Ratings: Rookie Blue Ties Season High, the Olympics Cool and Dallas Ends With a Bang

Rookie Blue, ERIC JOHNSON

The Olympic torch was tempered some this Thursday night, as the London Games averaged “just” 22.4 million total viewers while scoring a 6.8 demo rating, per fast nationals. Week-to-week, that marks a drop of …READ MORE


Olympics Watch: What Was Your Favorite Moment From London 2012, Day 13?

China's Chen Ruolin competes in the wome

Did you know that on Facebook, the U.S. women’s soccer team has almost 200 times more “likes” than its Japanese counterpart? That historically significant tidbit came straight from Ryan Seacrest’s mouth during his social-media report during Day 13 of the 2012 Olympics in London. [Insert eye-roll here.]

Seacrest’s pink-slime filler wouldn’t be so grody if …READ MORE


Olympics Watch: What Was Your Favorite Moment From London 2012, Day 12?

allyson fenix win DW

Two very different women ran two very different races on Day 12 of the London Olympic games. One came in first, the other dead last.

Both were amazing. READ MORE


Olympics Watch: What Was Your Favorite Moment From London 2012, Day 11?

Misty and Kerry

TVLine’s Olympics Watch coverage has focused a lot on swimmers, gymnasts and runners. And so while it’s tempting to name Aly Raisman’s Gold medal performance in the women’s gymnastics floor exercises as the highlight of my Day 11 viewing experience — who says human beings don’t have springs in their feet? — I’m going to zag where I’d usually zig and give props to …READ MORE


Olympics Watch: What Was Your Favorite Moment From London 2012, Day 10?

jason kenny fans

Another night of Olympic coverage, another event essentially spoiled by the tone-deaf folks at NBC. Indeed, Bob Costas’ primetime broadcast intro paid no mind to old-fashioned types like myself who …READ MORE


Olympics Watch: What Was Your Favorite Moment From London 2012, Day 9?

usain bolt

I can barely make it from the couch to the refrigerator in under 30 seconds — even when I’m super peckish — which made the finals of the Men’s 100 meter Sprint at the 2012 Summer Olympics all the more mind-boggling. READ MORE


Olympics Watch: What Was Your Favorite Moment From London 2012, Day 8?

London Olympics Athletics Men

Fast feet filled Day 8 of the 2012 Summer Olympics, as track and field competitors pounded away in pursuit of their personal best.

We saw Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, fastest man alive, breeze through his first 100-meter heat with less effort than it takes the average person to slap away a mosquito. We watched …READ MORE


Olympics Watch: What Was Your Favorite Moment From London 2012, Day 7?

Missy Franklin backstroke DW

The 2012 Summer Olympics’ Day 7 was a great one for American swimming, with two of its best (and, as such, biggest hyped) hopes delivering in a huge way. It’s easy to wax cynical about the coverage that’s surrounded swimmers Missy Franklin and Michael Phelps in the last month, but far easier …READ MORE


Olympics Watch: What Was Your Favorite Moment From London 2012, Day 6?

gabby douglas smile

NBC may not win a Gold medal for its all-around Olympic coverage, but it definitely had fewer stumbles in bringing us the women’s all-around gymnastics competition on Thursday than it did with the men’s equivalent on Wednesday.

For starters, we got to see plenty of …REAL MORE