House isn’t only the greatest show on TV right now, it’s also one getting the best results out there. Once again Fox is a clear winner on Tuesday night, and they can thank Dr House for that - beating ABC’s Dancing With The Stars with over 18 million viewers and a great 7.7 in the 18-49 adults. And behind the great doctor is, amongst others, a bunch of fantastic and talented writers, who deserved to be paid for their work, regardless of the media we, viewers, happen to be watching the show on.
One hour before that, NCIS also did a great score getting more than 18 million viewers as well, being the best result of both the night, and the series for this season.
Creator of Buffy amongst other things, Joss Whedon is outside on the picket line, with all of his writer friends, as well as other friends like Alyson Hannigan or Cobie Smulders from How I Met Your Mother.
And during a little break, Whedon sent a little something from the front lines to all his fans, and others, about the strike and why it is so important :
Unlike most animated cartoons, South Park isn’t done months before but finished at the last minute, which is why episodes can react to current event as fast as they do. What does that mean for the remaining episodes of this season ?
Well, South Park is not a union show, like many animated cable shows are, and so new episodes will keep coming regardless of the strike. This means that tonight is indeed a new episode, and so will be the one next week. And that’s it.
Not because of the strike, or anything related, but because next week’s episode will be the season finale. And hopefully, when the next season returns, sometime in March, the strike will be nothing but a bad old memory…
Already the third day of the strike, and while I’m sure writers are pleased to see stars supporting them and bringing food, that’s not doing much else. And sadly, there are no new negotiations scheduled for now. Which seems quite hard to understandable, unless networks secretly wishes to use the strike to kill shows and try not to pay for undelivered order, because writers clearly aren’t asking anything extraordinary.
If you’ve watched this video featuring some of the creative minds from The Office, you’ll know that NBC asked them to write web-episodes, they did, those are available online will lots of ads every where, they won an Emmy for those things, yet they didn’t get compensated for their work. How could anyone think that asking to fix this is asking too much ?
As comedy writer Danny Zuker said, he half-jokingly : “We’re asking for next to nothing, and they’re giving us nothing, so we’re close.”
We all love The Office, and if there’s one thing we don’t want it’s for it to close. But as long as the strike is on, they have no other choices, and as a fan of the show, or any (good) shows on TV, I fully support them.
That said, here’s a picket line video from the folks behind The Office talking about issues behind the strike, and as you could expect from such folks, it’s pretty damn funny as well. Highly recommended :
I listed the main concern, or problems I’m having with the show, one of the them being the consequences. Yes, some were hinted in that episode but as I explained it wasn’t there still. It was still focus almost exclusively on the life of whoever Dan is “sent after”, and I wanted more. Like Dan’s life for starter.
How I Met Your Mother is doing good, and I’m telling you The Big Bang Theory is funny, and it seems I’m not alone here as the sitcom hit a series high, doing even better than its premiere did, with 9.7 million viewers, while the pilot did 9.6
Prison Break two-hours special was a success for Fox, the first episode did better than Chuck and the second one got much better results than the usual K-Ville episode, score up to 8 million viewers (K-Ville bringing usually about 2 million viewers less than that, and only 2.1 no the 18-49 where Prison Break did 3.4).
Meanwhile, Heroes is hitting another season-low, and what may very well be its worst result ever. It’s still doing not too bad in the 18-49 though.
Seems that Journeyman won’t have a second season, given than it only got 5.2 million viewers and a 2.1 rating amongst the below adults 18-49. Aliens In America is also hitting bottom, with barely over one million viewers and 0.7 in the 18-49
Scores for ABC are hard to tell, since Samantha Who? aired from 9.45 to 10.15
In the end ABC is a clear winner, and Fox had a good night doing better than NBC and as good amongst adults 18-49.
Again, all numbers in a nice tables after the jump :
(S03E06-E07) This week we were treated with a special two-hour-long episode of Prison Break, or more like two episodes back to back, but the results is the same, especially for such serialized show. As I said before, I planned to see this episode and to finally see Michael escape from Sona. Not because I had read any spoilers or anything, just that just seemed like the only logical development on the story, based on what happened last time.
That, plus why else would they have a two-hour special if not for such as event as the awaited escape, right? And I was very pleased with such an idea, because I for one did not like the “let’s go season one all over again” idea for this season, and sending him back behinds bars so that he can has to escape, with a very imminent deadline.
As I’ve said before, should the strike last the long awaited new season of Lost will be affected, as they only have 8 episodes done (and ready to air).
If such events were to happen, what would be best ? What would you like better : to wait longer but get your full uninterrupted 16 episodes long season, as promised, or to get the first 8 already done, then have to wait who knows how long before seeing the end of it ?
I for one, as I expressed before, wishes ABC would hold on and only air the season once completed. Unfortunately, in such case they seem more willing to air what they got, given that the competition might be almost inexistent. But how does producers of the show feels ?
By fred | November 7, 2007 
Unlike most animated cartoons, South Park isn’t done months before but finished at the last minute, which is why episodes can react to current event as fast as they do. What does that mean for the remaining episodes of this season ?
(S01E07) It’s funny how things turn to be, sometimes. Last week 
(S03E06-E07) This week we were treated with a special two-hour-long episode of Prison Break, or more like two episodes back to back, but the results is the same, especially for such serialized show. As I said before, I planned to see this episode and to finally see Michael escape from Sona. Not because I had read any spoilers or anything, just that just seemed like the only logical development on the story, based on what happened last time.
As 