What a performance for Shrek the Halls! I was predicting 14-15 million, so kudos to those who predicted 20 million+.

Great performance for the Grinch as well. Nice to see the Christmas TV standards remain family traditions after all these years.

Rockefeller Center Christmas appeared to take a hit from previous editions -- caught parts of it, and the specials seem to be getting worse as the years go by. Once Celine started covering that Heart tune, I had to run out of the living room screaming

I guess we'll see more cartoon specials in the future. But i would advise ABC against overusing this kind of programing.

Shrek could've done even better with a more intelligent promotion campaign from ABC

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Once Celine started covering that Heart tune, I had to run out of the living room screaming

That's kind of a venerated holiday tradition in its own right.

Hopefully Life can show some big improvement next week with it's airing after Heroes and again on Wednesday. I think Bionic Woman definitely played a role in it's rough numbers. A Heroes lead-in has to help... right?

I had Dirty Sexy Money right at about 70% retention. That's around what it keeps of the Private Practice lead in. Should that increase back to 11.5 to 12 million next week and a 4 in the demo, it should be close to returning to a 3 in the demo and around 8 million viewers.

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Animated Shrek the Halls debuted on ABC with an impressive (and dominant) 21.06 million viewers and a 7.2 rating/20 share among adults 18-49 8 p.m.

WOW! I am totaly shocked at that number. Completely surprised.

But for those of us who may have chosen it on at least 1 Game of the PI Feedback Challenge game, we will be nicely rewarded.

BTW... here is something from last week.

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Originally posted by Chimera:
I am willing to post every day on here for a week saying "I'm an idiot" if Shrek breaks 20 million... read my [virtual] lips: "it just will not happen"

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Originally posted by Chimera:

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Originally posted by Obveeus:
How about just agreeing not to post for a week?

I am willing to do that too -- and if (i.e. "when") it doesn't break 20 million, what will Robert do?

Even worse for Bionic Woman and Life.

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Originally posted by crateriko:
Tough showing for PD and Dirty Sexy Money.

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I guess we'll see more cartoon specials in the future. But i would advise ABC against overusing this kind of programing.

Coming next year: "Brat-a-touille"--Remy finds a good use for spoiled kids who don't like their presents. "You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, or you'll be a pie. Rat-a-claus is coming--to town!"

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Even worse for Bionic Woman and Life.

Yeah, but we knew that already. No point even talking about those two--dead shows walking.

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Why would PD fans need to spin anything?

Because Marc just said PD looks increasingly unlikely to get a second season, and you can't very well call him a troll, since this is his forum?

Oh, so just because Marc says it is increasingly unlikely to get a second season means that there is no chance for a second season? So he is like, the TV god, huh? As far as I could tell PD gets ratings similar to Ugly Betty and that one got a second season. For an 8:00 clock show I think PD does OK. ABC has much bigger concerns, like 10:00 every night. 8 million for an 8:00 show is pretty good in these times.

And this all comes from someone who has never watched PD, and could really not care any less about the show.

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CBS moved into the top spot at 9 p.m. courtesy of Criminal Minds at a healthy 16.26 million viewers and a 4.5/11 among adults 18-49.

This should end up being another season high for the show.

It was a well done and different episode featuring Frankie Muniz. It was more on his perspective and some of the camera work, angles and technique was different than the norm for CM.

Very well done!

Yeah, but they didn't have a 18+ mil lead-in to start the night with.

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Originally posted by mushu_jj:
Even worse for Bionic Woman and Life.

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Originally posted by crateriko:
Tough showing for PD and Dirty Sexy Money.

ABC moved Pushing Daisies up an hour, yet audiences still found it (not only that, it increased above where it was two weeks prior).

Definitely good news, despite the show not performing as well as one would hope. Though that half-hour decline is concerning.

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CBS moved into the top spot at 9 p.m. courtesy of Criminal Minds at a healthy 16.26 million viewers and a 4.5/11 among adults 18-49.

This should end up being another season high for the show.

It was a well done and different episode featuring Frankie Muniz. It was more on his perspective and some of the camera work, angles and technique was different than the norm for CM.

Very well done!

Yeah but strike or no strike CM will take a long break soon. That might hurt it. But i guess the choice of airing so many episode week after week paied off.

I am not ashamed to say that I really enjoyed last night's Gossip Girl. The show has found it's voice for me, and I am really digging it more now than I did back in the first four episodes. Glad to see nearly 3 million people tuning in. And I am sure sales on ITunes are still very good.