I loved the way tonight's Boston Legal opened the episode, poking fun at both network scheduling and its own "on the bubble" status as far as renewal.
They even worked it in without having to break the "fourth wall".
Tonight's episode starts off with Denny Crane (William Shattner), Carl Sack (John Larroquette) and ...
At least that's what Sophia Myles, who plays Beth Turner on the Friday night supernatural drama aired by CBS told SCI FI Wire.
The funniest part of the story to me was:
Although the show's fan base is predominantly women, Myles offered a way to attract male viewers to the show as ...
5/13 UPDATE: Women's Murder Club Has Been Cancelled
April 30, 2008 Update: with lackluster performance in a new time slot following Dancing With the Stars, WMC seems to be trending towards "cancel". The original "renew by the slightest of margins" verdict reached last December now looks even slimmer. ...
Univision premiered its latest tele-novela, Fuego en la Sangre (Burning for Revenge) on Monday night at 9pm and set ratings records for the network. The show performed amazingly well and beat the living daylights out of, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, The Hills, etc., by almost every metric except teenagers. ...
[table=1240]Is an allegedly drunken Paula Abdul good for 18-49 demo ratings? Not really, but her memory lapse didn't seem to hurt either. American Idol had an 8.7 rating in the demo vs. an 8.8 last week. Meanwhile, Hell's Kitchen soared to a 5.5 in the demo - a series record. ...
10.9 million Watch Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune topped all other syndicated shows with a viewership of 10.9 million for the week of April 14-20, 2008.
Note: Many daytime syndicated shows were pre-empted during parts of this week to broadcast elements of the Pope's visit to the US, lowering their ratings.
Top ...
429,000 Time-Shift Oprah And Feel Empowered
The Oprah Winfrey Show tops the list for biggest % increase from time-shifting at 7.3%, and had the largest absolute audience size via DVR viewing at 429,000 for the week of April 7-13, 2008.
Top Time-Shifted Syndicated Shows, April 7-13, 2008
The NFL draft got the most households, but more people gather around each screen for WWE RAW which took the week. The power of WWE does blow my mind a bit. One of the reasons I first thought about "I wish there was a blog that aggregated all the TV ...