Will moving "Hawaii Five-0" to Friday nights be putting it out to pasture?
The network announced that instead of its usual Monday air date, "Five-0" will replace "CSI: NY" on Fridays for its fourth season. This opens up a Monday time slot for the upcoming series "Hostages," starring Dylan McDermott. "Five-0" will also be airing an hour earlier than the usual 9 p.m. time.
Some fans fear the move to Fridays will kill off the show because, lets face it, not everyone stays in on a Friday night. DVR will have to be "Five-0's" savior. It will also air right before the very popular "Blue Bloods" series, which could be a good thing. Maybe viewers tuning in early for "Blue Bloods" will catch the tail end of "Five-0" and realize, hey, this is another great show.
Diehard fans will also be the show's savior if they follow to Friday. Executive producer Peter Lenkov remains pretty enthusiastic about the move on Twitter; he tells fans to "continue to show up and we'll be around for a LONG time." After all, getting renewed for a fourth season is huge for any television series. Lets hope Lenkov is right!
Since 2006 Bruce Fisher has been publishing the Hawaii Vacation Blog and the Hawaii Vacation Connection Podcast which, create daily content about Hawaii Travel and Tourism. This Blog is the only online resource providing Hawaii-based information aimed at travelers seven days per week. Postings reflect the Hawaiian Islands, their culture and their lifestyle as accurately and thoroughly as possible.
Hawai‘i Five-0 star Scott Caan said he's sorry for bashing Hawai‘i on national television. It was in response to the backlash against him by fans, non-fans and no-longer fans. Caan apologized via e-mail, probably through his publicist, but hey, we'll take it:
“I am truly sorry for my comments made on ‘Chelsea Lately,’” Caan said in his message. “Jokes are always a part of late night talk shows, but I’m horrified if I hurt or offended anyone, as that was not my intention. I love Hawaii, I love the people of Hawaii and I apologize.”
Scott Caan (second from the right) and the Five-0 crew.
True, late night talk shows can get out of hand, especially with a host as feisty as Chelsea Handler. But I thought jokes were supposed to be funny? I honestly couldn't figure out if he was joking, which tells me he's a much better actor than he is a comedian. Of course, he's not the only celeb to knock Hawai‘i, but at least their blunt humor is obvious…and mostly funny.
Caan has the right to his opinions, and so do we. We're not just going to sit here and ignore a topic that obviously means something to the community. Blogs are meant for discussion; they're meant to start conversations about topics people care about. We always cover Five-0 here – the good (his birthday song), the bad (Five-0's low ratings) and the ugly. There's no way of sugarcoating it. Caan offended some people. We wrote about it.
And while we all can't wait for this Caan drama to fizzle out, it's ironic that those continuing to fan the flames are those who consider themselves his most passionate fans. They'll continue to defend Caan, as we'll continue to defend Hawai‘i. It's a natural chain of events that will eventually run its course. Everyone's said their piece, and Caan apologized. That doesn't necessarily mean Hawai‘i's going to forget what he said, but it does mean it's time for everyone to move on.
Since 2006 Bruce Fisher has been publishing the Hawaii Vacation Blog and the Hawaii Vacation Connection Podcast which, create daily content about Hawaii Travel and Tourism. This Blog is the only online resource providing Hawaii-based information aimed at travelers seven days per week. Postings reflect the Hawaiian Islands, their culture and their lifestyle as accurately and thoroughly as possible.
The Hawai‘i Five-0 star bashed the islands on a late-night talk show recently – dissing the food, the surf and the slow-moving people. He's been filming in Hawai‘i since the show's first debut in 2010 and even got a mansion near Diamond Head. But judging by his interview on "Chelsea Lately," the actor's not too thrilled about his time in the islands.
Check out what he had to say about Hawai‘i:
At first I thought he was trying to be funny by saying the exact opposite of what people would expect him to say about "paradise." Now, I'm not so sure. After watching it a few more times, he seems to truly despise living in the islands.
Sad, because I feel like everyone has been so welcoming to – not only him – but also to the show itself. Filming a television series takes time; it takes space, and when that involves closing a road or a business, it can often become a burden on locals, even tourists. There might be complaints here and there, but for the most part, we just deal. Aloha's in our spirit.
I'm still confused about his remark on Hawai‘i's sucky food. Maybe he had a bad experience or just prefers bland food? But with Hawai‘i as one of the most diverse places on the planet, there's no question the food will be a tasty conglomeration of every flavor imaginable. You could easily find Thai, Italian, Hawaiian and American eateries on one block. In fact, it becomes more an issue of what to eat than what not to eat.
While I won't necessarily agree that Malibu is the best wave on the planet, I will admit that Hawai‘i is "slower." We do move at a slower pace, because we can! The perfect weather and surrounding outdoor beauty will put anyone in a good mood. I'm never in a rush to go indoors and nor is anyone else, it seems. People pay for this kind of relaxation.
I can understand that this lifestyle's not for everyone, especially for someone like him, who's forced to live here. But to diss the culture and the people is uncalled for, and I'm sure he's lost a lot of fans because of it. Hawai‘i will still be the same laid-back place – whether Five-0's in town or not – and the food and surf will continue to be "sucky," so why not just find another job?
Since 2006 Bruce Fisher has been publishing the Hawaii Vacation Blog and the Hawaii Vacation Connection Podcast which, create daily content about Hawaii Travel and Tourism. This Blog is the only online resource providing Hawaii-based information aimed at travelers seven days per week. Postings reflect the Hawaiian Islands, their culture and their lifestyle as accurately and thoroughly as possible.
The producers of Hawaii Five-0really know how to entertain their audience this season. First it was the alternate ending episode that gave viewers the power to choose the murderer. Now, during this week's Pro Bowl events, the cameras will be turned, and it's the viewers that may end up on the show.
The H50 film crew will be set up throughout events surrounding the 2013 NFL Pro Bowl, as reported by local media. These events include the NFL Pro Bowl Ohana Day at the Aloha Stadium and the Waikīkī block party. Ohana Day has practices, interviews with the players and other family activities. There'll be signs outside of each event, advising attendees that H50 filming will be in progress.
No word yet on which actors will be chasing bad guys through the stadium or which NFL players and cheerleaders will be showing off their acting skills. I wonder if this will distract the all-star players in anyway? As for the retired all-stars – like former NFL players Vince Ferragamo, Jesse Sapolu and David Krieg – they'll be kicking back, sipping a mai tai and signing autographs at the block party. We broke the news first after Hawaii Aloha Travel booked their vacation to the islands!
While the "Who Dunnit" episode didn't quite help boost the show's ratings, perhaps this upcoming one featuring the Pro Bowl will. We don't know yet on when the episode will air, however. It just makes sense to couple the two together – a popular TV show set in the islands and the islands' most high-profile professional sporting even. It's a win-win! Plus, the show's characters Steve McG and Chinn Ho were both former football all-stars during their high school days at Kukui High School.
Since 2006 Bruce Fisher has been publishing the Hawaii Vacation Blog and the Hawaii Vacation Connection Podcast which, create daily content about Hawaii Travel and Tourism. This Blog is the only online resource providing Hawaii-based information aimed at travelers seven days per week. Postings reflect the Hawaiian Islands, their culture and their lifestyle as accurately and thoroughly as possible.
Let me first preface this by saying, it's not often you see a celebrity in Hawai‘i. So when Hawaii Five-0's Scott Caan walked past me yesterday, there was no way of stifling that darn girly giggle. Mind you, he was also shirtless and still dripping from a surf sesh. With his board in hand, he looked up and gave us that "Sup" nod (with the quick eyebrow-chin raise, too, hehe).
We had just surfed ourselves, followed by the usual routine of tying up the boards to the car and drying off. Then in my peripheral, I saw someone that looked like the new-age Danno from Five-0. A quick glance confirmed that, yes, it was Danno! Our friend, who doesn't know a thing about Five-0, had the balls to give him the "Sup" nod back. I stood there, frozen, but also thinking about the blog, "Hmm, it probably wouldn't be appropriate to spring an interview on him now or snap a quick pic…or would it?"
Sorry to disappoint, but by the time I could finally find my phone for a pic, he had scurried up the stairway to his huge newly-renovated mansion near Diamond Head. But now that I know where he lives…LOL. Nah, I'm not that type of fan. But apparently, I am the type with the girly giggle.
I'm thinking he surfed at a spot called Tongs. A lot of celebs surf there, for some reason. I recall Cameron Diaz getting pushed into waves by boyfriend-at-the-time and pro surfer Kelly Slater. Scott is actually a longtime surfer, who picked up the hobby back home in Cali. His parter-in-crime-fighting, on the other hand, just learned to surf while filming in Hawai‘i. His girlfriend and her brothers are all former or current pro surfers, so Alex O'Loughlin has a lot of work to do.
Lessons learned from this celeb experience? Have my camera ready next time I'm in the area!!!!
Since 2006 Bruce Fisher has been publishing the Hawaii Vacation Blog and the Hawaii Vacation Connection Podcast which, create daily content about Hawaii Travel and Tourism. This Blog is the only online resource providing Hawaii-based information aimed at travelers seven days per week. Postings reflect the Hawaiian Islands, their culture and their lifestyle as accurately and thoroughly as possible.
Who did Hawaii Five-0 fans vote as the murderer in the season finale?
There were two different villains, actually, depending on where you watched it. The East Coast voted on the greedy academic, while the West Coast wanted the college student to be the culprit.
Viewers (except those in Hawai‘i) casted online ballots during the show, to decide on which character murdered the professor. Once tallied, the appropriate ending was then lined up for its television debut. If West Coast fans were really hardcore, they could've watched all three episodes on cbs.com earlier in the day to help make their decision.
While I wasn't able to watch them beforehand, I did check out all three after the show. I was a bit disappointed to find that there wasn't much of a difference to each "ending," other than the culprit, of course. The shots, the dialogue and set up for the jungle shooting scene were all pretty much the same.
And the "ending" ended quickly! After a drawn-out plot involving a murdered professor whose research was discovered by one of the three suspects, the finale wrapped up with the much-anticipated voted ending – all two or three minutes of it.
While Five-0 put a lot of effort into hyping up the "Alternate Ending Vote" campaign, it didn't seem like much effort was invested into the making of these endings. They were all very predictable, almost formulated to fit into the episode. And even with all that hype, the ratings were still comparably low. Nielsen reported about 9.37 million viewers, as compared to the most recent new episode on Dec. 17, which had 10.54 million viewers.
Since 2006 Bruce Fisher has been publishing the Hawaii Vacation Blog and the Hawaii Vacation Connection Podcast which, create daily content about Hawaii Travel and Tourism. This Blog is the only online resource providing Hawaii-based information aimed at travelers seven days per week. Postings reflect the Hawaiian Islands, their culture and their lifestyle as accurately and thoroughly as possible.
Remember those murder mystery boardgames, like Clue or Who Did It?
Hawaii Five-0 will be playing a similar game but instead of moving plastic pieces, fans will dictate an onscreen ending via Twitter. The Jan. 14 finale episode will be live, just not for Hawai‘i, and follows the investigation of the death of an O‘ahu State University professor.
Viewers will vote on the culprit by choosing either the professor's boss (#theBoss), his teaching assistant (#theTA) or a student who cheated on an exam (#theStudent). The votes will be counted immediately, with the most popular ending airing live during the CBS broadcast.
"I've always felt the most fun aspect of watching a mystery is trying to figure out 'whodunit," said executive producer Peter Lenkov in a statement. "Now, the 'Hawaii Five-0' viewers will actually get the chance to tell us who they think committed the crime and we will listen."
No matter which ending gets chosen, fans can view all three on CBS.com after the East and West Coast broadcasts. This makes me wonder if the show will actually be "live" or if the endings were pre-recorded. But I won't be the kill joy here and roll with it. It's definitely a unique idea for any television show, especially one that's had somewhat fickle ratings this season. http://www.hawaii-aloha.com/blog/2012/11/27/hawaii-five-0-has-sustains-its-ratings-momentum-this-week/
Good move, CBS! Can't wait to see what's in store next season.
Since 2006 Bruce Fisher has been publishing the Hawaii Vacation Blog and the Hawaii Vacation Connection Podcast which, create daily content about Hawaii Travel and Tourism. This Blog is the only online resource providing Hawaii-based information aimed at travelers seven days per week. Postings reflect the Hawaiian Islands, their culture and their lifestyle as accurately and thoroughly as possible.
Regardless of how you feel about the current season, the engine that fuels Hawaii Five-0 has shifted from the obsessive dance between Steve McGarrett and Wo Fat to the psychological tango between McG, his long-presumed-dead mother and her desire for both forgiveness and validation of a super secret spy life that destroyed an entire family. To get it, she not only had to work her way back into Steve’s life, but that of a daughter she hadn’t seen in two decades.
She (both Mama McG and the actress, Christine Lahti) also had to accomplish said task while nits were being thoroughly picked by fans who crave action & adventure, not characters stuck living their own private soap opera. But by the end of “Ōhuna,” which was both surprisingly unpredictable and remarkably solid in its execution, it says something that welcoming family back into the fold occurred in more ways than one Monday night.
By the time we came to the end, where messy reality and emotional turmoil were trumped by a desire to make a family (mostly) whole again, nearly a million more sets of eyeballs were watching than the previous Monday. Hawaii Five-0, in fact, pulled its highest numbers to date for season 3, with a 2.2 in 18-49 (up a tenth from last week) and roughly 8.9 million people watching live.
Overall, Five-0 dented Revolution’s number significantly for the first time this fall. The sci-fi drama managed just a 2.6/7.04 and will air its mid-season finale next Monday. It will not return to the NBC schedule until March 25, leaving Five-0 with the chance for some ratings momentum in the months ahead. It’s like the show took two giants steps forward last night, and hopefully there’s no going back.
Reaching into the mailbag …
A couple people have asked me (whether in comments, on Twitter or Facebook) how to become a member of the Nielsen sample. The answer, quite simply, is that the entire thing is strictly through chance. You can’t call Nielsen and volunteer to track data for them, nor can they ask every home in a community to participate. Instead, they select a sample of homes in a given area to represent the entire TV audience. You can learn more about the process HERE.
And a final thought…
There has been some spirited commentary on a recent blog post that colors outside the lines of quality fan discussion. While I certainly appreciate that you take the time to read and comment on these blogs, attacking each other in the process is both unnecessary and counterproductive. I assume you all participate because there are more aspects of Hawaii Five-0 you enjoy than those you don’t, and I ask that you redirect your energy away from the vitriol and get back to pros and cons of these episodes and how they reflect on the ratings. Mahalo.
Since 2006 Bruce Fisher has been publishing the Hawaii Vacation Blog and the Hawaii Vacation Connection Podcast which, create daily content about Hawaii Travel and Tourism. This Blog is the only online resource providing Hawaii-based information aimed at travelers seven days per week. Postings reflect the Hawaiian Islands, their culture and their lifestyle as accurately and thoroughly as possible.
The Circle of Life continues for Alex O'Loughlin and girlfriend Malia Jones. Their newborn cub entered the world in late October, and people are already calling him a Lion. It's not the he can't wait to be king, but rather, that's his real name. Lion.
And it definitely tops all the trendsetting celeb baby names out there…cough…Apple. But as weird as it sounds, you've got to admit. Lion O'Loughlin has a nice roar to it. Don't know if he'll ever be a king but hopefully someone important, with a name like that, anyway.
The Hawai‘i Five-0 actor and model girlfriend from Hawai‘i first went public about their relationship in January. Seven months later, they surprised fans with bouncing baby news. And now, with a game-changing name like, Lion, there's bound to be more surprises on the way.
A dog named Rafiki would be cute, but that's too predictable. Oh well, hakunamatata!
Since 2006 Bruce Fisher has been publishing the Hawaii Vacation Blog and the Hawaii Vacation Connection Podcast which, create daily content about Hawaii Travel and Tourism. This Blog is the only online resource providing Hawaii-based information aimed at travelers seven days per week. Postings reflect the Hawaiian Islands, their culture and their lifestyle as accurately and thoroughly as possible.
I was just a few hours from losing power at my house last week in northeast Pennsylvania when CBS announced through various social media channels that Monday’s originally scheduled episode of Hawaii Five-0 was being preempted for news coverage of Hurricane Sandy. As strong wind gusts snapped trees and ripped down power lines just outside my window, some fans lambasted executive producer Peter Lenkov and CBS executives on Twitter for the decision.
By the following morning, I wondered if any of those ‘fans’ felt a little foolish for their social media rants. In New York and New Jersey, Sandy lived up to its billing as a once-in-a-lifetime ‘superstorm’. In the enormous area affected – from the Carolinas to Maine, and inland to Ohio and West Virginia – scores of people died. Waves and wind swamped lower Manhattan with record flooding. The devastation in New Jersey is still something people are coming to grips with. And a week later, many storm victims are still without power, adequate shelter, food and access to gas.
If the Hawaii Five-0 ratings (and the show in general)are the last thing on your mind lately, I can’t say I blame you. But the Halloween episode so anxiously awaited has come and gone, and online reviews for "Mōhai" have been as soft as the numbers. The episode pulled a 2.0/7.53, down a tenth in the demo from three weeks ago. But — CBS numbers as a whole were off, as they were expected to be. The network returned to its regular Monday night lineup after both presidential debate and storm coverage, and the only show to manage a bump in that three-week gap was 2 Broke Girls (up two tenths airing at 9pm, while Mike and Molly dropped two-tenths from a 3.0 to a 2.8 since its last airing as a lead-in to 10 p.m.)
Up against Five-0, NBC’s Revolution managed just a 2.8/7.34 and ABC’s Castle was at a 1.9/10.02. NBC’s early numbers were also inflated because the Saints/Eagles NFL game was simulcast on the NBC affiliate in New Orleans. Translation: If you’re worried about the numbers, don’t be. Besides all these mitigating factors, Nielsen families up and down the Northeast Corridor can’t really report what they watched since their televisions and cable boxes were swept away by Sandy’s mighty storm surge. I just hope the fans who were so angry to see Five-0 get pulled off the air last week won’t be targeting those people next.
Since 2006 Bruce Fisher has been publishing the Hawaii Vacation Blog and the Hawaii Vacation Connection Podcast which, create daily content about Hawaii Travel and Tourism. This Blog is the only online resource providing Hawaii-based information aimed at travelers seven days per week. Postings reflect the Hawaiian Islands, their culture and their lifestyle as accurately and thoroughly as possible.
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