And Obama continues to kick Trump’s ass:
A supersized edition of Donald Trump’s competition series Celebrity Apprentice spanned three hours, going head-to-head against the rest of primetime on Sunday.
But, NBC’s three-hour telecast — which saw Star Jones and LaToya Jackson fired and NeNe Leakes quitting — didn’t fare so well: Celebrity Apprentice (7 million total viewers, 2.4 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic) was the lowest-rated spring telecast for the franchise, dipping 23 percent. Dateline (3.9 million, 0.8) served as a weak lead-in, down 33 percent. The Peacock placed fourth for the night in the key demo.
CBS won the night with 60 Minutes (13.8 million, 2.3) surging 43 percent, thanks to President Obama’s only televised interview about Osama bin Laden’s death. The two-hour finale of The Amazing Race (8.6 million, 2.5) was the lowest-rated in franchise history. CSI: Miami (9.7 million, 2.0), however, ended its season with a double-digit uptick, but still was one of the series’ lowest-rated episodes.
Poor thing. Racism just doesn’t sell the way it used to…
Just Some Fuckhead
Has Trump gotten rid of all the black folks on Celebrity Apprentice yet?
RossInDetroit
Clearly Trump forced Obama to go on TV to explain himself so Trump wins. See how easy that was to understand?
handy
Isn’t this–a “struggling show”–still like two or three times the numbers Fox News pulls down? Eat your heart out Billo.
maya
Just proves the librul bias of the networks. Or the viewers. Or those Anchor-babies Neilson families.
demz taters
This is what the kids would call “major pwnage.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Just Some Fuckhead: Determining an answer to that would require more investigation into that show than I care to invest.
Ash Can
Further proof that justice does exist in this world.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Omnes Omnibus: Yeah, that’s why I don’t know. I stopped watching it when he went on his racial tirade. Lil Jon might still be there. Can’t think of anyone else.
Upper West
Too bad about The Amazing Race — the Citizen Kane of reality shows (admittedly by comparison). The winning sisters last night really deserved it, while the Globetrotters were disappointingly arrogant.
Dongo
Maybe if, instead of just being a condescending dick to brown people, Trump started killing them at Obama’s genuinely impressive pace he’d be in a better position for 2012.
Mark S.
Maybe we should be speculating if David Caruso is going to run. He’s kicking Trump’s ass.
Makewi
Poor dears. You still think that people pay attention to these sort of smears.
Mark S.
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Wikipedia is always your friend for matters such as this.
Stefan
DO NOT POST SPOILERS ABOUT OTHER SHOWS THAT PEOPLE HAVE NOT SEEN YET!
We have these things called DVRs. Just because Amazing Race aired last night doesn’t mean I saw it then.
freelancer
@Stefan:
So I probably shouldn’t have mentioned the thing about Starbuck being the final Cylon then?
Jay in Oregon
Okay, i just have to say it…
THREE HOURS?? Of Celebrity Apprentice??
The fact that any major network thought a three goddamn hour special episode of CA was a good idea says more about the state of this nation than I care to ponder.
(Having said that, it would be awesome if President Obama started giving interviews and press conferences in that time slot every week just to put that schmuck Trump in his place…)
piratedan
@Upper West: agreed, I was happy that the sisters won it, although I was pretty happy that most of the pairings I loathed had already been eliminated by the 6th pit stop, a rarity.
Loneoak
@Stefan:
Yeah, don’t tell me how the MASH ended, you fucking Intertrons! I haven’t seen that show yet.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Jay in Oregon:
Hell, I remember when they got rid of Freaks and Geeks to put on more nights of Dateline NBC. Something is wrong with the station.
MikeJ
Rosebud is his sled.
Ash Can
@Makewi: That’s exactly what those numbers are telling Trump.
Shoemaker-Levy 9
Forget racism and politics for a moment; could America finally be turning the page on the darkest chapter in its history? Are “reality” shows finally going out of style?
Three hours? Three fucking hours? Forget Trump for a moment; who in the hell can sit through three straight hours of any kind of primetime broadcasting, much less Apprentice?
Mark S.
@Loneoak:
Hawkeye goes insane and murders the entire 4077th. Then the war ends.
Oh, sorry.
Shoemaker-Levy 9
@Jay in Oregon:
You got me by three minutes.
Upper West
@Stefan: Sorry, man. What’s the statute of limitations for spoilers?
Upper West
@Mark S.: Did you know that at the end of St. Elsewhere it’s revealed that the whole thing is an autistic kid’s fantasy looking at a snow globe of a building?
oops! sorry, mate.
Makewi
@Ash Can:
You keep telling yourself that. I’m sure it will help.
handy
Likewise, Soylent Green was people.
Jay in Oregon
My favorite non-spoilery spoiler… http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/4/29/
“River is made of chocolate” was a catchphrase for my circle of friends for a few months…
PurpleGirl
@Shoemaker-Levy 9: Weeeellllll… A&E’s BIO channel just signed Bristol Palin to do a reality show wherein she moves to L.A. to live with her dancing partner from DWTS and his brother as she goes to work for a charity. (Yeah, right, real life.) Her mother done taught her well about grifting.
debit
Also, too, Vader was Luke’s father.
gnomedad
@Jay in Oregon:
Oh, that River.
Splitting Image
Dick Loudon gets hit by a golf ball.
gnomedad
Jesus rises from the dead.
MikeJ
Could somebody please post a spoiler for The Big Sleep? Chandler didn’t know what the fuck was going on in that mess, but it was still great.
Ash Can
@Makewi: I’m joking, dear. I actually have no idea in hell what you’re talking about. Feel free to go into more detail, though. Your posts are always highly entertaining.
Jay in Oregon
@PurpleGirl:
OK, I understand each of those words individually, but when you put them in order like that, it doesn’t make sense.
SiubhanDuinne
Rhett leaves Scarlett.
Makewi
@Ash Can:
Wish I could say the same about yours, dear. OTOH, I guess you pay a price in originality when you decide to seek comfort with the mob.
SiubhanDuinne
@PurpleGirl:
But but but . . . What about the house in ARIZONA??
fasteddie9318
HES NOT A RACIST TEH NI–I MEAN BLACKS–LOVE HIM!
handy
Wow just saw Sixth Sense. Wow crazy movie. Have a question though, no worries no spoilers but just wanna know if Bruce Willis really a ghost? My friend Bobbie thinks Haley Joel Osment was just paranoid delusional but I disagree. TIA.
gnomedad
@PurpleGirl:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA …
What, really?
Ash Can
Does anyone here have any idea what Makewi is trying to say here? Does anyone else suspect this is (yet another) matoko sock puppet?
Ash Can
@PurpleGirl: A&E has really gone to shit. Years ago, that channel was somewhat entertaining, showing indie and out-of-the-way movies and some fine arts programming. Now it’s just crap.
(Edited to fix shift fail.)
RossInDetroit
Sartor Resartus is about religion, not clothes. I think.
MikeJ
Sister Carrie finds out that fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
PurpleGirl
@gnomedad: Suffern ACE made a comment about a story at Deadline Hollywood concerning Bristol Palin. So I went looking for it and voila:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/05/bio-greenlights-bristol-palin-reality-series/#more-129763
The premise is fake, the narrative will be fake. The young woman has certainly learned how to be a grifter from her mother.
@Ash Can: Yes, years ago I really liked A&E; also the old version of The Learning Channel.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ash Can:
Completely agree, and it’s a sad loss. It was A&E that brought us the original Pride & Prejudice series, and another great series whose title I forget about a couple of sisters who founded a fashion empire, and just a lot of fine BBC-type programming. But I haven’t watched anything on it for years now — am not even sure exactly where it is on my cable channel lineup.
SiubhanDuinne
@PurpleGirl:
Ditto this, and for the same reasons I miss the old A&E.
Triassic Sands
Jeebus, until this
I was completely unaware of anything concerning Chump’s fake reality show. Now, I feel like taking a shower, and I just got finished taking a shower.
In the future, please hide this crap. TIA.
Mark S.
@Ash Can:
Yeah, A&E got really stupid.
Mike Kay ( Geronimo!!)
@Ash Can: it’s not even A&E, it’s A&E Bio, which is further down the dial.
Southern Beale
We watched The Amazing Race. After 60 Minutes of course!
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne:
House of Eliott.
JenJen
@Just Some Fuckhead: Lil John survived the Black Folk Mass Firing last night.
@Stefan: Won’t spoil who won Amazing Race, but DO NOT MISS the full body waxing of Zev and Justin. Hilarious. KELLY CLARKSON!
Scott
Someone remind Makewi that a black man is in the White House.
Just Some Fuckhead
@JenJen:
Yeah, but look at the fundraising totals. He’s losing drastically to the other three people. Even if he manages to win now it will look fixed so Trump can trumpet how awesome he is with The Blacks.
Trump has ruined the show. He must die.
Doug Harlan J
Great title.
Just Some Fuckhead
Plus I never really got over the Dionne Warwick firing. I know what footage they showed of her wasn’t very flattering but I love that woman. Smart, talented, beautiful.
Villago Delenda Est
The Titanic sideswipes an iceberg and sinks.
Anya
@PurpleGirl: If that’s true then grifter senior is not running, right?
Villago Delenda Est
@PurpleGirl:
A&E brought us an entire slew of first rate Horatio Hornblower movie adaptations that, while not in lockstep synch with the novels, were very, very good.
Unfortunately, A&E pulled the plug on them just as they were about to get to Hornblower and the Crisis, which was incomplete upon C.S. Forester’s passing in 1966, and definitely could have used a fleshing out.
Joel
the ratings for that 18-49 demo are pretty pitiful across the board. basically the level of that Paul Reiser sitcom in the 90s.
Mr Stagger Lee
The Lakers got swept by the Mavs and for you Seattle Mariner fans, Milton Bradley was released from the team
PurpleGirl
@Anya: I have no idea about that.
Mnemosyne
@Upper West:
Personally, I would vote for an embargo of 24 hours before people start posting TV spoilers. But some people just can’t resist.
Tsulagi
Yeah, for the insatiable teatards it’s kind of a matter of what stupid have you delivered to me lately. Trump whetted their appetite with birtherism, but that’s so last month and for them like Chinese food; they want more filling stupid that can last.
If he hopes to keep his R-can ratings up, he has to bring it. Jesus and guns are always good staples. Look for him to shed Beck/Orange Guy level tears at being born again while also too hearing the Lord mixing in a little Reagan spirit giving him the mission to tear down those gun control walls. That might sustain the tealoons for a full month.
Barb (formerly Gex)
Much easier to ask the world to be careful not to talk about things you haven’t watched than to be careful what media you consume before you watch it.
What the hell was the world thinking? Not of the people who haven’t watched their DVRed programs. God people are assholes.
/snark.
ETA: when I don’t want to find out a sports score, for instance, I don’t go participating in on-line conversations with people and then yell at them if they happen to discuss an event from the past. But that’s just me.
Kathy
A thread that talks about spoilers and no one has mentioned the “chick with a dick” in Crying Game? What’s wrong with people tonight?
Elie
@JenJen:
I totally agree about the full body wax. Almost wet my pants..
Back in the day of my wearing bikinis, I used to get the brazilian wax…Needless to say, its best to keep it up regularly rather than lapse and have too much regrowth….(more than anyone needs to know)
But I laughed and laughed cause I knew what pain they were feeling and much much more than I ever did. That virgin pec skin and the nipple area — OMG!
Common Sense
I think as an independent Trump would have a hard time breaking 2% in the end.
Caz
So the bottom line is that Trump is an evil person and you feel the need to point out how bad his show did on the night that Obama announced that bin Laden had been killed? Well no shit, juicetard! Every show on TV had lower ratings because of that.
So anything you can find to support your position that Trump is satan, wants to destroy the country and somehow profit from it, is only out to help himself get richer, has no ethics or morals, doesn’t care about his country, will exploit anyone and anything to his own benefit, and lies every time he opens his mouth. Oh yeah, and he’s a racist because he questioned Obama’s birthplace.
How about growing the fuck up already, lol. He’s just a businessman with conservative points of view who, along with millions of other hard working Americans, thinks Obama’s birthplace is not entirely certain.
Do you have a juicetard list of issues? If so, I suspect the top issues to point out daily are: (1) conservatives are all evil; (2) conservatives are all racist; (3) conservatives all hate poor people and want them to suffer because they take joy in watching people suffer; (4) they want to ruin this great country because, well, we’re not sure why, but they definitely want it to fall into ruin; (5) they don’t deserve any of the money they worked hard to earn; (6) conservatives didn’t earn their money, they stole it from poor people; and (7) conservatives think the government is conspiring to take away our liberties, thrust us into dependence, control every aspect of our lives, and run things based on their enormous egos.
Well, you’re right about number (7)! The rest is just typical hate mongering. It sounds kinda like one of those conspiracy theories liberals want to outlaw (see Cass Sunstein’s proposal to outlaw conspiracies).
Get a grip, juicetards. The people you support are trying to take away the very liberties that give you right to post the bullshit you put forth every day on this pathetic attempt at a blog.
It is entertaining though to listen to your daily whining and hate. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a collection of ignoramuses in one place ever. Keep up the good work, juicetards! So enlightening you are. I don’t know what the American people would do without you, that is, if the American people ever actually read this blog, which they don’t. You do know that the only ones that read this crap of a site are your own little collection of ignorant, out-of-touch morons. Them, and me, the only conservative troll on this site who simply reads this because I was friends with Cole back when I lived in Morgantown. He claimed to be a libertarian back then though. Now I can’t figure out what he believes in, and I’m not sure he even knows at this point, lol.
Goodnight, juicetards!
Yutsano
@Caz:
Good Lawd JC. Have you just left a trail of bitter gay men who can’t quit you all over this country? For a straight man you sure are quite the homosexual cad.
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne:
House of Eliott. Great series. The younger sister now has a part-time role as a cop on CSI. Bummer.