The answer to Monday's Trivia Question: Olate Dogs won America's Got Talent last season.
FIRST FIVE: Michael O’Dea, Beth Hoff, Jim Carter, Karen Feldman & David Gorin Honorable Mention: Priscilla Paez
Friday's Cable Top 5 Gold Rush South America-Discovery .9/2.3 WWE Friday Night Smackdown-Syfy .8/2.7 American Dad-Adult Swim .8/2.0 Law & Order SVU-USA .7/2.3 TBS Prime Movie-TBS .6/1.3
Sunday's Broadcast Top 5 NFL Pre Season Football-NBC 3.3/8.9 NFL Pre Season Pre Game-NBC 3.4/9.9 Big Brother-CBS 2.2/6.7 Family Guy-FOX 1.6/3.2 Family Guy-FOX 1.5/3.0
Sunday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5 Sunday Night Pre-Season Football-NBC 514,010 Big Brother-CBS 81,613 The Simpsons-FOX 35,733 Family Guy-FOX 31,462 Whodunnit-ABC 21,102
Sunday's Cable Top 5 NA
Sunday's Cable Trendrr Top 5 Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives-Discovery 251,841 Justin Bieber: Never Say Never-MTV 143,906 Air Jaws: Countdown to Shark Week-Discovery 118,924 True Blood-HBO 107,363 Keeping Up With the Kardashians-E! 64,280
-I admit it, I blew off most of my blogging responsibilities last night to watch AROD take the field in Chicago. I honestly don't know if there are words to describe this odd phenomenon. I hate AROD...hate. I've never liked him, not since day 1. I've never said anything nice about him and I've hated this entire PED scandal all around. So why, why, did I not only feel the need to watch him last night, but I sort of felt bad for him and actually hoped he got on base. What is wrong with me? I've got issues.
Newsroom Prior to AROD taking the field, I did watch Sunday nights episode of Newsroom which was awesome. Totally understood it, LOVED that right at the beginning when Jim, Meryl Streep's daughter and the other guy were attempting to check into the hotel and there was only one room left and I thought to myself SO PREDICTABLE, Aaron Sorkin had Meryl Streep's daughter echo my sentiment. Aaron rules. Maggie's story from Uganda( and the background on why she cut her hair) was heartbreaking wasn't it? How awesome is Will? He roasted that Occupy Wall Street chick for the sport of it and what a great little twist that he went to see her after they didn't need her anymore. Keep it simple Sorkin and I'm good...most of us are good actually. Thanks. Great TV. Below Deck Unless you really love boats, I'm starting to question why anyone would want to work on a charter yacht. So far this season, the crew of the Honor have complained about every single tip they've received. None of these charters are more than a few days and a good tip has been 900 bucks per person last night when the boat couldn't leave port due to weather, the crew bent over backwards to make their guests stay as special as possible, they even pulled off a wedding in under 24 hours. Poppa, the groom, a total one upper, when asked when he got engaged replied "On my visit to my 100th country". Okay well, that didn't answer the question and was quite the pompous response, but if you're so awesome, how in the world do you leave a 350 dollar tip to the crew? I hope Poppa watched, was mortified and mailed them a check. What a d*ck. Dave's missing his fiance Trevor big time and started to question the boating life, Kat apparently dated a drug dealer and did provide the Captain with her prescription for anxiety meds as requested in the last episode. I never thought of myself as cynical before, but since when are anxiety pills available in a long rectangular box and not in a standard little plastic bottle? I guess if Captain Lee approves, so should Captain Carruba. Adrienne was even more of b*tch than normal, but Kat's got issues too and really didn't cut Adrienne a bit of slack, neither did anyone else, no wonder she finally had a meltdown. I'm amazed it hasn't happened sooner.
Under the Dome
I watched Under the Dome early this morning. It's just getting crazy stressful in that thing and now. The Darby's are stealing fuel and anything else they can get their hands on. Junior is a nut job with a gun who found out they tried to rape Angie. Of course he killed one of them and Linda got the other. Joe and Nori found a baby dome in the middle of the woods. Joe's a mad genius with some crazy science skills huh? He was able to figure out that the dome must have a nucleus and find it all in 5 minutes under a pile of leaves in the woods. Inside the baby dome was a purple egg that looked like it was alive. When Nori touched it, she saw her Mom and knew something was wrong, so she ran home just in time to say goodbye to her. She died after delivering Harriet's baby with the help of Barbie and Julia. Speaking of Barbie, I think he might be the new Jack Bauer. He can do anything. Has Jack ever delivered a baby? Don't think so! If all that wasn't enough, huge power shift in Chester's Mill. Big Jim was the king, but now it's that maniac Ollie, the guy with the water who hired one big security goon to take Big Jim's propane. Now he's got it all. Big Jim's not going to go down easy, but things don't bode well for him by the looks of things in next weeks episode. This show is starting to give me the creeps. I would normally never watch this type of thing. Now I'm in way too deep. I'm screwed.
News & Information:
-I'm not sure why Sunday nights have become the most competitive night of television over the past few seasons, but they have and it is stressing me out in general. I was having a pretty easy run this Summer so far but...this coming Weekend is looking brutal. So I'd like to know what you guys are going to be watching to help me make my decision easier. Here are my choices if there is something missing, let me know:
Big Brother
Real Housewives of NJ Eat Drink Love Newsroom Teen Choice Awards Breaking Bad Low Winter Sun (I'm probably not going to watch this one) Beyond Spelling Manor Dexter (I don't watch but I know you guys do) Ray Donovan (I don't watch but I know you guys do) Keep in mind that Saturday night you have Larry David's HBO movie, Clear History and the premiere of The White Queen on Starz. If all that wasn't enough, my kid is coming home from camp Saturday which means I sort of have to pay attention to him again. So...tell me what you're watching this weekend and let me plot out my strategy.-If Ryan Seacrest wasn't busy enough, NBC has given him the Million Second Quiz hosting gig in September. So lets count. Daily radio show in Los Angeles, produces the Kardashians and a whole bunch of other shows for E! Hosts American Idol and now this show too? Well, there's one thing he isn't...a slacker. How in the world does he do it all? I guess now that he's single he had some time on his hands.
-A few months ago, YouTube started allowing everyone with 1000 subscribers to be able to stream their content live, but now, anyone with just 100 subscribers can live stream on YouTube. They are offering up some cool features too. You can link out to online stores or other sites. YouTube also has a studio in LA for content creators to use for production and will be opening another one here in NYC next October. Just the beginning of all this crazy content creation madness...just the beginning. I'm sure we are all going to be using YouTube to stream weddings, graduations, family reunions etc. Assume there's a camera ALWAYS on you at this point. Scary right?
-Magic City on Starz, a show I've never ever watched, was cancelled after 2 seasons yesterday. Anyone care?
-Unlike Magic City, Awkward was given good news from MTV yesterday, they are a "go" for season 4. Congrats guys.
-With CBS being off the air in NY, LA and Dallas Time Warner Cable homes, I'm sure you're dying to know what the affect on the ratings have been since the plug was pulled. Well. Not much so far. Saturday & Sunday's World Golf Bridgestone Invitational was up 150% in viewers and 300% in adults 25-54 vs. last year. Friday-Sunday's late local news numbers were up 9% in viewers and 13% in A25-54 compared to the same night last week. The primetime average in NY, LA and Dallas from Friday-Sunday was identical to the same night vs a week ago. Keep in mind that August is one of the lowest viewing months of the year for obvious reasons. Let's hope that things get resolved before NFL kickoff in a few weeks. though. Whether ratings are affected or not, people are going to freak out without their football, but of course if you find yourself without NFL Football and you are a Verizon Wireless customer, you can download NFL Mobile and not miss much! (Shameless plug...I know, I know)
-I did tried to watch Disney's Teen Beach Movie hoping it was 1/2 as good as High School Musical, but I thought it was terrible and turned it off after the first 10 minutes. Apparently I was one of the only ones who did, 13.4 million viewers have checked out the movie since it premiered making it the 2nd biggest movie in cable TV history against total viewers, kids 2-11, kids 6-11 and tweens 9-14. What was number 1 you ask? High School Musical of course!
-I forgot to remind you all that Shark Week started Sunday night. Not many people needed my reminder though, Megalodon, broke 26 years of Shark Week viewership records Sunday. 4.8 million people tuned in and the show delivered a 2.6 RA25-54. Not only was my husband watching Shark programming in his man cave last night, but he kept running upstairs telling me how cool it was etc. What is about Sharks that everyone loves so much? It's a bizarre thing isn't it? Tuesday's Trivia Question: Who won the X Factor last season?
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