Cover of Jay Leno Some random thought about the news ratings for the November sweeps: * The owner of Channel 4, LIN Broadcasting, didn’t get much reason to hurry to fill positions in sports or in news after winning every news time period except 6 a.m. After all, its ratings improved from a year ago in [...]
Image via Wikipedia Channel 4 may have declared a November sweeps victory in promos that ran Sunday during the Buffalo Bills agonizing overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. And the CBS affiliate did win all news time periods except at 6 a.m. But NBC affiliate Channel 2 can be as encouraged by the overall results [...]
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Leftovers before the Thanksgiving holiday: * Buffalo Bills receiver Stevie Johnson isn’t the only one asking “Why So Serious?” I was thinking the same thing about all the controversy surrounding Bristol Palin this season on “Dancing with the Stars.” It is a silly competition that is part performance and [...]
Image via Wikipedia “American Idol” is taking direct aim at the “Big Bang Theory” on Thursday. |”Fringe” is being sent to die on Friday. And the Tuesday hit “Glee” isn’t going anywhere after what is bound to be a triumphant Super Bowl experience. Those are the highlights of the mid-season schedule announced by Fox late [...]
This is what I’m thinking: * Irv Weinstein has popped up on local television during the November sweeps on Channel 2 of all places. That seems a bit odd since he became a legend on Channel 7. The three-part series with Irv ends Tuesday morning on Channel 2′s “Daybreak.” “It’s a bit odd,” agreed Channel [...]
Image by Getty Images via @daylife This is what I’m thinking: * Fans of the Fox show “Glee” have less reason to worry than previously thought about possibly missing original episodes if local affiliate WUTV is off Time Warner Cable on Jan. 1 because of a money dispute between the station’s owner and the [...]
Image via Wikipedia Here we go again. Another local network television affiliate may be off the local cable tyrant, eh, giant, Time Warner Cable on Jan. 1. Excuse me for not being scared even if the story made it to page 1 of today’s Buffalo News with the headline: Glee may go, local Fox affiliate [...]
Image via Wikipedia It was hard not to laugh Monday when NBC announced its midseason schedule included a Thursday night of comedy that would continue at 10 p.m. with Tina Fey’s Emmy-winning “30 Rock” and the freshman series “Outsourced.” After all, one of the jokes in the PBS special honoring Fey with the Mark [...]
Image via Wikipedia Sarah Palin may not be as big or as popular in Western New York as the cable network TLC believes. Buffalo was one of eight markets that got an advance theater screening of the new TLC reality series, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.” But when the premiere of the reality show starring the [...]
Image by Getty Images via @daylife I must admit all those promos for “Glory Daze” that ran during “Conan” and the baseball playoffs on TBS had me hoping for the best. Unfortunately, this hour comedy about a fraternity set in 1986 doesn’t live up to the TBS motto. It isn’t very funny. Or original. Or [...]