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In a country where each day seems to bring more “reality” with job losses and stocks plummeting, could TV watchers be looking for a little less reality television? This season’s ratings point toward “yes”.
According to the Los Angeles Times, several network mainstays are performing so badly that their futures are now in doubt. Fox’s “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?,” has lost nearly half its share of the 18-to-49-year-old demographic since last year, and viewership for NBC’s “Deal Or No Deal” has falled nearly 29 percent for its Wednesday show. Even ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars” has lost 9 percent …read more

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The big word that NBC has been putting out about “Heroes” in recent weeks is that the new season is so incredibly awesome that it will bring the viewers back who tuned out during its’ second season.
Well, if that’s the case, it’s going to probably take a few more weeks for it to happen. Although it’s not all bad news for the superhero drama, they were definitely overshadowed on their premiere night by another show’s debut.
“Dancing With the Stars” won the Monday night ratings with 21.12 million viewers from 8 p.m. to -10 p.m, according to early Nielsen results. The …read more

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ABC: Batman Begins – If you never saw the first film where Christian Bale played Bruce Wayne and his crusading counterpart, this will show you all you need to know to finally go see “The Dark Knight”.
CBS: How I Met Your Mother - Ted (Josh Radnor) has an accident and reevaluates his relationship with Stella (Sarah Chalke). Could he finally have met his kids’ mother? See this before you find out next week.
Two and A Half Men – A CSI crew (led by George Eads) investigates a death at Charlie’s house. This episode was actually written by two “CSI” scribes, so …read more

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How do you know that a show has no chance of seeing light again? When your net fields the only original programming of the night besides the Olympics and comes in third.
Obviously, NBC crushed everyone else under the weight of the pure muscle of the U.S. men’s Olympic swimming team, averaging 29.95 million viewers with a 17.6/28 share and a 10.2/27 in the key demo.
The weakest half-hour for the Olympics was at 8, when it was up against a repeat of “The Big Bang Theory” and “High School Musical: Is This Show Over Yet?”. It only had a 24.43 million …read more

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