Just like the soaps, the telenovelas have overacting, over-the-top dramatic stories, etc. It’s been a while, though, since the last I saw a “love story” develop in Prime Time.

The only difference is that Latin American telenovelas have a strict period of time, between 3-6 months. If it’s a hit, maybe up to a year. But american soaps are endless and have lasted about 40 years.

The telenovelas are hits in third-world countries where people are mostly working-class with nothing to do but watch TV at night (I grew up in Panama so I know), and a lot of people specially children grow up with that telenovela culture in their heads (trying to marry a rich person, that there’s evil people, etc)

The american version of Ugly Betty is everything but a telenovela even though the original UB was a colombian telenovela that ran for about a year and at the end of it Betty married her boss (and was all beautiful)

When a Telenovela is a total success (like in the case of RBD in Mexico or Patito Feo in Argentina) they are given series-status and start going into seasons, pretty much like the US.

Back to the ratings, it was expected that Life on Mars would crash, given that 6 week break and the change in time slot. It didn’t even give the show time to create a following.

American Idol… nope, it’s going nowhere.

ABCFanatic, UB is definitely getting a 4th season, I have the feeling that the show will not “return” in June as they say. They will send off the 3rd season in late march and then won’t return until the fall. Airing shelved episodes during the summer would be the kiss of death.

ABC cancelled
1st- Opportunity Knocks
2nd- Boston Legal (the only one which all the episodes aired)
3rd- Eli Stone
4th- Pushing Daisies
5th- Dirty Sexy Money
6th- According to Jim

Life on Mars and Ugly Betty is living on a balance! I hope they save them!

I wish and wish Ugly Betty and Life on Mars will get a new season those shows are way better than BROTHERS&SISTERS/PRIVATEPRACTICE!.

I think Lost will get 8 million this season, but I love LOST 4EVER

I hate FOX seriously! How can Fringe and Lie to Me get more than 10 million its just bizarre especially they’re a lead-in of American Idol which is the most overrated show ever!!!!

Robert – dragging us off the Wednesday ratings topic again, I agree with your critique of Fringe. John Noble is brilliant – he’s got Walter Bishop pulling off this insane-yet-adorable vibe not quite like anything I’ve ever seen before. Joshua Jackson has really stepped up too. Sad that Ms. Torv is the “weak link.”

Nick C – you can complain all you want about Fringe’s poorly-written scripts, in the classical sense. Plenty of people complain about Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, e.e. cummings, yadda yadda yadda…their works would be considered poor by schoolbook standards. Yet each of them is considered a true artist. Sticking to the form one learns in school may result in technically perfect – but dreadfully boring – writing. And if your intention is series reviews, not ratings analysis, why not direct your comments to TV Guide or similar entertainment-based sites ?

Julia – thanks a million for the Hulu tipoff! My DirecTV is out yet again tonight – no Burn Notice, Booooo DirecTV! – so off I go to watch Hulu

Well, 2/3 is nearly every episode.

Of course, when LTM moves to 8, everything changes. It will have a lot less competition, but it will also loose it’s 27 million viewer lead-in.

Do you think FOX is happy with the ratings for Lie to Me? I think so. I mean, the show beat LOST!

I still think you took my statements about JERICHO and Sunday wrong. I said what was going on, not what I believe would happen. Kind of like TSCC and DOLLHOUSE I state what is going on, not what I believe will happen (I doubt both will have trouble getting 4.5M viewers and by result be canned).

1. How is Knight Rider still on? Didn’t Ford just lose billions this past quarter…their weekly hour advertisement was a waste of money.

2. Lie to Me is a horrible title for the show. The concept is good, but that title…yikes!

In the past years I see a lot of sitcoms in this spot and all failled…

But the only two sitcoms that CBS can trust don’t have a chance??!

In our admin tools it’s very easy for us to search the comments, but the site search doesn’t pick it up, and in order to find your comments via google you’d need to search on something like fox new amsterdam andrea tvbythenumbers.com

Thanks. Google doesn’t seem to pick up this site very well (in the news it doesn’t by not for regular searches).

And projecting as well…Keep on with your fantasies. They make for nice reading.

And you didn’t answer the question of whether JJ ran over your dog and whether Dawn Ostroff was in the car with him at the time, dissing Jericho, which you will no doubt have slated for a revival on FOX Fridays after TSCC is cancelled, but, I digress…