Monday Ratings: Howie Mandle Takes on the ‘Terminator’

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Action, Comedy, Drama, Games, Music, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, Everybody Hates Chris, Medium, Prison Break, Ratings,

It was highly doubtful that Terminator could maintain its monster-sized numbers from Sunday, but I don’t know if many expected what happened last night.  It wasn’t a group of Gladiators that brought the show down to size, but rather a comedian and his bevy of suitcase-toting ladies.

8pm

• American Gladiators (4.6/12 in 18-49) muscled in 10.7 million.
• Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann (10.5 million, 2.9/7) came in a close second.
• The Big Bang Theory* (8.2 million, 3.2/8) was up almost 2 million from last week; How I Met Your Mother* (7.3 million, 2.7/7) saw a 1 million bump.
• A new Prison Break (7.9 million, 3.3/8) gained about 700,000 from its last episode.
• About 2 million were lovin’ Everybody Hates Chris* (0.9/2); Aliens in America* (1.31, 0.5/1) didn’t fare as well.

9pm

• Deal or No Deal (15 million, 5.0/12 in 18-49) was the biggest show of the evening.
• Even Two and a Half Men* (11.5 million, 3.8/9) outperformed the futuristic robots.
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (10.1 million, 4.2/10) saw a 45% decline from Sunday’s audience.
• The Rules of Engagement* (8.5 million, 2.7/6) was slightly up from last week.
• Notes from the Underbelly (4.8 million, 1.7/4) didn’t deliver spectacular news.
• Both Girlfriends* (1.32 million, 0.6/1) and The Game* (1.62 million, 0.7/2) remained fairly steady.

10pm

• About 14.7 million watched David Caruso and the showgirl on CSI: Miami (4.2/11 in 18-49).
• Medium (9.5 million, 3.3/9) was basically even with last Monday.
• About 4.9 million traveled down October Road (2.0/5).

*denotes repeat

(You can review last Monday’s ratings here.)

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Sunday Ratings: FOX Terminates the Competition

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Action, Animation, Award Shows, Comedy, Drama, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Specials, Sports, ABC, Cable, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, Amazing Race, The, Family Guy, Ratings,

The tail end of the Dallas Cowboys/ NY Giants game combined with the debut of Terminator gave FOX an indestructible evening.

8pm

• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (18.3 million, 7.6/18 in 18-49) had the best demos for any scripted debut in three years.
• Approximately 11.6 million wished Jen Happy Birthday/Goodbye on The Amazing Race (3.8/9).
• The first of two Extreme Makeover: Home Editions (3.8/9) built a 10.8 million-sized audience.
• A two-hour Dateline special (4.4 million, 1.1/4) went barely noticed.

9pm

• The first of three Comanche Moon installments (3.3/8 in 18-49) wrangled up 15.7 million.
• Part two of Extreme Makeover (13.9 million, 5.6/13) grew 3 million from the first hour.
• Family Guy (11.5 million, 5.6/12) and American Dad (8.6 million, 4.1/9) had a nice lead-in to thank.
• NBC’s coverage of the Golden Globes (5.8 million, 1.7/4) was hardly something to celebrate.
• One Tree Hill* (0.4/1) averaged 1.2 million over two hours.

10pm

• A new episode of Brothers & Sisters (4.2/11 in 18-49) returned to 10.9 million fans.
• American Gladiators* (1.9/5) took down 4.7 million.

*denotes repeat

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This Week on TV (1/14-1/20)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Daytime, Drama, Games, Mini Series, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, Cable, CBS, FX, FOX, NBC, The CW, American Idol, Apprentice, The - Donald, ER, Nip/Tuck, Prison Break,

(You can view the whole Revamped TV Programming Schedule here.)

• Prison Break (FOX, 8pm):  Season resumes.  “Michael suffers the consequences of solitary confinement, Sona-style.”  I hate to think we left him in there these past few months.
• Kyle XY (ABC Family, 8pm):  Second season resumes.  “Kyle returns to the Tragers to tell them truth about his existence.”  Maybe ABC should consider stealing this show to fill their schedule.  Otherwise, I’ll never get around to watching it.
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (FOX, 9pm):  Regular day and time.  “John grows restless and sneaks out of the house to track down Charley Dixon.”  Maybe they should have recast Edward Furlong.  He would have filled this punk role perfectly.
• CSI: Miami (CBS, 10pm):  Actress Elizabeth Berkeley guest-stars as Horatio’s ex and Kyle’s mother.  Wouldn’t it have made more sense if she was on the regular CSI?  Then they could have linked it back to her Showgirls years.

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Upcoming Television Premiere Dates

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Action, Comedy, Drama, Games, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, Hell’s Kitchen, Apprentice, The - Donald, Prison Break,

Thanks to the writers’ strike, the Fall TV Programming Schedule I put together many months ago will now have to be burned.  Reality shows and mid-season replacements are now being brought in earlier than expected. 

Here’s a list of the TV premieres announced so far.  TV Envy will be publishing a revamped programming schedule as soon as more dates are released.

• 12/12 - Crowned (CW)
• 1/2 - Law and Order (NBC)
• 1/3 - Celebrity Apprentice (NBC)
• 1/6 - American Gladiators (NBC)
• 1/7 - Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann (ABC)
• 1/8 - One Tree Hill (CW)
• 1/9 - Law and Order: CI (NBC)
• 1/11 - 1 vs. 100 (NBC)
• 1/13 - The Sarah Connor Chronicles (FOX)
• 1/14 - Prison Break (FOX)
• 1/15 - American Idol (FOX)
• 1/23 - The Moment of Truth (FOX)
• 1/28 - The New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS)

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The Sarah Connor Chronicles Are Coming to TV

Posted by Christina Furtado Categories: Action, Drama, Prime Time, Talent,

Fox Broadcasting has greenlit a pilot called The Sarah Connor Chronicles, based, of course, on the popular Terminator movies. David Nutter will direct the pilot, and Warner Bros. TV and Andy Vajna and Mario Kassar’s C2 Pictures (producers of the most recent movie) will produce it.  Nutter has directed the pilots of shows tha have gone on to be hits, such as Smallville, Without a Trace, and Supernatural. He also directed the pilot of Dark Angel, the James Cameron project, which may be one reason he was chosen for this.

The new show will focus on Sarah and John Connor during the time they spent on the run after Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Casting will begin immediately (I’m assuming Linda Hamilton is not a possibility), and filming will start in early 2007.

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