After both being in repeats the previous week, Conan’s Tonight Show topped Letterman’s Late Show in the adults 18-49 demo for the week ending October 30. Their four week averages continue neck and neck.

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Will this be the last season for Numb3rs?    With the order cut to 16 episodes and what sounds like fairly expensive production costs for a show in its sixth season, the end does seem near or at least nearer…

via THR:

Are “Numbers’” days numbered?

CBS has opted to cut back the order for the veteran crime procedural from 22 to 16 episodes.

Friday nights have taken a big ratings hit this fall, and “Numbers,” now in its sixth season, has been no exception. Last week, the drama starring Rob Morrow and David Krumholtz averaged a 1.7 rating/6 share among adults 18-49 and 7.9 million viewers overall.

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Final Update: fun while it lasted, but no longer free on Amazon or iTunes.  It should be available for free on both Hulu and ABC.com on Saturday.

Looks like it’s an “All V, All The Time” day, but I know some folks missed it and there were comments about how to watch it.  Though last night’s premiere of  V is not yet available on Hulu or ABC.com (where only the first 9.5 minutes are so are avaialble) and looks like it won’t be until Saturday, the premiere is already streaming on Amazon.com, and for free.

Just click the link below.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002TNS012/ref=dv_twitter_freeV

Via Amazon Video On Demand Twitter Feed.

Update (from comments – thanks Jason): it is indeed free on iTunes too.

Update 2: Posted around 3:20p PT on November 4:

AmazonVideo Sorry!! We have to take down our free V offer. Want it? Better grab it quick. bit.ly/1UYhDz #fb

Our Renew / Cancel Index predicts potential renewal or cancellation for scripted broadcast primetime shows for the 2010-11 season (results through November 1, 2009):

• Likely To Be Canceled By May, 2010
• Some Danger Of Being Canceled By May, 2010
• Likely to Be Renewed For The 2010-11 Season

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With Melrose Place the only show CW certain to be canceled, just like last season with  Privileged I’m certain that there are entertainment bloggers out there that will raise the (false) hopes of fans (and their pageviews) with ridiculous “There’s Hope For Melrose Place!” stories.

I’m not sure if those stories are driven by the CW’s PR prowess or just attempts to draw pageviews, but who do you think will be first?

My guess rhymes with “Saucy-Fellow”.

Smallville fans wary of the motives of CW Chief Dawn Ostroff should be sleeping easily. With the relatively good ratings its getting on Friday (relatively better for its network than any other Friday scripted show on any network), she’s not going to be able to cancel it. Of course, if the producers or stars don’t want to continue that’s another story.

*I have frozen The Beautiful Life’s Index at its value the week of cancellation.

Note: A few CW scripted shows were in repeats last week, which depresses their Indexes vs. those that were not. In the short run, it causes some tricky comparisons, in the long run it pretty much evens out.

This is a breakdown of CW scripted shows and their renewal and cancellation prospects. Here are links to the other networks:

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please note, they are NOT (at least not yet) picking up ANY NEW EPISODES of Southland, these are just the 13 that have already been made — the seven from last year that already aired, plus the six episodes of season two that were made, but never aired on NBC.

Via press release:

Release Date: 11/2/2009
TNT Picks Up Acclaimed Drama SOUTHLAND

TNT has picked up the critically acclaimed series SOUTHLAND, closing a deal with Warner Bros. Television that will bring the drama from Emmy^®-winning producer John Wells (ER, The West Wing) to the network in January.  TNT has obtained exclusive rights to air all six episodes that have been shot for the second season, as well as the seven episodes from the series’ first season.  SOUTHLAND will air on TNT Tuesdays at 10 p.m. (ET/PT), beginning with the first episode of the series on Jan. 12.

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Update 11/2/09: due to some problems (see comments) we have turned off the plugin for the time being.

We’ve recently installed software that will display our site in a modified, faster to load (and we hope improved) format for modern browsers like those used in iPhones, iPod Touches and Android phones, among others. About 2% of our site’s visits are currently from iPhones and iPod Touches, and that’s likely to increase.

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Thanks to everyone who sent in suggested fan “excuses” for their favorite shows.

Here are 5 randomized bingo cards for you to download and play at home! Click on each to get a full sized version to print. Here are all 5 together in .pdf file form.

Update: Making the typo corrections was a lot easier than I expected, so completely new (and corrected) versions are below. Note that because of the way they’re generated, they’re completely new, so if you don’t mind typos you now can have 10 bingo cards. Here are the original 5 (with typos) in a .pdf file.

You can also make your own bingo cards here. Enjoy!

Ah December.  Dancing With the Stars goes away for a while and the Renew/Cancel Index gets at least a little holiday season nutmeg spice as Scrubs and Better Off Ted make their returns.  The Index should have had enough time to heal from the stinging Scrubs dealt it by predicting doom for Scrubs practically every week last season.  Since then the Index has learned to play it at least  a bit faster and looser with 30 minute sitcoms.

Scrubs will return with double episodes on Tuesday, December 1 from 9pm to 10pm, and then Better Off Ted will take the 9:30p slot on December 8.

Source: Josef Adalian’s twitter feed