This Week on TV (3/17-3/23)
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Kids, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, Cable, CBS, FX, FOX, NBC, The CW, America’s Next Top Model, Dancing With The Stars, Lost, Survivor, The Bachelor,
(You can view TV Envy’s Post-Strike Television Schedule here.)
MONDAY (3/17)
- Dancing with the Stars (ABC, 8pm): Tonight’s Season 6 premiere focuses only on the men. I think it’s safe to say Julianne Hough won’t be making it a three-peat with Adam Carolla.
- The Big Bang Theory (CBS, 8pm): New episode. “Sheldon and Leonard are asked to a physics conference to present their work together.” I’ve always wondered - if this show were to air on any other day, would it be half as successful?
- How I Met Your Mother (CBS, 8:30): New episode. “Ted decides to live life like Barney on St. Patrick’s Day.” You don’t want to know what they use as their lucky charms.
- Two and a Half Men (CBS, 9pm): New episode. “Charlie teaches Alan how to break up with a woman.” I hear hiring prostitutes can make a woman leave you.
- The Bachelor (ABC, 9:30): Season 12 premiere. “Bachelor Matt Grant, a 27-year-old British financier, meets his 25 would-be soul mates.” Apparently in America, you can finally afford to woo twice as many women as you can in the UK.
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Reality Renewals: Dancing with the Stars, Extreme Makeover, Supernanny
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Prime Time, Reality, ABC, Dancing With The Stars, The Bachelor, Renewals,
Just a few weeks ago, ABC released its first list of renewals for the 2008-09 fall programming season. Now the network has revealed the crop of reality contenders.
Veterans programs that have made the cut are:
- America’s Funniest Home Videos
- Dancing with the Stars
- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
- Supernanny
- Wife Swap
So far, the list does not include The Bachelor. That show is in the process of making its return March 17, with The Bachelorette soon to follow.
Freshman programs still possibly up for consideration include: Dance Wars, Here Come the Newlyweds, Just for Laughs and Oprah’s Big Give.
Hollywood Reporter
Post-Strike Television Schedule
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Action, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Food & Home, Games, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Sports, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, Hell’s Kitchen, American Idol, Apprentice, The - Donald, Dancing With The Stars, Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, House, Lost, Medium, Prison Break, Survivor, The Bachelor,
Now that we have come to the end of the writers’ strike, it’s time to once again update our television programming schedules.
Mid-season replacements have had seen their debuts shuffled (e.g. New Amsterdam), some programs are coming back with new episodes (e.g. Scrubs, 30 Rock) while other shows aren’t slated to return until next year (Pushing Daisies).
Here you can find a
compilation of the 2008 post-strike schedulesfor the five major networks. I would highly recommend printing this out since there are major changes across the board.
Two notes:
- This is the updated schedule as of May 6. Be prepared to see more changes and settling in the weeks to come.
- The list consists of premieres and dates for new episodes.
- If a particular time slot/network is not mentioned, either nothing has changed or no specific announcement has been made yet.
MONDAY
8pm:
- Dancing With the Stars, ABC
- My Dad is Better Than Your Dad, NBC
- The Big Bang Theory, CBS
- Bones, FOX (new as of 4/14)
- Gossip Girl, CW (new as of 4/21)
8:30pm:
- How I Met Your Mother, CBS
9pm:
- Two and a Half Men, CBS
- House, FOX (new as of 4/28)
- One Tree Hill, CW (new as of 4/14)
9:30pm:
- Samantha Who?, ABC (new as of 4/7)
- Rules of Engagement, CBS (returns 4/14)
10pm:
- The Bachelor, ABC
- CSI: Miami, CBS
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Dancing with the Stars Contenders Announced
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Prime Time, Reality, ABC, Dancing With The Stars, Gossip,
The official lineup for ABC’s Dancing With the Stars was announced this evening during the finale of Dance War.
Here are the dancers scheduled to hit the floor come Monday, March 17th:
Men
- Adam Carolla (partner Julianne Hough): Radio personality (friend Jimmy Kimmel should have a ball with this one)
- Cristian de la Fuente (partner Cheryl Burke): Chilean telenovela star
- Penn Gillette (partner Kym Johnson): Magician (a.k.a. the talkative half of Penn & Teller)
- Steve Guttenberg (partner Anna Trebunskaya): Actor (Three Men and a Baby)
- Mario (partner Karina Smirnoff): R&B singer
- Jason Taylor (partner Edyta Sliwinska): Miami Dolphins defensive end
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This Week on TV (2/18-2/24)
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Award Shows, Comedy, Drama, Late Night, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Specials, ABC, Cable, FX, NBC, The CW, America’s Next Top Model, American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, Nip/Tuck, Prison Break, Saturday Night Live, Survivor,
MONDAY (2/18)
- Prison Break (FOX, 8pm): Tonight may be the end of the show as we currently know it. Maybe Michael can finally let go of that steely gaze now.
- Dance War (ABC, 8pm): The next Dancing with the Stars contenders will be announced during the spinoff’s season finale. Finally, a reason for me to watch.
- Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious (CW, 9pm): Robin Antin is searching for a gal to complete an entirely different musical act. With Danity Kane already taken, she had to settle for the 2nd crappiest group name available.
- My Dad is Better Than Your Dad (NBC, 9pm): “This competition series features fathers and their children in challenges that test the patriarch’s strength, intelligence and parenting skills.” Since when did NBC start stealing ideas from Nick TV?
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Long-Awaited Buffy the Vampire Slayer Reunion
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Action, Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Sci-Fi/Horror, Specials, ABC, FX, NBC, UPN, WB, Dancing With The Stars, Announcements, News,
It has been nearly five years since that fateful May night when BTVS fans witnessed the end of their beloved TV series. The following years, fans have intently watched as their favorite characters have branched off to new projects, leaving little hope of a BTVS movie, which so many “Buffy” lovers have longed and hoped for. Unfortunately, there are still no concrete plans of a movie, but fans have the Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio) to be eternally grateful to—they have announced a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reunion on Thursday, March 20th at the historic Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, CA!
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Reality News: ‘WWE’, ‘Big Brother’, ‘Dancing with the Stars’, ‘Survivor’
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Daytime, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, CBS, The CW, Dancing With The Stars, Survivor, Cancellations, Gossip,
After ten years with the CW/UPN organizations, the wrestlers of the WWE are now in search of a new home. Friday Night Smackdown - a decent ratings earner for the network - wasn’t apparently considered worthy of its renewal price. Displeased with recent negotiations, World Wrestling Entertainment has started shopping its product around town.
Although the loss of the show will now create a two-hour void in CW‘s weekend lineup, the network will now have a place to shelve their experiments gone wrong (e.g. Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants). Or maybe they can use the spot to air marathons of America’s Next Top Model or Beauty and the Geek?
Whatever they ultimately do, they have until Sept. 12th to figure it out.
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Hollywood Reporter
More Waterworks from Hillary Clinton
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Reality, Talk Shows, Syndication, America’s Next Top Model, Dancing With The Stars, Gossip,
In the past weeks, campaigners on both sides of the aisle have changed their strategy and speechery to secure a bid in the upcoming Presidential election. Though many started out on this quest (twenty-plus politicians and actors threw their hats into the primary ring), only a handful now remain. In a continuing effort to keep themselves “viable,” they’re changing their stances and showing new facets of their personalities. (Hey, whatever it takes to get votes, right?) But perhaps none have attacked the idea of showing the public a new face more than Senator Hillary Clinton. And she’s playing this one to the hilt, as her upcoming appearance on the Tyra Banks Show will prove.
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Tuesday Ratings: ABC Wins the Disco Ball
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Action, Animation, Drama, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, Dancing With The Stars, House, Ratings,
Dancing With the Stars’ two-hour finale was last night’s big ticket. The show helped ABC nudge past FOX in both viewers and demos.
8pm
- NCIS (3.3/9 in 18-49 demo) topped the hour with 17 million.
- About 13.6 million welcomed A Charlie Brown Christmas (4.6/12).
- Bones (9.6 million, 3.4/9) was up about 1 million from last week.
- The Biggest Loser (7.2 million, 3.1/8) lost about 300,000 lbs.
- Beauty and the Geek (2.52 million, 1.3/3) remained about even.
9pm
- A whopping 24.9 million watched Helio win on Dancing With The Stars (6.4/15 in 18-49 demo).
- House (16.9 million, 7.0/16) still had control of the hour’s demos.
- The Unit (10.48 million, 2.9/7) was steady with last week.
- Reaper (2.26 million, 1.1/2) was up about 400,000.
10pm
- Law and Order: SVU (4.6/12) closed the night with 12.3 million.
- Cane (6.5 million, 1.6/4) was only 1/2 as successful as its NBC competitor.
Hollywood Reporter
Dancing’s Helio Castroneves No Longer Engaged
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Prime Time, Reality, ABC, Dancing With The Stars, Gossip, Rumors,
As if this Dancing With The Stars season didn’t have enough drama!
In less than one year, DWTS’ Julianne Hough has seen two weddings become dissolved and/or delayed. Last season the sexy, blonde dancer had to deflect rumors of a possible romance between her and partner, speed skater Apolo Ohno. Unfortunately, the ‘postponement’ of her own August nuptials didn’t help quiet the buzz much.
Now, Hough’s Season 5 partner is having betrothal problems of his own. People has exclusively announced that Helio Castroneves’ wedding to Aliette Vazquez - which had already been ‘postponed’ due to his busy schedule - has now officially been called off. While no one has (yet) blamed his fiery chemistry with Julianne for the cancellation, I’m sure many people will now be playing back their looooong smooch after yesterday’s quickstep performance. (I have to admit, it made me a bit uncomfortable—and that was before I had heard the announcement.)
Maybe Hough should be the one paired with the Wayne Newton-esque celebrity next year just to keep things safe.
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