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HEROES Fail!! Big Wins For HOUSE & BIG BANG!! JAY LENO SHOW Now Lowest-Rated On The Big Four!! Monday Ratings!!
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All the big Monday night shows came on line last night, so it’s a good time to stare at those 18-49 ratings:
6.5 House
4.6 Big Bang Theory
4.4 Two and a Half Men
4.3 CSI Miami
4.1 Dancing With The Stars
3.5 How I Met Your Mother
3.2 Accidentally On Purpose
2.7 Heroes
2.3 Castle
1.8 The Jay Leno Show
1.2 One Tree Hill
1.1 Gossip Girl
* Fans have had it with “Heroes,” which took a non-heroic distant fourth place, falling another 46% from its season-three opener.
17 million viewers: “Heroes” second-season premiere
10 million viewers: “Heroes” third-season premiere
6 million viewers: “Heroes” fourth-season premiere
* Last week “The Jay Leno Show” was the highest-rated Monday show on the big four networks. This week it was the lowest.
* “Big Bang Theory” is, at least for the moment, now TV’s top sitcom, up last night 28% from its 2008 premiere
* “House,” up 14% from its 2008 premiere, gave Fox its first-ever opening-night-of-the-fall-season win, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
* Weevil Navarro > Chuck Bass. CW darling “Gossip Girl” pulled 2.1 million total viewers last night, while the final season of the CW’s “Veronica Mars” averaged 2.5 million viewers three seasons back.
* President Barack Obama's appearance on "Letterman" drew 7 million viewers, the biggest audience for "The Late Show" since Dave and Oprah patched things up on air four years ago.
Find all James Hibberd’s report on last night’s ratings here.
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This is SADDDDDD. I love Gossip Girl though, fuck you if you don't.
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When hell freezes over... or Ali Larter freezes... forget it. First they don't even make it to the main floor at Comic Con then they fall into CW numbers. lmfao!
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It rerally was ok and more interesting than I thought it might be. It held my interest until the end. However I think they need to sum it up this season. If they do it now that might make the final season special. If they wait........
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The only reason a show that performs as poorly as Heroes was renewed is because it gets more viewers than a test signal.
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Sep 22, 2009 8:05:50 PM CDT
I honestly started playing TETRIS halfway through the episode
by cesareo
HEROES. Oh how far you have fallen. You have become the new template for diminishing returns. A first season so beloved that mediocrity is tolerated to escape the growing dread that It can only get worse and doing so with consistent enthusiasm. Tim Kring: you blew it.
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As much as I hate to see FOX succeed, House is the exception. Nothing about that show doesn't piss excellence. This was the first time I didn't tune in for the Heroes premiere, I said finit'. But I did give it a guilt watch on Hulu, and as far as Heroes episodes go, I've seen worse. Little appalled at the blatant ripoff of Carnivale (and its really funny seeing them try to emulate that vibe in a modern carnival setting!) But Ray Park showed up, and I din't see that coming, so that's always awesome. Little bummed his fight scene was in Blur-o-vision, no doubt to make Milo look like he knew what he was doin. It must be interesting being Ray Park, being forced to playfight and typically lose to people he could decimate in real life. Maybe he smiles on the inside. But Heroes may not be a total loss, even if it is, it may be a decent guilty pleasure until it winds down.
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Then we can get some dramas at 10PM back on NBC.
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Sep 22, 2009 8:09:15 PM CDT
Did you know King of the Hill was cancelled to make way for...
by wandering_prophet
...The fucking Cleveland Show?!! Not on topic at all, but you bastards.
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The Leno show is there when you need something different to watch. It will not be as competitive when up against premieres. Leno is the option in 2-3 weeks when the new shows stop and reruns appear before sweeps. NBC knows this.
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No big loss. Maybe they'll banish it to Friday. It would be funny if NBC doesn't even let it finish its final run.
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Sep 22, 2009 8:51:01 PM CDT
JAY LENO FAIL , HEROES FAIL, PRAISE BALE
by supercowbell5thecowbellhasspoken
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I wouldn't have minded a few more episodes set in the mental ward though...I liked the cast
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Its done. I can't see it getting another season if these ratings keep up, unless they drop the budget hardcore. Such a difference from before, when it nearly got itself a second mini-series to go along with it.
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And if so, who?
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*Woof Woof Woof*
Perhaps one of the best episodes of the show. And that's saying something. So glad I got caught up on it this summer. -
Leaves out Monday night football. Prob has the highest ratings over any of those shows and is in primetime slot as well might I add
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Sep 22, 2009 10:09:27 PM CDT
Real mature, Herc. Applauding a show's drop in raitings.
by starwarsredux
Allow me to do the same. I can only hope "Dollhouse" winds up plummeting from the Nielson's far enough for Fox to do the humane thing and put the show, and Whedon's career, out of its misery.
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My fingers get a little keyboard-happy once I've got my evening's cup of coffee in me...
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house great ep. i too would have preferred a bit more of this setting. i wonder how its going to work this season. big bang another great epsiode. heroes well we all knew it was coming.
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Nice VM reference Herc. Fuck you CW you, nimrods, for cancelling VM.
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you remind me it was taken off the air way too early. God I hate the CW. God I miss Everwood.
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that 2 hr heroes was 1 of the best preems of the series! cant wait 4 it 2 win the fans back !
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Last night's episode of HOUSE was killer and a strong opening for Season 6, so how about giving the show some long-overdue Talkback love? Oh, and please keep up the great not watching of Jay Leno, America! Time to finally kick this hack and his steroid-filled chin to the curb.
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It's really hard to believe that it shares its creator with "Two and a Half Men." It's a pretty hilarious show. Perfect for the geek set.I'm not surprised about "Heroes." I was such a big fan, but I gave up after about three episodes of Season 3. At least I'll always have my Season 1 box set to enjoy. I'll just pretend it was a miniseries or something.
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yes.
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It was Drew Barrymore.
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Is Fox trying to kill their best show--Fringe? I think it was on Tuesdays last year against crappy dancing and reality shows and now they put it up against The Office and Community, which is expected to be a top show this year. Fox just loves to screw around and kill good tv. WHYYYYYY!!!???
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Is that good or bad?
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Brain fart really, but I hate saying "brain fart." Anyway, who was it that House saw in the car with Andre Braugher? House thought the doc was having an affair, but the doc said he wasn't, right? I somehow missed the explanation. Something to do with his dad?
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But you guys liked that Season Opener? Really? I thought it was crap, from the absurd premise that a supposedly brilliant diagnostician wouldn't simply walk the fuck out if he really wanted to and get alternate opinions, to the AreYouFuckingKiddingMe Talent show crap, to the cookie cutter One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest reject extras. Come ON. I'm glad to see it do well in the ratings, and I think the end result is a good launch for the season, but that was NOT a good episode by any stretch of the imagination.
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nice sentence.. i bet u say pwned and noob all the time, loser
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Heroes is a piece of crap!! Leno is a tool!! Lost, hurry up and come back!
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JESUS! its the blandest show in mediocreville.
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about that piece of shit soon to be cancelled shit you love so much.
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you would. i dont see how chuck lorre has his hands in both shows, big bang theory is so good and 2 1/2 men is so bad, it boggles the mind
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I hadn't even seen any advertisements that the premiere was on last night. Only caught it because my wife had been watching "Dancing". Hopefully it's ratings pick up a bit.
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That was arguably the best episode of House ever. It was great because House finally ran into someone has smart and clever as him and didn't win in the inevitable pissing contest. It was great because House actually made a connection with another person and had that relationship end just as it starterd. I'm glad Bang Theory did as well as it did - that's a great sitcom - especially for us dorks, dweebs and geeks. Screw Fringe - that show was much better when it was called the X-Files. For as bad as the last X-Files movie was, it was still better than Fringe.
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MORE COWBELL!!!
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that show sucks so hard its sad
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It felt like a movie instead of just two episodes mashed together. I too wish House would stay in the loony bin a while longer. There's always the possibility that he'll go back there. Andre Braugher needs more love around here, great performance.
If Cranston didn't deserve his Emmy, Hugh Laurie would have been my choice for the win.
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She was so smokin' hot in The Bourne Identity and she looked so dumpy in that House episode. What happened?
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VM season 2 on ch 1 on comcrap.House seems like a fine show, but it's too late to board that train now, methinks; plus, it's a medical show, though Braugher may tip the scales. Does he have a short or long stint?As for Heroes, it was no longer worth watching once the audience developed as much contempt for the characters as the writers did.In other news, Damages has added Campbell Scott and Martin Short(?!) as regulars, and Keith Carradine and Lily Tomlin in guest spots. Kristen Kreuk will appear on Chuck.
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what he thought of heroes premiere and whether he will continue tb's for it but if the ratings continue to plummit, he may not have to bother...the show will be cancelled long before it gets to epi 18 on lighter news, mcenzie phillips will come on oprah and tell the world that john raped her, and did much more than give her pot
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Fringe has to face CSI, Grey's Anatomy and The Office/Community combo.
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If the writers won't start bringing the awesome, some answers or both real quick. Even then CSI and Grey's are probably gonna demolish it.
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Maybe they should take the writers who are out of work because of 5hrs of Jay Leno and have them work on Heroes.
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I hope it isn't, but I'm afraid the writers like the old house too much to actually have this character development stick.
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16 or 18?
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until the second hour, when they got into the fucking talent show and the rap.
I don't know why House doesn't get more love on coax - Herc liked it enough back in the first season. It's a procedural and is trapped to a degree by its formula but it's still one of the best character-driven shows on tv.
I think season opener showed House at its best and worst: best when funny and clever, worst when they can't figure out where to take such a great character so hit the reset button instead(he's out of hospital, Famke Potente leaves to Arizona). I think the idea of a happy House is bullshit and, hopefully, so do the writers. -
Great episode. Watched Heroes later. Definitely not as entertaining as Hughe Laurie.
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Character development be damned, because House is always more entertaining when he's fucking with people and pulling shit that would typically get his ass kicked, fired, or landed in jail. Having him well-adjusted and sociable could be interesting for a couple of episodes as Wilson, Cuddy and the rest try to deal with as a functional human being, but any longer than that and the show will become as vapid as GREY'S ANATOMY.
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I really am blown away by the continued Season Premiere love. WTF. There were so many ways to got with the House-In-Rehab thing, and to only come up with the completely unbelievable premise, followed by cardboard lunatic characters, the requisite connection-with-some-broad and cop-out of having her be married so they could quickly dispose of her...It was also so horribly mundane. Granted, seeing Braugher back on TV is ALWAYS a good thing, but he was largely wasted too. I dunno. I think you guys got a little too wrapped up in the novelty of the break in formula. It simply wasn't very good at all.
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Finished ahead of the D-List dancing show in the ratings. I shit you not.
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Sep 23, 2009 10:16:43 AM CDT
Nice to see quality and ratings are more or less in line.
by royston lodge
This season's House looks way more promising than last season. Last season was all about the "new team", which isn't that big a deal. This season is about Dr. House and his demons, which is far more interesting. Plus, Fox promoted this year's premiere more than last year's, if memory serves.
I grudgingly admit to being a Gossip Girl addict during its first season, but there hasn't been any meat on that show's bones for quite some time. It fell into the old trap of having characters jumping from bed to bed to bed until everybody's had sex with everybody else so the viewer can no longer relate emotionally to anything that ever happens on-screen. Plus, they've juditiously removes any story element that ever provided actual conflict on the show. They ruined the class conflict by having Rufus marry Lily. They ruined Chuck and Blair by making them an item. They got rid of one of the most interesting aspects of the first season by removing any of the semi-realistic pressures and dilemmas of high school, and showing how rich douches deal with them, like SAT exams and college admissions interviews and stuff like that. So, no surprise for me if fans have abandoned the show.
Kinda sad that Castle is doing so poorly, but from the few episodes I've bothered to watch it's not surprising. Fillion is wasted on that show, and there are too many other shows that follow an almost identical formula but do it much better (The Mentalist, Lie to Me, Bones, etc).
Big Bang Theory: I'm kinda surprised that it did better than How I Met Your Mother. On the other hand, does anybody really care about sitcoms anymore?
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that Radiohead song went well with it. I was hoping he would be stuck in the ward for half a season or something though.
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Considering that the whole gambit is based on Leno's low budget compared to scripted drama, are those ratings "good enough" for NBC to make money off of it?
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I have faith that the writers will go heavy on the "be careful what you wish for" angle.
Surely, if House is truly "cured" he will become insufferable. Like an ex-smoker who won't shut up about the dangers of tobacco.
Wilson will miss being "the stable friend", and won't be able to look down his nose anymore. Poor guy.
The preview for next week showed that Forman get's House's job. Whattayawanna bet that he fucks it up royally, and that the mortality rate at the hospital takes a turn for the worse?
How much you wanna bet they add the hospital's chief lawyer as a character, to deal with malpractice suits?
On the other hand, maybe House isn't "cured". He's just sober, and no longer psychotic.
Judging from real-life friends who gave therapy a shot and started taking anti-depressants, their personalities didn't really change. They were still grumpy and cynical in the way we knew and loved them. They just stopped being frighteningly unpredictable, impulsive, and moody. In some cases their vicious sarcastic wit became MORE entertaining, because it was informed from a clear head and not weighed down by dark depression. -
Up until now, House clearly "cares" about his patients even though he claims not to. They haven't been merely lab rats to him. He sincerely wants to save their lives, even though he always talked about the inevitability of death.
What if, now that he's on psychiatric medication, he becomes much MORE clinical and LESS empathetic?
What if having a clear head for a change makes him more analytical and less emotional?
Dr. House, meet Dr. Manhattan?
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Sep 23, 2009 10:44:19 AM CDT
Maybe the reason this season of House looks so good...
by royston lodge
... is precisely because we can't predict how it's going to play out. The way they've set the season up there are way too many variables and way too many paths the writers could take for the show to be predictable.
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Thank you for ruining Conan. Because of your crap comedy old people eat up, Conan is having to dumb down his stuff in order to get ratings to appease the NBC gods. Also why couldn't you pick up Top Gear instead of Coralla? It would have been on the air for a season then cancelled and you could spend the rest of your life dicking around in your garage leaving TV well alone.
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House is a pretty predictable show. Now had they left him in the cazy house at the end of the episode that would have been cool. But for now it looks like it'll go back to case solving house.
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The guy really screwed up NBC royally. With Leno at 10PM, he is going to sink both their overall ratings and late night ratings. Conan is going to get about the same ratings at 11:30 that he was getting at 12:30. NBC affiliate's local news will suffer too.
I wonder how long it will be before local affiliates try to dump Leno for 10PM news. The Boston affiliates already tried before the Leno launch, but now that his ratings are quickly diminishing, he will be an advertising dollar loser for them. -
will fall back into the regular rut. House will NOT be allowed to treat patients--but he never really did anyway...he just told the team what to do. So he'll do that here. And the team will fight back--and House will prove to be right. I'm just waiting on House to start sneaking pills. The whole premise of the show is that he's a pill popping genius. Take away the pills, make him nicer, and they kill the whole premise of WHY we love the show.
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I agree that for the network, Leno only needs to get like a 2 share to make money. Leno is getting $20 million a year and is doing 5 shows a week. Charlie Sheen is getting $17-18 million to do 22 shows a year for a half hour comedy. Leno puts more hours on the air in a bout 3 weeks than Sheen puts in an entire year. So that is why NBC isn't upset.
But there is a problem. The affiliates aren't going to be happy with their 11 PM news (which is their biggest advertising dollar maker) having a lead in with a 2 share. I see many local affiliates consulting their lawyers trying to see how they can break their deal with NBC and broadcast the local news at 10PM rather than Leno and then run a repeat of Seinfeld between 11-11:30 before Conan.
Speaking of Conan, he cannot be happy either. The 10PM lead in can be huge for the late night shows. Since people are tuning out on NBC at 10PM, it will hurt Conan's already struggling ratings.
So yes, because of the low production cost of the Leno show, NBC is benefitting at least right now. But if affiliates start to bolt at 10PM especially in larger markets and Conan starts to get lower ratings than Jimmy Kimmel or Colin Fergusen, then they have hurt themselves for the long term. -
Hopefully they got a whole season of sappy-crap out of their systems and they can go back to being fun.
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and he's doing this badly already. It's going to get embarrassing.
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Michael Strahan has replaced Sarah Connor on Friday night! I HATE YOU FOX!!!!!!!!!
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Maybe now a show about Plaxico Burress being butt-fucked in prison will replace Dollhouse. I HATE YOU FOX!
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Get over it. The only good episode was the one with the Terminator in the 20s.
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starring Michael Strahan, former New York Giants football player. I HATE YOU FOX!!!!!
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But at least now I'll get an hour of my life back. Fucking don't know why I wasted my time with that show. It was either that or Dollhouse, and they picked the right one. Brothers will be cancelled this time next week.
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kring is the biggest douche--he's too proud to turn to comics for ideas for a show about people with superpowers!!! Instead he has no trouble blatantly stealing the fly and now i hear carnivale, and there's been more. No one with a disdain for comic books deserves to have a show about superpowers... if comics are so beneath him, then how can he explain how he only knows how to tell origins while comic books have been spitting out new ideas to keep their superheroes going for like 70 years... what a tool and a douche who has no idea what he's doing and feels dirty because he is above superhero stories. Why does Kring suck so much at life???
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i hope she returns. the interplay between her character and house made the show for me. as for the nuthouse setting, two hours was enough, after an hour i was honestly waiting for some to pick up a fire extinguisher.......
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to catch Jimmy Fallon, and lo and behold, with an Ultimate Mustache Fighting challenge between Rivera and Stossen facial hair and a very funny segment with brothers Seth and Josh Meyers, it was more entertaining than ANYTHING Leno has aired for the past week and a half.But even with low ratings, what can NBC do? I'm sure 5 hours of primetime Leno will still net them healthy profits.
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Sep 23, 2009 12:08:39 PM CDT
In fact it seems that Fallon is playing around with the format
by skimn
more and is now more Conanlike than Conan himself. And Conan, please, pleeeeeze, stop the Twitter segment. Please.
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Pulling a bigger audience then Conan did. And since the summer break where Conan was told he had to be more like Leno to get more ratings he's been terrible.
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Fuck that shit. SC didn't take six episodes to become good, they wrote the show properly from the start.
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I really enjoy Heroes. I know that's not the "Cool" thing to say nowadays but I can't help it. Now, I'd admit that last season was weak. They let the storyline get waaaay too confusing. It was obvious they didn't have an "editor" in the writer’s room. Any idea was thrown into the show regardless if it was good or bad. I really enjoyed watching Sylar descend into his own insanity due to all of his powers. The encounter with his father was great, but I could have gone without Luke the Boiling Boy. Sylar never needed a sidekick and I was happy when he ditched him…the 2nd time! I won’t get into ALL the things I liked and disliked but I think you get my point.
I would have to say that if this is indeed the last season of Heroes this is how I would end it… Samuel will end up being a righteous character who’s methods are considered “villainous” by most standards. He will eventually get Hiro (it might end up being Peter tho) to go back in time to the first moment a human met a hero & instead of that exchange going badly (which set the idea that heroes must remain hidden from humans) they help mediate it to a good exchange. Then when they jet back to present day they find that humans & heroes are assimilated like the True Blood universe where Vampires are the norm. There’s no need to hide or run anymore. It lets the Heroes finally get what they have always wanted – a normal life.
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Yeah it took an indeterminate amount to become good. We at least know that its more then 31 episodes.
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When I heard nothing but bad things about it from the second season onwards I never bothered to watch.
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They both deserved to get axed.
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Come on your a guy who can appreciate a good view when he sees it. Now Dollhouse has taken the best thing from SC, to double your viewing pleasure.
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Big time. The only good parts involved the Sylar in Matt's head. That was some fun acting/writing there. They are setting the Carnival up to be the next Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, they have Ando and Hiro copying Heroes For Hire, and Peter is basically mimicking his namesake Peter Parker. It's really just a bad rip-off of Marvel Comics. Shame really. Season 1 had such promise.
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uh, what? The only good parts involved Sylar in Matt's head? Oh, you mean when he kept talking to sylar out loud and getting crazy looks from people? Yes, very fresh.
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i must've watched about 3 seasons worth in one go and came to one conclusion: it's the same episode every fucking week. what's the appeal?
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...by who's criticizing Herc for being 'mean-spirited' in regards to the show's plummeting ratings. If these were different circumstances, like if The Jay Leno Show were the only ratings disaster of the week, you'd see at least half of those same people going "Ha! Take that Leno, you big-chinned, unfunny fuck!" But when it's *their* show, all of a sudden they get principles.
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Yeah, I always check Zap2it and they never have MNF either, but I'm assuming even though its (basic) cable, they still ate into the ratings for both everybody.
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I actually liked it. I hope they give it time to pick up steam again if they are going to keep doing a good job on it.
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I quit watching House after season 3 ended. Didn't watch season 4 except for the as it turned out great 2-part finale. Seeing those episodes convinced me to give this show another chance. I'm glad I did. Generally the main appeal of this show is House himself, what's he gonna do or say next,and how will his co-workers react. Despite the formula rarely changing, his antics are always far from boring.
Hugh Laurie got the Emmy nomination for a reason. With this type of show the main appeal is always the protagonist(-s)
That's why I also enjoy a formulaic procedural such as The Mentalist - because Patrick Jane is an interesting enough character, to keep me watching without getting bored.
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I know I'm stating the obvious, but fuck it. Much like box office can't be used to tell whether a movie is good all the time, ratings isn't a great indicator for what's good on television. There is a lot of absolute SHIT that gets good ratings/B.O., while really good shows/movies get ignored by the live television viewing audience.
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Season 4 it changed. Most formulaic shows, after the event at the end of the third season, would revert to the status quo by the end of the first episode of the new season. House instead spent the majority of its writer's strike-shortened season with House picking a new team. They played it like a reality show where, after starting with roughly 40 candidates, he narrowed it down to a dozen or so, then each week someone would get fired in order to get to the 3 he would eventually hire. That's why for me the show has really worked the past couple of seasons - they do the mystery-of-the-week illness but they also have season arcs or at least multiple-episodes arcs. Some of the series' best episodes have been the past couple of seasons.
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i will bash it for having some of the worst acting to ever grace television screens. for the unoriginal storylines. not just the shit they rip off from other BETTER shows/books/films but also the repetitive nature of their own storytelling (this season ON NBC'S HEROES syler loses his powers A-FUCKING-GAIN) i will bash it for having what I consider one of the worst season finales of all time in season 1. the ratings bashing is just the cherry on top. the show got so bad so fast it was breathtaking. and it will be cancelled this season.
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ABSOLUTE SHIT
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.."the show got so bad so fast it was breathtaking"
And yes, that S1 finale was the biggest letdown, ever, in television, for me.
With that said, I didn't find the season premiere all that terrible. But it's extremes, what works, works. What doesn't is wretchedly bad. -
It's VegasRon. I think I was the first regular TB poster to turn on Heroes during that terrible second season.
We had some heated debates before you came over to the good guys, lol. -
Is that the villians are much more interesting then the fucking Heroes. Plus they are SO much more powerful it doesn't make sense why they keep dying but the Heroes keep living. I don't buy it, save for the kid who can control computers everyones a huge fucking pussy. Peter's ass should have been dead a long time ago.
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Industry insiders say that's right where they expect Leno to be on a consistent basis and it looks like that is going to be it's range.
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As someone pointed out earlier, and I told my roomie they'd be doing it... House was not going to stay in the looney farm long. They got to get him back to the regular cast ASAP; it's not only to keep us in formula, but also economics- you can't have House stuck in a whole new cast of re-curring characters for long! Heroes is like a relationship that started off grande with much promise, but stalled out and blew up ridiculously... I've got those Heroes episodes sitting on the DVR unwatched. I wonder sometimes now, if "they" are keeping track of what is DVR'd, and when, and if, it's watched. I've got a ton of unwatched Conan, basically, I just check to see who's on, and if I'm bored enough, maybe I'll watch it. That's so sad. :-( Timeshifting is the game these days, even moreso than when the pioneer of it, the VCR was king.
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Good God that made me laugh.
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I wish Herc's rating system was still alive. 5 stars, better than we fucking deserve!!
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And I think now that NBC will as well... dummies!
Right now Big Bang, Chuck, and Dollhouse are the only shows that I watch - since BBT is doing well in the ratings at least I have a safety net so I have at least 1 reason a week to turn on my TV.
For everyone rooting for Dollhouse to fail? FRAKK YOU! I am right now pulling a Sheldon and imagining that your heads will explode like a scanners experiment. Except for green brainy good I full expect an explosion of shit for brains! ha! -
He doesn't seem to actually be acting at all, but it's still damned fun to watch.
They should really make D'Onofrio's and Goldblum's characters rivals who can't stand each other. It would liven up the gimmick of having two sets of detectives. -
...remember that the show is about House. It's not about the other characters. The cartoonish fellow hospital residents are just there as foils to show us House's temperament and reactions. Franka Potente is there to show us that House is always looking for the quick fix, but that reality is messier and he can't have what he wants. Braugher is there to defuse all the typical House combat with authority figures. Everyone in the episode is a road black to House's usual escape routes.Now, personally, I think they could have done all of this without making so many of the patients silly stereotypes. But when I think about that, it seems like the result would have lots of integrity but be depressing as hell, which brings u to the final House-ism: entertainment.It's not a grim, dreary show about the cold. hard realities of medicine; it's a character study and mystery show. And as much as I enjoyed Potente and Braugher, bringing them back would somewhat defeat their purposes.I'm looking forward to seeing where they take this, and what they do with the "old crew" back to prominence.
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Just finished watching the show, it held my attention and I want to see more. Loads of good solid characters and a lots of setups on the go.
With the show up against House and others no wonder the ratings were low.
Whats with the my shows got better ratings than your show crap In the world of PVR's can't we all watch both shows? or am I just being some commie Socialist? -
didn't know castle got a 2nd season....
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Tried watching it, but all the characters are nasty fucks who you have to wonder why the patients don't just off themselves?
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Such detailed writing, where EVERY character had great, memorable lines. And fuck Goldblum on Law and Order, why didn't any of you watch Raines?
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Hey, don't place all the blame at the viewer's feet. It's a question of availability a lot of the time. A big part of why so many people watch Law & Order, even if they don't particularly like it, is that it's on several channels, all day, every day of the week.
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DITTO! Raines was fucking wonderful TV, it's a damn shame it didn't last. Jeff was absolutely in his element and firing on all cylinders. As far as House, it was an interesting start; I've no doubt it'll get back to it's usual brilliance starting next week. As far as Heroes? Never watched Carnivale - guess it has some parallels? But hey, Heroes? LOVED IT. Great season premiere, interesting and fun. Fuck everybody who doesn't like that, and fuck the internet hate trying to convince me that I shouldn't. :)
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Wonder what a different night would do for Heroes ratings-wise? I mean, as long as it avoids a Friday, Saturday or Sunday slot...
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Lot of competition on Monday...
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Less than 15 minutes with the football, and he STILL wins the game. Wow.
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Sep 24, 2009 10:06:33 AM CDT
CASTLE is great! Far better than Mentalist, Lie to Me, etc
by shiftyeyeddog2
WHY arent you people watching?????
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Heroes should have only gotten the 12/13 episode run for the season and Chuck should have gotten the full season pickup. Heroes has so much potential, but they always screw it up. I think they don't realize by trying to make it so deep, it makes it shallow and boring. I've hung in their and watched all seasons of it, but unless they pull something off, this may be it for Heroes. It lost the majority of its fan base.
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I have not seen a single Chuck commercial and its not before Heroes anymore????
I did like this first episode of Heroes, it seems they finally have gone back to season one formula..
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