Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Nielsen Rating's Top 20 TV Shows for June 15 - June 21

The Nielsen Rating's Top 20 TV Shows for June 15 - June 21. The first number is the ranking, the second number is the season average, then the show name and network. The last number represents the number of viewers in millions. An asterisk * indicates a tie.

Rank Show name
Network
Viewers in millions
Season-to-date average (in millions)
1. America's Got Talent - Wed.
NBC
13.5
14.3
2. America's Got Talent - Tues.
NBC
12.3
14.5
3. The Voice
NBC
12.1
13.2
4. America's Got Talent - Wed.
NBC
10.7
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5. The Voice Results
NBC
10.0
10.0
6. NCIS
CBS
9.3
18.5
7. NCIS: Los Angeles
CBS
8.8
15.8
8. Soccer: USA/Mexico
UNI
8.0
--
* The Mentalist
CBS
8.0
14.7
10. The Bachelorette
ABC
7.8
8.6
11. CSI
CBS
7.7
12.9
* Wipeout
ABC
7.7
7.3
13. The Big Bang Theory
CBS
7.3
12.6
14. 60 Minutes
CBS
7.2
12.8
* Expedition Impossible
ABC
7.2
7.2
16. Soccer: Honduras/Mex.
UNI
7.1
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17. So You Think Can Dance - Thurs.
Fox
6.5
8.9
18. America's Got Talent - Mon.
NBC
6.3
6.3
* Criminal Minds
CBS
6.3
13.4
* So You Think Can Dance - Wed.
Fox
6.3
8.2

Thursday, June 23, 2011

On The Bachelorette Ames Gets Beaten Up While Ashley Goes Insane Over Bentley

I was not going to say anything about this week's episode of The Bachelorette.

And then I saw, yesterday, that The Bachelorette is in the Top 10 at #7 in the latest Nielsen Ratings.

So, I guess I am not alone in finding this bizarre train wreck to be somewhat entertaining to watch.

This week Ashley and the boys were in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Beautiful town.

So, what does Ashley, I mean the show's producer's, come up with for us to watch? A group date where 8 of the boys train for hours in the Thai national sport of trying to kill someone via boxing and kicking.

After the training the boys are loaded on to a transit device. As they were being transported the boys were very nervous as to what was in store for them.

They got to some sort of square with a boxing ring. Soon the fighting was underway.

But before that happened the boys had to exchange their clothes for special boxing attire. This had Ames ending up in pink shorts, with matching pink shoes and pink boxing gloves. That is Ames bringing up the rear as the boxing boys head to the ring, in the picture above.

I don't know how it was chosen as to who fought who, but pink shorts Ames fought solar panel billionaire, Ryan P. Ames made it clear he had never been in a fight before. While the other boys made it sound as if getting in fights was a major pasttime for them. Ryan P. beat up Ames bad and won the bout.

Ames sat down looking dazed. All were concerned. Soon Ames was walked to an ambulance and hauled away to learn that Ryan P. had inflicted a minor concussion on him.

Side note on Ames. He is sort of goofy looking, til he talks. He is by far the most articulate of the boys.

Additional side note. Just like in the previous episode, in the latest episode, Ashley went on and on about Bentley.

Eventually the Bentley obsession led Ashley to telling Chris Harrison that she could barely function without getting some sort of closure regarding Bentley. I'm thinking to myself, he left the show, how much closure do you need?

Chris Harrison seemed a bit disgusted with Ashley for mucking up the patented process in this manner. But Harrison said he'd see what he could do.

Last week, in the previews we learned that Bentley was returning. And we were led to believe we would see that return in Monday's episode. That did not happen.

Instead, in the previews for next week, we see the same thing we did last week, except this time the door opens and there's Bentley. Who hugs. And maybe kisses Ashley.

Then, also in the previews, we see Ashley letting the boys know about the return of Bentley. This does not seem to sit too well with most of the boys. It appears much drama ensues.

Previously to the previews we'd seen Ashley take William and Ben C. on one of those dates were at least one boy is guaranteed a ticket home. And no rose. On this particular date neither boy got a rose.

Soon after the trio had floated up an elephant infested river, somewhere in Thailand, William took Ashley aside and informed her that the other guy on the date, Ben C., just was not all that in to her. That he had talked about the dating sites he was gonna get on as soon as he was released from his Ashley hell.

Ashley then marched over to Ben C. and banished him immediately, citing his crimes and giving the lawyer no chance to offer up a defense.

So, we have Ashley banishing Ben C., who seemed like a nice guy, banishing him without probable cause, while she remains smitten with Bentley, who she was warned about by Michelle Money. And who left the Ashley's husband hunt by choice.

After rejecting Ben C., Ashley and William continued on their date. William really had no chance to recover from the roast where he'd driven Ashley to tears by saying how upset he was to see he was stuck with Ashley when he was hoping for Emily or Chantall. And that Ashley needed a breast enlargement procedure. And that her forehead was too big.

After some stilted conversation Ashley decided there was no chance the chemistry with William would revive to Bentley level smittedness. And so she told William it was time for him to go.

William did not take being sent home too well. He informed us of what a living hell home was, how stupid he was, what a screw up he was, how his life was over, how he was 30 and never gonna lose his virginity now. That he was going to crawl back in his hole and pull his rock lid back over him.

If you were feeling bad for sad William, feel bad no longer. William has crawled out of his hole and is on Bachelor Pad where he once more will have a chance to lose his virginity. Maybe Michelle Money might do him the favor?

Jumping back to the 'cocktail party' that followed the boxing match. All were remorse with worry about Ames. Then Ames showed up, still dazed, but still managing to be more articulate than any of the other boys when talking to Ashley.

I would have thought Ashley would have given the Sacred Rose to Ames that night, after the living hell she had put him through. But instead, for reasons that made no sense to me, she gave the Sacred Rose to a guy I did not even remember seeing before.

At the Main Sacred Rose Ceremony she made poor beat up Ames wait well into the rose dispensal before asking him if he would accept a Sacred Rose. In the end it was between solar panel billionaire, Ryan P., and Nick, the personal trainer, who seemed pretty bland, and with bad taste, what with one of those dumb looking "soul patches" under his lower lip.

It was Nick who did not get a rose. He did not seem to heartbroken about the rejection.

I can't imagine why the show's producers did not give Ashley closure regarding Bentley by simply showing her some of the tapes of Bentley saying she was not his type, that he's not into alien foreheads, that he wanted it to be Emily, that he's not even remotely attracted to her, that her body repulses him.

I guess it was cheaper to fly Bentley to Hong Kong, that being the location of next week's rivettng drama, than simply let Ashley see video evidencne of what a scummy scumbag Bentley is.

Maybe the producers and Chris Harrison did not think of that solution to Ashley's Bentley closure needs.....

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Nielsen Rating's Top 20 TV Shows for June 9 - June 15

The Nielsen Rating's Top 20 TV Shows for June 9 - June 15. The first number is the ranking, the second number is the season average, then the show name and network. The last number represents the number of viewers in millions. An asterisk * indicates a tie.

Rank Show name
Network
Viewers in millions
Season-to-date average (in millions)
1. America's Got Talent (Tue.)
NBC
12.6
14.7
2. The Voice
NBC
12.3
13.0
3. NCIS
CBS
9.0
18.7
4. NHL Finals Game. 7: Vancouver/Boston
NBC
8.5
--
5. The Mentalist
CBS
8.3
14.9
6. NCIS: Los Angeles
CBS
8.1
16.0
7. The Bachelorette
ABC
7.9
8.7
8. 60 Minutes
CBS
7.6
13.0
* Hawaii Five-O
CBS
7.6
11.8
* So You ThinkYou Can Dance (Wed.)
Fox
7.6
8.3
11. CSI
CBS
7.4
13.0
* Miss USA 2011
NBC
7.4
--
13. Blue Bloods
CBS
6.8
12.0
* The Big Bang Theory
CBS
6.8
12.8
15. Blue Bloods
CBS
6.6
6.7
16. Dateline Friday
NBC
6.5
6.3
* So You ThinkYou Can Dance (Thu.)
Fox
6.5
8.8
18. Mike & Molly
CBS
6.3
10.9
19. Criminal Minds
CBS
6.2
13.6
* Wipeout
ABC
6.2
--

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Floyd Cardoz Wins Top Chef Masters While James Oseland Annoys Viewers

The first two iterations of Top Chef Masters used a format that differed from Top Chef. It was more like a tournament, with each rounds winner determined by the number of "stars" the judges gave the chef.

In the first two iterations of Top Chef Masters I knew who most of the chefs were.

In the season of Top Chef Masters that ended on Wednesday, with Bombay born Floyd Cardoz winning, I had not heard of a single one of the chefs.

So, combined with the fact I knew none of the chefs and the format being changed to being pretty much just like Top Chef it was like watching yet one more season of Top Chef, but with different judges.

I like the judges on Top Chef. I don't like most of the judges on Top Chef Masters.

Particularly James Oseland. This man does not have a television friendly persona. Looking at Survivor Sucks this morning I see I am not alone in my opinion of James Oseland.

Some choice blurbs about James Oseland from Survivor Sucks....

Yeah. Oseland is an insufferable, toady twat.
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Oseland is so gross. I kinda hope they keep his little Dave Foley look-alike flunkie around though. He's not so bad when he's muted.
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Oseland is sooo creepy, and it seems like he pushes the other judges to vote his way. I also don't like when they use the two young bloggers as judges. They don't seem qualified. A better judging panel would be Ruth and Gael, and maybe that guy with the curly hair from last season and Gail rotating in and out. And please get rid of Curtis and return to the old format. There, show fixed.
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It skeeved me out when Oseland was almost bawling, his voice quivering, while talking about Floyd making that dish for him. Cweepy.
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If there is a 'villain' on this panel, I would say it was James Oseland.  He was the one that was picking apart Mary Sue's 2nd dish.  Conversely, he was advocating the dish Floyd prepared for him.  In terms, of which chef was most successful in replicating their favorite dish, Mary Sue not only nailed it, she actually exceeded it.  One of the many reasons I didn't want to see Oseland on the judges panel is he is terribly biased and abused his power when they had the old star system.  He had it in for Michael Chiarello and gave him fewer stars and overstarred Rick Bayless' score.
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I actually, as you know, gave up on this weeks ago. I don't like the newer format, which is too close to the other TC, but my main thing is I honestly cannot watch James Oseland. I literally feel queasy every time he speaks or even ogles the food. I even gave the finale a shot last night, but had to skip out until the very end. It may be pathetic, but yes he skeeves me that much.

Friday, June 17, 2011

The Real Housewives of New York City with Overbearing, Haughty, Delusional LuAnn

In the latest episode of The Real Housewives of New York City I almost bailed during the first 10 minutes.

We were treated to Alex and Simon doing awkward pre-bedroom workout moves while cutting to another location where Ramona was preparing a lair for Mario by spreading rose petals all over.

Then Simon was laying on the floor with a big package on top of him, which Alex opened to find several really weird, I don't know how to describe it, maybe kinky bedroom costumes?

Which Alex proceeded to model.

While Alex was doing that, Ramona had Mario's shirt off and was lathering him up with some full body lubricant. I think it was when Ramona starting oiling up Mario's feet I started reaching for the off button.

But then we went to commercial.

After the commercial break the bedroom antics were over. At least that is how I choose to remember it.

I was very grateful we were not treated to scenes of LuAnn and boyfriend Jacque's bedroom homecoming. LuAnn's little French boyfriend seems real creepy to me. So, does LuAnn, so I guess they are a good match.

Cindy tried to show her brother and, I think it was an employee, photos of the Morocco trip. When Cindy got to the camel pics she said the camel ride was her favorite part of the trip. The employee then asked why there were no pics of Cindy on a camel. Cindy tried to find one and then realized the dastardly Sonja had been taking the pictures.

We then cut to Sonja who tells us revenge is a dish best served cold. Some revenge, I thought to myself.

Sonja's bankruptcy took up a lot of the talking. All the girls were sensitive, for the most part, except for Jill who conducted a lengthy inquisition into Sonja's finances.

Jill had all the girls together, except for Kelly, who got invited and didn't show, and Ramona who did not get invited, to be a focus group for her new line of what I think were exercise outfits. I'm not sure.

Alex was offput regarding Jill's explanation as to why she did not invite Ramona. Alex then met up with Ramona to tell her about the latest bad Jill behavior.

I'm sure other stuff happened, but it was all mostly boring, so I've forgotten. About 50 minutes in, this latest RHONY episode turned less boring, with LuAnn and Alex meeting in a restaurant to talk.

Only LuAnn does not allow Alex to talk. Alex had several good adjectives to describe LuAnn. The only one I remember is haughty. I don't know if I've ever known anyone like LuAnn. She's such a twisted hypocrite. And seem very ill-mannered for an etiquette expert.

On the Watch What Happens Live that followed RHONY the question was which team are you on? Alex or LuAnn? 75% were on Alex's team.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Nielsen Rating's Top 20 TV Shows for June 2 - June 8

The Nielsen Rating's Top 20 TV Shows for June 2 - June 8. The first number is the ranking, the second number is the season average, then the show name and network. The last number represents the number of viewers in millions. An asterisk * indicates a tie.

Rank Show name
Network
Viewers in millions
Season-to-date average(in millions)
1. NBA Finals Game 2: Miami/Dallas
ABC
15.5
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2. America's Got Talent
NBC
15.3
15.3
* NBA Finals Game 3: Dallas/Miami
ABC
15.3
--
4. NBA Finals Game 1: Miami/Dallas
ABC
15.2
--
5. The Voice
NBC
14.4
12.9
6. NCIS
CBS
11.3
19.3
7. NCIS: Los Angeles
CBS
9.9
16.4
8. 60 Minutes
CBS
9.5
13.2
9. The Mentalist
CBS
8.8
15.2
10. So You Think You Can Dance
Fox
8.6
8.6
11. So You Think You Can Dance
Fox
8.1
9.0
12. CSI
CBS
8.0
13.3
13. The Big Bang Theory
CBS
7.4
13.1
14. The Bachelorette
ABC
7.2
--
* Criminal Minds
CBS
7.2
14.0
16. Extreme Makeover:: Weight-Loss Edition
ABC
7.1
--
17. Flashpoint
CBS
6.9
7.4
18. Blue Bloods Wednesday
CBS
6.8
6.8
19. CSI: NY
CBS
6.7
10.6
* Rules of Engagement
CBS
6.7
8.8