Watching KVille

Through some glitch in the system, I am technically no longer the writer or this blog. Let me explain…I can write for this blog, but as I no longer get paid for it, it seems rather besides the point to write for a blog about a cancelled show anyway. Soooo…I still write for 451 Press, and you can visit me at About Portland, OR; Daily Science Dose and Urban Ecoist.

Here’s one last shout-out to all that K-Ville wasn’t…namely, a long-running series on a real network.

A toast…to K-Ville.

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Yep, it’s true. Anthony “Marlin Boulet” Anderson has moved on to greener and (currently slightly) higher-rated pastures, joining NBC’s long-long-long-running drama, “Law & Order.”

Photo comes from the NY Post, as does this blurb.

“He’s a former IAB [internal affairs] officer who didn’t sign up for that job - they recruited him right out of the academy and told him he could become a homicide detective in two years,” Anderson told The Post.

“It’s what he really wants to do,” Anderson said. “Bernard feels he can really make a difference as a homicide detective.”

Bernard is replacing Det. Ed Green (Jesse L. Martin), who’s leaving the show. Bernard’s first appearance on “L&O” will overlap with Green’s final appearance, scheduled to air April 23 on NBC. Bernard will be paired with Det. Cyrus Lupo (Jeremy Sisto), who’s also new to the “L&O” family.

“He’s not a hard-ass,” Anderson says of Bernard.

“He’s a fair guy trying to find his way in a new station house - and trying to get away from the stench of the ‘rat squad’ of internal affairs.”

Don’t bother checking Anthony’s website for any information, as it looks as though it has not been updated in quite some time. K-Ville is not even listed in the filmography.

That’s an odd word, isn’t it? Filmography.

One, I think this is a good move for Anderson, as FOX is notoriously bad at supporting shows that don’t rake in the benjamins. If you ain’t American Idol, your job is not safe at FOX. And working on Law & Order carries a certain loyal audience that tunes in now matter what, and L&O goes into a profitable syndication outlet that means that in a few years, maybe one or two depending on how fast the current season goes into re-runs, Anderson will be raking in the residuals.

However, L&O is getting very long in the tooth, if you know what I mean. There are rumours that NBC may end up giving it the boot, which I doubt, as L&O has spawned so many time-slot fillers for NBC, and I would think that NBC would not want to piss off Dick Wolf. Wolf will more likely be the one to pull the plug.

I popped by the Law & Order forum on the NBC website, and it seems that there are mixed feelings about Anderson joining the cast. I think that Anderson is a surprisingly good actor with tremendous range (The Shield providing a good example of this), so it is not like he will ruin the show, which personally I cannot watch anymore due to having a tv writing teacher that had worked on L&O back in the day and she ruined the show for me, thank you very much. L&O has had a venerable cast over the years, (Jerry Orbach is King! May he rest in peace.) so if anything Anderson is joining a great cast for the most part.

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My gratitude goes out to Laura, who submitted a comment on my last post about Cole Hauser, and her news of another film coming out starring Mr. Hauser.

It seems that Cole has been added to the cast of the new Tyler Perry film, The Family that Preys. Due out in theatres this September with a huge cast including Kathy Bates and get this, Robin Givens.

Here is a rather involved “preview” from CinemaBlend. Seems a bit different from the typical Perry fare, but then again, I have never seen any Tyler Perry film, but I do know the man seems to have a rather charmed existence in “Hollywood” by way of Atlanta.

Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright (Kathy Bates) and her dear friend Alice Pratt (Alfre Woodard), a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout many years. Suddenly, their lives become mired in turmoil as their adult children’s extramarital affairs, unethical business practices and a dark paternity secret threaten to derail family fortunes and unravel the lives of all involved. Alice’s self-centered newlywed daughter Andrea (Sanaa Lathan) is betraying her trusting husband Chris (Rockmond Dunbar) by engaging in a torrid affair with her boss and mother’s best friend’s son William (Cole Hauser). While cheating on his wife Jillian (Kadee Strickland) with a string of ongoing dalliances with his mistress Andrea, William’s true focus is to replace the COO of his mother’s lucrative construction corporation. Meanwhile, Alice’s other daughter Pam (Taraji Henson), a kind but no nonsense woman married to a hard working construction worker (Tyler Perry), tries to steer the family in a more positive direction.

Hmm, seems like Cole gets to play a rather less-than-noble character (that gets laid a lot). Sweet. I think Hauser can play bad pretty well, as I remember him in Pitch Black, and though my memory is less than stellar for that particular film, I believe he played kind of an *sshole. And I remember liking it. But enough about my taste in men…

And check this out. Anthony Anderson is joining Law and Order?!?

From Blackfilm.com, the same article that mentions that Cole has joined The Family that Preys, notes that

Hauser was last seen in the Fox TV series K-Ville opposite Anthony Anderson, but with Anderson ready to join NBC’s Law and Order at the end of this season, the series is expected to be cancelled.

That news is dated March 4, 2008. So I am going to see if I can find out any more about this “rumor.” It would definitely be definitive proof that K-Ville ain’t comin’ back if Anderson joins the cast of another weekly series, but I just think that L&O has grown a bit long in the tooth, if you know what I mean. Although, it is a solid show with a solid audience, but alas, no gumbo.

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Cole Hauser, formerly of the much beloved and much maligned but still very cancelled K-Ville, has completed work (or should be done soon) on his next project, a film with Mira Sorvino. The title is Like Dandelion Dust, and it’s based on a novel by Karen Kingsbury, who is also a producer on the film.

Here is the quick synopsis I found on IMDB:

Jack and Molly Campbell enjoyed an idyllic life with their adopted 5-year-old son, Joey. One phone call shatters their world when they learn Joey’s biological father has just been released from prison and discovered a loop hole in the adoption papers and now lays claim to his son. He wants to start a new life by taking back his son. When a judge upholds the biological father’s claim and Molly and Jack learn they must give Joey over to this brutal man they devise a plan. How far would you go to protect your family? Written by Karen Kingsbury

Hmm. Though I am not likely to see this film, it looks like it could be good. I mean anything is possible, right? Barry Pepper is playing the biological father, Rip. You remember this guy, he played the sniper in Saving Private Ryan, and then I think he went on to the unfortunate Scientology-pet-project, Battlefield Earth.

He’s the one on the far right. He is quite good and kind of intense, so if this Like Dandelion Dust has a face-off between him and Cole, that might be kind of cool. But I don’t know if this is an action film, per se, so I am holding judgment for the time being (I know, what a surprise!).

By the way, if you didn’t see The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, you should. It is quite black, but also quite funny. I only bring that up because that is another film that Barry Pepper has done in the last few years. Tommy Lee Jones is also in it, and excellent as always. I mean, really, what isn’t Tommy Lee Jones good in? That Batman movie he did…I don’t know, I didn’t bother to see it.

Now, back to Like Dandelion Dust. I found a short article on Jacksonville.com that mentioned that it was an “independent Christian film”, whatever that means.

But I did find a synopsis of the film on Christians in Cinema’s website, so I guess it’s a Christian film afterall. And yet, I still have to ask, what does that mean? Straight to DVD?

The director is Jon Gunn. The last film that Mr. Gunn headed was My Date with Drew, as in Barrymore. Yeah, looked pretty bad despite Ms. Barrymore’s charms. Gunn’s first film was Mercy Streets. I don’t know anything about this one except that Eric Roberts was in it, which is never a good sign.

But still, good to see Cole Hauser is working.

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Thanks a lot, Writers Strike. Now what am I supposed to write about?

News came this week that K-Ville will not be returning to production, FOX, or Monday nights. Get your fill of the existing K-Ville episodes on the official FOX website or on Hulu, or wait until the DVD set comes out — if it comes out on DVD??

The Times-Picayune reported that K-Ville will not return for our viewing pleasure, or displeasure, depending on how you viewed the show starring Anthony Anderson and Cole Hauser. I, for one, will miss K-Ville, but as I have had the past three months getting used to the fact that it ain’t comin’ back, I am not upset or surprised for that matter.

The Times-Picayune reporter was not surprised either.

I’ve been writing and rewriting “K-Ville’s” obituary for months.

And the author, Dave Walker, added this…

Every[sic] since the strike shut-down, “K-Ville” has existed among TV’s undead — not quite canceled but presenting very weak vital signs.

The resolution of the strike — which is happening this week; see this link for a rundown on when or if your other favorite shows will return — was supposed to provide closure for the handful of fans holding out for a “K-Ville” resurrection.

No such luck. Fox is one of those networks that never quite cancels anything. Its shows just stop running, and their demise is never officially acknowledged.

“K-Ville’s” home page, streaming episodes and streaming theme song are still active at www.Fox.com, but that’s really all that’s left of the series.

So, there we are. Forced to think of Boulet and Cobb, who I thought could become the next Crockett and Tubbs, as only a memory

Personally, aside from my disappointment regarding this website, I thought that K-Ville was getting slightly better each week, until that crapfest of a “fall finale” aired as the last episode. Granted, that episode was never written as a “finale” of any sort, but it was what it was, and it was bad. Again, sadly that will be the last taste of K-Ville many of us will be left with, as we watch Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles. Yet another fine show from the FOX network…Kudos oncasting Summer Glau, because she is the only thing watchable on that show. Although, I do like the guy that plays the terminator that took the identity of d-list actor, and is hunting down that whiny brat, John Conner. Let’s hope he sticks around for a few episodes.

That actor, Garrett Dillahunt, was also in John from Cincinnati, and also had a small role in one of the year’s best, and most talked about film, No Country for Old Men. If you have not seen No Country, see it. It’s excellent. You can read a review I wrote of it by clicking here. Dillahunt is someone to watch, as I think he is a very good actor. Although, he does seem to take just about any job he is offerred. Oh, I kid, I kid. He’s working…a lot, and that’s great.

But still, this is about K-Ville. Just remember…Jericho was cancelled and has returned to primetime. Viewers wrote CBS and complained enough that the show was brought back. I’m just throwing that out there…

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So official word from the Writers Guild of America is that WGA members have all day Tuesday, February 12 to vote on the proposed deal to end the three-month long strike. However, as the WGA announcement mentions, the vote is only to immediately end the strike pending ratification of the new deal between the Writers Guild and the studios OR wait until the deal is ratified and then end the strike.

So my question is, let’s say they do indeed vote to end the strike, but the deal is then not ratified. Would the writers re-strike?

The LA Times reported today that the ratification process could take up to twelve days. Can the writing staff of K-Ville crank out a script in twelve days? And if so, what is the point of giving me only one more new episode, when there are so many plotlines to wrap up? The mole in the department? Cobb’s secret affair? Boulet’s etouffe recipe?

Still, the bigger question of whether K-Ville will return or not remains foremost on my mind. Well, ok, I do have other things going on in my life, but I mean foremost when it concerns this blog, right?

But really, look at the evidence. K-Ville was not winning the ratings race on Monday night by any stretch, and FOX has since replaced K-Ville in its time slot with Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles. This worries me, but also gets me thinking of a better time for FOX to air K-Ville. I am thinking Tuesday after American Idol, except I believe that is House’s time slot. Wednesday then, maybe? I honestly have no idea what is on FOX Wednesday night now…Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares? Too bad I like the BBC’s version of Kitchen Nightmares a gazillion times better, because it is more about food and less about abject filth (anyone else notice that?). But there I go again, digressing.

I just checked the FOX website’s posted schedule, and it looks like that lie detector show, The Moment of Truth, is now on Wednesday’s at 9pm. American Idol is going to be the two-hour shows for a couple of weeks, I think. I tried watching American Idol for a season or a half, and I just tend to get rather bored with it, so I am not entirely sure how long the two-hour shows continue for.

It may not matter anyway, as who really knows what the genius minds behind FOX programming have in mind for this truncated season. Will K-Ville throw us a couple of episodes before summer, or just try to pick up again next season? I think that putting out a few episodes is the best idea, to renew the public’s memory of K-Ville, before a longer summer break. Not only that, but New Orleans has been in the news lately, and with the juggernaut of Brad Pitt hanging around, doing all sorts of goodness, it might just be a good time to revisit the Big Easy during prime-time.

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Hey, guess where Anthony Anderson was this past weekend? That’s right. The Bob Hope Classic.

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Actor Anthony Anderson plays around with Robert Gamez as actor Jimmy Fallon looks on the 11th hole during the second round of the 49th Bob Hope Chrysler Classic on January 17, 2008 at the La Quinta Country Club in La Quinta, California.

Anthony joined other such “celebrities” as George Lopez (who is the celebrity host of the semi-charity event), Luke Wilson, Kenny G (shut up, he plays every year), Huey Lewis, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, Carson Daly, Michael Bolton, Yogi Berra, Alice Cooper, and Meatloaf. Oh, yeah, Cheech Marin plays, and so does Kyle MacLachlan, Chris O’Donnell, Kevin Nealon, and Kelly Slater.

The Bob Hope Classic raises funds for many, many charities, and last year the Classic donated about 1.75 million dollars to almost forty charities in the Coachella Valley and Palm Springs area. If you want to see the last published listing of charities served by the 2006 Bob Hope Classic, click here.

So, kudos to Anthony for playing golf, for playing golf for charity, and doing something good with his time off from K-Ville.

Here’s some quotes from Anthony as given to the Desert Sun.

When Anthony Anderson debuted at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic two years ago, he was starting work on “The Departed” and guaranteed that director Martin Scorsese would win the Oscar for best picture.

Last year, “The Departed” earned the revered Scorsese his first Academy Award.

So does Anderson have a new prediction?

“I don’t know, lightning doesn’t always strike twice, but I predict I’ll finish in the top-10 this year,” Anderson said. “Film, television, I don’t know what’s going on.”

Anderson also has another distinction in a Scorsese movie that he shares with Samuel L. Jackson: They were both shot in the head in a Scorsese movie. There’s also another similarity, according to Anderson.

“And we’re the only brothers to be in a Scorsese movie,” Anderson said. “Sit back and think. It’s just me and Sam Jackson. We’re in great company.”

By the way, Anthony played in a foursome with Thomas Gibson and Jimmy Fallon.

Thomas Gibson has a 6 handicap, Fallon has an 18, and Anthony has a 12. I wish I had a 12 handicap. You rock, Anthony Anderson!

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The Sarah Connor Chronicles debuted last night, and the second episode will be airing tonight at 9pm Eastern/8pm Central. And yes, that is K-Ville’s time slot. Not that it has been on the last couple of weeks, but still, a new show in a previous show’s time slot makes me suspicious, except that we are in the middle of a writers strike, so there really is no rhyme or reason to anything anymore. Like Jimbo Jones says to Homer Simpson during the cat burgler episode, “I don’t believe in nothing no more. I’m goin’ to law school.”

I checked the FOX website for next week’s schedule as well, and yes, it’s true that the Sarah Connor Chronicles are taking over the 9pm Monday night time slot. Now, I imagine that this is a “permanent” schedule, as I really don’t see when else this show would air. Maybe it will be moved to the hour after American Idol, like House did for a while, and maybe FOX will again show K-Ville, but I doubt that. When and if K-Ville will return is unknown to me, so if anyone out there has any real, definitive information, please pass it along to the front of the class. But I am inclined to think that we will not see K-Ville again until the strike is over and new episodes return. However, I also strongly believe that if the strike goes on too much longer, there will be no return of K-Ville. Unless of course, the strike goes on for quite some time; then I think that due to the lack of pilots for next fall, K-Ville may just win a second (half of a) season. But again, this is all speculation.

Did anyone check out the Sarah Connor Chronicles last night? Much like Bionic Woman, I was a little excited about it and really wanted SCC to be good. Instead, I found it pretty cheesy, and a little 24-esque, without the ticking time clock to lend momentum to the action. However, as I learned from the K-Ville pilot (and almost every other pilot I have seen in my insignificant lifetime), pilots can be lame and then the show once it hits its stride can really come into its own and become quite good. I have always liked the Terminator mythology, so I’d like to see SCC become better, but we’ll have to wait, watch, and see.

And yes, I will be watching SCC tonight. In case, you were wondering…What can I say, I like Summer Glau — I miss Firefly

Oh, and I have some good news for all my fans (all two of you). I am taking over the Portland, Oregon site for 451 Press. You can visit it here…www.about-portlandor.com. Don’t worry, I am still writing Watching K-Ville.

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Ok, so maybe it wasn’t close, but as I have no hard and fast knowledge either way, I am assuming that it was a close race, dammit. Because, yes, that’s right, K-Ville is awesome.

The People’s Choice Award for Best New TV Drama went to Moonlight.

I have not watched Moonlight, but I did see some really hokey promo spots for it when I watched Kid Nation On Demand, and frankly, I have no real plan to watch a “vampire” TV show. But please, if I am missing out, tell me and I am more than willing to maybe possibly think about checking it out. Pinky-swear.

I wrote about K-Ville’s prospects in the People’s Choice horserace in a previous post. In case you missed it, you can either check out the handy hyperlink that I provided, or here’s a quick recap: K-Ville was nominated, and I use that term loosely, for the Best New TV Drama Award, which I think entitles the winner(s) to a free small coke at Dairy Queen. The other nominees included Big Shots, Bionic Woman, Cane, Dirty Sexy Money, Gossip Girl, Journeyman, Life, Life is Wild, Moonlight, Private Practice, and Women’s Murder Club.

Of those shows, I have now seen Bionic Woman (weaker than I can accept), Journeyman (corny at times, but could be brilliant some day), Gossip Girl (too much fun, gotta love it), and Life (which is surprisingly growing on me). K-Ville didn’t stand a chance.

But then again, Ellen Degeneres won not one, but two People’s Choice Awards this year, so frankly, I am not too sure about how much clout these particular awards carry.

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Ok, maybe I got your attention. Officially, K-Ville is of course on hiatus due to the writers strike. But I will have exclusive access to new scripts.

How did I get my hands on these? I’m writing them myself. I studied the one-hour drama in school and learned how to write the old teleplay, so why not give it a shot, right? I mean, it is not like I will be missing out on covering new news and such. (In all fairness, I will still cover any news or updates.)

However, I think that by writing some new episodes of K-Ville, we as a group can come up with some pretty good stories. Saying that, I invite anyone and everyone to offer input on the storylines. K-Ville (and every other television show) usually has a cadre of writers working on the scripts, so I would love to have other “writers” get involved in my little project.

Here’s my plan. Monday’s will be the teaser (the part of the show before the credits) and the first “act”, that is the part of the story before the first ad break. Everyday thereafter will be another “act”, and hopefully Friday can be a review and critique day. Or just me catching up on whatever may be going on with K-Ville, the actors, New Orleans, etc.

I am going to see how long I can keep this up. And yes, I realize that maybe I am encroaching on being a “scab.” But one) I am not writing the script for anyone other than you, my faithful and attractive readers, and two) it will not be a script. I’m going to go with more of a prose-format. Maybe dialogue-heavy scenes will fall back into a script-format, but we’ll see.

So, there you go, kids. Monday will be the first day of the rest of this blog’s life.

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I just received the official FOX newsletter for K-Ville last night (first one all fall/season).

Here’s what it said:

K-VILLE: SEASON FINALE!
MONDAY 9/8c

When a reporter from New York visits New Orleans to write a story on the city two years after Katrina, Cobb and Boulet begrudgingly take her on a ride-along. While escorting their guest, Boulet and Cobb respond to a call where a victim has been brutally shot. As the investigation unfolds and the journalist reports, challenging and unforeseen circumstances surface.

One, the email’s subject line said “Fall Finale.” The email itself says “Season Finale.” It is probably a moot point, but still it inspires hope that FOX is keeping K-Ville around. If they were going to cancel it, wouldn’t they simply let it disappear without fanfare, like so many other shows?

Two, I think it is cute how the promo is written. First, it’s “Cobb and Boulet,” and then it’s “Boulet and Cobb.” Aw, they don’t want either star to feel “bigger” or more important than the other. I do the same things with my cats.

Three, what a crappy promo. “…challenging and unforeseen circumstances surface.” Geez, I guess the promo writers are on strike as well. My eight-year-old nephew could have written that, FOX. Give me something to look forward to, not ambiguities. I know, I know, you can’t give it away, but you really should tease me better than that. I’ll beg for it more.

So anyway, my friends, I am sad that K-Ville will not be a part of my weekly routine, and I am going to have to start watching more reality TV (seriously, that lie detector show looks HORRIBLE!), but as I mentioned before, now I will have more time and desire to really start examining the episodes we do have at our disposal. Thank you, FOX, for making the episodes available on line, as well as a kiss out to you, Hulu.

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Don’t get too excited. So is every other New Drama.

And there is less than one week left to vote. They have an actual countdown clock on the PCA site. Because your vote is THAT important.

The People’s Choice Awards is that one awards show that wants TV viewers to feel as though they really have a say in who and what wins awards. You know, to let you feel important instead of just being a pair of eyes that passively take in advertising. It’s also another way of getting celebrities out of their houses in the middle of January, and to give papparazzi and gossip mags something to do before the Golden Globes and Academy Awards give out the awards that really matter.

And the nominees for Best New TV Drama are…

Big Shots, Bionic Woman, Cane, Dirty Sexy Money, Gossip Girl, Journeyman, K-Ville, Life, Life is Wild, Moonlight, Private Practice, Women’s Murder Club

Big Shots looked super lame in previews (Sex and the City with Men and champagne??). Bionic Woman is sometimes fun when Starbuck is in the episode, other than that, not enough fight scenes. Cane I have not watched, so no opinion, but I don’t think it is getting a huge audience.

Dirty Sexy Money is supposedly quite good, if critics are too be trusted. Gossip Girl is pretty and one-note. Journeyman is hit-or-miss. Life is surprisingly better than I expected, and I heart Adam Arkin. And the rest I have not watched, so again, no opinion.

So, gang, get out there and vote for K-Ville, and maybe there will be a Season 2. Well, that is, if the writers will be writing Season 2 anytime soon.

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Yes, rumors abound about the fate of KVille. Unfortunately, it may be a rather moot issue if this writers’ strike continues. I just heard that 24 has become a casuality of the strike. Honestly, 24 jumped that damn shark, and then tortured it to find out why it was there in the first place and who it’s working for and where is the dirty bomb that the non-arabic terrorists smuggled into the country…I really can’t watch that show anymore. Not even as a joke. Last season was a monstrosity, and such a let down after a really good fifth or fourth season, you know, the one with Jean Smart as the First Lady all hopped up on goofballs…

But I digress. Rumors are running wild that KVille will get the axe. Either way, the last episode is close to being in the can, and nothing more is coming anytime soon.

This was reported yesterday in the Oregonian. It’s a AP story.

“In Louisiana, crews on the set of “K-Ville,” a Fox police drama set in post-Katrina New Orleans, were filming the last episode written before the strike.

“I hope it ends soon,” co-star Cole Hauser said Wednesday in between takes. “I think it’s too bad for this show. I think we were just starting to get on a roll, and hopefully the writers and the studios will figure it out in the next 30 days to a month and a half.”

I have to agree with Cole. KVille was just starting to find it’s legs, and I was almost enjoying it as a drama and not a comedy.

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According to the Hollywood Reporter, ‘K-Ville’ premiere wins demo Monday night, K-Ville on Fox pretty much carried the night.

The dark cop show starring Anthony Anderson and Cole Hauser as police officers in Katrina-ravaged New Orleans drew 9.0 million viewers and a 3.4 rating/8 share among adults 18-49 at 9 p.m., the best demo numbers on the night, according to early Nielsen data.

That is very good news for the show. The important nights will be the second and third shows. If K-Ville can keep up decent numbers through the third show, that will be a good indicator for the success of the show. The reason I say that is if the numbers were high for the first show due to curiosity seekers versus true fans, the number should drop off dramatically in the second and third weeks.

So, we’ll just have to wait and see. I’m hoping for two things for this coming Monday night: less car chases and more views around New Orleans.

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