6th Grade Homework is killing me! The Voice, Smash and The Real Housewives Reunion's all I Got In Last Night

April starts completely fresh, so remember to get all of your correct Trivia answers in regardless of what time it is.  They all count toward the monthly prize! 

The answer to Tuesday's Trivia Question: Wow! What a response rate to yesterdays question! I think it was a record breaker.  Couple of firsts: One loyal reader was in email jail and called personally to get her answer in! Then, another loyal reader was the only person to

FIRST FIVES: Karen Hadley, James Schiro, Ed Ziskind Neil Strahl, & Katie McCartney

Honorable Mention:Heather Doyle

Super Honorable Mention goes to Melissa Mattiace for knowing that there was really 2 possible answers to Tuesday's question.  I was looking for Steve Carrell, but Mindy Kalling would have been acceptable as well! Congrats Melissa!

Sunday's Cable Top 5
The Walking Dead 9pm-AMC 6.4/12.4
The Bible-History 3.0/11.7
The Talking Dead-AMC 2.6/5.1
Game of Thrones-HBO 2.4/4.3
The Walking Dead 8pm-AMC 1.6/3.3

Monday's Broadcast Top 5
The Voice-NBC 4.6/13.0
Revolution-NBC 2.3/6.6
Castle-ABC 2.2/11.7
The Following-FOX 2.2/6.5
Dancing with the Stars-ABC 2.1/13.7

Monday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
The Voice-NBC 367,326
Dancing with the Stars-ABC 159,325
Castle-ABC 73,895
The Following-FOX 70,883
The Carrie Diaries-CW 47,788

Monday's Cable Top 5 
WWE-USA 1.6/4.4
Teen Mom 2-MTV 1.4/2.3
Bates Motel-A&E 1.2/2.8
Love and Hip Hop-VH1 1.0/1.7
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills-Bravo 1.0/2.1

Monday's Cable Trendrr Top 5

WWE Monday Night Raw-USA 306,530

Bates Motel-A&E 93,997

Love & Hip Hop-VH1 78,058

NBA Basketball-NBA TV 74,015

NBA Basketball-NBA TV 50,455

The Voice

Usher's left leg was propped up, everyone was still in the same clothes and I've been meaning to discuss the tiny holes in Adam's white T-Shirt.  These look like moth holes or something. I can't imagine he paid for those holes, but, who knows?  As always, lots of great performances. My personal fave was Patrick Dodd who made it to Team Adam, but the best part of the show was really the first audition when Audrey Karrasch sang "Price Tag" and Blake turned around first. Adam didn't turn around at all and when he went to talk to her, she give him crap about not turning around. I loved her for it even though she dissed my boy.  I think everyone was shocked that she chose Usher over Blake.  This girl's got somethin...balls I think you'd call them.

Splash
I can't even describe the oddness of Joey Lawrence's hair on Splash. Joey was sooo cute back in the day.  What happened to him?  Last night they even showed a photo of his super cool hair from back in the Blossom days.  Now, the color is odd, the cut is odd, and he looks a bit overbotoxed in the forehead region.  Let's get back to diving. This week, the "celeb" divers were paired up for team diving.  Oddest pairing? Kareem Abdul Jabar and Louis Anderson hilarious.  Nicole Eggert and Brandi Chastain were all psyched to be paired up together deeming themselves the "Mom divers".  Then, Greg Louganis and Dave ripped off their shirts, donned their Speedos and showed the "celebs" how it's done. Man, Greg Louganis looks amazing...he's freaking 53 years old!  Melissa Joan Hart, Joey's co-star, on Melissa and Joey (so original) was in the audience to chat with Joey and conveniently promote their show that returns in May. Drake and Katherine Webb, who's like a foot taller than him, did a really cool dive and I think  Katherine had a bit of a wardrobe malfunction after hitting the water. Kendra's annoying fear of heights forced her to screw over her partner and get eliminated. So all that suspense for NOTHING! No voting necessary, Kendra's just sent packing. Kendra's a killbuzz.

Real Housewives Reunion Part 2
Pretty much a continuation of Real Housewives Reunion of Part 1.  Lots of tears, lots of fighting, and Andy trying to keep everyone calm.  I don't know if it was my imagination, but Andy really seemed to be irritated more than normal 

Cougar Town
TV in the bedroom 
John Hughes the Breakfast Club
Laurie's lipstick 
Narration
Courtney's call out to her own cleavage
Simpotence
Travis and Andy
Breakfast Club ending they all got in trouble and
A Goody Two Shoes, a freeloader, a Dick, and a firestarter and a criminal, and 
Laurie 
The Grocery Store Club
including the dance but not to the same song

NEWS & INFORMATION:

-Bravo announced a ton of new shows for the 13/14 season. 17 to be exact. That's a LOT! I'll read about thme all and check out the videos and get back to you on which ones I'll be watching. They also renewed a ton of our faves: Shahs of Sunset, Flipping Out, Housewives of NJ, NY, BH, Miami and Atlanta, Top Chef, Million Dollar Listing, Vanderpump Rules, and of course Watch What Happens Live (What's Andy going to do, fire himself?). I didn't see Million Dollar Decorators on the list of renewals or Orange County Housewives. Waiting for some confirmations.

-I didn't think it needed to even be announced, but HBO formerly announced that Game of Thrones season 4 is guaranteed. Duh guys!

Wednesday's Trivia Question: Continuing the TV/Movie connecton theme,  I name a TV show and a movie that share a common actor or actress. So here goes: General Hospital and St. Elmo's Fire.  Name the actress.

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Splash is train wreck TV...In a good way!

The answer to Tuesday's Trivia Question: Vincent Chase from Entourage starred in Queens Boulevard, Aquaman, Medellin and Smoke Jumpers

FIRST FIVES:Brian Gould, Bobby Aguilera, James Schiro, Lance Beitler, Toria Garrett

Honorable Mention: Jennifer Ragusa

Sunday's Cable Top 5

Game of Thrones (Yeah)-HBO 2.4/4.7
MTV Movie Awards-MTV 2.0/3.7
Real Housewives of Atlanta-Bravo 1.8/3.5
Married to Medicine-Bravo 1.3/2.6
Vikings (Yeah!)-History 1.2/3.4

(For the record, Mad Men landed in 10th place with a 1.0/2.6)

Monday's Broadcast Top 5
The Voice-NBC 5.1/14.2
Terror in Boston-NBC 3.1/8.8
How I Met Your Mother-CBS 2.6/6.5
2 Broke Girls-CBS 2.3/7.4
Dancing with the Stars-ABC 2.2/13.4

Monday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
The Voice-NBC 235,898
Dancing with the Stars-ABC 94,040
The Following-FOX 60,480
Bates Motel-A&E 90,899
MLB Baseball-ESPN 49,451

Monday's Cable Top 5 
WWE-USA 1.6/4.1
Love & Hip Hop-VH1 1.4/2.3
Teen Mom 2-MTV 1.4/2.1
Bates Motel-A&E 1.1/2.6
Defiance-Syfy 1.0/2.7

Monday's Cable Trendrr Top 5

WWE Monday Night Raw-USA 259,488

Love & Hip Hop-VH1 109,852

NBA Basketball-NBA TV 96,187

Bones-FOX 43,880

How I Met Your Mother-CBS 42,273

Hart of Dixie
This week on Hart of Dixie, the town of Bluebell hosted a Shakespeare Festival fundraiser, because as I always mention, all CW shows that I watch have to have an event of some kind in every episode. A party, festival, parade, prom, fundraiser, dance, etc. This week was no exception. Prior to the festival, Zoey and George shared a moment when they both went to get their Sunday NY Times. This lead to Zoey having one of those "George dreams" (I've had those, but mine have been centering around Jax from Sons of Anarchy) which lead to Zoey on Brick's couch since for some bizarro reason Brick became "therapist for the week" to all Bluebell residents. Brick suggested staying away from George but since this is Bluebell, the smallest town ever, Zoey and George ended up playing Romeo and Juliet in the festival since Tanzy (redonkulous bod from How I Met Your Mother) had to bow out due to illness.  During their live performance, Zoey awkwardly changed the entire ending of the play so that she wouldn't have to kiss George, but George needed to kiss Zoey to prove to Tanzy that he didn't have feelings for Zoey anymore.  I'm pretty sure he doesn't, but of course Zoey still does.  On the other side of town, Wade and Lemon purchased the Rammer Jammer and went into business together which everyone thought was a bad idea, but since the writers needed some help with story lines, it'll probably end up working out. Upon opening, they realized they have no staff, no chef, nothing. They ended up finding a french chef (I know, I thought the same thing...In Bluebell???) who couldn't make grits which was a catastrophe to the entire town until Lemon turned things around with her recipe.  Day and business saved...for now.  Once again, Zoey was wearing a cool blouse that I tried to hunt down.  No luck.

The Voice
More Battle rounds, same Battle outfits and an angry Usher last night on The Voice. All week during promos for the show, NBC has been teasing the audience with clips of Usher scolding one of the guys on his team for not taking his performance seriously during the practice session.  Of course the promo teaser was way more compelling than what actually happened, but isn't that always the case? It's all in the editing. Last night only the first battle was really strong, the rest were sort of average.  

Splash
Okay, who watched Splash last night? Did you see the total scam at the beginning? Does ABC think we really believed that Joey and what's her name were diving off the 10M boards? COME ON GUYS! We aren't that stupid!!!  And if you're going to even have Joey jump into water at least make us happy and have him in shorts instead of keeping him fully clothed. No fair ABC.  Apparently, Katherine Webb got "hurt" last week and had to drop out which meant that Louis Anderson came back in her place. Gotta give this guy credit, 400lbs and he jumped off the 10M board in a crazy American flag suit. Now THAT is must see TV! Kareem Abdul Jabar looked like he got his bell rung when he came out of the water after his dive, but he was okay. Who'd have thought that Nicole Eggert would do so well? She's come a long way in a short amount of time. She could win this thing. Don't you think that Judge Steve looks exactly like a current day Roger Daltrey? This show is train wreck good...

NEWS & INFORMATION:

-How would they know if I'm at work but not doing work?

-Fox yanked a recent Family Guy episode from a bunch of websites including fox.com, and Hulu, after some moron edited clips of a March episode called "Turban Cowboy", to make it seem like the show predicted the Boston bombing.  Fox isn't planning on airing the episode, again.  They also chose to swap out an episode of New Girl since there was a bomb type reference included there as well.

-I'm not a huge Science Fiction fan, but I've been following Syfy's new transmedia event/show/game Defiance for over a year. For anyone that's not familiar with it, the show is set in the future, and introduces viewers to an exotically transformed planet Earth which has been permanently altered following the arrival of seven unique alien races. In this newly-formed civilization humans and aliens must learn to co-exist peacefully. Each week, viewers follow the drama set in the town of Defiance, which sits atop the ruins of St. Louis, Missouri.  In the Defiance game, players will experience the new frontier of the San Francisco Bay area. The show launched Monday night and delivered 2.7 million total viewers, 1.3 million A18-49, but more interestingly, more than 6 million gameplay hours worldwide.  It's truly a "gamechanger" in more ways than one. I'll let you know how things progress.

-The film academy announced yesterday that Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will be back next year to once again produce the 2014 Academy Awards. Now they need to get busy and find a host. Last years goal was to bring back the younger viewers and Zadan and Meron and Seth MacFarlane achieved that goal and increased ratings to the highest in years.

-For all you Breaking Bad fans who have an hour to kill, Conan O'Brian interviewed the entire cast and the writer/creator Vince Gilligan. Check it out here: http://www.amctv.com/breaking-bad/videos/conan-obrien-interviews-the-breaking-bad-cast-and-creator

-Nothing to do with TV, but I couldn't sleep last night and found this on Mashable...history of music in 4 minutes. These guys are ultra talented, check them out. This one's only 4 minutes:
http://mashable.com/2013/04/16/evolution-of-music/

Wednesday's Trivia Question: Who's was Hank, Phil, Arthur, and Paula's 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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