You have no idea how much I needed to hear that today -- thank you! Meanwhile, in case anyone missed the news, Ashton Kutcher is, indeed, the new Charlie Sheen.
Since there was a link to this week's chat at the bottom of last week's (May 6) chat, I copied the link for the May 13 chat and pasted it in a text document. So, as long as I don't forget where I saved the text document, I will be able to easily find you May 13 chat. Unless it gets moved during the next week (or was moved during the past week). Boy, this time travel stuff is hard.
Once created, we do our best not to move the link. When you submit your questions, those certainly won't disappear. Lisa sees your questions! So get 'em in early.
Particularly on Friday the 13th! Yes, I am a deeply superstitious person. And, while we're complaining, my computer is spitting out words at the rate of about 2 letters every three minutes so I am going to shut down my computer and re-start it which, I have been assured, is the answer to all my problems. Hope to be back in about 2 minutes....
My point exactly! I appear to be back in action, so to speak. Anybody taking bets how long this lasts?
New character....
It did a fine number -- but not a record of any kind. Best in several weeks, as I recall...
Welcome to the Golly This Show is Mean Spirited Club! we meet every Wednesday morning, after recovering from the previous night's episode of "Glee."...
All systems appear to be "Go" on that. What pictures of KabletownNBCUniversal suits do the Chuck producer have that this show survives year after year?
I agree. I'm the captain of Team Eye Roll on the whole Ashton Kutcher hire. They're touting him as this social media genius who's going to tweet young viewers into watching the show. We all know how well that went with his CW series "The Beautiful Life" -- gone after two episodes hardly any of his 6.7 million Twitter followers watched....
They are very careful to say when it's down to the bottom two that while one of them is going home they are not necessarily the two bottom-vote getters. Which means the other person who survives may not have gotten the second fewest number of votes. They put Scotty there on stage a couple weeks -- acutually I thougth it was just once but it's Friday the 13th so I'm not reliable -- to ratchet up the drama -- and to make good television viewing because we were getting pretty sick of seeing Haley Reinhart there week after week after week....
They try to mix it up, to be "fair" -- we are talking about network TV here so "fair is relative" -- but they definitely hold the most popular to perform last, to keep people watching the show to the end...
I will watch because I'm a huge trainwreck fan -- and let me hasten to say that I mean that figuratively, since it's Friday the 13th....
Yes he was and yes it is... James was capable of great diversity, but he kept going down that "give metal a chance" road and I guess people got sick of it... too bad. He's talented and he is definitely the person on in the final four who seemed to genuinely need to get as far as possible for the sake of his family. Didn't we learn early in the show -- like during auditions, that he and his wife were both unemployed, or did I dream that?
So long for now. But I can tell you that if seeing good guys finish last is offputting to you, you're definitely not going to like "Survivor." On the other hand, they wear a lot less clothing on "Survivor" so there's that to compensate...
I think his two performances this week did him in. Which I guess just goes to show how close the voting is this season...
One of the executive producers says they're going to take a look at that after this season is over, but I'm guessing with ratings up this season, etc., that's just lip service. Networks don't like it when producers mess with success...
Okay, I was with you all the way till you hit "even though I still love Scotty." Why does he always hold his arms like a Preying Mantis when he sings? Why does he always make any song he picks sound like they're all one song? And I have reservations about someone who, on national TV, kisses the cross handing around his neck and begs god's forgiveness for having spent time in the company of Lady Gaga.
Nobody screams "Winner" for me on this season. ...
You say [female canine] -- I saw "spunky." It's all relative. I like that she has not fallen apart in the face of all the judges negativity, which they definitely heap on her more than the others. And, BTW, from everything I hear, that's the only way to survive in the music industry.. I'm far more interested in what Jimmy Iovine thinks about each of the Idolettes and he's clearly a Haley fan and thinks she's marketable...
Okay -- I confess. You stumped me. Australians? Does he have a huge fan base there, or do you just think they're smarter than Americans...
Not much. Unless the Chuck producers share with the Outsourced producers those photos of KabletownNBCUniversal suits they seem to have on file somewhere...
Not looking good... ABC announces on Tuesday...
Don't forget, Daughtry was a fourth runner up the season he competed...
Do you think the Fox Decency Police did not get the gag?
Okay -- I'm open to other topics. Fire away!
Hey, here's a non "Idol" question. I can answer this one! Did you see Chelsea on Piers Morgan's CNN show the other night? I rest my case...It was a great interview. Both of them really on their toes...
Me too. He should just be made permanent host, like Johnny Carson kinda was on the Oscars for a long time...
FX is very happy with Justified. Tell your dad "hi' from TeamTV...
You mean when they had her jump off the London Bridge, and jump out of airplanes without a parachute and step into a gorilla cage and all those other hard-hitting "assignments" they gave her? I'm guessing not in re les actual news, but I confess I can't wait to see her emtional interview with Senator Fill in the Blank about the economy, or whatever... she is the queen of morning news scenery chewing and "Today" just got a whole lot more interesting in my world (see reference to loving train wreck in figurative way, above)...
Yes, they pretty much just fawned over him and told him he'd already won the competition which, sadly, he took seriously and did not step up with his A game the past couple weeks...
Yes, he probably has more credibility off the show than on... but he was such a sweet kid and I feel bad, I confess. Especially when he said he had accomplished all he set out to do on the show which was to get America to "give metal a chance." ...when, of course, what he really set out to do was make a living for his young family...
Yes, he really did that... I think he was trying to be cute. It's not cute...
This one's not so clear to predict. "The Voice" is doing a lot better in its timeslot, but "Parenthood" was doing okay demographically for the network. And, also working in its favor, NBC has much bigger problems than "Parenthood" across its weekly schedule..
No need to apologize. We're getting loads of "Idol" questions because the results night was last night and the elimination was something of a shocker -- James being the judges fave an all, and the judges having already called him this season's winner. But feel free to ask about anything TV related. Or Winkie. I can talk about him endlessly...
Possibly not, since "Two and a Half Men" is something of a question mark instead of a sure thing for next season, despite Warner Bros having just signed OMGIT'SASHTONKUTCHER!!! to replace Charlie Sheen...
I hear NBC is mulling a fall run for the show. It's doing well and they just decided to expand the live shows to two hours a night, based on the early numbers...
No. This is happening because last week someone wondered why we don't have TVs that can give us hugs and I said I would prefer a TV that told me I looked sensational every time I turned it on.... You had to be there...
Challenged, unless Oprah agrees to do a daily talk show on it. The most popular show is that "behind the scenes" show about her last season doing her syndicated talk show. The problem with that show is that it's terminal -- because it is the last season of her syndicated talk show! They've already announced they're going to add a sort of "Masterpiece Theater" of Oprah's syndicated talk show next season, in which we get to re-live some of the best episodes over the 25-year run of her syndicated talk show. It will also include Oprah's celebrity pals sometimes picking out their fave episodes from the run and explaining why it's their fave etc... That might pop a number for the network. But nothing would attract viewers like -- you know -- an Oprah hosted talk show. People don't want to see shows Oprah has waived her wand over nearly so much as they want to see Oprah...
They're filling in until some electronics company starts manufacturing the TV set that tells me I look sensational every time I turne it on. It seems like a small thing to ask of electronics companies...
One of the downsides of blogging "Dancing with the Stars" on Monday and Tuesday and "American Idol" on Wednesday and Thursday, is that by the time start work at the crack of dawn Friday, I am waaaay behind on my TV viewing for the week. My only hope is to catch up over the weekend. So I have, sadly, become far less useful to chatters in re questions about last night's episode of "Parks and Rec" -- which I think was not actually the finale.... anybody else out there want to weigh in on the episode?
I think Oprah has been stretched pretty thin trying to do her syndicated talk show and launch a network. I think she's even said as much, recently and acknowledged that it might have been better to have waited until her syndicated show wrapped in May to launch OWN...
As a seasoned TV/pop culture maven, what do you foresee as the arc of Bristol Palin's "career." We''ve gone from unwed teen mother/daughter of divisive political figure to dance show contestant to star of BIO ":reality" series to...Where will this lead? And will there be a discernible talent revealed along the way? Thanks.
Does Snooki have a discernible talent? I have never heard anyone accuse reality stars of needing a discernible talent to be successful. In fact, the only chatter I'm seeing on Bristol morphing into a bona fide reality TV star has been all about her new face... now that IS important to becoming a successful reality TV star!
DirecTV is bringing back the show, in reruns, on its 101 channel that's only for its customers....
Wonder Woman looking bad, sorry. Apparently the photos of her in the costume were a deal killer -- die hard fans of the franchise seemed to have nothing good to say about the metallic blue spandex pants... I am a big fan of the new head of programming at NBC, Bob Greenblatt and am looking forward to seeing what he thinks is going to turn around the fortunes of this fourth-placed network. Next week's upfront presentations will be particularly interesting because the guys in charge of developing programming at three of the networks are new. I don't think that's ever happened in all the years I've been covering TV. New-ish guys at ABC, NBC and CW, though outgoing CW programming chief Dawn Ostroff will be at that network's presentation with the new guy, I'm told.
I don't remember writing anything about Rick Kaplan being expected to "young up" the show. I did write about some people thinking Ashton Kutcher is a great hire to replace Charlie Sheen because he will young-up that show...
You betcha! I've got my sturdy shoes all packed and am flying to NYC this afternoon -- yes, on Friday the 13th!
"Raising Hope" will be back. Sorry about Traffic Light. I love the Brit on that show -- sorry I can't remember his name because I've only had one cup of coffee. You know, the "Love Actually" guy...
Winkie is a stray dog I have adopted and he's quite the little character -- so named because he looks like the Winkies, of Winkie Forest from "Wizard of Oz."
good lord. I hadn't thought of that. That would be dreadful!
Yes, that's the word....
I think the most recent episode clocked about 1.9 million viewers in its premiere telecast. That's a strong number...
Thank you Ryan!
None was a home run and yes, Simon is going to gobble up about three hours of Fox's 15 hours of primetime a week -- remember, Fox does not program the 10 o'clock hour like ABC, CBS and NBC do. So real estate is very tight on the Fox lineup.
Word is it's coming back. does really well in international sales...
I don't care what was the reason -- for one brief shining momennt I was really thrilled at the prospect of seeing Hugh Grant every week on TV. Sadly, my hopes and dreams were dashed about six hours after they were born. And now, all I'm left with is the prospect of Ashton Kutcher. You can see me but I have just flung myself on my office chair and am chewing the armrest in a ecstasy of grief... So much so that I think I need to conclude this chat. Thanks for joining me. I will be chatting with you next Friday about all the new network schedules... Bye!
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