The first results of NBC’s Olympic promotion are in, and they’re not encouraging. Over on cable, the news was much better for TNT with their big series finale for ‘The Closer’, and premiere of ‘Major Crimes’.
This week you’ll find new sets for ‘Hatfields & McCoys’, ‘House’, ‘NCIS’, ‘Revenge’, ‘NCIS’, ‘The Closer’, ‘Mike & Molly’, ‘Wallander’, ‘Perry Mason’, ‘Tom & Jerry’, ‘Super Hero Squad’, ‘Shakugan no Shana’, ‘Tiny Toon Adventures’, ‘Tintin’, and ‘Power Rangers’.
The Olympics continued to dominate all of television, moving into position to pass the Beijing games as the most watched TV event in US history. On cable, ‘Dallas’ wrapped season one on a good note.
Next up on the DVD shelves are ‘Dexter’, ‘Glee’, ‘Community’, ‘Doctor Who’, ‘Happy Endings’, ‘Demons’, ‘Vega$’, ‘Angry Beavers’, ‘Power Rangers’, ‘X-Men’, ‘TMNT’, ‘Smurfs’, ‘Trinity Blood’, ‘Elmo’, ‘Chuggington’, and ‘Pawn Stars’.
The London Olympic Games took over all of television last week. The networks largely went with the run and hide philosophy. The shows that did brave the games met with varied success, and failure.
Tuesday brings sets for ‘Grimm’, ‘Parenthood’, ‘Strike Back’, ‘Huff’, ‘Family Guy’, ‘Let It Shine’, ‘The Rookies’, ‘Gunsmoke’, ‘Born Free’, ‘Dennis The Menace’, ‘Garrow’s Law’, ‘Dirty Jobs’, ‘One Piece’, ‘World God Only Knows’, ‘Squidbillies’, and ‘Dr Seuss’.
If there’s one thing we all have learned by this point… people, in the general, do like a good opening ceremony. As expected, the ‘Olympic Games’ got off to a great start for NBC. Over on cable, the starts weren’t quite as good for ‘Warehouse 13′ and ‘Alphas’.
