THE ANSWER TO FRIDAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION: Julie Chen was the talk show host with a primetime gig which was the theme of the week. FIRST FIVES:Mike O'Dea, Vanessa Benfield, Karen Feldman, Monica Caraffa & Elke Raskob HONORABLE MENTION: Caryn Vitolo
Bonus Trivia Question #1 Sister Batrille was The Flying Nun
Bonus Trivia Question #2 Melissa Gilbert played Laura Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie
THE NUMBERS
Thursday's Broadcast Top 5 The Big Bang Theory-CBS 2.0/8.7
Last Comic Standing-NBC 1.6/4.6
Hell's Kitchen-FOX 1.6/4.5
Mom-CBS 1.5/6.3
Two and a Half Men-CBS 1.5/6.1
Thursday's Cable Top 5 NBA Playoffs-TNT 2.8/6.9
Pawn Stars-History 1.1/3.9
American Dad-Adult Swim 1.0/2.2
Big Bang Theory-TBS .9/2.2
NHL Finals-NBC Sports Net .8/2.1
Thursday's Top 5 Primetime Twitter Ratings Scripps Spelling Bee-ESPN 110,000 Tweets
Loiter Squad-Adult Swim 20,000 Tweets
Undateable-NBC 16,000 Tweets
Street League Skateboarding-FOX Sports 2,000 Tweets
Chelsea Lately-E! 1,000 Tweets
Friday's Broadcast Top 5 20/20-ABC 1.4/5.5
Dateline-NBC 1.3/7.0
Crossbones-NBC 1.1/4.8
What Would You Do-ABC 1.1/4.1
Shark Tank-ABC 1.0/4.3
Friday's Cable Top 5 NA
Friday's Top 5 Primetime Twitter Ratings
Marriage Boot Camp-WE 10,000 Tweets
Fashion Police-E! 9,000 Tweets
Crossbones-NBC 4,000 Tweets
Unguarded-CNN 1,000 Tweets
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives-Food 200 Tweets
Late Night Numbers for the Week of 5/19/14-5/23/14
Fallon-NBC 1.2/3.9
Kimmel-ABC .6/2.7
Meyers-NBC .6/1.6
Daily Show-Comedy Central .5/
Letterman-CBS .4/2.4
Nightline-ABC .4/1.6
Colbert-Comedy Central .4/
Ferguson-CBS .3/1.2
Conan-TBS .3/.7
Daly-NBC .3/.8
The Wrap posted these 2 late night charts. One is a year over year comparison and one is just a May vs. May comparison. Take a look:
Nurse Jackie The entire episode had Frank, Eddie and Antoinette helping Jackie through withdrawal. She was fine for awhile, then went through the nausea and vomiting stage, then the hallucination stage, then the fever and shakes stage and came through on the other side. Great cover, stuck in Miami during a hurricane. While she was detoxing, Grace's gal pal dumped her for losing her drugs. Thanks to Zoey, Grace went home to Mommy, had some animal shaped pancakes and just like that, Jackie's back on dope. DAMN IT JACKIE!
Orphan Black I know of only a few readers that watch this show. My friend Brett got me to watch it and now I need you guys to watch it too. It's interesting and a great story that I really don't want to tell you much about. You've also never seen acting like Tatiana Maslany's. Since none of you are watching, it doesn't even pay to go in to what happened this week, especially since you guys will eventually get on this one, but man…the last 5 minutes of this weeks episode were super JUICY!
2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Chris Martin's induction of Peter Gabriele was brilliant. I wonder if he came up with bible thing himself. Chris was so cute and charming. Loved the Say Anything reference.
- Peter Gabriele looked really good. He wore his earpiece during his speech, one in, one out. Good acceptance speech, he seemed to get very emotional and then, he hit the piano and Chris Martin joined him. So glad that he did "In Your Eyes" it's my fave of his.
- Glenn Frey inducted Linda Ronstadt. I knew that Don Henley and Glenn Frey were in her back-up band and started the Eagles from there. Glenn's still cute. His hands looked a lot older than his face, but maybe that's because of all the guitar playing.
- Linda wasn't there. She doesn't travel anymore, she's has Parkinsons Disease and can no longer sing. Carrie Underwood, Bonnie Raitt, EmmyLou Harris, Stevie Nicks, and Sheryl Crow (who looked insanely amazing) all performed Linda's songs.
- Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine (had to look that one up) inducted Kiss. He did an incredible job with his induction speech. He got everyone pumped and on their feet.
- Kiss has sold 100 million albums worldwide and has 28 gold albums in the US which is more than any other American band. Pretty impressive numbers
- It was the 4 original members being inducted: Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Freehley and Peter Criss who was my fave. (He sang "Beth")
- Of course Gene spoke (Shannon was there, but Gene didn't thank her or anything)
- Peter Criss comes from Brooklyn and sounded like it. Apparently he's a male breast cancer survivor. Didn't know that one.
- Ace Freehley is sober 7 1/2 years and needed us to know it.
- Paul Stanley was last and called the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame board out for NOT originally inducting Kiss. Great speech Paul!
- Art Garfunkel, wearing a stupid painters beanie, inducted Cat Stevens. Cat was pretty cute back in the day, before he changed his name to Yusef Islam and grew that long beard. He's still not bad looking. I'd forgotten how many awesome tunes he was responsible for.He sang my favorite song of his, "Father and Son" it gave me chills and got him a standing O. Then it was "Wild World," and "Peace Train"
- Brian Epstein, The Beatles manager and Andrew Loog Oldham, The Rolling Stones manager were both inducted.
- Questlove with his pick in place and his silver high tops inducted Daryl Hall & John Oates. They're from Philly, he's from Philly and he gave a great speech. Hall & Oates had some great hair back in the day, they actually still do. Oates was looking tiny up on the podium next to Daryl and Quest.
- Daryl Hall shamelessly plugged his show Live From Daryl's House during the performance. They played "She's Gone," & "You Make My Dreams Come True"
- Bruuuuuce and The E Street Band performed "E Street Shuffle" Damn Bruce looks good. Really tan and really good, I mean the guy is 64 years old! Max, Patti, Little Steven, Garry, Vini, David, Roy Danny, Clarence, Nils & Patti were all finally inducted. I can't believe Patti's been in the band 30 years. Of course Bruce's speech was perfect. An awesome storyteller, told an awesome story. I learned in Bruce's speech that only one member of the E Street Band actually lived on E Street. Name him for some points.
- Weird editing as all the E Streeters spoke. Then…"Kitty's Back"
- Michael Stipe inducted Nirvana. Michael Stipe is ONE SERIOUS DUDE. Great speech but super serious. Kurt, Kris, and Dave. They were great. I know I'll get sh*t for this, but I actually prefer The Foofighters. Dave Grohl is just the coolest dude ever. His speech, just like him, was brilliant. If you haven't seen Sound City, see it, you'll know what I mean. Kurt looked just like his Mom. Courtney got booed, then got off stage…awkward. Nice way to ruin the moment. Then, Joan Jett joined the guys and did "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Cool drum cam in place. Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth came out and sang and then Annie Clarke from the band St. Vincent came out and sang "Lithium" and then Lorde came out and sang to finish it out"
- HBO's running it all week…def check it out if you haven't already.
On Saturday morning, after my spin class, I was pulling into my driveway and the UPS guy was at my house with more pilots to watch. I opened the package from FX and saw that they had sent over Married, The Comedians, The Strain and Tyrant. I knew The Strain would be way to scary for me, but the other 3 I really wanted to see. So before my son's game, before my haircut, before the 5K, before the food truck fest, I just had to check these out. Married At first I thought this was a pretty good show about a real marriage. I'd seen all of these actors before. Judy Greer from 2 1/2 Men plays Lina, the wife, and Nat Saxon from Ben & Kate and Trophy Wife plays Russ, the husband. They have 3 little girls, she's into vampires and he's desperate for sex. He's got his friends at the bar, who I also recognized, and I thought okay this could be a decent show. But then, Lina told Russ that if he's so desperate for sex, go get it someplace else. That's where I lost interest. The rest of the episode was his attempt at doing so but it became sort of stupid. I'm guessing this is one of those "dramedies" but the funny wasn't funny, it was stupid instead. I didn't know if this was the entire premise of the series or if it was just one episodes plot. If the show is going to be about him cheating on his wife and finding himself in all these ridiculous situations, I'm probably out, but if the show is about trying to reconnect with the person you fell in love with before the job, the kids, the house, etc. I could be in. There's enough here to watch another episode. Unfortunately FX only sent me the first one.
The Comedians I really liked this one! It's shot documentary style and follows Billy Crystal and Josh Gad playing themselves working together on a new variety show. I've always loved this format and Billy and Josh are both great. They don't exactly like each other, but the network only agreed to greenlight the show if they did it together and both of them supposedly really need the gig. In the first episode Billy fired Larry Charles, the director and wanted to hire an old friend who you'll recognize but I don't want to give it away. Stephanie Weir who plays one of the producers is hilarious, she reminds me of Carol from Episodes. I love anything that depicts TV shows and the process behind the scenes. This one could be good. No idea when it's going to air, I'll find out and get back to you. When it does, you should check it out. Tyrant O…M…G…I can't wait for this one. The pilot was awesome! Barry's married, has 2 kids, he's a pediatrician in Los Angeles going home to some Middle Eastern country for his nephew's wedding. Turns out, his Dad is the wealthy ruler of this nation. The country's going through some turbulent times, the Dad and brother are ruthless killers and rapists and Barry's real name is Mahan. I really don't want to give anything that happens in the pilot away. You guys need to watch and then we can discuss. Barry's hot and we get to see his naked butt (and his brothers) in the pilot. It starts on 6/24. Can't wait. Devious Maids I know that we are already in to Season 2 on this one. I really wasn't interested when I first heard about it. I knew that Marc Cherry and Eva Longoria, were behind it, but I was never a Desperate Housewives fan, and since this one was airing on Lifetime, I thought I'd be disappointed as I was with Jennifer Love Hewitt's show, The Client List. I had zero interest but then, one of the stars of the show sent me, Kristy Carruba, a personal video that she recorded from her trailer asking me to please give the show a shot. What could I do? Of course I had to check it out and guess what? It was sexy, funny, juicy, fun and really pretty good. It's a very sassy soap. It's not JUST about the maids, but the families they work for too. I've only seen the pilot, so I'm not sure how far Lifetime allows the envelope to be pushed but I'm definitely going to try to catch up on this one. You guys watching? Let me know. This could be a fun one.
THE OTHER STUFF
-Sooooo sad for all of us Brady Bunch fans, Alice, aka Ann. B. Davis died yesterday. She was 88 years old and we all loved her! Me, You, Mrs. Brady, Mr. Brady, Greg, Peter, Bobby, Marcia, Jan, Cindy and name her boyfriend for a few bonus points. RIP ALICE!!!!
-I had already watched the pilot of Halt and Catch Fire. Did any of you guys watch it last night? Thoughts???
-So a few weeks ago, Arsenio Hall was renewed for a second season, but then affiliates moved it around and financially, it just didn't make sense so it's been cancelled. I sort of feel bad for Arsenio, but I gotta be honest, forget ratings for a minute, socially, virally, did you see anything all season that you shared? I didn't. These days in order to get the money from advertisers, forget the ratings, worry about the buzz, the social, the viral videos, the tweets etc. It all drives to audiences wherever they are. I thought for the African American audience and the General Market audience Arsenio would have a place at the table, but...not so much. Oh well, we still have Jimmy, Jimmy, David, Stephen, Jon, Conan, Seth, Craig and Carson to keep us all awake.
Monday's Easy Trivia Question: What network does The Walking Dead air on?
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