Monday Ratings: Get in the Picture Flunks Again

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Comedy, Drama, Games, Music, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, House, Ratings

Turns out Sunday night’s dismal premiere of High School Musical was no fluke. The show’s second outing did even worse than the first. Meanwhile, CBS’ slate of repeats did well enough to earn the network wins for the viewers and the demos.

8pm

• Bones* (6.4 million, 1.7/6 in 18-49) was about even with last week.
• The Big Bang Theory* (5.6 million, 1.8/6) tacked on 300,000; How I Met Your Mother* (5.8 million, 2.0/6) improved by 700,000.
• American Gladiators (5.1 million, 1.8/6) was up a notch.
• High School Musical: Get in the Picture (3.2 million, 0.9/3) sunk 800,000 from yesterday’s premiere.
• Gossip Girl* (1.3 million, 0.6/2) did about the same.

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The Hills Season 4 Trailer

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Prime Time, Reality, Cable, MTV, The Hills, Gossip, Video

In this trailer for the upcoming season of The Hills, we finally get to see all of the drama we already read about in Us Weekly months ago.

Will Lauren finally have a functional relationship? Is Spencer going to keep that pathetic attempt at facial hair around? Will Audrina really become friends with “super bitchy” Lo?

Find out when The Hills returns on August 18.

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Sunday Ratings: High School Musical No HSM

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Kids, Music, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, Desperate Housewives, Everybody Hates Chris, Family Guy, Ratings

Looks like the High School Musical name doesn’t always mean gold. The premiere of ABC’s new reality series pulled in disappointing numbers last night and did very little for ABC. Meanwhile, NBC ended up courting the viewers while tying FOX with the demos.

8pm

• Big Brother 10 (5.8 million, 1.9/6 in 18-49) was the hour’s most-watched show.
• America’s Got Talent* (5.3 million, 1.4/4) entertained 1 million more than last week.
• High School Musical: Get in the Picture (1.1/3) saw 4 million report for class.
• The Simpsons* (3.6 million, 1.6/6) was down 400,000; King of the Hill* (3.5 million, 1.6/5) lost 300,000.
• Everybody Hates Chris* (990,000, 0.4/1) picked up 120,000; Aliens in America* (830,000, 0.3/1) improved by 127,000.

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TV on DVD: July 22, 2008

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, BBC, Cable, NBC, Showtime

Here are some of the TV on DVD options available this Tuesday:

• Bleach (Volume 11)
• Case Closed (Season 1)
• Comedy Central’s TV Funhouse
• Earth: The Biography
• L.A. Ink (Season 1)
• Las Vegas (Season 5)
• Masters of Horror (Season 2)
• Robot Chicken: Star Wars
• Spaced (Complete Series)
• Strange But True (13 episodes)
• Transformers Cybertron: The Ultimate Collection

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This Week on TV (7/21-7/27)

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Comedy, Food & Home, Games, Kids, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, Bravo, Cable, MTV, NBC, General Hospital

(You can view TV Envy’s Summer Television Programming Schedule here.)

MONDAY (7/21)

• High School Musical: Get in the Picture (ABC, 8pm): Monday premiere. “The East Coast auditions progress to the semifinal and final rounds.” If I can be guaranteed shed tears, I just might be interested in watching this.
• Take Home Nanny (TLC, 8pm):  Series premiere. “Emma helps a mom with two demanding daughters and a workaholic husband.” Emma’s other job? Manufacturing fake IDs.
• Wanna Bet? (ABC, 9pm):  Series premiere. “Celebrities wager on ordinary people’s abilities to perform wild stunts. Tom Green, Sherri Shepherd, George Takei and Harland Williams are the judges in the opener.” If Tom Green had placed a bet on Drew Barrymore’s latest relationship, I’m sure he would have made a ton.
• Date My Ex: Jo & Slade (Bravo, 10pm):  Series premiere. “Jo De La Rosa, of The Real Housewives of Orange County, begins her quest to find a love match by sizing up her various suitors. Helping her weed out the contestants: ex-flame Slade Smiley.” At this point, anyone not named Slade Smiley would be an upgrade.

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Wednesday Ratings: Celebrity Circus Ends Quietly

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Drama, Music, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, America's Next Top Model, So You Think You Can Dance, Ratings

Viewers didn’t seem particularly interested about last night’s Celebrity Circus finale. They did, though, care about the Top Ten contestants on SYTYCD. The dancing competition once again helped FOX win both the demos and the viewers.

8pm

• So You Think You Can Dance (8.8 million, 3.0/10 in 18-49) stepped it up a notch.
• Big Brother 10 (5.9 million, 1.8/6) did almost 2 million less than The Price is Right.
• The Baby Borrowers* (1.3/5) started off with 4.1 million.
• Wife Swap* (4 million, 1.4/5) was up slightly.
• America’s Next Top Model (1.1 million, 0.5/2) did the same as before.

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Big Brother 10: Brian Evicted/Jessie is New HOH

Posted by Jacci Lewis
Categories: Prime Time, Reality, CBS, Editorial, Gossip, News

He flew too close to the sun and got burned. Brian, the former Air Force crew chief from San Francisco, talked himself right out of the Big Brother 10 house. He wasn’t even nominated originally.

Jerry, the Head of Household, put Renny and Jessie up for nomination, but Jessie won the Power of Veto. This coincided with increasing suspicion of Brian’s attempts to control other house guests and tell them how to vote. At one point, Brian suggested he was “pulling all the strings” in the house. He’d originally formed an alliance with Dan and Ollie. But Ollie has formed a stronger alliance (like the physical kind) with April and April didn’t like Brian so Ollie turned on him.

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Tuesday Ratings: All-Star Night for FOX

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Drama, Games, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Specials, Sports, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, Ratings

Yesterday’s contest between the National and American Leagues was an exciting one for the fans and for FOX. The network easily scored a grand slam over the other networks.

8pm

• Approximately 14.5 million baseball fans watched the first 9 innings of FOX‘s MLB All-Star Game (4.5/13 in 18-49).
• Wipeout (8.5 million, 3.1/10) had a 2.1 million dive.
• Celebrity Family Feud (7.9 million, 2.0/7) gathered another 400,000.
• NCIS* (7.8 million, 1.3/4) plummeted by 800,000.
• Beauty and the Geek* (1 million, 0.5/2) drew in 260,000 more.

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Monday Ratings: Repeats On Top

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Comedy, Drama, Games, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Sports, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, House, Ratings

With The Bachelorette now over, Monday nights once again belonged to the repeats. Although it was tight race, FOX managed to snare wins in both categories from CBS.

8pm

• Bones* (6.3 million, 1.8/6 in 18-49) was down slightly.
• The Big Bang Theory* (5.3 million, 1.6/5) added on 200,000; How I Met Your Mother* (5.1 million, 1.7/5) saw 300,000 tune out.
• American Gladiators (1.7/5) tackled 5 million.
• ABC‘s repeat of The Bachelor: Where Are They Now?* (1.5/5) sucked in 4.9 million.
• Gossip Girl* (1.2 million, 0.5/2) was even with last week.

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The Election’s Not Over

Posted by K.C. Morgan
Categories: Reality, Specials, Gossip

After months of hard-core coverage, tons of big banner headlines and more primary elections than you can shake a stick at, suddenly the election news is quiet. Now that all the little battles are over (McCain vs. the world, Obama vs. Clinton, etc.), there is only one last war to wage.

And yet…no one seems to care.

The news has slowed almost to a trickle and the television coverage is slim at best. But there’s a whole lot more to do before the country takes to the polls on November 4, 2008. Namely, aren’t there supposed to be some Presidential debates coming up?

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