The Academy Awards was the big winner for the week, managing to top the ‘Idol’ juggernaut. ‘Idol’ was still huge for FOX, while CBS had great showings from ‘2 ½ Men’, ‘Big Bang’, and ‘NCIS’. ‘SVU”s return to 10 PM was a bright spot for NBC.
It was a bit of a slow week of television. Football on FOX sent all the other networks scrambling on Sunday. Then Obama took over all the channels on Wednesday. Add in an oddly quiet Thursday and we had three pretty weak nights of numbers. Not to worry though, there was still the occasional cause […]
FOX has been waiting all season to drop the big hammer, and the time has finally come. Idol returned last week, and the ripple effect of adding over 20 million viewers to Tuesday and Wednesday was felt by a number of shows, but not all of them. Despite Idol adding some 24 million viewers to […]
The story of the week couldn’t help but creep into this week’s Quotation Marks. Yes, Conan just got paid 30 million to just walk away. It’s about as opposite from, “I hate to watch you go, but love to watch you leave,” as you possibly could get, eh? The Tonight Show “Hello, my name is […]
Carissa’s back Guest-Clacking for us today, after a long, long time away (and writing about not trusting network television). We’re glad you’re back Guest-Clacking, Carissa! 1. It’s impossible to not love Scott Foley I was never a Noel fan. I was Ben all the way. Noel was a little too needy and lacked confidence. He […]
What the heck were you watching last week? More than likely, it wasn’t network television. Faced with the coming holiday shenanigans of their viewers, all of the broadcast networks threw in the towel. In fact, there were only three new hours of scripted television last week. Even worse, all three of those hours could be […]
It was another very holiday week on television, with schedules full of repeats and seasonal specials. CBS was the only network that really tried, and it paid big dividends. With all new programming on Monday through Thursday the network won all 12 hours in viewers, and 11 of them in the demo. Of course, just […]
