A somewhat dissapointing results from this Monday:

Viewers: 7.2 million

Rating: 4.6 (-0.2 from last week)

Share: 7

18–49: 3.2

Data based on fast national ratings.

I'm surprised... I thought this past week's episode was pretty good. I'm glad that they finally ended the "will they, won't they" issue with one of two of the major couples on the show. Harriet/Matt mess is dragging the show down for me, with the back and forth and going in circles that they do.

So sorry Aaron Sorkin didn't win the WGA Award for the pilot. Reportedly, he spoke at the ceremony. Wonder if I could find some photos out there...

I so falling in love(lol) with this show. Jordan & Danny I loved the kiss and the I'm crazy about you note

"CSI: Miami" scored a 12.7/21, the night's best rating, for CBS at 10 p.m. NBC's "Studio 60" was well back at 4.3/7, and ABC's "What About Brian" posted a 3.8/6.

 

A new low... -0.3 from last week.

Edited February 14, 200719 yr by Sylph

I'm surprised... I thought this past week's episode was pretty good. I'm glad that they finally ended the "will they, won't they" issue with one of two of the major couples on the show. Harriet/Matt mess is dragging the show down for me, with the back and forth and going in circles that they do.

Their back and forth relationship is what is making me not like the show. They need to make a decision about these two and then move on. I still haven't watched last week's show because I'm afraid it will be mainly about them meeting for the first time. I don't care because Harriet bugs the crap out of me. What he sees in her is beyond me. I want to like it since I enjoy the rest of the show but everytime they start yapping about their past I tune out.

There it goes, like the snows of yesteryear... Monday viewrship data:

RTG: 4.1

18–49: 2.6

SHARE: 7

VWRS: 6.4

Save Studio 60, save the world!

If the show is really and truly going to t.v heaven(not officially believing it till NBC releases a press release regarding it), Monday's show was good and I would be satisfied that episode was the last one. JorDanny ware freaking adorable.

Edited February 21, 200719 yr by Laurie

'Studio 60' Returning in May

Show will return after sweeps and after the upfronts

Zap2It.com

April 27 2007

NBC has set a return date for "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip."

The Aaron Sorkin drama, which arrived last fall as the season's most hyped show and vanished from NBC's schedule amidst sinking ratings, will move to Thursday nights at 10 p.m. starting on May 24, at least according to the network's website for the show.

Not-so-coincidentally, that Thursday is the day after the end of the crucial May sweeps period and it comes a week after the upfront presentation at which NBC will reveal to advertisers whether or not "Studio 60" has a future on the network next season.

The show's chances for renewal are believed to be relatively slim.

Savvy viewers will recall that this is a return of sorts for "Studio 60." Last May, NBC announced that the series would air on Thursday nights at 9 p.m., only to run scurrying to Mondays after ABC moved "Grey's Anatomy" into the same time period.

"Studio 60" had a solid premiere, but by the time February rolled around the series was drawing only around 7 million same-day viewers (factoring in DVR usage gave the series a boost). The last original "Studio 60" aired back on February 19, before NBC shelved it a week earlier than expected for "The Black Donnellys."

Of course, "The Black Donnellys" failed to even premiere big and NBC pulled the plug on that Paul Haggis-created drama after only six episodes, replacing it with "The Real Wedding Crashers," which also didn't exactly dominate the time period.

NBC has yet to announce its specific intentions for the truncated "Studio 60" return. Six episodes remain unaired.

If people and NBC would just give this a chance!! It could be one of the best shows on TV. Aaron Sorkin to me is such a "out of this world" writer! He's amazing!

I am so happy it is coming back. Hopefully NBC waits to see how these 6 episodes rate and then make their final decision about the show's future.

I think so, too. I think his shows are perfectly scripted, he's not a writer of heightened drama, and I don't mind the preaching. So, I really hope they'll renew the show for another season. Even if it's 16 episodes or so.

The 10 p.m. hour went to the series finale of "Studio 60" (4.2 million, 2.0/6) in the adults 18-49 demo while CBS' "Shark" (7.9 million, 1.9/6) came in second and in third place was ABC's "Men in Trees" (3.7 million, 1.1/3).

A Friend in need

Matthew Perry plays a fast-talking writer in Aaron Sorkin’s new TV satire. Our correspondent loves it; sadly, America didn’t

Caitlin Moran

Ooooh, this is cheeky. Look, here are the opening minutes of Aaron West Wing Sorkin’s new project: a dignified old liberal is engaged in a sudden, Network-style, on-air meltdown. “[uS TV] has gotten lobotomised, by a candy-assed network. In the struggle between art and commerce, art is getting its ass kicked. There are programmes where people are trying to be Donald Trump. People are getting killed in wars with logos and theme-tunes. The remote in your hand is like a crack pipe!�

It’s a trademark Sorkin rant, and where is it taking place? In the set that’s just been used for a comedy sketch – a mock-up of the Oval Office at the White House. Whatever he does – however new the project – Sorkin just can’t get away from righteous tirades, and the view down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Look, I know all the arguments against Aaron Sorkin. He’s basically C. S. Lewis for liberals. In The West Wings’ President Bartlet and his impassioned tribe of hypercaffeinated pinko wonks, Sorkin provided an escape capsule from the reality of George W. Bush’s presidency. The fundamental premise of nearly every show he’s ever written is fatally flawed: to wit, that the balance of power is held by an establishment Nazi, who – and against all evidence in real life – is happy to devolve all their power when called upon by a bright-eyed, fast-talking young liberal.

Sorkin was rocking a mighty crack addiction during the first two seasons of The West Wing, making the invention of his trademark “Walk and Talk� scenes seem quite obvious. Of course he’s going to get them to walk fast and talk fast! In reality, he’s talking like a ticker-tape machine and walking up buildings! Originally, those shots were called “Walk and Talk and Slap at the Invisible Crack Bugs Under Your Skin� scenes. They were born of necessity, not genius.

I know all of this. I know all this. And yet, I’m still an absolute sucker for what Sorkin does. Indeed, more than a sucker– I actively welcome Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip into my life, in the same way that I would welcome a cheese trolley. I know 60 is going to make me feel all triumphant and energised. I know it’s going to make the concept of cynicism seem like the perambulating cadaver of piss and vinegar that it is, and cause you to believe that, one day, America will be a country in which every man, woman and child gets a free copy of the Flying Burrito Brothers’ Hot Burrito #2at birth. Just to remind them of how great life can be.

Studio 60, then, is Sorkin’s big sermon on the state of American TV. Matthew Friends Perry plays a Sorkin-based character – fast-talking writer with a drug problem – and does it with the relish of a man finally on a show with moody lighting and swear-words, and no group hugging. Essentially, the plot is that a Saturday Night Live-type show – Studio 60 – is failing, and a group of fast-talking right-on TV wonks are allowed to take over, in an experiment, to see if they can salvage it, and rediscover America’s taste for smart, gutsy TV.

The irony is that, in real life, America proved unready for smart, gutsy TV, as Studio 60 was axed at the end of its first series, after a ratings slump. In the cathode ultra-verse, the only person in America now watching Studio 60 is Jed Bartlet, still up at 4am, drafting his healthcare bill to cover moss, spores and lichen. So enjoy Studio 60 while you can – in 22 episodes, it’s gone for ever.

From the other end of the TV horse – the flyblown tail to Studio 60’s magnificent flaring nostrils – comes Totally Jodie Marsh: Who’ll Take Her Up the Aisle? Here, the baffling existence of Marsh – whose sum contribution to the human condition is the invention of wearing a belt as a bra. And, I suppose, boldly pioneering the banana-shaped nose – is cranked up a notch. Flattered into morally destitute pliancy by the presence of a camera crew, Marsh has agreed to get married in September – now all she needs to do is find a husband! During a series of X-Factor-style auditions! Joyously, at the first audition, only four men turn up. It looks like Marsh’s ticket – the one reading “Hell in a handcart� – is finally nearing its destination.

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Thur, More4, 10pm; Totally Jodie Marsh: Who’ll Take Her Up the Aisle?, Sun, MTV, 10pm[/quote]

Edited July 25, 200718 yr by Sylph