Goodbye to Rayna's Dad, Jay Leno, Scott Shannon and Make-Up for Kelly Ripa

THE ANSWER TO THURSDAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION: Mary Lou Retton was the first US gymnast to take Olympic gold in the women's all around competition. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCW1ju1-p2Y

FIRST FIVES:  Jim Wall, Heather Doyle, He Who Shall Not Be Named, Caryn Vitolo & Kathy Connelly

HONORABLE MENTION: Pete Insley

THE NUMBERS 

Wednesday's Broadcast Top 5
American Idol-FOX 3.9/13.2
Modern Family-ABC 3.5/10.0
Criminal Minds-CBS 2.8/12.8
The Middle-ABC 2.2/8.6
CSI-CBS 2.0/11.0

Wednesday's Cable Top 5
Duck Dynasty-A&E 2.5/6.5
Wahlburgers-A&E 1.5/3.4
NBA-ESPN 1.2/2.5
Big Bang Theory-TBS 1.1/2.6
American Pickers-History 1.0/3.5

Wednesday's Top 5 Nielsen Twitter Ratings
American Idol-FOX 73,100 Tweets
Law & Order SVU-NBC 44,400 Tweets
Real World ExPlosion-MTV 41,100 Tweets
Workaholics-Comedy Central 34,300 Tweets
Duck Dynasty-A&E 28,500 Tweets

Late Night Ratings for the week of 1/27/14-1/31/14

Leno 1.1/5.0

Letterman .7/3.0 

Kimmel .7/2.4

Fallon .7/2.4
The Daily Show .6/1.5
Colbert .5/1.2

Nightline .4/1.5

Ferguson .4 /1.5

Carson .4/1.1

Conan .4/.7

Early Morning Ratings for the week of 1/27/14-1/31/14

GMA 2.0/2.4

Today Show 1.9/2.2

CBS This AM 1.0/1.2

THE SHOWS

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

I've probably watched Jay 5 or 10 times over his 22 year run but of course I had to watch the last show. Mainly because I love Garth Brooks, but also because I just wanted to see it for myself. It was sweet and cheesy which is what I sort of expected. Billy Crystal was sweet and cheesy as was the "So Long, Farewell" bit, but I'll admit, I got choked up when Jay got choked up. Nice to see him get a bit emotional. While his comments about the Tonight Show crew being his family were also very sweet, if I were Mavis, I think I might be a bit miffed. Jay mentioned that after he lost his Mom, Dad and bro he "was pretty much out of family and the folks at the Tonight Show became his family." Ahhh what about MAVIS, Jay???  No thank you to good ole Mavis? She's the one who's gotta deal with you now Jay, I personally would have set that stage a bit better. Either way, it's always sad to say good-bye even if it's to someone I rarely said hello to. 

Winter Olympics (I'm going with bullets)

• Bob's got a pink eye or something, but he's a trooper and got comfy at his super cool diamond desk.
• You can live stream without knowing the results...WAY COOL NBC!!!
• The NBC Olympic App is WAY cool and you can watch all day! There's also a Visa camera app too that you have to check out
• Slope Style Snowboarding is crazy. My heart stops when they're in the air so long. 
• Just to be clear that is NOT Jenny Jones the former talk show host flying down the mountain.
• Love seeing the replay of a great wipeout from every angle and in slow motion. 
• Jamie Anderson, US Slope Style boarder currently in first place, has 7 brothers and sisters and was raised in Lake Tahoe. Had to be a fun way to grow up. She's a real tree hugger. She hugs a tree before she heads down the mountain. I'm totally serious. She really does. 
• Love all the Russian Babushka Dolls everywhere
• Putin/Politics-Candy Crush time
• Mens Short Program -Team
• Yevgeny Plushenko's considered a rock star in Russia. Not the most attractive guy in the world. He probably should have shaved before he took to the ice. Some big bling for a skater, I would think that would be dangerous. 
• Loving the Quads
• Jeremy Abbott CRASHED AND BURNED BIG TIME
• Patrick Chan wasn't that great either. It's the Olympics people...A Game!
• Yuzuro Hanyu from Japan brought his A Game big time. Kicked Plushenko down a notch. Only 19 years old and he sort of looked rubbery.
• Ya gotta love Scott Hamilton he gets super excited over everything
• Bode Miller's 36 years old and still skiing
• Shaun White dropped out of the Men's Slope Style. Lots of controversy 
• SebToots pretty good...I like the nickname
• Okay so the Japanese pairs team TRAINS in America but they are skating for Japan. Not sure how I feel about that.
• Just to clarify...it's not TRIPLE SOW COW...it's TRIPLE SALCHOW
• Pairs Team Skate
• There is a 16" difference between Castelli and Shnapir. The did okay but I loved that they skated to Santana 
• Canadians Megan and Eric kicked butt with their routine. Eric composed the music they skated to. Impressive.
• The Russian dude was channeling a Brian Boitano look and I believe he was sporting a bit of a mullet, hate to say it but they were great. Still preferred the Canadians
• Back to the snowboarding. Mark McMorris competed with a broken rib and crashed. That HAD to hurt. 
• 1620 is 5 rotations people! 
• Didn't the snow on the womens mogul mountain look like white sand? it was odd looking to me
• Hannah Kearney's braids are ridiculous

The Vampire Diaries

I really do want Elena back and I want her back with Damon. I can't stand this Katherine traveler thing and I hate the ultra mean killing machine Damon Salvatore. I'm thinking that the jig will be up soon since Tyler heard Natalia compelling Matt. How could Matt NOT notice that his vervane necklace was missing? Wouldn't that be like underwear in Mystic Falls? I was thinking, who cleans the Salvatore's house? There's always such destruction and then it's all cleaned up. Is there some compelled cleaning lady around that we don't know about? This weeks awesome party idea: The Bitter Ball where you bring photos of your ex and put it in the shredder. Loved Kathlena's comment: "I didn't think people actually printed out pictures anymore." Not digging this Enzo guy at all. I'd like him to leave soon. Also like Jeremy to get a new hairstylist. What happened to his hottness. 

Kelly & Michael 

I TiVo Kelly & Michael every day. Every year, Kelly makes a Super Bowl bet. Used to be with Regis and now it's with Michael. Kelly always wins...except for this year. Because she lost, she had to do yesterday's show without make-up and guess who was on the show yesterday? Only GEORGE freaking CLOONEY! Kelly looked okay, not great but okay. What's George going to say? You look beautiful blah, blah, blah. I'm betting that George would NEVER sign Kelly to the two year deal, but it was fun TV anyway. George rules. Super hot, super charming and super funny. 

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

http://www.comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/howard-stern-the-last-days-of-howard-stern I'm a HUGE Howard Stern fan and obviously a huge Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee fan. I was totally looking forward to this episode and unfortunately I was a bit disappointed by it. First of all it's the shortest episode this season at only 14 minutes and Howard came across overly neurotic to me. Jerry did a great job with Howard but the shows just off a bit. There's a segment in the supermarket that really made no sense at all. I bet Jerry and Howard rarely if ever go to a supermarket. I did love the car choice though, perfectly fitting for Howard. Watch the episode and tell me if you agree. 

Nashville
I don't even know what the truth is anymore on this show. Did Powers Booth kill his wife? Did he try to kill Teddy? He had a story for everything and he was pretty convincing too...until he died. Dun..Dun...DUNNNN Before he bit it, the girls all sang him a beautiful song, made him cookies and welcomed him home, but that's the last time any of them will see him because he had a heart attack in Teddy's office and Teddy did NOTHING to help the guy. I don't even care. Good riddance in my opinion. Will's so afraid of embracing his homosexuality that he got Brent fired from Edgehill, Scarlett's doing great except she's addicted to pills, Deacon and Avery kicked butt at the Bluebird and Juliette seems to have the magical ability to do a complete apartment renovation in less than 6 hours including new furniture, candles, and carpet.  I could use a visit from her at my house. If all that wasn't enough, Zoey did that hair straightening treatment and I barely recognized her.

THE OTHER STUFF

It's Amazon's pilot season again. Last time we all viewed and voted for Alpha's and Betas and both of were made into a series.  There are 5 shows to choose from: The After, Bosch, Mozart in the Jungle, The Rebels, & Transparent.  At press time, I've only seen Mozart in the Jungle and I really liked it. It's about the NYC Orchestra scene and stars Malcom McDowell as the Maestro who's been kicked to the curb for Gael Garcia the hot new innovative conductor. Bernadette Peters is in it but it's all the young unknowns in the cast that are more fun and interesting. I still have 4 others to watch, but pretty impressed with this one. 

Anyone who wants to binge view season 1 of FX's The Americans can head on over to Amazon right now. The entire first season is available to stream for all Amazon Prime members. The second season starts on 2/26 so there's plenty of time. I liked this show. I'd say go for it. 

On a completely side note, when I'm NOT listening to Howard Stern in the morning, I listen to Scott & Todd on WPLJ. Today is Scott Shannon's last day in the broadcast booth. It caught me by surprise. I had no idea that he was leaving. I used to work for Scott and to be honest he wasn't a nice guy at all. I've heard that over the years he's changed. Regardless of my feelings, he's a good broadcaster and will be missed. 

Friday's Trivia Question: No idea why this Olympic moment is stuck in my head but this skier had a crazy Gold Medal winning run in the 1976 Olympics. He wasn't a US athlete. Name him. 

Have a great weekend!

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I learned on Get Out Alive, that you actually CAN drink your own pee if you're desperate.

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The answer to Monday's Trivia Question:  The answer I was looking for on Monday's trivia question was Linda Cardellini. She starred in Freaks and Geeks before she ever set foot in the ER. I have heard from a few of you that Busy Phillips also appeared in both, so I gave credit to you all as well.

FIRST FIVE: Priscilla Paez, Tom Murray, Brett Blattman, Jim Carter, & Dani Jackel

Honorable Mention: Daniel Block

Thursday's Cable Top 5
The Big Bang Theory-TBS .8/1.8
FX Movie-FX .6/1.5
American Dad-Adult Swim .6/1.5
NCIS-USA .5/2.6
Pawn Stars-History .5/1.8

Friday's Cable Top 5

NA

Sunday's Broadcast Top 5

Big Brother-CBS 2.1/6.2
Family Guy-FOX 1.7/3.4
American Dad-FOX 1.5/3.0
The Simpsons-FOX 1.4/3.0
Bob's Burgers-FOX 1.4/3.0

Sunday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
Big Brother-CBS 86,917
Copa de Oro-Multiple Networks 68,832
La Voz Kids-Telemundo 35,404
Whodunnit-ABC 34,324
Celebrity Wife Swap-ABC 26,160

Sunday's Cable Top 5

NA

Sunday's Cable Trendrr Top 5
The Wanted Life-E! 126,641
True Blood-HBO 106,288
Keeping Up With the Kardashians-E! 102,184
Dexter-Showtime 53,928
Sunday Best-BET 53,776

Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls 
Shocker...this one's good! Yep, no joke! Of course it has some similarities to all of the other survival shows and races, but this ones pretty damn good. Bear's back and he has 10 teams of 2 who have to work as a team and survive the day in the wilderness. At the end of the day, Bear decides who would never make it out alive and kicks them out.  Of course every team had some sort of sob story they were dealing with. There's the ex-meth addict, the father who never spent any time with his son, a recent death or diagnosis, all of which would be made better with a 500K prize. You know the deal.  The difference with this show is that the contestants really have to survive the elements.  They have to use a compass and maps, skin animals, make fire, eat fish eyes, and drink their own pee. Yep...that's right the reward challenge was a race to make a fire, boil and cool their own pee and then drink it...do all that and win food and more importantly, a toothbrush, Crest toothpaste, Scope mouthwash, and some dental floss. Perfect product integration no? What's the first thing you'd want to do after drinking your own pee? BRUSH YOUR TEETH & WASH YOUR MOUTH OUT!  Hilarious. Bear Grylls is an interesting host and guide. I love how he has his own logo and every one's wearing BGwear, what's with that?  At the tribal council or whatever they called it, one contestant, Esmerelda,  just got up and puked her guts out then sat back down and awaited her fate. Bear was concerned about keeping her, but she didn't get voted out, the best friends with the exact same hair,  who let all the deer meat go to waste and went into went to bed instead did.  It was the right move. This ones a winner guys...not kidding. C'mon...people drinking their own pee ya gotta watch that! Plus you get great survival tips from Bear along the way. 

Under the Dome
I keep going back and forth on Under the Dome. I didn't like the pilot, I liked the show last week and now I'm back to not liking it again. I really want to know about the freaking dome already. All I really learned this week is that you can't dig underneath it, but that's about it. What we did learn is that everyone in town is very aware of anyone with a bloody face and bloody knuckles and can put two and two together much quicker than most crime experts on other primetime dramas. Big Jim seems to rule Chester's Mill now, or at least he thinks he does. Wait til he finds out that his son has a girl tied up under his own house. I wonder if he'll commend or condemn him.  Junior, the nut job, went into the tunnels with his flashlight and found out how deep the dome goes and that it blows up flashlights. The Twilight chick, Julia,  was there to witness it all and lead the kid back outside. Linda and Barbie seem to be the smartest people inside the dome, wish they'd realize it and hook up and solve this mystery. My favorite character on Under the Dome is Joe the smart kid. He's the only one on the entire show who's trying to figure out what the F is up with the dome.  He also almost got lucky with Nori the lesbian's daughter who went to his house to "charge her phone". Unfortunately word got out that Joe had a generator and parents on the other side of the dome, and a bunch of kids showed up to party.  Aren't you wondering about some of those people too?  The people on the other side? Things didn't end well for Joe and Nori, the power went out, everyone left and they both went into seizure mode and started with the "pink stars are falling" chant again. Bottom line for me is, if nothing else is on...I'll watch, but if something better comes along, Under the Dome is out! 

Below Deck
Below Deck is mindless enjoyment for me.  The entire yacht chartering thing is a world I just didn't know about it. No idea if what we're watching is realistic or not, most reality shows aren't real these days but I do find the show fun to watch. I  love how the crew seemed to be able to serve 65 glasses of green juice ( a ridiculous amount right?), create gourmet dinners, make a picnic on an island, keep the boat spotless clean, do the laundry, take the guests tubing and perform so seriously by day, but then as soon as they have a minute to breathe (which doesn't seem often enough to make it worth the while, if you ask me) they get hammered, lose their clothes and flirt with each other.  This week a hypnotist and his guests chartered the Honor  for some fun off the island of Anguilla. Every so often this guy would just stop the fun and hypnotize his guests.  I never saw so many people drink green juice before, and I think the crew underestimated the guests need and love for the drink since they ran out of greens early on.  Of course the big issue is Adrienne the uptight chief steward. Most of the crew doesn't like Adrienne, but it's Sam who has the biggest issue.  Even the hypnotist tried to help but of course it didn't work, most hypnosis doesn't work.  The crew did a good job and earned a $15,000 tip! The hypnotist just happened to have a stack of benjamins to show the crew his appreciation on a job well done.  Not bad! Even though the guests were happy, Captain Lee had some complaints and told both Adrienne and Aleks that improvements need to be made. Captain Lee is THE most intense dude ever. This guy is as serious as a heart attack all the time. I don't think he ever smiles, laughs, smirks, nothing. I'd think the Captain of a yacht based in St. Martin would be a bit more relaxed, but not Captain Lee.  


Live with Kelly & Michael
I know it's been a REALLY long time since I've commented on Live with Kelly and Michael, but with the Summer TV season sucking so badly and it being puppy week on the show, I just had to tune in. Glad I did, Kelly's dress on Monday's show was absolutely the most repulsive unflattering thing I've ever seen her wear.  Yes, it did showcase her insanely muscular arms, but the color, the cut, the style, all did nothing for her. I honestly need to know what goes on in that dressing room when they are trying on dresses and making decisions on what to wear. They have to be high or something. I honestly think they are messing with all of us and trying to see how ugly the dress can be.  Please tell me someone out there saw this thing and I'm not out of my mind. 

News & Information:

-With the end of second quarter, lots of information is coming in on ratings and stuff. I'll try not to bore you with a lot of it even though I love it all.  The early morning wars are really juicy these days.  I've always been a GMA person, and I'm loving that GMA is kicking The Today Show's butt in the early morning wars. GMA finished the quarter with a 2.0 against RA25-54 and an average of 5.5 million viewers. This was GMA's first 2Q win in 18 years! I'm happy for them. Interestingly enough, CBS This Morning also saw some big time increases and posted their best 2Q numbers since 1994. I wonder where these viewers are coming from? Hmmmmm

-I'm assuming that the reason the Ray Donovan numbers are as strong as they are is purely because there's nothing else on. The show's just not that great. I will admit, I took the one and done approach with it, but I've heard from a few of you that episode 2 wasn't the greatest, so if you think I'm making a mistake, let me know. Happy to give it another shot, but I think I'm right on this one. 

-I don't think I've EVER felt the need to get DirectTV and while I would never make the switch for various reasons I can't go into right now, when I read today that they are launching DogTV, I gotta admit, I was a bit jealous and again cursed my cable provider. Just because they go by Optimum these days doesn't mean I feel any differently about them. I don't remember the last time they gave me a new channel, especially one about dogs that I would LOVE.  So for any of you DirectTV people, let me know what DogTVis like. It launches 8/1/13. 

-Paula Abdul's just going from judging panel to judging panel. First Idol, then X Factor and now the one that she's probably most qualified for, So You Think You Can Dance.  FOX is smart to keep her with the network, she's ratings gold most of the time, good work keeping her on the payroll. 

-Good news for all of you Impractical Jokers fans, it'll be back for another season.  I know there's a lot of fans out there. Many of you really thought I'd like Impractical Jokers, and I see why you like it, but it's not for me. 

-YouTube channel, Smosh is the first to reach 11 million subscribers.  I think I posted when they hit the 10 million mark, but that was only 41 days ago. Pretty impressive. I honestly don't remember if I checked it out or not. I will now. 

Tuesday's Trivia Question: What actor starred in Sons of Anarchy and Undeclared?  

With all of the insanity with the blog yesterday I forgot to mention that this in a theme week. As soon as you think you have it send in your answer. First one in gets 10 points after that it's 5.

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How funny is the picture of Kelly with Strahan and Eddie Murphy's ex?

The answer to Tuesday's Trivia Question: Robert Plant, John Bonham, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones make up Led Zeppelin

FIRST FIVES:Jim Wall, John Amy, Neil Moffatt, Lori DeCillis & Phyllis DiCesare
Honorable Mention: Daniel Block

Sunday's Cable Top 5
Walking Dead 9p-AMC 5.6/10.3
Breaking Amish-TLC 1.7/3.8
Breaking Amish: The Shunn-TLC 1.7/3.8
Walking Dead 10p-AMC 1.6/3.2
Real Housewives of Atlanta-Bravo 1.2/2.5

Monday's Broadcast Top 5

The Voice-NBC 4.3/11.5
2 Broke Girls-CBS 3.2/8.9
Mike & Molly-CBS 3.0/9.2
How I Met Your Mother-CBS 3.0/7.9
Revolution-NBC 2.6/7.1

Monday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
The Voice-NBC 186,107
Dancing with the Stars-ABC 86,763
Gossip Girl-CW 68,391
Castle-ABC 65,949
How I Met Your Mother-CBS 65,949

Monday's Cable Top 5 
Monday Night Football-ESPN 4.9/12.8
WWE-USA 1.3/4.2
Pawn Stars-History 1.1/3.6
Teen Mom-MTV 2.0/3.4
American Pickers-History 1.0/3.3

Monday's Cable Trendrr Top 5

WWE-USA 253,251
Teen Mom 2-MTV 115,055
Monday Night Football-ESPN
Basketball Wives-VH1 36,646
Long Island Medium-TLC 23,769

2 episodes in to Start Ups: Silicon Valley and I'm about ready to delete the season pass.  None of the cast is that interesting (or that hot) and most of the time they aren't doing much of anything that I care about.  I am sticking with my 3 strike policy, so I'll give it one more week. but needless to say I'm pretty disappointed.  Sarah Austin and her lifecasting thing is a tiny bit interesting, but that's about it. I had high hopes...Bravo, Randi Zuckerberg, tech...it should work, but it doesn't.  Not really.

Something was weird with Brick on Hart of Dixie, but Zoey figured out that he was just freaking out because he thought his long distance girlfriend, Emily had broken up with him, but she didn't.  Lemon was working her butt off trying to get votes for Lavon and finally admitted to herself and her friend that she's still in love with him.  Of course the second she says it out loud, admits it and decides to do something about it, what happens? The mayor wins reelection and he's making out with Ruby, his opponent and it's TV, so of course, Lemon sees them. Dun Dun Dun (can you hear that in your head?) So here's my prediction.  Lavon and Ruby will break up the SECOND Lemon starts kissing someone else. Next big prediction, George Tucker is going to start going out with Wade's ex...I should know this stuff by now.

I was a nervous wreck watching Drooptina and CeeLo's opening number on The Voice. Droopy seemed to have trouble with her earpiece, her outfit and walking around on stage, plus at any moment her upper assets were going to fall out of their protective covering. CeeLo had this walking stick that kept poking at Droopy the entire time they were on stage. Seriously it could have been a disaster.  No idea what the choreographers were thinking at all.  What WAS a disaster was Droopy wearing the big lavender wig for the rest of the show.  CeeLo wore what appeared to be a supersized Adam Levine type shirt and ya know what...he looked good in conservative clothes. Adam was back to his raggy ripped up white tee but he jazzed it up with a plaid jacket. After Droopy performed, we found out that Bryan and Sylvia were safe and then Jason Aldean performed because we need to draw the results out as long as possible. After Jason, we found out that Dez and Nick were safe and then...another performance, this time CeeLo and his team sang "Stayin Alive" in crazy costumes. CeeLo's outfit and wig...classic. Next no drumroll, but Blake and HIS team had to perform and then we FINALLY get to the rest of the results...Terry McDermott, Amanda White, Cody Belew, and Melanie Martinez, the half and half bow girl ,are all safe.  Adriana and Michaela, the mohawk triangle head girl, were both voted out. Show over.

On Parenthood, I thought I was in the clear...I thought I was going to get through the entire episode without tears, but nope, c'mon that can't happen, this is Parenthood, you have to cry at least once per episode, so 55 minutes in, Camille is telling Kristina how much she loves her and gives her a sweater that's been passed from chemo patient to chemo patient and the tears start falling down my cheeks.  Amber and Luke Cafferty from Friday Night Lights (best show ever) did it.  That didnt' take long.  Started out on the 5th hole of a mini golf course and then...Mornin! Of course Zeke wasn't thrilled when he heard this news, because he knows what I know...that Ryan, aka Luke is going to break his granddaughter's heart. In the mean time, Drew finally figured out how to get girls, play the whoa is me card. Poor me, my aunt has Cancer, poor me, my Mom moved in with my teacher, poor me and what'dya know? He's getting some action just like his sister!.

While I don't report everyday on Live (With) Kelly and Michael anymore, I still have my season pass and check out the show everyday to see if there's someone good on. Today, Kelly and Michael welcomed the very handsome and very charming Bradley Cooper, so of course, I watched this one.  Sure Bradley was gorgeous and charming, but even better than Bradley's appearance,  was the cooking segment with Michael's fiance (and Eddie Murphy's ex), Nicole.  Check out how tiny Kelly is compared to these two. She looks like she could be their 8 year old adopted daughter.

Ed was on assignment yesterday but was able to file a DWTS report late last night:

Professional dancer Tony Dovolani has never won the mirror ball trophy and his excitement to be performing with his current (and former) partner Melissa Rycroft at such a high level is infectious!  Thanks to last week’s non-elimination week, M&T landed with a 99/100 (!) and are heading to next week’s semi-finals. 

Judge Len Goodman told Shawn Johnson not to blame him but to blame her partners Derek Hough and Mark Ballas for her trio/weird jungle dance if she goes home this week – while Judge Carrie Ann Inaba gave them a 10.  For Kelly Monaco and Val Chmerkovskiy, Len relayed that he has his standards while Carrie Ann “has none” (cue the shocking reaction shot from Kelly).  The debates between Len and Carrie Ann didn’t hurt either couple when votes and cumulative scores from two weeks came together – they’re both heading to the semi-finals.

Emmit Smith smiled and shaked his rump just enough to overcome a “little slip” this week.  He and Cheryl Burke are also on their way to next week’s semi-finals but I just don’t see them winning the mirror ball trophy a second time this year.

Pros Maks Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd became a real-life couple this season (heavens to murgatroyd - sorry, had to say it once this season!).  They’ll have more time to candoole after last night as both were eliminated with their partners.  Maks with Kirstie Ally because there’s only so far you can go when you’re not at the same level as the rest of the pack.  Peta with Gilles Marini because his two weeks of cumulative viewer votes couldn’t get them through an early exit in last week’s Swing Dance Marathon.  I’d also like to think Gilles got knocked off because he takes the whole thing too darn seriously, but if that were true, then Kelly Monaco would also have been ousted by now.

It must be killing Olympians Apolo Anton Ohno and Shawn Johnson that former Bachelor contestant Melissa Rycroft has been showing them how it’s done all season long.  Maybe she’s got an advantage from being paired with her original DWTS partner Tony while Apolo and Shawn are with different partners.  We’ll see how it plays out in the semi-finals next week.

News & Information

*ABC gave Nashville a full season order yesterday.  I'm a happy camper, but they need to start moving things along. We need more Deacon and Raina action and Scarlett needs to get together with Gunner.
*Breaking Amish has become TLC's #1 primetime show ever. While this is amazing, I'm not sure how TLC is going to capitalize on this news.  A second season with the same cast really can't work. Maybe the producers will try to find more Amish people who want to leave their homes? I'd think it would be easy...just dangle a hot shower, TV, lightswitches and cars in front of them...boom...done.
*The Amish are HOT! Here's how you know...more Amish are coming our way! Not do be outdone by TLC, Discovery is launching it's own show, Amish Mafia on December 11th. This show focuses on the Amish law enforcers.  I guess they heard about the hot showers and the cars mentioned above.
*More shakeups over at The Today Show on NBC. Jim Bell is out as executive producer and Alexandra Wallace is in. It was only a matter of time right? WIth GMA leading these days, The Today Show is now on the defense.

*Jersey Shore's Vincent Guadagnino is getting his own MTV Talk Show. I am anti Jersey Shore as a whole, so I'm ignoring this news.
*Video viewing on NON PC/MAC devices such as smartphones, tablets, game consoles and other portable connected devices TRIPLED between Q3 2011 and Q3 2012 reaching 1.3 BILLION total video views.

Wednesday's Trivia Question: Who replaced Dr. Mark Greene as chief resident on ER?

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