This Week on TV (9/28-10/4)
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Food & Home, Games, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, Cable, CBS, HBO, MTV, NBC, The CW, Grey's Anatomy, Medium, The Office
(Make sure to check out TV Envy’s Programming Schedule.)
MONDAY (9/28)
Season premieres: County Jail, Lie to Me, Trauma
- Trauma (NBC, 9pm): “A medical drama focusing on the first-responder paramedics at a San Francisco hospital and the extreme dangers they face to save lives.” It’s like a “very special episode” of ER...every…week.
- Unwrapped (FOOD, 9pm): “The making of bacon ice cream at Delaware s Woodside Farm Creamery.” Hot bacon sundaes can be topped off with bacon bits and/or bacon grease.
- CSI: Miami (CBS, 10pm): “The lab is attacked and new CSI Jesse Cardoza is taken hostage along with four other people.” Unfortunately, the newbie wasn’t eligible for his hostage compensation benefits yet.
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Friday Ratings: Show of Support for Farrah’s Story
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Specials, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, Prison Break, Ratings
NBC’s documentary about Farrah Fawcett’s cancer struggle put up a good fight against a string of finales. Although the Eye network was a winner with the viewers, the Peacock tied CBS in the demos.
8pm
- Approximately 8.9 million watched Ghost Whisperer‘s season ender (2.0/8 in 18-49).
- America’s Funniest Home Videos (1.6/6) had 5.6 million chuckling.
- Dateline (1.3/5) registered 5.3 million.
- Prison Break‘s series finale (1.2/5) said goodbye to 3.3 million.
- The Game (0.9/4) averaged 1.9 million over an hour.
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TV Extensions, Renewals and Cancellations (4/29)
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, Cable, MTV, NBC, Apprentice, The - Donald, Dancing With The Stars, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Lost, The Bachelor, The Hills
Here’s an update on the shows you’ll be seeing more of in the months to come:
EXTENSIONS
- The HIlls (MTV) - **more episodes of Season 5**
RENEWALS
- America’s Funniest Home Videos (ABC) - Season 20
- The Bachelor (ABC) - Season 14
- Brothers & Sisters (ABC) - Season 4
- The Celebrity Apprentice (NBC) - Season 3
- Dancing with the Stars (ABC) - Season 9
- Desperate Housewives (ABC) - Season 6
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Tuesday Ratings: House, Repeats Top the Night
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, House, Ratings
Thanks to a nice showing from House, FOX was able to nab the demos last night. Unfortunately, the network still couldn’t completely overpower a slate of repeats on CBS.
8pm
- NCIS* (14.1 million, 2.7/7 in 18-49) was Wednesday’s most-watched show.
- House (13.9 million, 5.6/15) had the evening’s best demo performance.
- The Biggest Loser: Families (9.2 million, 3.6/9) raised 500,000.
- A special America’s Funniest Home Videos (2.0/5) had 7.3 million laughing.
- 90210* (1.2 million, 0.6/1) did the same as last week.
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This Week on TV (9/29-10/5)
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Music, Reality, Specials, ABC, BBC, Bravo, Cable, CBS, FX, MTV, NBC, The CW, Everybody Hates Chris, Heroes, Survivor
(You can view TV Envy’s Fall Television Programming Schedule here.)
MONDAY (9/29)
- Chuck (NBC, 8pm): Season 2 premiere. “Chuck mixes it up with a formidable operative (Michael Clarke Duncan) out to obtain a device that would potentially give rise to a new Intersect.” Thankfully, he knows a girl from Wienerlicious who can take the big guy down.
- Heroes (NBC, 9pm): “Peter looks to the past to stop the future.” Is going back to Season Two an option?
- 100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs (VH1, 9pm): “A five-part countdown of the Top 100 hip hop songs.” Because when I think hip hop, I think VH1.
- Life (NBC, 10pm): Season 2 premiere. “Crews and Reese track a serial killer who’s placing victims in numbered trunks around the city.” Ooh—I love scavenger hunts!
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Friday Ratings: CBS and ABC Split Lackluster Evening
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Games, Kids, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Sports, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, Ratings
This past Friday, the networks didn’t give the viewers much to choose from. (That will, thankfully, change in just a few short weeks.) The tight race ended with an ABC win in the demos and a CBS victory with the viewers.
8pm
- Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (5.9 million, 1.3/5 in 18-49) plummeted by 1 million.
- America’s Funniest Home Videos* (1.5/6) averaged 5.5 million over two hours.
- Ghost Whisperer* (5.3 million, 1.4/5) shed 400,000.
- Friday Night Smackdown (4.4 million, 1.4/5) was up by 200,000.
- America’s Toughest Jobs (3.3 million, 1.1/4) did about the same as last week.
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Friday Ratings: Viewers Not in the Mood for Swinging
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Games, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Sports, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, Ratings
A switch of time slots might have helped Flashpoint, but it didn’t do much for Swingtown. Meanwhile, all of the networks took a backseat to NBC on Friday.
8pm
- Ghost Whisperer* (1.3/5 in 18-49) conjured up 5.2 million.
- America’s Funniest Videos* (1.3/5) documented 4.8 million.
- Most Outrageous Moments* (1.1/5) embarrassed 4.3 million.
- Friday Night Smackdown (1.3/5) wrestled up 3.8 million.
- FOX‘s airing of Anger Management (1.2/5) had 3.2 riled up.
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