to the 6 or 7 of you who frequent this site on a semi-regular basis, but i wont be updating this site all that much anymore..i have a worksite i need to spend more time on...if you want to see general entertainment news with some TV stuff too, go to...
http://www.943thefoxfm.com/pages/73936.php
thanks! Craig
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
TV Tonight (1/16)
ABC: Wife Swap (NEW), Supernanny (NEW), Cashmere Mafia (NEW)
CBS: Power of 10 (NEW), Comanche Moon (NEW)
NBC: Deal or No Deal (NEW), Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order (NEW)
FOX: American Idol (NEW)
CW: Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants (NEW), Gossip Girl
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TV Crap
DIANE KEATON needs to censor herself when she makes TV appearances to promote her new movie, Mad Money. Yesterday on ABC's Good Morning America, she inadvertently used the 'f' word while complimenting DIANE SAWYER's lips. Specifically, she said if she had lips like Sawyer's, she wouldn't have worked on her "f****** personality" and would be married. She apologized for her use of the swear word, which aired uncensored on the East Coast, and Sawyer replied that her mom would wash Keaton's mouth with soap. The word was bleeped in the other U.S. time zones...
MAILA NURMI, who hosted horror movie broadcasts on Los Angeles TV in the mid-1950s as the goth character Vampira, died last Thursday. The cause of death is currently unknown. She may have been one of the inspirations for the character of Morticia Addams on TV's The Addams Family, and at one time unsuccessfully sued CASSANDRA PETERSON, aka ELVIRA, for allegedly stealing her act. Nurmi was 85 years old...
Nielsen Ratings
America has football fever and the networks couldn't be happier. The top three programs in last week's Nielsen ratings were all gridiron-related, with the post-game show for the New York Giants' win over the Dallas Cowboys pacing the field with 32.5 million viewers. For the first time in recent memory, the New England Patriots didn't win something -- their victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars took second place, earning just shy of 30 million viewers. Meanwhile, the college football national championship between Ohio State and LSU landed in third place.
Elsewhere in last week's Nielsens:
* We don't know if it's a really good show of if the public is just starved for new programming, but Fox's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles debuted in fourth place with more than 18 million viewers. On the other hand..,
* The premiere of ABC's Cashmere Mafia proved the public may not be all that hungry for new shows. It only scored 6.2 million viewers.
CBS was the top-rated network for the week, followed by Fox, NBC, ABC, Univision, the CW, My Network TV and Telemundo.
Here are the top 10 primetime programs for the week of Monday, January 7th-Sunday, January 13th:
1. Fox NFC Playoff: New York Giants at Dallas Cowboys Post-Game (Sunday), Fox, 32.51 million viewers.
2. AFC Divisional Playoff: Jacksonville Jaguars at New England Patriots, CBS, 30.90 million viewers.
3. Allstate BCS National Championship, Fox, 23.07 million viewers.
4. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Fox, 18.36 million viewers.
5. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, 18.19 million viewers.
6. Grey's Anatomy (Thursday), ABC, 17.68 million viewers.
7. Comanche Moon 1, CBS, 15.76 million viewers.
8. Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit, 15.15 million viewers.
9. Criminal Minds, CBS, 14.30 million viewers.
10. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Sunday), ABC, 14 million viewers.
Hey, you are starting to SAG...
Prospects for a Grammy Awards broadcast this year are looking worse because of the ongoing writers' strike. Yesterday, the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced that they'd filed a formal request for a waiver with the Writers Guild, and the union again said yesterday that the request is unlikely to be granted. Still, ARAS President NEIL PORTNOW said the academy, quote, "remains hopeful that there will be a quick and positive response."
The Screen Actors Guild has said it probably won't cross the picket line should writers protest the Grammys. Several musicians are SAG members, meaning they'd likely honor the picket, while other musicians are likely to avoid crossing the picket out of sympathy for the writers' cause.
As of now, The Grammy Awards are still scheduled to take place February 10th, and air on CBS-TV. However, no performers or presenters have been announced yet.
Better news for next month's NAACP Image Awards: the Guild has granted them a waiver. WGA West President PATRIC VERRONE explained yesterday, quote, "Because of the historic role the NAACP has played in struggles like ours, we think this decision is appropriate to jointly achieve out goals."
The Big "O"...
OPRAH WINFREY's vast entertainment empire will expand next year with the creation of her own TV network. She will chair the Oprah Winfrey Network, or OWN, which will become available in nearly 70 million homes on cable and satellite TV. The joint venture between Winfrey's Harpo Productions and Discovery Communications will replace the Discovery Health network. Under the agreement, the talk show queen will relinquish half-ownership of her Oprah.com website.
Programs on the Oprah Winfrey Network may focus on issues such as money, health and relationships -- not unlike The Oprah Winfrey Show. But you might not see much of Winfrey on the network when it debuts, since she'll keep busy with her talk show under a contract that runs through May, 2011.
Still, Winfrey says, quote, "I will now have the opportunity to do this 24 hours a day on a platform that goes on forever." Oprah's already the face of several media projects, including a magazine, TV movies and her website.
Monday, January 14, 2008
TV Tonight (1/14)
ABC: Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann (NEW), Notes From the Underbelly
(NEW), October Road (NEW)
(NEW), October Road (NEW) CBS: How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Rules of Engagement, CSI: Miami (NEW)
NBC: American Gladiators (NEW), Deal or No Deal (NEW), Medium (NEW)
FOX: Prison Break (NEW), Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (NEW)
CW: Everybody Hates Chris, Aliens in America, Girlfriends, The Game
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