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Re: Matt Smith Is The New Doctor Who

Joe Bua — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:09:19 -0000

So so so young. I can only imagine that they're gonna cast a 12-year-old companion.

They almost have to, to make this guy look like he has some wisdom.

I would have preferred Paterson Joseph.

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Re: Is Heroes Season 3 Awesome Or Ridiculous?

Joe Bua — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:23:37 -0000

No, certainly not awesome.

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Re: the other boy wizard

Joe Bua — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:07:43 -0000

James, thank you so much for visiting my blog and the link.

You are just the most fab.

I like that tasty li'l bit of Brit Blond that plays Arthur.

And to Desiree: Honey, they're all 18 and older, not to worry your pretty li'l head.

Re: Nielsen Broadcast Morning News TV Ratings, Through Sept 3-7

Joe Bua — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:34:14 -0000

Wow, this is great. Why didn't I know about your site.

Well, I'll be linking to you people a lot. Good deal.

I gotta figure out how to use this "series of tubes."

Re: Nielsen Top 20 Sports TV Ratings, Week of Sept 10-16

Joe Bua — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:32:51 -0000

Hey you guys, not for nothing, but this comes from a former editor of Pro Wrestling Illustrated Magazine: pro wrestling is not a sport.

Having said that, I watch it every week.

Still not a sport.

Re: Nielsen Top 20 Sports TV Ratings, Week of Sept 10-16

Joe Bua — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:19:24 -0000

Really? Nielsen considers WWE sports?

You know what's more of a sport? America's Next Top Model.

Re: Nielsen Top 20 Cable Network TV Ratings, Sept 24-30

Joe Bua — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:40:57 -0000

Hey, do they do a breakout for Adult Swim programs only?

That would be interesting to see.

I'm waiting for them to go the route of Noggin and The-N so that they're forced to run an expanded schedule with daily eps of Venture Bros. and SGC2C.

Ah, the stuff of dreams ...

Re: Hey Nielsen: The Nerd Herd Loves You

Joe Bua — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:22:08 -0000

And, if anyone is clicking over to HeyNielsen.com anyway, you might do a guy a solid and vote for http://IAmATVJunkie.com for your favorite TV blog.

Because it would really make the guy who writes that blog very very happy.

And he's a good guy (and he's me).

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Re: O’Reilly vs. Olbermann Through 10/10

Joe Bua — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:33:39 -0000

Major major gains in the demo.

And when you watch Keith, you don't feel all sticky and dirty afterward.

Re: Overnight Results Thursday 10/11: Grey’s Matters Most

Joe Bua — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:28:35 -0000

You guys, as the days go by, the site looks better and better. Love the new layout and logo and all that stuff.

It would be great if you got someone to put together a widget that I would put in my left hand column with the week's top rated shows.

Something to think about.

Cheers.

Re: Why You Should Read TVbytheNumbers

Joe Bua — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:30:25 -0000

Bob, you're right. VOD rocks!

Mobile video? Much much too small.

Having said that, I'm loading up my iPod for a wait at the Dr.'s office tomorrow with some sitcoms. Still beats the mags in the waiting room.

Last April's Marie Claire is not my idea of interesting ways to pass the time.

Re: Bionic Woman: Expert Reader Feedback

Joe Bua — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:56:14 -0000

I have a feeling that their going to start addressing the issue of private military companies, this Berkut Group being one.

And I wish they'd get to it. It's a very topical issue right now. There's a big storyline in Jericho with a private militia called Ravenwood, too.

I wrote about that just moments ago.

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Re: Top Broadcast Shows For African Americans, Oct 15-21

Joe Bua — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:15:16 -0000

I'd be interested in seeing all broadcast and cable in this category, if you ever get the chance.

Thanks.

Re: Overnight Results 10/24: World Series Hits for Fox

Joe Bua — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:18:12 -0000

Not a normal week, but you gotta love the CBS 9 and 10 o'clock shows holding their own against the Series (which of course I'm not watching as I didn't watch all season because of Juicy McDruggerson being allowed to play in SF.

Of course, I don't watch CSI or Criminal Minds, either, I was hanging out with the Bionic Woman, in South Park and with Sarah Silverman.

Re: Moonlight: Renew or Cancel?

Joe Bua — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:46:32 -0000

It's just not for me. The vampire thing has never been my millieu and although I like Sophila Myles (she did a great ep of Doctor Who, also) the guy leaves me cold. (No pun intended)

Having said that, I've heard scuttle that we will at least hear about an additional script order before the week's out.

So far that's not confirmed.

Re: Overnight Results 10/29: ABC Dancing on Mondays

Joe Bua — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:11 -0000

Yeah, I bailed on Journeyman last night very early on when the cop brother froze Dan's credit cards. It's going in a direction I'm just not enjoying.

Did you see that show on NBC last night at 9? I think they call it Heroes? But there was a show called Heroes in the same time period last week that bares little resemblance. What's up with that?

At least Chuck was exciting, if not that funny.

Damn, NBC can sure kill a night of TV, huh?

Jeff Zucker? Your momma's callin'.

Re: Dirty Sexy Money: Renew or Cancel?

Joe Bua — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:53:22 -0000

Love it. Renew. It will find more audience.

It's too good not to.

I say they should order the back nine.

Re: Top Timeshifted Broadcast TV Shows Oct 15-21

Joe Bua — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:11:25 -0000

I gotta wonder how high those NBC shows would be on the list if they were still on iTunes.

Seems to me that a lot of iTunes buyers are being forced to watch their NBC shows in a different way than they did last season.

Re: Top Syndicated Shows, Oct 22-28

Joe Bua — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:13:23 -0000

Just a little something that I wrote on my blog about Wheel and Pat Sajak that I thought some people might be interested in.

It's right here:

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Re: Why A Long Strike Won’t Matter to Me

Joe Bua — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:25:08 -0000

Bob, if you don't like being told what to do, you certainly wouldn't enjoy working for Dr. House.

I like the funny British Hugh Laurie better.

Re: Samantha Who? Again Tops New Shows, Oct 29-Nov 4

Joe Bua — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:26:53 -0000

C'mon, Sam Who? is utterly charming.

I love this show.

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Re: Top Syndicated Shows, Nov 19-25

Joe Bua — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:14:56 -0000

I find it very interesting whenever Wheel's Nielsen numbers come up how Sajak is so politically active yet that flies so under the radar.

Have you read his Wikipedia page? He owns the parent company of Regnery Books, the people who published the Swift Boat attack book against John Kerry.

I can't imagine that people would watch this show knowing he was involved in shredding a veteran's reputation.

Maybe Sajak could do a special episode of Wheel where he puts the Abu Ghraib whistleblowers up on the wheel and spin them like it was the Spanish Inquisition! You know, for February sweeps!

Re: Overnight Results for Weds, 12/5

Joe Bua — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:23:42 -0000

Man, this is such bad news for Bionic Woman.

It's their own fault, NBC destroyed the show. If I were David Eick, I'd never work with the network again.

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Re: Post-Strike Show Status

Joe Bua — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:32:17 -0000

Good for The Singing Bee, they use union writers.

Yet it's still a game show. In prime time. And that's just sad, imho.

Re: The “Strike Effect”, You Be the Judge

Joe Bua — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:58:58 -0000

Here here, Mark.

I can only quote Capt. Jack Harkness from Torchwood when he says, "The 21st Century is when it all changes, and you've got to be ready."

Things are changing so quickly it's hard to figure out where the money is going to come from, but the Guild does realize that it's gonna come from somewhere besides this current model.

The rest know that, too. NBC spent the week at CES, and for good reason. They need to be there. That's where they'll be doing business in no time.

Re: Nielsen Ratings - Jan 31, 2008: ABC Gets LOST

Joe Bua — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:52:44 -0000

Now you see, I didn't think the George Michael issue would affect viewing, I thought it would be the comparisons to Ally McBeal.

Haven't we already seen Eli Stone, but in drag?

Re: Jericho Ratings Widget

Joe Bua — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:42:43 -0000

You guys have all the good ideas.

Re: Jericho Nielsen Ratings — Not So Good

Joe Bua — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:47:31 -0000

I was aware that the first three eps were loaded up on the torrents of doom, but I didn't think that would cut into the audience too much considering what people had told me about having to click this specific link in order to get the password for opening the .rar files that held those eps.

It sounded very sketchy to me and like people wouldn't want to give up personal info to get said password.

Certainly, besides some mainstream advertising, CBS didn't do much.

Considering the content in season two, you would think that they would have reached out to some political blogs.

Also, where was Skeet's tour of the morning talk shows? Where was the promo for the show? Why didn't they put some people out there to talk about it?

It looks to be such a good run of shows, more people should see them.

Re: Nielsen Ratings for Tue Feb 19: Idol, Jericho and Big Brother

Joe Bua — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:38:17 -0000

Hey, I'm as much a Jericho fan as anyone around. I sent nuts, I blogged about the show since episode one, I supported the show with my trip to Comic-Con and buying the DVD and did the whole bit ...

... but the numbers seem incontravertable. Those of us who want to see this story play out seem to be a smaller audience than CBS hoped for, and they are gonna make a tough decision at the end of these seven episodes that won't be changed with nuts or seeds or kernels of corn or pinto beans.

It's losing to an SVU repeat. A repeat!

Then again, I still haven't seen the cast out there really pounding the press for the show. I gotta wonder why they didn't send them out to the talk shows.

Well, Skeet's shooting a movie, according to IMDB, Lennie James is only a flight away, but I don't see him anywhere (and frankly, only Jericho fans know him, so how many new viewers would be bring).

Ashley may be in town, but now it's kind of late for a PR push.

I saw Esai on TV Watercooler on the TV Guide channel.

And that's all I think they've done.

I would have bought radio time (progressive radio can be bought for a song). Also, CBS doesn't have the multitude of cable properties to promote on. As we know there's little synergy (or love lost) between the MTV Networks and CBS-Paramount people.

Re: Quarterly Net New TiVo Subscribers 2001-2008

Joe Bua — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:26:21 -0000

I'm getting mine tomorrow.

From Time Warner.

Sign of the times.

Re: Top Cable Shows March 3-9: UNC Bests Duke and SpongeBob

Joe Bua — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:09:51 -0000

Didn't there used to be more Fox Noise Channel shows in the top 20?

Because not seeing any of them there now just makes me smile.

Re: It’s Official: CBS Cancels Jericho

Joe Bua — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:35:31 -0000

Shaun, I know that you've worked really hard to keep the show on the air (if you are indeed that Shaun) but basic cable will not be able to support the show's budget and pay cable will be looking for something much more cutting edge.

We were just too few to make an audience for a broadcast network show.

Hopefully, enough people have seen Lennie in the show that we'll see him in other things here in the US.

Re: No Nielsen Ratings Glory for BSG Season Four Premiere

Joe Bua — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:36:21 -0000

Personally, I think the vast majority of Americans are not smart enough to follow the show.

And certainly there are those who don't like having to think while watching TV.

So, let them watch those dancing shows and all that crap, I'll just enjoy this frakking final season (as soon as I finish season three on DVD).

Re: Britney to Appear Again on CBS’ “How I Met Your Mother”?

Joe Bua — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:36:34 -0000

Robert, he didn't backpedal, he just said they didn't need stuntcasting to get by, and I agreed with him here.

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Re: The Death of Daytime Television Drama

Joe Bua — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:46:31 -0000

Also, the NYC CBS soaps have gone to a new shooting format now with digital video cameras and more hand held stuff, that they thought would draw a more youthful audience.

Problem is their existing viewers just can't stand the handheld camerawork.

Re: The Big Question About Blogging

Joe Bua — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:02:37 -0000

I was with you until you cited the Crocs.

Dude (his voice trailed off, disappointedly).

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Re: Truthful TV Title Cards

Joe Bua — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:08:53 -0000

This is genius! I bow before you.

Re: Tim Kring Talks the Return of Heroes Season 2 Post-Strike

Joe Bua — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:55:24 -0000

Hey, look on the bright side, it gives everyone a chance to reboot, so to speak, which can only be good for the show.

Certainly this past 11 episodes were not what anyone expected or desired, so this is a good thing.

And Milo will have time to let that "strike beard" fill in.

Re: Hiro’s Yaeko to Return for Season 3

Joe Bua — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:58:16 -0000

Yeah, someone needs to teach this woman how to talk to the press.

But, then again, she's just learning English, yes? Maybe we give her some slack?

Why is it I just can't get excited about this next chapter? I was one of the biggest champions of the show in season one, but I was so disappointed in the first seven this year.

I would say the bloom is off the rose for me.

Re: Heroes News Roundup: Someone Wants Out, Greg Grunberg, New Heroes Writer Speaks, PCA

Joe Bua — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:36:16 -0000

I'll tell you this, I would want out if the getting out was good.

Why would any decent actor want to do 9 bad episodes of TV that lead into 4 okay episodes of TV each season? That's what it's come down to, and those 4 episodes are watchable but the crap the preceeds in just so off base.

Bring back Fuller? Is that the cure?

Whatev, I didn't even bother writing about the chapter ending this time out.