life after people-related stories
Posted Jun 16th 2009 4:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 8, TCM has Citizen Kane.
- At 9, FOX has a new Mental.
- The CW has a new Hitched or Ditched at 9.
- PBS has a new Frontline at 9.
- TNT has the series premiere of Hawthorne at 9, then a new Saving Grace.
- Discovery has a new Deadliest Catch at 9.
- CMT has the CMT Music Awards at 9.
- At 10, ABC has the series finale of Cupid.
- FX has a new Rescue Me at 10.
- Food Network has a new Chopped at 10.
- Bravo has the season finale of Real Housewives of New Jersey at 10.
- History Channel has a new Life After People at 10.
- MTV has a new Paris Hilton's My New BFF.
- Also at 10: Spike has a new ECW.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: Mental, Frontline, Hawthorne, Real Housewives
Posted Jun 9th 2009 4:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 8, ABC has a new Jimmy Kimmel Live, followed by the Magic/Lakers game.
- NBC has the Penguins/Red Wings game at 8.
- TCM has High Noon at 8.
- At 9, FOX has a new Mental.
- Discovery has a new Deadliest Catch at 9.
- At 10, FX has a new Rescue Me.
- Bravo has a new Real Housewives of New Jersey at 10.
- History Channel has a new Life After People at 10.
- There's a new Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern at 10.
- Spike has a new ECW at 10.
- Also at 10: MTV has a new Paris Hilton's My New BFF.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: Mental, Deadliest Catch, Real Housewives
Posted Jun 1st 2009 6:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD, Animation, Children, Reality-Free
Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.I started watching
The Fairly OddParents a few years ago and completely fell in love with it. I have a couple of the DVD sets, but I was never sure how the DVD sets were organized. Sometimes they're by a "theme" and sometimes they're by a season or volume. But now we have actual complete season sets for seasons one and two, and I'm really looking forward to having them. Funny, though, how no one can agree whether it's
Fairly OddParents or
Fairly Odd Parents. I see it spelled both ways everywhere.
I won't be buying the
Highlander: The Animated Series set though., There can be only one animated set to buy this week and I'm going with
OddParents.
Continue reading New TV on DVD releases this week
Posted May 26th 2009 7:02PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: OpEd, Documentary, Reality-Free

In The History Channel's
Life After People (Tuesdays at 10pm Eastern), it's not looking at the world after a nuclear explosion, a war or any other disaster that wipes out humanity. It's far simpler than that. Humanity simply vanishes without a trace. And what's left is an exploration of our legacy, our buildings, everything we would leave behind, and how Mother Earth would reclaim what was once hers before we started carving it up.
The series is a spin-off of the documentary of the same name that became The History Channel's most watched program ever with 5.4 million viewers. While the sixth of ten episodes premieres tonight, as with many cable channels, the prior five are being shown pretty regularly. I just stumbled on it this week and have already caught each of them. Every episode focuses on a different thing we've left behind and moves us forward decades and even centuries, as we see how time and nature will slowly destroy everything we've built.
Continue reading Life After People makes me want to kill you all ... not really
Posted May 26th 2009 4:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
At 8, ABC has two new episodes of According To Jim., then the continuation of the miniseries Diamonds.
- The CW has the series finale of Reaper at 8, followed by the series premiere of Hitched or Ditched.
- TNT has the Magic/Cavaliers game at 8.
- At 8:30, Food Network has a new Good Eats, then a new Dear Food Network.
- At 9, FOX has the series premiere of Mental.
- PBS has a new Frontline at 9.
- Discovery has a new Deadliest Catch at 9, then a new Out of the Wild: The Alaska Experiment.
- At 10, FX has a new Rescue Me.
- History Channel has a new Life After People at 10.
- Sci-Fi has a new ECW at 10.
- Travel Channel has a new Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern at 10.
- Also at 10: Bravo has a new Real Housewives of New Jersey.
- At 10:30, TBS has the season finale of My Boys.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: According To Jim, Reaper, ECW, Deadliest Catch
Posted May 12th 2009 4:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
- TNT has Basketball Playoffs all night.
- At 8, ABC has two new episodes of According to Jim, followed by a new Dancing with the Stars and the season finale of Cupid.
- CBS has a new NCIS, then new episodes of The Mentalist and Without A Trace.
- NBC has the season finale of The Biggest Loser at 8.
- FOX has new episodes of American Idol and Fringe.
- The CW has a new Reaper at 8, then a new 90210.
- At 9, PBS has a new Frontline.
- History Channel has a new How The Earth Was Made at 9, followed by a new Life After People.
- At 10, FX has a new Rescue Me.
- Bravo has the Real Housewives of New York City Reunion at 10, then the premiere of Real Housewives of New Jersey.
- Sci-Fi has a new ECW at 10.
- Travel Channel has a new Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern at 10.
- Also at 10: MTV has a new episode of The Phone.
- At 10:30, TBS has a new My Boys.
Check your
local TV listings for more.
After the jump, the late night talk shows.
Continue reading What's On Tonight: According To Jim, 90210, Without A Trace, Bizarre Foods
Posted Jan 30th 2008 4:24PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Ratings
Here are the weekly cable ratings, by number of viewers.
I think I speak for most readers here when I ask...what the hell is Minutemen? Did Disney make some historical movie? Actually, checking online I see that it's a "adventure-comedy-sci-fi" movie. It got the number one slot this week, as well as the number ten slot. Zoey 101 got the second and third slots, probably because people were tuning in to see "hey, is she pregnant yet??"
1. Minutemen (Disney)
Continue reading Nielsen cable ratings for the week ending January 27
Posted Jan 21st 2008 4:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight
At 8, FOX has a new Prison Break, then a new Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
- ABC has a new Dance War at 8, followed by new episodes of Notes from the Underbelly and October Road.
- NBC has new episodes of American Gladiators, Deal or No Deal and Medium.
- PBS has a new Antiques Roadshow at 8, then a new American Experience.
- ABC Family has a new Kyle XY at 8, followed by a new Wildfire.
- Also at 8: CNN has a Democratic Debate from SC.
- At 9, USA has a new Monday Night RAW.
- History Channel has the special Life After People at 9.
- At 10, Travel Channel has a new Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.
- AMC repeats the series premiere of Breaking Bad, if you missed it last night.
Check your local TV listings for more.