Wednesday Links
Slow period in television right now. Here are some links to keep you posted on how little is going on:
MTV Reality series have upset yet another small community. This time it’s Maui.
The ratings for Sopranos reruns plummeted from week one to week two. Many are blaming it on going head-to-head with American Idol in its second week. I think the problem is two-fold, between increased competition and the atrocious editing job they did to make the series accessible for basic cable.
Forbes Magazine named the twenty richest women in entertainment. No surprise Oprah is still locking down the top spot. What is surprising, and a bit vexing at that, is Judge Judy is sitting comfortably at #13 with $95 million dollars to her name.
Here’s a synopsis of The Colbert-O’Reilly interviews. I never followed up on it because I would categorize the experience as relatively underwhelming, just felt too rehearsed so to speak. Though I will say this, I have never seen O’Reilly nervous on his own show, which he clearly was last Thursday.
Aaron Sorkin, creator of series such as Sports Night and The West Wing has conceded that his new series, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip does indeed have many smug overtones to it. That took a while.
Wow. If Courtney Cox making out with Jennifer Aniston fails to attract the superficial 18-34 male audience to FX’s series Dirt, then I don’t know what will. Albeit it would have been a lot more appealing 7-10 years ago, and the whole thing seems contrived; but still, most guys my age are not that hard to please.
That’s it for the links. If something even remotely interesting happens in the world of television today, I will be back to discuss it.
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