Hell's Kitchen by Greg Gayne/Fox
Tuesday's tallies:8 pm/ETIdol (23.97 million total viewers) rebounded from last week's sizable dip by gaining 2.7 mil, and actually was up four percent from last season's Top 3 performance night. NCIS (14.7 mil) added 900 thou. Beauty and the Geek wrapped up its (final?) season with a typical 1.53 mil.9 pmDWTS slipped 1.5 mil yet of course topped the hour (with 16.6 mil). Hell's Kitchen delivered an all-time best 12.4 mil. The truly penultimate episode of Shark did 10.2 mil, while renewed Reaper dropped 470K, to two mil.10 pmSVU's season-ender delivered 11.32 mil, while the Women's Murder Club series finale scored 8.45 mil, down 230 thou week-to-week.
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Beauty and the Geek by Michael Desmond/The CW
This Tuesday's tallies:8 pm/ETAmerican Idol averaged 29.33 million total viewers over its two-hour run. That's up 1.1 mil week-to-week and on par with last year's Top 12 performance show. Biggest Loser (doing 7.66 across two hours) was down a million-plus. Beauty and the Geek scored a date with just 1.88 mil, a 44 percent plunge from last season's opener.9 pmBig Brother (5.92 mil) dropped 800K, while One Tree Hill sank 550 thou to hit a season low of 2.45 mil.10 pmTrailing an SVU repeat and ABC's Primetime (7.5 mil), Jericho matched last week's 5.87 mil. Coming next week: My video Q&A with the Skeetster!What's your take? Are we, at long last, all Geek'd out?
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Padma Lakshmi by Chuck Hodes/Bravo Photo
Two of reality TV's more pleasurable guilty pleasures return this week, one in "top" form and the other going too far in an unfortunate new direction.First up is the CW's Beauty and the Geek (Tuesday, 8 pm/ET) making yet another ill-advised change to the "social experiment," one even more damaging potentially than the last cycle's gender switch of adding a male beauty and a female geek to the game. This time around, the show pits the beauties against the geeks, turning what was once a disarmingly and unexpectedly sweet show into yet another tiresome battle of the sexes — largely abandoning the winning formula of putting beauties and geeks together, encouraging teamwork, and building confidence that goes beyond the stereotypes of stammering nerds and brainless bimbos.No one appears overly pleased at this twist. I know I wasn't. But even with the girls pitted against the guys, the contestants can't help but reach out to each other, even though they're no longer officially coachin...
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Beauty and the Geek contestant by Joseph Viles/The CW
As yet another season of Beauty and the Geek ensues, another batch of brilliant (wink, wink) women and socially-challenged men embarrass themselves in front of America. But one geek in particular caught our eye. Perhaps it's his tuxedo t-shirt (which clearly says "I want to be formal, but I'm here to party”), or the shifty-eyed delivery of his touching poem. Whatever it is, we definitely are putting our money on that guy! Go to video close-up now!
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Beauty and the Geek by Joseph Viles/ The CW
The CW's Beauty and the Geek is back March 11 (8 pm/ET), but this time the gorgeous and the brilliant won't be paired up: They'll be pitted against each other. In the all-new season of the Ashton Kutcher-produced series, the nine new beauties will have no brilliance to lean on, nor will the geeks have any in-team help on the fashion front. Adding more challenge to the mix will be competitions where the geeks join uber-guru Dr. Drew on Loveline, as well as attempt to offer style tips for beauty make-unders. The lovely ladies, meanwhile, will be charged with plumbing challenges, and will even join their opposing contestants on an ep of The Young and the Restless.Some of the new geeks to watch for include Tommy, a "sweater-vest enthusiast" from Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jason, a so-called "buff geek" from Brooklyn. These two and their geek compatriots will go up against ladies such as Amber, a Hawaiian Tropic model, and Tara, a Hooters hostess from Florida. Who might win in this b...
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Dave Olsen and Jasmine Moore, Beauty and the Geek
The CW's Beauty and the Geek has every right to declare Cycle 4 winners Jasmine Moore and Dave Olsen an exemplary model of what its "social experiment" is all about: learning patience and appreciation for the disparate worlds of tanning beds and bikinis, comic books and LARPing (live-action role-playing, that is). Dave, 28, was (he confesses) a "thoughtless, tactless and careless" teammate when first paired with 22-year-old Jasmine. But by midseason, the team set aside their differences to become a cohesive and competitive force by season's end. Viewers — having been given the ability to vote for the winners for the first time in BATG history — rewarded their transformation with $250,000 in prize money. But this down-to-earth pair hasn't let the green (or that kiss in Mexico?!) go to their heads, as evidenced in their chat with TVGuide.com.
TVGuide.com: Congratulations! Are you surprised th
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K-Fed makes the list as a "serial sperminator." (Denise Truscello/WireImage)
Top 50 Dumbest Celebs in HollywoodIf someone asked you to list off the dumbest stars in Tinseltown, you probably wouldn't even know where to begin considering the massive laundry list for this year alone. Well, leave it to the New York Daily News to come out with a list of the 50 dumbest stars in the sky. Whoever said nothing good would come of posing nude, creating drunken havoc in a Walgreens or, our favorite, being a "serial sperminator"?Watch it now!Janice Dickinson's 12 Days of ChristmasGranted, this video was made to promote last season's Janice Dickinson's Modeling Agency as opposed to tonight's third-season premiere, but we couldn't resist sharing her performance of "The 12 Days of Christmas," done in that special way that only Janice could pull off. We won't take it from the top, but let's just say she was lucky enough get some lovely gifts from her true love — like, say, her three former husbands, two large breasts and a fledgling modeling agency. Victoria's Secret Fa...
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Jen and William, Beauty and the Geek
Jen Carter and William McDonald got off to a rocky start from Day 1 of Beauty and the Geek (8 pm/ET, CW). The twosome, ousted in last week's episode, made amends just days before their departure, finally learning to work together as a team and to compromise. They explained to TVGuide.com all they'd been through — including hair loss and a lot of stress — and opined on which of the two remaining teams is more deserving of the win.
TVGuide.com: Wow, it's been an interesting experience for you two. I've seen all four cycles of BATG, and I don't think I've ever seen a team argue as much.Jen Carter: Yeah.... [Laughs]William McDonald: Yay for record-setters!
TVGuide.com: So when did things between the two of you really go bad? It seemed like it was the superhero challenge.William: I think it was from the very first day. She foun
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Question: Don't fret, Mike. If the strike goes on for a while, you can give us scoop on great programming like Beauty & the Geek, American Gladiators, The Bachelor, My Dad's Better Than Your Dad and Farmer Needs a Wife. How can you not look forward to that?
Answer: Lucille, on second thought, make that two bags of X and a kilo of V.
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Question: I never watched the CW before this year, but suddenly I'm finding myself watching shows that have been running for a while. Some of them I didn't know I was missing (Everybody Hates Chris, Beauty and the Geek and Supernatural), while others have only just started (Reaper, Gossip Girl and Aliens in America, definitely the funniest new show of the year). Am I a statistically insignificant anomaly, or do the ratings indicate that this will be the breakout year for the CW (or would have been if not for the strike)? On another note, I'm curious how the strike will affect certain cable shows. I don't know how much truth there is to this, but I've heard that some cable series typically have their entire season's worth of episodes produced far in advance of when the season starts. I'm particularly interested in learning the status of the final seasons of The Shield, The Wire and Battlestar Galactica. Do we know when they'll be airing and how much of their final seasons are in the can? ...
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