THE ANSWER TO TUESDAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION: Rob Lowe played Robert McCallister on Brothers & Sisters
FIRST FIVES: James Gabriele, Mike O'Dea, Karen Feldman, John Romeo & Jim SontagHONORABLE MENTION:Priscilla Paez
THE NUMBERS Sunday's Cable Top 5
Game of Thrones-HBO 3.6/6.6
Real Housewives of Atlanta-Bravo 1.6/3.6
Silicon Valley-HBO 1.1/1.9
Married to Medicine-Bravo 1.1/2.4
Big Bang Theory-TBS .9/2.2
Monday's Broadcast Top 5
NCAA Championship-CBS 7.2/21.2 (Down 23% vs. last year)
The Voice-NBC 3.5/11.9
Dancing with the Stars-ABC 2.2/14.4
The Big Bang Theory-CBS 2.0/6.8
Bones-FOX 1.6/6.5
Monday's Cable Top 5
WWE Monday Night Raw-USA 1.8/5.2
Basketball Wives LA-VH1 1.2/2.2
Big Bang Theory-TBS 1.0/2.2
Bates Motel-A&E 1.0/2.2
Black Ink Crew-VH1 1.0/1.7
Monday's Top 5 Nielsen Twitter Ratings WWE Monday Night Raw-USA 364,000 Tweets Basketball Wives LA-VH1 178,000 Tweets The Voice-NBC 66,000 Tweets Dancing With the Stars-ABC 66,000 Tweets Bates Motel-A&E 34,000 Tweets
THE SHOWS Glee Okay, WTF is wrong with the GLEE writers? Everyone at McKinley graduated a couple of weeks ago which made no sense but we went with it, right? Now everyone in NYC at NYADA is performing their Mid-Winter critique? How exactly is that possible? Did we skip a year or something? Are they on Quadmesters? Totally ridiculous. Okay, now that I have that off my chest…another complaint. What's with all the Broadway tunes? I like knowing the songs the gang is performing. I think "Natural Woman" was the only song I knew this week. Complaint #3. Sam and Mercedes? Not buying it at all. No chemistry…none. Complaint #4. Didn't Blaine JUST get accepted to NYADA? How could he be evaluated in the Mid-Winter critique.The Kurt beating was upsetting, but it did bring the best Dad in the universe back to the show. Any excuse to see Burt Hummel is fine by me. Come on Ryan Murphy, I know you're busy with movies and American Horror Story but hoping you haven't entirely checked out of Glee. You made a commitment, send this show off the right way.
The Goldbergs
I was SO excited for The Goldbergs "7 Minutes in Heaven" episode and of course it did not disappoint. All of us have been to that awkward 7MIH party. I don't recall our parties including any one's embarrassing sibling, smelly cheese or oysters, but the rest of it was just like I remember. Of course I don't think any one's Mom was EVER in the closet with any of the party guests but we're talking Bev Goldberg, the SMOTHER IN THE CLOSET. Classic Bev. Also classic: Geraldo Rivera's opening of Al Capone's vault, (Total bust if you recall) velour clothing of any kind, Scott Baio posters, Bob Ross the painter, Pac Man watches and The Cure. Name the song for 10 points. I need to check to see if there were tasers, pheromones and laser tag helmet back in nineteen eight something, I feel like those could have been later than the 80's. My laser tag didn't have helmets did yours? Funny that Adam's first kiss included those helmets though. COME ON ABC...I NEED CONFIRMATION OF SEASON 2!Chasing Maria Menonous This shows really cute, I really like it. I didn't know much at all about Maria Menonous. I'm never home to watch Access Hollywood, so I only know Maria and Keven from Howard Stern. If Howard likes Maria, then I like Maria that's just the way I roll. So if you remember from last week, Keven decided to convert to Greek Orthodox for Maria and her family. This week they went home to Boston to tell Keven's Mom, Kathie. I was expecting Kathie to be super evil and mean but she obviously loves and cares about her son and only wants him to succeed. Kathie was a bit of a ball buster towards Maria but not at all as bad as Maria made her out to be. Maybe that was intentional. You can do a lot with editing. It's a little weird that Keven calls Kathie "Mother" I don't know think I know anyone that calls their Mom, Mother. Kathie's head didn't explode when Keven told her he was converting. Maybe having the camera's there helped him. Who knows, she just wasn't as bad as I think we were all expecting. After they broke the news, Keven and Maria did a trip down memory lane. Apparently they were broke and homeless and sold sausages at Fenway back in the day. It's hard to get past how beautiful Maria is sometimes, now I know why Howard loves her so much. She also wears this really cool ring that I'm now obsessed with and need to research. Anyway, Chasing Maria's a good show, I gave it a Season Pass last night, if you're into reality shows, you'll like this one. I promise.
Resurrection No big revelations this week. Nothing really explained at all. The only interesting development is that Tom-the-pastor's ex, who came back after killing herself, is pregnant with Tom's kid. So she died pregnant and came back pregnant. We did learn a little bit about Bellamy and why he's so invested in Jacob, but all in all nothing super juicy. With Sunday's getting insane again, hard choices need to be made. What are you guys watching LIVE on Sunday's? I already loaded the biggies for this coming Sunday to the right. Let me know, I want to watch what you guys are watching. THE OTHER STUFF -It was pretty much a no brainer that Game of Thrones would be renewed. Seasons 5 and 6 are a go. I didn't read the books, but from what I understand, the final books aren't even written yet right? So I'm guessing as long as we keep watching, HBO will keep the show coming back until the story's over and technically, I guess, the story could go on forever. Name the author of the Game of Thrones books for 10 points.
-If you've got an Xbox and you missed the premiere of Game of Thrones Sunday night, good news. As of yesterday, you can stream it for free until 4/14. This is all part of Microsoft's plans to bring more subscribers to their Xbox streaming service. Game of Thrones has always been one of the most illegally viewed shows out there. Sunday's show was illegally viewed 1.1 million times within the first 15 hours of the shows airing.
-Bravo released a whole bunch of info on new shows and returning shows. I was happy to see that Below Deck will be back for a 2nd season. I really enjoyed the first season of crazy people on yachts. Also coming back:
Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, Season 7 Top Chef, Season 12 The Millionaire Matchmaker, Season 8 The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Season 7 The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Season 6 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Season 5 Shahs of Sunset, Season 4 Vanderpump Rules, Season 3 Don't Be Tardy..., Season 3 Fashion Queens, Season 3 Newlyweds, Season 2 and Season 3 Thicker Than Water, Season 2 Blood, Sweat and Heels, Season 2 Watch What Happens Live
New to the lineup…Manzo'd with Children starring Caroline Manzo and her family. I bet that's making Teresa Giudice NUTS!
- If you're an aspiring comedy writer or if you know an aspiring comedy writer, check this out. Beginning May 1st, you can submit your ideas for either a network comedy show or a digital comedy show to NBC. 2 shows will get 6 episode commitments and will run in the Summer of 2015. One show will be produced for a digital run. Here are the details, Good Luck:
http://www.nbccomedyplayground.com/#/home
-I'm guessing that by now, anyone who has Direct TV has figured out where else to get their weather information since they haven't had The Weather Channel in 3 months, but if you are still not sure if you should grab an umbrella or a heavier coat, guess what, The Weather Channel's back. The two companies finally made nice and worked it out and all of you Direct TV people can breathe easy and tune in to Sam Champion asap. Wednesday's Trivia Question: E, Ari and Emily were all in a show together. Name the show. For bonus points name the shows they are all currently starring in. Hint. All of their current shows are on the air right now.
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