‘House of the Dragon’ is doing great … but ‘Game of Thrones’ is somehow doing even better?

by Therese Odell, posted in Uncategorized

GIVE ME ALL OF THE OTTER BABIES:

Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News

Lorne Michaels discusses this upcoming season of Saturday Night Live as a “year of reinvention” having lost 8 cast members, some of whom were SNL superstars.

This is interesting: House of the Dragon is doing gangbusters for HBO, averaging nearly 30 million viewers every week. However, more people are streaming Game of Thrones than they are House of the Dragon. House of the Dragon came in on the Nielsen streaming charts at number 6; Game of Thrones is number 3. There’s some speculation that House of the Dragon is that low because there aren’t as many episodes available to binge, which makes sense. (And by the way: the series that is the most popular streaming title, Echoes? Is complete and total trash, just so you know.)

Are you a glutton for punishment? Great news: you can apply to appear as a contestant on Netflix’s dating series, Love is Blind!

Holy smokes: Canadian actor Ryan Grantham, who appeared in Riverdale and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, was just sentenced to life in prison for killing his mother. Apparently, after shooting her in the back of the head, Grantham left the scene of the crime with the gun and a carload of ammunition with the intention of assassinating Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and he considered perpetrating a mass shooting event at his college. He eventually turned himself in to the police, instead. How am I only hearing about this now?

The Kid Mero has opened up a little more about his split with Desus, and it sounds like it had more to do with the show moving from Vice to Showtime than anything personal between them:

“Vice was like Sarah Lawrence compared to some ivy league school,” Mero said that the two companies were so drastically different, that it was harder to control where their show was going. “Vice was a very small crew. If I had any issues, I could go, literally, it was three floors. Vice was a totally different kind of setup and workflow. When you get to the big machine, people wanna put their fingerprints on stuff.”

Abbott Elementary has a pretty big fan:

Chris Rock was apparently offered a “shit ton” of money to host next year’s Golden Globes, but he declined.

After 10 years being sponsored by Pepsi, the Super Bowl Halftime Show has a new sponsor: Apple Music. This feels like an appropriate partnership.

Never forget: Anthony Bourdain was awesome:

Renewals

In Development

Casting News

Mark Your Calendar

  • Rosaline will debut on Hulu on October 14.
  • The Devil’s Hour will premiere on Prime Video on October 28.
  • Grey’s Anatomy returns on ABC on October 6.
  • Celebrity Jeopardy! premieres on ABC on September 25.

  • The Vow Part II will premiere on HBO on October 17.
  • Gangs of London returns on AMC+ on November 17.
  • Wahl Street returns on HBO Max on October 6.
  • Into the Deep premieres on Netflix on September 30.
  • Everything Calls for Salvation debuts on Netflix on October 14.
  • Love During Lockup returns on WE tv on October 21.
  • Abominable and the Invisible City debuts on Hulu on October 5.
  • Glitch debuts on Netflix on October 7.

R.I.P.

Hilary Mantel, Author of the “Wolf Hall” books. The BBC will continue with production on the adaptation of The Mirror and the Light, her final novel.

Cherry Valentine, Drag star and contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK

WATCH THIS

FRIDAY

Shark Tank: Season premiere. 7 p.m., ABC

20/20: Season premiere. 8 p.m., ABC

Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?: After the implosion of CNN+, Chris Wallace was given his own interview show on HBO Max which will then air on CNN a couple of days later. Series premiere. HBO Max

Minions: The Rise of Gru: OK, but are the teens going to dress up to watch it in their own homes? Premiere. Peacock

Lou: Jurnee Smollett and Allison Janney star in this film about a mysterious loner who is drawn out of her isolation when her neighbor’s child is kidnapped. Premiere. Netflix

SATURDAY

The Conversation: This brilliant paranoid thriller is one of the most influential movies of the 70s. It’s one of my favorites. 7 p.m., Epix Drive-In

Final Destination marathon: True Fact: when you become a mother, you start having Final Destination sequences play out in your brain in every situation you are in with your children — like, you are able to see exactly the Rube Goldberg sequence of events that will end with your child hurting themselves (even if it never happens). It’s the main reason I have spent the last 18 years yelling some version of “GET DOWN FROM THERE!” 6 p.m., Starz Encore

SUNDAY

Celebrity Jeopardy!: Series premiere. 7 p.m., ABC

The Simpsons: Homer seeks community on an internet group — HOMER, NO! Season premiere. 7 p.m., Fox

The Great North: Honeybee and Wolf find a new restaurant they become obsessed with in the season premiere. 7:30 p.m., Fox

Bob’s Burgers: Louise is jealous of Tina’s hands. Season premiere. 8 p.m., Fox

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune: Season premiere. 8 p.m., ABC

Family Guy: Season premiere. 8:30 p.m., Fox

The Rookie: Serial killer Rosalind is not done with Nolan. Season premiere. 9 p.m., ABC

Big Brother: Season finale. 7 p.m., CBS

The Circus: Here come the midterms. Season premiere. 7 p.m., Showtime

Late Night:

  • Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (Friday): Jon Hamm, Smashing Pumpkins

FRI. 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30
ABC Shark Tank
(new)		 20/20
CBS Big Brother
(new)		 Secret Celebrity Renovation
(new)		 Blue Bloods
(repeat)
CW Killer Camp
(new)		 Whose Line Is It Anyway?
(repeat)		 Whose Line Is It Anyway?
(repeat)		 Local
FOX Friday Night Smackdown Local
NBC Capital One College Bowl
(new)		 Dateline

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SAT. 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30
ABC College Football
(live)		 News/Local
CBS FBI
(repeat)		 FBI: International
(repeat)		 48 Hours News/Local
CW College Football
(live)		 Local
FOX College Football
(live)		 News/Local
NBC Quantum Leap
(repeat)		 Dateline
(new)		 Saturday Night Live
(repeat)		 News/
Local		 Saturday Night Live
(repeat)

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SUN. 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30
ABC Take Action Now
(new)		 Celebrity Jeopardy!
(new)		 Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
(new)		 The Rookie
(new)
CBS 60 Minutes Big Brother
(new)		 The Equalizer
(repeat)
The CW Local World’s Funniest Animals
(repeat)		 World’s Funniest Animals
(repeat)		 Penn & Teller: Fool Us
(repeat)		 Local
FOX The OT
(live)		 The Simp-sons
(new)		 The Great North
(new)		 Bob’s Burgers
(new)		 Family Guy
(new)		 Local/News
NBC Sunday Night Football
(live)

4 thoughts on “‘House of the Dragon’ is doing great … but ‘Game of Thrones’ is somehow doing even better?”

  1. My family was randomly chosen by Nielson. We got an unsolicited flier from them about how much they pay and how it works. The strange part is you wear what looks like a smart watch and it keeps track of what you’re watching. I had no idea thats how they did it.

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    1. Ooh, that’s new technology. Interesting! They used to make you manually log everything your household was watching.

      -T

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  2. So, Ty Tennant is the adopted son of David Tennant (10th Dr. Who) and grandson of Peter Davison (5th Dr. Who) and will play opposite Matt Smith (11th Dr. Who). And the episode which introduces him has a time jump. The Universe is playing with us again.

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