The awfully accepted reality series The Apprentice is an inimitable mark of billionaire real-estate magnate Donald Trump where eighteen Americans battle to get victory in a string of painstaking business odd jobs. Many of these are inducted in Fortune 500 companies and assigned street smart jobs where they need to conquer with their intelligence and intellect in case if they need to exist in the fray for next tussle.

In each episode, the trailing team is sent to the boardroom to face Donald Trump and his decision makers Carolyn Kepcher and George Ross evaluate the job applicants on their job execution. Later in the board room, Trump’s children Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump judge their performance to decide that who will thrive? Who will fall short? And who will be The Apprentice? This is all about the widely appraised Reality Drama. This reality show was being popular among the witty audience due to its speedy tempo and contradictory characteristics of the contestants who made it an eminent show worth watching.

Donald Trump is the lead character of the series who is one of Manhattan’s most admired real-estate kings, who puts her wit in hosting reality television’s most competitive and loving series. In a interesting turn when Donald Trump expels an Apprentice contestant, he or she rides the elevator down to failure zone and rest contenders allow to traverse towards success.

Omarosa Manigault is the most successful contestants so far for this TV show who set his path into show business after winning the fight.

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Produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions, Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series illuminating the myriad saga of unlike housewives in a house along the stretch of Wisteria Lane in an unnamed, but expensive hamlet. Now while dealing with their own chaotic troubles and dreamy lives, every next moment invites a new mystery and more murky and perverted trials for them. Life of these women behind closed doors is started to be bared as suburban life takes many funny and dark turns.

If dipping in the plot, entire story is a nasty revelation of Lynette Scavo, a former businesswoman who made her mind up to get off the career track to look after her four children; a gorgeous woman, Lynette, who is annoyed with her three sons who act up badly for every good reason; Gabrielle Solis, a former model who married well-heeled Carlos with all the affluence but no love at all; Book illustrator Susan Mayer, divorced with a bright teenage daughter and Bree Van De Kamp, a committed housewife who is about to lose her husband for her family fondness.

Very Since its debut on ABC TV, it’s evident that the show has been taken hand to hand by the audience and joyfully by the critics. Adding more gems in the crown, the show has proven its popularity by grabbing multiple Emmy awards, Golden Globe award and Screen Actors Guild award in a row. In TV arena where reality shows and investigative flicks secure highest applaud; Desperate Housewives has busted the equations of television history and became the most accepted and worth watching show among viewers globally.

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ABC’s continues its dazzling charm by airing the fifth season of Desperate Housewives, the show that has been well received by the critics as well as the audience for half a decade. “Desperate Housewives,” ABC’s latest television comedy-drama series, has been keeping millions of viewers on the couch on Sunday, giving the network its usual boost in terms of popularity and rating.

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“Desperate Housewives,” a soap opera about a group of suburban women with numerous secrets that aired in the Sunday, 9:00 - 10:00 P.M., ET slot is expected to complete its centenary episode on Sunday January 18, 2009. The series starring Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer, Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo, Marcia Cross as Bree Hodge, Eva Longoria Parker as Gabrielle Solis, Nicollette Sheridan as Edie Williams, Ricardo Antonio Chavira as Carlos Solis, James Denton as Mike Delfino, Brenda Strong as Mary Alice Young, Doug Savant as Tom Scavo, Andrea Bowen as Julie Mayer, Mark Moses as Paul Young, Cody Kasch as Zach Young, Jesse Metcalfe as John Rowland and Steven Culp as Rex Van de Kamp, with a number of guest appearances has been successful to evoke the quirky spirit and playful flaunting of women’s traditional role in society.

Till now the show has already received as many as ten outstanding awards, with six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. May be, that’s why Desperate Housewives, ABC’s hit comedy-drama, has struck a cord with viewers who see themselves in the characters, since the show revolves around domesticity and male-female relations through the ages. Despite delivering a series of reality shows and dramas round-the-clock, ABC’s decision to show “Desperate Housewives” in the prime time i.e. 9:00 P.M. on Sunday will mean a bigger ratings bounce. 

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As I watch several different episodes from multiple channels, trying to provide fun information, I can’t seem to get over the amount of commercials.  Obviously, the time of day brings larger and smaller audiences, respectively.  From a marketing perspective, I think of the people watching each show - or the demographic.  As an example, NBC’s “30 Rock“, targets the 18-49 year old group as does “The Office“, “CSI”, etc. 

Knowing each demographic and when they are watching is important to advertisers.  It is also very expensive.  A specific ad placed randomly throughout the day will be less expensive than primetime tv at a specific time, such as 7:00pm for CBS’s, “60 Minutes”.  According to Wikipedia, there can be as much as 15 minutes per one-hour episode of commercials.  If each commercial is 30-seconds to 1-minute, then we are witnessing 15-30 commercials an hour!  When the SuperBowl comes around, and we hear those amazing statistics about cost per ad, such as $2 Million for each commercial in the 1st quarter, I will let you know how many are for the sporting event. 

What is your opinion of having so many ads per episode?  Do you find most of them useful?  How do you view the new interactive ads asking viewers to watch an episode, find a clue, then go to their Web site and enter the answer resulting in a reward? 

In my opinion, I think that is good marketing.  Reward the viewer for enjoying not only the tv show and episode, but sitting around for the ads as well.  Everyone wins in that picture!

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Lost, without any second thought, was considered as one of the biggest hit drama series aired on ABC. Conceived to offer a high quality entertainment throughput by JJ Abrams and Damon Linderof, Lost is again going to punch the TV screens on every Wednesday night at 9:00 PM Eastern/Pacific and 8:00 PM Central, beginning January 21, 2009. Of course, now the audience will witness a sensational hour that offers in bulk, the show’s awesome and puzzling mysteries and their answers. It was supposed to be the most promising series for the season and a must-see TV show on ABC. With a thrilling background and filmed in Hawaii, it stored a snooping depiction about a group of lively airplane passengers who met with a plane crash. Lost became the amazing trail about those feeble commuters on a tropical island and their survival journey among the intense shriek of the baffling creatures stalking the island.

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Lost portrayed a number of vibrant characters with vivid mindsets that made the story revolve around. Those stunning characters include an ethereal-looking female bank robber; a former Iraqi soldier; a resentful African-American child with telekinetic abilities and a paraplegic who stuck in a time warp of destiny. Numerous tremendous situations had given a chance to explore the characters where everyone concealing some hush-hush or ordeal, drug addiction, armed robbery and assassin motives.

In its every season, Lost has accumulated the crushing audience retort with its tense emotional wandering in which secrets were revealed, questions were answered and new mysteries were knocked for more puzzles.
So it’s a worthy watch to keep eye on a group of 48 survivors, marooned on an island after a disastrous plane hurtle.

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ABC, promoting itself as the destination for television dramas, is telecasting John Safran’s globe-trotting adventure “Race Relations”, The Chaser’s “War on Everything” and Andrew Denton’s “Project Next”. After spending 2008 out of the television spotlight, The Chaser has returned back to ABC TV with a story that is scripted for just 10 episodes with the tagline “George W. Bush waged a war on terror, but only The Chaser has had the vision and courage to wage a War on Everything.” Incidentally, in Race Relations, John Safran tries to get emos to fight in Iraq, and tests the claims of therapists who claim that they can cure people of racism. And Denton is busy in finding a bunch of original thinkers, mischief-makers and cage rattlers and enticing them into a room to create an irreverent program about serious things through Project Next.

ABC announces the 2009 TV lineup of programs that provide intense entertainment with the taste of originality and creativity. With a modest effort to pull in more younger, urban viewers; ABC TV has decided to host some series of Australia’s most veteran talents - John Safran, The Chaser and Andrew Denton.

At midseason, ABC will telecast “The Goode Family”, an animated series from Mike Judge, and a reality show from Ashton Kutcher and model Tyra Banks. It will also press ahead with development plans for more new shows that could be brought out midseason, when the network will bring back its hit “Lost.”

There are also second seasons of Bed of Roses, East of Everything and The Librarians plus a host of new dramas like Drugs, Death and Betrayal by veteran journalists John Silvester and Andrew Rule, The Cut, Dirt Game, Prison Sings, and natural history programs.  

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Grey’s Anatomy is an American primetime television medical drama. It debuted on ABC as a mid-season replacement for Boston Legal on March 27, 2005, immediately following Desperate Housewives.

The title of the show is inspired by the classic medical textbook Gray’s Anatomy. The series revolves around Dr. Meredith Grey, played by Ellen Pompeo, who began the show as a surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital in Seattle, Washington.

On February 11, 2008, ABC renewed Grey’s Anatomy for the 2008-09 television season.