"Happy in the Poorhouse" is a big, sloppy kiss of a family drama delivered with the warmth and gusto of an overly affectionate aunt.
That be-careful-what-you-wish-for lottery drama delivered 8.98 million viewers at 10 and beat "Without a Trace" in the 18-to-49 18-to-49 18-to-49
The 9 p.m. drama delivered the largest audience of the night, easily outperforming NBC's "Sunday Night Football" which averaged 13 million viewers.
According to Nielsen's estimates, that medical drama delivered 11.1 million viewers at 8 p.m. while Fox's new series "The Chicago Code" remained relatively solid at 9 with 7.5 million.
Stone's drama delivered the basics perfectly well: Nightingale's disruptive sense of vocation, her dread of domestic confinement, the excellent political connections that allowed her to survive the hostility of Army generals in the Crimea, and her determination to press through reforms after the war.
The No. 3 film was newcomer God's Not Dead". It's shaping up to be a year in which Hollywood finds religion, and the latest example, "God's Not Dead," a small Christian-themed drama, delivered that message powerfully at the box office.
Among total viewers ABC's daytime dramas delivered an average audience of 3.38 million, which was second to CBS's 3.88 million.
AfterElton reviewers stated that the radio drama "delivers for Janto [a portmanteau used by the shipping fandom] fans"; David-Lloyd delivers a monologue as Ianto, verbalising his insecurities to a comatose Jack.
So give credit to the creators of "The Columnist," David Auburn's scrupulously assembled historical drama, for delivering a truly troubling glimpse of exposed flesh in the play's opening minutes, a glimpse — it turns out — that is anything but gratuitous.
If anyone should understand how far television often is from reality, it would be the producers of home improvement shows — the ones who spend months following celebrity flippers around with a camera, setting up the drama and delivering the Big Reveal, the moment when the homeowner gets to see the ugly duckling re-emerge as a beautiful swan.
