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Say goodnight,
CHUCK.NBC: Fittingly enough, Chuck bid adieu to the airwaves with a decent (season-high) but unremarkable 1.3 rating that didn’t win either hour but was in the hunt. Creatively, too, the show stayed true to its vision of a grand romance masquerading as a sci-fi/spy thriller parody, silly but also unapologetically emotional. There are shows a lot worse on the air–and many of them are on NBC. However, the sub-Grimm number didn’t help Dateline, which fell to 3rd place at 10PM.
ABC: A strong night, with wins across the board (it helped that CBS was in reruns).
FOX: Even though its KITCHEN NIGHTMARES lead-in was down for the night, FRINGE crept up a bit, as its convoluted (even for Fringe) alternate timelines/universes plotline finally seems to be going somewhere.
CBS: Reruns, with 4th place finishes at 8PM and 9PM, and a 2d place for BLUE BLOODS at 10PM.
CW: …and more reruns, both at a 0.4.
Tonight FOX airs 2 live hours of mixed-martial arts UFC combat, and tomorrow features the Pro Bowl on NBC and a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie on ABC. Most interesting will be the official debut (after a “preview” last month) of LUCK on HBO.
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MITCH SALEM has worked on the business side of the entertainment industry for 20 years, as a senior business affairs executive and attorney for such companies as NBC, ABC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, and BermanBraun Productions, and before that, at the NY law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. During all that, he has more or less constantly been going to the movies and watching TV, and writing about both since the 1980s. His film reviews also currently appear on screened.com and the-burg.com. In addition, he is co-writer of an episode of the television series "Felicity."
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