Season Finale

Below the list of Season Finale for the most popular TV Shows:

- Dollhouse-FOX-Friday May 8th 8:00 PM

- Everybody Hates Chris-CW-Friday May 8th 8:00 PM

- Celebrity Apprentice-Sunday May 10th 8:00 PM

- Cold Case-CBS-Sunday May 10th 9:00 PM

- Brothers & Sisters-ABC-Sunday May 10th 10:00 PM

- The Unit-CBS-Sunday May 10th 10:00 PM

- The Big Bang Theory-CBS-Monday May 11th 8:00 PM

- House-FOX-Monday May 11th 8:00 PM

- Biggest Loser: Couples-NBC-Tuesday May 12th 8:00 PM

- Lost-ABC-Wednesday May 13th May 9:00 PM

- Grey's Anatomy-ABC –Thursday May 14th 9:00 PM

- CSI: NY-CBS-Thursday May 14th 10:00 PM

- Bones-FOX-Thursday May 14th 8:00 PM

- The Office-NBC- Thursday May 14th 9:00 PM

- 30 Rock-NBC- Thursday May 14th 9:31 PM

- Smallville-CW- Thursday May 14th 8:00 PM

- Ghost Whisperer-CBS-Friday May 15th 8:00PM

- Desperate Housewives-ABC-Sunday May 17th 9:00 PM

- Two and a Half Men-CBS-Monday May 18th 9:00 PM

- 24-FOX- Monday May 18th 8:00 PM

- Gossip Girl-CW- Monday May 18th 8:00 PM

- CSI: MIami-CBS-Monday May 18th 10:00 PM

- Dancing With the Stars-ABC-Tuesday May 19th 9:00 PM

- NCIS-CBS-Tuesday May 19th 8:00 PM

- The Mentalist- CBS-Tuesday May 19th 9:00PM

- Without a Trace-CBS Tuesday May 19th 10:00 PM

- American Idol-FOX-Wednesday May 20th 8:00 PM

Kings is moving to Saturdays

Unfortunately the new NBC TV show Kings is not doing well in the ratings and the network decided to make a schedule change from Sundays to Saturdays. This is not good news for the show, but at least NBC confirmed that will air the eight remaining episodes.

Unless a big change in the ratings, the Kingdom will have a short live.

Please let us know if you'd like NBC to bring the show next year.

Celebrities on Talk Shows

One of the best medium for celebrities to promote their new movie, CD, Broadway or TV show, is to appear as guests on popular Talk Shows. For the fans, talk shows give them the chance to see their favorite stars in a more personal environment, and in a way, get to know them better.

An appearance on a Talk Show can make or break a celebrity. Jerry Seinfeld and Ellen Degeneres are two of the celebs that have said that their big break came after an appearance on a popular talk show. In the other hand, we have cases as Farrah Fawcett, and recently Joaquin Phoenix that make the cover of next day papers for the way they behave on Talk Shows.

Celebs also use Talk Shows to apologize for any wrong doing they have committed, as the case of Hugh Grant, Mel Gibson, etc.

The hosts of the most popular Talk Shows are experts in interviews, celebs have to be ready to answer a variety of questions, or they can look flat, untruthful and boring, and this can affect whatever they are promoting.

You can visit my TV Guest web page (www.sparetimetv.com/tvguest.htm) for the list of celebs appearances in the most popular Talk Shows on TV.

The Celebrity Apprentice 2

Season 8th of the Apprentice start Sunday March 1st at 9:00 PM Eastern Time on NBC.


This year celebrities are:


Brian McKnight - R&B Star

Andrew Dice Clay - Comedian fired!

Dennis Rodman - NBA Star fired!

Herschel Walker - Heisman Trophy Winner

Clint Black - Country Star

Tom Green - Comedian fired!

Jesse G. James - Entrepreneur / TV Star

Scott Hamilton - Figure Skater fired!

Tionne Watkins - R&B Star

Khloe Kardashian - Reality Star

Joan Rivers - Comedienne

Melissa Rivers - TV Host / Producer

Claudia Jordan - Model fired!

Annie Duke - Poker Champion

Brande Roderick - Playboy Playmate

Natalie Gulbis - Golf Champion


The 16 candidates are divided into two teams, Males vs. Female.

It will very interesting watch this group of “Celebrities” come together to complete a project.

We will update the list as candidates are eliminated.

Recession is affecting commercial rates on TV

ABC announced that has lowered the commercial air-time for Sunday’s Oscar broadcast. Last year a 30-second spot was sold for as much as $1.8 million, this year the same spots have been sold for $1.4 to $1.7 million.

ABC is expected to generate around $68 millions with the telecast. That figure represents a 16 percent drop from last year.Networks have been obligated to lower the commercial rate for many of their primetime shows.

The economic is not the only reason, the rating for many popular shows have dropped. Almost all of the networks have reported decline in rating. If this situation continues many big production shows will disappear, giving more room to inexpensive reality shows and sitcom.

Nicollette Sheridan Is Leaving Desperate Housewives

TVGuide.com confirmed that Nicollette Sheridan (Edie Britt) is leaving Desperate Housewives. The day for her departure has not been announced yet.

A rep for Nicollette said in a statement that she had a great time during her five seasons in the show.

Edie will be missed by Desperate Housewives fans, because she gives some spice to Wisteria Lane that will be hard to replace.

Please write your comments and let me know what do you think would be the effect of Edie leaving Wisteria Lane.

Dancing with the Stars Season 8 Cast

ABC announced the cast for season 8th of Dancing with the Stars.

Here the new cast:

BELINDA CARLISLE
DAVID ALAN GRIER
JEWEL (out due to injury)
SHAWN JOHNSON
LIL' KIM
GILLES MARINI
TY MURRAY
STEVE-O
NANCY O'DELL (out due to injury)
DENISE RICHARDS
LAWRENCE TAYLOR
CHUCK WICKS
STEVE WOZNIAK
MELISSA RYCROFT-replacing Nancy O'Dell
HOLLY MADISON-replacing Jewel


Season 8 will premier on March 9th-ABC-8:00 PM

Today I came across an article in NYTimes.com,” Why Television Still Shines in a World of Screens “.

The article talked about while subscribers to print newspapers and book publishers are wondering where readers have disappear to, TV stands out as one of old-media business with surprise resilience. People are spending record amount of time online, “we are also watching record amount of very old-fashioned television”, the article said.

I believe TV will survive strong the Internet era, as Movie Theaters survived TV, VCR, and DVD. There are experiences that are hard to replace. Nothing like watching a movie in front of a big theater screen and with great sound. The same apply as sitting down with the family and watch your favorite show on TV in the comfort of your family room.To read the article goes to http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/business/media/08digi.html.

Lipstick Jungle might get another chance

NBC announced that Lipstick Jungle will return on another NBC Universal's networks for a third season and the replay on NBC midseason. (http://www.broadcastingcable.com/).

Rumors of cancellation started in mid-November due to low ratings, but the show continued after a 50% increase in ratings.

Beginning on December 5th NBC moved Lipstick Jungle to Fridays 9:00 PM for the rest of the season. The season finale, what many thought was the series finale, aired on January 9.

Many fans asked NBC not to cancel the show, and signed a petition to keep the show alive.

We will update this post as we get more details of NBC's plans.

Digital TV conversion delayed for about four more months

The House of Representative voted 264 to 158 today to extent the deadline from February 17 to June 12.

Consumers who rely on traditional over-the-air broadcasts will need to upgrade to a pay TV service such as cable or satellite, use a TV with a digital tuner or buy a converter box for their older analog television sets.(www.sfgate.com).

The delay does not mean that all the stations will continue to broadcast in analog. Broadcasters could shut off their analog transmission before June 12.

To get more information about the government coupons for converter box or other question about the transition to digital TV, visit www.dtv.gov or call 1888-388-2009

ER-Series Finale

NBC announced ER series finale on April 02/2009, after 15 seasons. ER is the longest-running American prime time medical drama of all time. It premiered on September 19, 1994.

There are a lot of rumors about George Clooney's return to the final episode. Other sources are reporting that Julianne Margulies (Nurse Hathaway) will also make a comeback. NBC wouldn't confirm or denied, as the details of this final show are kept in secret.

We will update this post as we get any confirmation.