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Oct 4 2011 01:24 PM ET

CBS wins Monday night ratings again, but is it your go-to line-up of TV this fall?

by Aly Semigran

Tags: About Last Night, Burning Questions, Fall TV, TV Ratings, About Last Night

Image Credit: Darren Michaels/CBS

What do Two and a Half Men, 2 Broke Girls, and Hawaii Five-O add up to? A whole lot of ratings. (Not nine, but nice try, nerd!) We’re just three weeks into the new fall season, and it seems CBS’ Monday night line-up may be the strongest contender yet for must-watch TV.

The numbers are in and the network managed to edge out Fox, which had the return of House; ABC, lead by Dancing with the Stars; and NBC, which came in fourth, despite a boost from the on-the-ratings-rise The Sing-Off. Interest is only slightly waning for Two and a Half Men and its newcomer Ashton Kutcher (ratings were down 18 percent from last week, but the sitcom still had a staggering 17.2 million, 6.1), as well as Mike & Molly (a slight 11 percent drop with 13.2 million, 4.3, and right off the heels of star Melissa McCarthy’s Saturday Night Live success), and freshman series 2 Broke Girls continue to rake it in. The rest of their Monday night line-up did just as well, including fan favorites How I Met Your Mother and Hawaii Five-O.

But will these impressive numbers continue for CBS? Has the Ashton factor on Two and a Half Men already started to wear off, or will the endless chatter about his possible split from Demi Moore prompt folks to watch his every move? Can 2 Broke Girls keep their momentum if the quality of the show doesn’t live up to its once-promising potential? Or is Monday night on CBS, plain and simple, the strongest line-up currently on television? READ FULL STORY »

Oct 3 2011 10:18 PM ET

'Two and a Half Men': Talk about third episode here!

by Erin Strecker

Tags: Fall TV, Mini TV Watch, Two and a Half Men, Mini TV Watch, TV, Two and a Half Men

Image Credit: Adam Rose/CBS

Even after all the premiere buzz had passed, 20 million viewers stuck around last week to check out Ashton Kutcher’s second go-round in Two and a Half Men. The third episode tonight stayed pretty consistent with what’s been going on so far in the show’s ninth (!) season. If you’ve been loving Kutcher so far, tonight’s episode wasn’t going to change anything. For those who haven’t been impressed yet — well, you’re probably not going to be tuning in any more Monday nights. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 30 2011 12:50 PM ET

'Person of Interest' second look: Are you still interested?

by Benjamin Wood

Tags: Beat Cop, Fall TV, Person of Interest, Television, Television, TV

Image Credit: Eric Leibowitz/Warner Bros.

Last week, we were introduced to the crime fighting duo of Jim Caviezel and ~~Benjamin Linus~~ Michael Emerson on CBS’ Person Of Interest. I was intrigued by the pilot and thought it nicely tiptoed the line of presenting its heady premise — two men fight crime based on information generated by a machine that sees and hears everything — without falling too deep into it’s high-concept plot. I had assumed that the story would venture into Minority Report-esque questions about the moral ambiguity of preemptive action, but so far the show has avoided that whole argument by proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the Bad Guys really are bad guys and intend to do bad things to good people. POI deals with premeditated crime — not spontaneous crimes of passion — so in these days of electronic correspondence and surveillance, I suppose it’s plausible that an eavesdropping machine could sort through the din and generate information on what individuals were about to do. Course, maybe that’s just me being paranoid… moving on.

If you haven’t watched last night’s episode, tread carefully. There are some Spoilers ahead. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 30 2011 03:12 AM ET

'Private Practice' season premiere: Heart attack -- or attack on our hearts?

by Tanner Stransky

Tags: About Last Night, Fall TV, Mini TV Watch, Private Practice, Television, TV Recap, About Last Night, Mini TV Watch, Television, TV

Image Credit: Adam Taylor/ABC

Well, wasn’t that a rather deceptive way to open the new season of Private Practice? All summer, we fans have been wondering what, exactly, was going to happen to Pete — who suffered a heart attack in the last few seconds of May’s season finale — when the show revved back up this fall. So, naturally, Practice didn’t make us wait long and opened just minutes after the aforementioned medical emergency: Pete was still laboring on the floor, post attack. Stressful!

Not too much later, Sam was called into the hospital to help out Charlotte with a patient. They were pumping a chest, doing all they could, Sam was distraught, until Charlotte told him that they had to call it. The death, that is. Time: 10:17. Only — and as the whole thing was playing out, it became pretty clear what was going to happen — Pete wasn’t the dead body on the table. It wasn’t until the camera finally panned to the guy — a total unknown, who, frankly, we don’t care about — that we saw the patient’s true identity. I said it already, but: deception!

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Sep 29 2011 01:30 PM ET

Was there anything more exciting on TV last night than baseball?

by Christian Blauvelt

Tags: Apropos of Nothing, Channel Surfing, Current Affairs, Fall TV, Have You Seen This?, Reality TV, Snap Judgment, Television, Things That Are Awesome!, To Care or Not to Care, Reality TV, Television, To Care or Not to Care, TV

Image Credit: J. Meric/Getty Images

The most exciting TV last night came unscripted. But unlike much of the Wednesday reality TV lineup, it didn’t involve histrionic singers or immunity idols. The drama came from a little game called baseball. And what drama!

If you were a Red Sox fan, your season’s sudden end felt apocalyptically anti-climactic. To put it into EW-friendly pop culture terms, the Sox missing the playoffs after entering September with a nine-game Wild Card lead is a bigger disappointment for the Nation than the respective bummer factors of The Phantom Menace, the Matrix sequels, that Roseanne finale, Chinese Democracy, and the oeuvre of Kevin Costner combined. And if you were a Rays fan, last night felt something like this. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 28 2011 10:31 PM ET

ABC's 'Happy Endings': Five reasons to love it!

by Adam B. Vary

Tags: Fall TV, Happy Endings, Mini TV Watch, Television, Happy Endings, Mini TV Watch, Television, TV

Image Credit: Mitch Haddad/ABC

When Happy Endings premiered last spring, the obvious dig on the show was that it was yet another collection of six twenty-to-thirtysomething friends with a shockingly large amount of free time who spend their half hour on our television nattering comically about their relationships. Which, in fairness, it is. Happy Endings even has a played-out will-they-or-won’t-they premise: A year ago, Alex (Elisha Cuthbert) left Dave (Zachary Knighton) at the altar. But because their core group of friends is so tight-knit — Alex’s uptight sister Jane (Eliza Coupe), her easy-going husband Brad (Damon Wayans Jr.), and their college buddies, kind-of-a-mess Penny (Casey Wilson) and slovenly-straight-acting gay dude Max (Adam Pally) — Alex and Dave have maintained a warm-if-tricky friendship…that may be hiding something more!

Yeah, I know, it’s like network romcom Mad Libs. And yet next to The Good Wife, I don’t know if there’s another returning show I’m more excited about this season. Tonight’s season 2 premiere was a great example as to why. Let me count the ways:

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Sep 27 2011 07:00 PM ET

'Glee' has some Mommy issues tonight

by Abby West

Tags: Diss-a-Glee Club, Fall TV, Glee, Television, Glee, Television, TV

Image Credit: Mike Yarish/FOX

Idina Menzel’s Shelby Corcoran returns to Lima, Ohio tonight, bringing back both the baby she adopted from Quinn and Puck, as well as Rachel’s conflicting emotions about her biological mother.

And as if there isn’t already enough potential for high drama, Kurt’s got some new issues to deal with as he tries out for the lead in the school play. Shouldn’t be anything a little song and dance can’t fix, right? We’ll see.

You can watch tonight’s episode with us on our new second-screen app, EW.com’s ViEWer. Just click here to try it out. Come on. You know you wanna.

And you should check back after the show for our recap or join Keith Staskiewicz’s inaugural meeting of the Diss-a-Glee Club. (We mean it this time. Some overbearing cheerleading coach sabotaged him last week but this week he outmaneuvered her.)

Sep 27 2011 12:41 AM ET

'Hart of Dixie' series premiere: Bilson's back!

by Erin Strecker

Tags: Fall TV, Mini TV Watch, This Could Be Interesting..., TV Recap, Mini TV Watch, TV

Image Credit: Michael Tackett/The CW

What do you get when you mix Sweet Home Alabama with The OC and just a hint of Gilmore Girls? A fun new Monday night dramedy, Hart of Dixie.

Rachel Bilson stars as Dr. Zoe Hart, a fresh-out-of-med-school grad from NYC who has life all figured out. She gives a speech so inspiring at her graduation ceremony that a older gentleman, Dr. Harley Wilkes, invites her to come work at his practice in Blue Bell, Alabama. She passes, but four years later, after finding out she won’t be a heart surgeon in NYC until she sees patients as “People to help, not puzzles to solve,” Dr. Hart has a change of heart (See what I did there?) and decides to become a general practitioner for a year. She takes Dr. Wilkes up on his continued offers to move to Alabama and work for him. Will she learn lessons of life and love in the good ol’ South? Bet on it. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 27 2011 12:02 AM ET

'2 Broke Girls': It had a decent pilot. Is it becoming a good series?

by Stephan Lee

Tags: About Last Night, Fall TV, Mini TV Watch, Sarcasm, Television, This Could Be Interesting..., About Last Night, Mini TV Watch, Television, TV

Image Credit: Sonja Flemming/CBS

Last week, Michael Patrick King and Whitney Cummings’ sitcom 2 Broke Girls got off to a bumpy but promising start: The chemistry between Max (Kat Dennings) and Caroline (Beth Behrs) was strong, but many of the jokes pertaining to city life missed the mark. The premiere fit nicely into the good-for-a-pilot category, but the important second episode, which doesn’t have the excuse of being the first, had to be better. Was it? READ FULL STORY »

Sep 27 2011 12:01 AM ET