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The difference between Lucille Bluth and Tabitha is that Lucille likes vodka and Tabitha likes scotch.
— Jessica Walter on the difference between her characters on Arrested Development and 90210.
TV Ratings
The premiere of the new 90210 was watched by about 5 million viewers. This is considered a success for the CW network. By comparison, the final season of the original 90210 “averaged nearly 8.4 million viewers per week”.
Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech was watched by 38.4 million viewers. He was beaten by John McCain, with 38.9 million. Sarah Palin drew 37.2 million and Joe Biden about 24 million.
A typical episode of “Deal Or No Deal” gets around 11 million viewers, an American Idol finale around 28 million and LOST around 13 million.
About 13 million NFL fans watched the season opener, the lowest number since 2002 (although this still supposedly helped McCain since the game finished just before he spoke). The Beijing Olympics averaged around 25 - 30 million. Amazingly, in China the Olympic opening ceremony was watched by about 840 million making it probably the biggest television event ever.
[Other than the last figure, these are all US numbers. I’m too scared to see what things are popular in Australia.]
7 September 2008 - 02:11 | Tags: tv, 90210, 902102, politics902102 doesn’t suck as much as expected
I take back what I said about Michael Lee and Lucille Bluth. They can both obviously act and 90210 was not able to suppress them. Also, the producers deserve credit for simply using the Lucille Bluth character directly (although is there a cross-over between Arrested Development and 90210 viewers?).
I’m not sure what message they are trying to send with the addition of a single black character into the elite white world. Don’t worry!! He’s adopted!! Straight from the corners of Baltimore. Look - he plays lacrosse not basketball!
The white adoptive parents also make some comment, while lying in bed inside their mansion, about being really glad their adopted black kid’s birth parents are not around. I guess because property values would drop or something.
But, the show isn’t good enough to be great, and not bad enough to be good. Gossip Girl totally wins.
Question: why didn’t they call it 902102?
5 September 2008 - 15:03 | Tags: 902102, 90210, tv90210 quality
- <dino> 90210 was great
- <antoine> it was really awful
- <dino> i’m not even kidding about it. I actually thought it was ok.
- <antoine> you have very low standards
- <dino> true
- <antoine> it sucked balls
Tristan Wilds played Michael Lee on The Wire, which I consider to be the greatest TV drama ever. Jessica Walter played Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development, which I consider to be the greatest TV comedy ever.
They both star in “90210”, which is the remake/reboot of “Beverley Hills 90210”. I have so many smart-ass things to say, but I’m practicing my self-control.
Note: I wanted to center the “before” and “after” text on the images, but that would have hidden Michael’s new pants.
4 September 2008 - 22:37 | Tags: tv, thewire, arresteddevelopment, 90210, 902102