Rocco and Karina would have gone home on last night's show, but since Misty May-Treanor was forced out due to injury, no one was eliminated. ALL MY CHILDREN's Susan Lucci survives to dance again next week.
"You're just hoping that you're going to hear your name in the saved list. You really want to stay, and I didn't realize until just now how much is apparently on my face while I'm waiting," said Lucci.
A Small Satellite Audience for FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS averaged 6.2 million viewers on NBC, a relatively low rating for a broadcaster. Wednesday’s DirecTV debut reached an exponentially smaller audience – 400,000 – but then again, the satellite universe is also smaller. DirecTV counts 17.1 million subscribers, while NBC reaches more than 100 million homes.
During the hour of its premiere, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS ranked No. 7 amid all of basic cable available to DirecTV viewers. (That note is important: DirecTV is measuring its competition based on its subscriber base.) Within the 18- to 49-year-old demographic, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS ranked No. 2 with women and No. 7 with men, the company said.
The series is on The 101, a DirecTV channel dedicated to original programming. New episodes will be shown Wednesdays at 9, with repeats on Fridays at 9.
For DirecTV, the more important metric than ratings may be subscribers, because it is using FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS as an enticement for new customers.
With a Couple of Hot Cookies and a Half Baked Plot, Kraft Foods Enters the Soap Opera Business
Mary Montanari reports: "In order to gain additional exposure for its healthy line of cookies, Kraft Foods Canada has created a new web based soap opera titled AS THE COOKIE CRUMBLES that is guaranteed to make soap fans chuckle. While Peek Freans Lifestyle Selection cookies are good for you no matter what your age, you have to be 18 to view the webisodes of AS THE COOKIE CRUMBLES."
PREVIEW: AMC's Walls Come Tumbling DownDeath and destruction are coming to ALL MY CHILDREN, along with some very cool special effects. Starting Oct. 13, and for the next seven episodes, Pine Valley will be hit by a series of tornadoes, and ABC has hired Stargate Digital — the effects house for HEROES, KNIGHT RIDER and 24 — to make things look as devastatingly real as possible.
This isn't the first time a twister has destroyed this scandalous Pennsylvania town. AMC staged a tornado back in 1994 but made do with giant wind fans and lots of rubble. "It was basically a one-tornado, one-episode event and they had to keep their walls up — our walls are coming down," says exec producer Julie Hanan Carruthers. "When a funnel cloud comes, it doesn't necessarily hit just once. Ours will hit, go back up and hit again and again. One minute Pine Valley Hospital is safe. The next it's not."
Rumorama: What's the future for NIGHT SHIFT's gay doc?
Jason Thompson is rumored to have told fans that we can expect a third season of NIGHT SHIFT and that gay head writer Sri Rao should be returning for the third season. That mixes interestingly with the rumor that Kyle might start working during daylight hours (possibly bringing his boyfriend, Eric, with him) once this season wraps up.
A History of Advertising by Stéphane Pincas and Marc Loiseau
Contrary to popular opinion the birth of advertising didn't begin in America but in France in the 1630's, when a Frenchman placed the first advertising notes in "La Gazette de France." Then again this book is penned by two French advertisers, Stéphane Pincas and Marc Loiseau, so they might say that! However they go on to say that the first time that the term 'advertising agency' was used dates back to 1842 in Philadelphia.
The book tells the history of advertising in sections divided by decades. It's all in there from 'Coke's' first 1892 campaign to the camel still used in the 'Camel' cigarette campaigns to the original 'Green Giant'. There is even artwork explaining the creation of the first soap opera, which began as a picture story ad to sell washing powder.
Ex-EastEnder condemns smoking jibes
The nation was shocked last weekend when the news broke that hugely popular actress Wendy Richard had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Richard - best known for playing Pauline Fowler in BBC One soap EastEnders - hit out at those who said smoking had caused her cancer.
She said: "To all those people who'll say, 'Oh well, we know she smokes, serves her right', well, my cancer was caused by a hormone imbalance. It had nothing to do with smoking, although I do agree smoking probably didn't help."
Jason Priestley returns to "90210" -- to direct
Will he direct Shannen Doherty, who is also poised to return?
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