Kid you not: ‘Rugrats’ shatters record
No one has ever likened “Rugrats” to the Super Bowl, but it might be time to consider making such a comparison.
Last Saturday’s special prime-time “Rugrats” episode, “All Growed Up,” was seen by 70 percent of all kids 2-11 in the Nick universe (81 million households) – the highest share ever for any cable program. Those are Super Bowl-type numbers, even for cable.
Nearly 3 out of every 4 kids ages 2-11 in Nick’s universe who were watching TV were watching “All Growed Up” (8-9 p.m.). In the episode, “Rugrats” characters Angelica, Tommy, Chuckie, Phil and Lil, Dil and Kimmy were aged 10 years.
Among cable households, “All Growed Up” notched a 7.2 rating – Nick’s highest-rated show ever.
Ringo: We’re drumming up another album
Ringo Starr told last night’s “Access Hollywood” that he and Beatles buddies Paul McCartney and George Harrison are planning to release yet another greatest-hits album on the heels of “1,” a collection of the group’s number-one hits.
“There’s a couple of projects in the works,” Starr told Pat O’Brien. “Nothing will be out until next year and we’re all going to meet up again in October and finalize what it will be. I mean, everybody wants the number two’s.”
Starr also says reports of Harrison being near death because of a brain tumor are not true.
“I didn’t panic because I wait until it becomes a reality,” he says. “And the news is real when either Paul or George calls me and says, ‘This is what it is’ . . . I did see George three weeks ago and he was fine. If it had been bad, he would have told me.”
A Lyons main event in Cooperstown
Ch. 4’s Jeffrey Lyons is being enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame – in a literary sense, that is.
Lyons’ second baseball-trivia book, “Curveballs and Screwballs” (Times Books) – co-written with his brother, Douglas Lyons – will be put into the Hall of Fame’s library in Cooperstown, which contains a copy of every baseball book ever written.
But the Lyons Brothers will also be honored in Cooperstown on Aug. 11 by hosting a baseball trivia contest in the Hall of Fame’s theater. The trivia contest will be followed by a book signing.
“Curveballs and Screwballs” is the Lyons’ second baseball-trivia book. “Out in Left Field” was published in 1998.
“My younger brother is a born-again baseball fan who’s been a fan only 15 years,” says Jeffrey Lyons. “But he’s a practicing attorney and is good at research. I’m a baseball fanatic, so we combined our perspectives.
“We didn’t want the book to be trivia looker-uppers,” says Lyons. “The answers are right below the questions, like, ‘What do [Red Sox shortstop] Nomar Garciaparra and Monica Lewinsky have in common?’ They were born on the same day.”
Lyons says he and Douglas are working on their third baseball-trivia book.
“It’s the greatest experience and it’s so much fun,” he says. “We’ve heard from many of the players and from baseball fans.”