After the dramatic entrance of V last week, there were no similar big splash stories to lead things off this week. Then, as I was perusing the year-ago numbers, something occurred to me. It’s quite possible that FOX could improve both Monday and Thursday at 9:00 if they swapped Fringe and Lie To Me. If […]
A combination of baseball and pre-sweeps repeats made for a bit of an odd week. Repeats don’t mean there aren’t numbers of note however. We had Jay Leno’s first shot against CSI: Miami and NY repeats, and a look at what running repeats on Friday does for FOX. That is, nothing good for Dollhouse season […]
A round-up of some of our old Halloween-themed posts from the past year.
It was a strange week for ratings. Brett Favre playing against Green Bay made for a huge Monday Night Football (21.84m/9) audience on ESPN. And then the baseball playoffs ran through the rest of the week, calling a lot of the seemingly odd drops in viewers into question. Despite that increased competition, there was some […]
Check one item off the list I made earlier this week. Not that it was much of a surprise coming from Parker and Stone, but they went ahead and spoofed Michael Jackson right from the get-go. Actually, they went ahead and spoofed the slew of celebrity deaths from the past year, including Walter Cronkite, Ed […]
It’s another week where the ratings news from cable is much more interesting than anything happening on the networks. The big story was the premiere of Project Runway (finally) on Lifetime, but there was plenty more fun to be had. Also getting in on the premiere game was Mad Men, Kourtney and Khloe, Hoarders, Ghost […]
(Season 4, Episode 28 – “Portsmouth Lighthouse” – Season Finale) Finally, the episode of Ghost Hunters that I got to see filmed back in October aired tonight. I was definitely curious to see how two nights of shooting would translate into an hour-long show. As it turns out, there’s a bit of stuff I was […]
