The answer to Monday's Trivia Question: Cliff & Clair=The Cosby Show, Sawyer & Juliet=Lost and Dana & Casey were from Sports Night. Another one of those awesome underrated shows that nobody watched. You guys should check it out on Netflix if you've never seen it. Great show.
FIRST FIVE: Ed Ziskind, Mike Pierro, Jim Carter, Caryn Vitolo, & Lillian Doremus Honorable Mention: Daniel Block
Secret Bonus Trivia Question: The Trask I was looking for was Mr. Trask of Trask Industries in the movie Working Girl. There were a few correct answers but only Steve Flynn answered correctly (in my mind that is) Congrats Steve!!! Friday's Cable Top 5 American Dad-Adult Swim .8/1.9
WWE Friday Night Smackdown-Syfy.8/2.8NBA Basketball-ESPN .7/1.6
Bering Sea Gold-Discovery .7/1.8
NBA Basketball-ESPN .7/1.5
Sunday's Broadcast Top 5 Family Guy-FOX 2.6/5.2
The Amazing Race-CBS 2.3/9.2Once Upon a Time-ABC 2.2/7.4
The Simpsons-FOX 2.2/4.8
Revenge-ABC 2.0/6.8
Sunday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
Once Upon a Time-ABC 89,479The Simpsons-FOX 70,745
Family Guy-FOX 49,786
Revenge-ABC 48,190
The Amazing Race-CBS 36,303
Sunday's Cable Top 5 NA Sunday's Cable Trendrr Top 5
The Walking Dead-AMC 582,133The Bible-History 121,815
Army Wives-Lifetime 51,873
Real Housewives of Atlanta-Bravo 49,505
The Client List-Lifetime 46,569
Top 5 DVR'ed Shows for the week of 2/1813-2/24/13
Modern Family-Increase from a 4.0 to a 6.2 (+55%)
The Big Bang Theory-Increased from a 5.6 to a 7.6 (+36%)
The Following-Increased from a 2.9 to a 4.5 (+55%)
Grey's Anatomy Increased from-a 4.1 to a 4.6 (+48%)
Elementary-Increased from a 2.4 to a 3.8 (+58%)
WWTM Monday Night
Dallas
O...M...G...Dallas was sooooo good last night. JR's gone and now it's all about "Who Killed JR" as opposed to Who Shot JR" 30 years ago. I thought that the episode from beginning to end was really a perfect tribute to Larry Hagman. Even the opening theme song was adjusted to a sadder more fitting version. So here's what happened, JR was killed by some random burglar (supposedly) in Mexico and of course he left all sorts of mysteries behind that will keep the family busy and viewers hooked for awhile. Back on the ranch, a lot of original cast members showed up for the wake and funeral because honestly, what else have they got goin on? Gary went off the wagon, separated from "Poor Val" and is in desperate need of a dentist. Lucy looked pretty decent but explained that she married a plastic surgeon which was clearly evident. Half bro Ray was there to pay his respects, Cliff Barnes showed up to cause a commotion but Scarface calmed his butt down pretty fast. JR's former wives all showed up to make sure he was really dead this time and Mark Cuban and Jerry Jones also stopped by. Nice to see that Sue Ellen and Ann both had time to get their hair and make-up done in between the wake and the funeral. John Ross wasn't doing so well, drinking JR Ewing scotch which apparently is in every room of Southfork. He was so distraught that he took solice in the Range Rover with Emma who is not related to him at all...I made sure of it in my head when they started going at it in the driveway. Bobby finally lost it. He's not sure what to do at this point. He's pissed that the wife he thought he knew he doesn't know at all and now, he's obviously left with some sort of vendetta or mission that JR needs him to handle for him from the grave. There was some good news, the Ewing Race Car won it's super competitive 4 car race and proved that a natural gas vehicle is the future. RIP JR!
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
It was the last night in Paris and the housewives and their spouses took a dinner cruise down the Seine where once again they dressed inappropriately and looked like they were freezing to death. But who care as long as they looked good right? As a parting gift, Yolanda bought Brandi a crazy pair of turquoise shoes. I actually thought the other women were jealous. No idea how much they cost, but betting a small fortune. Once everyone got back to the states, Marissa went over to Kyle's house to ask Mauricio to help her co-sell her father-in-laws 18,000 square foot house for 23 million bucks. I guess if they co-sell it, they can split the 3 million dollar commission right? Not that either one of them need it but 3 millions 3 million. Yolanda and David did a photo shoot for some European magazine where apparently both of them are still relevant. The photographer on the photo shoot had one of the oddest hairstyles I've ever seen. Wish I could find a photo. You need to see it to appreciate it. Completely LA and completely ridiculous. Lisa and Ken are throwing a housewarming/vow renewal party and hired Kevin "shi,shi, shi" Lee to plan the entire thing. Remember him, he did their daughter's million dollar wedding last season. The guy is nuts, but enjoyable to watch. (Think Franc from "Father of the Bride") Remember that wacko Dana from last season? She was back, had a ton of work done to her face, was drunk, out of her mind, smoking cigarettes and going through a bad break-up. I guess her dude got tired of footing the bill for $25,000 sunglasses. Of course there had to be an event for everyone to get dressed up and fake kiss each other at...this week it was Kyle's store opening where I was shocked to learn that Yolanda only has a gold Amex card. I would have thought platinum at the very least or the ultra exclusive black card no? As always, these woman have no clue as to appropriate party conversation, so Kyle took her store opening as an opportunity to confront Kim about her nutty Parisian behavior. Kim explained that she was confusing her water pills for her crazy pills. I definitely didn't believe her, and I don't think that Kyle did either. For some reason this season feels realllllly long to me. When is the finale? It has to be soon right?
Rules of Engagement
I was really really hoping that the baby would never show up and that Adam and Jen would never get married, but in this weeks episode, Brenda, the surrogate, was back with a very very large belly and very very red hair. I'm guessing her OB GYN forgot to tell her that dying your hair during pregnancy is a no-no. Jeff was trying to talk to the baby to get it to react to his voice, but only when he made fun of Audrey did this happen. So of course that's what he did. This weeks Russell/Timmy issue was around Russell plagiarizing Timmy's article in the WSJ. I know none of this seems funny. It wasn't one of the better episodes, but still decent. You know I love Timmy and that's really what it's all about for me.Vikings
Now that Super Hot Ragnar and Not quite as Hot Rollo have a boat, a compass and a plan to sail west, they needed a crew, so they had a secret meeting with WAY too many guys to keep the secret. Of course one idiot leaves the meeting and immediately goes right to Gabriel Byrne and tells him the scoop. Gabriele Byrne appreciated the guys info but then sort of tricked him into thinking he could sleep with his wife (who I finally realized was Mr. Schu from Glee's ex-wife) but when he went to collect on the offer, his henchmen killed him. I didn't get that at all other than proving what a jerk Gabriele Byrne is. I love the relationship between Ragnan and his kick ass wife. She's so awesome, that she can kick his ass and get him to do the laundry. Apparently, Vikings have some sort of ritual where they wipe their face with water and blow snot rockets before setting sail. WTF is that about? So the crew set sail and of course they sail into a terrible storm. Without Captain Sig and the Northwestern, I was a bit nervous for them, but they got through it okay and landed on an island filled with Monks who had perfect male pattern baldness heads. They killed a bunch of them but saved one who spoke their language and kept a bunch for slaves. Now they're headed back home with tons of treasures and you know Gabriele Byrne is going to freak out when they get back.Red Widow
I guess Russian is in these days...We have Russian spies on The Americans and Russian gangsters on Red Widow. I caught up on the pilot over the weekend and then Sunday nights episode last night. The stress of Daylight Savings Time on my TV viewing is tough. I really like Red Widow. I am bummed that the cutest guy in the entire show, Marta's husband Evan, was killed off in the first episode. I guess the writers figured that the ER guy would be enough eye candy for us. He's cute, but I would've liked Evan to have stuck around a bit. Anyway Evan married into his wife's family of small time Russian gangsters, but Marta's brother got greedy and stole a bunch of drugs from a Russian kingpin dude named Schiller. This of course pissed him off so he killed Marta's husband right in front of their young son aptly named Boris. After Evan's death, Marta was left to clean up the mess. Of course she not only cleaned it up, but she was pretty good at doing so, and now...she thinks she has a plan to disappear and get out of the biz, but part of the plan is to temporarily work for the bad guy. Double lives are big these days and Marta's now officially living one. Not too many recognizable faces in this show. Laurent from Twilight works for Schiller, Marta's new boss. Schiller is played by ER guy, Goran Visnjic. Anyone remember his character's name on ER? 5 point bonus if you do!News & Information:
-As you all know, I'm very interested in content consumption and how it's changing. So when Netflix's House of Cards launched a month ago, I was one of those people that watched the entire season in a week. I've been interested and curious about this model for a while. The idea of "zero latency" goes against the Netflix model big time. Everyone will consume House of Cards differently, so the social conversation won't really happen the way it does now with live shows that air in real time. The good part for programs that are hot, and have buzz is that they promote social conversations which happen live and tend to translate into higher live ratings and less time shifting. The day after Netflix released all of Season 1 of House of Cards there were only 44,004 social mentions. So I'm not sure how the model sustains over time. Netflix and Amazon need subscription growth to justify purchase and production of more content since they aren't based on an advertising model. Again...it's going to be interesting.
-129.4 million Americans owned smartphones at the end of January 2013, according to comScore.
- This was an increase of 7% versus the previous three-month period.
- Apple took 37.8% of the smartphone market (+3.5%)
- Samsung took 21.4% of the market (+1.9%).
- Android owned 52.3% of the market
- iOS was at 37.8%
-For all of you One Life to Live'rs and All My Children fans, beginning on Monday 4/29 you can tune in to Hulu and Itunes and get new episodes of these two shows. This will be another interesting model to follow. I know quite a few people who were devastated when Vicky Buchanan and Erica Kane said goodbye to network TV. I hope all of you tune in and check these out...let me know what you think.
-Yesterday on The View, Joy explained her desire to leave the show and Barbara told everyone that there are no plans for Elizabeth to be going anywhere. I'm not so sure I believe it all and you know how things go these days, but that's why I hate to post anything until it's confirmed. The good news is that I will probably become obsessed with who fills the chair just like I did when Regis left. This morning on GMA George said that his wife Ali Wentworth, Brooke Shields and Kirstie Alley were all in the running for the seat. It's going to be fun to watch...I know it.
-I know a lot of you watched The Bachelor finale last night...I hope you are happy with the outcome. I could care less, but I did follow some of you guys on Facebook and Twitter last night so while I have no idea who Lindsay or Catherine were, I hope everyone's happy that Catherine got the rock over Lindsay. Now lets see how long Sean and Catherine really last.Tuesday's Trivia Question: More couples...I'm not done yet. Ray & Debra, Gabrielle & Carlos and Emily & Bob. Name the shows. WWTM-Kristy
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