Filed under: Industry, Programming, Ratings, Reality-Free

If you’ve been thinking that the new TV season isn’t exciting, you’re not alone. Some top Television critics have been thinking the same thing.

Time’s James Poniewozik calls it “The Ratings Drought” and thinks that viewers didn’t want to go back to watching the old shows after the writers strike, they wanted something new. Tim Goodman over at The San Francisco Chronicle says that the ratings for returning shows and new ones show a real disinterest from Television fans. Chuck, Heroes, and Life (all NBC shows) have seen big drops, and ABC’s Pushing Daisies is even being beaten by…well, I’m let Goodman state it:

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Filed under: Industry, OpEd, The Daily Show, Celebrities, Reality-Free

Time for a bit of news about our favorite real couple in fake news! Daily Show correspondents Jason Jones and Samantha Bee have signed on to co-write and co-star in a CBS comedy. Jones will star as a celebrity chef and Bee will play one of the two ladies that run his most likely Rachael Ray-esque empire. Some semblance of hilarity will ensue, hopefully.

Doing a sitcom be a departure from what TDS fans are used to seeing from these two. I have the ability to only vaguely remember Bee’s one or two, super-brief sitcom guest spots and and the only non-TDS thing I remember Jones doing was that weird crafting battle show on Style. No, I did not dream that; there was definitely a show called Craft Corner Deathmatch. It was extreme as it sounds, with a lot of intense hot glue and bric-a-brac.

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