The World Series was the big ratings winner last week, but with New York involved, everyone kind of expected that, right? What nobody expected — most notably ABC — was the success of the V premiere. The numbers weren’t just good. It was the highest rated scripted program on the network, topping the Housewives and Grey’s. Even better, the V demo rating was the highest for a scripted show on any of the networks.  Someone at ABC has to be kicking themselves for only ordering four episodes of V, while they continue to crank out more Hanks than they know what to do with. Read the rest of this entry »

I have missed the Supernatural boat. Everyone tells me what a great show it is, but I’ve never taken the time. If this week’s lead quote is any indication, I sure am missing out. The week before the start of November Sweeps also brings us some good quotes from Modern Family and Community. Next week, however, I promise the return of Glee!

Supernatural

“You gotta calm down.” — Sam
“Calm down? I’m wearing sunglasses at night!! You know who does that? No talent douche bags! I hate this game! I hate that we’re in a procedural cop show and you want to know to know why … because I hate procedural cop shows! There’s like 300 of them on television and they’re all the freaking same. It’s, ‘Oh, plane crashed here.’ Oh shut up!” — Dean

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Why exactly was this a musical episode? Have there been hints dropped that the cast members are a bunch of singers and dancers? Because, if so, I’d love to dispel those rumors. I can’t speak to the singing — I saw a rough cut minus the vocals — but the dancing was something out of a really bad episode of Fame, entitled something like, “The Fame kids start sucking.”

But otherwise tonight’s episode of Greek started off just about where you’d expect: one week later, and still keeping a secret. Sounds like Evan and Frannie, right? The difference, of course, being the fraternity that the sneaking around is taking place in. At Omega Kai, secrets would be treated discreetly, then gossiped about. With the KTs? Casey got a standing ovation, but I doubt any of the brothers would care enough to mention her presence to anyone. Read the rest of this entry »

A combination of baseball and pre-sweeps repeats made for a bit of an odd week. Repeats don’t mean there aren’t numbers of note however. We had Jay Leno’s first shot against CSI: Miami and NY repeats, and a look at what running repeats on Friday does for FOX. That is, nothing good for Dollhouse season 3. Also interesting this week — The Mentalist finally topped CSI in viewers and the demo, and even a repeat Gibbs appearance is worth 16 million viewers. Read the rest of this entry »

Halloween week on TV always is fun. Costumes, parties, and horror stories, oh my! This week wasn’t all about the Day of the Dead, however. We saw Derek buck the odds (and his boss) and perform a miracle like surgery, NBC cancel my favorite new show of year (Favorite show not named Glee that is), and the folks from Supernatural meet their future counterparts. And its not even November Sweeps yet!!

Community

“Batman.” — Jeff
“Yeah.” — Abed
“Are you staying for the party?” — Jeff
“If I stay, there can be no party. I must be out there in the night, staying vigilant. Wherever a party needs to be saved, I’m there. Wherever there are masks, or there’s tomfoolery and joy, I’m there. But sometimes I’m not, ’cause I’m out in the night, staying vigilant, watching, lurking, running, jumping, hurtling, sleeping. No, I can’t sleep. I don’t sleep. You sleep. I’m awake. I don’t sleep. I don’t blink. Am I a bird? No. I’m a bat. I am Batman … or am I? Yes, I am Batman. Happy Halloween.” — Abed

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I got the chance to watch the chapter five, or mid-season three finale, of Greek yesterday. It was … interesting. There were some “giant” aspects to it, plots that towered right up there with some of the memorable stuff that they’ve given us thus far. And then there were stories that just didn’t turn out how I’d write them. Isn’t the audience small enough that they could poll us all?

The episode opens a week after the final scene in this past week’s, so there’ll be no Casey pulling back from Cappie in the middle of their kiss and running up the stairs; that night’s over and done. But the episode does, of course, deal with the consequences of the kiss. And boy are there consequences. WARNING: MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD. Read the rest of this entry »

Since watching this episode of Greek, I’ve been trying to come up with a mental list of TV shows that managed to conveniently arrange for all of their adolescent characters to stay behind somewhere and make Thanksgiving together. The real 90210 keeps popping into my head, but I just can’t put my finger on it. I’m sure that Brandon and the gang did it more than once.

But likely not with as much promise as a Rusty and Dale cooked dinner. I saw it being added to the annals of television kitchen disasters, especially with Dale deep-frying the turkey out on their porch. Maybe even a building fire, trouble with Sheila the rental agent … who knows?

But then I forgot, just as the writers at times do, that Rusty and Dale are polymer science honors engineers, and their “polygamy science project[s]” (thanks, Beaver!) wait for no turkey holiday. At least Dale started a lab fire. Read the rest of this entry »