The answer to Friday's Trivia Question: The community college featured on Community is Greendale Community College FIRST FIVES: Brian Matthews, Beth Hoff, Alex Nagler, James Gabriele, & Karen Feldman Honorable Mention: Monica Caraffa
The theme of the week was Last Day of School or Graduation or End of the School Year and there were a handful of you guys that not only got that, but got it on Monday. Pretty impressive.
Thursday's Broadcast Top 5 NBA Finals-ABC 10.6/26.3 (This is insane! NFL type stuff!) NBA Countdown-ABC 2.5/6.5 Hell's Kitchen-FOX 2.0/5.1 The Big Bang Theory-CBS 1.6/7.6 Jimmy Kimmel Live-ABC 1.2/3.7 Thursday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5 NBA Finals-ABC 5,918,344 Jimmy Kimmel-ABC 98,102 Hannibal-NBC 67,412 The Big Bang Theory-CBS 26,127 The Vampire Diaries-CW 25,881 Thursday's Cable Top 5 Pawn Stars-History 1.3/4.6 The Big Bang Theory-TBS 1.1/2.8 Swamp People-History 1.0/3.5 Burn Notice-USA .9/3.4 Sullivan & Son-TBS .7/1.8
Thursday's Cable Trendrr Top 5 Showville-AMC 29,635 Big Time Rush-Nick 24,556 Impact Wrestling-Spike 23,362 Burn Notice-USA 21,279 MLB Baseball-WGN 18,700 Friday's Broadcast Top 5 What Would You Do?-ABC 1.3/4.0
Dateline-NBC 1.2/5.9Dateline-NBC 1.1/5.7
Shark Tank-ABC 1.1/3.9
Undercover Boss-CBS 1.0/4.7
Friday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
Supernatural-CW 18,857
Dateline NBC-NBC 13,971
Bones-FOX 9,039
Shark Tank-ABC 7,383
Rock Center-NBC 7,342 Friday's Cable Top 5 NA
Friday's Cable Trendrr Top 5 WWE SmackDown-Syfy 66,916 Degrassi-Teen Nick 31,772 Fashion Police-E! 26,996 Marriage Boot Camp-WE 17,595 Ghost Adventures-Travel Channel 8,692
Real Housewives of New Jersey This week on Real Housewives of NJ, we had all the normal stuff really. Teresa and Melissa were both still going on and on about exactly what day Melissa visited her father-in-law in the hospital. Rosie, Kathy and their Mom, all had dinner and discussed how Kathy sent her kids to visit Teresa's Dad, aka her uncle, in the hospital but she didn't go. Melissa's writing a book about marriage and of course this made her cry because it brought back memories of her father. I got the feeling that her Dad wasn't the greatest guy in the world. He went out for milk and came back days later, who knows, but anytime anyone says anything about some one's dad on this show...screaming or crying is the result. Lesson to any future housewives, DON'T TALK ABOUT ANYONE'S FATHER. Albie and Chris are opening a restaurant called Little Town NJ. Not sure if BLK water is on the menu, but if their Dad got his wish, grilled cheese without the crust is. Last week Jaqueline went to Get Fit, the gym that everyone suddenly works out at, but this week she had her trainer come to the house and "chat" to burn calories instead of actually working out and sweating to burn them. Teresa and her Mother-In-Law went for pedicures and Teresa's Mom had some great advice..."Don't Spit in the air because it will come back in your face" WTF? Great advice Mom. At Richie and Victoria's birthday party, Caroline held court, rolled her eyes and gave more advice to Melissa on how to handle Teresa because Caroline, who isn't speaking to her own sister, is the queen of family advice. Of course the highlight or should I say lowlight was Teresa and Joe's fight at the gym. How awkward, pathetic and disgusting. I gotta give Joe Gorga credit though, he gave it right back to Teresa and called her out on everything. She got SO angry she threw a bottle of water in his face and knocked over a garbage can. She is a disgusting excuse for a human being. Ugh, I feel for Joe Gorga, I really do. Joe Gorga hat count for this episode: 4Nick Wallenda's Grand Canyon Walk Can you imagine the family dinner conversation at the Wallenda's house? Hey Nick, what're ya going to do next weekend? I'm going to walk 1500 feet in the air across the Grand Canyon without a net or a harness. That's cool, we have a soccer game and then a birthday party and then we really need to do some food shopping. Let's meet up later for celebratory prime rib around 8pm at Capitol Grille. Okay. Did you guys watch last night? The first hour was all fluff and info about the wire, the slippers, the Grand Canyon etc. But when Nick just hopped on the wire in just his blue jeans,Discovery T-Shirt and that long pole, I was glued to the set. Couple of things...
- No harness or a net or anything
- you let your kids watch this? That's gotta do some serious damage, especially if they don't want to go into the family biz.\
- Do you think there was anything special in those ballet slipper/tightrope shoes? I kept thinking magnets or something
- Nick was on the wire for 22 minutes and 54 seconds
- Nick called out to God, Father, Lord, Jesus, King, Saviour, Christ, Jeshua (never heard that one before) 143 times in 22 minutes and 54 seconds
- Guessing that Joel Osteen is a family friend and perhaps spiritual advisor since he was the only real celebrity on sight.
- Nick's Dad who sounded and looked a LOT like Wilfred Brimley HAD to be getting on his nerves talking in his ear the entire time. He was getting on mine.
- It was CRAZY windy
- The photography of this event was unbelievable, I could have watched Nick walk forever
- What in the world is Nick going to do next?
After my heart stopped racing and I calmed down from the Grand Canyon walk, I started watching Morgan Spurlock's Inside Man on CNN. Each week, Morgan goes inside and gets the scoop on a particular topic. This week was legalized marijuana. I admit, I fell asleep half way through, but that was really because of the Sangria I consumed at dinner and the exhaustion from the Grand Canyon walk anxiety, not the show. The show was pretty good, and thankfully I Tivo'ed it so I can finish watching it tonight. Morgan went inside the Harborside Health Center in California which is probably the busiest medical marijuana dispensary in the US. They service 600-800 stoners, I mean patients, a day. A guy named Steve Angelo, who looks exactly like Kevin Spacey but with long Pippi Longstocking braids, runs the place and takes it all very seriously. Harborside is non-profit which is a bummer because they sell 75,000 bucks worth of gange EVERY day! Cool show...can't wait to see the end.
NEWS & INFORMATION -A Social TV study by the Council for Research Excellence revealed the following:
- Reality shows get tweeted AS the show is airing
- Scripted shows get social after the credits roll and the show is over
- Only about one in 10 actually use social media as a TV companion every day
- 37% engage with social TV more than once a week
- Ratings and social penetration don't go hand in hand
- Young "superconnectors" love tuning in and tweeting simultaneously but they only represented 12% of the sample
- Hispanics were 50% more likely to interact with social media about TV
- African Americans were less likely to interact with social media about TV
- 54% of social media usage during TV viewing occurs while the viewer is watching with someone else
- Highest social TV genres - Science Fiction, Sports and Reality programming (in that order)
- In terms of pure volume, reality competition shows are the social TV leader
- Comedies generate more social buzz around their finales
- Dramas generate more social buzz around their premieres
-I loaded all of the NBC Fall Premiere Dates in the list on the right, but here are the important ones (in my opinion)
The Voice-9/23 The Blacklist-9/23 Michael J Fox Show-9/26 Parks & Rec-9/26 Parenthood-9/26 -The Top 5 Pirated Shows for the Spring were:- Game of Thrones (5.2 million)
- The Big Bang Theory (2.9 million)
- How I Met Your Mother (2.8 million)
- The Walking Dead (2.7 million)
- Hannibal (2.1 million)
-2 more days til Big Brother...can't wait!
-Okay, so my son left for camp on Saturday and I have a bit more time on my hands. I've been thinking (and reading) a lot about the Emmy nominations etc. and I love award shows, so I was thinking of having my own awards...the WWTMMY's. So...the first category that I am looking for nominees for is: Best Actor in a Drama. I am platform agnostic, anyone that you feel is deserving from any screen at all, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Cable, Broadcast, whatever...send your ideas in.
Monday's Trivia Question: Who won the Emmy for Best Actor in a Drama LAST YEAR? WWTM-Kristy Like me on Facebook at Watching Way Too Much Follow me on Twitter at watchingwaytoomuch@tvnme http://watchingwaytoomuch.com kristy@watchingwaytoomuch.com