Filed under: Industry, Programming, Web, Celebrities

Here’s what’s happening on other blogs via the interweb.

• The WGA plans to picket all of the other shows when Letterman and Ferguson return on January 2.
• Speaking of the strike, Spike Feresten returns on January 12.
• CNN’s Bill Schneider and his funky hats.
• Jamie Lynn Spears got $1 million for selling her baby news to OK mag.
• Best Week Ever picks the best daytime Television moments of 2007.
• I Love Lucy … in color!
• Buck Rogers meets Duck Dodgers.

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Filed under: Industry, Programming, WGA Strike

And then there were none.

David Letterman has struck a deal with the Writers Guild of America, and both his show and The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson (both produced by Letterman’s Worldwide Pants) will return next Wednesday, January 2. The other shows are coming back on that day too, but a key difference is that Letterman’s show will be coming back with his writers, thanks to this deal hammered out by Rob Burnett and others. Both sides have been trying to come to an agreement for the past couple of weeks, and it actually looked like things might have fallen through last week.

Continue reading Letterman makes deal with WGA - BREAKING NEWS

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Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Daytime

A few days ago I happened to catch an episode of the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives that my wife was watching. Hey, don’t look at me that way! My wife is a fan of the show. Oh, sure, I used to watch it during the Shane/Kimberly/ Patch/Kayla/Frankie/Jennifer heydays of the late 80’s, but it doesn’t do anything for me now. Really, I’m serious!

Anyway, the scene I walked in on was one between Chelsea Brady and Nick Fallon (I got those names from my wife, I swear!). It seemed that Chelsea was depressed about one thing or another and Nick had the solution to cheer her up. They went to a nearby computer, where Nick began to pull up pictures, on the Wallgreens photo site, of the couple during happier times. When Chelsea asked how he did this (because she’s obviously technically non-savvy) Nick responded that he just uploaded the pictures to the Walgreens.com and, I believe, he added some end tagline like ‘It’s just so simple.’

Holy. Freakin. Crap.

Continue reading Things I Hate About TV: Extremely blatant product placement

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Filed under: Industry, Programming, Ratings

Here are the weekly cable ratings, by number of viewers.

It’s funny, when I was typing this out, I had a strong sense of deja vu. I had to keep on checking to see if this was the ratings from a month ago or the ratings for this week, but it is indeed correct. Monday Night RAW and SpongeBob often make the list, but shows like SportsCenter, The Santa Clause 2, I Love New York 2, and Tila Tequila threw me for a loop for a second there.

1. Monday Night Football (ESPN)

Continue reading Nielsen cable ratings for the week ending December 23

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