Tori, Deadliest and the Ladies of London

THE ANSWER TO TUESDAY'S EASY TRIVIA QUESTION: Kerry Washington plays Olivia Pope on Scandal

FIRST FIVES:  Mike O'Dea, Justin Jones, Jim Wall, Megan Quirk & Alex Nagler

HONORABLE MENTION: Daniel Block 

THE NUMBERS 

Sunday's Cable Top 5
Game of Thrones-HBO 3.9/7.2
NHL Finals-NBC Sports Net 1.5/4.1
Real Housewives of Atlanta-Bravo 1.0/2.4
Silicon Valley-HBO .9/1.7
Bar Rescue-Spike .9/1.7

Monday's Broadcast Top 5
American Ninja Warrior-NBC 1.9/5.2
24-FOX 1.8/6.2
The Bachelorette-ABC 1.7/6.5
MasterChef-FOX 1.7/5.0
Last Comic Standing-NBC 1.3/4.2

Monday's Cable Top 5 
Love & Hip Hop-VH1 1.8/3.5
WWE-USA 1.6/4.4
Hit the Floor-VH1 1.0/2.1
Swamp People-History 1.0/3.5
Family Guy-Adult Swim .9/2.0

Monday's Top 5 Nielsen Twitter Ratings 

Love & Hop Hop-VH1 836,000 Tweets

WWE Monday Night Raw-202,000 Tweets

Hit the Floor -VH1 86,000 Tweets

The Bachelorette-ABC 83,000 Tweets

24-FOX 18,000 Tweets

THE SHOWS

True Tori Reunion

I know most of you are skipping this section, you aren't watching and that's cool, but I gotta say…all of us have had that conversation with our friends. We've all asked each other, "if you're spouse cheated on you, could you forgive? Could you stay with him/her? Everyone's answer is different. Tori and Dean's story and their answers have been played out before us on national television. People had their doubts about why anyone would allow cameras to film it all and honestly, I felt guilty watching it all, but I have to give both Tori and Dean credit for their courage. What went down was real, and raw and brutal. Last night some chick named Brooke Anderson who I'd never heard of before, hosted a reunion show that brought us all up to speed on their current situation. Net/net, they're in a decent place. Brooke had Tori's BFF, Mehran, she had her friends Wolf and Jess and of course Dr. Anne Wexler the psychiatrist with the best hair ever weighing in. All of them supported Tori and Dean throughout this process and all of them obviously have very different opinions on what they'd do if it happened to them.  Tori and Dean are together at this point and while it was ultra cheesy, Dean sang his heart out at the end of the show and I hate to admit it, but my eyes did well up with tears. I'm rooting for these guys. I really am. 

Deadliest Catch

Bairdi season is o…v…e…r. The Cape Caution Greenhorn, Kelly Collins, made it through but highly unlikely we'll ever see him on any deck ever again. Junior's back surgery went well. Hopefully he'll be able to fish again but I have my doubts. Elliot went to rehab in Taos, NM and Monty, even after his major screw up, met his quota and the gang got through the season. Unfortunately some fisherman didn't return home from the season. Sad right? Next week, The Harris's and the Cornelia Marie return which is one of the things I've been waiting for,  but I really want to see Sig's daughter on deck. That's what Discovery promised me, now where is she? 

Ladies of London
Hated it. It's that simple. I thought it would be fun, it wasn't. The Americans came across like idiots, the Brits are snobs, there's nobody likable or interesting at all. Don't bother.

THE OTHER STUFF

- I rarely report on on casting news, but I swear, I called it that Corey Stoll would be a big deal and with the news that he would be joining the Homeland cast I feel vindicated. For anyone who doesn't know who Corey Stoll is, you need to stop reading this blog and go watch House of Cards. When you're done, you'll agree with me on the Corey Stoll thing. 

-On Monday night's Tonight Show, my FBFF sent the real Ryan Lewis from Macklemore and Ryan Lewis out to Bryant Park to see if anyone knew who he was and what he does. As usual…hilarious. I consider myself a huge fan of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis and I totally would have known it was him, but I don't know if I would have been able to tell you what he actually does. Check it out: http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/segments/6711

Wednesday's SUPER EASY Trivia Question: Name Tori Spelling's character on the original Beverly Hills 90210. For a bonus give me the chant. You'll know what I mean if you're a real 90210 fan. 

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I know most of you watched the Rangers, but I watched Orphan Black, Deadliest Catch and True Tori

THE ANSWER TO TUESDAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION: Wow! Only 5 people got yesterday's trivia question right. Michael Strahan is the current talk show host that starred in the show Brothers.  I've promised that June will be SUPER EASY MONTH. So just a few more days of tough ones. 

FIRST FIVES: Karen Feldman, Priscilla Paez, Jim Carter, Monica Caraffa & James Gabriele

HONORABLE MENTION:None! 

THE NUMBERS 

Friday's Cable Top 5
American Dad-Adult Swim .8/1.9
WWE Friday Night Smackdown-Syfy .7/2.5
Modern Family-USA .6/1.5
FX Movie-FX .6/1.3
Law & Order SVU-USA .6/1.6

Sunday's Cable Top 5
Still delayed

Monday's Broadcast Top 5
24-FOX 1.5/5.7
American Ninja Warrior-NBC 1.5/4.6
The Bachelorette-ABC 1.4/5.7
Friends with Better Lives-CBS 1.4/5.2
MasterChef-FOX 1.4/4.1

Monday's Cable Top 5 
Still delayed 

Monday's Top 5 Nielsen Twitter Ratings 

Love & Hip Hop Atlanta-VH1 599,000 Tweets

Hit the Floor-VH1 182,000 Tweets

WWE Monday Night RAW-163,000 Tweets

The Bachelorette-ABC 72,000 Tweets

The Boondocks-Adult Swim 15,000 Tweets

Top 5 DVR'ed Shows for the week of 5/5/14-5/11/14

Big Bang Theory-CBS From a 3.8 to a 6.4 (+68%)

Modern Family-ABC From a 2.9 to a 4.9 (+69%)

Blackllist-NBC From a 2.7 to a 4.4 (+63%)

Grey's Anatomy-ABC From a 2.5 to a 4.0 (+60%)

Marvel Agents S.H.I.E.L.D-ABC From a 1.9 to a 3.2 (+68%)

-HBO's The Normal Heart was seen by 1.4 million viewers the night it aired. This is almost half of what Behind the Candelabra delivered last Memorial Day but it still ranked 5th out of the 17 original movies HBO has premiered in the last 4 years. I'm betting that The Normal Heart will do well in Live+7 or longer. It's the kind of movie you NEED to be ready and in the mood for. It's heavy, so people may have taken that into consideration knowing the subject matter.

-The midseason finale of Mad Men delivered 1.9 million viewers on Sunday night which was down a LOT vs. the season 6 finale. 2.7 million people watched that one! Maybe everyone is as sick of Don Draper as I am.

THE SHOWS

In one room of my house the Ranger game was on. I LOVE sports…LOVE, but I will type it right here…I hate hockey. I've tried to watch it, I've tried to like it. I even went to the Hockey Hall of Fame this past weekend, but I just can't get into it. My guys love hockey and this Ranger insanity is out of hand at the moment. I lasted 10 minutes and then hit my DVR. 

Orphan Black

Orphan Black is still SO good but gotta admit, it's getting a bit confusing with all of the cast of characters and I'm not even talking about the girls! Dr. Leeky, Duncan/Peckham, Mrs. S. Art, his partner, Vic, Maggie, and the this list goes on and on. They're sort of straying from the characters I love the most like Allison, Cosima, Felix and Liam from Nashville. Of course the best character is Helena. She is one tough motherf-er. I don't like to find fault, but what was Sarah thinking leaving Helena alone in a car for who knows how long? Of course she'd get into trouble. I don't know how long Sarah was in the basement looking at files for, but it was long enough for Helena to drink 50 drinks, brake one guys finger, come on to and make out with another guy, rip the eyes out of the first guy and get arrested. The other thing I have an issue with is how EVERYONE seems to be able to find each other. They all think they aren't being followed and yet they all turn up at the same spot. A tad too convenient. Other that that…the show rules.   

Deadliest Catch
Catching crab was the least of it last night on Deadliest Catch. The Northwestern had engine trouble, Jonathan and Scotty Hilstrand changed jobs for 4 pots, Scott Cambell's in really bad shape with his back issues and may never fish again, Kelly Collins the greenhorn has a warrant out for his arrest, Elliot was still fighting with Val, went off the wagon and left the boat to go to rehab. Seems many of these guys struggle with addiction. As much as I love so many of the Deadliest Catch guys, I think their lives are probably pretty nutty. It probably takes a special kind of woman to stay with one of these guys and deal with all the crap that IS their normal. I know I couldn't do it. Plus I have a crazy sense of smell,  I'm sure I couldn't deal with the stench of Zig and Edgar when they come home after the season ends. 

True Tori Finale-sort of
The final episode of this stress filled, anxiety hour was basically this: Should Dean stay in L.A. with the family or go to Toronto to film Chopped Canada. Okay so I've  really simplified it for you. The truth is that it's all about trust. Dean would have had a major lawsuit on his hands if he walked away from his obligation and by the looks of things, money IS an issue. No help with the kids, no cleaning lady that I've seen. No car service to the airport, nada. Not sure where Candy Spelling has been in all of this, but Tori needs help, why isn't she there? Dean ended up going to Canada. He'll have to earn Tori's trust in order for them to make it and since it's all happening in nearly real time, we're not sure where things are right now. The good news…a special one night only show next week. Not sure if that still means that last nights episode was really the finale or if next weeks episode should be considered the finale. Regardless, I'll be watching. The scenes lead us to believe that there might have been other women prior to the one incident we know about. Hope not or Dean better get the tattoo we found out about last night removed. You know, the one above his privates that says "Tori's."  Tori is so obsessed with this idea of "Happily Ever After"  and the perfect fairytale marriage that I doubt she'll ever feel satisfied. 

THE OTHER STUFF

-A bit of a shakeup over at NBC with some restructuring. I don't know what the structure was before, but the network is doing away with separate development heads and grouping them in to one role. The woman who was the head of drama series development, Pearlena Igbokwe will now be EVP of drama programming and handle development. Vernon Sanders the former head of current programming will be EVP of comedy programming and head development as well. Tai Rabinowitz who was the head of comedy development is gone. These guys will all report o Jennifer Salke, NBC Entertainment President.

-The Television Critics Association released their nominations yesterday. Check out Best Drama nominees, their brutal: The Americans, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, House of Cards & The Good Wife.
Best Comedy: Big Bang Theory, Parks and Rec, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Louis, TheMindy Projuect and Veep
Individual Achievement in Drama: Bryan Cranston, Julianna Marguilies, Tatiana Maslana, Matthew McConaughey and Matthew Rhys
Individual Achievement in Comedy-Louis C.K. Mindy Kaling, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Jim Parsons and Amy Poehler
Outstanding Achievement in Reality Programming-Amazing Race, RuPaul's Drag Race, Shark Tank, Survivor and The Voice
Program of the Year-Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The Good Wife, Orange is the New Black and True Detective
The awards are given out on 7/19

-Game of Thrones fans...I'm warning you, this is really funny, but it's also got spoilers and some pretty major cursing in it. Seth Rogan and Snoop Dog (or Lion or whatever) smoking dope and talking Game of Thrones...check it out. Apologies if anyone's offended.
http://mashable.com/2014/05/26/game-of-thrones-seth-rogen-snoop-dogg/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link

-To celebrate Gay Pride Month, Showtime is re-airing full seasons of The "L" Word and Queer as Folk in June.  I've never seen The "L" Word, but I LOVED Queer as Folk. Gale Harold played Brian Kinney, one of the hottest, coolest guys ever. I'd definitely check it out if you've never seen it. I hope they run the first season, it had a great cliffhanger ending. Warning you in advance, it's pretty graphic.

-ABC Family's new show Chasing LIfe is available to check out right now on the ABC Watch App for anyone who wants to get a jump on it before the premiere on 6/3. I'm loving this strategy. Gives me a chance to decide early whether to get on the bandwagon or not.

-I know how much Les Moonves loves touting his #1 status, I wonder if having the 2nd highest salary of all CEO's will generate a call to the research department to start spinning numbers and turn this negative into a positive. . Sure he could say that out of all the MEDIA CEO's he's #1. Or he could tell Julie that he made nearly double what Bob Iger made and 109% more than Brian Roberts.  I can hear Julie now "but Les, you made SO much more than all those other guys…come on babe, how about some sushi and a little Good Wife…that'll cheer you up."

Wednesday's Trivia Question: Who played Guinan on Star Trek the Next Generation? 

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TRUE TORI is BRUTAL in one way and GLEE is BRUTAL in another. Thank God I have THE GOLDBERGS to balance things out!

THE ANSWER TO TUESDAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION: Tootie & Natalie/ Corky & Becca=Facts of Life Goes On

FIRST FIVES: Mike O'Dea, John Romeo, Bill McLaughlin, Candace Gorin & Jeff Pelegrini

HONORABLE MENTION: Kathy Connelly

THE NUMBERS 

Sunday's Cable Top 5
Game of Thrones-HBO 3.7/6.9
NBA Playoffs 10p- TNT 2.1/4.7
Real Housewives of Atlanta-TNT 1.8/4.1
NBA Playoffs 7p-TNT 1.6/3.7
Bar Rescue-Spike 1.1/1.8

Monday's Broadcast Top 5
The Voice-NBC 11.4/3.0
The Blacklist-NBC 2.7/10.8
Dancing with the Stars-ABC 2.4/15.1
2 Broke Girls-CBS 2.2/7.7
Mike & Molly-CBS 2.2/7.5

Monday's Cable Top 5
WWE Monday Night Raw-USA 1.8/4.6
NBA Playoffs 10p-TNT 1.8/3.9
NBA Playoffs 7p-TNT 1.4/3.4
Fast N Loud-Discovery 1.2/2.6
Basketball Wives-VH1 1.1/2.2 

Monday's Top 5 Nielsen Twitter Ratings 

The Voice-NBC 220,000 Tweets

Basketball Wives LA-VH1 218,000 Tweets

WWE Monday Night Raw-USA 193,000 Tweets

Dancing with the Stars-ABC 89,000 Tweets

Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon-22,000 Tweets

THE SHOWS

Glee
Didn't think that Glee could get any more annoying but, it could and it did. If you recall, Glee USED to be about a Glee club with many members. Now, it's the Rachel Berry show. Sure Lea Michelle has a great voice, but her character is my least favorite and it's all her all the time. I can't take it. That being said, for 5 years all Rachel's wanted was to be on Broadway. She's there 3 weeks and she's ready to give it all up for a TV show in LA? COME ON! The Shirley MacLaine thing was odd. She looked good with that wig, and she was good, but it still felt weird having her and Blaine performing Janis Joplin's " Piece of my Heart."Okay there were 2 crazy cameo's in the show last night, that's honestly all that kept me going really. One of them was Eric Roberts, I'll give you that one, but did you catch the TV executive with Cerebral Palsy? I totally know who she is and where we knew her from back in the day. If you do too...bonus points. I know next season is the last season, just don't know if I'll be back for it or not. 

The Goldbergs

Forget the entire first love thing with Erica and Drew and the Varsity jacket. Forget Bev and her buddy across the street. Forget tater tots. Let's talk about THE ARCADE! Come on…how many quarters did all of us blow at the arcade? We all remember Asteroids, Pacman and Centipede but Zaxxon and Punch-Out! I remember jonesin for quarters like Barry Norman Goldberg did. I was a Crystal Castles, Xevious and Qix obsessed lunatic.  I was right there in the dark arcade for hours on end. I took the laundry money, I searched the couch, my Mom's bag... anything for a quarter. So Barry Norman Goldberg…I feel ya! I even had that same Gant rugby. Couple a things though…were interventions and mood rings around in the 80's? I sort of remember mood rings in the 70's not so much in the 80's but I could be wrong. 
Did you get the "Kessel Run in 12 Parsecs" reference. Points if you did. Also as is always the case after an episode of The Goldbergs…name that tune for even more bonus points. 

Deadliest Catch

One of the OTHER reasons I gave up watching The Deadliest Catch (The first was the Captain Phil Harris thing remember?) was because it became the same old thing week after week. Pots with crab, pots without, bad weather, good weather, The Hanson's and the Hildenbrands, great greenhorns, crappy greenhorns. You know what I mean. So I came back this season because I want to see Zig's daughter on deck. First 2 episodes, we've got bad weather, some crews are on the crab some are off. One captain's struggling with back pain and one captain's struggling with a greenhorn pain but guess what…no appearance by Zig's daughter. Where is she? If she doesn't show up until the finale, I'm gonna freak out! 

Chasing Maria Menounos

I know you are all making fun of me for watching Chasing Maria, but I don't even care. I think I have a real girl crush on Maria. It's not the same as my thing for Emma Stone it's a full on girl crush. She's SO beautiful and looks SO good in every single thing she wears and has perfect teeth and perfect hair and she's funny and she likes Howard Stern and I'm intrigued by the fact that she covers Hollywood but yet she lives with her parents, works out alone in her basement without a trainer and has been with Keven for 15 years and all he lives to do his make her happy and ya know what. I get it Keven! I would want to make Maria happy too! I think now that "MOTHER" has finally gotten some quality time with Maria, she's under the Maria Menounos spell too! Poor Kev…bit of an issue with his testicles, and I don't want to call this clue out, but Kev has a major vein that's near his eye, so when the doctor announced that he also had a varicose vein around his privates, I wasn't THAT shocked. Light bulb moment…Lisa, Jeff Lewis's super mean client on Flipping Out is also…DUN DUN DUNNNNNN Maria Menounous's boss!  Small world...even smaller in Hollywood.

True Tori

I was all over the place watching this show last night. I felt guilty for intruding, I felt guilty for enjoying it if that's what I was feeling. Shock over the revelation that Dean was suicidal. Intrigued by how the production team dealt with all of it. I feel sad for this family. Sad for the couple, the marriage and of course for the kids who may not understand right now what's going on but someday, they'll see all of this and it will penetrate them forever. I commend Tori and Dean for their courage and honesty and their need and desire to share such intensely private emotions with all of us. I do think that it probably will help others realize they aren't alone. With all that being said, I also feel extremely manipulated. I have watched every episode of Tori & Dean's other shows (don't judge) and was always so happy for them and the love they found. I loved Dean and wanted to believe that he really really loved Tori. He seemed like he had his sh*t together, but did he then? We never knew Dean had alcohol issues and self loathing issues or anything. When I heard he cheated on Tori, I sort of felt like it was more of a Karma thing. Once a cheater always as a cheater. I mean Tori and Dean both cheated on their spouses with each other. So it was karma right? The stress is obviously taking it's toll on Tori, she looks emaciated. Luckily she has some great girlfriends and THE best celebrity therapist in Hollywood, Dr. Ann Wexler, remember her? It's the last day of the month. Points if you remember the other celeb couple we saw sit down in Dr. Wexler's office. 

THE OTHER STUFF

-I'm assuming that all my readers know what binge viewing is, but for any newbies, binge viewing is defined as watching 3 or more episodes of one series in a single sitting. I'm a big fan, but I don't think I would consider myself a frequent binge viewer based on the definition below. Anyway…a really cool Binge Viewing study was recently conducted and here's what I learned:

• 7 out of 10 U.S. TV viewers consider themselves binge-viewers
• A frequent binge viewer is defined as someone who binge watches a few times a week
• An infrequent binge viewer is defined as someone who binge watches once a month or less
• 17% of binge-viewers do so on a daily basis
• 63% of binge-viewers do so on a weekly basis
• 90% of binge-viewers do so on a monthly basis 
• frequent binge-viewers skew younger with 61%  being Millenials
• frequent binge-viewers are also more ethnically diverse with 34% being non-white
• frequent binge viewers are 2x more likely to have skipped showering or bathing because of their habit
• 27% of binge viewers said binge viewing makes them feel lazy
• 18% of binge viewers pay less attention to other aspects of their lives
• frequent binge viewers are 3x more likely to order take-out instead of cook OR skip a meal entirely
• 30% of binge viewers admit it makes them less active
• 43% of frequent binge viewers watch MORE TV overall and yet...
• 25% of frequent binge viewers get annoyed that they have nothing left to watch once they finish a series
• 2 out of every 5 people surveyed were willing to pay more if they could instantly have access to a full season of their fave show instead of having to wait. 
• Interestingly...frequent binge viewers are more prone to let commercials play and more likely to upgrade their cable subscriptions than infrequent viewers
• Binge viewers who are married or living with a significant other are more likely to binge-watch together than alone
• Women watch more procedurals than men
• Men watch more comedies and animated adult shows

- The Tony Award Nominations came out yesterday. I'm really not a huge Broadway person, but there are quite a few TV people nominated. Bryan Cranston, Chris O'Dowd, Tony Shalhoub, Tyne Daly to name a few. I recently saw Neil Patrick Harris in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. It was an insanely hypnotic and mesmerizing performance especially since he had JUST finished How I Met Your Mother. He sings and dances all in drag and all in huge platform heels. He deserves a Tony. I might actually watch the show this year just to see what happens when he performs and hopefully wins.

-Now it's official…Gwen Stefani in for Xtina Aguilera next season on The Voice. What are the odds that Gavin makes an appearance?

-I gave up Grey's a while ago. Didn't even know that Christina Yang got left at the alter by Dr. Burke. ABC's going to air Dr. Burke's last show from 2007 in the 8pm time slot this Thursday before Dr. Yang's final episode for those of you that still watch Meredith and McDreamy.

-FOX cancelled Almost Human last night before I went to bed. Anyone bummed?

-ANOTHER version of the french show The Returned is in the works. First we had the original, then we had ABC's sort of version, Resurrection and now A&E is working on a true remake of the french version. None of them have answers by the end of the first season, sooooo do we need to have 3 of the same show? I doubt I'll get sucked in to that! 

Wednesday's Trivia Question: Same theme...Eric McCormack and Brett Butler

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