Donnie Wahlberg on NKOTBSB and 'Blue Bloods' 'I Worked my Whole Career' to be Here TV Highlights ‘Smallville’ series finale ‘Blue Bloods’ ‘CSI NY’ RATINGS RAT RACE 'Fringe' Down In Finale 'Flashpoint' Low Return may need a transfusion Michael Cuesta Joins Showtime Series 'Homeland' As Executive Producer RATE CBS Wins Night Dominated By Royal Wedding Specials NKOTB singer actor uses Twitter locate kidney for ailing Tenn. fan Singer Tweets Fan Kidney Creators Depart After One Season MORE TURMOIL Exit 'Chaos' Drops Week 2 ' Drags To No. Adults 1849 feasts family bonds CBS' Debuts Soft in Friday Ratings Slow Start For Bridget Moynahan’s Son Approves of Her Red Carpet Wear Making case each team cut down the nets Houston Survey Most Commercial Of Thi

**FINALE WATCH: "Smallville" **(CW at 8 p.m.) Status: Series finale. A two- hour episode is required to properly wrap up the story of Clark Kent after 10 seasons, and includes several surprise guest stars. This includes Michael Rosenbaum, who makes a return as Lex Luthor. **FINALE WATCH: "CSI: NY"** (CBS at 9) Status: Unknown. While it's still unclear if CBS will order an eighth season of the "CSI" spinoff, Mac is busy in the final episode of Season 7, as he becomes obsessed with solving his last remaining case after a near-death experience. Read full article >> _Fringe_ ended its 3rd season last night in a ho-hum fashion. (Knowing their show is coming back, fans probably didn't feel any urgency to see the finale right way.) It drew a 1.2 rating in 18-49, down a tenth from last week, despite its lead-in, _Kitchen Nightmares_ (1.6) being up a big 23%.  Nice bump for Gordon Ramsey after his appearance on_ American Idol_ Thursday night. Fox finished tied with CBS and ABC for the night in 18-49, while CBS won in total viewers. CBS' Achilles' heel once again was the 8 PM slot, which claimed another casualty, once solid Canadian cop drama _Flashpoint_, which returned with a 1.1 demo rating._ CSI: NY _(1.5) was down 2 tenths, followed by _Blue Bloods _(1.5). down a tenth and last in the 10 PM hour behind NBC's _Dateline _(1.9) and ABC's _20/20_ (1.7)._ Friday Night Lights _(0.8) was up a tenth, while _Shark Tank _(1.2), _Smallville _and _Supernatural_ were steady. "Blue Bloods" is a slightly different kind of police show. That's good. But the sudden departure of its show runners - Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green, whose past credits include work on "The Sopranos" - has raised concern that someone may think it needs to be a little less different. **EXCLUSIVE**: Helmer Michael Cuesta, who directed the pilot for Showtime's newly picked up drama _Homeland,_ is joining the series as an executive producer. This marks the second consecutive pilot directed by Cuesta to go to series following CBS' _Blue Bloods_ last year. And this is the second time Cuesta is producing a series. He previously served as a co-executive producer on another Showtime drama, _Dexter_, whose pilot he also directed. On thriller _Homeland_, based on Gideon Raff's Israeli series _Prisoners of War,_ WME- repped Cuesta will serve as an executive producer alongside the project's writers Howard Gordon, Raff and Alex Gansa. The series centers Carrie Anderson (Claire Danes), a CIA officer battling her own demons who becomes convinced that the intelligence that led to the rescue of Scott Brody (Damian Lewis), a U.S. soldier who had been missing and presumed deal for nine years, was a setup and may be connected to an Al-Qaeda plot to be carried out on American soil. Mandy Patinkin plays a veteran CIA Division Chief who is Carrie's boss and mentor. Will this further shake CBS' commitment to scripted programming on Fridays? Last night, a Royal wedding special at 8 PM (1.7/6, 8.6 million) delivered a rare decisive No.1 finish in the hour for the network among 18-49 and outranked the network's scripted entries in the slot this season,_ Medium, The Defenders _and especially _Chaos_. CBS'_ CSI: NY_ (1.7/5, 9.2 million) was flat as was _Blue Bloods _(1.6/5, 9.8 million). ABC's_ Shark Talk_ (1.2/4) was down 14%. It was followed by a Royal wedding _20/20,_ which drew a 1.5/5. NBC's _Friday Night Lights_ (0.6/2) finished dead last in the 8 PM hour, plummeting 33% from last week. _Dateline_ (1.2/4) was down a tenth. Fox's _Fringe_ (1.3/4) was up a tenth from last week, _Kitchen Nightmares_ (1.3/5) was down from 2 weeks ago. CW's _Smallville_ was down 20% vs. last week in 18-49 (0.8/3) but up 14% in 18-34 (0.9/3), _Supernatural _was flat in 18-49 (0.9/3) but up 29% in 18-34 (0.9/3). NKOTB singer, 'Blue Bloods' actor Wahlberg uses Twitter to locate kidney for ailing Tenn. fan Philiana Ng Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green have exited the rookie CBS drama, toplined by Tom Selleck. read more **EXCLUSIVE:** This is why so many Hollywood creatives don't understand the decisions of the networks and the Big Media corporations who run them. Because here's a show that's doing well in its primetime slot. And just a few days ago freshman drama _Blue Bloods_ was praised by Armando Nunez, president of CBS Studios International_._ "It's perhaps not as sexy to talk about, but it has proven a success both on the network and in terms of global distribution," he praised. It tops the charts of how this season's freshman shows have performed, with_ Blue Bloods_ sold around the world not just to tiny channels but to big ones like Sky Atlantic in the UK, Australia's Network Ten, and Discovery Latin America. So what do CBS and CBS Studios and its executive producer Leonard Goldberg, who also happens to be a CBS Corporation board member, do? They exit the show's creators Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green. Because I'm told Goldberg and the network think the show needs be "more procedural". As if CBS doesn't already have procedural shows coming out of its wazoo. And this latest firing comes 9 months ago after then showrunner Ken Sanzel exited the CBS series because of creative tensions with Tom Selleck over scripts that the actor felt were ... It got ugly for CBS last night when, in its second outing, midseason dramedy _Chaos_ (0.9/3 in 18-49, 5.6 million), fell 18% from its underwhelming premiere to finish a distant fourth at 8 PM in adults 18-49, behind a _Kitchen Nightmares_ repeat on Fox. _Chaos _also pushed down _CSI: NY_ (1.6/5,  off 11%, 9.4 million) and _Blue Bloods_ (1.5/4, down 12%, 10.3 million). As a result, despite_ Shark Tank _(1.2/4_) _slipping 9% from last week, ABC's unscripted lineup (1.4/4, 4.7 million) edged CBS' scripted series (1.3/4, 8.5 million) in 18-49 for No.1. In doing so, ABC hit a 13-week high on the night in 18-49. The season finale of NBC's _Who Do You Think You Are _(1.3/4, 5.8 million) held steady and won the 8 PM hour in both 18-49 and total viewers. NBC (1.3/4, 5.6 million) was tied with CBS for second place in 18-49. Fox and the CW aired repeats. Sunday dinner and shared sacrifice add to the appeal of CBS' hit police procedural. Philiana Ng Solid performers "CSI: NY" and "Blue Bloods" help the network win the night in the adult demo. read more It seems like the fate of new CBS series _Chaos_ was sealed the day the network announced that the comedic CIA drama it fought so hard to pick up to series last summer was being assigned the Friday 8 PM slot. Last night, _Chaos_ premiered with a 1.1/4 in adults 18-49 and 6.4 million viewers. Its 18-49 rating was below the averages for _Medium_ and _The Defenders_ in the time period this season. It ties CBS' season low in the hour with first-run fare posted by a _Defenders_ episode. At 8 PM,_ Chaos_ finished behind ABC's _Shark Tank_ (1.2/5, flat with last week) and NBC's _Who Do You Think You Are?_ (1.2/5, down a tenth) in 18-49 and tied with Fox's _Kitchen Nightmares_ repeat. In total viewers, the CBS dramedy was No.1 in the hour. CBS' other Friday series, _CSI: NY_ (1.7/6, 10.3 million) and _Blue Bloods_ (1.7/5, 10.7 million) returned down after a hiatus to make room for CBS' NCAA coverage. _CSI: NY _was down 11% in 18-49 vs. its last original, _Blue Bloods_ was down 6%. CBS (1.5/5, 9.1 million) still won the night in viewers and 18-49, edging ABC (1.4/5, 5.3 ... "My son does make comments when I dress up. I just wear my dress and he says, 'You look pretty! That dress looks pretty,'" Moynahan, 39, told PEOPLE at Wednesday's Ann Taylor Fall 2011 Collection preview party in New York. The lines are clearly drawn. On one side: blue bloods Kentucky and Connecticut. On the other: upstarts Butler and Virginia Commonwealth. One ... It might not be the sexiest of this year's new U.S. shows, but _Blood Bloods_ has proved the most commercial at home and internationally combined. The Tom Selleck cop show has topped a chart of how this season's freshman shows have performed. _Blue Bloods _has sold around the world, and not just to tiny channels but to big ones like Sky Atlantic in the UK, Australia's Network Ten and Discovery Latin America. Armando Nunez, president CBS Studios International, has told TV trade _Television Business International_: "It's perhaps not as sexy to talk about, but it has proven a success both on the network and in terms of global distribution". _TBI _is due to publish its survey of U.S. network pick-ups this Monday. Indeed, CBS's strategy of showing procedurals might hug the shore creatively, but it has paid off globally. _Criminal Minds: Suspect Behaviour_, another CBS procedural, is in second place. Says Nunez, "The road is littered with pilots and broken series and high concepts that didn't work. We are in _broadcasting_." _The Event_, NBC Universal's mystery sci-fi show, would probably have been cancelled by now has it not sold so strongly around the world, _TBI ... NEWARK, N.J. - It's a basketball traditionalist's dream matchup: North Carolina vs. Kentucky, two of college basketball's blue bloods, 1-2 on the list of teams with the most NCAA tournament victories, the schools that produced Jordan and Worthy and Prince and Wall and Larry Brown and Pat Riley. North Carolina and Kentucky. The schools and states conjure up images of passionate, blue-clad fans, All-Americans, championship banners and ...
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