Posts Tagged Under ‘Burn Notice’
By fred | July 14, 2008
We’ve already talked about the numbers for Thursday night, but not on cable. But the fact and the matter is, a cable network series did pretty well on the beloved 18-49 demo !
USA’s summer-hit Burn Notice was back for a second season, and its premiere episode averaged a 1.8 rating on the demo, and 5.4 million viewers. That’s a 35% gain in viewers (20% in the demo) compared to the series premiere last summer.
Not only that, but the show was right below ABC’s Hopkins in viewers (5.5 million), beating both NBC’s Last Comic Standing and CBS’ Swingtown ! And on the demo, Burn Notice was also on the second spot, this time behind only Last Comic Standing (2.2), beating again ABC and CBS.
Burn Notice scored a 2.2 on the 25-54, the second best score for a scripted cable series telecast in 2008, behind only the winter finale of another USA series, Monk, back in February (2.5)
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Shows: Burn Notice
By fred | July 13, 2008
One big week coming up - well, considering how slow things have been lately that is - with the premiere of HBO’s miniseries Generation Kill tonight at 9.00, the return of TNT’s The Closer & Saving Grace on Monday, a new series, The Cleaner, on A&E on Tuesday, and of course the season premiere of summer hit-comedy Psych on USA !! (And also, before it, Monk)
Generation Kill is a seven-parts miniseries based on Evan Wright’s book of the same name about his experiences as an embedded reporter with the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during the Iraq war’s first phase in 2003. Wright worked on a consultant on the show.
The Cleaner is a new series inspired by the true story of a real-life “extreme interventionist”. The show stars Benjamin Bratt (Law & Order) as William “The Cleaner” Banks, who, after hitting rock-bottom from his own addictions after the birth of his daughter, has now gathered an unconventional team with whom he helps people get away from their addictions by any means necessary.
There should be enough to please everyone, as for myself I can’t wait for Friday and a new episode of Psych ! Of course in the mean time, we got plenty to chew :
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Shows: Army Wives, Burn Notice, Fear Itself, Flashpoint, Generation Kill, In Plain Sight, Law & Order: CI, Monk, Psych, Saving Grace, Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, Stargate Atlantis, Swingtown, The Cleaner, The Closer, The Factory, Weeds
By fred | July 10, 2008
Yes, you’ve probably heard about it, it’s quite difficult not to have heard about it in fact : tonight on USA premieres the second season of their summer hit Burn Notice. If you’ve never watched the show, I’ll echo what Jeffrey Donovan said about the show : it’s “a summer show, there’s nothing else on, it’s got action and there are some pretty hot women on the show“.
What what’s the problem ? Just tune in at 10.00 on USA and enjoy!
But over at NBC, not everyone is happy about this. Someone who works for Late Night, Aaron Bleyaert, exploded on Late Night Insider because he couldn’t stand it anymore. Well, it’s nothing against the show really, in fact he thought “it was a pretty awesome show. It was smart. It was funny. It was action packed. It had the totally awecellent and hilarious Bruce Campbell“, which doesn’t sound that bad to me, does it?
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Shows: Burn Notice
By fred | July 6, 2008
Time to head into one week, and since we’re now in July we can already see some new additions as well ! Nothing that really gets me excited so far, but I’m sure many of you will be excited over the return of what was described as “a summer show, there’s nothing else on, it’s got action and there are some pretty hot women on the show by star Jeffrey Donovan himself.
That’s right, while there won’t be no new episode of Fear Itself this Thursday on NBC, it’s not a problem because all you have to do is switch to USA to see the season premiere of Burn Notice !
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Shows: Army Wives, Burn Notice, Flashpoint, In Plain Sight, Law & Order: CI, Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, Stargate Atlantis, Swingtown, The Factory, Weeds
By fred | July 1, 2008
And now the list for Best Supporting Drama Actress is out, and I’ll say that there are two big names I’m shocked not to see on that list, because I felt they should be actual nominees for the award : the first one is Sarah Shahi, from NBC’s Life. She’s been quite amazing the entire season opposing Damian Lewis, and I’m really shocked not to see her here. I guess it was to do with Life not getting lots of press somehow, even though it was simply the best new series of the season, hands down.
Well, I surely hope Damian Lewis won’t be overlooked either, because he is too doing some amazing job !
The second name I’m shocked not to see here is Mia Wasikowska, known as Sophie on HBO’s daily series In Treatment ! She was nothing but amazing, and I cannot believe she’s not on that list ! Eben more shocking to me, Dianne Wiest, from In Treatment as well, is. It’s not that she was bad, but I honestly feel Mia Wasikowska deserves the nomination a lot more, but I guess her name wasn’t known enough… what a bunch of crap!
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Shows: Boston Legal, Brothers & Sisters, Burn Notice, Damages, Dirty Sexy Money, Grey's Anatomy, In Treatment, Law & Order, Life, Mad Men, Tell Me You Love Me
By fred | May 26, 2008
Now that the season is (almost) over, we can start focusing on what to watch this summer. Summer is a time we usually move away from the big four, as they are pretty much filled with nothing but reruns, games, and more reruns. As such, we look more into the ones who keep being creative and providing us with great, exciting content, the cable networks.
Of course, there isn’t always something good, and with the still on-going effects of the recent writers’ strike, well, a few series you might be waiting for won’t be coming back (so soon).
During summer I usually watch The 4400, but USA canceled it so we won’t get any actual closure on that story. And as I said, some series will be returning later than usual, for instance there won’t be no Entourage until September, and I think we might have to wait until 2009 for the new season of FX great hit, Damages. Same goes for Rescue Me, although FX will produce minisodes of Rescue Me this summer.
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Shows: Army Wives, Burn Notice, Eureka, Flashpoint, In Plain Sight, Law & Order: CI, Mad Men, Monk, Psych, Saving Grace, Stargate Atlantis, Swingtown, The Closer, The Factory, Weeds
By fred | February 11, 2008
Now that the strike is (almost) officially over, now that everyone will be back to work this Wednesday, it’s time to make a first update of the list I compiled a few days ago already to answer the questions we are all facing now :
Will our favorite shows be back this season ? How many more episodes will we get ? When do we get them ? What’s the smoke monster ?
I won’t repeat what I said last time about what shows might be back soon (the big hits : House, Grey’s Anatomy, CSI, etc) and which are likely not to return this season (the new ones : Life, Chuck, Dirty Sexy Money, etc) and let’s start the updated list right now !
UPDATED on Tuesday, February 12.
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Shows: 24, 30 Rock, Big Shots, Bionic Woman, Bones, Boston Legal, Brothers & Sisters, Burn Notice, Chuck, Cold Case, Criminal Minds, CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: New-York, Desperate Housewives, Dirty Sexy Money, Friday Night Lights, Ghost Whisperer, Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, House, How I Met Your Mother, Journeyman, Life, Lost, Men In Trees, Moonlight, My Name Is Earl, NCIS, Numb3rs, October Road, One Tree Hill, Prison Break, Pushing Daisies, Reaper, Samantha Who?, Scrubs, Smallville, Supernatural, The Big Bang Theory, The Office, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Ugly Betty
By fred | August 8, 2007
I am not really a fan of the show, even though it’s better than when it first started - where it was really bad - but it looks like many people are, since last week’s episode got a pretty 4.4 million viewers! (Well, according to those old & inaccurate ways of calculating the numbers at least…)
Anyways, didn’t took long to USA Network to enjoy the good news and to order a second season of Burn Notice to make sure more good news are on their way!
So if you’re fan of the show, be happy : Michael isn’t leaving Miami anytime soon.
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Shows: Burn Notice
By fred | July 22, 2007
(S01E04) I have never been quit enthusiastic about Burn Notice, maybe even the opposite. Despite all that, after last episode I felt better than I usually do, like it was the lesser of all episodes so far.
The way I feel about the show changed again apparently, and I am not so sure it is in favor of the show. Usually, watching the show I felt that there was some good things, some very bad things, and a bunch of things you can put up with if you’re not too regarding.
This time, things were different. Not good different, though.
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Shows: Burn Notice
In Series: Burn Notice Season 1
By fred | July 16, 2007
Since we’re in the schedule announcements, let’s keep on that road with a little sneak peak at what’s to come on USA Network.
I’m not the biggest fan of USA shows, as you may know I don’t like Psych that much (even though it got better) and I think Burn Notice is quite bad (despite doing good). But at least they try, and despite not being that pleased with the new season The 4400, that’s a definitely good show.
So, what else can we expect from USA…
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Shows: Burn Notice, Citizen's Arrest, Halo, Psych, The 4400, The Expert, To Love & Die
