Logically, if Melrose Place gets on it will air out of 90210.
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Originally posted by Marc Berman: -Yesterday’s Losers (excluding repeats) Privileged (CW) ---------- Over at the CW, the season (or more likely series) finale of drama Privileged closed with a mere (and last-place) 1.66 million viewers and a 0.8/ 2 among adults 18-49 at 9 p.m. Considering this could very well be the series-ender, concluding the hour last night with the words “To Be Continued” was very misleading and very unfair to the few viewers who did commit to this series.
I found that ending odd as well.
I had hoped that 'Privileged' might see a season high up against President Obama's speech and 'Whacked Out Video' encores on MyNetworkTV but it was not to be.
I would think The CW's remaining open Tuesday hour for next season is now down to 'Reaper' vs the re-boot of the 'Melrose Place' series. I hope 'Reaper' leaps out of the gate with a good-sized audience (and a healthy A18-34 too) next Tuesday when it returns.
Originally posted by Bruce: Keep in mind, and this sounds like a slap but it's half a compliment, some people would listen to this man read out of the phone book.
Was that a quiet jab at someone on this forum?
Absolutely not. I don't operate that way. It was a comment on the nature of part of his appeal to part of the electorate.
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I didn't see either event, but I heard Jindal bombed out. The GOP pundit crowd got on this guy's bandwagon after the election, in what I thought was a hasty overreaction. He's not very telegenic. Even had he performed better, it was too transparent an attempt to go young and ethnic.
He was playing to his party, instead of the country--which is what all the Republicans are doing. But he's smart enough to know better. It was an abysmal speech, and may have seriously hurt his chances at the Presidency--still, he's young enough to wait until this humilition fades. But 2012 may have ceased to be an option after this.
LOL..poor numbers? 30 million plus easily another 20 million plus on cable outlets and internet is a poor number?
Seriously. It's a political speech, not the Superbowl. But you could see from the faces of the Republican leaders in the audience that they knew he was scoring a touchdown. And then Bobby fumbled the ball.
I didn't see either event, but I heard Jindal bombed out. The GOP pundit crowd got on this guy's bandwagon after the election, in what I thought was a hasty overreaction. He's not very telegenic. Even had he performed better, it was too transparent an attempt to go young and ethnic.
Ugh, Jindal was just sad. I couldn't listen to his cadence let alone the words coming out of his mouth.
Polls and focus groups are nice, but I wish for the sake of my investments, the markets would begin to like what they hear from the new administration. So far, not so much.
But dude, you do get what they want to hear is "You did nothing wrong, we love you, here's all our money, you can have your bonuses, how about another tax cut", right?
I didn't see either event, but I heard Jindal bombed out. The GOP pundit crowd got on this guy's bandwagon after the election, in what I thought was a hasty overreaction. He's not very telegenic. Even had he performed better, it was too transparent an attempt to go young and ethnic.
He was playing to his party, instead of the country--which is what all the Republicans are doing. But he's smart enough to know better. It was an abysmal speech, and may have seriously hurt his chances at the Presidency--still, he's young enough to wait until this humilition fades. But 2012 may have ceased to be an option after this.
He was an inside-the-beltway media creation to begin with and now this support will largely disappear.
Posts: 2803 | Location: Western Pennsylvania | Registered: 13 December 2006
Well Bush got 25 millions last year on the main networks. I was expecting at least mid 30s for Obama
Why? Most people don't listen to these things, no matter who's giving them. Furthermore, many people listen AFTERWARDS--it's all going to be online.
Obama's live audience was mid-50's, at least.
And again, it's reaction to the speech that matters--he wasn't selling ad space. And it's the voters who decide if he gets renewed--and the polls indicate they're strongly leaning in that direction, at least for the moment. But plenty of time for him to jump the shark.
He didn't last night, and you might as well admit that. Even the Republicans mainly have.
I'll miss Privileged. Lucy Hale is the cutest thing ever and Megan Smith was the best female character in tv since Lorelai Gilmore!
I agree it was stupid to leave the story in such a bad place and ending with To be continued. But how do you know that was the case Mark? Did you watch?
Of course. They are wrong all the time. However, the market is also an overall measuring stick of confidence in the economy. The most influence any president has is bolsering overall confidence. The fact that a gifted speaker such as Mr. Obama has not fared any better than the tongue-tied Mr. Bush in instilling confidence in this latest crisis comes as a genuine surprise. The courses of actioneach man has taken appears dreadfully similar. Run up the debt by a mind boggling amount in search of a quick fix.
Especially surprising after all the months of being told he's a miracle worker.
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Originally posted by pisher: Yeah, because the guys who run our economic sector are such infallible seers, and could never possibly be wrong about anything.
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Originally posted by PaulC: And then the markets plummeted.
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LOL..poor numbers? 30 million plus easily another 20 million plus on cable outlets and internet is a poor number?
Seriously. It's a political speech, not the Superbowl. But you could see from the faces of the Republican leaders in the audience that they knew he was scoring a touchdown. And then Bobby fumbled the ball.
Posts: 1664 | Location: Great White North | Registered: 10 November 2006
He's the son of two Hindu immigrants who became governor of Louisiana. The Beltway didn't do that. He's genuinely smart, but that doesn't mean he's got the touch for national politics. Plenty of time for him to learn.
But for the moment at least, his bubble is burst.
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I didn't see either event, but I heard Jindal bombed out. The GOP pundit crowd got on this guy's bandwagon after the election, in what I thought was a hasty overreaction. He's not very telegenic. Even had he performed better, it was too transparent an attempt to go young and ethnic.
He was playing to his party, instead of the country--which is what all the Republicans are doing. But he's smart enough to know better. It was an abysmal speech, and may have seriously hurt his chances at the Presidency--still, he's young enough to wait until this humilition fades. But 2012 may have ceased to be an option after this.
He was an inside-the-beltway media creation to begin with and now this support will largely disappear.
Of course. They are wrong all the time. However, the market is also an overall measuring stick of confidence in the economy.
It's also very deceptive, in that the market has been doing very well during a period when the national standard of living has been getting lower and lower. And that's no coincidence.
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The most influence any president has is bolsering overall confidence.
Yeah--OVERALL confidence. As opposed to the confidence of some Wall Street shyster that we're going to bail him out with no strings attached.
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The fact that a gifted speaker such as Mr. Obama has not fared any better than the tongue-tied Mr. Bush in instilling confidence in this latest crisis comes as a genuine surprise.
According to the polls, he's made most Americans feel more confident. Just not the ones who caused this crisis so much. They're going to be slower, because they've bought into a crackpot ideology, that tells them they get rewarded for failure just as much as success.
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The courses of actioneach man has taken appears dreadfully similar. Run up the debt by a mind boggling amount in search of a quick fix.
Actually, he proposes to cut our deficit in half.
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Especailly after all the months of being told he's a miracle worker.
Yeah, he's been President for--um--one month and five days.
I'd have no confidence in any leader who had your confidence, Paul.
His achievements and intellect were not being demeaned. But there was a herd reaction by the GOP commentariat to find some fresh alternative to Obama and as usual these media types outsmarted themselves. He had not even proven his mettle on the Sunday am talk circuit and there he was last nite.
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Originally posted by pisher: He's the son of two Hindu immigrants who became governor of Louisiana. The Beltway didn't do that. He's genuinely smart, but that doesn't mean he's got the touch for national politics. Plenty of time for him to learn.
But for the moment at least, his bubble is burst.
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Originally posted by Bruce:
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Originally posted by pisher:
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I didn't see either event, but I heard Jindal bombed out. The GOP pundit crowd got on this guy's bandwagon after the election, in what I thought was a hasty overreaction. He's not very telegenic. Even had he performed better, it was too transparent an attempt to go young and ethnic.
He was playing to his party, instead of the country--which is what all the Republicans are doing. But he's smart enough to know better. It was an abysmal speech, and may have seriously hurt his chances at the Presidency--still, he's young enough to wait until this humilition fades. But 2012 may have ceased to be an option after this.
He was an inside-the-beltway media creation to begin with and now this support will largely disappear.
Posts: 2803 | Location: Western Pennsylvania | Registered: 13 December 2006
The numbers for Obama's speech is the average from 9:00 - 10:30, but he wrapped up around 10:10. If that's the case, the ratings for the actual address will end up quite a bit higher. Factoring in cable news, I wouldn't be surprised to see 70-80 million viewers.
