Archives for October 2009
NBC Rains On Our Parade
As if handing over five hours of primetime real estate wasn’t reason enough for NBC to find themselves in this TV Addict’s bad book, TMZ is reporting that the Peacock Network has banned the cast of GLEE from performing in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade that annually airs on their network.
According to gossip behemoth, “Macy’s invited the GLEE cast — the deal was all but signed — but when rival NBC found out, they told the department store to pull the plug.”
Which is why we’ve officially decided to pull the plug on NBC and pledge not to watch this year’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Or, as Sue Sylvester might put it, we’re gonna bring this Glee Club Network down — one viewer at at time! 
Blogger Beat Down: TV.com Hates Kids!
The subject of theTVaddict.com’s inaugural BLOGGER BEAT DOWN is… TV.com writer Richard Lawson, who in a recent editorial claims that “MODERN FAMILY’s kid characters almost ruin the show.” How much do they bother the scribe? “To be blunt,” he admits, “I just really hate the kids.”
TV Ratings: Sunday October 11, 2009
| Time | Network | Show | Rating | 18-49 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8PM | CBS | 60 Minutes | 14.636 | 3.7/10 |
| NBC | Football Night in America | 11.399 | 4.3/12 | |
| ABC | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | 8.830 | 2.6/7 | |
| FOX | The Simpsons | 7.54 | 3.6/10 | |
| 8:30PM | NBC | Sunday Night Football | 14.680 | 5.5/14 |
| CBS | 60 Minutes/The Amazing Race | 11.548 | 3.1/8 | |
| 9PM | NBC | Sunday Night Football | 15.738 | 5.9/14 |
| ABC | Desperate Housewives | 13.05 | 4.3/10 | |
| CBS | The Amazing Race | 10.12 | 3.0/7 | |
| FOX | Family Guy | 8.88 | 4.5/11 | |
| 9:30PM | CBS | The Amazing Race/Three Rivers | 7.97 | 2.1/5 |
| FOX | American Dad | 6.66 | 3.4/8 | |
| 10PM | NBC | Sunday Night Football | 13.38 | 5.4/13 |
| ABC | Brothers & Sisters | 9.46 | 3.1/8 | |
| CBS | Three Rivers | 7.42 | 1.7/4 | |
| 10:30PM | CBS | Three Rivers/Cold Case | 7.23 | 1.7/5 |
GLEEK Alert! (Or Why I Just Renewed My Subscription to Entertainment Weekly)
Just in time to neutralize our disappointment over last week’s Entertainment Weekly cover ‘story’ that featured photos of ‘STARS ON THE SET!” and had us once again scratching our head over our favorite magazines insistence on treading dangerously close to US Weekly territory… comes GLEE’s Cory Monteith, with a twitter sneak peek of an upcoming cover, “@msleamichele floating away during the Entertainment Weekly cover shoot! http://twitpic.com/l9bo4.”
Subscription renewed.
Thanks to @rural_juror for the Tip!
Review: DEXTER: THE VIDEO GAME
Combining two of our favorite addictions, theTVaddict.com has begun periodically turning off the TV in order to review TV-related iPhone Apps.
After months of hype following Marc Ecko’s Comic Con announcement to a roomful of eager fanboys (and girls), DEXTER: THE VIDEO GAME has finally arrived on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Unfortunately, much like his ubiquitous clothing line, the game itself is all style and very little substance.
What Works: DEXTER: THE VIDEO GAME is visually stunning (ranking right up there with the best looking games in the App Store), fantastic sounding (courtesy of a soundtrack ripped directly from the Showtime series), and affordably priced at $3.99 (also known as far less than our daily Starbucks addiction). Regrettably, the positives end there.
Watch, PVR, Pass: Sunday October 11, 2009
Your TV Quotes of the Week
Career Trajectory Alert: Eriq LaSalle and Brittany Murphy
What does a former ER doc have in common with the star of Clueless and Girl, Interrupted? They both find themselves the subject of this TV Addict’s latest public service: Our Career Trajectory Alert. A real-time system that immediately alerts an actor (or actors) when their career looks to be on life support (Patent Pending).
TV Ratings: Friday October 9, 2009
| Time | Network | Show | Rating | 18-49 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8PM | CBS | Ghost Whisperer | 8.60 | 2.1/7 |
| NBC | Law & Order | 7.23 | 1.5/6 | |
| ABC | FlashForward (R) | 3.11 | 0.8/3 | |
| FOX | Brothers | 2.35 | 0.8/3 | |
| CW | Smallville | 2.30 | 0.8/3 | |
| 8:30PM | FOX | ‘Til Death | 2.36 | 0.8/3 |
| 9PM | CBS | Medium | 8.30 | 1.9/6 |
| NBC | Dateline | 7.05 | 1.5/5 | |
| ABC | Modern Family (R) | 2.95 | 0.9/3 | |
| FOX | Dollhouse | 2.25 | 1.0/3 | |
| CW | America’s Next Top Model (R) | 1.16 | 0.5/2 | |
| 9:30PM | ABC | The Middle (R) | 2.76 | 0.9/3 |
| 10PM | CBS | Numb3rs | 7.13 | 1.6/5 |
| ABC | 20/20 | 6.07 | 1.5/5 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 5.33 | 1.4/5 |