Danilo Diaz Granados: television series

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The newest reality TV shows seem to be about babies… or, more precisely, about pregnancy. Danilo Diaz Granados has just read the article written by Mike Hale entitled “Real-Life Pregnancy: Hold the Showers”. The article is about two one-hour programs that aired last Thursday night on TLC.

The first program is “Birth Moms”. Birth Moms follows three young women who have decided to give up their children for adoption in Utah. The challenges in this show are largely psychological as the … Continue Reading

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Fox and CBS are competing for advertisers yet again. But, to Danilo Diaz Granados’ surprise this year has taken a sudden and very unexpected turn. And that’s because Fox’s reigning ratings-queen “American Idol” was hard hit this month, losing 30 percent of its viewership in the 18-to-49 category.
“American Idol” had settled confortably into its first place position, a place it conquered 10 years ago. This season hasn’t quite lived up to expectations, though, and the viewers now have a … Continue Reading

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Rachel Nolan has just seen “The Realist Reality Show in the World“. What show is that you may ask? None other than the TV show broadcast in Venezuela hosted by the nation’s President Hugo Chávez Frías.

The journalist describes the rare mix of sensations she experienced while watching “Aló Presidente“.  ”What was this weird mash-up of state of the union, variety hour, propaganda newsreel and talk show?”, she asked. And how is it possible that such a long broadcast (sometimes … Continue Reading

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It bombed and was booed all over the social networks this past season. So first, what exactly is “The Killing”? Danilo Diaz Granados brings you information on the show and a little bit of the criticism that has hailed since its season finale.

Just this past spring, AMC launched “The Killing”, a TV series created by Veena Sud. Sud is academically well-formed with a women’s’ studies major at Columbia University and such highlights as a master class with Spike Lee at … Continue Reading

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Primetime TV is somewhat at a loss. Danilo Diaz Granados is also intrigued. Apparently the time slot is losing viewers.

The phenomenon affects all television types. From network to cable, public and pay cable, English, Spanish, even Chinese, tv viewership for prime-time programming is down.

Hard hit is NBC who has lost an average of 59,000 viewers in the last four weeks in the 18-t0 49 category compared to last year. This is the category that has everyone worried. … Continue Reading

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The ratings for the top shows are out for this past week. And ABC’s new comedy “Don’t trust the B in Apt 23″ has been successfull. Danilo Diaz Granados watched the premiere.

“Don’t trust the B in Apt 23″ has placed 4th right behind Criminal Minds. In second place is Modern Family and the number one show is still American Idol.

The new comedy is the story of Chloe, a grifter and manipulator, who decides to make life impossible for her new … Continue Reading

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Some of the actresses on lead comedy TV series are taking on heat because of their appearance and their inconformity to present day “beauty standards”. This would of course include their decision to stay away from silicone or plastic surgery. But is it really important for women who decide to work on the small or large screen to change and conform to what the media pretends should be desirable?

Danilo Diaz Granados just read an article about this subject in relation to the new NBC comedy … Continue Reading

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“The Voice” and “American Idol” are at war over the airways. Each show battles to get viewers’ attention. On the viewer battleground, “The Voice” is proving a tough foe to beat.

What is the source of its success? This is not altogether clear but Idol executives seem to have taken the decision to beat its foe by searching for distinctive- probably too distinctive- voices, or so reads the article that Danilo Diaz Granados read this morning in the… Continue Reading

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Television programs can be drawn into the eye of the storm in political protests. So is the case in Moscow where the pseudodocumentary “Anatomy of a Protest” has caused quite a stir on the streets. The program was broadcast this month on Russia’s NTV television station.

The Russian show was something of a hatchet job against opponents of the Kremlin. The Kremlin is the complex made up of a series of buildings which house the President of the Russian Federation. Danilo Diaz … Continue Reading

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Remember Mr. Rogers? The happy-go-lucky, always wake-up-with-a-positive-attitude star of the hit PBS children’s show “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood”? Well, Mr. Rogers is making a come-back… sort of.

He will be visiting us at our homes thanks to PBS and the team that has put together a documentary about the beloved show host. MTV senior vicepresident Benjamin Wagner and his brother Christofer, a television editor, had the initiative to make the documentary after Mr. Rogers’ death in 2003.

Songs like “Happy Birthday to You” and … Continue Reading