On the whole, it was a rather uneventful week of ratings. The most interesting story might have been what we didn’t see. As in, new programming on CBS. Despite the lack of anything of note to report in the ratings (even Harper’s Island was a repeat), CBS managed to average the most viewers on six […]
The surprise deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett made for a strange week in the numbers, as the networks quickly moved things around to get news programming on the air. The results were improved numbers, but that’s not saying much, given how a lot of the summer programming is going. There were some notable […]
That didn’t take long. When Conan debuted on the Tonight Show, his premiere soundly defeated Letterman. Of course, as expected, the curiosity of the premiere wore off immediately, and the numbers began to drop. Things really got interesting last week as we started seeing the first signs that the late night war is back on. […]
If you missed the season four premiere of Weeds or the pilot of Nurse Jackie earlier this week, they’re on Showtime tonight beginning at 9 PM. I had a few things to say about Nurse Jackie in my See Jane Clack column this week. It had to do with … House, a marathon of which […]
I’ve been watching Mental since it premiered a couple of weeks ago, and caught the premiere episode of Nurse Jackie this week, too. It’s hard not to draw comparisons to House with both of these shows, although I don’t know that either show is truly like House, which is in a class by itself (even […]
I must be different from most people who are writing about television, because everywhere I go people keep hating on Mental. I’m not saying it’s the second coming of great television, but I also don’t see what’s so despicable about it. It is taking a little bit of time to establish the personalities and motivations […]
