Well, not literally, but talk about a place to go! When Teddy Rist (James Purefoy) gets out there, he doesn’t fool around. Whether or not this episode was shot on location, that was one grey landscape, as far as the eye could see. International politics is a tough thing, and a lot of these countries […]
Okay, I did edit the original “Talkin’ Baseball’ lyrics just a bit for the title, for context. While the All-Star game was the big deal in ratings this week, there was some great news over on cable for Michael and the gang. And really, most of the exciting stuff, where ratings are concerned anyway, was […]
And, surprisingly so, considering it premiered in the largely panned summer season. I actually think, barring the offerings from cable networks, that The Philanthropist could end up being the granddaddy of summer-time scripted programming. Or am I ignoring lots of stuff? I agree with Debbie that, by and large, the show is very enjoyable. But, […]
… and very tiny ones for the King of Gilboa. And, if we want to carry on with that little game, very good numbers for the King of the Courts. It was another fairly typical summer week. As has been the pattern, FOX was the big winner in the demo, taking 5 of 7 nights. […]
Where the hell have I been? How have you been watching television without me? I worked up this elaborate excuse to justify the absence of this column over the past several weeks including reanimated raccoon corpses and a bizarre Bollywood musical number but I burned myself on a smoke bomb and I feel too lame […]
On the whole, it was a rather uneventful week of ratings. The most interesting story might have been what we didn’t see. As in, new programming on CBS. Despite the lack of anything of note to report in the ratings (even Harper’s Island was a repeat), CBS managed to average the most viewers on six […]
The surprise deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett made for a strange week in the numbers, as the networks quickly moved things around to get news programming on the air. The results were improved numbers, but that’s not saying much, given how a lot of the summer programming is going. There were some notable […]
