Our top moments of the week:
13. Best Translation: Any fears about new coaches Usher and Shakira fitting in on The Voice are quickly quelled on Season 4's two-night premiere. While Usher gets comfy from the get-go — pop that leg up! — Shakira shows her true, hilarious colors on Night 2 when she whips out a fake Spanish-to-country dictionary to try to convince a ...
read more
NBC finally has some good ratings to sing about.
The Voice's Season 4 premiere bowed to 13.4 million viewers and a 4.7 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic Monday, up 12 percent from its fall premiere. It is expectedly down two ratings points from last spring's post-Super Bowl premiere.
After a four-month break, Revolution (7.2 million, 2.7) returned ...
read more
The joy that came with Revolution's return was more than a little dampened by frustration, shock and grief at the episode's much-hyped major death. So who died? Read on for this and ten other burning questions from "The Stand."
[Obviously, spoilers are ahead. Read at your own risk.]
read more
This is the night NBC has been waiting for all year. A rough 2013 it has been, for sure, with prime time in freefall and even institutions like the Today and Tonight shows embattled by negative PR. You might begin to think Do No Harm isn't just a bad memory, but a motto the Peacock network somehow just can't seem to live up to.
If the tide is ever to start turning, it will be on Mondays, with the return of the game-changing The Voice (8/7c) and its irresistible, instantly iconic "Blind Audition" episodes. New to the hot seats: Shakira and Usher, filling in this cycle for Cee Lo Green and Christina Aguilera, with NBC hoping it doesn't matter who's sitting in those revolving chairs. The show's the thing, and this has always been the best part of The Voice.
read more
NBC's latest Jay Leno debacle — not to be confused with its previous Jay Leno debacles — has at least momentarily distracted everyone from the Peacock network's other woes.
Even if Jimmy Fallon is on deck to take over The Tonight Show, the earliest that will happen is a year from now. NBC has more pressing issues right now, starting with primetime.
read more