Lauren Graham - Parenthood #11 ~ It'll blow your freakin' mind!

LG rocks my socks · 03-10-2010, 06:10 PM

By: Hayley3380

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News
- Lauren Graham's 'Parenthood' role is not just another Lorelai Gilmore!
-'Parenthood' is coming back as a TV show!
-Lauren Graham On Her New TV Gig: Why My Role On ‘Parenthood’ Is So NOT Lorelai On ‘Gilmore Girls!’ Hollywood Life
-'Parenthood' Starring Lauren Graham Premieres March 2 on NBC 2010/02/11
-Ron Howard, Lauren Graham and Jason Katims Talk Parenthood in Film and Television - Entertainment News
-Family drama | The Spectrum
-So a Blonde Walks Into a Review: NBC's Parenthood
.Confessions of a Psychotic Housewife: TV Show Review: Parenthood
-Feminist Review: Parenthood
-New NBC TV Show Parenthood | The Shopping Mama
-El Paso Inc
-Gilmore Girl mom talks about Parenthood
-NBC’s Parenthood Preview - TotallyHer.com
-"Parenthood" Review: NBC's New Drama Series | Parenting Squad
-Familiar Faces In 'Parenthood' And Other Primetime Series - Starpulse Entertainment News
-Talking TV With The Producer Of 'Parenthood' - Forbes.com
-Interview with Ron Howard and Lauren Graham of "Parenthood" - Primetime TV Show Articles From The TV MegaSite
-Lauren Graham returns to series TV with 'Parenthood'

Red Carpet Interviews
-Dax Shepard Hates on Curling | NBC Los Angeles
-Stars at the 'Parenthood' Premiere! | Extra
-'Parenthood' series showcases family hijinks | OnTheRedCarpet.com
-YouTube - Parenthood Launch Party

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Parenthood Campaign Thread - let's get a board for the show!

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CohenGal · 03-10-2010, 06:18 PM

TFTNT! Love the title.

Katka, I agree, I also find the idea of Lauren listening to Tegan & Sara amusing.

Gilmoregirl82 · 03-10-2010, 06:20 PM

tftnt!! Great title.

In response to the conversation in the last thread. It also looks like parenthood had people tune out in the second half hour of the show:

10:00 CBS The Good Wife 2.9 8 14.175
NBC Parenthood 2.8 8 6.436
ABC the forgotten 1.7 5 5.193

10:30 CBS The Good Wife 2.8 8 13.640
NBC Parenthood 2.5 8 5.709
ABC the forgotten 1.3 4 4.591

I want people to stay positive as ratings ALWAYS drop off after the pilot. Sometimes they pick back up and sometimes they maintain what we don't want is it to drop more! So lets just see how epi 3 does. It could go back up. I wouldn't say it will get the pilot ratings but going up a bit is a good sign that people are still curious. I think the show has great potential.

The whole ratings thing drives me crazy though. I never care about them of course until I get a show I really like. I really would like to know how one sets up their household for Nielson family ratings. Becasue basically most of our viewership doesn't even count

lancer1993 · 03-10-2010, 06:30 PM

I agree lets stay positive about the ratings...

...thanks for the new thread, nice title.

ETA - watching the promo for next week I think the pool might be indoors also Lauren might not be wearing a t-shirt in the pool, I now think it might just be her hair on her shoulder.

Gilmoregirl82 · 03-10-2010, 08:32 PM

I'm surprised she got in the pool. People with really curly hair usually are not that eager to get it wet once straightened! lol

lancer1993 · 03-10-2010, 09:14 PM

I don't think Sarah straitens her hair, I think we've only seen it natural like Lauren.

Depp27 · 03-10-2010, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Gilmoregirl82 (View Post)

I want people to stay positive as ratings ALWAYS drop off after the pilot. Sometimes they pick back up and sometimes they maintain what we don't want is it to drop more! So lets just see how epi 3 does. It could go back up. I wouldn't say it will get the pilot ratings but going up a bit is a good sign that people are still curious. I think the show has great potential.

The whole ratings thing drives me crazy though. I never care about them of course until I get a show I really like. I really would like to know how one sets up their household for Nielson family ratings. Becasue basically most of our viewership doesn't even count

Totally agree, way too early to go into panic mode for us. Ratings were decent enough for the moment. And yeah the Nielson thing is stupid, i don't get how that is an accurate of viewers.

What r we talking about a pool, did I miss something?

lancer1993 · 03-10-2010, 10:52 PM

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What r we talking about a pool, did I miss something?

It's not really a spoiler since it was in the promos but the family goes to a swimming pool next week.

‘Parenthood’ pilot is a jumbled mess - The Daily Iowan

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Though it’s hard to judge a show solely on its pilot episode (experience tells us pilots are always underdeveloped), there are still many issues in the première that may cause the series to be dropped after its first season.

A review of the new NBC television series, Parenthood, starring Lauren Graham. - Deep Dish

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It's so nice to see actress Lauren Graham back on television. Having loved her as Lorelai on Gilmore Girls (which I only discovered two years ago on DVD), I was quite curious to see how she would fit in to an ensemble cast like NBC's new Parenthood has - and after watching the series' premiere last week, I felt I should reserve judgment until I'd viewed a second episode. I'm very glad that I did because I liked last night's show much more than the pilot, which seemed to lack a cohesiveness among its large cast of characters. But there were enough things that I liked about it to make me want to see more - and now I consider myself a fan of the show.

Parenthood : Don't Give Up On It, Baby - TV.com

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When Parenthood premiered last week, it received mixed reviews from the TV.com staff (as new/highly anticipated/well-cast shows are wont to do). I liked the show's feel from the get-go, but Steve Heisler thought the pilot was bogged down with cliches. (A fair point.) And Tim Surette told me this morning that he thinks the Bravermans are a bunch of jerks. (Another fair point—they put themselves and their children before just about everyone else.) But Tuesday's episode of Parenthood, "Man Versus Possum," was much better than its slow-but-steady pilot. To put it simply, more stuff happened.

Berkeley Doesn’t Recognize Itself in NBC’s ‘Parenthood’ - Bay Area Blog - NYTimes.com

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At first, the second episode seemed to have mostly white characters. An early scene showed the character Sarah, played by Lauren Graham, dropping her kids off at school. (Shot at University High in Los Angeles, which made a bad stand-in for Berkeley High). None of the students in the show resembled actual high school students. The girls were wearing bell-bottom jeans, when tight, straight-legged jeans are the norm, and there were no boys with jeans sagging around their buttocks.

Critic's Corner Thursday: 'Parks and Rec,' 'Grey's Anatomy' - USATODAY.com

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What is it with NBC and possums? Tuesday, a possum drove Adam crazy (well, crazier) on Parenthood. Tonight, a possum takes up residence on a golf course on Parks and Recreation (8:30 ET/PT), leading Leslie (Amy Poehler) to form a trap-the-possum task force. Who knew the little marsupials were such a threat?

-Denise- · 03-11-2010, 01:58 AM

Was this posted?
Parenthood, 'Man Versus Possum': Adam looks for an Asperger's cure | - NJ.com
It's a review of the second episode. I hadn't read it yet, because I'm SF. If this was posted already, I'm sorry.

Danke · 03-11-2010, 02:00 AM

I think this is cool

Asperger's syndrome tops Google searches after plotline on NBC show 'Parenthood'

Also different view on the ratings.

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After winning the timeslot last week, "Parenthood" slipped to second last night behind CBS's "The Good Wife," which averaged a 2.8.

"Parenthood" was still well ahead of former timeslot occupant "The Jay Leno Show's" 10 p.m. average, and it performed 1.1 better than ABC's competing "the forgotten," which managed a mere 1.5 despite a strong lead from "Lost." That explains why "forgotten" is ending soon.

Media Life Magazine - NBC's 'Parenthood' slips its second outing

things like ratings and all statistics data makes me so mad, cos I don´t believe in it. Until someone asks me personally what I think about stuff, I don´t believe in sayings like "60% of this country thinks...." Ratings are the same, how can few tousand of people represent millions of people living in US? I just don´t believe in the perfect samples. I had to study statistic for 2 semesters, we really snarkastic during the lessons.

lancer1993 · 03-11-2010, 02:37 AM

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Was this posted?
Parenthood, 'Man Versus Possum': Adam looks for an Asperger's cure | - NJ.com
It's a review of the second episode. I hadn't read it yet, because I'm SF. If this was posted already, I'm sorry.

No spoilers that I could see but I liked this.

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(*) Bob Dylan did, in fact, have several albums hit number one, both here and in the UK, so is Max limiting his definition of "record" to mean "single" (where he got as high as #2 a few times)? Or did the creative team screw up not with the Asperger's, but with the music knowledge? I also found it interesting that, after the pilot featured Dylan's "Forever Young" at several points, an episode that repeatedly namechecked Dylan instead closed with Paul Simon's "St. Judy's Comet." I suppose they don't want to get pigeon-holed as "that show with the Dylan soundtrack." That, or his songs ain't cheap enough to license every week.

Danke · 03-11-2010, 03:18 AM

Here´s audio interview with Monica Potter. Good to see other cast to do promotion too.

Monica Potter interview | play.it

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At 10 p.m., “Parenthood” (2.6/9 in adults 18-49, 6.1 million viewers overall) finished within 0.2 of a rating point of the time-period lead in adults 18-49. In the time slot, "Parenthood" finished #1 among the major networks in adults, men and women 18-34 and women 18-49 (tie).

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and apparently the screeners had different song playing with the opening credits.