Posts with tag ncaa basketball
Posted Apr 5th 2008 4:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free
CBS has March Madness all night.
- At 8, TLC has a new Flip That House, followed by new episodes of Date My House, Trading Spaces, and Moving Up.
- Nickelodeon has a new iCarly at 8, then a new Naked Brothers Band.
- At 9, FOX has a new America's Most Wanted.
- BBC America has a new Torchwood at 9.
- There's a new Suze Orman Show on CNBC at 9.
- Cartoon Network has two new episodes of Naruto at 9.
- Also at 9: VH-1 has The Night James Brown Saved Boston.
- At 9:30, Nickelodeon has a new Just Jordan.
- At 11, FOX has a new Mad TV, followed by a new Talk Show with Spike Feresten.
- At 11:30, NBC has a new Saturday Night Live, with guests Christopher Walken and Panic at the Disco.
Check your local TV listings for more.
Posted Mar 26th 2008 8:06AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Ratings
Here are the weekly ratings, by number of viewers.
Nothing too different in the ratings this week, except for the temporary invasion from the NCAA Basketball games on CBS. American Idol is still on top, Dancing with the Stars trails right behind, and usual suspects such as 60 Minutes, Lost, Survivor, NCIS, and CSI: Miami are in the top 20.
1. American Idol - Tues (FOX)
2. American Idol - Weds (FOX)
Continue reading Nielsen ratings for the week ending March 23
Posted Mar 31st 2007 5:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight
CBS has March Madness all night.
- TLC has a new Moving Up at 8.
- Disney has a new Kim Possible at 8.
- GSN is showing four classic episodes of Press Your Luck starting at 8.
- Also at 8: Nickelodeon has the annual Kid's Choice Awards.
- At 9, FOX has a new America's Most Wanted.
- Suze Orman celebrates her 5th anniversary on CNBC at 9.
- A&E has a new Flip This House at 9.
- AMC has Deliverance at 9.
- Al Roker hosts Childhood Obesity: Danger Zone, on Food Network at 9.
- At 11, IFC is showing the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated.
- At midnight, USA has the 2007 WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, followed by all the Trump/McMahon nonsense on a new WWE A.M RAW.
Check your local TV listings for more.
Posted Mar 16th 2006 3:20PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Sports, CBS, Programming, OpEd, Things I Hate About TV

I don't think there's anything I look forward to less than this
two week period in March when CBS subjects us to non-stop college basketball action. Not the Olympics, not root canal
surgery. And it's not even the basketball that bothers me, it's that it's
college basketball. I mean, unless
you go to the school or went to the school, who gives a *&#%?
And it's one of those events where people
who ordinarily have no interest in college basketball all suddenly join in and bet money in various pools. They become
pseudo experts, and become obsessed with scores and matchups and who's playing who and when and what happened and what
the score is and everything else. And all the other networks have news stories about the games, my local paper covers
it as if it's the Super Bowl (it's not, sorry), and everyone just sort of tries to force it down our throats. Ugh.
It's funny, but I don't even watch that much on CBS, now that I think of it (
Letterman, maybe one of
the Monday night comedies,
Survivor), but this two week interruption still bothers me.