The answer to Friday's Trivia Question: MacKenzie, Brackman, was the law firm on LA Law
The theme of the week was legal shows/law firms. A few people figured out the theme on their own earlier in the week, so they received 10 points. All of you that figured it out on Friday got 5 points.
FIRST FIVES: Neil Moffatt, Jim Carter, Sue McNamara, Phyllis DiCesare, & Monica Caraffa Honorable Mention: Dani Jackel
Thursday's Broadcast Top 5
The Big Bang Theory-CBS 4.6/15.6
Two and a Half Men-CBS 3.1/11.9
Grey's Anatomy-ABC 2.9/8.5
Scandal-ABC 2.6/8.1
American Idol-FOX 2.5/10.9
Thursday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
American Idol-FOX 266,719
Scandal-ABC 253,050
The Vampire Diaries-CW
Glee-FOX 90,145
The Big Bang Theory-CBS 72,750
Thursday's Cable Top 5
NBA Playoffs-TNT 2.0/4.3
NBA Playoffs-TNT 1.7/4.1
Swamp People-History 1.4/3.9
American Dad-Adult Swim 1.1/2.3
The Big Bang Theory-TBS .9/2.2
Thursday's Cable Trendrr Top 5
NBA Playoffs-TNT 387,308
NBA Playoffs-TNT 265,156
Stanley Cup Playoffs-CNBC 73,587
Stanley Cup Playoffs-NBC Sports 65,418
Big Time Rush-Nickelodeon 50,074
Friday's Broadcast Top 5
Shark Tank-ABC 1.7/5.5
20/20 ABC 1.6/5.5
Blue Bloods-CBS 1.3/9.8
Undercover Boss-CBS 1.2/7.1
Rock Center-NBC 1.1/4.2
Friday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
Blue Bloods-CBS 22,568
Undercover Boss-CBS 20,427
Vegas-CBS 17,746
Kitchen Nightmares-FOX 17,072
Friday's Cable Top 5 NA
Friday's Cable Trendrr Top 5 NBA Playoffs-ESPN2 228,638 NBA Playoffs-ESPN 170,638 Stanley Cup Playoffs-CNBC 86,727 Stanley Cup Playoffs-NBC Sports 66,659 WWE Smackdown-Syfy 54,677
Nurse Jackie
Now we're getting back to basics...Jackie and the crew were helping patients, losing patients, hiding everything from the new ER chief and covering for Gloria and her ability to remember everything. Not sure why these guys aren't thinking of sending her to neuro from some tests, but okay, I'm going with it. Cute policeman's hanging out at the hospital, Eddie and Jackie have agreed to be "friends" but I definitely think Eddie's keeping hope alive. He's trying the friend thing, showing up to tutor Fiona and eat baked ziti, but you know he's just waiting for the opportunity to bag the friendship and become the boyfriend. I'm hating that new doctor and hope that Coop uses her up and spits her out. I like the show when Jackie's on her A game a the hospital and honestly, I don't miss the pill popping.
Once Upon a Time Things are getting wacky in Storybrooke...well, wackier than usual. Tamara and Greg had Regina rigged up to an electroshock thing that sucked the magic out of her until she finally cracked and told Greg that she killed his Dad and buried him out in the woods. Of course who knows if the bones he found (a little to easily if you ask me) were really his Dad's. Gold had Snow linked to Regina using a magical tear concoction. One of Regina's and one of Snows. The spell worked and Snow found Regina, but Greg and Tamara still have the black diamond trigger thing that holds Storybrooke's future. It seems that Greg and Tamara aren't working alone. There's some home office (maybe the Men In Black?) who want to rid the world of magic. These guys supposedly provide them with their "orders". See what I mean about the wackiness? Could this be a shark jumping turn of events? Neil found out about Tamara right before she shot him and used a magic bean to open a portal. So much for ridding the world of magic. After a very untouching, unbelievable proclamation of love, Neil said goodbye and fell into the portal leaving Emma, Henry and Gold in Storybrooke. That was a bummer. I liked that guy. In a flashback, we found out that the last time Neil fell through a portal he ended up in London, at The Darling's of the Peter Pan story. He tried to save them from a creepy ghost guy who takes kids to Neverland, by having him taken instead of one of the Darling boys, he used a match to escape, fell into the ocean and was picked up by Captain Hook. None of this makes any sense anymore. I'm really thinking the sharp has jumped.
Game of Thrones This weeks episode of Game of Thrones was called "The Climb". The climbers we cared about, Jon Snow and Ygritte threw on some crampons, and headed on up this 700 foot ice mountain. No prep, just crampons and get going. No hats were worn and it really seemed pretty cold. You'd think they'd wear hats. Of course there were a few snafu's along the way, but, they made it to the top and made out. Prior to the climb, Ygritte made Jon Snow promise to be loyal to her and to continue doing that "thing with his tonnnngue". In addition to the big climb, Tyrion delivered the bad news to Sansa Stark, Theon's still being tortured on the giant X Factor X, the red priestess took Arya's buddy. Rob Stark had a meeting with Lord Fray's guys who wanted a wedding, Jamie's heading back to Kings Landing but he had to leave Brienne behind in a horrific pink dress that I'm sure made her a bit uncomfortable. Best scene of the night: Tywin and Lady O "negotiating" the marriages between their kids. Sure Loras is gay, but incest is so unnatural. Net/net. Tywin had to go with some blackmailing to get what he wanted and while Lady O put up a good fight...looks like the wedding's are on. We didn't get to see Tyrion tell Sansa, but we did see her tears after he left This chick just can't catch a break.
Married to Jonas
I wasn't sure who was more excited about Fashion Week, Kevin or Dani or maybe it was Dani's sister Dina who accidentally spilled coffee on Dani's dress and tried to blame the dog. Dani's bro, Mikey is apparently a singer. He performed at The Bowery in an odd gray suit with a bright red bow tie. I didn't love the look and neither did Joe Jonas apparently because he took Mikey shopping and had him try on some skinny jeans that he couldn't get out of. I don't like a grown man being called Mikey. The only acceptable Mikey in my mind is the "Mikey likes it Mikey" (name the reference for 5 points!) Anyway, Dani got the opportunity to do a Cosmo story, but of course it would mean she can't go to South America with Kevin. I didn't understand that one. Couldn't she just go down later? Kevin's Mom was in town and I'm not sure why Dani always asks her advice on everything but she does. Her advice this time...hats! Wear a hat that makes you feel strong. Really? Hats can make you feel strong? Kevin obviously felt strong...he donned quite a hat and didn't seem to care at all that he looked bizarre. I love Kevin.
Tanked This week on Tanked, I actually got a little stressed! The ATM guys had 2 tanks to deliver. One was pretty cool, it was for a restaurant in Raleigh NC called Cowfish which is a place that serves sushi and burgers (perfect for the Carruba's actually). What I didn't know was that there are actually these cool looking fish actually called Cowfish. 18 of them went right into the tank. That wasn't the tank that stressed me out though, it was the one for Dwayne Wade's sneaker release party. It had to be set up and taken down all in the same night. Unfortunately, the truck got held up in New Mexico. Not really sure what "held up" meant, and it was never clearly explained, but it was over 4 hours late, so the gang only had an hour and a half to set up the tank once it arrived. Of course its TV and everything worked out fine, but it was a bit suspenseful.
Maron I'm starting to thing that IFC stands for I'm Freaking Clueless because every time I give a show a try on that network, I don't get it. The critics and some of you love Portlandia...I don't get it. The critics have been talking about this new one Maron which premiered on Friday night and again...I don't get it. I heard Mark Maron on Howard Stern, I liked him and wanted to like his show. I didn't not like it, but I didn't like it either. I didn't get it. Sort Seinfeld, sort of Curb Your Enthusiasm, but not funny.
Smash
I know nobody's still watching Smash but me but...WTF! Kyle's s dead? Way too tragic of an ending. Sure they gave me Karen and Derek even if it was only for a second, and they threw in one of my favorite Billy Joel songs ever, "Vienna", but killing Kyle! Not cool at all.
NEWS & INFORMATION
-My favorite skit from this weeks SNL...Game of Thrones Game with a special cameo. Check it out http://www.hulu.com/watch/486599?playlist_id=1707
-Bethenny Frankel's syndicated show finally has a launch date: 9/9/13. It's going to be airing in daytime here in NYC. I checked it out last Summer when it tested here and I was a huge Bethenny fan at the time. I really didn't like the show at all. I'm not surprised that it got the green light though. Ellen's backing it and there's not much out there these days. So, we'll see how Bethenny does. I do wish her luck, but I won't be watching.
-Week 1 of All My Children and One Life to Live's new online life was pretty impressive. Of course no real download numbers released but we all love a good ranking, so here's the impressive stats:
- Day 1: AMC #1 on Itunes TV seasons and #1 most popular episodes on Hulu OLTL#2 on Itunes TV seasons and #2 most popular episodes on Hulu
- Day 2: AMC #1 on Itunes TV seasons and #1 most popular episodes on Hulu OLTL#2 on Itunes TV seasons and #2 most popular episodes on Hulu
- Day 3: AMC #2 on Itunes and OLTL #4 on Itunes. AMC #3 on Hulu and OLTL #5
- Day 4: AMC #2 on Itunes and OLTL #4 AMC #5 on Hulu and OLTL #6 on Hulu
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