THE ANSWER TO MONDAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION: The Ricardo's and the Mertz's were best friends in I Love Lucy
FIRST FIVE: Lance Beitler, Elke Raskob, Mike O'Dea, John Romeo & Karen Perry
HONORABLE MENTION: Daniel Block Bonus Trivia Question: Jack & Rose were also in Titanic
THE NUMBERS
Friday's Cable Top 5
WWE Friday Night Smackdown-Syfy .9/3.2Bering Sea Gold-Discovery .8/2.1
American Dad-Adult Swim .7/1.8
Modern Family-USA .7/1.5
Gold Rush-Discovery-.7/2.2
Sunday's Broadcast Top 5 Winter Olympics-NBC 6.9/25.4
The Beatles-CBS 2.1/13.9Family Guy-FOX 1.4/2.8
America's Funniest Home Videos-ABC 1.3/5.3 The Simpsons-FOX 1.2/2.6
Sunday's Cable Top 5 NA
Final cable numbers aren't in yet, but the premiere of The Walking Dead Sunday night delivered 15.8 million viewers and 10.9 million of um were A18-49.Sunday's Top 5 Nielsen Twitter Ratings The Walking Dead-AMC 1,240,100 Tweets
The Beatles Grammy Special-CBS 259,900 Tweets
Real Housewives of Atlanta-Bravo 193,600 Tweets
Keeping Up With the Kardashians-E! 52,200 Tweets
True Detective-HBO 23,100 Tweets
Top 5 DVR'ed Shows for the Week of 1/20/14-1/26/14
Modern Family-ABC From a 3.4 to a 5.7 (+68%)Blacklist-NBC From a 2.3 to a 4.2 (+83%)
Criminal Minds-CBS From a 2.2 to a 3.8 (+73%)
New Girl-FOX From a 1.9 to a 3.2 (+68%)
Sleepy Hollow-FOX From a 2.4 to a 3.7 (+54%)
THE SHOWS
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
We've seen Mohammed's house before, but each time I see it, I just can't get over how massive it is. According to Yolanda it's 50,000 square feet! How old do we think Shiva, Mohammed's fiance, is? She's young and stunning but I guess it's all about the Benjamins. No way that guy, with that hair, gets a Shiva unless he's loaded with dough. No way. Carlton invited Mauricio without Kyle to her husbands party? She says she's not like them...with that move, she sure feels like one of them. Joyce doesn't work out? Now I hate her guts. How in the world does she look like that and NOT work out? Also, one other thing. Joyce has crazy long thick hair that she claims is all hers, but when she was working out she had it up in a bun that looked way too small for all that hair. Now I'm thinking extensions. At Carlton's party, Lisa and Ken just cut the entire line did you catch that? Pretty sure here in NJ one doesn't get to take a private, verbal citizenship test. Is that a Beverly Hills thing or a Yolanda Foster thing? I don't know who Kyle's stylist is, but she always looks likes she hiding her body or her clothes don't fit right or something then she goes hiking with Brandi in her workout clothes and she looked pretty good. Fire the stylist and hire Stassi since she's in training over at Lisa's house. I know Jiggy lives a charmed life, but I wonder if he knows how ridiculous he looks in all the outfits? Sometimes I feel bad for that dog.
Hart of Dixie
A whole lot of ridiculous running around just so that Zoey's Mom wouldn't go to her birthday party. Lame storyline especially when Zoey's Mom feels so close to her daughter that she's actually moving to Bluebelle. Tanzy's here then she's gone then she's back now she's gone again. I liked her, but if she's leaving, let her leave already. When whatever pilot she's making doesn't make it, she'll be back again I'm sure. Take Scooter and split...buh bye Tanzy. AB's back in the Belle's doing whatever Belle's do and Wade's drunk Dad managed to stay sober long enough to meet Vivian and not mortify his son. Cuteness over.
THE OTHER STUFF
-To keep fans engaged with their favorite shows while they're on the Olympic break, NBC's launching 4 new web series starting tonight with Chicago Fire. The one I'm most excited about is the one for Parenthood on Thursday. Jesse Plemons aka Landry Clarke and Derek Phillips aka Billy Riggins both of Friday Night Lights, play their former characters looking for a place for their band, Crucifictorius, to record and hit the Luncheonette. Here's the rest of the lineup:
Chicago Fire 2/11
Parenthood 2/13
Grimm 2/14
Parks & Rec 2/20
-My FBFF Jimmy Fallon announced his guests for next weeks premiere episodes: My DVR's set. Is yours? Pretty strong first week, especially Friday. You know what happens when these guys get together...magic.
Monday, Feb. 17: Guest Will Smith and musical guest U2.
Tuesday, Feb. 18: Guests Jerry Seinfeld, Kristen Wiig and musical guest Lady Gaga.
Wednesday, Feb. 19: Guest Bradley Cooper and musical guest Tim McGraw.
Thursday, Feb. 20: Guests First Lady Michelle Obama, Will Ferrell and musical guest Arcade Fire.
Friday, Feb. 21: Guest Justin Timberlake
-Seth Meyers isn't as into music as Jimmy is, so he hired another SNL alum, Fred Armisen to be his bandleader. Not sure if his first job as bandleader was to name the band. Pretty original name... 8G Band which Seth's new studio. Hope that's not a sign of things to come.
-Good news for Mark and Donnie Wahlberg...18 more eps of their show have been orders Wahlburgers is considered a hit!
-Never saw Mob City on TNT, now I never will. Cancelled. Anyone watch?
-If you're not into watching the Olympics tonight and you haven't listened to me yet, check out The Goldbergs on ABC. They're running 3 episodes from 8-930pm. There hasn't been one bad episode yet, so it's a great time to jump in with both feet and check it out.
-The Nielsen "Digital Consumer" Report revealed some pretty interesting tidbits. Here are some I think you'll like:
- 40 percent of adults 18-24, twice the national average, use social media in the bathroom.
- An eye-popping 84 percent are using another device — a smartphone or tablet — when they watch TV.
- 38 percent of US consumers subscribe, or use, Netflix streaming service; 23 percent of those said they watch it on a smartphone outside the home, up from 11 percent the year before.
- As a nation we spend a stunning 2¹/₂ days a week, or 60 hours, consuming media content across all devices.
- Bad news for advertisers trying to reach viewers with perishable offers: We’re watching almost 3 hours less live TV a month, even though TV remains the most-watched screen.
- Time spent watching TV via DVRs or On Demand services rose by 1 hour, 42 minutes, while video viewing via the Web rose by 43 minutes.
- The shifts have sent the value of content watched live much higher, particularly sports content.
- Smartphone users spent almost 10 hours more per month using apps and browsing the Web than last year.
- Most social-media sites have seen their PC audiences sink, with the exception of LinkedIn, Nielsen finds. LinkedIn saw a 37 percent jump in its unique audience to 39 million.
- Facebook and its Instagram unit dominated social media in terms of unique audience on smartphones, Nielsen found. The two social-media brands had a unique app-based audience of 144 million combined.
- Facebook grew 39 percent, while Instagram jumped 79 percent.
- Twitter, the next-closest competitor, grew by a much smaller percentage, Nielsen found. It increased by 38 percent, to 31 million.
- Americans spent 7 hours, 43 minutes a month on Facebook checking out baby photos, remembering dead relatives and photographing their meals, according to the report.
- They spent 3 hours on Twitter, doing such things as sharing complaints about bad service
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