For another night ABC took the night, this time thanks to movie A Raisin In The Sun averaging close to 13 million. Meanwhile, with the help of the most-watched program of the night, Deal Or No Deal (15.3 million), NBC was able to take the second place both in total viewers and on the 18-49 demo.
At 8.00 as mentioned Deal Or No Deal was clear winner, followed by ABC’s movie and almost 12 million on ABC. As expected, and despite its lead-in gaining viewers, Welcome To The Captain kept loosing some, down to 5.3 million viewers only. Not as bad as I expected it to be actually…
Away from controversy about why Whoopi Goldberg or Steve Martin were strangely absent from the Oscar-hosts reel, or why Brad Renfro got left out of the “In Memoriam” montage while Heath Ledger, who died a few days later, was included… here’s another take of the montage :
The writers’ strike was a tough moment, for everyone. It was long and hard. (That’s what she said!) But now it is over, and everyone is going back to work. But after all this time and the new situation everyone finds themselves in, it may take a while to adjust back.
Recently, scribes from different shows talked, in their own words, about what it was like, to be back at work for the first time after too many months. Let’s focus on a couple of favorites of mine, and many others I’m sure. Two very different shows, two worlds, but both awesome in their own unique way.
Starting with a brilliant and quite hilarious piece coming from one of the creative brains behind the awesome show that is How I Met Your Mother.
If there’s a reason we all love this one, let me assure you that it’s all in there.
If you usually watch Prison Break, you’ve noticed that last night at 8.00 there was no episode to be seen. This third season was (finally) over last week, and the show isn’t coming back for any more episodes this season, what we saw last week was the season finale. Now the question is, was it also a series finale, or willthere be a fourth season to follow up on it ?
As I’ve said in my review of the episode, I for one felt that it worked quite nicely as a both a season and even a series finale. Sure, lots of questions haven’t found an answer and mane fates are still unresolved, still some stories found closure while others opened to completely new possibilities which is also a way to end things. Then of course, there’s the ones no one cares about (Bellick, T-Bag, …)
(S01E07) There’s something quite special about this show, how it works, how it’s done. Well, there’s a lot of special things about it. For instance, this was only episode 7, so we’re still pretty early in the season for sure. But if the original episode order was for 13 episodes, (and no the show never actually got picked up for a full season order,) due to the (now ended) writers’ strike only 9 episodes have been produced.
And even though the strike is over and many shows are going back in production asap, like most newcomers this one isn’t one of them. So episode 9 will be the season finale, and so far we don’t know whether or not a second season will be ordered (but I sure hope so). More than that, next week the two remaining episodes will air back to back, putting an end to this season with an episode that may not have been intended to actually end the season !
And within the show itself, things are special as well.
Watch out, ABC, cause NBC will have their own show about people lost on a desert island !
No, this is not going to be a “remake” or even a clone of ABC hit-drama or anything like that, thank God, what NBC has in mind is different, but it still shows a pretty amazing lack of imagination if you ask me.
NBC has picked up and ordered no less then 13 episodes of a new series based on Daniel Defoe’s classic novel, Robinson Crusoe.
For their 80th anniversary, The Annual Academy Awards didn’t do so well. Was it the lack of advertising during hit shows, the memory and fear of a Golden Globes kinda ceremony, and just that the show was not fun ? I’ll let you decide, but either way it was down 11 million viewers from last year’s 40.2 million !
Averaging an approximate 29.2 million viewers this time, the ceremony actually started above 32 million viewers but they kept going away as the show went on and on. Not good, but don’t feel bad for the Alphabet just now, ABC was watched by more people than all other network combined last night, easy.
* Will there be more Lipstick Jungle on NBC ? So far the show isn’t a hit, but neither is it a complete failure, it has averaged a 2.6 rating among adults 18-49, as well as being top in its Thursday night 10.00 slot with women 18-49 and women 18-34. So NBCjust ordered six more scripts. Remember, though, this order is for scripts only, not episodes. They may not ever go any further that on paper…
* After being pronounced dead, fate of ABC drama Women’s Murder Club might see some light after all ! The show was in real bad shape and thought dead after the departure of showrunners Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain and executive producer Scott Gemmill. But Robert Nathan, who previously worked on series like Law & Order, will now become the new showrunner of the show, allowing it to return. Production will resume in the next several weeks, and the show could be back on the air by April.
I’m sure plenty of you watched the Oscars, maybe a little, and I bet there’ll be lots of talk about how it went down. Instead of complaining, or ranting about how ABC tried to pretend everything was fine, while it was obvious that due to the strike, writers didn’t had time to really work on it and we were far from what the show would have been, had they settle the strike way sooner.
Really, did anyone cared for all those endless clips, the long list of all movies that won the Best Motion Picture award every year, or to have to suffer through the behind the scenes of how and why people vote ? I don’t think so.
But it doesn’t mean it was all bad. Take for example this little moment I felt like sharing, because it truly made me laugh out loud, funniest moment of the ceremony if you ask me, men oh men do I miss my weekly dose of Steve Carell !
By fred | February 26, 2008 
The writers’ strike was a tough moment, for everyone. It was long and hard. (That’s what she said!) But now it is over, and everyone is going back to work. But after all this time and the new situation everyone finds themselves in, it may take a while to adjust back.
If you usually watch Prison Break, you’ve noticed that last night at 8.00 there was no episode to be seen. This third season was (finally) over last week, and the show isn’t coming back for any more episodes this season, what we saw last week was the season finale. Now the question is, was it also a series finale, or will there be a fourth season to follow up on it ?
(S01E07) There’s something quite special about this show, how it works, how it’s done. Well, there’s a lot of special things about it. For instance, this was only episode 7, so we’re still pretty early in the season for sure. But if the original episode order was for 13 episodes, (and no the show never actually got picked up for a full season order,) due to the (now ended) writers’ strike only 9 episodes have been produced.
Watch out, ABC, cause NBC will have their own show about people lost on a desert island !
I’m sure plenty of you watched the Oscars, maybe a little, and I bet there’ll be lots of talk about how it went down. Instead of complaining, or ranting about how ABC tried to pretend everything was fine, while it was obvious that due to the strike, writers didn’t had time to really work on it and we were far from what the show would have been, had they settle the strike way sooner.