Selasa, 06 Oktober 2009

Favre leads Vikings and ESPN to big win

Favre leads Vikings and ESPN to big win

Beating every team in the NFL wasn't the only record Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre set. He also led ESPN's "Monday Night Football" to record ratings for a cable telecast.

FAVRE Favre's victory over his old team not only kept the Minnesota Vikings under undefeated, it also drove Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN to its strongest night ever. The game, which has been heavily anticipated since Favre came out of retirement (for a second time) in August, drew 21.8 million viewers, making it the most-watched cable television program in history. Needless to say, it also totally crushed the broadcast competition, whose top show Monday night was CBS' "CSI Miami," which attracted 13.4 million viewers. Among adults ages 18 to 49, the game -- which the Vikings won by a score of 30 to 23 (it wasn't that close) -- scored a 9.0 rating. Each rating point in that demographic equals 1.3 million adults, which translates to almost 12 million people.

Last night's game beat the previous best for a cable show, which was also an ESPN football telecast. Last year's Philadephia Eagles-Dallas Cowboys match attracted 18.6 million viewers. The most-watched non-sports cable show was Disney Channel's 2007 telecast of "High School Musical 2," which averaged 17.2 million viewers.

-- Joe Flint


Exclusive: Tim Gunn to guest on 'How I Met Your Mother'

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Maybe you didn't think Barney Stinson could be any more awesome.

You were wrong.

In the upcoming 100th episode of "How I Met Your Mother," Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) will call upon the sartorial skills of none other than "Project Runway's" Tim Gunn.

In the episode, which will air around the mid-point of the CBS comedy's fifth season, Gunn will act as a "personal tailor/ fashion consultant as Barney tries to fix a majorleague 'Suit Catastrophe,'" according to "HIMYM" co-creator Craig Thomas. "Tim is basically like Barney's ER physicianfor a serious suit emergency."

For Barney, a man-about-town who takes his suits very seriously, it's "life or death stuff," Thomas jokes.

But wait, that's not all: Episode 100 will also have a guest appearance from Rachel Bilson of "The O.C." (for more on that look here) and a big musical number as well. We know from his well-received turns hosting the Emmys and the Grammys that Neil Patrick Harris can pull off the musical showstoppers like nobody's business. He will no doubt, as Tim Gunn would say, make it work.

"We're really excited to have Tim on the show, and, with Rachel Bilsoncast as a Ted love interest and a huge musical number to boot, it'sgonna make Episode 100 even more fun and special," Thomas said.

Come on, you know I have to say it. It sounds like this milestone episode of the enjoyable Monday-night comedy is going to be legen -- wait for it! -- dary.


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CUBA: Restoring Historic Santiago for Its People
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Oct 6 (IPS)Even with her house practically in ruins, Isabel García wouldn’t dream of living anywhere else. She’d rather stay where she knows that no matter what corner she turns she’ll always be able to gaze out into the blue sea or raise her eyes up to the green mountains that shelter her beloved city of Santiago, in eastern Cuba.

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