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The Return of Modern Family!

Monday, September 20th, 2010

Last week Ann had a great blog post on some of the shows new to syndication this season. It made me think about the show I am most looking forward to start up again this fall – Modern Family! As you know, my life is empty and desolate with the absence of Lost in my life and something needs to help fill the void. Thank goodness I still have Modern Family.

It is impossible not to laugh hysterically when watching this show. It’s brilliant and absolutely hilarious. Even reading articles about the show make me crack up. In a recent article Jesse Tyler Ferguson discussed Nathan Lane’s upcoming guest appearance this season – Lane is playing a friend of his named Pepper who is throwing an “Oscar Wilde and Crazy brunch”, if you didn’t just crack up I think there is something wrong with you.  

And just in case you didn’t spit water all over your keyboard at picturing the “Oscar Wilde and Crazy brunch”, here are a few quotes from last season to get you excited for the upcoming season premiere:

“It would be like Lewis telling Clark that he didn’t like to walk. Sidenote: We’re very good friends with a couple named Lewis and Clark. Clark bought a big sparkly belt in New Orleans that he calls his Louisiana Purchase.” – Cam

“I’m a cool dad, that’s my thang. I’m hip, I surf the web, I text. LOL: laugh out loud, OMG: oh my god, WTF: why the face.” – Phil

“I’m sort of like Costco. I’m big, I’m not fancy and I dare you not to like me.” – Cam

Modern Family airs this Wednesday on ABC.

-Victoria

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A USA Summer

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

If you are looking for good original entertainment this summer, look at the cable USA network with all new episodes of the original television series White Collar and Royal Pains, along with Burn Notice, Psych and Covert Affairs.

White Collar is a sophisticated series about a con artist working for the FBI to solve cases and catch criminals.  Featuring Matt Bomer as Neal, a charming criminal mastermind who had been playing cat and mouse for years with Peter, an FBI agent played by Tim Dekay.  When Neal escapes from prison, Peter nabs him one again.  Rather than returning to jail, Neal suggests that he provide his criminal expertise to assist the Feds in catching other elusive criminals in exchange for eventual freedom.  Add in colorful characters on both sides of the law and a subplot regarding a missing music box, this Tuesday night show provides plenty of summer fireworks.

Royal Pains is about a doctor, Hank Lawson, who lost his job at a New York  City hospital fighting for the life of a patient.  His brother, Evan, convinces him to go to a party in the Hamptons where a guest falls ill.  Hank saves the day which draws attention from the crowd and soon Hank has a concierge pratice in the Hamptons solving medical crises.  Campbell Scott plays a billionaire with a hereditary illness trying to save his own life with experimental procedures in Cuba.  He is counting on Hank to keep him from losing his life trying to save it.  Henry Winkler plays Hank and Evan’s father who seems to have his own shady agenda.  Again, the cast of characters makes this series charming and interesting.  Don’t miss the season finale Thursday, August 26.

-Joan

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LOST but not Forgotten

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Sunday night was a difficult night for me – LOST ended. Currently, I am mourning a television show that melted my brain weekly and deeply affected me on a personal level. As I try to come to grips with the ending and let me tell you – I’m still wrapping my head around it and trying to decide if I was one of the many who disliked the ending or one of the ones who adored the ending, I want to talk more about the ads that ran during the finale more than the finale itself. This is probably why I work in advertising.

Target wins! Target took LOST mythology – the smoke monster, the numbers and the wild boar and were able to cleverly tie them to ads for a smoke detector, keyboard and humorously, barbecue sauce.

As the finale went on and our questions were more sidestepped than answered, I chuckled each time a Target ad ran although I was also doing some mental math, allegedly a 30 second spot was running upwards of $900,000 for the finale.

While Target won in the ad department, LOST didn’t really win in the ratings department. LOST’s finale averaged only 13.5 million viewers, which is nowhere near the 105 million that tuned in for M*A*S*H signing off in 1983.

As for me? I’ll always be LOST. It was a show that meant a tremendous amount to me and I will miss my Tuesday night excitement and probably miss my Wednesday conversations with friends and coworkers trying to dissect the show even more.

Victoria 5.25.10

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The NBA Playoffs

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

As an advocate fan of professional sports, the NBA has come full circle in 2009 not only for myself, but seemingly for everyone around me. With stars like Lebron James and Kobe Bryant leading the pack, people from coast to coast are curious on what the buzz is all about. Not only am I glued to my television screen every night, but my girlfriend, my parents, and even aunts and uncles are emailing me about the special entertainment the NBA is displaying.

With all of this said, I ventured into how these special times for the NBA are affecting markets throughout the country. From national sports radio to local television networks, it seems that the NBA playoffs have been clogging up the marketplace. Did you know that the NHL championship will be decided in the next couple of weeks? (yawn) Exactly.

The USA TODAY reports that “Sunday’s Game 3 (Cleveland vs. Orlando) drew an overnight rating that was up 65% from a San Antonio-Lakers playoff game in the time slot last year” Furthermore, “ESPN, after the first two Denver-Lakers games became ESPN’s most-watched basketball games ever, [and] had overall NBA playoff ratings running 3% ahead of last year.”

Most watched basketball games ever?

TNT reported that “Game 7 of the epic first round battle between the Boston Celtics and Chicago Bulls…was watched by 6.9 million total viewers on TNT. That audience total makes it the most-watched round one game in cable television history.”

In cable television history?

 

Shocked? Surprised? Stunned? I am not. The NBA has all the players in place and all of the advertising it needs to fuel the league for many years into the future. Looking back on it now, I should have known that when my girlfriend wanted to tune in every week that the NBA was headed in the right direction.

 

GO NUGGETS!

 

-RF

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