NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | Last Man Standing | Work It | Celebrity Wife Swap | Body of Proof | ||
CBS | NCIS | NCIS: Los Angeles | Unforgettable | |||
CW | Table for Three (Movie) | |||||
FOX | Glee (R) | New Girl (R) | Raising Hope (R) | |||
NBC | The Biggest Loser: No Excuses | Parenthood | ||||
ABC FAM | Switched at Birth | Jane By Design |
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Winter TCA Press Tour 2012: ALCATRAZ Live Blog
10:22AM: Once thought of as a dumping ground or burning off point for shows that simply weren’t good enough for the Fall schedule, ALCATAZ’s January premiere may have been the best thing to happen to the series since the casting of Jorge Garcia. Explained Executive Producer J.J. Abrams, “One of the advantages of being a midseason show was that instead of just saying, ‘You know what would have been cool?’ you actually have the time — and if you’re lucky the ability — to make changes to this thing.” First and foremost among those changes, according to Abrams, was a far strong and more easily identifiable connection between the show’s lovely leading lady Sarah Jones (Detective Rebecca Madsen) and the infamous prison itself.
10:24AM: But just what makes what in essence is a police procedural different from the vast array of the police procedurals currently on the air? Simply put, Alcatraz housed the worst of the worst. What’s more, when the 302 prisoners who mysteriously vanished prior to the prison shutting down begin to reappear in modern times, they will present the team of Detective Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones), Dr. Diego Soto (Jorge Garcia) and Emerson Hauser (Sam Neill) with a very unique challenge. Explained Executive Producer Jennifer Johnson, “These prisoners are ghosts. They reappear with no credit records, no friends and family members, they don’t have girlfriends, children. As such, our team is really going to have to think outside the box to track them down.” [Read more…]
TV Ratings: Tuesday January 3, 2012 (WORK IT, Doesn’t)
Time | Network | Show | Rating | 18-49 | VS. |
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8PM | CBS | NCIS | 20.15 | 4.2/11 | |
ABC | Last Man Standing | 7.87 | 2.4/6 | ||
NBC | The Biggest Loser | 6.46 | 2.3/6 | ||
FOX | Glee (R) | 2.49 | 0.9/2 | ||
CW | The Secret Circle (R) | 998,000 | 0.4/1 | ||
8:30PM | ABC | Work It | 6.14 | 2.0/5 | |
9PM | CBS | NCIS: Los Angeles | 17.06 | 3.5/8 | |
NBC | The Biggest Loser | 6.46 | 2.3/6 | ||
ABC | Celebrity Wife Swap | 6.00 | 2.2/5 | ||
FOX | New Girl (R) | 3.06 | 1.3/3 | ||
CW | The Secret Circle (R) | 715,000 | 0.3/1 | ||
9:30PM | FOX | Raising Hope (R) | 2.6 | 0.9/2 | |
10PM | CBS | Unforgettable | 11.62 | 2.5/6 | |
ABC | Body of Proof | 6.97 | 1.5/4 | ||
NBC | Parenthood | 4.94 | 1.7/4 |
On TV Tonight: Tuesday January 3, 2012
On TV Tonight: Wednesday December 28, 2011
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | The Middle (R) | Suburgatory (R) | Modern Family (R) | Happy Endings (R) | Revenge (R) | |
CBS | NCIS: Los Angeles (R) | Criminal Minds (R) | CSI (R) | |||
CW | According to Greta (Movie) | |||||
FOX | Raising Hope (R) | Raising Hope (R) | New Girl (R) | New Girl (R) | ||
NBC | Up All Night (R) | Whitney (R) | Harry’s Law (R) | Law & Order: SVU (R) | ||
MISC | The Soup (E!) |
On TV Tonight: Tuesday December 27, 2011
TV Ratings: Tuesday December 20, 2011
Time | Network | Show | Rating | 18-49 | VS. |
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8PM | CBS | NCIS (R) | 12.34 | 2.0/6 | |
NBC | Who’s Still Standing? | 5.83 | 1.8/5 | ||
ABC | Last Man Standing (R) | 5.72 | 1.4/4 | ||
FOX | Glee (R) | 3.27 | 1.1/3 | ||
CW | 90210 (R) | 763,000 | 0.3/1 | ||
8:30PM | ABC | Last Man Standing (R) | 5.51 | 1.6/5 | |
9PM | CBS | NCIS: Los Angeles (R) | 11.36 | 2.1/6 | |
NBC | SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas | 5.79 | 2.1/6 | ||
ABC | The Middle (R) | 4.31 | 1.3/3 | ||
FOX | New Girl (R) | 2.75 | 1.1/3 | ||
CW | Ringer (R) | 664,000 | 0.3/1 | ||
9:30PM | ABC | Suburgatory (R) | 3.34 | 1.0/3 | |
FOX | Raising Hope (R) | 2.65 | 1.0/3 | ||
10PM | CBS | Unforgettable (R) | 8.03 | 1.7/5 | |
NBC | SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas | 5.79 | 2.1/6 | ||
ABC | Body of Proof (R) | 4.54 | 0.8/2 |
On TV Tonight: Tuesday December 20, 2011
NET | 8PM | 8:30PM | 9PM | 9:30PM | 10PM | 10:30PM |
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ABC | Last Man Standing | Last Man Standing (R) | The Middle (R) | Suburgatory (R) | Body of Proof (R) | |
CBS | NCIS (R) | NCIS: Los Angeles (R) | Unforgettable (R) | |||
CW | 90210 (R) | Ringer (R) | ||||
FOX | Glee (R) | New Girl (R) | Raising Hope (R) | |||
NBC | Who’s Still Standing? | Saturday Night Live Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas | ||||
TNT | Deck the Halls |
TV Ratings: Tuesday December 13, 2011
Time | Network | Show | Rating | 18-49 | VS. |
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8PM | CBS | NCIS | 19.13 | 3.6/10 | |
ABC | Last Man Standing | 7.51 | 2.2/7 | ||
FOX | Glee | 7.13 | 3.0/8 | ||
NBC | William & Kate: Inside the Royal Marriage | 5.25 | 1.2/3 | ||
CW | 90210 (R) | 760,000 | 0.3/1 | ||
8:30PM | ABC | Last Man Standing (R) | 6.17 | 2.0/5 | |
9PM | CBS | NCIS: Los Angeles | 16.40 | 3.0/8 | |
FOX | New Girl | 6.82 | 3.3/9 | ||
NBC | The Biggest Loser | 7.81 | 2.7/7 | ||
ABC | The Middle (R) | 4.56 | 1.5/4 | ||
CW | Ringer (R) | 610,000 | 0.2/1 | ||
9:30PM | FOX | Raising Hope | 4.98 | 2.3/6 | |
ABC | Suburgatory (R) | 3.75 | 1.3/3 | ||
10PM | CBS | Unforgettable | 11.30 | 2.2/6 | |
NBC | The Biggest Loser | 7.81 | 2.7/7 | ||
ABC | Body of Proof (R) | 4.81 | 1.1/3 |
Lessons from LOST to ONCE UPON A TIME: Have Television Writers Been Given Too Much Creative License?
In the after-math of LOST, an interesting trend has begun to emerge in television viewing patterns: viewers are now gun-shy of investing in serialized television. Viewers are no longer willing to invest their time and energy into a show that may take them some place they do not want to go.
For LOST not only dared to kill off its principal characters, it ultimately killed off 9 of its 13 principal characters: Boone, Shannon, Charlie, Jack, John Locke, Sayid, Jin, Sun, Michael – leaving Kate, Sawyer, Hurley and Claire ambiguously alive, and who were revealed to be dead in the final episode. It also killed off a majority of its supporting characters, including Daniel Faraday, Charlotte, Danielle Rousseau, Alex, Juliet, Libby, Ana-Lucia, and Eko.
LOST became the “gold standard” in story-telling because it achieved the remarkable feat of luring in nearly 24 million viewers and ran 6 successful seasons, winning numerous awards along the way. But, in the end, there was a significant amount of “viewer fatigue.” Pulling in only 8 million viewers by its final episode, LOST is also a great example in how to disenfranchise an audience.
LOST secured its initial amazing viewership numbers because it offered an array of fascinating characters, so much so that viewers could not wait to learn more about each of them. The breadcrumbs LOST offered were eagerly snatched-up and analyzed and it become part the cultural zeitgeist and popculture.
But it also became a television teaching-tool; it taught viewers that steadfast devotion is not necessarily rewarded in the end. LOST broke too many hearts, upset its core fan-base and became a “shell” of its former self by the end. The fact that it ended with the reveal that a large number of its characters were living in a version of purgatory awaiting their chance to “move on” as their fellow comrades joined them one-by-one in the after-life was thoroughly discouraging. [Read more…]