“Housewives” survive football double-header
“Desperate Housewives” had quite a bit to contend with, ratings wise, on Sunday night. Instead of being up against other sitcoms or dramas, they were up against football. And not just one football game either, but two. While “DH” easily beat out the Seattle Seahawks and New Orleans Saints game on NBC for it’s timeslot, it had a harder time vanquishing the New England Patriots and Dallas Cowboys game over on CBS. The CBS game won the evening, what with being a showdown between two undefeated NFL teams and all. Plus it went into overtime. So that game ended up with a 10.4 rating/30 share for the evening (oh, and if you were wondering, the Patriots ended up winning the game). The good news, however, is that “Desperate Housewives” was the top non-football program of the evening, bringing in a 7.3/17 for the evening and up quite a bit from last weeks bumpy ratings dip. Last week, “DH” was crushed by the football game on NBC against the Bears and the Packers. Those ratings even served well for “Brothers and Sisters” who gained some of the “Housewives” viewers and had decent ratings as well.
In other “Desperate Housewives” news, the Filipino flap continues with a group of angry Filipinos (a chapter of the National Federation of Filipino American Associations or NFFAA) wants to sue ABC for $500 for what they consider to be a racist slur. Not to diminish anyone’s feelings, but I’m surprised as heck that this is still news (and big news too, judging from my Google News alerts). I thought apologies had already been made but apparently that isn’t quite enough. Boy, I bet those writers are really regretting ever sticking that “joke” in there now.
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