This Week's EW in a Nutshell

Ok so here is all that is newsworthy from this week's Entertainment Weekly:

Kate Walsh is getting married!

The Heroes "Origins" thing that they are doing while on hiatus is based off of the Twilight Zone (in that each is a contained tale about a certain character) This makes much more sense about the whole voting thing...

Also Lost is returning in January? I think that I remember you saying something about that...

They say that a lot of times the ratings on the tv shows aren't accurate because of DVRs since people don't watch the show the same night...they have decided to use a figure that counts anytime that the show is watched within 3 days for next season which gives them a better picture of the viewership and the companies that pay for commercials only have to pay for how many people end up watching them since the whole point of a DVR is to FF. They also said that daylight savings time (which was 3 weeks earlier) caused more people to go outside earlier which disturbed the viewship...huh.

Winners and losers...
#1 CBS (12.2 million viewers a week)
#2 FOX
#3 ABC
#4 NBC
#5 CW (3.2 million)
Brothers & Sisters was listed as one of the reasons that ABC was successful while The Nine was listed as a failure...Of course Justice is listed as a failure for FOX, the winners being Idol and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (*gasp*) Although FOX is hoping to improve their pre-emptions from baseball lowering the interruptions from 14 (prev. 26!). Studio 60 has officially been cancelled (the last few episodes begin airing this week). ANTM is considered to be the key anchor for the CW...wow

On "The Must List" #1 is Debra Messing in "The Starter Wife" which they describe as: "USA's new dramedy brings the Will & Grace alum back to the small screen--and her vivacious performance as a spurned LA wife makes us remember how much we've missed her." I am so watching this!
Also on the list is "The Princess Squad" from Shrek.

The new Pirates is given a C.

New Trailers:
The Bourne Ultimatum
Bee Movie
Superbad
The Golden Compass

For what to watch this week on Sat (the 2nd) HBO is showing "John Tucker Must Die"...to which EW says, "In early June, even the pay networks stop trying." HA.

Last but certainly not least bc they are my favorite part of the magazine...SOUND BITES! This is the first week that I have ever seen all of them...
"NBC announced Monday it will once again renew its long-running drama L&O. Which, as near as I can tell, is about a kindly old grandfather who teaches cynicism to a series of supermodels." ~SNL
"Oh, please don't become one of those 'I had a heart attack, let me espress my every thought' types." ~Gilmore Girls (I miss Emily already!)
"It's like the first 15 minutes of Extreme Home Makeover." ~Brothers & Sisters
"Once I am officially regional manager, my first order of business will be to demote Jim Halpert. So I will need a new number two. My ideal choice? Jack Bauer. But he is unavailable. Fictional. And overqualified." ~The Office (Fall seems so far away....)

Happy Friday!