(Season 5, Episode 19 – “Vegas”) With the next to last episode of a series, you would be within reason to expect that this is where the rubber meets the road. Any time that needed to be filled has been, and now the team back at HQ can settle in to wrap up the series. […]
Aryeh S. is back guest clacking for us again this week …. I’ve never watched a single episode of any incarnation of CSI. But clearly, the show works on numerous levels; its success as a franchise speaks volumes about the ability of its creators to apply a tried and true formula to multiple cities, with […]
(12/14 – 12/21) This week, the other networks just made it easy for CBS. After taking second on Sunday night, to NBC’s Sunday Night Football, the Tiffany network went on to win the next five nights in viewers and the demo. Granted, there were more repeats than usual, but even the CBS repeats were in on the […]
It’s bad enough that my children are exposed to beer commercials if they happen to watch anything during prime time. Victoria’s Secret ads are mildly amusing with three teenage/pre-teen boys in the room. Everybody wants an iPod: we get it. But the commercials that are driving me the craziest this season are the ones for […]
(12/7 – 12/13) I work with a guy that has the barest of the bare bones cable packages. Thirteen channels. It amounts to the networks, Discovery, PBS, and shopping. It was a tough week of television for him. There were a lot of repeats. The CW only managed 3½ hours of original programming for the […]
Did you see it? It’s got wings! Wait, that’s something completely different. What I was getting at was the big debut of Laurence Fishburne on CSI. It’s an interesting time for the show because if any one character is the show, it’s William Petersen’s Grissom. We’ll learn over the next few episodes whether or not […]
(Ratings Clack 11/30 – 12/6) It was an interesting week for TV numbers. With Tom & Samantha packing up the ballroom, there were viewers to be had on Monday and Tuesday. That meant there were winners (Chuck, The Mentalist), and losers (Samantha Who?, Heroes). The other big story was just how well all of the […]
