Thoughts on last night: Top Model- Erosion looks to have stopped for now. Great news for Cdub.
CBS in general- typical for the 8 to 10pm shows but above average CSI:NY, which most weeks can't hold its lead in despite weak competition.
Lost: Still a big hit in today's standards. The demo, which is all that matters to ABC and advertisers (and every other network) is very strong for going against Idol. In fact, its the strongest of any program that faces Idol. Predicting arguments over this in 3 2 1 ...
Life on Mars: Results no longer matter. We're getting a wrap up which is a nice consolation prize for not getting renewed.
NBC: Why is Life being repeated? Why is it still on in general? Give L&O a half way decent lead in for originals and I think results would be considerably different for them. Dateline would be my choice with Life moving to the Friday burn off night.
Only one day until the mainframes tell us who's ahead in the February Sweep (in March)
Play the 2009 February Sweep (in March) Prediction Game
There’s less than one day left to play the February Sweep (in March) Prediction Game. Everyone who is a registered member of pifeedback.com is eligible to play the game. The February Sweep (in March) runs from Thursday March 5th to Wednesday April 1st (yes, April Fool's Day).
Here is how the seven networks performed in last season's 2008 February Sweep...
nights
demo demo won
Rank web 2008 2008
1 FOX 6.87 17.5
2 ABC 2.68 5
3 NBC 2.47 4.5
4 CBS 2.24 1
5 UNI 1.60
6 CW 0.90
7 MNT 0.46
total 16.58 28
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viewers viewers won
rank web 2008 2008
1 FOX 17.853 15
2 CBS 8.111 4
3 ABC 8.094 5
4 NBC 7.574 4
5 UNI 3.639
6 CW 2.338
7 MNT 1.202
total 47.650 28
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What I could gather is that they've traveled back in time to the 1970s. Therefore when they showed "three years later," they were showing three years later in the 70s.
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I didn't understand what was happening on LOST at first, but when I got it, it was brilliant! :-)
SPOILERY!
We start where we left off TWO weeks ago (LAST week was a flashback). Locke has just gone into the well, and the island has shifted again, sealing the well; Locke has then turned the wheel and escaped the island.
Meanwhile, the rest of the islanders are still there, outside the well, and they realize that Locke succeeded (he got the island to stop shifting). But they come to find out they are trapped in 1974. Charlotte is dead, her body gone. They pick up the pieces with Faraday, because he's distraught about Charlotte, then run across the 1974 Dharma Initiative and The Others. They help the Dharma Initiative woman escape, and she double-crosses them.
But our heroes ultimately gain the trust of the Dharma Initiative, and they live with them, become part of them. They live in that 1974 timeline for 3 years (because essentially, for THEM, it has only been a few days since the Oceanic 6 escaped, so they are still "3 years ago," and now they are even further back). This means that, when the Oceanic 6 finally return, it has been 3 years, and for most of those 3 years, those left behind have been trapped in 1974-7, because the island stopped shifting when it landed on 1974.
Now, the question is if they all leave the island now, will they return to the present, or will they be in the 1977 world?
I thought it was awesome. :-)
Here's another attempt at explanation:
1974 to 1977- The islanders shift to this timeline just before Locke turns the wheel and makes the time shifts stop permanently, just before he leaves the island. So they're stuck there. After gaining the Darhma Initiative's trust, they live here from 1974 to 1977, which is when some of the Oceanic 6 return (they have come FROM 2007, having left the island in 2004). This is where we end the episode, still stuck in the past from the last time shift. Basically, what it boils down to, and what makes things so confusing, is that we have only seen a FRACTION of what the islanders went through after the Oceanic 6 left them for 3 years. It has been a few days of skipping around in time, and then they have landed in 1974, living there for the 3 years until the Oceanic 6 return in 2007, which is 1977 for them.
2007- The episode two weeks ago had the Oceanic 6 getting on a plane and winding up back on the island. It has been 3 years since they left the island in 2004. When they arrive at the island, they are in 1977, 3 full years after those left behind stopped moving around (because, as I said above, they really only shifted times for a few days, I think).
Grr. It hurts my brain, but I love this show!
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Originally posted by Marc Berman: If there is a lesson to be learned, it is to stop remaking old classic series. They don’t work! Remember the remakes of Family Affair, Little House on the Prairie, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and Get Smart?
Stop making stupid remakes of classic shows might be better advice.
Yep. A TV show remake can be great if it's well made. Unfortunately, few of them are. Often, the execs seem to think the familiar title and characters with familiar names are all they need to be big hits. (The actual writing, storylines and such being secondary...if that.) And, no matter how often this has proven not to be true, they keep doing it.
On Eve of Sweep, FOX First in A18-49, While ABC a Strong Second
After three nights of Week 24, FOX is first in A18-49 with a 6.00 average, and ABC has a solid hold on second with a 'Bachelor'-boosted 3.67 A18-49 average. CBS is in third with a 2.93 average, and NBC behind in fourth with 2.43. Univision is fifth with 1.63, while The CW is sixth with a 0.98 average in A18-49s and MyNetworkTV is seventh with a 0.46 average.
In viewers, FOX leads with an average of 17,267,000 viewers, while CBS is second, ABC third, NBC fourth, Univision fifth, The CW in sixth, and MyNetworkTV in seventh spot.
CBS and ABC are both showing double digit year over year growth while the other nets are showing mixed trend patters, with NBC and MyNetworkTV both down in viewers and demo. Overall, the seven networks are up from last season, with A18-49 up +9% and viewers up +10% from the same week last season.
Week 24, Three Nights (2 Finals, 1 FASTnats)
# Network A18-49 (%YOY) Millions of Viewers (%YOY)
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1. FOX 6.00 (-5%) 17.267 (+3%)
2. ABC 3.67 (+59%) 9.917 (+33%)
3. CBS 2.93 (+31%) 11.263 (+45%)
4. NBC 2.43 (-12%) 6.909 (-21%)
5. UNI 1.63 (-4%) 3.945 (+3%)
6. CW 0.98 (-5%) 2.200 (+2%)
7. MNT 0.46 (-20%) 1.290 (-10%) <- 2 nights only
YOY = Year-Over-Year increase/decrease to same week last year.
Year-Over-Year 7-Network Demo/Viewer Growth(+)/Erosion(-)
Night A18-49 +/- Viewers +/-
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Week 24:
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Monday: A: +29% V: +23% final
Tuesday: A: +8% V: +17% final
Wednesday: A: -9% V: -8% preliminary
Week-to-Date: A: +9% V: +10%
I've really enjoyed Lost this season, and still consider it one of the top three or four shows on TV, but last night was the first episode this year that I think really belongs in the discussion of the very best Lost episodes. Great stuff.
I'm pretty surprised it has continued to hold up so well, though. This has not been the most mainstream of seasons.
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But what was 4-year-old (ish) Charlotte doing in 1974 when last season Ben gave her birth year as 1979? And it can't be one of her sisters because Charlotte was the oldest.
Faraday was still clearly destraught over her death when he saw a red-head girl who he assumed was Charlotte. That's not to say that that was Charlotte.
There was a Get Smart and Little House remake? When?
