Each week, I slave over a hot laptop to bring Medium fans news, promos, and other goodies associated with the show. These are some of the highlights from the past week at Medium Dreams. Enjoy!

• Here’s the promo for this week’s episode, called “The Future’s so Bright.” In it, Allison has to wear shades. Get it??? In any case, she sees numbers on people’s heads that correspond with the number of days they have left to live. Lee has a “1″ on his head! Ack!
• As long as we’re talking about promos for this week’s episode, here are the promo photos!
• CBS has been interviewing the real Allison DuBois, and in this video, she and Medium Executive Producer Glenn Gordon Caron talk about the origins of the series.
• As Brett can attest to, I was super-excited to hear a Paula Abdul song during a key scene in last week’s episode. Here’s the song, in case you were one of the viewers who was wondering what it was. The video co-stars Keanu Reeves!
• Once again, it’s my favorite part: Dueling reviews! Here’s Brett’s take on last week’s episode, “Once in a Lifetime,” and here’s mine. We were both caught off-guard by all of the twists.

After the dramatic entrance of V last week, there were no similar big splash stories to lead things off this week. Then, as I was perusing the year-ago numbers, something occurred to me. It’s quite possible that FOX could improve both Monday and Thursday at 9:00 if they swapped Fringe and Lie To Me. If you look back to the initial Fringe run, it had a lot of success following House. In fact, while the House numbers are virtually unchanged from Tuesday to Monday, Fringe was holding much more of the House audience on Tuesday than Lie To Me currently is on Monday.

Example:
11/18/08: House (13.03m/5.5), Fringe (9.36m/4.2)
11/09/09: House (13.31m/5.3), Lie To Me (7.41m/3)

And that was against very similar competition. Both faced DWTS on ABC, which was pretty much a wash. NBC was greatly improved against Fringe with Biggest Loser (7.84m/3.3), as opposed to Trauma (5.35m/1.8). And CBS was mixed, with The Mentalist (15.83m/3.5) trailing the Men/Big Bang hour (13.62m/4.6) in the demo.

Now we look at where we are this season. Fringe did manage something of a rebound this week, finishing with (5.91m/2.2) on Thursday. That’s still a distant fourth place, and should find the show on the hot seat at the end of the season. It would, obviously, do better on Monday following House. The question is, would it do better than the (7.41m/3) that Lie To Me is currently offering? I think it would.

On the other side of that coin, while I’m not quite as confident about the move of Lie To Me to Thursday, I do still see the potential for it to outperform the current Fringe numbers. That bar has been set, after all, rather low. It would likely take a  hit in the move, but the end result would be that Thursday at 9:00 is stronger as well. Just something to think about. The usual numbers junk is after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

I continue to be amazed by the way that not only Joe, but also Scanlon and Devalos, just dismiss Allison’s dreams on a regular basis. Have they not been paying attention for the last six years? You can, on occasion, look at that as being a little silly. But I’m going to give Joe a pass on it for one simple reason. I take it as confirmation that he is the eternal optimist. Somewhere in the back of his mind he knows, “Oh crap.” But for whatever reason, he just chooses to dismiss it. Especially where family is concerned. There’s something very likable about that quality, as silly as it is. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

“New Terrain” was something of an odd episode, and not just because the episode title referenced Allison’s new car. The episode seemed to take a while to get up to speed. The dream about the girls in the car, and then the accident at the school, weren’t connected at all to the bank case, and made for some strange pacing. Fortunately, while the structure felt a little odd, the episode ended up being excellent as Allison unraveled the twists behind the big heist. Read the rest of this entry »

Each week, I slave over a hot laptop to bring Medium fans news, promos, and other goodies associated with the show. These are some of the highlights from the past week at Medium Dreams. Enjoy!

• My “Bite Me” review pretty much agrees with Brett’s: The Night of the Living Dead stuff was fun, but the main mystery was pretty easy to figure out.
• Here are some behind-the scenes videos of the Night of the Living Dead episode, including some of Patricia Arquette being inserted into the film.
• CBS is running a contest where you can win a trip to L.A. to visit the set of Medium.
• This “Trip Down Memory Lane” involves Patricia Arquette as a video vixen. She appeared in The Rolling Stones’ video for “Just Like a Rolling Stone.” She plays a junkie!
• Here’s the press release for this week’s episode of Medium, “New Terrain.” Allison seems to be involved in yet another car accident.
• Yet another “Trip Down Memory Lane” brings us a couple of Medium parodies that MadTV did a few years back. The first one is hysterical.

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 »