David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. Dim the "Lights;" "Help" needs some
Don't get too attached to "Friday Night Lights:" It's collapsed to a mere 6.6m viewers. Perhaps it'll join "Kidnapped" on Saturday nights, and NBC can tout the evening as the broadcast equivalent of the Island of Misfit Toys.
Don't get too attached to "Help Me Help You," either: It fritters away half of its massive "Dancing with the Stars" lead-in audience, from 23.1m at 9 p.m. to 10.9m when Ted Danson appears to dispense dubious advice at 9:30.
Speaking of "Dancing with the Stars," would the people from the infotainment programs cluttering my email inbox with breathless reports of what the nanny of a "celebrity" most of us hadn't heard of until she appeared on this show has to say about these salacious and ugly divorce proceedings please direct your attentions to the Mayor of Country Music or the Mayor of Unemployed Republican Fundraisers? Because I, for one, do not care and will not bring myself to care no matter how many emails you send me. My "delete" button, however, appreciates the workout.
Meanwhile, while the women of "Gilmore Girls" remain young and vital, the show itself is showing its age. It's lost more than a million viewers from last season, and when you consider it was only being watched by about 6 million people last season, that's not encouraging, unless you're "Friday Night Lights," in which case you can actually point to a TV show you beat in the ratings. But while "Girls" isn't going wild, The CW will no doubt trumpet the fact that "Veronica Mars" has improved ever so slightly - 190,000 viewers, to be precise - from last season. And The CW will take its good news where it can find it.