got hammered, resulting in the neighbors Christmas decorations in the living room, Dylan living in the guest room and neither of them remembering any of it.  Wish they lost that kid of theirs during their evening.  Gloria and Jay were trying all episode to finally get back to doing the nasty since they hadn't since Joe's birth, but they were interrupted at every turn.  See...not so funny.  Sure a couple of cute lines, but all in all a bit weak. 

-On Nashville, nothing that juicy happened really, I probably should have chosen to watch The Americans instead. (I will though I promise)  Rayna's all out of sorts about the divorce and BIG GASP she  missed her first cue on stage EVER which had everyone freaking out including her. Just as I got psyched (and I think Liam had high hopes) that she was going to have a wild night with him, she became an emotional mess crying in the bathroom.  Being the good guy that he is, Liam just hung out in the bathroom with her.   Gunner's still got brother trouble which means Scarlett's got Gunner trouble and of course Juliette is trouble all around with her "new sound" that only she's excited about.  I wonder if Taylor Swift is this much trouble and difficult to work with in real life. I know, I know Juliette Barnes is not based on Taylor Swift...heard it before, but I like thinking she is...the shows so much better for me that way.

-Holy cow...on Suburgatory, Dallas got BLOWtox and her face looked so disgusting she had to wear this potato sack over her head, so she had to blow off (good one right?) George's million dollar Valentines Day dinner.  He couldn't get a refund so he went alone and got wasted while he ate lots and lots of cow intestines.  Tessa wanted to go to one of those artsy movies for Valentines Day and like a good boyfriend, Ryan Shea went along. Tessa ended up hating it and Ryan ended up changed for life. He's growing on me. Mary Kay Place, who I most remember from The Big Chill (she's the one who slept with Kevin Kline to get pregnant) guest starred as Sheila Shea's Mom who has a weird thing for her son-in-law, Fred.  First Sheila was pissed but then she realized she was the same way with Malik, Lisa's ex BF.  So she created a master plan to get Malik and Lisa back together that was actually brilliant.  If the Mom doesn't like someone, you know the daughter will...so she pretended to hate Malik and sure enough, Lisa went running right into his arms.  Dahlia didn't have a big role in last nights show but every second she's on screen makes up for when she's not...I don't think she ever blinks...it's intriguing.

NEWS & INFORMATION

-Apparently Apple has some cold hard cash laying around...about 137 BILLION dollars (and growing).  So what could they do with all that dough? Here are some ideas:
  • Give every American a check for $437.
  • Buy 213 million iPhone, enough for every American who lives east of the Mississippi River, plus Texas.
  • Apple could acquire Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn, Netflix, Pandora, Research In Motion (Blackberry), Yahoo, Yelp, Zillow and Zynga —and have more than $2 billion left to spare.
  • Create a stack of dollar bills 9,300 miles high, 38 times higher than the orbit of the International Space Station.
  • Buy 100,000 luxury Manhattan apartments, enough to house the population of Omaha.
  • Foot the bill for U.S. federal spending on education for two years.
  • Give every Apple employee a bonus of $1.7 million.
  • Double U.S. foreign economic aid to the developing world for three and half years.
  • Provide shareholders with a one-time dividend of $145 per share. (The stock closed Thursday at $456.95)
  • Oh and if none of those ideas are good...I'm always available to take any spare cash off their hands!
-CBS and Amazon announced an expanded content licensing agreement to bring classic series and hit TV shows from CBS and Showtime to Amazon’s Prime Instant Video service. Now you can watch America’s Next Top Model, Everybody Loves Raymond, Jericho, The L Word, Undercover Boss, United States Of Tara, Medium, The Tudors, the complete Star Trek franchise, I Love Lucy and more, commercial-free at no additional cost online and on the Kindle Fire HD, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Roku, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and Wii U. This is why I really don't need Netflix. 

-The Academy of Country Music Award nominees were announced yesterday. These shouldn't be confused with the CMA's or the CMT's and there could be another Country Music Award show that I'm forgetting.  This years awards will be given out on 4/7 in Las Vegas and we can all watch on CBS that night. The super cute duo of Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton will be co-hosting.  To check out the nominees click on this link: http://www.acmcountry.com/news.html?n_id=440 I'm betting it's a big Taylor Swift night, she's nominated for 5 awards.

-Tell your kids...today is the day.  They can go to www.nick.com and vote for the Kids Choice Awards! I hear screaming and yelling and excitement as they run to the computer and start clicking away for their favorite TV show, cartoon, reality show, movie etc. (My 11 year old informed me that he is too cool for Nick and hasn't watched it in months...really?)  The show airs on 3/23 at 8pm on Nickelodeon!  Yes...I even love THIS award show...guess I'll be watching alone with out my super cool kid.

-Not the news you want to hear if you are the Happy Endings cast...the show just got bumped over to Friday nights to make room for Celebrity Wife Swap...WHAT??? I don't even watch Happy Endings (tried, didn't find it funny at all) but is Celebrity Wife Swap THAT good?  Guess will have to wait and see.
-While still no official numbers on House of Cards are being released from Netflix, we do know that the show is the most popular TV title currently available for streaming.  A bit vague, but I'll take what I can get at this point.

Thursday's Trivia Question: Still going with the Valentines theme here...the first Valentine that comes to my mind is Emily Valentine...who is she? (I will take the show she was on, the guy she was dating, even the actresses name)

WWTM-Kristy

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Please watch Guys with Kids, I have a feeling it could get cancelled.





The answer to Wednesday's Trivia Question: Ladies Love Cool James or LL Cool J plays Sam Hannah on NCIS LA.
FIRST FIVES:Bill McLaughlin, Phyllis DiCesare, Andrea Walters, Ed Ziskind & Jen Ragusa
Honorable Mention:Helen Morales

Tuesdays Broadcast Top 5 
NCIS-CBS 3.7/21.4
NCIS: LA 3.1/16.5
The Bachelor-ABC 2.6/7.7
New Girl-FOX 2.5/4.8
The Taste-ABC 1.8/5.2

Tuesday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
The Bachelor-ABC 149,458
Smash-68,271
New Girl-FOX 57,776
NCIS-CBS 52,963
NCIS LA-CBS 36,275

Tuesday's Cable Top 5
The Big Bang Theory-TBS 1.6/3.4
Tosh.0-Comedy Central 1.5/2.2
Hardcore Pawn-Tru 1.2/3.4
Pretty Little Liars-ABC Family 1.2/2.7
Cougar Town-TBS 1.1/2.0

Tuesday's Cable Trendrr Top 5
Pretty Little Liars-ABC Family 381,233
The Bad Girls Club-Oxygen 122,951
Tosh.0-Comedy Central 64,262
Dance Moms-Lifetime 45,399
Real Husbands of Hollywood-BET 39,125

I was alerted during the first commercial break of Guys with Kids that one year from last night will be the first night of the Winter Olympics in Sochi.  That gives me a year to figure out where the hell Sochi is and how to say it correctly.

My entire family is going to be devastated if Guys with Kids isn't renewed. Everything I read isn't giving me much hope, but if we all get together and watch this extremely cute, sugary sweet show and then tell everyone we know to watch this fun, family friendly, adorable show, and then post it to our Facebook pages, Viggle it, Tweet it, and Get Glue it, then maybe, just maybe, NBC will give it another season. In order to get some new viewers, the writers and my FBFF, Jimmy Fallon came up with a GREAT idea, bring in the super hot Mark Consuelos as Andy, Chris and Sheila's new manny.  Of course not only is Andy perfect looking but he was also a perfect manny which made Chris freak out until Sheila told him that nobody could replace him as Ernie's Dad... ever! Of course he felt better and everything was fine. Gary electrocuted himself blowdrying a frozen chicken which got him and Marnie to think about who they should leave their kids to if they both die.  They asked Nick and Emily who said yes, but meant no, so Emily pretended to have a drinking problem, came clean, and when all was said and done, agreed to take them anyway.  It's a sugary sweet sitcom, it has to be wrapped up perfectly in 22 minutes and it was.  WATCH THIS SHOW PEOPLE.  (Jimmy, I'm trying to help you...please come for that sleepover so we can strategize!)

Not an Emmy winning episode of Modern Family at all this week.  I actually don't love Nathan Lane.  He's a little too much for me in general.  Nathan was back as Mitch and Cam's friend Pepper who has been teaching Mitch to play golf so he could finally make his Dad, Jay,  proud. Of course Mitch wins the round and then on the way back to the clubhouse, they play "Cats in the Cradle" for Phil who had never heard the song before (Really? Who's never heard "Cats in the Cradle"?) Of course Jay is in tears and apologizes to Mitch, Phil blows off his appointment to go see the school play and Nathan calls his son. (Yeah, I know, I found that one hard to believe too). Dylan and Hailey playing house with Lily and baby FJ, was lame. Claire's storyline this week, the faking of an accident that happened because Phil left a golf ball on the floor was also lame. The lamest story of the night,  Alex and Gloria going to phony fortune teller.  But it all sort of came together at Cam's school production Phantom of the Opera where Luke shocked everyone as understudy and Phil was there to see it thanks to "Cats in the Cradle." Sure it was hard to believe and I'm pretty sure Luke wasn't even singing. Not a great episode.  Again, they can't all be winners.

I just realized on last night's Suburgatory that other than Noah the dentist, nobody really works on this show either.  Especially George. Pretty sure he's an architect or a builder or something but he really only helps out Noah and Dallas who never really pay him with real money or anything. I wonder if he's related to everyone on Cougar Town? This week while George was helping Dallas out, he discovered that a big chunk of her property is in East Chatswin, so she and Dahlia quickly became outcasts.  Dahlia even had to transfer to East Chatswin High School where everyone was "tanner" than she was.  Hard to describe how funny the whole thing was. Dahlia kills me. At school, Tessa needed to start doing some extra curricular activities, so she became the producer of the school TV show, "Teen Talk" which quicky became a hit when she got her boyfriend, Ryan Shea to talk about his body on "Body Talk". Then when Ryan and Tessa had a blowout it became the "Tessa Talk" Show and lost all of its viewers. Thankfully the couple made up and we got Ryan and "Body Talk" back. Ryan's not that cute to me, but the show wants us to believe he is super hot and for some reason it works. Weird...very weird.
I'm a bit nervous.  The second episode of The Americans and I was sort of confused about who the blond "girlfriend" was and what happened to all the 80's music and references? I hope this isn't a sign of things to come.  Phil and Elizabeth did poison a kid so that his Mom (The gun toting weed dealer from Weeds whose name I just can't think of at the moment...it'll come to me.) would put a clock with bug in it in the Secretary of Defenses home office. She struggles with the decision, but finally does it once Phil kicks her scary brother's butt and breaks his arm.  Man those Russians have trained him well.  Other than the blond chick,  the rest of the show was pretty clear to me and was good, but I need my 80's...fingers crossed that next week we are back to some Guess Jeans and some REO Speedwagon! Halia!!! Just remembered her name...I knew it would come to me.


-It's been a while since I've had anything fun to post from my Future Best Friend Forever, Jimmy Fallon.  He's been off for awhile and I just realized that I had a bit of a Season Pass glitch and haven't been getting all of my Fallon's, but now I'm back on track.  Sorry Jimmy!  If you had called, texted or stopped by for a snack,  you would have been able to tell me what's been going on and I would have realized a lot sooner that I was missing the show.  Anyway on Tuesday's show, the 3rd installment of Downton Sixby aired on Late Night . For those of you that are fans of Downton Abbey, you have to watch Brooke Shields as Lady Cora in this one. She has her down perfectly!  Check it out: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgeyWKv_gxU&feature=youtu.be

-The Wanted isn't my favorite boy band, not by a long shot,  but they are still a boy band and this boy band just got a reality show on E! Personally,  I would have been happier if One Direction or the best boy band ever...the Backstreet Boys got their own reality show, but I know me and I'm guessing I'll check this show out just because I have a weakness for boy bands in general. 

-This coming Monday David Letterman will again reveal the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover photo on his show.  I know it's been done before, but it still rubs me a little towards creepy, no? 

-A few renewals were announced yesterday, Bravo gave a thumbs up to Top Chef for Season 11, MTV's giving the go ahead for another season of Buckwild, and TLC ordered a 6th season of Toddlers & Tiara's and 10 more episodes of Cheer Perfection.  I don't watch any of these at all but happy for all of you that do! 

Starting on Sunday 2/9 through 2/15 ABC celebrities will be live tweeting during their programs each night. I checked the shows and the stars and to be honest, there isn't anyone THAT juicy tweeting during this "event".  The biggest names on the list are: Genie Francis from General Hospital, Sean Lowe from the Bachelor, Anthony Edwards from the new show "Zero Hour", Kerry Washington from Scandal,  Reba McIntyre from Malibu Country and everyone from Shark Tank.  Would you want to tweet any of these guys?  

-For any of you How I Met Your Mother/Jason Priestly fans, watching Monday's episode where all of the Canadian celebrities were reminiscing which Tim Hortons they were in when Robin Sparkles "lost it", you may recall that the most perfect man on earth, Jason Priestly also noted that he created his own donut concoction by putting a "Timbit in a donut".  TIm Hortons headquarters tweeted out this photo of the "Priestley" available for a limited time only...I'm telling you, Twitter marketing is taking over the universe!  

With the release of Game of Thrones Season 2 on DVD, you can now take the Nights Watch Oath along with Jon Snow. It's actually pretty cool. Yes, I'm a total loser and did this last night.  I love Game of Thrones and IJon Snow, so of course I had to try this.  It's pretty cool.  Here's the link if you're as much of a loser as I am. Let me know if you do it...I promise I won't tell anyone:
http://www.mywatchbegins.com

Thursday's Trivia Question:  Okay, since I'm obsessed with Jason Priestly right now...Who was the older, married woman Brandon Walsh was involved with his freshman year of college? 

WWTM-Kristy

Thursday, January 31, 2013

I definitely let you guys down last night...

Today is the last day of the January Trivia Contest, I will announce the winners tomorrow and start all over for February.  Remember ALL correct trivia questions count towards the monthly prize!  It's never too late to get your answers in.  Also if you have an idea for a trivia question or a theme week, send it in!  I can use all the help I can get!




The answer to Wednesday's Trivia Question: Ken Stabler,  Boomer Esaison & Steve Young (Boomer Lost) 
FIRST FIVES: Bobby Aguilera, James Schiro, Dan Realson, Mike Pierro & Monica Caraffa
Honorable Mention:  Crystal Kyler

Tuesdays Broadcast Top 5 
NCIS-CBS 3.7/21.8
NCIS LA-CBS 3.1/17.1
New Girl-FOX 2.5/4.6
Vegas-CBS 1.9/11.1
The Mindy Project-FOX 1.7/3.1

Tuesday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
New Girl-FOX 58,050
NCIS-CBS 25,111
Happy Endings-ABC 13,033
Raising Hope-FOX 12,659
Hart of Dixie-CW 11,757

Tuesday's Cable Top 5
The Big Bang Theory-TBS 1.3/3.1
The Real Husbands of Hollywood-BET 1.2/2.2
Pretty Little Liars-ABC Family 1.2/2.8
Hardcore Pawn-Tru 1.1/2.8
Dance Moms-Lifetime 1.1/2.5

Tuesday's Cable Trendrr Top 5
Pretty Little Liars-ABC Family 490,216
The Bad Girls Club-Oxygen 142,952
Real Husbands of Hollywood-BET 53,845
Dance Moms-Lifetime 48,901
Snooki & JWoww-MTV 44,590

I'm betting that most of you skip my Guys with Kids section each week, but you really shouldn't. You should watch the show and then we can revel in its cuteness together. I know I've said it before, but Guys with Kids is one of the only shows that my 11 year old can't wait to watch WITH me.  The kids are cute and don't suffer from Annoying Lily Syndrome (ALS) at all.  This was one of those DO NOT LIE episodes, but not the kids, the adults. Marnie (Vanessa Huxtable) really needed some alone time because Gary, the cute twins with names that I don't think have ever been revealed, and the other 2 kids,  Clark and Yoda won't leave her alone so Nick tells her to lie and say she' working late, but really go to the gym.  Of course she gets caught, the lies get crazier and crazier and because it's a 22 minute sitcom, she finally comes clean. All good except that I'm pretty certain that Gary was wearing a chenille shirt...are they back in???  The rest of the gang entered a trivia contest at a local bar. (not TV trivia...smart people trivia) Turns out that even though Sheila and Nick despise each other, they are both super competitive and great at trivia.  They make it to the finals but secretly kick off Chris (whose infant son looks like a blond Eddie Munster to me) and Emily who suck at trivia. Of course they get caught, the gang shows up, teaches them a lesson and because it's a 22 minute sitcom, they lose the contest and can never got back to the bar again. 

I can't stand Wilmer Valderama, never could, even when he played FEZ on That 70's Show.  So I wasn't thrilled to see him on last nights Suburgatory.  His character, Yoni, was someone, who I picture Wilmer to be like in real life, a slimy scammer.  Of course I have nothing to base it on, I just don't like the guy.  Dallas (the amazing Cheryl Hines) hired Yoni to help her deal with her depressed doggy, Yacult, but at the end of the day it was the lovely botoxed Jeremy Sisto who helped the dog out of the darkness and into the light by just taking him for a walk and playing fetch.  Gotta say though, this dog is unbelievable...last night they had him on a massage table getting a massage it was hilarious. Ana Gasteyer keeps getting better and better as nut job, Sheila Shay. (Hey I just noticed a Wednesday night Sheila trend.)  I was never a big fan, but I am now.  With all of these fun performances, the actress that is really most underrated  and completely under the radar is Carly Chaikin who plays Dhalia.  This is another one you need to watch if you aren't already. 

I was SO looking for to The Americans on FX last night...but if you recall, I was up extra early yesterday.  My heart wa sin the right place, I started watching, but apparently I only lasted a few minutes because all I have in my notes from last night is: "1981, Quarterflash, OMG Felicity nearly naked going down on a guy, Tusk, and Kevin Walker from Brothers & Sisters."  So looks like I gotta watch it tonight.  My apologies, I feel like I let you all down. I have a feeling this might be a good show.  Did anyone out there watch?  Let me know if you did.
Again...my apologies.

NEWS & INFORMATION

-Next season will finally be the last for How I Met Your Mother...9 seasons when personally, I think we shoulda been done in season 7.  From what I understand, we will end this season with Robin and Barney's wedding and get a glimpse of the Mom.  Now that I know the end is in sight, I will try to have more patience and tolerance. 

-Even with what I would call low numbers, Katie Couric's talk show has been renewed by ABC for a second season.   
-Yesterday, along with the release of the new Blackberry 10, RIM also announced that they are officially changing their name to Blackberry, which is pretty much what most people already thought their name was anyway.  How many of you are still loyal to your Blackberry?  Just curious.

-Anyone who was having fun with the X Factor App over the past 2 seasons, will be happy to know that finally after all these years, American Idol has decided to get on the app bandwagon.  No worries on being confused by keeping the two straight, the apps are pretty similar in navigation and content etc.  Skins are different but nothing that unique and different than the one from the X Factor.  I don't watch Idol, so you'll have to tell me if you're using it and what you think.

Thursday's Super Bowl Trivia Question: Who threw 6 touchdowns in one Super Bowl?

WWTM-Kristy