Not that the show needs it -- it's already one of the country's most popular TV programs. For those who missed the news: a staffer for Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador reportedly was sacked after he mistakenly tweeted his love of the “2 Broke Girls” Super Bowl pole dance ad – using his bosses’s account. His exact words were: “Me likey Broke Girls” -- tweeted on Labrador’s Twitter account after CBS aired that ad, in which Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs frolicked around a stripper pole and a bowl of cupcake mix, to Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me.” The tweet was deleted within 14 seconds. Too late – it was archived by Politwoops.
Funny your mentioning it, because my big takeaway from the "Smash" Q&A session at Winter TV Press Tour 2013 is that no one actually working in the show seems to have any idea it's in trouble. Everyone on stage seemed to be operating on the assumption the first season was a great success, which made it a little hard to explain the showrunner having been shown the door -- I think they said she left owing to other commitments or some such thing... Anyway, before you give Katharine McPhee acting lessons, you have to know that KMcP needs acting lessons and she need to know that what she's doing in front of the camera on the series is not acting.. I'm not sure any of those three things is going on... Watching her operated next to Jennifer Hudson on this week's episode really drove home the lack of acting-ness on McPhee's part. If only this show had been built around Hudson.....
Paul Harvey sure did have a magnetic on-air voice...that ad I think is included in every Most Recalled, Best Liked, Most Whatevered Super Bowl ad list I got the next day... except I can't remember what the ad was for -- farmers?
My guess too that if a pop star sends back their acknowledgement of having received the note, it makes things easier for CBS in case of wardrobe malfunction..Can you blame CBS, after Janet Jackson?
So confusing when you are tweeting for your boss too....
Winkie is still pouting over his recent haircut. He feels it makes him look undignified.
I wasn't commenting on the message -- I was discussing his voice. No denying Harvey had a great on-air voice....and that many people, myself included, may not be able to recall what it actually was an ad for -- as opposed to other ads in the game...
I have this recurring nightmare that Alicia Keys only exists to perform at Very Special Events, and is, as we chat, being stored somewhere and will be brought out again for the Grammys.
Two hours was one too many... and it tanked in the ratings... and how the two hours jumped from plot point to plot point, like the chamois of the Alps, jumping from crag to crag...is Bombshell shut down, is it back on, shut down again, back on again? Is Jerky Choreographer Guy actually a misunderstood nice guy, or a jerk who can sometimes be nice, or a nice guy who's sometimes a jerk...I could not keep up.
Yes, you can set your calendar by Idol.. isn't it fun how Nicki Minaj has turned out to be the brains of the judges table and Mariah Carey the petulant child?
I remember a story a few years back when Katie Couric was doing CBS evening newscast and there was some kerfuffle over one of her blog posts which, turns out, had been written by a publicist for her. I think there too that person may have been let go...
Oh yes, it's a very popular show...
It seems to be getting traction, so I'd say no. And, in the interest of educated discussion, here's the parody which some may find offensive, so view at your own discretion.
My parents are obsessed with "The Good Wife." I didn't realize until know how lucky I am... thanks for that.
The second episode plunged in the ratings -- appears many people had the same take away...
Cute, but no, they're the flotsam and jetsam of "American Idol"... Jennifer Hudson, on the other hand, is an Oscar winning actress with the voice of an angel.
Thanks for reminding me it was an ad for Jeep -- I'd forgotten what it was plugging. Not sure these ads are really very effective for selling a product.
Second telecast took a nosedive...
My guess is it will last the season -- NBC doesn't have much else on its bench. "Do No Harm" is DOA and "The Voice" won't start up again for a few more weeks.
No, you are not alone... it is still one of the country's most popular shows, but no longer the force it once was...
Absolutely nothing compared to 2 Broke Girls, etc...
Thank you for saying so! The company decided to go in a different direction... So now you have to watch...
It's the age-old story about advertising. The ones that are most effective in selling a product -- the ones you remember the product that is being sold most clearly -- are the ones in which someone screams the name of the product about six times in 30 seconds...
that too! Are you with Weight Watchers?
Emily Yahr, our resident "Nashville" obsessive, says she uses the closed captioning function on her TV whenever Australian actress, Clare Bowen attempts to do thick southern accent on the show.
I'm told he's going to be flashed back this season. Hopefully to have a piano fall on him... why don't the producers listen to us?
That's why Jennifer Hudson stood and sang during the pre-game show...
I was so exhausted from watching three-hankie ads during the Super Bowl that by the fourth quarter I was tearing up at Doritos ads.
I thought they had already -- seriously...
It's not. Hence the show's ratings, among other reasons...
Nobody loves a good conspiracy more than me, but I think this story is what it is....
even funnier..
Me too. But why did the guy sell his horse to Busch in the first place..that's just wrong...
I watched and took notes, like a good journalist... it was the best half hour of the Super Bowl...real question is where was CBS News during that blackout -- oh yeah, they were in the control booth, watching the NFL react, and NOT reporting on it for their 108 million-ish viewers because they were saving their reporting for a special you could see three days later -- if you'd ponied up the bucks to get CBS pay cable network Showtime..that, in my mind, was some kind of bad call on CBS's part that night.
I confess I don't understand one single bit of this question. "Elementary" got a ratings bump in the post Super Bowl timeslot -- just not as big a bump as had "The Voice" after last year's Super Bowl, but then, The Voice" started about 40 minutes earlier than "Elementary" and at that time of night a show's biggest competition is people's beds... If you're suggesting CBS should have aired "2BG" after the Super Bowl instead of "Elementary" you're missing the point of the timeslot. "2BG" is an established show that's doing very well. "Elementary" is a new show that is also doing well but, being new, could use the additional sampling more than "2BG."
No, but the moral of this year's Super Bowl is that a network should let the post-bowl episode of whatever is the show air after primetime and take the slight ratings hit and stretch out the Super Bowl to fill the entirety of primetime that night at $4 million per 30 second spot rates... Honestly, if about 106 million will stick around for "blackout" at halftime, why shouldn't the halftime show be expanded from 15 minutes to 30 minutes... If Beyonce won't do it -- bring back the marching bands!
Nothing happened except the story spun madly in a circle... Angelica Houston must have had whiplash after shooting those two hours... And I too was noticing McPhee's shoes...
I'm sure you are not... I got one for Xmas and was just waiting for the right occasion....
all the time...it's the price you pay to have a DVR, etc...
Aha! It hit me: Evil bachelorette Tierra is exactly like Katharine McPhee, she who we first met on American Idol and who now - unfortunately - blinks her vacant eyes at us on Smash!: Both Tierra and McPhee pretend to be sweet and to be victims, but both are conniving self-promoters who have become like impacted teeth -- they'll have to be yanked out if we're to get away from the pain they're causing. Next time you watch Tierra's barely-masked ambition and cunning as she pursues this season's bachelor (I forget his name and everyone else's on the show but she is unforgettable), playing up her poor-little-me pose to get his attention, even when it means hurting herself, think back to how Nanny -- er, Katharine McPhee kept our attention post-Idol by making herself available to magazines including People and Teen Vogue and to every possible TV news & infotainment program to talk in her wide-eyed-innocent way about her poor-little-me eating disorder, and then tell me if she wasn't doing the same thing Tierra's doing, only in an attempt to seduce all of us, not just one guy ... And in a way, McPhee was more manipulative than Tierra is because she claimed to be "going public" in order to "help" others ... in the process, getting zillions of dollars' worth of free publicity as a singer/actress. Take a look at her wikipedia entry to learn more about her "disorder" and do notice that her parents are both show biz pros who I'm guessing coached their robotic offspring to exploit whatever she could to climb to fame and fortune. Tierra, by comparison, is terribly inept in her manipulations of her one-person target. And if the bachelor weren't such a dummy that he actually complains that he can't know what's going on if the other girls don't explain it to him in great detail, her time in the public eye would be long-ended. She doesn't even have a wikipedia entry.
This "question" made my head spin but I'm posting it anyway because I'm so in love with the last line: She doesn't even have a wikipedia entry." that's beyond wonderful...
NBC is in a lot of ratings trouble right now, with "The Voice" on hiatus. And Fox is in a world of hurt since "X Factor" did even worse this past fall than in its first season, despite the cast changes -- strangely the network is talking to Simon Cowell about doing another reality competition series for them, even though he's now demonstrated over two seasons he has no idea how to produce a show for them that's compelling to its audience...
Yes, it's one of the best bench players in TV history.....
The youngs do too...last night, for instance, CBS beat ABC, NBC, Fox and CW among younger viewers...you just don't hear about it much, because CBS clocked such a big older audience... CBS may be the last " broadcast" networks.
Emily Yahr -- who in addition to being our "Nasville" obsessive is also our "The Office" obsessive -- agrees, and says she hasn't even bothered watching the past couple seasons...
Yes.
I can't explain it. seriously. It was about 1 hours worth of plot development stretched out over two hours...
It really did happen, though the producer who called with the advice was kidding (I think)... the call came after I'd written something particularly yeasty about a big cheese in the biz who, I was informed, was pretty steamed...
It was one of my most challenging assignments to date, given the subject matter and the Post's strict rules about content...
Both soaps premiering this spring on iTunes and Hulu. I'm out of time. Have a great weekend and, if you're in the storm path, stay inside!
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