Sigh, I like Adrian Pasdar but I'm not surprised that he is leaving Heroes. I mean, they did burn his body. And he did die. And maybe this will make Sylar less boring.
i guess they finally ran out of ways to kill Nathan, btw one piss pore written article
I'm a Heroes hater as much as anyone, but I'm with you on this. Can you imagine a genre show getting rid of cast members? What a terrible thing to do. That would NEVER happen on the Losts and 24s of the world. OH WAIT.
I am sure Dexter will get a 6th year. Showtime can't afford to lose this great show
It's the highest-rated series they have, so of course they want to keep it. However, there is going to come a point where Michael C. Hall wants to do something else. And this is the very definition of a one-lead show, and there's absolutely no way on earth to replace him. Monk lasted 8 seasons--I don't see Dexter going longer, and it might not go that long.
But however long it goes, it's always going to be one of the least-watched scripted shows on television.
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!
Americans didn't care about an all-New York World Series but just take a look at the World Series immediately after 2000, and you'll see ratings went much, much higher until the 2005 Series.
Also, take a look at the ratings for the 2002 ALCS which featured the Twins vs. Angels - not exactly big ratings there.
Based on Nick Punto's recent running on the basepaths, any dreams about the Minnesota Twins in an upcoming World Series might be derailed!
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Lost's Naveen Andrews to Guest on Law & Order: SVU
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Lost star Naveen Andrews has signed on to film a guest spot on an episode of Law & Order: SVU, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
The details of his role are being kept under wraps for now, but the episode starts filming in the next week or so in New York.
Andrews, 40, plays Sayid Jarrah on ABC's Lost, which is still shooting its final season in Hawaii. (A source tells us they're on Episode 6 of 18.)
Let's not jump to any conclusions though. "As with previous seasons, not all cast members are in every episode," says a studio rep. It's entirely possible that Andrews will finish his SVU gig and return to Hawaii to shoot more Lost. But the timing does at least raise the question: Is Andrews, and thus Sayid, done for the season?
Before Lost, Andrews was best known for playing a sensitive explosives expert who wooed Juliette Binoche in Anthony Minghella's The English Patient.
Andrews' SVU episode will air in January 2010, right around the time that Lost's sixth and final season premieres.
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!
Americans didn't care about an all-New York World Series but just take a look at the World Series immediately after 2000, and you'll see ratings went much, much higher until the 2005 Series.
Also, take a look at the ratings for the 2002 ALCS which featured the Twins vs. Angels - not exactly big ratings there.
Based on Nick Punto's recent running on the basepaths, any dreams about the Minnesota Twins in an upcoming World Series might be derailed!
Mushu is right. Baseball is my favorite sport and it is an absolute mess. As long as the small market teams are farm clubs for the Yankees and the other big markets, you can forget about it.
However, Chuck Manuel sure blew this series by not starting his best pitcher in Game 4 (Cliff Lee). You have four months for him to rest.
I don't care if the Phils win tonight, they don't have enough starting pitching. However, there'd been nothing better than seeing the Phils take this to seven and trying to beat Greedy CC in Game 7.
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Wow, like Kenny from South Park! Hopefully, it is this show that runs out of lives soon. The way Tim "dipshit" Kring and NBC destroyed "Heroes" is beyond belief.
Originally posted by Anthony: Mushu is right. Baseball is my favorite sport and it is an absolute mess. As long as the small market teams are farm clubs for the Yankees and the other big markets, you can forget about it.
However, Chuck Manuel sure blew this series by not starting his best pitcher in Game 4 (Cliff Lee). You have four months for him to rest.
I don't care if the Phils win tonight, they don't have enough starting pitching. However, there'd been nothing better than seeing the Phils take this to seven and trying to beat Greedy CC in Game 7.
Funny you mention the big market issue when the Yankees are involved in the World Series. Yet, they didn't even make the playoffs last year with basically the same team, while the low-market Tampa Bay Rays defeated the mighty Boston Red Sox to get into the 2008 World Series. And before them, the Colorado Rockies made it to the Series as the 2007 National League Champions.
From the late 90s until earlier this decade, the Baltimore Orioles had one of the largest payrolls in baseball. Yet didn't even have a single appearance in a World Series at that time.
Actually, I think MLB owners LIKE the fact there are haves and have-nots within the sport. They want to see teams like the Yankees, Cubs and Red Sox to keep appearing in the World Series. Doesn't make it right for fans of the Royals, Pirates or Reds though but when FOX gets its best postseason ratings in 5 years with such big market teams, it's more difficult for these owners, the league or the networks to side with financial parity.
Expect this separation to occur in the NFL when the salary cap goes bye-bye for the 2010 season. Perhaps it may go into 2011 and onward unless the players and owners of the league have a collective bargaining agreement.
Back to baseball, convenient to bring up the money issue when there's an easier argument you and mushu_jj can make: you just hate the Yankees at all costs.
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About Adrian Pasdar: finally they get rid of him, he was annoying and boring, and the whole "is he good or bad" thing was getting old. This news was in no way shocking as all the TV Blogs said the death on Heroes would be.
And on the subject, I really don't get the concept behind Zeroes. What they should have done is get the viral webseries titled Zeroes that made fun of Heroes...
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Originally posted by TAYLORJNG: So, I just watched the intro to 3 Rivers. Did anyone else notice that neither the show title or the "created by" came up at it usually does?
Maybe the show is so bad that no one wants to get credit for it.
Originally posted by TAYLORJNG: So, I just watched the intro to 3 Rivers. Did anyone else notice that neither the show title or the "created by" came up at it usually does?
Maybe the show is so bad that no one wants to get credit for it.
I really don't know what CBS is thinking for keeping this show around November Sweeps. For a network as smart as they are, they really made a dumb move here by not cancelling it weeks ago. Cold Case could easily move back to 9pm and gain back 2-3 million viewers and a big portion of the demo. Meanwhile, don't they have Flashpoint episodes ready to go? They can easily be plugged in at 10pm, and with a little promotion, they'd probably do well. If not that, then old repeats of NCIS or The Mentalist could easily match the numbers Cold Case is getting now.
Originally posted by TAYLORJNG: So, I just watched the intro to 3 Rivers. Did anyone else notice that neither the show title or the "created by" came up at it usually does?
Maybe the show is so bad that no one wants to get credit for it.
LOL!
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