Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Getting On, Betrayal and Little People in the Big World

The answer to Tuesday's Trivia Question: Laverne & Shirley worked at Shotz Brewery.

FIRST FIVES: Mike O'Dea, Tom Burr, Bob Kaplan, Phyllis DiCesare & Alex Nagler

Honorable Mention: Dan Realson 
Bonus Question #1-The Mom's band was Freakonomics
Bonus Question #2-Dar Adal and Saul ordered Waffles hold the butter
Bonus Question #3-That guy was from The New Normal

Sunday's Cable Top 5
Real Housewives of Atlanta-Bravo 1.5/3.4
FX Movie-FX 1.1/2.6
Sunday Movie-ABC Family 1.1/2.9
Homeland-Showtime .9/2.3
Thicker than Water-Bravo .9/2.0

Monday's Broadcast Top 5
The Voice-NBC 3.3/12.6
How I Met Your Mother-CBS 2.7/7.7
2 Broke Girls-CBS 2.3/7.5
Mike & Molly-CBS 2.2/8.8
The Sing Off-NBC 2.0/7.2

Monday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
The Voice-NBC 245,692
How I Met Your Mother-CBS 26,860
The Sing Off-NBC 14,216
Almost Human-FOX 10836
2 Broke Girls-CBS 3,049

Monday's Cable Top 5 
NFL Football-ESPN 4.8/14.1
WWE-USA 1.5/4.2
Big Bang Theory-TBS 1.1/2.5
Black Ink Crew-VH1 1.0/2.0
Chrissy and Mr. Jones-VH1 1.0/2.1

Monday's Cable Trendrr Top 5
Monday Night Football-ESPN 333,212
WWE Monday Night Raw-USA 217,794
Black Ink Crew-VH1 25,942
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills-Bravo 19,130
Piers Morgan-CNN 18,271

Monday's Top 5 Nielsen Twitter Ratings 
The Voice-NBC 290,800 Tweets
WWE Monday Night Raw-USA 149,600 Tweets
T.I. and Tiny-VH1 14,900 Tweets
The Sing Off-NBC 14,600 Tweets
How I Met Your Mother-CBS 12,900 Tweets

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Are you getting sick of me writing about the women of Beverly Hills? Or me being sick of ME writing about the women of Beverly Hills? Same old same old right? The woman were still in Palm Springs. Brandi was sh*t faced drunk and still making trouble for everyone.  All of these women are over 40 and use every opportunity possible to have their boobs flow out of their tank tops. Kyle had her mega-crystal necklace on and Carlton kept on telling everyone how she can't stand drama. REALLY? She also supposedly had no idea that Kim was in Escape to Witch Mountain. COME ON CARLTON! Everyone knows that! When we first met Carlton I thought she was nuts but I was intrigued by her, now I want to punch her in the face. Kim is out of her mind...and feeding disease filled squirrels right from her hands. The girls were obsessed and acted like they never saw a squirrel before...and then...Brandi's house was broken into and her dog went missing and Brandi had a nervous breakdown. I know...I know...I gotta give it up...it's like Crack. I know it's bad for me and I just can't stop.

Getting On
I'm still watching the HBO show, Getting On. Anyone watching it? There's only 6 episodes, I think that's why I'm sticking with it. That, and the acting is amazing. Laurie Metcalf, Niecy Nash and an actress named Alex Borstein. Alex's has been in a ton of animated shows like Cleveland Show, Family Guy and Robot Chicken. According to IMDB she was also in Gilmore Girls, but I don't remember her at all. She steals the show and makes the subject matter, geriatrics in a rehab facility, a bit more palatable. Laurie Metcalf's character, Jenna,  is so unlikeable and yet as much as I hate her and everyone else hates her, you can't help but feel sorry for her. I feel even more sorry for Nurse Dawn, OMG is she depressing and delusional all at the same time. The shows SO tough to watch and so oddly interesting that I just think I have to finish it out and stick with it. It's an unexplainable phenomenon.

Betrayal
See, eventually real life sets in and your hot soul mate is helping you mop up water in your loft, admitting to all the bad stuff he's done and pouring out all of his problems. Jack's son Vick is one of them. He's trying to get himself killed crossing the street, because he says he knows who killed Lou. Drew's back to obsessing over Karsten and Jack's telling his story to the press. Mysterious thing with Aidan and the cops not sure I know the deal there, but when Jack dug into it for Elaine he found out the truth and told her. She proceeded to get her scary Daddy and scare the crap out of Aidan and then...dump him. I like her. Jack rented Sarah a house on the river...a really nice, gorgeous place. A little fast in my opinion, but amazing nonetheless. Drew told Sarah about his suspicions about Jack, but Sarah figured out that there was NO way that he could have done it. Thing is she figured it out at the EXACT same time he confessed. WTF? James Cromwell aka Karsten is an awesome mean guy. One of the best I've seen in a long time.  Hey ABC people, please confirm that Betrayal's NOT coming back. It said only 2 episodes left in the season finale, but pretty sure this one's dead right?

Little People in the Big World 
Wow, I can't believe I've been watching the Roloff's for 9 seasons. So much with them has changed and so much has stayed the same. House is still a mess, Amy and Matt still don't get along and Pumpkin Season's still a big deal. The kids have grown and left, Rocky the dog passed away, Matt's bodies starting to let him down and the Roloff's are now in the wedding business. While there are always great moments, the underlying theme for me all these years has always been Amy and Matt's relationship. Now they're finally seeing it too and it's all coming to a head. Personally I think Amy's delusional and a HUGE part of their problem. I have no idea how or why they're still together.  They need a break from one another, big time. Matt knows it and he even put it out there on the table, things didn't seem too good at the end of the season.  Amy needs to realize how good she has it and stop picking on her husband. She needs to clean that house and take a good look around at the life her tiny hot hubby has made possible. She's so mean and tough on her husband. She's uncompromising and sometimes rude. It gets me nuts. I hope they can figure something out, but I personally don't see them staying together. Sad, yes, but life's too short to live with someone you can't stand.  That being said, I wish they'd come together on one thing... Molly's acne. I really really need the producers of the show to get Molly to a dermatologist. She needs some serious acne medication. Maybe something more powerful than Proactive if there is such a thing. Til next season Roloffs...hopefully.

NEWS & INFORMATION:

-I'm obsessed with the new Apple holiday spot that's on the air now. If you haven't seen it and you don't well up from it then something's wrong. It's really amazing! Let me know what you think. It's :90 seconds, check it out: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImlmVqH_5HM

-I didn't watch one episode of The Voice all season. If you recall, if it was 2 hours, I wasn't doing it, so buh bye Voice. I didn't really feel like I was missing anything at all. Tessane Chin was the big winner. Hope she can actually breakout and get a career going for herself. Tessane was on Team Adam who's been doing pretty well on the show. The next cycle  starts in February with Usher and Shakira filling in for CeeLo and Xtina. I'm pretty cool with NOT watching, so for those of you that have to wait til Feb, enjoy the 4 hours a week you have for the next coupla months. 

-I can't wait...only 3 more nights til my FBFF, Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake take over SNL. I'm betting it's epic!  Even these promos without Justin are hilarious. Check um out: http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/12/saturday-night-live-promo-jimmy-fallon-holds-his-own-without-justin-timberlake.html

Wednesday's Trivia Question: What show stars Hannah & Marnie?  Here's a clue. I HATE IT and yet...have to watch it. 

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It's a Gemma vs.Tara Showdown!

The answer to Tuesday's Trivia Question: Cougar Town was on ABC before it went over to TBS

FIRST FIVES: Adam Cohen, Denise Verzi, James Schiro, Karen Heniger & Barbara Robin
Bonus Question #1-Marshall and Ted were wearing Washington Generals jersey's
Bonus Question #2- Rob Lowe played SodaPop Curtis in The Outsiders

Honorable Mention: Elke Raskob

Sunday's Cable Top 5

Walking Dead-AMC 6.2/12.2
Talking Dead-AMC 2.2/4.2
Real Housewives of Atlanta-Bravo 1.5/3.3
Keeping Up With the Kardashians-E! 1.3/2.3
The Big Bang Theory-TBS 1.1/2.4

Monday's Broadcast Top 5

The Voice-NBC 3.8/11.8

How I Met Your Mother-CBS 3.1/8.0

The Blacklist-NBC 3.0/10.7

Sleepy Hollow-FOX 2.5/6.9

Mike & Molly-CBS 2.2/8.5

Monday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5

The Voice-NBC 182,743
Dancing with the Stars-ABC 93,384
How I Met Your Mother-CBS 63,129
Castle-ABC 50,219
Sleepy Hollow-FOX 49,071

Monday's Cable Top 5 
Love & Hip Hop-VH1 148,500
The Voice-NBC 137,400 Tweets
WWE Monday Night Raw-USA 120,000 Tweets
Dancing with the Stars-45,900 Tweets  
How I Met Your Mother-CBS 21,900 Tweets

Monday's Cable Trendrr Top 5

Love & Hip Hop-VH1 228,079

WWE Monday Night Raw-USA 173,282

Monday Night Football-ESPN 116,444

Bizarre Foods America-Travel  32,751

Chrissy & Mr. Jones-VH1 27,136

Sons of Anarchy

Enough with the music montages! Did we really need 2 of them this week? They really don't do much for moving the plot along. The shows now 90 minutes with so much jam packed into it we don't need any filler at all, especially music montages with crappy music. I guess Kurt's gotta push Katey's album in order to get her on board for all the crazy stuff he makes her do in this show, but he's really trying my patience now.  Anyway...Tara has pretty much lost everything at this point. She can't practice medicine, Her lawyer bailed. Her only ally, Margaret, could no longer take the heat and split to Sedona. Wendy's back to being a junkie. Juice is following her all over town and her husband's already doing someone else.  Even the back up plans out the window...deal with the DA is off the table. Pretty sure she's going to take that gun and do something crazy. Just not sure who she's going to point it at. Never thought I'd say this, but I didn't need to see (and I'm sure the club didn't need to see) a bad naked Jax.  Tara ruins everything even a gratuitous Jax butt shot! The Irish and the Chinese are causing all kinds of complications for the club but the final heist is going down next week and I have no idea who's going to drive into the sunset and who isn't. Clay's also on the move and so unsure of his own future that he already signed everything over to Gemma and told her he'd see her on the other side.  Just not sure what side that will be. Of course someone had to have a cup of coffee this week, who'd have thought it would be Nero and Wayne? Love this show! 

The Goldbergs

When it's 9pm on Tuesday night and I scream like Bev Goldberg that "The Goldbergs are on". My husband and my 12 year old son truly come running in. The show flies by and we all have laugh out loud together.  You have no idea how happy I am that this show got a full season order. This week, The Goldbergs got new neighbors...the Kremps. Things got off to a rocky start, Mrs. Kremp was scared of Bev and didn't want her family to be friends with Bev and her clan, but  Bev wouldn't stand for that, especially when Adam and Chad Kremp had so much in common. They loved Tron, Star Wars and making movies. Where do we know Mr. Kremp from? He's been in a million shows and yet I couldn't place him and was to lazy to look him up.  Loved Murray's line when Barry and Erica were begging for a second phone line in the house..." 2 phone lines, what does this look like, The White House". Come on, we all remember what it was like with one phone, that loooooong cord and our siblings screaming at us to get off the phone. My son can't believe we lived like such animals. Other 80's references...my favorite Reebok high tops had another appearance, tape recorders, 976 numbers and Jefferson Starships "Nothin's Gonna Stop Us". Another good one and more real footage. This time,  Adam and his real best friend, Chad Kremp. 

Little People Big World
Does Matt Roloff watch his own show? How in the world is he still married to Amy. She's SO negative and mean all the time, the house is a disaster ,and I'm betting he's not getting anything off her these days. Sure she's a hard worker, not lazy at all, and willing to help around the farm, but he has a staff , and his kids, does he really need Amy. I'd have divorced her or just sent her to live in the western town or the barn or someplace else on the farm. She's so freaking mean to him. This week, she tried to get Matt to do something fun with the kids other than farm work. So they had a pretty awesome game day. It included mule races, blind minefield races, a cooking competition, family trivia contest, and of course a soccer game. Jeremy was the ultimate winner, but the Roloffs are pretty competitive and took it all very seriously. On a side note, I really need to understand why the producers aren't helping Molly to get her acne under control. I love her, but she needs to get under a dermatologists care, order some Proactive, and get the skin situation under control. I feel really bad for her especially since she's on national TV. 

NEWS & INFORMATION:

-ABC's looking for you. Well, if you have talent that is. Send your submission to www.ABCMakeMeaStar.com and if America votes for you, you could win a talent holding deal and be a big star. Good Luck! 

-The MTV European Music Awards delivered approximately 40 million viewers worldwide. Final numbers aren't in yet, but there were close to 58 million social mentions which was up 624% vs. last year. MTV should send a car or some sort of thank you gift to Miley Cyrus, pretty sure most of those mentions were about her outfits, her performance and maybe her pot smoking. If that was really pot. Who cares? It did the job didn't it?

-Perfect casting in my opinion...Stevie Nicks will be making an appearance on American Horror Story. I'm sure she doesn't even have to go to the wardrobe department. She must have something in that closet of hers that will be just right for her scenes. 5 point bonus if you can name the band she is part of. 

Wednesday's Trivia Question:  I promised I'd keep it easy this week, so here's an easy one. Tonight, is Modern Family. Name all 3 Dunphy kids. 1 point for each one. 

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Parks & Rec with no Chris and Ann Perkins? Why Amy? Why

The answer to Wednesday's Trivia Question: Dr. Alex Karev and Dr. Christina Yang would be found at Seattle-Grace Hospital on a work day. I would have accepted Mercy West and Gray Sloane Memorial but Seattle Grace was really what I was going for.  The July contest winner will be announced tomorrow. 

FIRST FIVES: Dan Realson, Kathy Connelly, Andrea Walters, Karen Feldman & Michael O'Dea 

Honorable Mention: Rachel Snyder

Bonus Trivia Question Answer: There have been 5 hosts of Talk Soup/The Soup: Greg Kinnear, John Henson, Hal Sparks, Aisha Tyler and Joel McHale.  Gotta admit, you all surprised me in how many of them you knew! 

Tuesdays Broadcast Top 5
America's Got Talent-NBC 2.7/9.6
So You Think You Can Dance-FOX 1.4/4.1
NCIS-CBS 1.1/7.5
Extreme Weight Loss-ABC 1.1/3.5
Hollywood Game Night-NBC 1.0/3.0

Tuesday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
America's Got Talent-NBC 118,039
So You Think You Can Dance?-FOX 68,940
Whose Line Is It Anyway-CW 30,661
Extreme Weight Loss-ABC 30,446
La Tempestad-Univision 11,826

Tuesday's Cable Top 5
Counting Cars-History 1.3/3.1
The Game-BET 1.2/2.6
Deadliest Catch-Discovery 1.2/2.9
Pretty Little Liars-ABC Family 1.1/2.3
Catfish-MTV 1.1/2.1

Tuesday's Cable Trendrr Top 

Pretty Little Liars-ABC Family 429,903

Catfish-MTV 392,295

Twisted-ABC Family 56,468

Suits-USA 37,863

Rizzoli & Isles-TNT 32,071

Big Brother

As soon as BB began...so did the scroll...8/2 is quickly approaching if you already didn't know Time Warner Customers!!!  One day of BB left before the potential plug gets pulled.

Let's just go to the bullet points:

• Gina and her hot pink stilettos are just ridiculous. 
• Are Juicy sweatsuits still "in"? Not where I live...just sayin Amanda. 
• We interrupt this prayer to bring you a teary emotional...Jessie?  Didn't see that coming.
• The McCrag look is SO on my nerves...I don't get it, but the exposed hat tag is obviously intentional.
• I wonder if General Motors is excited by their unintentional integration into Big Brother. With every mention of GM...ka-ching! 
• I think I say it every year around this time in the BB season...why do we constantly need to see footage of the cameras in the BB house? Is it so we know they're still on the job?
• I agreed with Judd, Andy, Spencer and everything else, I had no idea what Howard was talking about and he's "talk" was an EPIC fail.  EPIC.
• BBMVP nominated AMANDA? Gotta admit, that did surprise me. 
• I have one of those furry hats with the mittens that GM was wearing...mine's a panda and I do sometimes wear it around the house. I admit it. 
• Not sure what's worse...Candice's MASSIVE red super cross earrings or Andy's kitty t-shirt.  The crosses...definitely the crosses
• Helen was a bit overenthusiastic about being the host of the veto competition. Annoying
• Who has more hats: Joe Gorga or McCrae? Answer: Joe Gorga
• LOVE Amanda calling Howard out on his confusing conversation. He really only makes sense in the diary room. 
• YES Amanda, America put you on the block! I'm just as surprised as you are but maybe America is concerned that you will end up with that $68.00 a week pizza delivery boy forever and they're doing you a huge favor. 
• First the kitty tee, then the tank top and now those crazy pajama pants? Andy, for a gay guy, you sure have a bizarre sense of style.
• Helen was WAY too into her role as host of the Veto.
• Time machine veto with special effects on Big Brother...way cool! What will they think of next? 
• I'm great at puzzles, I bet I would have kicked butt at that veto competition.
• Two McCrags are worse than one McCrag and one McCrag was terrible.
• Spencer won the veto, who will America replace him with? 
• Candice is an idiot. She complains about everything...that's her strategy? PLAY THE GAME and stop complaining. 
• Helen's pro activity worked and Candice the complainer took Spencer's place on the block.  Now that...I did see coming.

Little People Big World 

Amy and Matt decided to take the entire family, including Jeremy and Zach's girlfriends to Costa Rica on vacation, awesome right? Well, in some respects yes. The family got to spend time together, Jeremy got to see Audrey who he hasn't seen in 3 months, they got to go zip lining, fishing, hiking,kayaking etc. Normally that would be great, but there was still tremendous tension between Amy and Matt. I was surprised they chose Costa Rica as it is not a great place for a guy on crutches...little or big.  While Matt seems to be able to do almost anything he does have his limits and he sure did give it a try. You can't say he didn't but he reached his breaking point, something we hardly ever see. Amy really doesn't ever seem sympathetic, helpful, or caring. She never looks around at everything her husband has given her and appreciates it all. She says she does, but she's full of it.  Matt did end up having some fun in Costa Rica. He took a jeep and went off-roading in the jungle and he was able to go horseback riding with the family but honestly, Costa Rica's just not a good idea for a 50+ year old  little person on crutches. I loved seeing Jeremy and Zach with their girlfriends. They all seemed really happy. Hopefully, we'll get to see Little People Big World: Graduation, Little People Big World: Wedding and Little People Big World: Jacob Smiles. Not kidding Jacob uttered one word during the entire episode and barely cracked a smile.  I'm worried about him and Amy & Matt's marriage and hope that we don't see Little People Big World: Divorce Court. That would suck. Not sure if Molly is using Proactive or not, but she should, she came back from college with a terrible case of acne. I noticed the Proactive ads during the show. Coincidence or perfect spot placement. As someone whose goal it is every week to allocate the right message to the right environment, I can appreciate these incidents. 

Under the Dome
Under the Dome is starting to freak me out. I really thought that the government was testing this giant dome thing but now...I'm not so sure at all. The dome protected everyone from the bomb, just when everyone was freaking out, looting, raping, pillaging and killing because they were afraid they'd all run out of water and die, it rained (inside the dome only). Joe and Nori were on a quest for insulin for one of Nori's Mom's. They found a bottle, but that's not going to last long. Julia and Dodee were using a giant Nerf gun looking thing to track down the dome's power source. It worked and tracked down Joe and Nori.  When they touched the dome together, the radio frequency started working. The whole things getting freakier and freakier. I really need some answers and if we never get the answer, or not an answer we that will satisfy us, like Lost, I'm gonna be pissed. 

NEWS & INFORMATION

-Devastating news for all of us Parks and Rec fans, Ann Perkins and Chris Traeger aka Rashida Jones and Rob Lowe are LEAVING!!! That's the big idea for February Sweeps NBC?  Can't you do something Amy Poehler? Please don't let them leave.  This is really upsetting me. I'm guessing that they'll have their baby and leave Pawnee which makes no sense at all because Pawnee is such a nice place to raise a family. Not happy.

-Rob Lowe leaving Parks and Rec was Wednesday's bad news , but Oliver Hudson joining Nashville was the good news. I'm not sure I remember him in any other role except Adam on Rules of Engagement. I wonder what he'll be like when he's not playing the dumbest human being on earth? Can't wait to find out.  

-ABC renewed Celebrity Wife Swap for 13 more eps. I know that I'm part of the problem...I know this. Without people like me who love reality TV, these shows wouldn't exist. I'm just constantly amazed what people will do for fame and fortune, but it's even more absurd and bizarre what celebrities will do to stay in the spotlight.  Celebrity Wife Swap, celebrity diving, dancing, cooking, etc. I love it all, I do,  but every once in a while I have a  WTF. When you stop and think about where reality programming started and where we are now it's just out of control 

On that same note...O...M..G...TLC is airing a show called The Man with the 132 lb Scrotum on 8/19. Okay, that's just insanity. So first you're grossed out and you're thinking that's crazy, who would watch that? Then you're also thinking, "I need to see it" right? I haven't decided yet, and I'll be on vacation at the time, but I'll let you know if I end up setting the DVR or not. 132 lbs! That's me plus 20lbs HOLY COW! 

-Amazon's going kids! After a great response to the first set of their TV pilots, Amazon is going to move forward with even more original programming targeting kids 6-11.  Couldn't hurt right? 

-My son has been at Sleepaway camp all Summer so I've been getting TONS of great emails, links, articles etc. that are all camp related. This one is pretty much my favorite. Amazing ad for tampons...check it out: http://www.policymic.com/articles/57277/the-tampon-commercial-you-wish-you-d-seen-as-a-kid

Thursday's Trivia Question: Where does Dr. Gregory House see patients?

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I hate this time of year...a million channels and nothing juicy on...BIG BROTHER in 22 Days!

The answer to Monday's Trivia Question:  Jim and Pam got married in Niagra Falls on The Office.

FIRST FIVE: Tara Dowling, Samantha Baril, Bobby Aguilera, Alex Nagler & Lori Decillis

Honorable Mention:Maryellen P.

Friday's Cable Top 5

American Dad-Adult Swim 1.0/2.5
Sons of Guns-Discovery .8/1.7
American Dad-Adult Swim .8/1.9
WWE Friday Night Smackdown-Syfy .6/2.4
Law & Order SVU-USA .6/1.9

Sunday's Broadcast Top 5

Family Guy-FOX 1.8/3.6
Family Guy-FOX 1.7/3.0
The Simpsons-FOX 1.4/3.2
Bob's Burgers-FOX 1.3/2.9
60 Minutes-CBS 1.0/8.3

Sunday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
The Voice-NBC 69,947
The Simpsons-FOX 24,687
La Voz Kids-Telemundo 23,703
The Bachelorette-ABC 9,097
American Dad-FOX 5,605

Sunday's Cable Top 5

NA

Sunday's Cable Trendrr Top 5
Game of Thrones-HBO 396,584
The Wanted Life-E! 250,818
Keeping Up With the Kardashians-E! 171,897
International Soccer-ESPN2 135,260
Futbol-Multiple Nets 81,862

Top 5 DVR'ed Shows for the week of 5/13/13-5/19/13
The Big Bang Theory-CBS From a 4.8 to a 7.0 (+46%)
Modern Family-ABC From a 3.6 to a 5.6 (+56%)
Grey's Anatomy-ABC From a 3.1 to a 4.5 (+45%)
New Girl-FOX From a 2.1 to a 3.5 (+67%)
The Office-NBC From a 2.1 to a 3.5(+47%)

Little People In a Big World Special
This Little People special episode was the episode I've had in my brain ever since I started  watching the Roloff's a few years ago.  Amy and Matt  are finally rid of most of their kids and are realizing that they pretty much can't stand each other. I personally blame Amy for everything. Matt's on crutches and has never, ever been a lazy slacker. He's given her and their kids an amazing life and honestly all Matt really wants is for her to clean up the god d*mn house. Pretty simple. Clean the house. The house looks like a bomb hit it all the time. She cares about everyone BUT Matt.  She's so freaking rude to him and disagrees with everything he says.  I don't want anyone to get divorced, especially my little Matt Roloff, but honestly, he's a hot commodity, if I were Amy, I'd pay attention to my man and hold on tight. Clean the house and give him a little something once in a while and maybe you'll remember why you fell in love with him in the first place.  At the end of the episode, we really weren't sure what was going to happen.  I guess the next special is LIttle People Divorce Court. 

Mistresses
I was hoping that Mistresses would be a fun Summer time soap. It has everything it should have to be one. Cute guys, scantily clad women, cheaters, and liars, but some thing's still not right. I think that something is actually Alyssa Milano. For my entire life every guy (and some girls) were into Alyssa Milano, but the Who's the Boss Alyssa Milano, not this one. Now that she's finally back on TV in show where she's wearing lingerie...she needs some Spanxx to pull it off and she seems incredibly unsexy and awkward to watch.  Total bummer, because I think the show would have been watchable if she wasn't the problem.  

The Voice
I'm sort of getting bored writing about The Voice. Of course I'm never bored with the judges, what they wear, how they look and their chemistry, but honestly.  I don't really truly care who even wins at this point. I care if Blake's wasted, or if Usher's neck is blown out from carrying around a million pounds of bling, but I really don't care about Holly Tucker or Michelle Chamuel or any of them.  Well...maybe the Swon Bro's but that's about it.  I've actually decided that in the Fall, I'm not watching.  3 hours a week is just too much for the Mom of a 7th grader to commit to, so as much as I love Blake and Adam, I think I'm out next season. It was a tough decision but I think it's the right one for me. 


Oprah's Next Chapter
I Tivo'ed Oprah's Next Chapter on Sunday night. She was on the set of The Voice and interviewed Usher (with one leg up), Shakira, who was sweet but not THAT interesting and then she brought out Adam and Blake who were just too cute and too much fun. Blake had pink cocktails and didn't know that Oprah and Gayle like to drink Tequila when they party. Blake was just hilarious, exactly how I thought he'd be. He really does seem to be super fun and up for anything AND he really is into Adam and Adam seemed really into him in a heterosexual bromance sort of way. Love them both, but I'm sticking to my plan. 

Goodwin Games
Okay...another one bites the dust for me.  I love Scott Foley and I love Becki Newton, but the younger brother in The Goodwin Games is unwatchable, and sure there are three Goodwin's but there were NO games. WTF? I thought these siblings were competing in different games to win their father's inheritance. No Games...no Carruba. I hate bait and switch BS. Done guys. 

News & Information:

-As you know, I'm a person who loves lists...the Writer's Guild of America released their 100 best written TV shows of all time. I was going to include only 10 but the list is pretty good and for anyone looking for a show to watch over the Summer...here's a great place to start. My only complaint is that Friday Night Lights isn't in the top 5.  What do you guys think? Anything missing?

1.             THE SOPRANOS
2.             SEINFELD
3.             THE TWILIGHT ZONE
4.             ALL IN THE FAMILY
5.             M*A*S*H
6.             THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW
7.             MAD MEN
8.             CHEERS
9.             THE WIRE
10.            THE WEST WING
11.            THE SIMPSONS
12.            I LOVE LUCY
13.            BREAKING BAD
14.            THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW
15.            HILL STREET BLUES
16.            ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
17.            THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART
18.            SIX FEET UNDER
19.            TAXI
20.            THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW
21.            30 ROCK
22.            FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
23.            FRASIER
24.            FRIENDS
25.            SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
26.            THE X-FILES
27.            LOST
28.            ER
29.            THE COSBY SHOW
30.            CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
31.            THE HONEYMOONERS*
32.            DEADWOOD
33.            STAR TREK
34.            MODERN FAMILY
35.            TWIN PEAKS
36.            NYPD BLUE
37.            THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW
38.            BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (2005)
39.            SEX AND THE CITY
40.            GAME OF THRONES
41.            THE BOB NEWHART SHOW - TIE
                YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS* - TIE
43.            DOWNTON ABBEY* - TIE
                LAW & ORDER - TIE
                THIRTYSOMETHING - TIE
46.            HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET - TIE
                ST. ELSEWHERE - TIE
48.            HOMELAND
49.            BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
50.            THE COLBERT REPORT - TIE
                THE GOOD WIFE - TIE
                THE OFFICE (UK)* - TIE
53.            NORTHERN EXPOSURE
54.            THE WONDER YEARS
55.            L.A. LAW
56.            SESAME STREET
57.            COLUMBO
58.            FAWLTY TOWERS* - TIE
                THE ROCKFORD FILES - TIE
60.            FREAKS AND GEEKS - TIE
                MOONLIGHTING - TIE
62.            ROOTS
63.            EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND - TIE
                SOUTH PARK* - TIE
65.            PLAYHOUSE 90
66.            DEXTER - TIE
                THE OFFICE (U.S.) - TIE
68.            MY SO-CALLED LIFE
69.            THE GOLDEN GIRLS
70.            THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW
71.            24 - TIE
                ROSEANNE - TIE
                THE SHIELD - TIE
74.            HOUSE - TIE
                MURPHY BROWN - TIE
76.            BARNEY MILLER - TIE
                I, CLAUDIUS* - TIE
78.            THE ODD COUPLE
79.            ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS - TIE
                MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS* - TIE
                STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - TIE
                UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS* - TIE
83.            GET SMART
84.            THE DEFENDERS - TIE
                GUNSMOKE - TIE
86.            JUSTIFIED - TIE
                SGT. BILKO (THE PHIL SILVERS SHOW) - TIE
88.            BAND OF BROTHERS
89.            ROWAN & MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN
90.            THE PRISONER*
91.            ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS (U.K.)* - TIE
                THE MUPPET SHOW - TIE
93.            BOARDWALK EMPIRE
94.            WILL & GRACE
95.            FAMILY TIES
96.            LONESOME DOVE - TIE
                SOAP - TIE
98.            THE FUGITIVE - TIE
                LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN - TIE
                LOUIE - TIE
101.            OZ

-Best Ink on Oxygen was renewed for a 3rd season.  That's not the one with Dave Navarro though...just want to make sure you are keeping your tattooing shows straight.

-According to the IAB, digital ad revenues in the US hit an all time high in 1Q 2013 with 9.6 billion dollars coming in. This is a 15.6% increase year over year and the biggest quarter to date. 

-I found it interesting that the majority of mobile TV viewing is actually happening INSIDE the home. 82% of TV viewing on tablets and 64% on smartphones is happening at home. Drama  accounts for 31% of tablet viewing and 27% of smartphone viewing.  Comedies account for 20% of tablet viewing and 24% of smartphone viewing. Avoiding ads isn't why people are doing it. Its really about convenience and binge viewing. In our house we use it for sports more than anything.  Weird new behaviors right? 

Tuesday's Trivia Question: What was Alyssa Milano's characters first and last name on Who's The Boss? 

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Vikings, Splash, Cougar Town, Little People Big World

The answer to Tuesday's Trivia Question: "Lets be careful out there" was Sgt Phil Esterhaus's line each week on Hill Street Blues.  He was played by Michael Conrad.

FIRST FIVES: Adam Cohen, Dan Realson, Allison Shapiro, Jim Carter & Maryellen Papanicolau
Honorable Mention: Lori Decillis

Sunday's Cable Top 5

The Walking Dead-AMC 5.5/10.8
The Bible-History 2.8/10.8
The Talking Dead-AMC 1.5/4.8
Duck Dynasty-A&E 1.3/2.7
Real Housewives of Atlanta-Bravo 1.2/2.8

Monday's Broadcast Top 5
Dancing with the Stars-ABC 3.1/16.7
How I Met Your Mother-CBS 2.9/7.3
2 Broke Girls-CBS 2.7/8.3
The Biggest Loser-NBC 2.6/7.3
Mike & Molly-CBS 2.4/8.2

Monday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
Dancing with the Stars-ABC 281,308
The Biggest Loser-NBC 107,054
How I Met Your Mother-CBS 71,330
The Following-FOX 65,738
Castle-ABC 48,135

Monday's Cable Top 5 
NBA Basketball-ESPN 1.7/3.7
WWE-USA 1.5/4.2
Teen Mom-MTV 1.4/2.4
Bates Motel-A&E 1.3/3.0
Storage Wars-A&E 1.1/3.0

Monday's Cable Trendrr Top 5

NBA Basketball-ESPN 1,065,101

WWE Monday Night Raw-USA 275,437

Bates Motel-A&E 153,039

NBA Basketball-ESPN 135,165

Love & Hip Hop-VH1 57,725

VIKINGS
Super hot Ragnar, not quite as hot Rollo and all the Viking guys came home from their big trip west with a whole bunch of treasures feeling pretty proud of themselves.  Of course it didn't last long because they all got screwed over by the Earl when he took everything and buried it along with a kid his man took as collateral from some woman on Ragnar's farm.  (I didn't really get that part) The Earl did let Ragnar keep the priest for himself.  I gotta admit, the priest is kinda cute and I think Ragnar's wife agrees with me since she and Ragnar invited him into their bed for a little action.  The priest, being a man of god, declined the offer explaining that it would be a sin, but I think he was regretting it.  Ragnar had many questions for the priest and is really interested in learning from him.  He went back to the Earl and asked permission to set sail again and permission was granted. This time, Ragnar brought  his kick ass wife and left the priest on the farm to take care of the family.  The crew landed on the shores of North Umbria and Ragnar did his best for a friendly meeting, but Rollo didn't trust the strangers and of course a bloody battle broke out.  I can pretty much predict that Rollo and Ragnar are going to go up against each other soon and I can also predict that the Earl is going to use the rift between the bro's to his advantage.  

SPLASH
What a crazy ass show this one is.  I thought the last diving show on FOX was ridiculous but Splash is better.  You have some girl I never heard of and Joey Lawrence hosting.  Joey has officially jumped the shark. He was soooo cute and now he has a very big head with very little hair and the hair he does have left is a very strange color and a very strange shape. He sort of looks like an alien or something.  Then you have Greg Louganis as the coach for everyone.  Greg is in amazing shape but he is ultra ultra tan and I guess I never heard him speak before because his voice is odd.  There are 2 judges both of whom are diving experts. If I told you their names it would mean nothing to you, so not going to even try to remember.  All I can say is that the scoring of the divers dives made absolutely no sense at all.  

Only 5 of the "celebrities" dove last night.
First up, Keshia Knight Pulliam, aka Rudy from The Cosby Show...nice rack, crazy bathing suit and not the greatest dive in the world.  
After Rudy, Louis Anderson, the 400 lb comedian, in a very disturbing bathing outfit gave it a shot. In addition to the weight, he had some pretty crazy teeth.  Louis couldn't even get out of the pool by himself. It was really embarrassing and awkward, but he was able to get to the high board and dive so I have to give him a bit of credit for trying. 
Miss Alabama, Katherine Webb's bathing suit was HIDEOUS, but she is very pretty.  I can see what Brent Musberger was talking about. She did okay diving wise.
Skier, Rory Bushfield was very cute and since he's an extreme skier he had little fear of the high board and he had the ability to spin around like crazy in the air.  He did an amazing job.
Kareem Abdul Jabar is 65 years old and is extremely large. He was  sporting a crazy Laker swimsuit.  Unfortunately he landed on his belly pretty hard. 

After everyone dove, the bottom two, Rudy and Miss Alabama had a dive off.  Rudy got the boot.  Sorry to see her go.  I couldn't end this review without mentioning the synchronized swimmers who did their thing coming in and out of breaks. It totally reminded me of the Brady Bunch Variety Show. Remember that one?   This show is a bit ridiculous, and I'm not giving it a season pass, but if there is nothing better to watch...I'd watch again.

COUGAR TOWN
There was so much packed in to one 22 minute episode of Cougar Town last night.  Who writes this stuff? You had the town infested with seagulls, Andy always saying "as mayor", Ellie only wearing sweatpants, Grayson not believing in God, Grayson and the gang joining a Dodge Ball team where his belief in personal prayer (not God) helped them win, the young girl in the tight jeans, Bobby and his new "friend Riggs," and Riggs's makeover. With all that going on, I couldn't get past Laurie's see through nurses outfit dress that she seemed to wear for the entire episode even though it took place over multiple days.  It was really something to see. I guess that's why they kept her in it so long.

LITTLE PEOPLE,BIG WORLD: CONQUERING MT. ST. HELENS
When we last left the Roloff's they were bored and decided to get into the wedding business.   Since that's pretty much a seasonal deal, Amy's back to being bored again.  She's 50, all of her kids are pretty much out of the house and instead of cleaning the place up, she decided that what will get her out of her funk is to climb Mt. St. Helens.  She and her son Zach decide to do it together along with her trainer David and his wife.  Amy and Zach are both really little so it's quite a challenge and I'm pretty sure they didn't have any training other than what we saw on the show.  It was really rough terrain, and as much as Amy bugs the crap out of me, it was inspiring to see her push herself to achieve this goal. Of course it's TV and she made it.  8365 feet.  Congrats Amy.  While Amy and Zach were climbing, Matt was building a little red schoolhouse for her since she used to be a preschool teacher.  Of course there was a completely staged "accident" when they were moving the structure out of the barn, but it  still got done in time as planned.  It's TV. Of course it was.  What was really the best part of the show was Amy's reactions to both the school house and reaching the summit.  For once some real emotion out of her.  I liked seeing her nice to Matt for a change. Okay Amy...now...please clean your house. I'm begging you.  Before the next "very special episode" clean it up. 

NEWS & INFORMATION:

-Finally got some numbers on Downton Abbey's third season and just as I suspected they are pretty amazing.  The show averaged a 7.7 Household rating with an average season audience of 11.5 million viewers. This is up 64% vs season 2.  Downton's season finale averaged an 8.1 Household rating with an average audience of 12.3 million viewers and was the number #2 show of the night.  24 million viewers tuned in to the 7 episode season which was up by 7 million viewers from season 2.

• Downton Abbey” video content has been viewed on the PBS Video Portal and the PBS Mobile app 13.9 million times to date.
• Full episodes of Season 3 were viewed 9.7 million times, an increase of 2.1 million views over Season 2.
• On the day after the Season 3 finale, there were 900,000 video streams and 600,000 unique visitors to the Masterpiece website — the most of any day in site history.

-It's pretty much a fact that people LOVE scary stuff. I am SO not one of those people but man there are a lot of you twisted people out there who love to be scared. Supporting my statement...Bates Motel's premiere Monday night delivered 4.6 million viewers.  This is the  networks most-watched original drama series debut among the key 18-49 and 25-54 demos
to date. See what I mean?

-Do you guys know about TED? I've been a fan for a while and keep forgetting to bring it up in this blog.  TED is a website and and app where you can see some amazing "talks" from all over the world. It started out as a conference that centered on technology (that's the "T" part) entertainment ("E") and Design ("D"). The TED conference takes 50 of the worlds best ideas to a very eclectic audience,  who, I learned in a Jack Myers article, pay 7500 bucks to attend.  I've seen some amazing speakers who have opened my brain up to things I would normally never think about.  If you have nothing better to do and are looking for something interesting to watch...give it a shot. RIght off the bat, 3 talks that I'd recommend are: Amanda Palmer's, Elizabeth Gilbert's and Lauren Zalaznick's.  If you want to learn more about TED, check out the Jack Myers article here: http://www.jackmyers.com/jackmyers-think-tank/TED-Ads-Worth-Spreading-Advertising-Can-Change-the-World.html.

-HBO cancelled Enlightened.  Sorry guys, I know there's a ton of you that love this one.  

Wednesday's Trivia Question: Joey Lawrence starred with Mayim Bialik in Blossom.  Mayim's currently starring in The Big Bang Theory.  What is her characters name on that show?

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