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A few bits of ratings news as we start to get warmed up for premiere season:
* President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress drew 32.1 million viewers, up from the 24.5 million his last primetime health care press conference drew (though not not up to the massive audiences he was getting just after his inauguration).
What’s the best yardstick by which to fairly judge the CW’s new remake of Melrose Place? The 1990s original? Last year’s remake of 90210? The CW’s other stable of soaps and teen dramas? (Please don’t say actual good television. I mean, we’re talking Melrose Place here.)
As the New York Times told us yesterday, only the olds use Twitter. Readers of Tuned In are uniformly young and beautiful, and so you have no idea that, over on Twitter, some of us elderly TV critics—breathing the stench of the grave with every tweet—have been debating how the new CW remake stands up [...]
What's that mirror talking about? No one is fairer than Charlize Theron. Unless we're talking inner beauty—which is what this movie is about.
As we prepare for the Game of Thrones finale, we recognize Joffrey and nine other baddies who showed us that terrible, horrible things can come in small packages
Highlights include Dolly Parton singing for Emily Maynard and one omelet named Shelly
| 1 | Men in Black 3 | $55M |
| 2 | Marvel's The Avengers | $37M |
| 3 | Battleship | $10.8M |
| 4 | The Dictator | $9.6M |
| 5 | Chernobyl Diaries | $8M |
