Doug, the ratings for Dexter are not that much higher than those of the previous season. Showtime makes a big deal out of every small gain, but those gains are largely explained by a recession-fueled increase in their subscriber levels.
What pisher meant to state:
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I hate Showtime. I will do everything in my power to discredit any positive news concerning Showtime, even if it means outputting unsubstantiated arguments and denying the reality that is actual ratings.
I love HBO at all costs. And if it's a show I despise on HBO, I will somehow connect it back to Showtime, the network I hate the most.
Thank you! G'night!
LOL, looks like Pisher was truly pished by Douglas this time.
Not sure why Pisher hates Showtime but his bashing gets really tiresome.
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Dexter's been great this year and last night's episode was awesome from start to finish. Even some of the side storylines are interesting (like Laguerta and Batista). I love the parallel between Dexter and John Lithgow as unassuming devoted family man yet both harboring this dark secret. Though note to the writers: I really don't need to see John Lithgow naked every week! (seriously whats up with that?)
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Originally posted by Douglas:
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Originally posted by pisher: You become angry and shrill when I dare to question the rising hit status of a show in its 4th season with fewer than two million viewers.
It's not anger when I just enjoy straightening you out! BTW, cume the audience for Dexter when factoring its repeat airings and it'll come to about 4-5 million viewers per week. On pay cable, no less.
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Hey, maybe they're all my alter egos.
You're missing out on Dexter: one of the best dramas, if not THE BEST drama, on television right now. You should try the show again some time. Highly recommended. And take it from me: I was right with True Blood last fall!
It's not anger when I just enjoy straightening you out!
Which you did by totally ignoring every point I made about how Showtime's ratings are only up a hair because the recession brought up its subscriber levels--Starz is up equivalently--I guess that's due to its amazing hit scripted shows?
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BTW, cume the audience for Dexter when factoring its repeat airings and it'll come to about 4-5 million viewers per week. On pay cable, no less.
Um--just guessing--you get this data from Showtime? Total viewership includes repeat viewings, you know. And True Blood gets that many viewers from JUST THE FIRST SHOWING. Whose side are you on, anyway?
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You're missing out on Dexter: one of the best dramas, if not THE BEST drama, on television right now.
"RahRahRah! Siss-boom-BAH!!! GOOOOOOOO DEXTERRRR!!! YEHHHHH" (Douglas runs around doing cartwheels and waving pom-poms).
I watched the first season, and it wasn't bad. It also wasn't great. I've also read the first novel. Which I thought was better. And still not too great.
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You should try the show again some time. Highly recommended. And take it from me: I was right with True Blood last fall!
I was right with True Blood as soon as I saw it. I've seen Dexter. So no thanks. But nice pom poms.
Oh, and very impressed another of my disgruntled sparring partners agrees with you. I mean, talk about objective sources.
Originally posted by tvchtw: Dexter's been great this year and last night's episode was awesome from start to finish. Even some of the side storylines are interesting (like Laguerta and Batista). I love the parallel between Dexter and John Lithgow as unassuming devoted family man yet both harboring this dark secret.
Amazing that the show tops itself each season. I agree - this is a great season so far. And there's more than a month's worth of episodes left!
Because it hasn't been revealed who knocked off Lundy, I bet that even when the Trinity killer is out of the way, there is another danger Dexter must face. Maybe Deb's ex was the perpetrator? Just a thought.
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Though note to the writers: I really don't need to see John Lithgow naked every week! (seriously whats up with that?)
Agreed but I guess it's present to emphasize the mental sickness of his character. At least us viewers are thankfully spared of his "twig" and "berries"!
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LOL, looks like Pisher was truly pished by Douglas this time. Big Grin
Not sure why Pisher hates Showtime but his bashing gets really tiresome.
Not sure why you give a damn, but I hate Showtime's scripted shows. Not so much individually, but collectively--they are all cut from the same limited cloth, and use sex and violence to disguise the fact that they don't have anything much to say that hasn't been said a thousand times before and a thousand times better.
And since you're so angry about the way I talk about Showtime, I take your evaluation of my exchange with Doug with about 80 metric tons of salt.
Originally posted by tvchtw: Dexter's been great this year and last night's episode was awesome from start to finish. Even some of the side storylines are interesting (like Laguerta and Batista). I love the parallel between Dexter and John Lithgow as unassuming devoted family man yet both harboring this dark secret. Though note to the writers: I really don't need to see John Lithgow naked every week! (seriously whats up with that?)
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Originally posted by Douglas:
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Originally posted by pisher: You become angry and shrill when I dare to question the rising hit status of a show in its 4th season with fewer than two million viewers.
It's not anger when I just enjoy straightening you out! BTW, cume the audience for Dexter when factoring its repeat airings and it'll come to about 4-5 million viewers per week. On pay cable, no less.
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Hey, maybe they're all my alter egos.
You're missing out on Dexter: one of the best dramas, if not THE BEST drama, on television right now. You should try the show again some time. Highly recommended. And take it from me: I was right with True Blood last fall!
yes i agree. This season is the best since season 2. Its truly awesome. what will showtime do without Dexter. I am sure Dexter will get a 6th year. Showtime can't afford to lose this great show
Not suprised that TNT picked up "Southland." It will be interesting to see how the show fairs on a cable network. However, I thought the show would go behind "The Closer" on Monday nights, not Tuesdays. But given TNT has canceled "Saving Grace" it does have some hours to fill on Tuesday nights.
Originally posted by Ammit: Any news on the weekly game yet?
Same format but it is turning into a monthly game. Takes a while to compose each game and lately, my time has been limited. But doing it monthly would be very manageable.
When I post the new game, you will surely be notified of it in advance.
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Turner cabler has bought the L.A. cop drama from Warner Bros. Television after NBC decided to cancel the show last month. Agreement had been close for days but pact is now official and TNT purchased both the seven episodes leftover from last season that never ran as well as the six episodes that were shot over the past few months.
Show will air Tuesdays at 10 p.m. -- opposite one of NBC's higher-rated editions of "The Jay Leno Show" -- starting Jan. 12.
Sounds good, I hardly think it will do much in the ratings but it was a nice show to watch. I never really got to watch the first season anyways so the repeats will be nice too.
In the pilot of Community, NBC’s sitcom about an unlikely study group at a small college, several jokes were made about how the students’ situation mirrored the beloved ’80s movie The Breakfast Club, and the episode was dedicated to John Hughes, the film’s writer-director, who had recently passed away.
Now TV Guide Magazine has learned exclusively that one of the movie’s stars, Anthony Michael Hall, will be making a guest appearance in Community's Christmas episode, airing Dec. 10. Only for Hall, the tables will be turned–he played the timid nerd in Breakfast Club, but in Community, he’ll play a bully who challenges Jeff (Joel McHale) to a fight.
This is so AWESOME!!! Now all we need is Anthony Michael Hall to guest star on Psych!
The feature writing-directing team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor are venturing into television with a one-hour project for NBC.
"Zeroes," from Universal Media Studios and BermanBraun, is described as a high-intensity drama chronicling the last hour of a crisis situation.
BermanBraun approached Neveldine and Taylor with the idea to do "a crisis show that doesn't bore you with all of the buildup leading to the crisis," Taylor said.
"We want to drop right into it and sustain the absolute most berserk state of crisis, when all of the options have been exhausted," he said. "We want to take that last 60 minutes and sustain it for the entire show."
"Zeroes" refers to a fictional team of guys called in as a last resort who are "absolutely ruthless" in their use of force, Taylor said.
Neveldine and Taylor are writing the script. The two also are on board to direct the potential pilot.
In doing so, they plan to use their film experience.
"We came out of guerrilla filmmaking," Taylor said. "We learned how to work superfast under pressure, generating a lot footage on a small budget."
UTA-repped Neveldine and Taylor wrote and directed "Gamer," "Crank" and "Crank: High Voltage." They most recently wrote the screenplay for "Jonah Hex," which is being directed by Jimmy Hayward.
NBC have a lot of decent sounding shows in the works for next year.
Agreed Fifty, NBC does sound like its picking up interesting shows. This show I wonder if it could work on a daily basis but its a step up from Trauma and MOWE right?
Originally posted by Douglas: Note from MLB: World Series Game 4: Yankees at Phillies attracted 22.8 million viewers on FOX last night, a 47% increase over 2008 World Series Game 4 (Tampa Bay Rays/Philadelphia Phillies)!
And, this was above the 20+ million figure of the 2007 World Series Game 4, when the Boston Red Sox clinched a championship, sweeping the Colorado Rockies.
And yet, baseball has yet to really bring in the dough since the much-maligned strike in the '90s. Seriously, no salary cap has done nothing but hurt baseball's popularity by making it a sport of really one team and a bunch of others trying to knock down the one team. Its not good for a league when it takes 1 of 3 teams to really juice the ratings because 1 of the teams spends substantially larger sums of cash on the "stars" (Yankees) while the other two are America's lovable losers (Red Sox and Cubs). Note: I'm basing Cubs guess off high playoff ratings in the past when competitive in the post-season and the fact that everywhere you go you'll find a Cubs whiner.
Even the Subway series of 2000 failed to average 20 million. Perhaps baseball needs my Twinkies to make it again. They had 35 million watch their exhilarating 7 game series wins!
I have to say Marc, how is Cold Case not a loser, it got beat by National Treasure in the demo! Of course, having something like Three Rivers as a lead in does not help at all. Still decent numbers for 60 Minutes and The Amazing Race.
Wow at the numbers for Football and Baseball. Just amazing numbers. Go Yankees! I hope this series wraps up so I can catch up on more TV now.
ABC was very solid. Can't believe that Desperate Housewives grew in the demo again. Yes, the World Series isn't exactly female skewing but going against 20 million/ 6 in the demo and growing week to week? That's damn good. Still ok results for the rest of the line up.
Is it me or does National Treasure seem to repeat very well no matter what?
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio has joined USA Network's "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," completing the casting transformation on the police procedural for its upcoming ninth season.
She will play the new captain taking over the Major Case Squad on the Wolf Films/Universal Cable Prods. series.
Mastrantonio's character, who comes from a working-class background, succeeds Capt. Danny Ross (Eric Bogosian), who headed the division for the past three years, following the departure of Capt. James Deakins (original cast member Jamey Sheridan).
