RATINGS RAT RACE: ABC’s ‘Expedition: Impossible’ OK In Debut, ‘Rookie Blue’ Slips

COMMENTS (6)

• Rookie Blue is, in a word, Awful. It’s embarrassing. It is a skin cell’s thickness from self-parody. No doubt there are some attractive cops. (Love the beautiful cops on “reasonable” 3″ heels).

  Let’s see, the naive rookie is taken in by the prisoner being transported, and he escapes while her experienced partner is taking a leak in the bushes across the road. The handcuffed escapee headbutts her, and so leaves her out of breath, unable to stand and unable to pursue. DRAT! Hey, she really thought he was choking on that hotdog they bought him! How could she have know he was waiting for her on the other side of the glass window with his legs cocked and ready to kick her?

  The corner-cutting detective gets a hand from a naive but smart rookie who saves the detective’s career with an observation? What luck! All we’re missing are Heather Locklear and William Shatner.

  This show doubtless caused something like the “Lucy effect.” Instead of water pressure dropping as viewers rushed to the bathroom during commercials, for “Rookie Blue” the rush was just to shower the stink off.

  Comment by Comedymaven — Friday June 24, 2011 @ 10:14am PDT  Reply to this post

  • You beat me to the punch in calling this show near-parody. I didn’t watch it, just based on the TITLE, CONCEPT and ADS. It looks like one of those fake tv shows they make fun of in comedies like “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” or “30 Rock.”

    C’mon!

    Of course, nothing’s worse than “Love Bites!” Egads, I tried to watch it again last night and it was like having my fingernails pulled out one by one. I just kept waiting for it to…pick…up. You know, have a joke? Yuck.

    Comment by Truth-o-Meter — Friday June 24, 2011 @ 11:04am PDT  Reply to this post

• This is a can’t miss! We get the most good-looking people we can find and have them solve crimes! Genius!

  Comment by Yes! — Friday June 24, 2011 @ 10:47am PDT  Reply to this post

• They can’t be happy with that E:I number at ABC. Not with all that marketing. And it dipped at the half hour.

  Comment by Newman — Friday June 24, 2011 @ 10:51am PDT  Reply to this post

• I thought expedition would be interesting. I won’t be seeing that twice. It put me to sleep. very boring and the groups weren’t even interesting

  Comment by joe — Friday June 24, 2011 @ 1:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• They’re not.

  Comment by theguybehindtheguybehindtheguy — Friday June 24, 2011 @ 9:23pm PDT  Reply to this post