Unlike last week, there was really no debate on who the douchebag of the week was going to be, although Obama was in the running over his handling of the BP spill. The Fascist Tea Party will almost always be in the running as their policies are so dangerous for this country that I shudder to think what would happen if they ever actually gain power. The Republicans would be a better fit. So let's get to it.
The Tea Party- Yes once again many a candidate says something to stupid that the idiot public just ignores. Sharon Angle and Joe Miller have both made statements saying they want to privatize social security and eliminate medicare, Medicaid and unemployment insurance. Great idea if you want sick people out on the street. These losers can't go away soon enough. With people like Pallidino, Fiorini, Whitman (who is a money whore by the way), McMahon, Paul, Miller and a host of others trashing our country for the rise of a new fascist dictatorship, we can only hope that reason will win out this November. If the Republicans get back the House or Senate this fall, the outcome will not be good for anyone making less than 500,000 a year. Civil war looms.
The Democrats and Obama- Proving that they are no better than Bush and company, this week saw two major screw ups that will make voters question their ability to lead come November. Let's me state that I loathe Republicans and just hate Democrats but the enemy of my enemy is my friend which is the only reason I am supporting them. Let's get rid of the Republicans and then start working on the dems. This week saw Obama handling of the BP spill as one long PR move with no attempt at truth or honesty. It seems that everything they told us was untrue and probably knew it at the time. Plus Congress somehow got together to pass a bill that would have thrown millions of innocent people out into the street over mistaken foreclosures. Only Obama's pocket veto saved us from this awful piece of legislation. NEITHER DEMS OF REPUS ARE LOOKING OUT FOR YOU. Unless you're rich. With the recent Supreme Court decsion doing exactly what I predicted with ads and solid proof of vote rigging, your vote no longer matters. Welcome to Germany circa 1940.
And the winner this week is John Courson. Who is that you ask? He's the CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association. Over the past few months he has been on the news telling people to not walk away from their overpriced mortgages because that's just wrong and is bad for the economy. So why is he a douchebag for telling people that? Because he walked away from a 75 million dollar mortgage where his office was located and moved down the street to a rented building that was cheaper. So it's alright when you and your rich friends do it but not okay when the rest of us do it. Dick. Typical rich thinking that the rules do not apply to them. Further, he is under investigation for things like embezzlement and fraud. So congratulations Courson you are douchebag of the week
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
TV Grim Reaper Strikes Strikes Again: Outlaw Mortally Wounded
NBC's craptastic new show Outlaw, which was one of the worst new shows in my opinion, has been dealt a death blow by the network, halting production after five episodes. The remaining two will still air according to NBC and then Poof it will be gone. As predicted, the remaining new series are acting out the play And Then There Were None, with Undercovers, The Defenders, The Whole Truth, Law and Order:LA, and Detroit 187 all on the chopping block. Recent reviews for the L & O spin off have been dismal at best, getting scathing reviews by critics and fanboys alike. Adding dead weight like Terrance Howard couldn't have helped. Moving CSI:NY to Friday also seems to be a bone headed move with ratings plummeting. In CBS's defense though this was one of the only mistakes the network has made, unlike the others who have yet to have a qualified hit such as Hawaii 5-0 or Mike and Molly. Most of the above shows mentioned have less than a week to improve, especially Undercovers and Detroit 187 which probably won't last until Halloween.
Old shows aren't doing much better. Fox's The Good Guys is on life support and the Biggest Loser, once a ratings darling, appears to be on its last legs as it's ratings have tanked thus year. Fox's new comedy Running Wilde isn't and appears to be headed for the scrap heap any day now. Glee hit a rare speed bump with a faith oriented episode which probably didn't sit too well with Glee's obvious gay following. Way to slap your main demographic, Fox. What next? How about introducing a homophobic football captain who bursts into songs celebrating gay bashing. The main objective of any show runner is know your audience. Don't do any more faith episodes. Your demographic gets a little punchy when it comes to the Catholic Church. Getting called a sub human will do that. Dumbasses. On a side note, coming after that awful suicide by a Rutgers student who jumped of the GW, I implore people to stop the gay bashing. People who are gay are just like you and me and deserve the same amount of respect. Now kids can be cruel. In the past month alone, five young teenagers took their own life, two only 13. Teachers need to step in and stop this torment. And let's be clear. Anybody who is anti-gay is no better than the KKK or a freaking Nazi and should be treated a such. Only by demonizing those who do these horrible things to innocent people will this kind of torture stop. And to anybody who is gay out there and reading this, just remember that life does get better, gay or not for most of us. Suffer through their comments like the rest of us had to when were in school. Or better yet, take some nasty form of martial arts like Akkido or Bando and if someone tries to pick a fight with you then, show them how you learned to break a nose. The added "insult" of this loser getting beat up by a gay man will be an endless source of amusement for his friends who will make fun of him until the day he dies. Priceless. So for anyone gay or straight getting bullied: don't kill yourself, don't bring an arsenal to school. But learn to stand up for yourself and the world is your oyster.
Old shows aren't doing much better. Fox's The Good Guys is on life support and the Biggest Loser, once a ratings darling, appears to be on its last legs as it's ratings have tanked thus year. Fox's new comedy Running Wilde isn't and appears to be headed for the scrap heap any day now. Glee hit a rare speed bump with a faith oriented episode which probably didn't sit too well with Glee's obvious gay following. Way to slap your main demographic, Fox. What next? How about introducing a homophobic football captain who bursts into songs celebrating gay bashing. The main objective of any show runner is know your audience. Don't do any more faith episodes. Your demographic gets a little punchy when it comes to the Catholic Church. Getting called a sub human will do that. Dumbasses. On a side note, coming after that awful suicide by a Rutgers student who jumped of the GW, I implore people to stop the gay bashing. People who are gay are just like you and me and deserve the same amount of respect. Now kids can be cruel. In the past month alone, five young teenagers took their own life, two only 13. Teachers need to step in and stop this torment. And let's be clear. Anybody who is anti-gay is no better than the KKK or a freaking Nazi and should be treated a such. Only by demonizing those who do these horrible things to innocent people will this kind of torture stop. And to anybody who is gay out there and reading this, just remember that life does get better, gay or not for most of us. Suffer through their comments like the rest of us had to when were in school. Or better yet, take some nasty form of martial arts like Akkido or Bando and if someone tries to pick a fight with you then, show them how you learned to break a nose. The added "insult" of this loser getting beat up by a gay man will be an endless source of amusement for his friends who will make fun of him until the day he dies. Priceless. So for anyone gay or straight getting bullied: don't kill yourself, don't bring an arsenal to school. But learn to stand up for yourself and the world is your oyster.
Monday, October 4, 2010
THE SOCIAL NETWORK: FACEBOOK STRIKES BACK
This is one of those rare movies that never should have worked from the get go. Facebook: the Movie? Are you kidding me? When the project was first announced, me and everyone else ganged up on it like some of the other bad ideas floating around such as the 200 million dollar budgeted Battleship: The Movie or Monopoly, whose original idea was one of the worst movie ideas ever. I'm hoping that since the project is in turnaround that the craptastic screenplay of having a Monopoly champion enter the game board is back in the garbage where it belongs. So Facebook: the Movie sounded just as retarded. However when you combine Aaron Sorkin's rapid fire dialogue along with David Fincher as one of the best directors working today, you get this: a masterpiece. Everything works in this movie when by all counts it really shouldn't have.
Jesse Eisenberg plays Mark Zukerberg, who would become the world's youngest billionaire, to a T and a probable Oscar nod. His awkwardness and surefire brilliance are all out there and portrays a convincing character that we are never sure is a cad or manipulated by those around him. Spider man reboot actor Andrew Garfield is riveting as ex-best friend Eduardo Saverin, a guy Zukerberg throws under the bus and consequently gets sued for ripping him off and out of Facebook. Justin Timberlake proves to be a solid actor as well playing the Svengali-like Sean Parker. Kudos as well to Armie Hammie (what a name) who plays dual roles of the Winklevoss twins, another of the groups that sue Zuckerman for stealing their ideas. The movie tracks between the lawsuits brought about by Zuckerman's somewhat callous attitude and how the whole idea of Facebook came about. It shouldn't be riveting but it is.
Trent Raznor's score is pitch perfect, quite simply one of the best soundtracks I've heard in a while.
This film is going to get noticed with several Oscars for such things as best picture not out of the question. While certainly not Fincher's best work, it ranks up there with Fight Club and Seven. Incidentally, there are references hidden in the movie about Fight Club. See if you can find them. This is a must see movie and oddly enough one of the more adult films I've seen all year, tackling topics that most would have glossed over. Go to the theater to see this sprawling work. You won't be disappointed.
5 out of 5 stars.
Jesse Eisenberg plays Mark Zukerberg, who would become the world's youngest billionaire, to a T and a probable Oscar nod. His awkwardness and surefire brilliance are all out there and portrays a convincing character that we are never sure is a cad or manipulated by those around him. Spider man reboot actor Andrew Garfield is riveting as ex-best friend Eduardo Saverin, a guy Zukerberg throws under the bus and consequently gets sued for ripping him off and out of Facebook. Justin Timberlake proves to be a solid actor as well playing the Svengali-like Sean Parker. Kudos as well to Armie Hammie (what a name) who plays dual roles of the Winklevoss twins, another of the groups that sue Zuckerman for stealing their ideas. The movie tracks between the lawsuits brought about by Zuckerman's somewhat callous attitude and how the whole idea of Facebook came about. It shouldn't be riveting but it is.
Trent Raznor's score is pitch perfect, quite simply one of the best soundtracks I've heard in a while.
This film is going to get noticed with several Oscars for such things as best picture not out of the question. While certainly not Fincher's best work, it ranks up there with Fight Club and Seven. Incidentally, there are references hidden in the movie about Fight Club. See if you can find them. This is a must see movie and oddly enough one of the more adult films I've seen all year, tackling topics that most would have glossed over. Go to the theater to see this sprawling work. You won't be disappointed.
5 out of 5 stars.
HARRY BROWN: THE BRITISH GRAN TURINO
I love vengeance flicks. Nothing makes me happier than watching some idiots do something that backfires in their faces. In Taken they kidnapped the wrong girl. In Gran Turino they picked the wrong neighborhood. In Harry Brown, they kill the wrong guy.
Michael Caine plays Harry Brown, a widower pensioner living in the British project, which are the same ones the Caine himself grew up in decades earlier. The place has gotten much worse, according to Caine, as handguns are used more and more in what is supposed to be a handgun free country. Thus the nature of this film, well shot by director Dan Barber. Brown is a quiet man who wants to be left alone with his dying wife and best friend. But local thugs have made living in the area quite the chore. After his wife dies, Brown's friend Len, played by David Bradley and best known as Filch in the Harry Potter series, fights back against the youths with predictable consequences. Brown is a former special opts marine, sickened himself by emphysema, who decides enough is enough and goes on a one man killing spree on the people who have taken his one friend. Along the way he butts heads with a pretty young bobbie (Emily Mortimer) who is trying to solve the case of who killed Brown's friend. She suspects Brown is behind the rash of murders taking place but the chief won't hear of it, blaming rival gangs.
Incredibly, this film got so so reviews from the mainstream and I have to wonder did they see the same picture I did? This is a wonderfully shot movie, well acted and well paced. Not one of the flaws I had though to expect actually occurred. Caine was fantastic as Brown, a sick old man out for revenge. Sure it plays a lot like Gran Turino, a better movie by far, but this was still an exciting and gripping movie. In no way did it deserve the reviews it got. If you like revenge thrillers don't pass this one up. It's a doozy.
4 out 5 stars
Michael Caine plays Harry Brown, a widower pensioner living in the British project, which are the same ones the Caine himself grew up in decades earlier. The place has gotten much worse, according to Caine, as handguns are used more and more in what is supposed to be a handgun free country. Thus the nature of this film, well shot by director Dan Barber. Brown is a quiet man who wants to be left alone with his dying wife and best friend. But local thugs have made living in the area quite the chore. After his wife dies, Brown's friend Len, played by David Bradley and best known as Filch in the Harry Potter series, fights back against the youths with predictable consequences. Brown is a former special opts marine, sickened himself by emphysema, who decides enough is enough and goes on a one man killing spree on the people who have taken his one friend. Along the way he butts heads with a pretty young bobbie (Emily Mortimer) who is trying to solve the case of who killed Brown's friend. She suspects Brown is behind the rash of murders taking place but the chief won't hear of it, blaming rival gangs.
Incredibly, this film got so so reviews from the mainstream and I have to wonder did they see the same picture I did? This is a wonderfully shot movie, well acted and well paced. Not one of the flaws I had though to expect actually occurred. Caine was fantastic as Brown, a sick old man out for revenge. Sure it plays a lot like Gran Turino, a better movie by far, but this was still an exciting and gripping movie. In no way did it deserve the reviews it got. If you like revenge thrillers don't pass this one up. It's a doozy.
4 out 5 stars
Saturday, October 2, 2010
GRIM REAPER STRIKES TV AGAIN: NEW SHOWS TERRIFIED THEY'RE NEXT
Thursday's bloodbath continues with the predicted axing of ABC's low rated My Generation. Not a shocker there considering how bad the reviews were that it got. The most shocking thing was the number one show at 10-drum roll please DADADADADADADUMDUMDUMDUM- the Jersey Shore. Yes, the train wreck that won't end is huge in the ratings, getting over a 4 share which NO show got at all on Friday. Outlaw on Friday continues to free fall, making this most likely it's last episode. I'll be impressed if it lasts another week. Most of Friday was awful with just about every show not on CW or CBS getting a 1 share or lower. CW continues to surprise with Smallville and Supernatural kicking butt in their time slots. CBS probably wishes it hadn't cancelled Ghost Whisperer as Medium continues to struggle, CSI NY is way down from last year and Blue Bloods doing okay even though having watched the first 28 seconds of its first episode I can confirm that the writing on this show is some of the worst I have ever seen. That is literally how long I lasted before turning the channel. Didn't give it enough you say? When the dialogue is that stilted and awful it has no where to go but down. Plus, character introduction was done so crappy that it made my ears bleed. This is a must miss. Watch the first 28 seconds if only as a writer you want to see how NOT to introduce characters. NBC's Dateline did it's usual so so self and Fox moved a House repeat to 8 and left The Good Guys to languish in what may be it's last episode as well. Next week the Reaper will return. What show will be axed next?
DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK: BANKS
This was a tough one folks. This week saw more douchebags than ever before and it was a real hard decision. What the hell is happening? Have we really lost our collective minds? I fear we have. Let's look at this week peanut gallery of stupidity.
1)The People who bought the house from the "real" Amityville Horror. Last year it came to my attention that the house in Amityville that housed an actual multiple murder committed by Ronald DeFoe back in 1974 was up for sale. Infamous afterward for housing an obvious hoax haunted house that probably had to more to do with the Lutz's owing money to various people than a real haunting, it was a local attraction much to the chargrin of the owners. So when the new owners bought it for below market value, instead of capitalizing on said property they instead told people to stay the hell away and leave them alone. Nice purchase douchebags. Being left alone is not going to be in the cards even after the previous owners defaced the house to make it look less like the house it was to disguise it. Real smart. The money lost on this is staggering.
2)Tom Coburn- Republican form Oklahoma has "anomalously" held up bills in Congress on such things as food safety, a women's museum in his home state (because woman already have a quilting museum and a botanical gardens), and a billion dollars in relief to Haiti, because why help people already so well off (insert sarcasm here). Thus guy needs to go and quick.
3) Rick Sanchez- Fired from CNN for spouting, on air, about the control of the media by the Jews and how John Stewart is a Jewish bigot. Oh and according to him, he was fired for being Hispanic. Right. Take your spic ass and get lost. That's racism. And well deserved in this case, douchebag. By the way Jews don't run the media. They do control the banks (which is my douchebag of the week but not because their Jewish which is incidental to the greed perpetrated by members of all races and religions).
4) The Democrats- Trying their hardest to lose the next election, these idiots went on break without passing the Bush tax cuts for most of us, but not wanting to allow the Republicans to stall the bill which would have painted them as out of touch losers. The tax cuts cannot continue for everyone as we can't afford it. It will cost 3.9 trillion dollars to allow the tax cuts to continue for everyone. And the rich don't need that money. Stop crowing about how they create jobs, which they do, in places like China and Bangladesh.
5) Republicans, the Tea Party and like minded voters- Vowing to end the country, the new Republican candidates have done a spectacular job the last few weeks proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that these idiots are completely unfit for office. Palladino's threat of violence against a reporter sounded very Sopranos form an Italian candidate. I can't imagine that will win him votes form moderates and independents. O'Donnel continues to struggle with her latest salvo form Bill Maher showing her as a creationist, which makes you ineligible for any job or position in this country as it makes you a retard. These idiots will end us.
6) Banks- It has come to light that banks jumped the gun by rushing hundreds of thousands of failing mortgages into foreclosure without looking into whether it was actually true. People signed tens of thousands of sheets of paper per month without the slightest bit of research into whether or not the paperwork was accurate. The result is that most banks have suspended foreclosures for the moment while they sort out the issues. Worse, this is not an isolated incident but one that falls across all banks countrywide. Congratulation, you are indeed douchbag of the week.
Conservative economist Paul Farrell has posted his latest column showing how everybody listed above is conspiring, unknowingly in most cases, the end of this country. First, the rise of the Tea Party is a double edged sword. This country needs a revolution just a smarter one. The policies the people want will drive us off a cliff. First, as seen this week, democrats wimped out like the pussies they are about the tax cuts for the rich. Why is the filibuster never used just threatened? Let the R party stand up and tell the American people that they only stand for the rich? See how many votes that winds them in November? But no, that didn't happen. As a result Obama loses control of the House, a likely scenario, making Obama a lame duck for his next two years and gridlock a reality. The GOP gains both the senate and the Presidency in 2012. Health care is repealed, millions lose their insurance. Free market deregulation returns with obvious results. Greed kills the economy sending us into the Greatest Depression. Revolution occurs against the rich as class warfare boils over. The Pentagon also says that by this time, resource wars will break out worldwide. Sounds like fun huh. This is what you are voting for morons. The end of everything.
In a similarly bleak report, Prof. Peter Morici, former chief economist of the International Trade Commission, writes in his report "Decadence in 2010 election US," that the US political landscape is so devastating that it will help end the world. He makes ten points that the two political parties in this country will offer no positive reforms ever (they haven't so far), the parties have become to big govern (special interests have taken over and the recent Supreme Court descion about money and politics will destroy us), and policies by politicians over the last 30 years have made us second class citizens (like NAFTA and China entering the WTO with no strings attached). No politician has the correct idea how to fix things and hiring CEO insiders is helping to compound the problem with people like Paulson and Geitner. With no ideas how to fix things like health care which the Democrats helped sabotage by getting rid of the public option, our system is doomed. We pay more than any other country for one of the worst health care systems in the world. Yet every moron out there is convinced this "socialist" agenda is damaging to society. It isn't and if you got off your fat ass to look up a word every now and again you might actually live to see another year. Wall street rules America dn the Tea Party seems destined to allow that to happen, considering how many CEO's are running with Tea Party support. Don't they know that they are voting for a fascist agenda? Morici writes, correctly so, that neither government nor business are the enemies here, that both are necessary for a democratic government. But with the fool tea party in power we are coming closer and closer to revolution, one that WILL happen here. History shows that once we've reached this point, there is no turning back. As the Tea party will not compromise on anything, gridlock will ensue and this country will burn as "austerity" measures that are crippling Europe arrive here. Beware the false flag that sends our anger focused like a laser at Muslims. It's our leaders only hope of not turning our anger at them.
1)The People who bought the house from the "real" Amityville Horror. Last year it came to my attention that the house in Amityville that housed an actual multiple murder committed by Ronald DeFoe back in 1974 was up for sale. Infamous afterward for housing an obvious hoax haunted house that probably had to more to do with the Lutz's owing money to various people than a real haunting, it was a local attraction much to the chargrin of the owners. So when the new owners bought it for below market value, instead of capitalizing on said property they instead told people to stay the hell away and leave them alone. Nice purchase douchebags. Being left alone is not going to be in the cards even after the previous owners defaced the house to make it look less like the house it was to disguise it. Real smart. The money lost on this is staggering.
2)Tom Coburn- Republican form Oklahoma has "anomalously" held up bills in Congress on such things as food safety, a women's museum in his home state (because woman already have a quilting museum and a botanical gardens), and a billion dollars in relief to Haiti, because why help people already so well off (insert sarcasm here). Thus guy needs to go and quick.
3) Rick Sanchez- Fired from CNN for spouting, on air, about the control of the media by the Jews and how John Stewart is a Jewish bigot. Oh and according to him, he was fired for being Hispanic. Right. Take your spic ass and get lost. That's racism. And well deserved in this case, douchebag. By the way Jews don't run the media. They do control the banks (which is my douchebag of the week but not because their Jewish which is incidental to the greed perpetrated by members of all races and religions).
4) The Democrats- Trying their hardest to lose the next election, these idiots went on break without passing the Bush tax cuts for most of us, but not wanting to allow the Republicans to stall the bill which would have painted them as out of touch losers. The tax cuts cannot continue for everyone as we can't afford it. It will cost 3.9 trillion dollars to allow the tax cuts to continue for everyone. And the rich don't need that money. Stop crowing about how they create jobs, which they do, in places like China and Bangladesh.
5) Republicans, the Tea Party and like minded voters- Vowing to end the country, the new Republican candidates have done a spectacular job the last few weeks proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that these idiots are completely unfit for office. Palladino's threat of violence against a reporter sounded very Sopranos form an Italian candidate. I can't imagine that will win him votes form moderates and independents. O'Donnel continues to struggle with her latest salvo form Bill Maher showing her as a creationist, which makes you ineligible for any job or position in this country as it makes you a retard. These idiots will end us.
6) Banks- It has come to light that banks jumped the gun by rushing hundreds of thousands of failing mortgages into foreclosure without looking into whether it was actually true. People signed tens of thousands of sheets of paper per month without the slightest bit of research into whether or not the paperwork was accurate. The result is that most banks have suspended foreclosures for the moment while they sort out the issues. Worse, this is not an isolated incident but one that falls across all banks countrywide. Congratulation, you are indeed douchbag of the week.
Conservative economist Paul Farrell has posted his latest column showing how everybody listed above is conspiring, unknowingly in most cases, the end of this country. First, the rise of the Tea Party is a double edged sword. This country needs a revolution just a smarter one. The policies the people want will drive us off a cliff. First, as seen this week, democrats wimped out like the pussies they are about the tax cuts for the rich. Why is the filibuster never used just threatened? Let the R party stand up and tell the American people that they only stand for the rich? See how many votes that winds them in November? But no, that didn't happen. As a result Obama loses control of the House, a likely scenario, making Obama a lame duck for his next two years and gridlock a reality. The GOP gains both the senate and the Presidency in 2012. Health care is repealed, millions lose their insurance. Free market deregulation returns with obvious results. Greed kills the economy sending us into the Greatest Depression. Revolution occurs against the rich as class warfare boils over. The Pentagon also says that by this time, resource wars will break out worldwide. Sounds like fun huh. This is what you are voting for morons. The end of everything.
In a similarly bleak report, Prof. Peter Morici, former chief economist of the International Trade Commission, writes in his report "Decadence in 2010 election US," that the US political landscape is so devastating that it will help end the world. He makes ten points that the two political parties in this country will offer no positive reforms ever (they haven't so far), the parties have become to big govern (special interests have taken over and the recent Supreme Court descion about money and politics will destroy us), and policies by politicians over the last 30 years have made us second class citizens (like NAFTA and China entering the WTO with no strings attached). No politician has the correct idea how to fix things and hiring CEO insiders is helping to compound the problem with people like Paulson and Geitner. With no ideas how to fix things like health care which the Democrats helped sabotage by getting rid of the public option, our system is doomed. We pay more than any other country for one of the worst health care systems in the world. Yet every moron out there is convinced this "socialist" agenda is damaging to society. It isn't and if you got off your fat ass to look up a word every now and again you might actually live to see another year. Wall street rules America dn the Tea Party seems destined to allow that to happen, considering how many CEO's are running with Tea Party support. Don't they know that they are voting for a fascist agenda? Morici writes, correctly so, that neither government nor business are the enemies here, that both are necessary for a democratic government. But with the fool tea party in power we are coming closer and closer to revolution, one that WILL happen here. History shows that once we've reached this point, there is no turning back. As the Tea party will not compromise on anything, gridlock will ensue and this country will burn as "austerity" measures that are crippling Europe arrive here. Beware the false flag that sends our anger focused like a laser at Muslims. It's our leaders only hope of not turning our anger at them.
Friday, October 1, 2010
TV Thursday Claims More Victims: When Will Bloodbath Stop?
TV executives across the board are probably getting their resumes together as one of the most brutal Fall seasons ever continues its death march. Thursday saw more low ratings for new shows and double digit drop offs for others. NBC saw some reason to be happy as three of the four comedy shows from 8 to 10 did well, with only the new comedy Outsourced failing hard (shocker). The Apprentice held steady from last week which may sound like good news, and would be, had last week's ratings not been an anemic 1.3. This turkey is bound for Saturday stat. Jay Leno had better ratings than this mess. Incidentally, I watched and liked Celebrity Apprentice. I hated the non star version. Apparently, so did everyone else. CBS continues to shine with Big Bang Theory one of the top rated shows on TV. $%^& My Dad Says fell hard in its second week, dropping 20% and only holding onto 70% of Big Bang's audience. I was not one of the 70% as this show is terrible. Others thought so as well, after sampling last week's disaster, they decided to turn to 30 Rock which saw a slight uptick in the ratings. CBS' CSI continue to hemorrhage viewers as it's slide gets steeper and steeper. The show has sucked since William Peterson left. Time to kill this one time cash cow. The Mentalist, while down, was still number one at 10 versus a super weak line up from the Big Three.
ABC started the night with the soon to be cancelled My Generation, falling 31% from its premiere, to a WTF 1.1 rating. This looked DOA from the start. This helped bring the rest of the night down with the aging Grey's Anatomy and Why God Why Private Practice series, both way down from last year.
CW continues to do okay with Vampire Diaries and the super sexy Nikita.
Fox has problems with Bones and Fringe sliding, especially the later now getting just lower than a 2. They have also radically changed their line up after last week's horrific standings that moved them from number one to fourth place with a really weak fall line up. Lone Star's cancellation moved Lie to Me to that time slot, sent Human Target to the replacement bunker (now airing Nov 17th on Wednesday for now) and put shows like the Good Guys on notice, which is doing it's usual Friday Night Death ratings. The show is cute but won't be missed too much when it goes. I estimated by the end of October half of the new Fall season shows will be gone. Let the bloodbath continue.
ABC started the night with the soon to be cancelled My Generation, falling 31% from its premiere, to a WTF 1.1 rating. This looked DOA from the start. This helped bring the rest of the night down with the aging Grey's Anatomy and Why God Why Private Practice series, both way down from last year.
CW continues to do okay with Vampire Diaries and the super sexy Nikita.
Fox has problems with Bones and Fringe sliding, especially the later now getting just lower than a 2. They have also radically changed their line up after last week's horrific standings that moved them from number one to fourth place with a really weak fall line up. Lone Star's cancellation moved Lie to Me to that time slot, sent Human Target to the replacement bunker (now airing Nov 17th on Wednesday for now) and put shows like the Good Guys on notice, which is doing it's usual Friday Night Death ratings. The show is cute but won't be missed too much when it goes. I estimated by the end of October half of the new Fall season shows will be gone. Let the bloodbath continue.
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