THE REALITY YOU SPEAK OF…

IS NON-EXISTENT

GO WATCH VH1 YOU LIL BITCH

Glee will lose 30 percent of it 7 mill and 3 demo within in 4 weeks….write it down nitwits

JAY has now changed TV as you knew it…that bloated bald weasel marc berman has to get a real job now!!!!!

WE WILL NOW HAVE MORE AND MORE REALITY TV AND JAY …HIP HIP HOORAY!!!!

NO MORE CRUMMY SCRIPTED DRAMAS AND….better still… TV DEVELOPMENT EXECS ON THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINES….SOUNDS WONDERFUL

BEN SILVERMAN WAS A GENIUS….HE KNEW NOT TO WASTE MORE MONEY ON CRAP GARBAGE 10PM DRAMA SHOWS THAT SUCK….

JAY RULES 10PM…REALITY TV IS BRILLIANT…

SCRIPTED TV SUCKS AND IS DEAD….JUST LIKE MARC BERMANS SEX LIFE….

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The WGA is thru…network development worms are super thru….

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We want MORE AND MORE….JAY AND REALITY TV..AND LESS AND LESS BLOWHARD PSEUDO TV EXPERTS LIKE MARC BERMAN…..

SCRIPTED TV IS DEAD DEAD DEAD…18 MILLION VIEWERS FOR JAY FOR A LOT CHEAPER COSTS THEN THAT GARBAGE GLEE WITH BARELY 7 MILL VIEWERS

Glee will lose 30 percent of it 7 mill and 3 demo within in 4 weeks….

JAY has now changed TV as you knew it…that bloated bald weasel marc berman has to get a real job now!!!!!

The WGA is thru…network development worms are super thru….

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We want MORE AND MORE….

Solid numbers for CW but still pales in comparison with the performance of 7th Heaven on The WB for several years and just on par with the UPN Monday sitcoms

Edit: nevermind, he didn’t post them for CBS. We won’t likely see them until next Tuesday…

An aside: “Chuck” won both Best Comedy and Best Lead actor in a comedy in Entertainment Weekly’s poll for Emmy snubs. That’s strong fan support.

If possible, I want to know the final numbers for both since I’m curious if TBBT still beat 2.5 men in both demos and ratings because that would be a first

It’s unfortunate, but unless we want to pool tens of millions of dollars together to build a Nielsen alternative, Robert & Bill are limiting themselves to what Nielsen allows (which is to protect Nielsen’s historical data sales to advertisers).

NBC Rules Monday Nights!!!

Scripted TV is DEAD!!!!

Marc Berman that bloated bald loser will now have to get a real job to support that ghoulish family of his.

SCRIPTED DRAMAS ARE DEAD…HOORAY FOR JAY LENO!!!!!!

DRAMA DEVELOPMENT EXECS..DUST OF YOUR RESUMES..TIME TO GET A REAL JOB YOU FRAUDS!!!!

YAY FOR JAY AND MORE REALITY TV…..TV AS YOU KNEW IT IS DEAD THANK YOU JAY LENO AND THE BRILLIANT NBC EXECS!!!!!!

BROADCAST NETWORKS..SAVE YOUR MONEY…BEN SILVERMAN WAS RIGHT..MANAGE FOR MARGINS…LOW COST REALITY SHOWS AND JAY LENO RULE!!!!

THE WGA IS DEAD!!!!!! HIP HIP HOORAY FOR JAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

If you regularly read are blog, you’d know what was going on with that. But if you’re not going to bother reading us every day, I’m not going to bother explaining it again.

I do agree, I really liked that format, followed by analysis.

I respectfully disagree about the car-wash video. Could not have loathed it more but do agree about the constructed Obama interview. That was one of the show’s highlights. Terrific! I think I could watch a whole hour of that stuff.

What was sort of interesting but also sobering to note, though, was that the kind of editing and snipping that they did on that piece for comic results was probably not all that different from the editing techniques used currently by many of the so-called actual news organizations to “shape” what they put out.

While watching coverage of Ted Kennedy’s funeral, happened to see footage of the 60 minutes interview Roger Mudd did with him when Kennedy was seeking the presidency. Mudd asked him why he wanted to be president, and Kennedy couldn’t seem to come up with a coherent answer. The impact of that interview on the public was that Kennedy hemmed and hawed himself right out of his candidacy.

While watching it, my impression was that if that had happened during this last election cycle and Kennedy were the candidate of choice of CBS, that interview would have never made it onto the air. At least not in that form. They would have snipped and edited all the stuff that made Kennedy look bad out. JMO.

Weekly primetime averages posted, and NBC dominated as should have been expected.

I thought the set looked great. The color scheme may be a bit “vibrant” for the audience watching him from between their toes as a prelude to sleep but it does look absolutely fantastic. And Conan and Fallon have already got the market cornered on every possible hue of blue, anyway.

That initial bit with him surrounded and shaking hands with audience members came off staged and awkward. It also seemed to mess up Jay’s subsequent timing with the laugh lines in his monologue.

I guess what they were aiming at was establishing a warm connection with the audience at home by having him make physical contact with the people in the studio.

Nice gesture, nice sentiment but I think it would have worked better if Jay had just ventured out on his own into where the audience was seated and shaken a few hands, gone back up and bantered a little about how he has happened to land back on the air after being “retired” by the geniuses at NBC. (He’s got some good lines judging from the interviews he’s been doing.)

And the monologue itself wasn’t up to his best. I thought the writing would be better.

But compared to the car wash video that followed it, the monologue was brilliant. That video was so awful and so unfunny, it was bewildering that they decided to air it.

At that point, I was already writing the show off in my mind. I didn’t see how it could recover in the short term from something so putrid and in the long-term from the faulty judgment that had approved it and was, therefore, embedded in the brain trust of the show.

And then Seinfeld came out and saved it! I loved the drama of watching that stark of a game changer. Suddenly, things were humming. The show was working.

Seinfeld was in top form, he came prepared with a really funny bit, his rapport with Jay was entertaining and all was right with the world.

I breathed a sigh of relief. But it proved premature because then Kanye suddenly appeared and his whole spectacle of faux apologia was painful to behold.

But then it was onto the musical stylings of Jay Z, Rihanna and West. Nothing more entertaining than watching a reenactment of the fall of the Roman Empire set to a beat.

Followed by Small Town News. Oh yeah, that transition was real smooth and made a lot of sense.

Oh well. Good luck, Jay. I may snipe from the sidelines but I wish you the best and hope you succeed.

…After all the press on Kanye West’s actions; then and only then LENO plan a quick interview…and/or I think NBC paid the bad boy to do more bad and got the ratings…for TV bad press is good news for the networks…I think LENO will lose half his audience in a few weeks when CBS is back on track…I think if FOX would expand to 3 hours instead of 2 I think NBC’s days would be limited…

I just scanned over the channel when LENO was making fun of Seinfeld’s high pitched vocal slip up…proving my point that LENO is BEAKER from Sesame Street…it was even more annoying!

P.S. hey LENO – your “new interview design” isn’t new- Tom Snyder already did the chair with chair without the desk…your viewers are just to young too notice.

Second in the 18/34 group and that’s all they care about. Job well done.

Women 18-34: 3.3 Gossip Girl
3.0 Vampire Diaries; 2.7 Top Model; 2.6 90210; 2.5 Melrose Place; 2.4 One Tree Hill; 1.7 Supernatural

The way of the Troll.
Vexatious litigation,
erroneous views.

11:30pm is too late. The audience has already fragmented by then but at 10pm most people are still up.

The network news broadcasts were where our national “family,” so to speak, could once gather nightly. But they’ve, for the most part, lost their journalistic credibility and thus large portions of their audience. (However much network news may try to delude themselves that the shrinkage is all web-based. Face it, net news, “you lie” when it suits you.)

So maybe there is this collective water cooler dynamic without a current home out there for the grabbing and Leno, at l0pm, is poised to tap into it.

But given the uneven quality of the show they put on last night, it will be interesting to see how it plays out. Hopefully, they still see it as a work in progress and things will improve.

Because I don’t get cable. And now I’m forced to watch reality-game show-variety show drivel. Maybe I’ll just start reading more.

I agree with marenamoo’s point above. It would be a mistake IMO to read into this too much in the scripted vs reality debate. If anything it is more about retro, and variety shows were a part of that. The real takeaway from this, if he continues to get solid ratings, would be the same takeaway from Burn Notice, Castle and NCIS succeeding. That there’s still an audience for old fashioned type tv.

Not to repeat myself too much but I think nbc’s attitude that people wanted more light entertainment was the right one. I just wish that instead of Leno 5 nights a week they for example had leno on two nights, one night of psych (or a similar type show), and a night ending in Chuck. And so on. Leno? Not a fan, but the lighter entertainment aspect is a solid concept.