Homeland's Hangin by a Thread

The answer to Friday's Trivia Question: Breckin Meyer played Travis Birkenstock in the movie Clueless. I love that movie! Maybe I should do movie trivia this week.  I mean all movie do air on TV these days right?

FIRST FIVES: Mike O'Dea, Bill McLaughlin, Jim DePaul, Jim Carter & Katie McCartney

Honorable Mention:Rachel Snyder

Thursday's Broadcast Top 5
The Big Bang Theory-CBS 4.9/17.2
Scandal-ABC 3.3/9.4
The Millers-CBS 3.2/12.1
Grey's Anatomy-ABC 2.6/8.5
The Crazy Ones-CBS 2.5/9.5

Thursday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5

Scandal-ABC 248,999
The Vampire Diaries-CW 200,566
Grey's Anatomy-ABC 93,967
The Big Bang Theory-CBS 65,057
Parks & Recreation-NBC 41,409

Thursday's Cable Top 5
NFL Football-NFL Network 2.3/6.0
The Big Bang Theory-TBS 1.1/2.4
Pawn Stars-History 1.0/3.2
Project Runway-Lifetime .9/2.6
College Football-ESPN .9/2.1

Thursday's Cable Trendrr Top 5

NFL Football-NFL Network 107,695
White Collar-USA 53,429
Project Runway-Lifetime 50,228
Covert Affairs-USA 25,746
Impact Wrestling-Spike 18,052

Friday's Broadcast Top 5
Shark Tank - ABC 1.9/6.5
Undercover Boss-CBS 1.8/9.1
Hawaii Five-0-CBS 1.4/8.8
Blue Bloods-CBS 1.3/10.2
Last Man Standing-ABC 1.3/6.1

Friday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
Shark Tank-ABC 43,264
Blue Bloods-CBS 30,984
America's Next Top Model-CW 29,157
Undercover Boss-CBS 28,287
Hawaii Five-0-CBS 27,761

Friday's Cable Top 5

NA

Friday's Cable Trendrr Top 5
MLB Playoffs-TBS 443,067
WWE Smackdown-Syfy 58,220
What Not to Wear-TLC 21,658
Haven-Syfy 16,197
Ghost Adventures-Travel 14,647

Late Night Ratings for the week of 10/7/13-10/11/13
Leno .9/3.5
Kimmel .8/2.8
Daily Show .7/1.7
Colbert .6/1.4
Letterman .6/2.8
Fallon .6/1.8
Ferguson .4/1.4
Carson .3/.9

Top 5 DVR'ed shows for the week of 9/30/13-10/6/13

Big Bang Theory-From a 5.2 to a 7.6 (+46%)

The Blacklist-From a 3.3 to a 5.5 (+67%)

S.H.I.E.L.D-From a 3.3 to a 5.4 (+64%)

Sleepy Hollow-From a 3.0 to a 5.1 (+70%)

Modern Family-From a 4.2 to a 6.2 (+48%)

Homeland

It was literally the last 3 minutes of the show that saved it. By 42 minutes in I was thinking how I couldn't believe that a show so incredibly good could go so incredibly bad. I was OUT. C'mon, Carrie a traitor? Really? No Brady again? More Dana & Leo, more Jessica leaving whatever the sons name is alone again to find her? Mike was back from The Blacklist assignment for a few minutes. Leland was Nancy Botwin's ex-FBI guy. It was all a big fat waste of time until the last 3 minutes and now I will watch again next week. They kept me, but I'm hangin by a thread out here. 

Real Housewives of NJ Tell All Part 2

WHY did I watch it? Because I ALWAYS finish what I start and this was supposedly the LAST episode of anything RHONJ for this season. No more Andy Cohen...No more! I need a RHONJ vacation.

In this weeks "lost footage" we had a Giudice girls recap. I had forgotten that in the Giudice home, a girls nether region is known as a "chuckalina". What a freaky family.  I was pretty surprised to learn that Gia's not allowed to have sleepovers. You'd think with all the chaos, one less kid for a night would be a welcome relief.  Guess not. The Manzo brothers were apparently in a bit of roommate trouble during the season and interviewed a bunch of odd potential candidatesi. I have a hard time believing that they need a 3rd roommate to help pay their rent, don't you? Full plastic surgery recap and a step by step recap of Lauren't boob reduction/lift surgery. Lauren bugs the cr*p out of me...big time. Kim D. has a line of wrist cuffs. Apparently cuffs are SO big, a launch party was necessary.  Cuffs!  One thing we never saw during the Lake George trip was Joe Gorga's crazy texting addiction.  Dr. V. almost through that phone out the window.

The White Queen

The mini series, The White Queen came to its conclusion on Saturday night. I guess if you're a history buff, or you had read the Phillipa Gregory books the mini series was based off of, you would have known how the story would end. I'm not and I didn't ,so I had no idea how it would all get tied up but it did and I was pretty happy with its conclusion. Again, I don't really want to give anything away because this is a GREAT show to binge view and I don't want to ruin anything for anyone who IS going the check this one out. The White Queen is the story of the War of the Roses and stars a bunch of unknown actors and actresses.  I'm predicting that we start to see more and more of the cast elsewhere as I'm sure their agents are getting lots of offers since the show debuted.

Up Late with Alec Baldwin

Alec's not everyones favorite, and I get that. I happen to really like him. While he was still on 30 Rock, he launched a pretty successful podcast called "Here's the Thing".  Alec's a really great interviewer and while his interests and podcasts are all over the place, he has had some great guests like David Letterman and Kristen Wiig and many more. MSNBC has basically taken the podcast and transported it to their studios on Friday nights at 10pm. Gotta admit, I watched maybe 10 minutes of the premiere episode.  Alec's guest was NY Mayoral candidate Bil de Blasio and as you know, I'm not into politics so I didn't last long. This past Friday night, Alec interviewed Debra Winger who has become a bit of recluse of the years. It was a great interview and Debra was really VERY interesting. Just sayin...if you have no life like me and you're home on a Friday night, check it out. Let me know what you think. 

NEWS & INFORMATION

Well, some people had a great weekend and some people didn't. The people that did: Jets fans, Betty White, Andy Samberg, Tyra Banks, Robin Williams, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Will Arnett and Margaret Martindale.  The Jets beat the Patriots and the rest of the list all have jobs for a little bit longer. Lifetime picked up Betty White's Off Their Rockers, Fox ordered a full season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Tyra' got the go ahead on her 21st cycle of America's Next Top Model, and The Crazy Ones and The Millers also got full season orders.  Unfortunately, Blair Underwood, Mike O'Malley and the Patriots didn't fare as well.

-Last Thursday's episode of The Vampire Diaries beat both ABC and NBC against A18-34, A18-49 and W18-34. It was the shows most watched episode since last February with 2.8 million viewers. This is an increase of 33% vs. the week prior. Better news though, in my opinion, is that Reign, my fave new show of the year, generated some positive news for the CW and delivered the 2nd best time period numbers in a year. Thursday's a competitive night all around, so for Reign to deliver 2 million viewers and increase the time period by 25% since last year...all good!

-Not sure what channel it's launching on today on my Cablevision, but P Diddy, Puff Daddy, Sean Combs's new music network, Revolt goes live today. I have to remember to check it out if I can find it when I get home. Maybe it will be a music channel that actually plays and covers music. After hearing about it at last weeks Future TV Summit, it could be a pretty cool net to follow.  Keep ya posted. 

Monday's Trivia Question: What was Jason Alexander's characters name in Pretty Woman?

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Sons of Anarchy...Just Another Day in Charming

The answer to Tuesday's Trivia Question: Jason Segel played Nick Andropolis in Freaks & Geeks

FIRST FIVES: Mike O'Dea, Priscilla Paez, Karen Feldman, Monica Caraffa, and Patricia Meore

Honorable Mention: Ali Accarino

Sunday's Cable Top 5

Walking Dead-AMC 8.2/16.1  YEP an 8.2 RA18-49!!!
Talking Dead-AMC 2.6/5.0
Walking Dead Marathon-AMC 2.6/5.6
Keeping Up with the Kardashians-E! 1.2/2.1
Real Housewives of NJ-Bravo .9/2.0

Monday's Broadcast Top 5

The Voice-NBC 4.5/13.7
The Blacklist-NBC 3.2/11.4
How I Met Your Mother-CBS 3.0/8.0
Sleepy Hollow-FOX 2.6/7.5
2 Broke Girls-CBS 2.5/7.8

Monday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5

The Voice-NBC 169,539
Dancing with the Stars-ABC 107,845
Sleepy Hollow-FOX 82,939
Castle-ABC 74,253
Bones-FOX 70,345

Monday's Cable Top 5 
Monday Night Football-ESPN 4.7/11.9
WWE-USA 1.4/4.0
MLB NLCS-TBS 1.3/4.8
Basketball Wives-VH1 .9/1.9
Black Ink Crew 2-VH1 .9/1.8

Monday's Cable Trendrr Top 5
MLB Playoffs-TBS 220,650
WWE Monday Night Raw-USA 213,028
Monday Night Football-ESPN 99,093
Black Ink Crew-VH1 25,387
Piers Morgan-CNN 16,681

Sons of Anarchy
The day after the fire was a busy one for Samcro and their families. Jax took a tour of the club house and while everything was pretty much burned to a crisp, the table top and the gavel seemed salvageable. Thank god, all was truly not lost. More good news, Jax's sneakers remained pearly white after touring the destruction. He must have some special dirt repellent spray on those things. The gang preceded over to Gemma' house, gavel in tow, for a flip phone conference call with the Irish, who offered up a deal. Samcro will be out of guns but Clay's in.  Then it was up to the woods for a NoCal charter meeting to tell the rest of the clubs of the new "No Gun"plan. Of course the boys couldn't enjoy a leisurely ride up north without some trouble along the way. Fake cops, scamming bikes, messed with the WRONG guys. Juice used the opportunity to cause some extra trouble, but they did take his bike, so they had it coming. Cool move jumping off the moving bike into the moving van.  Up at the meeting, Bobby and his blue glasses surprised me and Jax with 3 new recruits for the Redwood charter. Guess he's not going nomad after all and that answers my question on how the Charming crew would find new guys to replace all the dead ones. Back in Charming, Gemma let Clay know what was going on outside the bars, let Eli and the DA know about Toric and met a transgender "friend" of Nero's who looked a lot like Steven Tyler. He/She had a pretty nice rack that even Gemma was impressed with. The DA offered Tara a deal if she turned on Jax, but of course she didn't take it, she'd rather divorce the guy and take his kids away because that's a better form of betrayal. The DA dumped the wig and went "ghetto" in hopes of playing hardball to bring down Samcro. On the way home from the big meeting, the boys knew exactly where to go to find Juice's bike and the fake cops who took it. Not too much damage done to them though. Juice got a new stolen bike, and a promise of no retaliation and better than anything else...apologies across the board for poor behavior. Just another day in (and out) of Charming.  Damn I love this show.

The Goldbergs
I love escaping back to 1980whatever every week with The Goldbergs. The writers don't commit to any specific year which is pretty smart. I guess they learned from How I Met Your Mother not to do that ever again. This week I was reminded of The Dating Game, Luke and Laura and General Hospital and the Jerrold, long, brown cable box. You remember the one...when you pressed a few of the buttons together at the same time...you got scrambled PORN! Adam and Barry found it, bonded over it,  became obsessed with it ,and then forgot about it and started watching Alf together instead. Erica, Sixx from Blossom's doppelganger, pretty much did nothing but babysit her brothers all episode, but who cares, SHE LOOKS JUST LIKE SIXX!!! Of course some sappy emotional stuff with Pops and Bev and his dead wife, but by episodes end, he was back to dating. I love the real photos and videos of the Goldberg family and I loved the version of Pete Townshend's "Let My Love Open The Door". The 22 minutes goes by too fast.

Real Housewives Tell All Special (Part 1)...OY VEY There's a Part 2!!!
No there wasn't any major revelations in this "Tell All" Special,  just more of the same. More footage that proved how stupid the housewives and their husbands are. Joe Giudice didn't know that Rhode Island was a state. Rosie didn't know that The Grand Canyon was in Arizona and Joe Gorga couldn't do 2nd grade math homework.  So how they all have mega mansions, I'll never know. I can't even imagine they can count the money they're making, but they can obviously spend it. More parties with drama, a visit to Amish country for camel milk, Milania mayhem and a Manzo family photo shoot. Just another day in NJ.

NEWS & INFORMATION:

-Amy Poehler and Tina Fey will be hosting The Golden Globes again. If you remember, they were awesome last year. Probably the best thing about the show was them. Good move Hollywood Foreign Press.

-Elisabeth Hasselbeck must be in a pretttty good mood. In her first month co-hosting Fox & Friends, the program is up 16% in total viewers and 22% in A25-54 vs year ago. Last week F&F delivered their highest demo ratings of the year (if you don't count their coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing). In the "I told you so" section of the blog...Jenny McCarthy's not doing as well in Elisabeth's chair. All sort of negative feedback coming her way.

-Man Ashton Kutcher's raking it IN! Not bad for the guy who took over the lead on 2 1/2 Men. I mean, Charlie Sheen's gone, Angus is out and the shows not even number one anymore...not even close to number one and he made 24 million bucks this year. 2nd place goes to his co-star who's been working hard from day one on that show and earns 21million bucks this year. Surprisingly, Ray Romano, who's still getting paid big money for Everybody Loves Raymond but got a new gig on Parenthood, came in 3rd place with 16 million. There was a tie for 4th between Mark Harmon and Neil Patrick Harris who earned 15 million

-If you haven't been watching The White Queen on Starz, there's time to catch up before this Saturday nights finale. Starz will be running a marathon starting at 12N and ending with the finale. This is a good one to DVR and binge watch. Max Irons (Jeremy's son) is hot as King Edward and it's a really good show all around.

-Not sure why there were so many people illegally downloading The Walking Dead finale, but 500,000 people downloaded the show within a day of it airing. AMC streams the show for free on their site, maybe they should publicize that a bit more so they get the benefit of the traffic and not these illegal download sites.

Wednesday's Trivia Question: On Gilligan's Island, where did the S.S. Minnow set sail from? 

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Has Homeland Jumped the Shark?

The answer to Friday's Trivia Question: Kevin Bacon currently stars in The Following

The theme was: Footloose. The answer to every question all week was an actor or actress that starred in the movie Footloose.

Thursday's Broadcast Top 5
The Big Bang Theory-CBS 5.1/17.6
Scandal-ABC 3.1/9.0
The Millers-CBS 3.0/11.7
Glee-FOX 2.9/7.3
Grey's Anatomy-ABC 2.8/8.7

Thursday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5

Glee-FOX 716,583
Scandal-ABC 311,640
The X Factor-FOX 289,142
The Vampire Diaries-CW 178,334
Grey's Anatomy-ABC 133,430

Thursday's Cable Top 5
Thursday Night Football-NFL Network 3.1/7.8
MLB Division Series-TBS 1.5/5.4
Pawn Stars-History 1.0/3.1
American Dad-Adult Swim .8/1.9
Project Runway-Lifetime .7/2.2

Thursday's Cable Trendrr Top 5

NFL Football-NFL Network 209,600
MLB Playoffs-TBS 92,876
Impact Wrestling-Spike 20,402
Project Runway-Lifetime 18,088
Tamar & Vince-WE 12,857

Friday's Broadcast Top 5

Shark Tank-ABC 1.7/6.4
Blue Bloods-CBS 1.4/10.1
Hawaii Five-0-CBS 1.4/9.0
Master Chef Jr.-FOX 1.4/3.7
Undercover Boss-CBS 1.3/7.8

Friday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
2014 FIFA Copa Mundial-Multiple Networks 92,763
Shark Tank-ABC 36,248
Hawaii Five-0-CBS 31,437
America's Next Top Model-CW 26,941
Undercover Boss-CBS 23,785

Friday's Cable Top 5

NA

Friday's Cable Trendrr Top 5

WWE Smackdown-Syfy 48,040
Ghost Adventures-Travel 22,134
Haven-Syfy 16,541
The Legend of Korra-Nick 11,805
Modern Family-USA 10,678

Hope all you Zombie fans were happy to have your fave show, The Walking Dead back...you know the only Zombies I watch are the ones in the video game, Plants vs. Zombies. That bucketheaded Zombie...tough to kill.

Real Housewives of NJ Reunion Part 2
All of the housewives, the Joe's, and Rosie were back on the couch for the 2nd part of the reunion. I can't even imagine what the taping of those reunion shows must be like. I hear they go on all day, and while I'm guessing  they don't serve cocktails during the taping, the cast must need one the second it's over. So much emotion, so much drama, so much denial, so much stupidity.  Here's what I learned:
1) Rosie smoked and quit and had been working out with Joe Giudice for 3 months.
2) Rosie and her sister love each other a little too much if you ask me.
3) Everyone had regrets about things they've said on the show...really? Shocker
4) Teresa STILL doesn't know what a sociopath is.
5) Teresa doesn't believe in Karma because she's catholic. I have no idea what that means.
6) Teresa hears but she doesn't listen
7) On the day that Albert's dad died he still went and picked up a gift for Caroline, his then fiance, for her birthday and apologized to her that his dad's death ruined her day. Can you say THERAPY?
8) I think Caroline's father-in-law WAS killed by the mafia even though Caroline and Albert claim they have no idea who killed him and why.
9) Every one's scared that Joe Giudice is really going to jail
10) I had forgotten that Teresa is friends with Victoria Gotti
Just when I thought I would have a break from these women and this season...Another RHONJ special "Tell All" airs tonight. Shoot me. I don't want to watch it...but YOU KNOW I WILL!

Homeland
Does anyone think that maybe Homeland should have been a miniseries at this point? I have to remind myself that season 1 was brilliant. Season two wasn't brilliant, but it was good.  These first  3 weeks of season 3 are sucking so far.  You know it's bad when our only pleasure has been Carrie's med-less freak outs. This week, Brody finally showed up...okay so he's in Venezuela, but he and Carrie are living these oddly parallel lives of nothingness. They're both trapped in sucky places and forced to take drugs to get themselves through the day.  At the end of the hour I was actually pissed off that I didn't chose to watch Revenge live and save Homeland for later. C'mon guys...you're killing me!

NEWS & INFORMATION

-Who knows what the truth is? Was Charlie Hunnam, Sons of Anarchy's Jax Teller, really having scheduling conflicts? Was he turned off by all the attention? Let go because everyone online, who had no idea who he was, wanted him booted? I don't really know, but as a HUGE fan of his, I was really looking forward to him taking on Christian Grey, so I am bummed about this news. Of course if Ian Sommerhalder ends up taking the job, I'll be over my bummed-ness really fast.

-More good news for JLo...ABC Family renewed her show, The Fosters for another season. She's gotta be really busy these days, like Ryan Seacrest busy.  American Idol Judge, singer, producer, fashion icon, and mother of twins. I bet she doesn't have time to watch Real Housewives of NJ right?

-Bill Weir's leaving ABC and Nightline for CNN as anchor and Chief Innovation Correspondent.  Love the new title, Chief Innovation Correspondent. Dan Harris will be taking Bill's place on Nightline as just plain old...anchor.

-6 more eps for Dads...I'm actually a bit surprised by this one. Ratings wise the show's not that strong and there's been a ton of negative press about its offensiveness, so I didn't think it would make it. I guess since it's a Seth McFarlane show, FOX needs to keep the guy happy.

-The CW has asked for 3 more episodes from 3 of its freshman shows: Tomorrow People, The Originals and Reign. Reign premieres on Thursday and of all the pilots I watched over the Summer, Reign was my favorite. Think of it as as Downton Abbey but sexier, lighter and cooler. I loved this one and hope it does really well. We'll find out soon enough. 

-Not good news for FOX's Us & Them only 6 eps and done, sort of bummed I liked this one. It had Alexis Bledel and Jason Ritter...how could it be bad? Supposedly the scripts have been sucking, but can't they just get some new writers? 

-Teen Wolf was renewed by MTV for a 4th season. Michael J. Fox and Jason Bateman should make guest appearances in season 4...that would be cool right?

-If you're a Hawaii Five - 0 fan, you are probably already aware that you can help to build an entire episode of the show. Starting on Friday night,  fans were invited to go to http://www.cbs.com/H50vote to choose key story points. Voting closes on Halloween.  In 2014 fans will still be able to weigh in on things like props and music. I'm not sure when the final episode will air but as soon as I find out, I'll let you guys know. It's a cool concept though and I bet we see more and more of this.

Monday's Trivia Question:  Grease was on TV yesterday, so that means I can use it for Trivia!  Name all of the T-Birds. 1 Point for each correct answer. 

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Real Housewives of NJ and Revenge is all I got to last night...

The answer to Friday's Trivia Question:  Joe Morton played Mike James on Equal Justice

FIRST FIVES: Mike O'Dea, Barbra Robin, Karen Feldman, Monica Caraffa & Jim Carter

Honorable Mention: Nancy Yohay

Thursday's Broadcast Top 5
The Big Bang Theory-CBS 5.0/17.7 WOW
Scandal Season Premiere-ABC 3.6/10.5  WOW
The Miller's-CBS 3.3/13.1
Grey's Anatomy-ABC 3.0/9.3
The Crazy Ones-CBS 2.9/11.7

Thursday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5

Scandal-ABC 655,971
The X Factor-FOX 468,400
The Vampire Diaries-CW 463,474
Glee-FOX 298,967
The Originals-CW 154,619

Thursday's Cable Top 5
Thursday Night Football-NFL Network 2.8/6.8
MLB Division Series-TBS 1.1/3.5
American Dad-Adult Swim .9/1.8
College Football-ESPN .8/2.4
Law & Order SVU-USA .7/2.1

Thursday's Cable Trendrr Top 5

MLB Playoffs-TBS 202,107

NFL Football-NFL Network 140,652

Impact Wrestling-Spike 19,676

Project Runway-Lifetime 16,913

Degrassi-Teen Nick 16,111

Friday's Broadcast Top 5

Shark Tank-ABC 1.8/6.3
20/20-ABC 1.6/5.8
Hawaii Five-O-CBS 1.5/9.5
Undercover Boss-CBS 1.4/7.6
Last Man Standing-ABC 1.4/6.2

Friday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
The Originals-CW 45,659
Shark Tank-ABC 40,583
Blue Bloods-CBS 32.834
Hawaii Five-O-CBS 30,585
America's Next Top Model-CW 25,165

Friday's Cable Top 5

NA

Friday's Cable Trendrr Top 5

WWE Smackdown-Syfy 59,945
MLB Playoff-TBS 41,661
Ghost Adventures-Travel 31,819
Modern Family-USA 17,811
Haven-Syfy 16,370

Real Housewives of New Jersey-Part 1
I keep typing it, I do. I keep saying that something is wrong with me for not only tuning in to Real Housewives of NJ every week, but RUNNING to the TV for it. I can't miss it and yet...when I watch it, I get so angry and disgusted with the Manzo's, the Giudice's, the Gorga's and myself that I should change the channel and cancel the season pass, but I don't. Do these people take the time to watch themselves on this show? I don't think so, especially not The Giudice's. Sure they have 4 daughters and 39 counts against them, so I get that they're busy, but I honestly think they should tune in once in a while. They're definitely not enrolled in an English as a first language class, that's for sure. If they were, they must have flunked out. This seasons reunion took place at The Venetian in lovely Garfield NJ. Teresa was overdone compared to the rest of the woman but would you expect anything less? It makes complete sense that the couple with 39 counts of fraud and other illegal activities were the ones dressed to the nines. I thought Kathy looked really good. I doubt that ring she was wearing was real, but she looked really good anyway. The bulk of the show had Teresa and Melissa still going at it. They claimed that they were all in a good place by the seasons end, but it was obvious that they aren't. They admitted that they haven't seen each other all Summer. Teresa, to this day still takes no responsibility for anything she's done and still blames Melissa for everything. Joe Giudice rarely spoke but when he did, the things that came out of his mouth were so unbelievably stupid that it's gotta be an act, if it's not and that guy made enough money to buy that mansion and those cars and everything else,  then I'm DEFINITELY doing something wrong. Andy brought up Jaqueline and Caroline's relationship with Dina and they both looked at each other not knowing how to respond. Aren't you dying to know what went on there? Joe Gorga bagged the hat and the hair and he looks MUCH better. Didn't need to see Jaqueline's fatty cutlets from her tummy tuck again, but Andy had to remind us yet again about them. Dr. V. showed up and offered some thoughts, but of course its wasted on this crew. Rosie was in the house sporting a set of pearls which really made me laugh out loud. She's the only real one on the show and yet she put on pearls? UGH. It pains me to say that I'll be back for part 2 next week...but I'll be there.

Revenge
So let me get this straight, Daniel read an issue of Voile or Vogue or whatever fashion magazine Margo, the chick from Pan Am, owns, doesn't sleep with her (although we thought he did for a commercial break) and is named its new publisher? With zero experience in the fashion world or publishing? Wow if that isn't a case of knowing the right people, then I don't know what is. Also, is it me or is Daniel speaking differently this season? I feel like I can hear his accent. So let me get this straight, Paul Whitley used to work for the Graysons, then he was a priest at St. Francis helping a bunch of people, but keeping tabs on the Grayson's so much so, that he knew Daniel the second he met him, and knew that Conrad was JUST diagnosed with Huntington's Disease? Quite a priest right? Well, he's gone, thanks to Emily and her red Revenge sharpie, which is back to work in full forces this season. Just when Conrad needed a priest, Father Paul's outta there. Loved Nolan's "Blurred Lines" apron with the cherry red pants. I guess he'd like Robin Thicke to stop by instead of the nameless dudes that he keeps having over for some fun.  Add Charlotte to the list of Emily haters, she's pissed off at her for opening her big fat yap, but she really didn't do the damage this time. It will just make the shooting at the end of the season that much more interesting. I mean the list is getting longer and longer by the week and we are only 2 weeks in.


I was pretty sick all weekend. Got hit with what I am pretty sure was strep throat. Luckily I got a Zpack in me on Saturday at 9:04am but I didn't start feeling better til mid day Sunday. The good news for a person like me was that I caught up on some movies I'd been needing to see, plus, a bunch of shows I couldn't get to last week. I did manage to watch Saturday Night Live on Sunday AM and I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. Miley was GOOD and some of the new cast was good too. I guess they didn't get my Gene Simmons Rock-N-Roll Tongue School idea, but it was late in the week, so didn't think it could make it in. New guy Jay Pharoah did an awesome Will Smith and Shannon Sharpe.  Anyway if you didn't see SNL, this is the video going around and...it's good regardless of your politics. Check it out: http://www.hulu.com/watch/542149?playlist_id=1031&asset_scope=all

NEWS & INFORMATION

-David Letterman's not letting the Jimmy's scare him into retirement.  Dave's signed on through 2015 stayin on at 11:30pm. I wonder if CBS is just buying time til they can find another Jimmy for their 1130 spot. Jimmy Smits maybe or Jimmy Buffett? Is there another funny Jimmy? Jimmy J.J. Walker? He's alive, I checked. 

-WOW...that was FAST. Lucky 7 is officially the first primetime casualty of the 2013/2014 TV season. After only 2 episodes...it's GONE! Not so lucky at all. 

-No surprise at all to me...NBC's Blacklist was given a full season order. Spader rules. He also now has a new record under his belt.  Biggest live +3 day lift in viewership. Episode 2 increased by 5 MILLION viewers when it went from live to live +3, bringing total viewership to 16.4 million viewers. That was a 45% increase!  Look out NCIS! 

-The Simpsons was just greenlit for a 26th season. The scary thing is, I remember when it was just a part of the Tracey Ullman show. Even scarier I remember being a local spot buyer and WRITING it on my buy sheets. Now that's depressing. 

-I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was stuck on level 147 of Candy Crush Saga. I learned that a lot of you guys are not only playing, but that you were stuck on some level also. After a month, I finally got passed level 147 and am now on level 167 (what's with the "7" levels?) Anyway, I saw a cute Candy Crush Infographic and had to share some of the info from it: 

• 61.7% of Candy Crush players believe that luck is the win factor
• 58.4% of Candy Crush players have never spent a cent (I haven't)
• 20% of Candy Crush players have spent between $1-$10
• 16.4% of Candy Crush players have spent between $11-$100
• 3.5% of Candy Crush players have spent between $101-$1000 (WHAT? THATS NUTS)
• Candy Crush's daily revenue is $633,000
• There are 45.6 MILLION Facebook Candy Crushers per month
• There are 9.7 MILLION Facebook Candy Crushers per day
• 21.3% prefer the Objectives levels
• 46% have declared level 65 as the evillest level (I don't even remember which one that is)
• Right now there are 455 Candy Crush levels 
• There are 9 billion Candy Crush games played per month.

This is a Trivia Theme Week. If you get the theme right today, it's worth 25 points, Tuesday-20, Wednesday-15, Thursday-10 and Friday-5 Good Luck.  This week is TOUGH (in my opinion)

Monday's Trivia Question:  This actress played Julie Miller on the TV version of FAME. Name the actress.

Google still hasn't fixed the text widgets so here's What I'm Watching Tonight: 
The rest of Homeland
Hart of Dixie
How I Met Your Mother
The Blacklist
I have Betrayal and Masters of Sex in my DVR
Also...a reminder that The Man with the 132lb scrotum airs tonight on TLC for anyone interested. (I just had to...)

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SPOILER ALERT...DON'T EVEN BOTHER READING THIS TODAY IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED BREAKING BAD EVER OR HAVEN'T WATCHED THE FINALE YET.

The answer to Friday's Trivia Question: Hank Azaria is currently the voice of Moe on The Simpsons and was in last years, quickly cancelled, Free Agents

FIRST FIVES: Bobby Aguilera, Mike O'Dea, Tara Dowling, Dan Realson & Jim Carter

Honorable Mention: Daniel Block
Theme: All of the actors and actresses that were answers to the trivia questions all guest starred on Friends. It was definitely a tough one, gotta give huge kudos to Karen Feldman who got it right on Tuesday!!!

Thursday's Broadcast Top 5
The Big Bang Theory (830p)-CBS 6.1/20.4
The Big Bang Theory (8p)-CBS 5.5/18.9
The Crazy Ones-CBS 3.9/15.5
Grey's Anatomy-ABC 3.4/9.2
Two and a Half Men-CBS 2.9/11.5

Thursday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5

Glee-FOX 356,189
Grey's Anatomy-FOX 329,529
The X Factor-FOX 248,062
The Big Bang Theory-CBS 165,292
Parks & Recreation-NBC 77,100

Thursday's Cable Top 5

Thursday Night Football-NFL Network 3.2/7.6
The Big Bang Theory-TBS 1.1/2.5
American Dad-Adult Swim .9/2.0
The Big Bang Theory-TBS .8/1.8
College Football-ESPN .8/2.3

Thursday's Cable Trendrr Top 5

NFL Football-NFL Network 181,427
Impact Wrestling-Spike 22,225
Project Runway-Lifetime 19,088
Tamar & Vince-We 10,645
Piers Morgan Live-CNN 9,900

Friday's Broadcast Top 5

Shark Tank-ABC 1.9/6.7
Blue Bloods-CBS 1.7/11.3
MasterChef Jr-FOX 1.6/4.2
Hawaii Five-0-CBS 1.5/9.3
Undercover Boss-CBS 1.5/8.1

Friday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
Blue Bloods-CBS 49,220 
Shark Tank-ABC 43,712
Hawaii Five-0-CBS 37,905
America's Next Top Model-CW 33,834
Undercover Boss-CBS 26,444

Friday's Cable Top 5

NA

Friday's Cable Trendrr Top 5

WWE Smackdown-Syfy 65,882
Ghost Adventures-Travel 18,716
Haven-Syfy 16,723
Piers Morgan Live-CNN 8,684
Alma Awards-MSNBC 7,973

Late Night Ratings for the week of 9/16/13-9/20/13
Tonight Show .8/3.6
Daily Show .7/1.6
Colbert Report .6/1.3
Kimmel .6/2.3
Letterman .5/2.3
Fallon .5/1.7
Nightline .5/1.6
Conan .5/.9
Ferguson .3/1.2
Carson Daly .3/.9

Morning News Ratings for the week of 9/16/13-9/20/12
GMA 1.7/2.0
Today 1.7/2.0
CBS This AM .8/.9

Real Housewives of NJ
When we last left our motley NJ crew, they were having a couple of cocktails at the Moxie/Posche 2 party.  Of course it can't just be a couple of cocktails and zero drama on a Real Housewives of NJ finale.  Drama's part of the package and drama's what we got.   The Gorga's and the Laurita's confronted Penny, Penny's big, scary, husband John, and of course the most made up, hideous, disgusting, leader of the pack...Kim D. They all just deferred to Teresa who admitted to NOTHING at that point.  Everyone was screaming and yelling and the cameramen were even running for cover. I'm sure they didn't want to call Bravo headquarters to report equipment damage. Surprisingly, Joe Giudice stayed FAR away from the fisticuffs, but with all the charges against him, he probably didn't want anymore legal trouble. Loved it when Teresa threatened to pull the Milania haircare products from the Moxie shelves. Yeah that'll show them Teresa! So will all of those "Textez" that they supposedly have from you.  "Textez" did Teresa go to school at all? The Gorga's left the party in their Bentley, the Giudice's and the Wakile's all left in their Mercedes in disgust. After  the party, Caroline took a tour of her own home and starting getting weepy at how blessed she is that her family's not as insane as The Gorga's or the Giudice's. She's giving up on the Hoboken apartment and staying put in the big house so that if Lauren EVER marries Vito, she can come down the stairs in her wedding dress. The Laurita's both gave Teresa some good advice...tell your bro the truth and take some responsibility for her part of the drama. SHOCKINGLY after a GIANT BUN ALERT, Teresa SORT of came clean that MAYBE she'd done some things she's not proud of.  She came clean at Albie and Chris's flavor tasting. The tasting didn't go well flavor wise, but Teresa and her bro finally hugged out. To end the season, all the families went alllll the way to the Jersey Shore, to Teresa and Joe's gutted shore house, for a chilly BBQ where we learned that Milania knows what a muffin top is, Kathy's building her dream home, the Manzo's and Ashlee, moved back home, and the Gorga's sold their mansion for 3.8MM. Guess that's where they got the money for that Bentley.  Good season...can't wait for the reunion next week.

Breaking Bad
OMG, I so don't know how to handle this at all. I don't want to give anything away to anyone who hasn't watched Breaking Bad at all or to anyone who hasn't watched the finale yet. It just wouldn't be fair to you guys if I even spoiled one second of any episode, let alone the finale. BUT...I need to vomit out my feelings on the show soooo bad, so PLEASE SKIP THIS...it's a MASSIVE SPOILER ALERT.

For all of you that did watch finale, would you agree with me that it was EXACTLY what we needed. A complete wrap of, complete closure, answers across the board really.  Walt figured out how to make sure that Skyler, Finn and his sister would get the money he worked so hard for.  He threatened Gretchen and Elliot with the help of Badger, Skinny Pete and a couple of laser pointers. Did I forget that Gretchen was Susan on Friends? I think I did. Next on Walt's errand list, hook up with Todd and Lydia at their fave spot.  He must have visited the diner and the table prior to Lydia's arrival to get the ricin into the Stevia cause I didn't see anything weird when he was at the table. Did you? Walt proposed a meeting with Jack to discuss a new form of Meth without Meth. Before the big meeting in the desert, he finally admitted to Skyler that he did it all for himself.  He liked it, he was good at it and it all made him finally feel alive. Classic scene. He said goodbye to Holly who was sleeping in her crib watched Flynn come home from school. Then it was back to the desert to build some cool contraption. Walt hit Jack's place big time. First issue was to get Jessie's out of his prison cell.  The looks between the two of them were intense.  Walt got his hands on the Volvo car keys which he rigged to trigger his cool firing mechanism. Walt saved Jessie, killed Jack, before he revealed where all the money was, and let Jessie brutally kill Todd with his chains.  Jessie got himself free and was about to kill Walt, but saw that he was already dying so he left him there to die.  For a second I thought he was going to run Walt over with the car, but he didn't.  Walt went down to the lab...his happy place.  The cops show up just as Walt leaves us all.  Great tune to send us all out...Badfinger's "Baby Blue". Brilliant episode. Satisfying closure for us all. No loose ends. Perfect from beginning to end, from the first episode of the first season to the last episode of the last season.  Thanks Vince! A ride we will all never forget!

Homeland
Pretty good season premiere of Homeland last night even though it was Brody-less.  No Brody, but then again, we aren't supposed to know where he is right? Saul can't find HIM but he was able to find and kill 6 key terrorists with Wizard of Oz code names around the world at the EXACT same time 2 months after the attack on Langley that ended last season. Pretty impressive for Saul.  Carrie's back to being an emotional wreck.  A bit of a slow boil last night for her.  At the first part of her hearing they surprised her with Brody's confidential immunity deal document and then at the second part of her hearing they accused her of lying about where she was during the bombing and if all that wasn't enough, her relationship with Brody was splashed on the front page of the paper. She's off her meds again, which is the Carrie we love the most right? Big maps, lots of string, and photos are back on the wall, she's drinking, picking up strangers who like it on the stairs (only on TV do people do it on the stairs...I mean really...again, that's another blog, but I just had to comment) and making scenes at Capitol Grille.  Dana's out of the psych ward, but her facial expressions haven't changed at all, she's into texting topless selfies to her new psychmate BF, Leo, which you know will get her into trouble in some way down the road.  Of course there's an internal leak on Saul's team...there's always someone on the inside, remember 24? Great premiere, next week I won't be so drained when I watch it.  

NEWS & INFORMATION

-Unforgettable, which I actually did forget about, has been renewed by CBS for next Summer for all of you fans who remember to watch it each week. 

-Because I consumed all things Breaking Bad over the weekend to reconcile the end of the show, this was one I thought you'd enjoy.  Nothing  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cqvFDdzsjEc#t=64

-I hope Lauren Zalaznick's departure from NBCU is really a good thing for her.  I attribute the Bravo we all know and love to her (and Andy Cohen).  She pretty much built it from the ground up and announced last week that after 12 years, she's splitting.  Senior leadership changed her role right after the Comcast takeover, so no idea what's really going on with her, but I personally would like to thank her. Bravo is one of my favorite places to go for a fun break from my reality to theirs and she's one of the main reasons why. So, I hope her next chapter is as good as her last!  Good Luck Lauren!

-With so much TV to watch, I wasn't on Netflix over the weekend, but supposedly now they are streaming in Super HD, anything Super is supposed to be better right?  Look, I'm all for better, but instead of going to Super HD, could they just add ALL the titles they have in their arsenal to the streaming side of things. This is why I complained the last time.  There just isn't as much to stream on Netflix as you'd think. Sure it's great for binge viewing and stuff, but I have a list of movies I'm dying to see that are STILL not available to stream on Netflix. C'mon guys...you're getting more money from all of us, now give us the content too! 

Monday's Trivia Question: I know not EVERYONE was watching Breaking Bad last night, but I just had to do a trivia question from the finale...What cassette tape did Walt find in the glove compartment of the Volvo? 

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