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The Mentalist – Jane finds the key to Red John (almost)

(Season 1, Episode 11 – “Red John’s Friends”) “He is Man.” – bloody scrawl on victim’s wall Well, you knew that they weren’t going to catch Red John tonight, right? Here we are, halfway through the season and the first new episode of 2009, and it’s a big Red John story. Most of the episodes […]

by Bob Sassone

Ratings Clack – Eli Stone vs Aqui y Ahora? It’s a draw.

(12/30 – 1/04) Christmas and New Years are now in the rearview, so we can finally start getting back to something that passes for a regular television viewing schedule. If someone could just make this damn snow stop, I’d be a happy guy. Before we rejoin some of our favorite shows for the beginning of […]

by Brett Love

Ratings Clack – It’s all about CBS

(12/14 – 12/21) This week, the other networks just made it easy for CBS. After taking second on Sunday night, to NBC’s Sunday Night Football, the Tiffany network went on to win the next five nights in viewers and the demo. Granted, there were more repeats than usual, but even the CBS repeats were in on the […]

by Brett Love

The Mentalist – Jane shoots his old psychiatrist

(Season 1, Episode 10 – “Red Brick and Ivy”) “I’d hate to be a state’s attorney. Jane’s always pulling crap like this but they always win.” – Lisbon So I hope everyone enjoyed this series finale episode of The Mentalist. After what the team pulled in this one, everyone will be arrested and sent to […]

by Bob Sassone

Ratings Clack – CSI scores big. Biggest Loser NBC’s best hope?

(12/7 – 12/13) I work with a guy that has the barest of the bare bones cable packages. Thirteen channels. It amounts to the networks, Discovery, PBS, and shopping. It was a tough week of television for him. There were a lot of repeats. The CW only managed 3½ hours of original programming for the […]

by Brett Love

Ratings Clack – Everybody loves a Christmas special, and Van Pelt

(Ratings Clack 11/30 – 12/6) It was an interesting week for TV numbers. With Tom & Samantha packing up the ballroom, there were viewers to be had on Monday and Tuesday. That meant there were winners (Chuck, The Mentalist), and losers (Samantha Who?, Heroes). The other big story was just how well all of the […]

by Brett Love

The Mentalist – Jane solves a…hey, that’s Chip from Kate & Allie!

(Season 1, Episode 9 – “Flame Red”) ”                                                 “ – Jane, to victim’s daughter, who’s wearing headphones Patrick Jane can be a real wiseass. He’s not even cop — or whatever the people who work for the fake law enforcement agency CBI are — and he just makes incredibly goofy comments to victims’ family members, […]

by Bob Sassone
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