Originally posted by robert: Well the explanation will be more stupid than i thought.
But initially it was supposed to be her head. What changed? Olmstead: What changed was.... once we realized that the emotional hook of Season 3 was going to be the death of Sara, when we didn't get the actress to do it, as soon as we wrote it and shot it, we realized that there was actually a way she could still be alive. Lincoln glanced at the head in the box for a split second. That could've been anyone. He wasn't about to pull it up from the hair and inspect it closely. And then we were fairly careful thereafter of references we made to that and who took credit for it and what was seen or heard, and we left it fairly [vague]. But initially when we realized that we never actually saw the character get killed, we just had that knowledge in our back pocket and moved forward with the narrative as we intended. Which was, she's out of the picture, Michael's guilt and Lincoln freaking out because if they did that to her they could do that to his son. It really gave us a real push for the season.
Oh God, this is worse than Bobby's return in Dallas
I want to be flabbergasted, really, I want to be utterly shocked, but...I'm not. Here were thoughts and speculations about this (not all hopeful) on fan boards because LJ specifically said that he closed his eyes so he didn't see it and because Mahone seemed to question it in the finale. I hoped it was silly speculation (I liked the character, but bringing characters back from the dead is rarely a good idea).
SHOW/NET HH A18-49 Viewers A18-34
ABC 4.1/7 2.0/5 5,895,000
CBS 4.5/7 1.8/5 6,774,000
NBC 4.9/8 1.9/5 6,995,000
FOX 10.9/18 6.9/19 17,961,000
CW 1.9/3 1.2/3 2,558,000 1.3/4
WIFE SWAP 4.3/7 2.3/7 6,265,000
MEN IN TREES 4.0/7 1.4/4 5,615,000
BIG BROTHER 3.8/6 2.1/6 5,874,000
MOMENT OF TRUTH 6.6/11 4.0/12 10,051,000
AMERICAN IDOL (61 minutes) 15.2/24 9.8/25 25,742,000
AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL 2.5/4 1.7/5 3,530,000 1.8/6
TOP CHEF 1.7/3 1.3/4 2,413,000
SOUTH PARK 2.4/4 2.0/5 3,603,000
The Futile Four poll is already taking being votes and it consists of all NBC programs:
[#3] Heroes (NBC) [#4] 30 Rock (NBC) [#7] Scrubs (NBC) (upsetting the #2 seed Grey's Anatomy (ABC) for the second year in a row!) [#8] Deal or No Deal (NBC) (upsetting the #1 seed and defending 2006-07 overrated champion American Idol (FOX))
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Overnights from Marc's newsletter: Trash-tv wins again. Wednesday night it was trashy Moment of Truth, last night it was trashy Celebrity Apprentice...
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Prime-Time Metered Market Thursday Ratings: NBC Wins on the Strength of Celebrity Apprentice
-Percent Change From the Year-Ago Evening (Thursday, March 29, 2007) NBC: +108, CW: +20, Fox: -26, ABC: -34, CBS: -41
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Note: The fast affiliate results for Thursday will be posted at PIFeedback by 12 p.m. ET. Go to the website, click on Ratings Box (the first category), then Last Night’s Results, and Thursday, March 27 2008.
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-Yesterday’s Winners: Celebrity Apprentice (NBC)
-Yesterday’s Losers (Excluding Repeats): Miss Guided (ABC), Reaper (CW), Eli Stone (ABC)
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-Ratings Breakdown: Once unstoppable NBC moved back into the Thursday overnight winner’s circle, with its combination of Deal or No Deal (#1: 6.9 rating/11 share at 8 p.m.) and the two-hour season-finale of Celebrity Apprentice (#1: 8.1/13 from 9-11 p.m.), which built in every half hour as follows:
While I personally enjoyed Celebrity Apprentice (and Donald Trump picked the right winner…Piers Morgan), let’s be honest: two-hours last night was a real stretch. And did NBC tell Mr. Trump that The Apprentice would be around “years into the future” before he said that at the end of the show?
Over at CBS was 2008 NCAA Basketball, Regional Semi-Finals, Day 1, which scored a comfortable 6.7/11 in the overnights for the primetime portion. The 7-9:45 p.m. game averaged a 6.0/11 in the overnights (six percent below the average in 2007: 6.4/11), and the 9:45 p.m. – 12:45 a.m. game a 5.9/11 (22 percent the 2007 average: 7.6/14).
Fox finished third overall in the overnights care of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (#4: 5.3/ 9) and the compatible Don’t Forget the Lyrics (#3: 5.6/ 8). But what could eventually be concerning for Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? was a decline of 27 percent versus the year-ago telecast (7.3/12 on March 29, 2007).
Next was ABC with its uneventful combination of two episodes of recently introduced sitcom Miss Guided (8 p.m. #4: 4.1/ 7; 8:30 p.m. #4: 4.0/ 6), a repeat of Lost (#4, 3.8/ 6), and drama Eli Stone (#3: 4.6/ 8). Without stronger lead-in support, Eli Stone sunk to a series-low.
Capping off the evening was CW duo Smallville (#5: 2.8/ 5) and the recently relocated Reaper (#5: 2.1/ 3), which is not an improvement from recent occupant Supernatural.
Source: Nielsen Media Research data
Ratings Box: What’s Hot/What’s Not
-Nightline Beats Letterman: Based on ratings for the week of March 17, ABC’s Nightline outdelivered CBS’ The Late Show with David Letterman in total viewers (3.49 vs. 3.43 million) and key adults 25-54 (1.61 vs. 1.58 million). First in both categories was NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, with 5.19 million viewers and 2.33 million adults 25-54.
-TV Land’s High School Reunion Reaches a New Zenith: Original TV Land series High School Reunion (a personal addiction, by the way) delivered its largest audience to-date, with 797,000 total viewers for the Wednesday, March 26 telecast. Comparably, that was up by 12 percent from one week earlier. High School Reunion also reached new levels among key adults 25-54 (513,000) and adults 40-54 (330,000), with growth of 28 and 20 percent, respectively, from last week.
-Oxygen Scores in First Quarter 2008: Female driven Oxygen rose to its highest rated quarter ever, with 355,000 total viewers, 137,000 women 18-49 and 195,000 adults 18-49 in primetime based on first quarter 2008. Comparably, this was the cable net’s 11th consecutive quarter of year-to-year growth in the two demos, with gains of as much as 30 percent (among adults 18-49) from one year earlier.
If it comes down between Men In Trees and Eli Stone for renewal, I hope ABC goes with the far superior Eli Stone. MIT fell from a repeat of SuperNanny on Wednesday, while ES grew from a repeat of LOST. And ES performs better when their lead-ins are originals. Even though Marc labeled it a loser, considering it was up against the season finale of Celebrity Apprentice and a highly anticipated NCAA basketball matchup, AND its lead-in was a low-rated LOST repeat, I thought it held up rather well and proved it does have its own built-in audience.
Next was ABC with its uneventful combination of two episodes of recently introduced sitcom Miss Guided (8 p.m. #4: 4.1/ 7; 8:30 p.m. #4: 4.0/ 6), a repeat of Lost (#4, 3.8/ 6), and drama Eli Stone (#3: 4.6/ 8). Without stronger lead-in support, Eli Stone sunk to a series-low.
Eli Stone will drop about a million viewers this week, maybe a bit more. Not half bad considering its lead in will drop about 6 million, maybe more and it grew out of its lead in as well.
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