It was a bit of a slow week with President Obama again bringing mayhem to your regularly scheduled programming. The highlight in all of it was the NFL once again flexing its considerable ratings muscles. Over on cable, week two was not kind to MTV’s ‘Skins’.
Mid-season really heats up this with premieres from ‘Harry’s Law’, ‘American Idol’, ‘Skins’, ‘White Collar’, ‘Royal Pains’, and ‘Fairly Legal’. We also saw the debut of ‘Fringe’ on Friday, and the new NBC Thursday. There are also some surprising numbers for ‘The Game’ on BET, and more ‘Jersey Shore’ craziness.
What favorite program couldn’t use a little simian “pep in its step” every once in a while? Plus, add monkeys to bad shows and watch them improve instantly. The bottom line? Monkeys are the ultimate programming solution.
The mid-season premieres continue to roll out, but not with the numbers that the networks might have been hoping for. ‘The Cape’ and ‘Off The Map’ both had less than stellar starts this week, while Bob’s Burgers took a hand-off from the NFL and scored big.
The “Child Molester” Burger (comes with candy) – Louise’s Burger Of The Day put on the chalkboard in place of Bob’s original entry
Hey, ‘BMDS’ writers: Do us a favor and wake up. We want to like the characters (Bonnie and Vince) you put out there for us, but were just about at our wit’s end. Capice?
The Visitors are back, and we now know one thing for sure. Red Rain doesn’t do anything to boost ratings. On the other hand, people falling is still a crowd pleaser. ‘Winter Wipeout’ debuted to huge numbers.
