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Ratings Clack – Idol returns, and Jethro doesn’t care

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 […]

by Brett Love

The Good Wife needs to do a better job vetting the help

There was something off about Molly (Betty Gilpin) on last night’s episode of The Good Wife. First of all, I know she said that she’d been a full-time nanny in the past, but someone going for a double graduate degree picking up odd babysitting hours? It seemed too much like she was either sent in […]

by Aryeh S.

Ratings Clack – Heroes “performing very strongly”

At least, that’s the delusion that Angela Bromstad (President, Primetime Entertainment, NBC and Universal Media Studios) seems to be operating under. Asked about the show at NBC’s TCA presentation, Bromstad said, “”It’s been performing very strongly in its 8 p.m. time slot.” I would argue that finishing in fourth place every week, and losing to […]

by Brett Love

Did I see a bit of envy in The Good Wife’s eyes when Maria got her divorce?

I’m conflicted as to whether or not I enjoyed the commingling of Alicia’s legal career and the saga of Peter’s indiscretions on last night’s episode of The Good Wife. On the one hand, it definitely added some positive drama to what otherwise could have been viewed as boring legal stories. On the other, the focus […]

by Aryeh S.

Ratings Clack – Three hours of new scripted? For the week?

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 […]

by Brett Love

CBS Tuesday night lineup – Clacking the dream

Tuesday night on CBS offers me nothing but headaches. At one timeslot, that stems from my need to scramble around for options; at another, it’s because of a programming overload. Problems, problems. And this on a night that was once heavy on pre-reality show reality shows, like Rescue 911, 60 Minutes II, and Promised Land […]

by Aryeh S.

CliqueClack’s mid-season report card: the networks

Believe it or not, we have reached the mid-point in the 2009-10 television season. Unlike the past few years, this season may turn out to be one of the most successful. Thanks in part to some new and old comedies. After years of shunning comedy scripts for proceurals and serialized dramas, the networks have filled their schedules with some laughs rather than sobs.

by Richard Keller
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