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Who's your Favorite Game Show Host?

Aaron62 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:48:07 GMT

One of my favorites of all time is Richard Dawson from Family Feud. He always had a way with the ladies, whether they were willing or not. ;) Who's yours?

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Television Winter 2009

bicker — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:22:58 GMT

Television Winter 2009

The winter television season begins January 4.

This is an up-to-date view of the winter broadcast network schedule (with selected cable offerings added in), by time slot:

Sunday
7:00-8:00 pm
__________ABC: America�s Funniest Home Videos [continues] $75,893
__________CBS: 60 minutes [continues] $93,772
__________Fox: 'Til Death [1/10] / 'Til Death [1/10]
__________NBC: Dateline NBC $21,200
8:00-9:00 pm
__________ABC: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition [continues] $136,743
__________CBS: The Amazing Race [TBD] $109,736
__________Fox: The Simpsons [continues] $201,920 / Sons of Tucson [TBD]
__________NBC: The Marrage Ref [TBD]
9:00-10:00 pm
__________ABC: Desperate Housewives [continues] $228,851
__________CBS: Three Rivers [continues] $95,633
__________Fox: Family Guy [continues] $214,750 / The Cleveland Show [new time] $158,701
__________NBC: The Apprentice [3/7]
__________HBO: Big Love [1/10]
10:00-11:00 pm
__________ABC: Brothers & Sisters [continues] $140,445
__________CBS: Cold Case [continues] $99,595
__________NBC: The Apprentice (started at 9:00)

Monday
8:00-9:00 pm
__________ABC: The Bachelor [1/4] $139,500
__________CBS: How I Met Your Mother [continues] $145,106 / Accidentally On Purpose [continues] $107,817
__________CW: One Tree Hill $55,636 [continues]
__________Fox: House [continues] $183,298
__________NBC: Chuck [1/10]
__________ABC Family: The Secret Life of the American Teenager [1/4]
9:00-10:00 pm
__________ABC: The Bachelor (started at 8:00)
__________CBS: Two and a Half Men [continues] $226,635 / The Big Bang Theory [continues] $191,900
__________CW: Life Unexpected [1/18] (later: Gossip Girl [returns 3/8] $59,316)
__________Fox: 24 [1/17]
__________NBC: Heroes [continues]
__________ABC Family: Make It or Break It [1/4]
10:00-11:00 pm
__________ABC: Castle [continues] $92,700
__________CBS: CSI: Miami [continues] $140,065
__________NBC: Jay Leno Show [continues] $53,640
__________Showtime: Secret Diary of a Call Girl [1/25] / State of the Union [1/25]
__________TNT: Men of a Certain Age [continues]

Tuesday
8:00-9:00 pm
__________ABC: TBD (later: Scrubs [continues] / Better Off Ted [continues])
__________CBS: NCIS [continues] $133,304
__________CW: 90210 [continues] $53,605
__________Fox: American Idol [1/12]
__________NBC: The Biggest Loser [continues] $128,295
9:00-10:00 pm
__________ABC: Scrubs [continues] / Better Off Ted [continues] (later: Lost [2/2])
__________CBS: NCIS: Los Angeles [continues] $106,508
__________CW: Melrose Place [continues] $49,019
__________Fox: American Idol (starts at 8:00) (later: Past Life [TBD - perhaps 1/19]
__________NBC: The Biggest Loser (starts at 8:00) / 100 Questions)
10:00-11:00 pm
__________ABC: The Forgotten [continues] $97,527
__________CBS: The Good Wife [continues] $126,882
__________NBC: Jay Leno Show [continues] $65,678

Wednesday
8:00-9:00 pm
__________ABC: Modern Family [repeats] $130,388 / The Middle [continues]
__________CBS: The New Adventures of Old Christine [continues] $80,106 / Gary Unmarried [continues] $79,986
__________CW: TBD
__________Fox: American Idol (Results Show)
__________NBC: Mercy [continues] $91,172
9:00-10:00 pm
__________ABC: Modern Family [continues] $130,388 / Cougar Town [continues] $103,314
__________CBS: Criminal Minds [continues] $116,553
__________CW: TBD
__________Fox: Human Target [1/20] $145,536 (Spring: Glee [returns] $127,350)
__________NBC: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit [continues] $101,632
__________DirecTV: Friday Night Lights [continues]
10:00-11:00 pm
__________ABC: Eastwick [continues] $101,558 [Ending by mid-January] (later: TBD)
__________CBS: CSI: NY [continues] $127,941
__________NBC: Jay Leno Show [continues] $62,012
__________A&E: Lawman [continues]
__________Soap: Being Erica [1/20]

Thursday
8:00-9:00 pm
__________ABC: Flash Forward [continues] $175,724
__________CBS: Survivor [TBD] $152,246
__________CW: Vampire Diaries [returns 1/14] $38,966
__________Fox: Bones [continues] $107,942
__________NBC: Community [continues] $120,000 / Parks And Recreation [continues] $119,990
9:00-10:00 pm
__________ABC: Grey's Anatomy [continues] $240,462
__________CBS: CSI [continues] $198,647
__________CW: Supernatural [returns 1/14] $32,928
__________Fox: Fringe [continues] $120,062
__________NBC: The Office [continues] $191,236 / 30 Rock [continues] $159,674
__________USA: Burn Notice [1/28]
10:00-11:00 pm
__________ABC: Private Practice [continues] $175,450
__________CBS: The Mentalist [continues] $140,940
__________NBC: Jay Leno Show [continues] $57,295
__________USA: White Collar [returns 1/28]

Friday
8:00-9:00 pm
__________ABC: Supernanny [continues] $52,050
__________CBS: Ghost Whisperer [continues] $78,047
__________CW: Smallville [continues] $33,090
__________Fox: TBD
__________NBC: Law & Order [continues] $59,953
9:00-10:00 pm
__________ABC: Ugly Betty [continues] $65,055
__________CBS: Medium [continues] $71,541
__________CW: America's Next Top Model (rerun) $17,961
__________Fox: Dollhouse [continues] $55,270 [Ending by the end of January] (later: TBD)
__________NBC: Dateline NBC [continues] $55,270
__________Syfy: Caprica [1/22]
10:00-11:00 pm
__________ABC: 20/20 [continues] $62,410
__________CBS: Numb3rs [continues] $85,007 [Ending in February] (later: TBD)
__________NBC: Jay Leno Show [continues] $48,803
__________Starz: Spartacus: Blood & Sand [1/22]
__________Syfy: Sanctuary [continues] [Ending by mid-January]
__________USA: Psych [return 1/29]

Saturday
8:00-9:00 pm
__________ABC: Saturday Night College Football [continues] $140,080
__________Fox: Cops [continues] $45,505 / Cops [continues] $46,120
__________CBS: Crimetime Saturday (rerun of a crime drama) $22,040
__________NBC: Various Programming
9:00-10:00 pm
__________ABC: Saturday Night College Football (starts at 8:00)
__________Fox: America's Most Wanted [continues] $44,729
__________CBS: (rerun of a crime drama) $32,529
__________NBC: Various Programming
10:00-11:00 pm
__________ABC: Saturday Night College Football (starts at 8:00)
__________CBS: 48 Hours Investigations [continues] $38,047
__________NBC: Various Programming

No Time Slot Allocated Yet (with no time slot allocated yet)
__________ABC: Trauma, Day One
__________CBS: Flashpoint
__________NBC: Parenthood

Goodbye, Oprah

JakesDTVBlog — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:01:28 GMT

Well, it's happened. The queen of daytime talk will announce tomorrow that she's turning the lights out on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" at the end of the show's 25th season.

That will be September 9, 2011, and I've got the whole story here.

I reported on Nov. 5 that this was a possibility.

Movie Listening Test

Dag — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:08:48 GMT

Hi!

I�m a student, living in Germany, Berlin. Currently I�m writing my thesis, but I could need a little help...

For my thesis I created an online test for auditory perception. It includes sound examples from different movies (American original version and the German dubbing version). The German and American "test persons" have to listen to the sound examples and they have to appraise the effect of the speech.

Unfortunately I don�t know many Native American English speakers, but I still need some as "test persons". Hopefully I can find someone here, who would do the test...

The test is on this website: Erhebung der Sprechwirkung verschiedener Sprecher

Please take a little time to do the test. It�s a really interesting test, not boring! And you would help me so much!
Thanks a lot!

Dag

Clever Commercials

Orrymain — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:29:14 GMT

Do you get a kick out of any of today's commercials? I really am commercial'd out, but there are still some really cute and clever ones out there that I have to give a nod to.

I still enjoy some (not all but some) of Geico's gekko ads, and I think this new one with the dog worrying about his bone is a hoot. All that worry! lol

The word "Douche" was used 76 times on prime-time TV

Aaron62 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:44:46 GMT

this past year on prime-time TV. Thought this was one of those, "Did ya know" kind of posts. I don't really think it's a bad word per say, at least not compared to the word, "bitch" which was used 1,277 uses on 685 shows in 2007.

Anyway, on to the story,

Quote:

LOS ANGELES — On many nights this fall, it has been possible to tune in to broadcast network television during prime time and hear a character call someone else a “douche.”

In just the last several weeks, it has happened on CBS’s “The New Adventures of Old Christine” and the CW’s “The Vampire Diaries,” which are broadcast at 8 p.m., during what used to be known as the family hour. It has been heard this fall on Fox’s new series “The Cleveland Show,” which begins at 8:30, and on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy.” On NBC, its use has spanned the old and the new, blurted out on the freshman comedy “Community” and the seasoned drama “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/bu.../14vulgar.html

RTV pulled another stunt

DTVuser2009 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:59:26 GMT

They took off Knight Rider and A-Team, for what? SPORTS

I'm sorry, but a stupid football game already simulcasts on the other channels and of course if sports are what people want, please....that's what channels such as ESPN are for. i hate retro shows being removed for stupid junk!

I've had just about enough of RTV pulling stunts like this. i'm seriously thinking of deleting it.

Poll: What is your favorite OTA Network?

EscapeVelocity — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:01:42 GMT

Thats a tough one. Lets see if there is some group consensus that can be distilled though. Limit one choice per poster.

:drinks:

I voted PBS. Fox would be my 2nd favorite.

Alton Brown (Food Network)

Aaron62 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:48:52 GMT

Anybody else a fan? I like his show Good Eats but am even a bigger fan of his commentary on Iron Chef America.

Remember ON-TV?

Tim58hsv — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:06:48 GMT

Before cable tv had saturated most of the country there were a handful of ota pay tv services such as On-TV. At about $20 a month the service was rather expensive since it only offered a single channel and (iirc) only aired later in the evening. During the daytime the station would air it's regular free programming but during the evening On-TV would take over and the picture would scramble.

In the town where I lived cable tv was not yet available so some of the neighbors had the On-TV service. You could always tell who had it because there would be a single channel uhf yagi antenna installed on a pole outside their house.

From the Wikipedia article...

ON-TV was one of many "scrambled UHF" services in many major markets around the country in the era before multi-channel cable television became widely available. Others included SelecTV, Prism, Starcase, Spectrum, Preview, VEU, and SuperTV.

ON-TV, like other pay-TV networks, aired a mixture of movies, sports events, and concerts.

Link to the article...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ON-TV

TLC: "Cake Boss" is fake

CptlA — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:43:39 GMT

Ok. I'm going on the offensive here against the show Cake Boss. I've seen probably 7-8 episodes now and I must say, the whole show seems rehearsed. There are way too many things that "happen" while the cameras are rolling like dropping a cake down the stairs or the stupid pranks that the bunch pull against each other. A lot of the lines seem rehearsed too. They take every Italian cliche and stereotype and take it to the nth degree.

I think the show that clued me into believing the rehearsed scheme was the stripper cake show that Buddy and the crew had to make with out the mom seeing it. But she happens to come in at the perfect time after the cake is finished and in the refrigerator and says the infamous line, "No way, No how!"

:horse:

Airwolf 'reimagined?!'

DTVuser2009 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:20:11 GMT

I just tuned into RTV for my weekly fix of Airwolf, a knigh-rider-esque show starring a helicopter in a similar stint as K.I.T.T., only no voice. a cool series i must say, with the normal characters such as Dominic Santini, Hawke, and of course that creepy white-robed Archangel.

Today's sucked completely. the theme was all wrong, and all those characters are gone. there's some teen and another guy, all the effects are cheesy, and the entire story sounds like a rip-off of Dragnet 1968, complete with the USSR involved. guys die for no reason.

OK was there a second series in the late 1980s or early 90s that was attempting to re-imagine Airwolf? because what i'm watching is NOT the Airwolf i remember nor do i have any interest in it.

What is going on at RTV and why are they losing their 'retro' shows? what's next? reruns of the crappy remade Battlestar?

V

EscapeVelocity — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:59:48 GMT

I love sci fi and really dug to classic mini series V back in the early 80s.

Premieres tonight, cant wait!