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The Most Pirated Shows of 2010

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Lost has garnered one more accolade for its final season, though I’m not sure if this is one that it’s creators would relish.

According to TorrentFreak, people are still illegally downloading TV shows instead of watching them on live TV. In fact, two of 2010’s most-pirated shows — Heroes and Dexter — outnumbered their live Nielsen ratings.

Anyhoo, here’s the ten most pirated shows of 2010, followed by their approximate number of illegal downloads:

  1. Lost – 5,940,000
  2. Heroes – 5,480,000
  3. Dexter – 3,880,000
  4. The Big Bang Theory – 3,270,000
  5. House – 2,610,000
  6. How I Met Your Mother – 2,490,000
  7. 24 – 2,240,000
  8. True Blood – 1,920,000
  9. Glee – 1,700,000
  10. Family Guy – 1,620,000

Fox is planning to rock all week long

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Don’t you just love it when networks do theme-weeks or nights? (Yes, that was sarcasm.) Like that night years ago when NBC had all of their Thursday night programs involved in a New York City blackout storyline?

Fox has something similar up its sleeve. Inspired by the success of Glee, a full week of programming on Fox will find nearly every show on the network engaging in song-and-dance numbers. From Thursday April 29th through Wednesday May 5th, shows like Bones, Fringe, House, The Simpsons, and more will feature musical performances woven into their episodes.

This sounds like a horribly cheesy idea on the surface. No doubt about that. But on the other hand, maybe Fox’s shows will take this as an opportunity to really challenge themselves creatively and come up with some clever ways of incorporating music into their eps.

We can only hope.

“Kumar” Dying to Work at the White House: He Got his Wish!

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note_ctActor Kal Penn, best known for his role Kumar in “Harold and Kumar” movies is movie from House to White House. The TV series had to find a way to say goodbye Kal Penn’s character Kutner fast when he decided to accept the offer to work in the White House. The writer and producers of House figured out a pretty memorable way to do it by having Kutner commit suicide.

Kutners suicide was a shock to his House co-workers although Dr House, being who he is, tried hard to not be , or at least show that, he was affected by the whole event. Kutner’s body was found early in the episode with the whole show focusing not on drama, which remains unknown, but on the reality of suicide. Though a very sensitive topic that is very hard to portray House managed to show the real pain suicide brings, both to the one who commits is (at least before he actually dies) and the people left behind, no matter how little or much they seem to care for you while you still lived.

In real life though Kal Penn is very happy and does not plan on inflicting such pain to loved ones and is in fact looking forward to his career shift in government. According to Penn his official position would be associate director in the White House office of public liaison. His decision does not reflect his sentiments for the show because as he says, “I’m having an incredible time, but there’s something aching in me to do something completely different and take a break from the acting thing for a while.” So he hasn’t said good bye to acting for good and with the salary he be getting for his new job hopefully we’ll see him back a few years down the road for a stint or two when he decides he needs to fatten up his bank account again.

Moral Issues Spark Debate Over TV Shows

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Lines such as “everyone’s favorite serial killer” would not have been uttered by the average person a few years ago. However, with the popularity that Dexter has reached, this tag line is well known all over the world. This has sparked a certain amount of interest in those who believe that there is a correlation between real life happenings and what is portrayed in TV shows.

Dexter is not a lone ranger in the recent trend of dark heroes on TV. We have Jack Bauer, who has gotten himself into every sort of tangle possible. We also have Dr. Gregory House, a “distinguished” doctor addicted to Vicodin. There are countless TV heroes today who, contrary to the traditional perception of heroes, cannot be labeled as good or bad. In fact, they fall in the various shades of gray that we encounter in our daily lives.

This is what people who have issues with the moral impact of TV are bringing up. These people, in spite of the fact that they are fictional, may have a way of impacting how the real person thinks and perceives things. But how real is that danger? Will a person act on his immoral tendencies because of what he sees on TV? Will the average guy go out and kill “bad” people because of watching Dexter? Will the clean guy try and get some Vicodin because House does?

Maybe. Maybe not. One thing I can say – these shows are darned good but I am not about to go out and kill all the scum I see on the streets every day.

Nielsen’s Top 10 List

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The Nielsen Media Research announced the Top 10 TV shows of 2007.

Leading the pack is the Fox show American Idol, which got a stunning 17.3 rating. It’s the second year in the row for Simon and company, who — despite a really bad selection of contestants — still got the audience hooked. However the numbers are slipping, and if the new season brings another batch of losers, who knows if it’ll still keep the attention of a disgruntled and more discriminating audience.

Another reality shows secured the next top spots: Dancing with the Stars, which got only slightly higher ratings than NBC’s Sunday Night Football. CSI, one of CBS’ best shows, still got in the top 10, but slipped from number 4 to number 7; CSI Miami slipped from number 7 to number 10.

Some new shows got into the Top !0, like Grey’s Anatomy and Samantha Who? House, another Fox hit, made it to the list.

Specials like the Academy Awards and the Superbowl were also part of the top 10 most-watched shows of the year.