Before heading into the midseason, it is customary to check the TV programs’ report cards from every possible angle. That is why we share with you this list (from Inside TV) of the major broadcast networks fall shows rated by the average number of viewers.
Showtime has made the full premiere episode of its new series House of Lies available for viewers online. The show – touted as a comedy – focuses on a group of management consultants who will do anything to get the job done, and stars Don Cheadle, Kristen Bell and Ben Schwartz.
The first full episode of the series can now be viewed on Showtime’s official website and on iTunes, as well as select On Demand channels, smartphones and tablets. Viewers can also watch an edited version of the premiere episode on YouTube.
AMC’s newest drama Hell on Wheels has been renewed for a second season. The western, which follows the story of Confederate solider Cullen Bohannon (played by Anson Mount), who is out for vengeance in a post-Civil War era America, has seen a steady decline in its viewing figures since its premiere, but has still retained enough of an audience to see it past its initial run.
The show premiered to 4.36 million viewers – the second highest for an AMC drama this year behind The Walking Dead’s record breaking second season – but its seventh and most recent episode gained just 2.27 million. Whilst the drop is significant, the season low of 2.15 million is still a higher number than any episode of the most recent season of acclaimed AMC drama Breaking Bad besides its premiere.
According
to a press release from NBC, starting Monday, December 19, the network
has made available online all already aired episodes of some of its new
fall shows, including Up All Night, Whitney, and Grimm.
The move, which is part of NBC’s annual holiday “catch-up,” also
includes all previously aired episodes of the current season of Parenthood. The episodes will be available online until each show’s scheduled broadcast return in January 2012.
Christmas
is upon us, which means we are entering the last and most important leg
of the holiday season, but it also means the end of the TV hiatus is
only about a week away.
With
that in mind, TVOverMind has compiled a list of return dates for fall
shows. Now you just have to bookmark this page and use it as a
reference throughout the month!
A lot happened during the two-parter finale of Terra Nova, some of it
was funny, some of it was touching and some of it was sad, and although
there were some breadcrumbs setting the stage for a subsequent season,
the whole of it pretty much felt like a conclusion.
In the first half of the finale (“Occupation”), the forces behind Lucas
Taylor make their move, sending him back to Terra Nova at the head of
an army for hire. The private army takes over the settlement, pushing
Taylor into military resistance and quickly creating an atmosphere as
to make his previous absolute military leadership seem like a
Jeffersonian democracy. If we forget the scene shared by Maddy and her
soldier, everything leading up to the arrival of the army was pretty
decent, but then there was the anti-climactic moment after the
explosion. Even if you have little tolerance for battle scenes, here
the build-up was such that when the story moved from the explosion at
the Terminus to the infirmary, you had to feel a bit robbed of some
promised outcome.
Ryan Murphy recently confirmed that his critically lauded freshman drama American Horror Story will move to a new haunted building with several new characters for its “radically different” sophomore season. The series creator revealed that the FX series is finished with the story of the Harmons, played by Dylan McDermott, Connie Britton and Taissa Farmiga.
“Next year of the show will be a different haunting,” Murphy said. “The next season of the show will be a brand-new home or building to haunt.” Speaking to the reappearance of the current cast, Murphy said “Some of them will be coming back. There will be familiar faces and also some new faces.”
