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

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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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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

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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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