Welcome back to another edition of BCTV Sunday Slices, where I take a look back at the past week in Bleeding Cool's television coverage and select a few articles to highlight and offer some perspective. This week, we have a righteous amount of topics from all four corners of the pop culture landscape. From Saturday […]
In a startling admission that they don't even know how to count, WWE has announced a new initiative on the WWE Network called "30 Days of the Deadman" which will consist of 5 days of special programming about The Undertaker. Hoping to capitalize on the success of The Last Ride documentary that led to The […]
Welcome back to another serving of BCTV Sunday Slices, where I take a look at the past week in BCTV's coverage to offer a thought or two on the topic. Once again, the views expressed here are my own and don't necessarily reflect on the rest of the fine folks at Bleeding Cool. Which is […]
Using new data from a poll commissioned by them and conducted by YouGov, Variety has released a new article lat week using lots of math, science, and fancy statistics to prove what everyone already knew: the reason people have stopped watching WWE over the past twenty years is that WWE has sucked. The article, written […]
The world of professional wrestling has lost another legendary name with the passing of Joseph Laurinaitis, better known to millions of fans around the world for decades as Road Warrior Animal, at the age of 60. Laurinaitis' official Twitter account and brother Marcus' Facebook account confirmed the news Wednesday morning- with the family planning to […]
It looks like the ratings boost for WWE SmackDown from the ThunderDome may be coming to an end. Though SmackDown held onto its post-SummerSlam increase longer than Raw, ratings and viewership returned to pre-ThunderDome levels, at least according to Showbuzz Daily's overnight report. WWE SmackDown Draws Lowest Viewership Since July Last night's episode of SmackDown […]
Former WWE star Melina Perez has signed with the company and will make a return within the next week, according to PWInsider. Working under the single name Melina from 2004-2011 in WWE, Perez is a five-time women's champion and was regarded as an incredible in-ring talent, especially as a woman in the Divas era of […]
In the first direct ratings skirmish in weeks, AEW Dynamite came out on top over NXT once again, beating NXT in both viewership and in the 18-49 demographic. AEW Dynamite was ranked #3 in the ratings Wednesday night amongst all cable shows, even higher than last week when they broke a million viewers, though viewership […]
Welcome back to another edition of BCTV's Sunday Slices, where I take a look at the past week in Bleeding Cool's television/streaming coverage to offer my thoughts on what went down, what's going down, and what's about to take off in the not-too-distant future. Once again, my thoughts/opinions are my own and do not necessarily […]
For the past two weeks on WWE SmackDown, WWE has been teasing the debut, or perhaps re-debut, of a mystery woman. Two weeks ago, we saw a video promo focusing on her feet. Yesterday, we saw another video, this time starting with her feet, but then showing her getting dressed, giving us a shot of […]
In the upcoming Election PPV event, WWE Hall-of-Famer President Donald Trump is counting high ratings in the white suburbanite demographic to draw votes against rival Joe Biden. To that end, Trump has been working those voters with fears of Antifa protestors, a group similar to the Retribution stable on WWE Raw, moving into their suburban […]
Welcome back to another edition of BCTV Sunday Slices, where I take a look back at the week in Bleeding Cool's broadcast, cable, and streaming coverage to offer a little "extra perspective"- a nice way of saying that I'm getting to shoot my mouth off on a bunch of things that tickled the back of […]
When we left off in part two of our WWE SmackDown report, Michael Cole, channeling the 1998 version of Tony Schiavone (trust me, it was nothing like the version we know and love today), had just declared that we were about to witness the greatest tag team match in the history of SmackDown. Sasha Banks […]
Are you ready? Are you ready for a good time? Well, too bad, because it's time for WWE SmackDown. WWE SmackDown Report for September 4th, 2020 Part 1 of 3 Smackdown opens with a recap of the ending of WWE Payback. Long story short: The Big Dog is back, and he's a heel, baby! Michael […]
Last time we checked in with SYFY and USA Network's series take on the modern horror classic Child's Play, we were getting a first look at the teaser. The series storyline focuses on a vintage Chucky (the name of the series) doll that turns up at a suburban yard sale. Soon, an idyllic American town […]
There's been a lot of speculation about what WWE is planning to do with Retribution, the non-political Antifa-like stable of anarchists in black hoodies who have been terrorizing WWE Raw and Smackdown for the past month. Who are the members of this stable? Who are its leaders? Seth Rollins has been a suspect, along with […]
During the main event of SummerSlam last Sunday, Roman Reigns made a surprising return to the WWE in his first official appearance since March. In the main event of the Payback PPV, Reigns set up to go toe-to-toe against Bray Wyatt aka The Fiend and Braun Strowman in a "No Holds Barred" match for the […]
Wow, great result for Keith Lee, huh? I'm glad to see him getting a push like this. Not sure what it means for Orton, who has now lost two big matches in a row, one against a "rookie." Welcome to Bleeding Cool's continuing live coverage of WWE Payback, sponsored by Captain Morgan and Doctor Pepper, […]
There was not much time to recover from the WWE spectacle that is Shayna Baszler, who managed to use Sasha Banks' body to help submit Bayley to an incredible submission. With the upset resulting in a new tag team women's champions, Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler sent their excitement into the next match which was […]
Well, that wasn't a very good showing for "The Ratings King of Friday Nights," was it? Poor King Corbin. But the world continues to spin, and WWE Payback continues as well. And so does Bleeding Cool's live coverage. And so does my drinkings. Captain Morgan and Dr. Pepper. Try it! If you like rum and […]
